Open thread for documenting the constant variety of cable news hackery. Tonight! Why hasn't Obama fixed the economy yet? What's his problem?!
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Pollgasm: Economic Meltdown Edition
How severely is the economic meltdown hurting you personally? ( polls) I've been meaning to do this poll for a few weeks. Add your thoughts or anecdotes in the comments.
If You Build It…
Photo: Rainer Jensen/dpa/Corbis ...Four million people will come. Exciting, eh?
Brennan Bails
Thank freaking goodness. John Brennan has withdrawn his name from consideration for CIA.
And More Good News!
by Lee Stranahan The GDP is down and jobless numbers are high BUT word just in that Mr. Sprigg's BBQ is all right! See more funny videos at Funny or Die
Progress…In Florida!
by Lee Stranahan News that Florida overturned it's 30 year old ban on adoptions by gay people on constitutional grounds is good news. California's Prop 8 was nothing more than a temporary setback as...
Very Serious Question
Now that the election is over, can we finally admit that what the president-elect said about some middle-Americans being bitter about politics and therefore clinging to their guns, religion and...
The Shift
by Lee Stranahan Barack Obama hasn't been a shift away from progressive values. He may be modernizing what they mean in some cases but he's solidly in the progressive tradition But what has scared...
Very Serious
The Politico: ...does David Axelrod's make up look different or weird here while he was on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace? I... I just... what?
Thieves!
Jamie asks about all of that alleged ACORN fraud: Out of all those ballots, there are only four that are questionable. Now that is widespread fraud. *shaking fist in the air* Not so fast! Like the...
Team of Smart People
"Isn’t it amazing," asks Krugman, "just how impressive the people being named to key positions in the Obama administration seem? Bye-bye hacks and cronies, hello people who actually know what they’re...
Nah Gah Dah
Here's one huge reason why the Republicans are screwed for the foreseeable future: Barack Obama won about two-thirds of the Hispanic vote this year, up from the 53 percent that John Kerry won in 2004...
Morning Awesome
From Spike Feresten's "Talk Show"
Thus Spake Gunderson
by Lee Richard Stranahan As much as I despise George W. Bush, I don't lay the failure of the economy entirely at his feet. He hasn't been the leader...of anything, really. What's becoming clear is...
Worst Persons In The World
The "Pretty in Mink" calendar features conservative women like Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin posing in luxurious fur coats. Real fur coats. Next year, the calendar will show the conservative ladies...
Obama Will Govern from the Center-Right?
So says Chris Bowers at OpenLeft. He also claims that the president-elect is only faking his liberalism ("progressivism" in Chris' terms). All due respect to Chris, but I don't get how that's...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for documenting cable news hackery and whatever other remarks you'd like to make. Tonight! President-elect Obama is responsible for fixing the economy -- right now!
Position Flexible Also
“The [Alaska] governor did not know it was going on behind her,” Palin’s spokesperson tells ET of the reportedly grisly scene at Triple D Farm & Hatchery outside Wasilla. Not only is this clearly...
Ideology And Obama
Adding to what Lee wrote below, along with some of the comment discussions today, it's important to clarify that ideology is meant to inform policy, while only blind ideologues allow it to entirely...
'Stop Whining!'
BooMan on the lack of liberal blogosphere support for the Obama transition: Obama's agenda is farther to the left than anything we've seen since at least Lyndon Johnson, and Congress has never in its...