MSNBC lower-third graphic just now: "GOP Warns About Overspending" The Republicans are silly and stupid. To repeat: federal spending is the only way out of this thing, and history has proved it. But...
Author - Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
Awesome Cycling Crash of the Year: Frank Schleck falls off a ledge in the Tour of Switzerland. "Dit is een drama!"
The George Washington Talking Point
Condoleezza Rice yesterday: "I mean, for goodness' sakes, good historians are still writing books about George Washington." President Bush has been grappled onto this delusional line for some time...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for documenting the constant variety of cable news hackery, and whatever you want to discuss herein. Tonight! Remember when President Bush -- seven years into his presidency ...
Victory!
I can't imagine why the Bush foreign policy has been an epic failure. Condoleezza Rice in January, 2006 on the Palestinian elections: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also put on a brave face...
Our Stupid Governors
Krugman's (again) column this week discusses the 50 "Hoovers" who are determined to cut spending despite the recession. This passage caught my attention: These state-level cutbacks range from small...
Vindicated by History
Condoleezza Rice and Laura Bush were on television this weekend telling us that history will vindicate the president. The legacy project at work. Unfortunately, this isn't impossible. History has...
Bipartisanship
Krugman has a good point here about how bipartisanship won't fix the economy. Despite the campaign rhetoric, I never really thought the president-elect was suggesting congressional bipartisanship ...
Morning Awesome
Awesome Superhero Movie of the Year: Hellboy 2: The Golden Army The above "Troll Market" sequence is a masterpiece of design, detail and weirdness.
Sunday Night Thread In America
Open thread for your Sunday night.
Rush the Magic A-hole
There's a mini storm brewing around former Huckabee adviser Chris Saltsman and the "Barack the Magic Negro" song parody he distributed as Christmas gifts. No-one from the RNC said a damn thing for 18...
Super Stupid
Digby observed: The Wall Street guys on the Fox News money shows are saying that global warming is bunk because we're having record cold weather. And we wonder why the financial system imploded. Yeah...
I'm A White House Geek
My Dad bought me one of these for Christmas. Yeah, I'm a geek. Related... My photo album of White House Christmas trees.
Ramping Up the Crazy at CNN
There's this lower-third graphic: "Breaking News: Team Obama Reveals Secret Report," which heralds a report that was released to the public. And this lower-third graphic from a few days ago:...
Gaza
I don't have much to add about the horrible situation in Gaza other than to ask with snark: Why hasn't Obama fixed this yet? Why can't he close the Gaza deal?
Morning Awesome
"9" - Trailer This forthcoming Tim Burton film is based upon the 2005 Oscar-nominated animated short by Shane Acker.
Saturday Night Thread
Open thread for your Saturday comments and socializing.
Worst Person
The Republicans have awesome taste in Christmas presents. Chip Saltsman, the former campaign manager for Mike Huckabee, has distributed a goodie bag to committee members that includes a CD by Paul...
Afternoon Awesome
By popular request, here's another track from the new Rush Snakes & Arrows Live DVD. "The Main Monkey Business" instrumental originally from 2007's phenomenal Snakes & Arrows album.
Nobody Anticipated the Breach
The U.S. Geological Survey: In one of the report’s most worrisome findings, the agency estimates that in light of recent ice sheet melting, global sea levels could rise as much as 4 feet by 2100. The...