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Thursday, October 16, 2008
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
We've seen this movie before.
The idiot who led us into our current disaster, believed he was somehow anointed by God to be President. And now there's Gov. Palin, who also seems to think her political ambitions are a matter of Divine Providence.The woman who wants to be a 72-year-old four-time-cancer-patient's heartbeat away from the presidency, has a messiah complex just like Dubya. If that's not enough to scare the crap out of you, perhaps this video will help:Oh, and...should the IRS be looking at the Wasilla Assembly of God's tax exempt stat...
Sunday, October 5, 2008
No wonder they want to 'turn the page'.
Sorry, Unstable and Unable...not so fast.And the area of health care is yet another example of why they’d rather not have people focusing on the issues. Take a look at this side-by-side analysis of the two candidates’ health care proposals, posted today by the non-partisan Urban Institute.Here are the conclusions of each analysis:Overall Assessment of the McCain Health Care Proposal The McCain health care plan represents a philosophical advance over many other health care proposals, principally in its commitment to redistributing the current tax exemption for employer-based health insurance. However, the plan raises more concerns than it addresses.The plan would providea refundable tax credit that is more valuable to low-income workers than the current tax exemption for employer-based...
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Should This Man Have the Nuclear Launch Codes?
Yes or No?He always aspired to be a dictator:He admits he's an underdog, which is true. He's definitely an underdog in Iowa, which at this point looks pretty much unwinnable for him. So I've got to ask, which genius in the McCain campaign decided that sending the candidate to Des Moines this close to the election, was a good idea? Whoever it was, I hope they schedule him for more of these kinds of time-wasters. But the real take home from this clip, is the coldness and what seems like anger he can barely contain. Watch this and tell me if you really think he's "proud of his running mate"?If you want the complete context and can bear sitting through nearly one full hour of McAngry, here is the September 30 interview with the Des Moines Register, in its entirety:If that's too much to sit...
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Is Hillary Scraping the Bottom of the Small-Donor Barrel?
I should know better by now than to think I have seen every outrage of which Hillary is capable. In her continuing effort to try to delegitimize the nomination of Sen. Obama, Hillary today compared the unsanctioned Florida primary to the recent election in Zimbabwe, perhaps because her recent attempts to compare it to the 2000 recount debacle, failed to get enough traction with the superdelegates. But I'm sure comparing the DNC with the Mugabe regime will make them come around!!That's it...this time I've really had it. Really. More than I had it yesterday, and the day before.When the fundraising letter from the Hillary campaign arrived in my...
Monday, April 7, 2008
Vitter to "stay hard at work".
The ongoing embarrassment that is Louisiana's junior senator, had a little Q&A with reporters today after a town hall meeting in Gonzales, Louisiana.Vitter's constituents received a card last week announcing the town hall, inviting us to come hear the senator talk about jobs, health care, education, and all those other things we need attention to down here. But for the hapless Vitter, the day of the town hall also brought news that he may be called to testify on behalf of Deborah Palfrey, the "DC Madam".When asked by the reporters about the Palfrey case, Vitter made his usual smarmy show of faux contrition, followed by an assurance that he intended to "stay hard at work". At that point, he must have realized that his day was rapidly going from bad to worse, and that it was high time to...
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Saturday, February 2, 2008
LA-Senate: Doh! Repub candidate sends supporters to Dem opponent
Well, this will certainly help convince Louisiana voters to support lifetime-Democrat-recently-turned-Republican John Kennedy in his campaign to unseat our state’s senior Senator, Mary Landrieu – NOT!The Kennedy campaign sent an email to supporters on Thursday, which included a link for online contributions to his 2008 senatorial campaign. But when the recipients clicked on the link to donate, they apparently saw his opponent Senator Landrieu’s campaign website on their screen instead:Kennedy supporters steered to the Landrieu site were treated to a picture of Landrieu and a call to "Endorse Mary’s Campaign." Pictures also scrolled on the Web site touting her for "Fighting for Louisiana Issues." But don't worry; the Kennedy campaign is on it:...campaign spokesman Jason Hebert said members...
