MST3K Saturday! "What About Juvenile Delinquency?" Part 1 of 2
Author - Bob Cesca
Thanks, Moderates!
The Nelson-Collins "centrist" cuts to the recovery bill mean 1 million to 2.5 million fewer jobs created. Like I wrote in the previous post, if they insisted on trimming the Republicans-hate-this-so...
$780 Billion?
Here's the latest. About $150 billion was trimmed from the recovery bill, and Harry Reid is reportedly saying he has a deal to pass it in the Senate. He's also seems to have asked Senator Snowe to...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for mocking the constant variety of cable news hackery and whatever grinds your beef. Tonight! The prime time thread moves to conference committee.
Wasteful Spending, Indeed
I wonder if any of the congressional Republicans will stand up and crab about this: The Bush administration received assets that were worth $78 billion less than the amount it invested as part of the...
Morning Joe… Later
You know what's awesome? Republicans who disown George W. Bush as "not a real fiscal conservative." Scarborough, for example, was trying to pass of this line of hooey to Paul Krugman this morning...
Job Losses
The blue line = 1990 The red line = 2001 The green line = Now Over the last 13 months, our economy has lost a total of 3.6 million jobs... But the president is just a fear-mongering hoax peddler. h/t...
Good Lord, They're Doing It Again
They're lying and distorting another CBO report. Drudge is currently pushing a Washington Times article (I know, right?) claiming that the CBO thinks the recovery bill will hurt economic growth over...
The Blue Dogs Are Killing This
Greg Sargeant has the latest roster of programs that are being inexplicably hacked out of the recovery bill. For example: School improvement, Firefighters, Transportation Security Administration...
Another Quote of the Day
"So how much bipartisan outreach can you have when 36 out of 41 republican senators take their marching orders from Rush Limbaugh?" —Paul Krugman
Your Liberal Media
The red bars on the graph precisely coincide with my blood pressure levels. Incidentally, about an hour ago I was watching the Senate debate on MSNBC and determined that every single word coming out...
Petition To Kellogg's
by Lee Stranahan They dropped Michael Phelps. I'm fighting back. And it could be the most important thing in the whole history of fovever. 3)That Kellogg's has decided to end their relationship with...
Lee To Andy Card: Blow Me
by Lee Stranahan The HuffPost says that former Bush Chief of Staff Andy Card has a problem with Obama not ...umm...dressing right. "There should be a dress code of respect," Card tells INSIDE EDITION...
Democratic SCORPIONS!
by Lee Stranahan Here comes some heresy...if public support for the stimulus is dropping, it's the Democratic Party's fault...because they couldn't change their nature of putting in needless pork...
We Burn The Midnight Oil
by Lee Stranahan I go for my eighth gold medal in investigative journalism (that doesn't involve numbers) in my newest Huffington Post piece : Interview With A Pot Dealer.
The Tax Stuff
by Lee Stranahan I was running around doing errands today so I haven't been able to comment much on the Nancy Killefer / Tom Daschle / tax stuff but I'll fill in a little of what I know. Because I...
The Goal Of Civility
by Lee Stranahan Rachel Maddow started last night's show with a long and sorta creepy monologue about how President Obama seemed to have an unrequited crush on the Republicans but he should stop and...
Phil Gramm Was So Wrong He Was Right
by Lee Stranahan "You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession..." - McCain economic advisor Phil Gramm When Phil Gramm called the country's economic problem 'mental', he was ooted...
I'm Thrilled With Steele So Far
by Lee Stranahan The Steele nomination was another small step forward for America and it could still represent a small step forward for the GOP...but thank god it sure doesn't look that way so far...
One More Thought On The Fable
by Lee Stranahan Someone feel free to talk me down on this one... What keeps that Scorpion/ Frog fable quoted by Bob from being used to justify the most awful stuff in the world; like pure racism...