Chris Wallace bragged to chickenhawk Mike Gallagher about his special visit with the vice president: WALLACE: Let me ask you this, did the Vice President say to you, “thank you so much for defending...
Author - Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday! "Alphabet Antics"
Prepping for History
Photo: Brooks Kraft / Corbis for TIME
Prime Time Thread
Open thread to talk about whatever you want, along with your favorite cable news hackery. Tonight! By request, list your ten favorite blogs -- political or otherwise. But don't use actual links...
Prop. 8: The Musical Backlash
by Lee Stranahan Note:It's posted everywhere and is becoming a nightly feature on Olbermann but in case you missed it, here's a link. Scott Mendelson at HuffPost is both amused and yet not amused by...
Mortgage Rates
On a personal level, I'm not opposed to dropping the home mortgage interest rate to 4.5 percent. I currently have a sweet 5.25 percent 30 year fixed rate on my house (from August 2003) along with a 6...
No Attacks Since When?
Peggy Noonan augments the 'No Attacks Mythology': This is an argument that's been around for a while but is newly re-emerging as the final argument for Mr. Bush: the one big thing he had to do after...
Afternoon Awesome
As I've been scanning through the economic meltdown news today, for some reason this song has been repeating in my head. The Flaming Lips - "Bad Days"
Reparations
Stranahan sez the most entertaining thing George W. Bush could do at this point is to pardon O.J. UPDATE: Here's my HuffPost piece President Bush, Pardon O.J. Simpson Now!
Friendship
Blogging is indeed about a connection similar to a friendship. But also, from what I've experienced doing this for four years (almost to the day), a blog is more akin to a community. And the blogger...
Fierce Urgency. Now.
by Lee Stranahan Riffing on Krugman's concern, my biggest worry is big business selling us all out - laying off people they don't have to and not trying to ride out the crisis a little bit. I think...
Here's Something Real to Fear
Paul Krugman is scared. I’ve been ruminating over economic prospects for next year, and I’m getting scared. This post covers why. In short, the economy continues to tank with, as we witnessed today...
Why Hasn't Obama Fixed Everything Yet?
Are you hearing it? That familiar Democratic griping and hand-wringing we heard ad nauseum in early September. "Obama needs to [insert frantic unsolicited advice here] or else we're all doomed!" The...
Freebasing Fear
Did you see Bob Graham on Colbert last night? Some very valid and realistic points about Pakistan and how the Bush policies have have made us less safe. But then... COLBERT: "How scared should I be...
You Bastard!
President Bush, that is. Among the Bush administration's final environmental legacies will be a decision to exempt perchlorate, a known neurotoxin found at unsafe levels in the drinking water of...
Morning Awesome
The Police - "Synchronicity II" Live This is quite possibly one of the top ten greatest rock songs ever recorded.
Chez Bush
by Stranahan Although it really couldn't be fast enough, George W. Bush will be moving to Dallas, Texas in a few weeks. As a public service, here's a map with directions from the new Bush digs to the...
60
As Yglesias points out, the next most expedient path to a filibuster proof majority is D.C. statehood. Adding... The 51 star flag.
My Vote For Quote Of The Day
by Lee Stranahan I was thinking about a post saying that if we're considering mandating a pause in foreclosures, how about considering one on a lot of these f-cking layoffs? Then I found this quote...
Great Expectations? Or Impossible Ones?
Stranahan Maybe the level of criticism of Obama by some people in the media and even politicians like Barney Frank are just because it's a slow news period or something. But my question on a lot of...