edited version cross-posted at Huffington Post Worst decade: The Republican Party, from Karl Rove’s pronouncement of a “permanent majority” to total collapse and minority status. Worst performance of the year: The Democratic Party, who after securing the White House and a Democratic majority have been so brazenly arrogant and politically incompetent as to have allowed [...]
Archive | December, 2009
Senate Health Care Bill Unites Left and Right
–updated– Compliments of Ed Morissey of Hot Air Thought you might like to see my appearance with Matt Lewis on MSNBC earlier this week. Ed might want to rethink this line: There are more death panels in ObamaCare than there are monopolies in health insurance. Also, I’m not against health care reform, what Ed calls [...]
White House Rails Against Washington Blame Game
…then plays it themselves. From the White House: …Unfortunately too many are engaged in the typical Washington game of pointing fingers and making political hay, instead of working together to find solutions to make our country safer. First, it’s important that the substantive context be clear: for seven years after 9/11, while our national security [...]
If You Know It’s Coming Prepare
“[W]e are at war and when President Obama pretends we aren’t, it makes us less safe,” Cheney said in a statement to POLITICO. “Why doesn’t he want to admit we’re at war? It doesn’t fit with the view of the world he brought with him to the Oval Office. It doesn’t fit with what seems [...]
Anne E. Kornblut, Women for President, and Her Unending Clinton Smears Turned Around for Cash
bumped Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared on all five talk shows yesterday morning and demonstrated a particularly senatorial skill: the art of the filibuster. … [...] Above all, though, in a morning of appearances that yielded virtually no news, Clinton illustrated her ability to talk. And talk. And talk. – Anne Kornblut, “Hitting All the [...]
Napolitano Gets Company
I’m scheduled to be on MSNBC around 3:30 pm eastern, talking about the latest health care battles, which today includes this blockbuster slam on Democrats from none other than Bob Herbert. It’s a must read. The bill that passed the Senate with such fanfare on Christmas Eve would impose a confiscatory 40 percent excise tax [...]
Napolitano Eats Her Words
late update below Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Like this wasn’t predictable. As predictable as this opening paragraph in the Wall Street Journal. A U.S. government that has barred the phrase “war on terror” has nonetheless acknowledged that a failed Christmas day bomb attack on an airliner was [...]
Mousavi’s Nephew, the New Neda
updated And his body has reportedly disappeared, with assassination looking more and more likely. According to the report, it is possible that the government is behind the disappearance, as an attempt to stop the family from holding a mass funeral. – Tehran: Body of opposition leader’s nephew disappears from hospital. Ayatollah Ali Khameni is up [...]
Not My Uncle Dick’s Military
As regulars know, my uncle Dick flew missions in WWII, ending up with what they called “battle fatigue.” A lot has changed since the old days of the mid-20th century military joined the world to fight. Some of it not good. Whether it’s in Iraq or Afghanistan, the multiple deployments that began under Bush-Cheney has [...]
Britain Reportedly Denied Abdulmatallab Entry
bumped What happened between the reports to the U.S. embassy in Nigeria from Abdulmatallab’s own father, Umaru Mutallab, a Nigerian banker, and the decision to put the young Nigerian on a watch list, but not on the no-fly list? The WSJ is reporting that State shared the information with U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism bureaus. Where [...]
Mousavi’s Nephew Reported Killed Amidst Iran Violence
–video update in comments– There are reports that Mousavi’s nephew, Seyyed Ali Mousavi was shot and killed today. There are even unconfirmed reports pouring in of people heading toward Sina Hospital, where it is assumed Ali Mousavi’s body is. – Iran News Now At the climax of Ashura, violence in Iran explodes. From the BBC: [...]
A Plane, Terrorism, and Chemicals
“I took him in a choke to the first class and all the people were like, ‘What’s going on?!” – New York Post The plan Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab had to take down an airplane failed. That doesn’t mean the intended terrorism was unsuccessful, especially if we follow Rep. Pet Hoekstra’s lead. Classic tweet by Pete. [...]
A Merry White Christmas from Washington
Merry Christmas. It’s been an extra special season for me and Mark, our first in Washington, D.C., with the white Christmas a kid’s continuing dream for me, no matter the years that pass. It’s interesting how neighbors become friends in the middle of a blizzard, when all anyone can do is walk through it, perhaps [...]
HISTORY MADE as SENATE DEMS PASS HEALTH CARE BILL
updated below – bumped from 7:22 a.m. … For all the historic force of the vote — Ted Kennedy’s widow, Vicki Kennedy, was in the chamber, as was the elderly John Dingell Jr., whose father introduced the first national health-care plan into the Congress almost a century ago — it has become difficult to write [...]
Air Strike Against Extremist Cleric Tied to Fort Hood Massacre Kills 30
A Christmas Eve air strike has reportedly killed 30 militants in Yemen. An anonymous official said Al Qaeda were meeting at the house of Anwar al-Awlaki, the preacher who exchanged emails with Fort Hood suspect Maj Nidal Hasan, that was struck. From Reuters: Nasser al-Wahayshi, the Yemeni leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula [...]
