Via Mediaite, this photo from the Denver Post website says it all. Lots of discussion on the TSA scanners and “pat-downs,” with plenty of upheaval around the subject. I still contend that targeted profiling similar to what Israel does, based on behavior and demeanor, etc., makes a lot more sense than fondling passengers. Instead we’re [...]
Archive | November, 2010
Bush’s Legacy of Torture Meets Obama’s Executive Power
After former Pres. Bush admitted he sanctioned torture, we now see the results of his policy on detainees. It’s kind of staring Pres. Obama in the face, as is the reality of what happen when terrorists are acquitted in civilian trial, but his policy demands they not be released. Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was acquitted of [...]
Sarah Steps Closer to 2012
What many won’t admit, even her enemies, is that without Sarah Palin in the race it won’t be nearly as exciting…. for Republicans especially. The level of interest without Palin on the primary docket will fall like a rock from an Alaskan bush plane. Sarah Palin confirms what’s been obvious for a very long time. [...]
Republicans Hand Female Breadwinners A Huge Loss
You’ll excuse me if I find Pres. Obama’s words way too little, way too late. Because of his ineptitude to make the economic case to women before the midterms, since foreign money “stealing” the election was more important than women, our power in the workplace has been diminished even further. In the absence of any [...]
News Flash: Social Security Doesn’t Add to the Deficit
Rep. Heath Shuler has no sense of irony. Joe Scarborough, who I expected would at least register the moment, didn’t get it either. On “Morning Joe” Shuler said, without a trace of self-awareness, that Blue Dog Democrats got creamed in the midterms while progressives did not. The message flew over Scarborough’s head faster than Jon [...]
Too Late, But Maybe Obama Will Hear Them Now
That dynamic, coupled with the GOP’s post-midterm swagger, emboldened leaders to insist that the president reschedule Thursday’s much-anticipated meeting until after Thanksgiving to accommodate their schedule, not his. The first post-election meeting between Obama and congressional leaders, billed by Obama as the fundamental first step in the post-election reconciliation process, will now take place Nov. [...]
Symbol of The Larger American Problem
What a nice symbol for the Democrats so soon after a midterm shellacking. Like the crooks on Wall Street, Rep. Charlie Rangel suffer humiliation, but he won’t lose his job. Unlike the econ frauds that rake in cash at the American people’s expense, Rangel at least won’t get a bonus for his malfeasance. From The [...]
Sacrificing Eliot
This is a morality tale. It’s also about the character of Democrats and the weakness most politicians on the Left show in the face of a fight. It’s something you never see from Republicans, even when they’re wrong, caught lying, or found to have done something illegal, even criminal. Eliot Spitzer goes after Wall Street, [...]
Can Sarah’s Show & ‘Word of the Year’ Turn Her Negatives to Positive?
Since Sarah Palin rocketed on to the scene she has been the “pitbull with lipstick” attack machine of the Right. Ask anyone about negative campaigning and they will tell you that being an attack dog doesn’t help with a positive image. Of course, when you bungle your introduction, then get bad press from inside a [...]
The Buzz
Like it or not, Republicans “never talk” to Pelosi: “I get along pretty well with Steny. He’s the only one we really talk to,” Ryan said Monday morning on CNBC. “I don’t know Nancy Pelosi. I had a 30-second conversation with her about six years ago, and that’s about it.” [...] “She just doesn’t talk; [...]
Sick of the Same Old Faces
They don’t call it a lame duck session for nothing. Nancy Pelosi didn’t want to go away with the huge midterm loss, but she should have and so should have Harry Reid. On a day when Rep. Charlie Rangel begins defending himself against ethics charges, somehow I think the investigative nature of Congress will take [...]
Democrats v. Republicans, a Matter of Principle & Political Spine
The wealthy Americans we should worry about instead are the ones who implicitly won the election — those who take far more from America than they give back. They were not on the ballot, and most of them are not household names. Unlike Whitman and the other defeated self-financing candidates, they are all but certain [...]
Maddow and Stewart’s Odd ‘Charlie Rose’ Parody
It really wasn’t Ms. Maddow’s fault. Funny man Jon Stewart has become positively incomprehensible politically because what he’s really saying, but hasn’t figured out yet, comes in the form of channeling America’s desires for a third party, an independent voice, something and someone other than the corporate monoliths and their shills who are drowning us [...]
When All Else Fails, Laugh
“Democrats are not going to be a rubber stamp for deals [Obama] cuts with the Republicans in the House or the Senate,” said Rep. Raul M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), a co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. “Part of the battering we got [on Election Day] was about not being able to show our base we had [...]
Remembering the Real George W. Bush on Veterans Day
It’s the advantage of a lesser mind that allows a man like George W. Bush to rewrite history and the legacy of his presidency through a glitzy, brilliantly designed book cover and ad campaign, which fog over the reality we left behind two years ago. Unfortunately, because an irresponsible Republican leader has reentered the stage [...]
TM Must Reads
“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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