They've lied about crowd sizes before. And now the McCain campaign is ballyhooing Palin's audience of "60,000" yesterday at a retirement village in Florida. Drudge has a huge banner headline about it...
Author - Bob Cesca
Guilty
The 1999 bill was called Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. "Gramm" and "Leach" being the appropriate words here. Senator McCain voted with 53 other Republicans to pass this deregulatory crap stick. Not a...
Morning Awesome
On this day in history... In 1862, President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of Jan. 1, 1863.
The Audacity of Greed
Lobbyists for the banking industry have the cajones to be making demands of the government: A deal killer for the group: a proposal that would grant bankruptcy judges new powers to lower the...
More On That AP Racism Poll
Nate Silver: --The study appears to be one of all adults, rather than registered or likely voters. Expressions of racial prejudice have a strong inverse correlation with education levels, and so do...
The Great Fear of 2008
A Bush insider advises McCain: They need … an eye toward driving out the range of contrast that makes McCain different from Obama (action-oriented rhetoric v. grand prose; accessible v. uppity;...
Deja Vu
Is it me, or does the careless urgency of this whole bailout mess sound eerily familiar? I'm thinking PATRIOT Act and the urgency to invade Iraq. The more we learn about President Paulson's plan (he...
Dreaming
How awesome would it be if the government swooped in an erased all of your debt. Student loans, credit cards, car payments, mortgage. Imagine the contributions you'd make to the economy with all of...
Morning Awesome
Posted with the utmost deference, admiration and respect for Mr. Olbermann.
WTF?
Can someone translate what the hell Palin is saying about energy in this video? "Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not...
Don't Panic
There's been a lot of nervousness out there based on this poll that alleges to show enough Democratic racism so as to seriously tip the scales in favor of McCain on election day. Don't panic. Nate...
McCain Lets The Truth Slip Out
Goddamn: "Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less...
More Like This One, Please
Afternoon Awesome
h/t Oliver Willis
Hooverville
Tragic: From Seattle to Athens, Ga., homeless advocacy groups and city agencies are reporting the most visible rise in homeless encampments in a generation. Nearly 61 percent of local and state...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday! "Mitchell" - Part 5. Continued from last week. (Just a reminder: this was Joel's last episode.)
Question For Your Republican Friends
We all just paid more than a trillion dollars to socialize bad debt from formerly unregulated mortgage banks in order to avert what economists are calling a second Great Depression. Here's the...
Liveblogging Prime Time
Open thread for discussing the constant variety of cable news hackery. Or whatever else you're watching. Tonight! McCain's fallen and he can't get up.
That Fannie Mae Ad
Yeah, I don't know if it's race-baiting. But it's definitely a lie. Another example of John McCain's sad collapse into dishonor and dishonesty. Washington Post: The McCain campaign is clearly...
McCain Has Gone Bye-Bye
That’s why I believe that the chairman of the FEC should resign and leave office and be replaced. Does it concern anyone that in the middle of a crisis McCain's Ambien and 72 years are showing on an...