This appeared on CNN's Crossfire in 2004. Not much seems to have changed. We're still grossly partisan as a nation (or at least the politicians are), and the media are still hacks."I'm not your monkey" ... Jon Stewart, I love you.As you know, CNN cancelled Crossfire in January of 2005 -- more info in an interesting follow-up piece here: http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/01/4509.ars" ... most major media outlets, have a long way to go before the thinking public truly respects...
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On this president's day I thought I would just do a short blurb on where we have gone as Americans. George Washington was a very tall man, but a man with wooden teeth. He also may not have been the best orator in the world. Abraham Lincoln was a good speaker, but perhaps pound for pound our ugliest (physically) president. Yet, most historians and casual observers put them in our top five. Now, I present...
I was driving along minding my own business when I heard a radio ad that almost made me pull over and lose my breakfast. Unfortunately, I don't know how to capture such ads here, but if anyone has heard this ad and wants to throw it in here they can go ahead. Kay Bailey Hutchinson released this as and it might be the most brilliant one I've heard at the state level in years. It...
I heard something on NPR this morning that irked me, to say the least.Since PBO took office over a year ago, there are still some 200 or so positions that are to be filled by his appointments. He has named people to these positions--don't misunderstand--but apparently there seems to be a little problem in getting the various Director-level folks into these positions. The little problem is ... partisan politics on the part of the Republicans.Positions...
Today, Republicans received the Bush dividend that they worked for for a generation; the Supreme Court, lead by Bush appointee Justice John Roberts, struck down over 100 years of legal precedent and opened the floodgates of corporate money into federal elections by ruling in Citizens United v. FEC. In a sweeping 5/4 opinion, the court destroyed protections on individual speech by allowing it to be overpowered by multi-million dollar, unlimited advertising campaigns by corporations and...
You heard it here first...Extremist right wingers and and Teabaggers will begin beating the war drums any minute now. It's going to be Brown Palin 2012. Maybe Palin Brown 2012. Anyway, we all know that the base always grasps at the latest simpleton with which they are enamoured, so I thought I would bring that possiblity into focus for them, and what the Democratic opposition will likely put on a continuous loop: A nude model...
After I pitched my fit, mixed another martini, and calmed down, I've thought of one bright spot to Scott Brown winning tonight, and that is that Joe Liebermann has suddenly become invisible. He's no longer the 60th vote, and Reid can stop handing him the keys to the Senate chamber and following him around like a stray dog. Maybe it's a good time to strip him of all his committee seats? Eh? How about censuring...
Tonight, in what will probably go down as the most shocking upset so far in 21st century politics, supposed shoo in, Martha Coakley, lost to right wing Republican and nude model, Scott Brown, tonight. Fingers were pointing way before the polls closed, with Coakley's campaign (worst since Walter Mondale) blaming the DNC, and everyone else blaming Coakley. While she vacationed in the Carribean in December sitting on a 15 point lead, Brown wore out shoe...
Vice President Joe Biden's Mom, Jean Biden, died on yesterday at age 92. Then Senator Biden paid a touching tribute to her at the Democratic Convention last August in Denver. Posted without further comment:Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy ...
Newt Gingrich and Mitch McConnell may not realize what they've done, but they've tipped their hand. Yes, everyone knows what they are doing anyway, but they have all but opened up the books to let people see the tiny man behind the curtain. So far, the health care debate has been a lot of posturing and complaining about "waste." Well, as someone smarter than me once said, "one man's garbage is another man's treasure."You see,...
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