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...
Author - Bob Cesca
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...
Look! A Progressive!
Did you notice the president-elect's new head of the Domestic Policy Council? The woman standing next to Larry Summers was Melody Barnes and she's a proud progressive. Not sure if Summers questioned...
Businesslike
by Lee Stranahan Watching this morning's announcement of the economic team and the short press conference that followed, I had the jarring feeling of watching a competent person who will be running...
Very Serious Question
Why isn't President-elect Obama continuing the tradition of smirking and grinning while discussing serious issues?
Citigroup
Fact: the Republican strategy in 2010 and 2012 will be to attack the Obama White House and Democratic Congress for the massive federal deficit and the national debt. Happy holidays! We now own eight...
WTF?
On MSNBC just now, Chuck Todd frames the "blame Obama" narrative while interviewing Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee: "You guys [Team Obama] own the economy at 12 o'clock eastern time today...
Halperin Praises Hewitt and Drudge
How did I miss this? Very serious TIME Magazine reporter Mark Halperin loves him the Hugh Hewitt and Matt Drudge: But Halperin himself couldn't be biased, could he? One recalls [Mark Halperin's]...
Morning Awesome
The Flaming Lips "Fight Test" and "The Gash" Live at Glastonbury, 2003
Turkey Guy Photo-ops
I was looking at that awful video of Sarah Palin babbling cluelessly while that bloody turkey guy lops off heads in the background, and I realized... I've seen that guy before. So I looked through my...
Very Serious Question
When they cut to a close-up shot of Andy Rooney, does it startle you a little?