November 2012 Archives

The right-wing freak-out over all things Obama continues. This time it's the president's Thanksgiving address yesterday. The headline at The Daily Caller reads:Obama Thanksgiving address: Calls to unite behind WH, doesn't thank GodThen in the opening paragraph that changed from "unite behind the White House" to "unite behind him." Uh, no he didn't. This is what he said:"As a nation, we've just emerged from a campaign season that was passionate, noisy, and vital to our...

My latest on the pending BP criminal settlement that could occur as early as today:  http://this-small-planet.com/2012/circle-of-trust-at-bp-did-not-include-the-government/...

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I'm so glad the election is over, but couldn't they give us at least ONE day of rest before talking about the 2016 election? They aren't going to so, FINE. There are some take-aways we need to pay attention to going forward. By 'we' I mean us regular citizens, not the pandering/lying/sleazy/self-serving politicians who already have their teams of strategists at work on their next plan to manipulate the public. Let's start with these 7...

It became apparent fairly early in the evening last night that the Republicans were going to get thumped.  As state results began to march across the map, with major battleground states turning blue, and Tea Party candidates losing, Republican hopes waned.  Their plan simply didn't work.  The hundreds of millions of billionaires' money didn't work.  The politics of division didn't work.  The Tea Party revolution of 2010 failed. Despite almost unanimous prognostication that the race...