So... Let's all vote based on lapel pins and moose hunting! Just don't ask either of the Republican candidates about why the Dow crashed again today. They don't know. All you'll get is: Whiners...
Author - Bob Cesca
New Huffington Post Column
This week... Enough! Here's Why The Polls Are So Damn Close.
Fiscal Conservatism Is Unpatriotic
Just a brief summary to keep in mind... The Republican view of capitalism goes like this: corporations can do whatever they want, and if they screw up, taxpayers will bail them out -- or else. But...
Lying Economic Doof
McCain: “I understand the economy. I was chairman of the Commerce Committee that oversights every part of our economy,” McCain told CNBC’s Squawk Box. Reality: In fact, it is the Senate Banking...
Is Palin (Not So) Secretly Pro-Choice?
I've been avoiding Palin pregnancy posts, but this falls into the hypocrite category with regards to choice. Palin is "pro-life" without exceptions. A champion of the evangelical far-right. Sooooo...
Watch Your Back, Fiorina
McCain is FUUURIOUS! “Carly will now disappear,” this source said. “Senator McCain was furious.” Asked to define “disappear,” this source said, adding that she would be off TV for a while ROOOOOOWWWR...
Enough!
Joan Walsh from Salon is on Morning Joe suggesting that Obama needs to speak in soundbytes and without specifics on the economy. The rest of the panel, led by Joe, are concern-trolling and wondering...
Morning Awesome
Ninja Cat.
Liveblogging Prime Time
Open thread for liveblogging the constant variety of cable news hackery. Tonight... McCain invented the BlackBerry. Apparently he forged it from the primordial magma of Pangea.
Obama Rips McCain
Again, Phil Gramm is partly responsible for deregulating Wall Street. And you can bet on the fact that he'll be McCain's Treasury Secretary. This information has to get out to every undecided -- and...
WTF, McCain?!
Think Progress caught this inexplicable McCain flip-flop: On NBC’s Today Show, McCain told Matt Lauer: Of course I don’t like excessive and unnecessary regu — uh, government regulation. But on CBS’s...
Conservatives to Palin: 'Thanks, But No Thanks'
And the buzz is wearing off. Richard Cohen: McCain has turned ugly. [...] His opportunistic and irresponsible choice of Sarah Palin as his political heir -- the person in whose hands he would leave...
More Of The Same
Just a reminder: John McCain's top economic advisor, former Sen. Phil Gramm, is the guy who authored the deregulation law that most agree is the ultimate cause of today's financial meltdown. If...
Go!
Nader Loses Shpadoinkle
It's a shame because he has the right ideas. But he's gone down the lonely Mike Gravel road to Crackpotucky.
Palin Is Pain With An L
AIG is about to crap out worse than Lehman. John McCain is quoting Herbert Hoover almost verbatim. MCCAIN: "The fundamentals of our economy are strong." HOOVER: "The economy is fundamentally sound."...
McCain Doesn't Know
"The important thing is she's vetoed a half a billion dollars in earmark projects -- far, far in excess of her predecessor and she's given money back to the taxpayers and she's cut their taxes, so...
Morning Awesome
That's Not An Olympics She Can Believe In
Why? Why? She needs to explain this one. Palin vetoed $275,000 in Special Olympics Alaska funds. I can't fathom why anyone would do that. That's like -- I don't know -- killing wolves in cold blood...
Liveblogging Prime Time
Open thread for documenting the constant variety of cable news hackery. Tonight... The fundamentals of the economy suck eggs. Go! 7:25PM Matthews just ripped McCain spokesperson Nancy Pfartenhauer on...