January 2010 Archives

I did a little tour this afternoon of the conservative blogosphere to get a feel for their impressions of the single-handed whipping that President Obama gave the entire House GOP caucus at their conference in Baltimore yesterday.Below is the summary of my findings:...

Update 2:  Ooo. Ooo.  There's more.  From Juanita Jean, Obama in a smackdown of sissy boy and liar, Jeb Hensarling.  Video below.Updated:  Fox News cut from live coverage of the debate 20 minutes before it was over because the President was handing the Repubs their own heads.  A GOP representative told Luke Russert of NBC that "it was a mistake to keep the cameras running like that."  More below the post.In an entertaining session yesterday...

I am a really popular guy around these parts these days. With my clumsy use of the despicable Mr. Bauer I figured I should parlay this high popularity to put forth the following modest proposal. I want to talk about man loved and adored by all. He is a humanitarian and renaissance man. I am talking about the one and only Richard Cheney. He may have only advanced to the humble position of vice president,...

My good friend, Susan Bankston, fellow founding member of the OFPBAOT (Old Farts Progressive Bloggers Association of Texas) has returned to her roots!  Those of you who are fans of Kiss My Big Blue Butt remember that Susan ran the World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon for some time previous, the only sane voice in Tom DeLay Triple ZZZ Crazzzy Country.  She changed it to KMBBB after the '06 election, but we at the Hurricane are...

Putting together different pieces of testimony from yesterday's hearings before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, it's easy to see how the New York Federal Reserve's "backdoor bailout" of Goldman Sachs and other large banks, via insurance giant AIG, became such a convoluted mess---nobody knew anything about it. Least of all the people who were allegedly in charge---Larry, Moe, and Curly former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, and then head...

Tonight, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito violated decorum and decades-long tradition by publicly reacting to comments from the President of the United States during the State of the Union speech.  President Obama openly (and rightly) criticized the activist ruling by the Court last week that reverses 100 years of legal precedent and opens the floodgates of corporate spending in elections.  We've known for years that Scalia and Thomas were raw right wing partisans, claiming to...

I started this off yesterday with a link to Mr. Bauer's comments. It seems that link brought a lot of people to the blog, but also brought a lot of anger. I love getting comments and seeing things go above 40, but this is too important a discussion to get off on the wrong foot. What was most interesting was to see many of us on the same side of the political fence argue with...

Tonight, returning to his true form that got him elected in the first place, President Obama fought back the tide of unrelenting criticism, inside Washington politics, and a 24/7 campaign of right wing carpet bombing that has been waged since January 20, 2009.  Battered by the unending healthcare debate, inside dealing on both sides of the aisle as well as by his own chief of staff, the President took control of the debate tonight.  He...

From a press release yesterday by Marcy Winograd, candidate for Congress in the 36th district of California:"If the President wants to appease the neo-conservatives, the deficit hawks, I would encourage him to cut our bloated military budget, which is now paying for multiple perpetual wars that create new enemies."...

Some people never learn:"De facto Republican Centrist Democratic senators have circumvented party leadership to approach Maine GOP Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins about reviving healthcare talks.Democrats such as Sens. Blanche Lincoln (Ark.), Bill Nelson (Fla.) and Max Baucus (Mont.) have approached Snowe within the past week to discuss her potential support for various healthcare proposals....Snowe said Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance panel, approached her in the past week to get her general...