TM Must Reads
IN AN amazing interview with the Guardian on Sunday titled, appropriately, “Michael Douglas on Liberace, Cannes, cancer and cunnilingus,” the movie star does the biggest public service message for HPV and sexually transmitted diseases that’s been done in a generation. The Internet exploded with shock at what was taken as a revelation. It’s like thinking giving head to a man infected with HIV won’t leave its mark, too, though that’s more commonly talked about.
But your individual circumstances and mine should not hide the fact that there is an ideal and optimal family arrangement whether we in our own lives can meet it. – Erick Erickson, in “The Truth May Hurt, But Is Not Mean” AFTER BEING blasted for his patriarchal grunt, Erick Erickson now gets very defensive. How can you tell?
Ms Garraway, 46, is fronting a campaign to encourage young women to think about fertility and giving birth much younger than “her generation”. As part of the campaign, Ms Garraway spent a day being transformed into a heavily pregnant 70 year-old by Adrian Rigby, a prosthetic make-up artist, to “shock and provoke debate about how old is too old to have a baby”. [UK Telegraph] LOOKING at relationships, I find it telling that casual writers on the subject give marriage advice that hinges on bringing back the feminine mystique years and suggesting marrying younger would solve the problems that only better and smarter choices can conquer.
“Having mom as primary bread winner is bad for kids and bad for marriage.” – Erick Erickson IT HAS become a conservative chant lately, the latest from Erick Erickson. “War on men” from Suzanne Venker, Megan McArdle saying women should marry younger, they’re all attempting to resurrect Freud’s biology is destiny.
THE 21st century world offers ways to tweak your appearance, or alter it altogether, with women finally able to combat directly the comparison that’s always been around. Men look distinguished as they age, while women look old, unattractive, or to use Rush Limbaugh’s favorite comment, who wants to look at a woman with wrinkles? The 2012 plastic surgery statistics are out and the American Society of Plastic Surgery tells the story.
The real question about Hillary is this: When people take a new look at her in the coming years, will they see the past or the future — Mrs. Clinton or Madam President? – Maureen Dowd IT’S A classic front page from Huffington Post, coupled with a post by Jason Linkins, which details what’s been going on.
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “Here’s what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate. Yes, I went there.
“Norma Rae is a survivor and for the first time in her life she’s got a chance to become something more… a winner.” – Promo for “Norma Rae” CRITICS like Anne-Marie Slaughter, but especially Maureen I-Love-My-Pearls Dowd, and others [most of whom didn't read the book or do their homework] who are blaming Sheryl Sandberg for being a billionaire Ivy League graduate, while accusing her of letting corporations and government off the hook, are missing a major point.
Great sex doesn’t always just happen. Sometimes, it takes a little planning, especially if — like many Americans — you’ve been in a bit of a sex rut. Do some prep work by turning your bedroom into a love nest: Make the bed (with new, or at least clean, sheets), tidy up, light a candle or two, and queue up a sexy playlist on your iPod.
“You Don’t Own Me” PSA -Official from You Don't Own Me on Vimeo. WHO DOESN’T know the song “You Don’t Own Me,” sung by Leslie Gore? The movie First Wives Club helped to reignite the relevancy of the song.
“Last night I interviewed Jill Stein the presidential candidate for the Green Party on this show. And I confess right now, I should have asked her to just get out of the race.” – Jennifer Granholm, “The War Room” [Current TV] THE ARGUMENT Jennifer Granholm makes above is a tactic that no longer fits the times.
“With that drum magazine, he could have gotten off 50, 60 rounds, even if it was semiautomatic, within one minute,” Chief Oates said. [New York Times] IN THE GAPING MAW of our leadership vacuum stands Aurora Police Chief Daniel Oates, whose resolve, vulnerability and humility inside the vortex of a man made hell revealed what nobody in Congress or either political party has shown in decades. Leadership without regard to anything but his own duty to the people, which included the cops in the eye of volcanic carnage.
*updated below* So much for keep calm and carry on, what Joe Scarborough proclaims to be his motto. It was the weirdest one-on-one back and forth with a high profile talking head imaginable. It makes high school look mature.
**UPDATED** Would we be any worse off with Stephen Colbert as president? I doubt it. Politifact has watched the video “(repeatedly!
Despite rising public concern about the federal budget deficit, Americans favor keeping Social Security and Medicare benefits as they are rather than taking steps to reduce the budget deficit (by 60% vs. 32%). – Public Wants Changes in Entitlements, Not Changes in Benefits This is starting early, so it’s time to revisit the facts.
“If we can prove that a biological attack originated in a country that attacked us, then all bets are off.” – Sect. Hillary Clinton Women can do it, too.
The interview with Obama by George Stephanopoulos wasn’t nearly as contentious as the interview with the Edwardses. No Republican talking points from Stephanopoulos yesterday, like when he accused Edwards of abandoning the troops with this beauty: “Do you think the Democrats should be saddled with the idea of completely cutting off funding for the troops?” Or this one: “You know, a lot of Democrats still in the Senate think that your position here is cynical political theater.
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