Bush's Comeback Lines?
While prowling around on freerepublic.com, I found this thread. Kind of interesting, the same basic idea as the threads floated here in th runup to the first debate: What should Kerry ask, what...
View ArticleBush pop-up ads pushing Heathcare Plan!
I was just surfing DailyKos when a Pop-up ad came up, with the title "Save Health Care!" The ad featured a big picture of the Chimperor and included a form for emailing members of congress. The text...
View ArticleScientific American Gets Snarky
The Extremist Christian community has been screaming about the teaching of evolution in schools as if it were still a controversial issue, and there has been a concerted attempt to turn accepted...
View ArticleShaivo Memo: New Developments!
Shocking new developments in the Shaivo Memo case, which reveal that John Hinderaker is indeed god, and we should all just kill ourselves. John Hinderaker of the influential blog "Powerline" has just...
View ArticleRepublicans: The "Me" Party
The Republican party has put a lot of effort recently into painting us as the "Party of No." They have taken great pains to tell Americans what to think about us, but what should we think about them?...
View ArticleChris Matthews Smirking During Dean Interview?
Did anyone see the Howard Dean interview on Hardball tonight? Dean was making some very good points about the moral divide between Democrats and Republicans, and pointing out how Republicans often put...
View ArticleBush Thinks the Economy is Going Well
I read this article in the Washington Post today, and once again I was struck by the fact that Bush still thinks the economy is going well. He emphasizes the growth rate and GDP as if repeating those...
View ArticleOn Racist Epithets
The George Allen "macaca" comment has gotten a tremendous amount of attention, mostly because it is concrete evidence of what most of us suspected all along: that this guy is a bigot. And a lot of...
View ArticleMark Foley Whiplash
I decided to stop in on Powerline, because I was curious to hear the spin being spouted by conservative bloggers on the Mark Foley affair. Basically I wanted to see if they were calling for Hastert's...
View ArticleIn Defense of Hillary
Senator Clinton has been asked repeatedly to recant her vote authorizing the use of force in Iraq. The most recent example is the guy who asked her at the rally this weekend to admit, without nuance,...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Martian
The Martians are among us--at least in Charles Krauthammer's head. The commentator wrote a column in the Washington Post yesterday criticizing Democratic efforts in congress to refocus our military...
View ArticleExamples of AEI Hackery?
I was reading a (nonpolitical) blog today, and the question of the American Enterprise Institute's integrity and the quality of their research came up. So I started looking around for specific...
View ArticleExtend the Primary: Attack McCain
There is a growing consensus that the best thing for the party to do is to end the primary as soon as possible, freeing Obama to focus his energies on McCain. I think that would be a waste of the free...
View ArticleAsk Alan Greenspan about Surpluses
Alan Greenspan was on Meet the Press this morning, and David Gregory asked him if ongoing deficits were a threat to our superpower status.Greenspan said yes, and went on at some length about the...
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