Josh Marshall: The automaker bailout is now, apparently, officially and really dead. Dems were willing to agree to Republican demands that Big 3 employees move to wage parity with Japanese automakers...
Rod Blagojevich, rightly or not, is the governor of Barack Obama's home state. He's not some lesser-known sideshow Abramoff type who lurks in the dark places of the world. Therefore, of course there...
The Republicans may have just screwed us all. Senate Republicans last night blocked a deal to bail out GM. The failure of the auto bailout in the Senate could mean the collapse of GM and Chrysler by...
Adam Kimmel presents: "Claremont HD" This is one of the most insane things I've ever seen. When I hit just 40mph going downhill on my bike, I feel like I'm going die at the next switchback. I can't...
"Gov. Palin, to some extent, pushed the party more to the right, and I think she had something of a polarizing effect when she talked about how small town values are good. Well, most of us don’t live...
Open thread for documenting the constant variety of cable news hackery and also. Tonight! Take a drink of your favorite alcoholic beverage every time someone says "taint" or "tainted", "Big 3" or the...
When does "Chicago politics" replace "San Francisco values" (gay!) as the far-right's favorite geographical insult against Democrats?
Bobby Jindal isn't running. So we know it'll probably be Huckacrazy, Romney and Palin -- who was famously blessed by a witch hunter. So no exorcists, but there's the witch thing, so... Fun! And...
by Lee Stranahan As grim as the economists seem to be and as serious as I think the economic problems are - three month T-Bills were trading at a NEGATIVE interest rate this week which is real hide...
Ambinder reporting: It's quite unsettling to talk to members of Barack Obama's transition teams these days, especially those who are helping with the economics portfolio. Without going into details...
Watch for my tiny black & white head at around 1:39. Weird because I was pretty critical of MSNBC in yesterday's column. Nothing unfair, just harsh.
by Lee Stranahan I wrote a piece called Five Reasons NBC's Leno Move Is Brilliant. Also, HuffPo's Daily Brief email went out this morning with Bob on top, me near the bottom, and Erica Jong in the...
Just now on MSNBC... Washington bureau chief Mark Whitaker said (paraphrasing), "Obama wants to change the tone in Washington? He couldn't even change the tone in Illinois!" Yes, Mr. Whitaker, it was...
By way of a flashback, here's a fun fact about President Bush's first Energy Secretary, Spencer Abraham: As a Republican senator from Michigan, Abraham once called for dismantling the Energy...
Next week is White House week on C-SPAN, beginning with a feature-length documentary on Monday night.
Here. And considering how well Rove did for the Bush White House -- you know, great success! -- we can only hope that the GOP will pay very careful attention to Karl Rove's advice and follow it to...
Bill O'Reilly interviewing Ted Turner: O’REILLY: You can’t possibly think that Fox News is a far right operation? I mean, because it’s not. TURNER: I do. O’REILLY: Oh, come on. I mean, maybe coming...
Terminator: Salvation Trailer 2
by Lee Stranahan With all Bob's Taint Talk lately, I thought I'd share what I think of every time I hear the word Taint - one of my favorite pieces from the second best sketch comedy show ever, Mr...
This is a huge, inspired choice. A very progressive Nobel laureate physicist heading up the Department of Energy. Someone with bold, smart ideas for transforming America into a green energy nation...