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Bu$hCo DHHS: Politicizing kids’ health
Unbelievable.On January 14, less than two weeks ago, Louisiana’s Democratic governor Kathleen Blanco left office as Republican Bobby Jindal was sworn in.And guess what! An expansion of Louisiana’s children’s health insurance program the Feds resisted when Governor Blanco proposed it, is now suddenly A-OK!State health Secretary Alan Levine said he’s optimistic that the state will win federal approval to expand its health insurance program for children after a Friday meeting in Washington, D.C.U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials had balked at a similar proposal by former Gov. Kathleen Blanco.Now those same officials appear receptive and gave the state some constructive ideas for making the plan approvable, Levine said in a telephone interview Friday. Under the proposed expansion,...
Monday, January 21, 2008
"...it is where we begin."
Sen. Barack Obama's speech Sunday, January 20 at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church; 33 minutes and well worth watching. I invite you to reflect on his theme of unity as "the great need of the hour", and how this relates to the many problems and challenges that face our country and our world.Meanwhile, closer to home: a small Louisiana town prays for peace as a white supremacist group prepares to rally "against" Dr. King and the teenagers known as the Jena...
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Conservative Clone Factory
Weird. Is there some kind of conservative borg-hive where they just stamp these guys out on an assembly line? But note that the HomoPhobot XL comes with a solid tie and flag lapel pin, while the Econotron 9000 has a striped tie (lapel pin sold separately, to increase profit margin).Well, no matter how you slice 'n' dice the parade of stars that is the Republican presidential candidate lineup, Richard Viguerie's "three-legged stool" model for conservative electoral viability is looking very rickety these days. No matter how hard you try, one or two of the legs keeps falling out and it just doesn't seem safe to sit on anymore. Might be time to...
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Bill O'Reilly: Defender of the Constitution
Who knew?First, how about a quick retrospective of some of BillO's finest moments in First Amendment advocacy:Now, Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films have a new clip showing the now infamous (having been immortalized on Countdown Puppet Theatre) O'Reilly shoving incident. Nothing like watching a boor like O'Reilly accusing someone else of being "low class". The Greenwald clip then segues into a troubling reminder of what Fox is likely to have in store should Obama become the Democratic nominee: the madrassa smear, the bogus flag lapel pin hysteria, even accusations of being a Communist.It's amazing that anybody actually watches Fox News (except out of morbid fascination, like the same reason people stop to look at car wrecks), but too many of our fellow citizens still buy the crap the Murdoch...
Monday, January 7, 2008
Chickens come home to roost at Faux Noize
After years of peddling their propaganda, Fox News reaps what they have sown. When you're pushing a blatantly political agenda, you can call it "news" all you want, but eventually you're gonna wind up pissing off the viewers who don't support your candidate of choice (Rudy!) and/or make those who support the candidate you're trying to bury (Ron Paul) really mad, as in near-riot mad. As in stalking Sean Hannity mad.Is this more evidence of the widening rifts within the Republican Party? If Fox News provided a sort of "groupthink glue" that helped the thing hold together, then what does this porte...
Tell Cafferty what you think about Congress' fear of impeachment
Cross-posted at Daily Kos:This hour's viewer question for the Cafferty File is:6 p.m.: Why won't Congress impeach President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney?Write in and tell him what you think! Late update: Jack's gone home for the day, but you can still read the article and post a comment about this subject on his blog. Add your voice to the flood of comments already there, to let Jack know this is a story that matters to people. Who knows, maybe he will even convince The Beard to talk more about it. The question was prompted by this weekend's editorial in the Washington Post, in which George McGovern calls for the impeachment of both Bush and Cheney.Is it possible that the impeachment movement is finally gaining the notice of the corporate-owned media? Recall that Congressman Robert...
