Think Progress does the list. My favorites: We’re thankful we’ll soon have a president who will hit the ground running instead of a president who is running the country into the ground. We’re...
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Author - Bob Cesca
The President-Elect's Thanksgiving Message
"A New Beginning" -- I wonder if we're going to hear that phrase more often. As in "New Deal" or "New Frontier."
Thanksgiving Thread
Open thread! What are you planning today? Feel free to put your answers in the form of a very serious HALPERIN'S TAKE.
Morning Awesome
One of the funniest scenes from Planes, Trains & Automobiles, directed by the great John Hughes. The best Thanksgiving movie ever made, and one of the most underrated comedies of all time. Years...
The Other Page
CESCA'S TAKE: Five totally random political words and phrases that popped into my head which I'll now pass off as very serious political insight 1. Laffer curve 2. Gerrymander 3. Caucus 4. NIMBY 5...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for documenting your favorite cable news programs and such as. Tonight! This thread is late!
New Huffington Post Column
The Extreme and Imaginary Pro-Obama Bias Halperin's not gonna like me.
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New York Newsday, baby!
FOUND: Halperin's Sex List
by Lee Stranahan Mark Halperin crashed on a friend's couch the other night and she found this list he'd been scribbling on a legal pad with the header "PILF!!!! in America Right Now Who Aren't Barack...
Two Things On This One
The president-elect today: But understand where the vision for change comes from first and foremost. It comes from me. That’s my job — is to provide a vision in terms of where we are going and to...
Meet the Press
I vote for the throwback "panel of journalists" option. Why? Three or four times more ridiculous! Expect the list of random Halperin suggestions any second now: 1. Noonan (disarming and incendiary) 2...
Spider Power
Here's the thing. If we, as liberal bloggers, keep our powder dry and carefully pick our battles, we can seriously have an impact on what happens in the new administration. The withdrawal of John...
WTF?
Grover Norquist: NORQUIST: Well, the economy’s in the present state because when the Democrats took the House and Senate in 2006, you knew that those tax increases were going to come in 2010. The...
My Gates Theory
by Lee Stranahan Two little theories, really. 1) This idea has been in the works for a long time. 2) When 60 Minutes asked P-E Obama about having a Republican in his cabinet, this is who he meant. I...
Gates The Pragmatist
Steve Benen's first reaction: I'm not at all convinced that Gates is a poor choice. In fact, I've seen ample evidence that Gates is exactly who Obama needs at the Pentagon right now. Gates may be a...
A Theory
I'm wondering if the decision to keep Bob Gates at the Pentagon was clinched by the Russian military exercises off the coast of Venezuela. Perhaps some political language to Putin and Medvedev that...
Stop Worrying And Love The Deficit
What the total bailout plan could buy: • Marshall Plan: Cost: $12.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $115.3 billion • Louisiana Purchase: Cost: $15 million, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $217 billion •...
Morning Awesome
Monkeys serving drinks!
Discuss Healthcare
by Lee Stranahan In case you missed it, there's a new section on Barack Obama's change.gov site where you can discuss health care. Plenty of good, smart comments there already. And The Plank has this...
Halperin Hackery
Josh Marshall: Halperin should stop complaining, put some limits on pandering to the curdled resentment of the right. Sullivan: What Halperin lacks is any perspective outside his own media wank-zone...