CESCA'S TAKE -- Five easily-predictable things Mark Halperin will ask us to "watch for" tomorrow in his PageCast: 1. Watch for the real world economy to do something unexpected or not. 2. Watch for...
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The Big Ideological Shift
Jed on conservative praise for Secretary-designate Clinton: In 1998, they were impeaching Bill Clinton. Now they are claiming Hillary as one of their own. The center has shifted....to the left. So...
MSNBC Isn't The Liberal Fox News
The Daily Show bit here. Okay, so I get that they both deal in lowest common denominator news and disaster coverage and, naturally, there's the usual cable news hackery. In a realistic sense, though...
Poll-Chasm: Obama's Cabinet
from Stranahan These results are based on a one-night USA Today/Gallup reaction poll conducted Dec. 1, just after Obama announced his national security team... 69% approve of Hillary for Secretary of...
Wither TypePad
I've turned off TypePad authentication for comments, so no more log-in problems. To compensate, I've cranked up the junk filters, so, for example, if you post more than two hyperlinks in a comment...
Does David Sirota Know What 'Rivals' Means?
by Lee Stranahan To oppose or compete with... I like David Sirota but the handwringing over the Obama cabinet as evidenced in his new HuffPost article is becoming a bit much.
Lance Will Ride
It's confirmed: Lance Armstrong will ride in the 2009 Tour de France, marking the first time he will compete in that race and the Giro d'Italia in the same year. But don't expect him to win this one...
Failure of Intelligence
As Sargent writes, the establishment media is enabling the president's ridiculous, "I don't know -- the biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq," excuse...
Karl Rove Likes Things
by Lee Stranahan My newest piece at The Huffington Post is right here. That's a hint, by the way.
Aw Crap.
The Northwest Passage is open for shipping. See? President-elect Obama hasn't fixed the polar ice cap yet. Peh. Centrist.
Nobody Anticipated The Breach of the Levees
Since December, 2007: • “We don’t believe we’re going to have a recession though.” [Vice President Dick Cheney, 1/30/08] • “I think the experts will tell you we’re not in a recession.” [President...
Morning Awesome
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Under the Bridge" Literal Video Version
TypePad Success… Maybe
I tinkered with the comment template tonight and I think we're running smoothly with TypePad. Let me know if you experience the usual insanity with signing in and posting comments.
Ill*Doctrine Is Awesome
by Lee Stranahan Somebody on YouTube asked me why I hadn't made an Obama election reaction video then I found this video by Ill and couldn't have said it better. Plus, I love the cat.
Lazy and Shiftless
Mark my words, this will be the accusation from the far-right whenever President-elect Obama takes a vacation. For instance, he's going to Hawaii for Christmas. He'll be accused of loafing during the...
Hitting The Ground Flying
by Stranahan On the day after the inauguration, I think the Obama economic team will immediately have legislation ready to go. But will that overshadow the foreign policy team's move to change...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for documenting the constant variety of cable news hackery. Tonight! Why can't Obama close the deal on fixing the economy and everything else that was ever wrong with America ever?!
It's Stretch
David Gregory will be the permanent host of Meet the Press. Expect many more years of false equivalencies and fake balance. Adding... Thanks, Chez, for reminding me about this bit of Stretch...
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CESCA'S TAKE -- Five random observations Mark Halperin will pass off as insightful and serious reporting between now and election day: 1. "It's the holiday season. Brrrr!" 2. "This inauguration isn't...
Oh My God!
That headline is precisely what I shouted when I watched the end of this Saxby Chambliss commercial: Watch Sexby's -- I mean Saxby's -- right hand. He totally goes all second-base on that pre...