My Fantasy Democratic Response to Katrina
In the aftermath of Katrina, here is my personal fantasy for a Democratic response. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Al Gore, John Kerry, John Edwards, and other Democratic notables call a press conference...
View ArticleStupid Gas Pump Interviews, Democratic Disconnect
Enough already with the “man at the pump” interviews lamenting high gas prices. Do people even get a sense of deja vu from this anymore? Face it folks; we as a people have fallen and can’t get up....
View ArticlePelosi Should Learn How to Handle Russert
Tim Russert was more than his usual biased one-sided self today on MTP with Nancy Pelosi. He was aggressively abusive, cutting her off mid-sentence with his petulent condescending interrogation. His...
View ArticleIt's Hillary versus McCain...Get Used To It
The main stream media has decided that Hillary will be the Democratic nominee for President in 2008, and is deliberately and methodically building that "aura of inevitability" into the public...
View ArticlePT911: Key Democrats SIlence = Betrayal
Now that the propaganda hit piece is about to air, let's acknowledge that the netroots and larger Democratic party gave it our best shot on short notice, well almost. I say that because there are two...
View ArticleAlphonse & Gaston, Laurel & Hardy, Reid & Pelosi
Warning: pure rant.Progressive Democrats have suffered a body-blow defeat with the party's complicity in the gutting of FISA. This further evisceration of the Bill of Rights would have been bad enough...
View ArticleSchumer and the Unitary Executive Torturer
Let's review Senator Schumer's strategy last week. After having pulled bigtime for Mukasey, he kept his head down during the waterboarding fiasco, then bonded with DiFi, stuck with his man, and got...
View ArticleDeflating the Lie Bubble
Underlying the asset bubble, the housing bubble, the commodities bubble, is the Lie bubble, or the dishonesty bubble, the Big Disconnect, call it what you will.I think the sad truth about human nature...
View ArticleGot Fed? - a rant
Here we have it, folks - The Fannie, Freddie, AIG piglets suckling at the teets of the Federal sow. But the sow is not a fat milkfed 4H winner, it's a depleted overextended old sow on an intavenous...
View ArticleYesterday's Far Fetched is Today's New Normal
Let's play "What's Next?"Preamble; Two of the big three US automakers go belly up. The Federal Reserve won't share the make-up of its balance sheet, which probably looks like Zimbabwe's right now. FAO...
View ArticleSenate Health Care Debate Will Make You Sick
The "world's greatest deliberative body" is patting itself on the back for coming up with a filibuster-proof majority...to allow a floor debate on the health care bill. Wow, what an achievement. So now...
View ArticleThe Biggest Entitlement of All
This season there is something big attempting to take shape in the national consciousness. It stems from a long developing sense that we, not only as a nation, but as a society and a culture, have...
View ArticleAnother Obama WTF? Diary
Like many Kossacks, I voted for Obama with a rush of enthusiasm and excitement, coming off 8 years of Bush hell. I took Obama's campaign rhetoric seriously. Two years later the string of...
View ArticleBrief Modern History of Fraud
I lost my political virginity in the year 2000, when the Supreme court halted the Florida recount and gave the presidential election to George Bush. Despite this being a flagrant violation of states...
View ArticleA Progressive New Years Resolution
Surveying the realm of current events it's hard not to be depressed about the narrow minded Punch & Judy politics in charge of our national commons: the fiscal cliff cowardice, the debt ceiling,...
View ArticleMr. President; really?
Mr. President; I watched your press conference today with a mixture of incredulous disappointment and outrage fatigue. After all the revelations about the NSA and it's wholesale capture of all...
View ArticleObama to Dilute Economic Messaging
An article in Saturday's WaPo here describes a strategic shift in the Obama administration's rhetoric on income inequality. It seems that speaking of "inequality" has upset the Wall Street overlords,...
View ArticleNYT: Hillary Shopping for an Economic Policy. OMG
This morning's New York Times brings an article Economic Plan is a Quandry for Hillary Clinton's Campaign. Reading through it one doesn't know whether to laugh or cry. The content and positioning of...
View ArticleWhat's "up" with Steve Kornacki?
I've been in the habit of watching MSNBC's "UP" on weekend mornings since Chris Hayes started that show. But I will be stopping now. This mornings show was enough. It has come to focus almost...
View ArticleRachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, and MSNBC, Answer this Question
I know we’re all trying to look forwards and not re-hash the past of this national election. But nobody can deny that the editorial behavior of cable news played a major role in the 2016 election....
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