2011 archive
Dominion over All Citizens 0
See Article XI for details.
The Republican War on Women 0
Republican Talibanning of Women:
TSA Security Theatre 0
You can’t make this stuff up.
Al Sharpton Rips Open a Tea Bag 0
Sharpton counters each talking point most skillfully.
Excerpt:
What would be so intolerable to the seniors that you say are in the tea party, to those who have Medicaid and Medicare in the tea party, to say ‘we’ve got to put on the table talking about tax cuts for corporate jets . . . ‘?
Via C&L.
Redefinitions 0
Harold Meyerson sees a party realignment as Republicans continually move to the right, pulling the Democrats behind them.
A nugget:
(snip)
Republicans, to be sure, have long waged a war on government, but only now has it become an apocalyptic and total war. At its root, I suspect, is the fear and loathing that rank-and-file right-wingers feel toward what their government, and their nation, is inexorably becoming: multiracial, multicultural, cosmopolitan and now headed by a president who personifies those qualities. That America is also downwardly mobile is a challenge for us all, but for the right, the anxiety our economy understandably evokes is augmented by the politics of racial resentment and the fury that the country is no longer only theirs. That’s not a country whose government they want to pay for — and if the apocalypse befalls us, they seem to have concluded, so much the better.
GOP Democracy 0
Alan Grayson:
If you follow the market, the market goes up every time it looks like the Republicans are going to compromise; the market goes down every time it looks like they won’t.
And that’s a very uncomfortable position for any Republican.
Cantor’s Cant Called 0
From TPM:
(snip)
Cantor argues that he’s simply representing the reality of the House — that his overwhelmingly conservative caucus won’t vote in sufficient numbers to pass anything resembling a deal Democrats would take. (Democratic Senator Chuck–ed.) Schumer said that’s nonsense. “He’s not just representing it, he’s making it,” Schumer said.
The Richmonder summarizes:
Cantor is in way over his head.
Your Defense Dollars at Work 0
One of the projects involves improving the “official entertainment space” in the house.
Cutting social security will no doubt fix this.
In other news, LiberalGeek has 10 suggestions for reducing government expenses that are far more realistic than anything Republicans have advanced.
Facebook Frolics 0
This time, a nice story:
But Lewis, of Wilmington, never dreamed of a reunion like the one they have planned for this weekend.
The withdrawn girl he knew as Kim Insoon was a 14-year-old who was treated poorly because she was fathered by an African-American soldier who left her to be raised by her single mother.
Now, she goes by Insooni.
And she’s a star.
They caught up with each other over Facebook.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Still over 400k:
Aside:
How can I get a job as one of those forecasters?
They are less accurate than astrologers and better paid.
Holy FSM, Batman 0
Pastafarians unite!
Niko Alm first applied for the licence three years ago after reading that headgear was allowed in official pictures only for confessional reasons.
Precis 0
John Cole sums up the current Republican Party.
An excerpt:
He left something out.
As I drove to DL last night, I found myself musing on how cruel and heartless, even sadistic, the Republican Party has become.
It quite happily leaves persons to starve in their homeless tent cities, to die for lack of health care.
It no longer pays even lip service to the concept of the common weal.
If you don’t have a (preferably corporate-paid) country club membership, it cares not for you.
Rope-A-Dope, Reprise (Updated) 0
“Nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to.”
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Via Balloon Juice.
Addendum, Minutes Later:
From the lead editorial at the Inky:
Heh.
And Now for Something Completely Different 0
(Stupid obnoxious commercial at the end.)
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Bad Timing 0
Just when they really, really need a drink:
In the days leading up to the shutdown, thousands of outlets scrambled to renew their state-issued liquor purchasing cards. Many of them did not make it.
Now, with no end in sight to the shutdown, they face a summer of fast-dwindling alcohol supplies and a bottom line that looks increasingly bleak.
Via Atrios.