Author - Bob Cesca
Reality Has Moved Left
E.J. Dionne recalls a Kennedy story: In his journals, no less a loyalist to John F. Kennedy than the late historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. expressed dismay during the 1960 transition period over...
Lame Dick Watch
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just six weeks before President-elect Barack Obama takes office, the Bush administration issued revised endangered species regulations Thursday to reduce the input of federal...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday! "Design for Dreaming"
The Horror
by Lee Stranahan Well, firstly, let me say, perhaps it’s easier to deny that this is a civil war, when essentially you live in the most heavily fortified place in the country within the Green Zone...
Whoa!
Thom Hartmann is on a cable news network. There must be some sort of underground tunnel leading into MSNBC through which people like Olbermann, Maddow and, now, Hartmann have infiltrated. Hartmann, I...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for documenting the constant variety of cable news hackery and whatever else you're doing. Tonight! Why hasn't Barack Obama saved the automakers yet? Why can't he close the deal?! WHY?!
Afternoon Awesome
Rachel Maddow from last night's show talks about how the Republicans are punishing the American autoworker. Of course this was when there was a deal involving a pay cut, but today we learned that the...
Weird Anti-Semitism
From a Chicago-based CBS network affiliate. Basically, they posted a "Guess Who's The Jew" feature which, from someone like Howard Stern I could understand as comedic satire, but this is a straight...
Make The Republicans Talk
Josh again: What I do think makes sense is for the majority to actually require the minority to filibuster -- as in talk and talk and talk. I've been wondering this myself for the last, well, since...
Repping Who?
by Lee Stranahan So the lame duck GOP Senate scuttled the auto bailout deal because it wouldn't forced auto workers living in Michigan to make the same amount of money as those living in Alabama...
GOP Hates Unions More Than Depression
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...
Note to the Press RE: Taint
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...
Screwed
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...
Morning Awesome
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...
Quote of the Day
"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...
Prime Time Thread
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...
Very Serious Question
When does "Chicago politics" replace "San Francisco values" (gay!) as the far-right's favorite geographical insult against Democrats?
No Exorcists in 2012
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...
Nothing To Fear
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...