March 2010
All Part of the Plan? →
A Hill staffer’s take on Obama’s off-shore drilling.
Finally, by announcing the drilling policy without seeking to extract concessions, the Administration makes clear that it is their policy and they are the centrist/flexible/pragmatic ones — making it harder for Republicans to argue that they accomplished this or that they forced Obama to do it.
"If the Dems pushed a piece of legislation across... →
themattsmith (via soupsoup)
“Keeping the Pacific Coast and Alaska, as well as the most promising resources...”
– Boehner
Hmmmm. Whether you agree with off-shore drilling or not, it’s interesting to analyze the politics. Drilling the sea is a notable conservative talking point, so in embracing it, Obama seems to take ‘drill baby drill’ off the table. But predictably, whatever he does is never...
Getting Serious About Pornography - National... →
The only thing I love more than watching porn is reading about porn. It’s so stimulating. This is one of the best articles on the subject I’ve read in a while. Not because it’s particularly illuminating, but because of the site it was published on, and the fact that it was published under the by-line “Anonymous”. Which makes it kind of mysterious! Which conservative...
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Sneak Peek at the upcoming season of RHONJ.
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Stop What You’re Doing And Listen The Hell Out Of This of the Day: The xx and Biggie Smalls, together at last in wait what’s epic re-mix tape, the notorious xx.
See Also: The music video for “juicy-r (Juicy x VCR).”
[thanks jpv!]
I usually/always refrain from reblogging TDW, but this is too good. Seeing The xx tomorrow night with jj. Stoked.
Why doesn't McCain pull a Lieberman?
Say what you will about Joe Lieberman (I say he can suck a dick), but there’s no denying that the man is a political survivor. Although I would have loved to watch the man lose his seat in 2006, he got primaried, he lost, he came back as an Independent, and then he won. He made the calculation that while his party had moved to the left of him, the majority of his constituents had not, and it...
CNN Fails to Stop Fall in Ratings - NYT →
Mr. King’s audience dropped 43 percent for the quarter and 52 percent in March. He dropped to 771,000 viewers for the quarter from 1.34 million in 2009. More alarming perhaps, Mr. King, whose show has been regularly eclipsed by Rachel Maddow’s on MSNBC (and is almost quadrupled by Sean Hannity’s show on Fox), is now threatened by a new host, Joy Behar on HLN (formerly Headline News.)
In her first...
Watchbrooklynmutt:
We now present to you that double-talking disaster in tightly edited video form, the ultimate Mitt Romney Obamacare-vs.-Romneycare Highlight Reel: “Ob’omneycare!” - huffpo
WatchShields and Brooks - 3/26/10
These guys are always a highlight of my week. The most honest, level-headed, actual fair and balanced political commentary you can find on television, every Friday on the PBS News Hour.
“Eric Cantor of Virginia, the No. 2 Republican in the House, said at a news...”
– (via USAToday, h/t inothernews)
Okay. Dude. It’s really, really awful that someone shot at your office. And I hope they find the punk who did it because this craziness needs to stop.
That being said, maybe you should call on your own party leaders to stop their hateful rhetoric. Remember how...
"Repeal and Replace"
Is this really going to be the new “Drill Baby Drill”? It just doesn’t strike me as having the same punch. And it doesn’t seem appeal to a core conservative value, like shitting on the environment. And it seems like a pretty boring thing to chant for 7+ months. But that’s just me.
What Republicans Should Do Now - Karl Rove →
Republicans have a powerful rallying cry in “repeal, replace and reform.” Few voters will want to keep onerous mandates that hit individuals and taxes that hobble economic growth. Rather than spending a trillion dollars on subsidies for insurance companies and Medicaid expansion, as ObamaCare does, Republicans should push for giving individuals the same health-insurance tax break...
“Some of my libertarian friends balk at what looks like an individual mandate....”
– Mittens Romney - 2006 (via TPM)
Dude is toast.
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“Americans by 9 percentage points have a favorable view of the health care...”
– USAToday (via brooklynmutt)
“It’s as bad as calling a black person the N-word.”
– Some lady, on being called “tea bagger.”
Anonymous asked: When are you coming back to Vancouver?
So. Whose opinion do you value more on health...
Ezra Klein’s? Or Michael Moore’s.
“Politically, it made no sense for Barack Obama to join Bush, McCain and the Wall...”
– Michael Medved
(via sullivan)
How FOX is Spinning the CBO Numbers - Media... →
In breaking the news of the score, Bill Hemmer (and the Fox chyron) stressed the $940 billion “cost” of the bill over the first ten years. He vaguely mentioned the deficit reductions by saying that the CBO “talks about reducing the deficit over a period of ten years, and compares that to reducing the deficit over a period of twenty years.”
Hemmer was careful not to...
“When I’m drafting right to life language, I don’t call up the nuns.”
– - Bart Stupak, regarding a letter from some nuns in defense of federal healthcare legislation that got sent to members of Congress.
I have ben intentionally very quiet about Stupak’s dumb campaign for a variety of reasons (when he’s not talking about abortion he’s a good representative and is, in...
“Is this what the Revolutionary War was fought for? Is this what the boys on...”
– David Brooks
Brooks is losing his effing mind! Over… deem and pass.
I would agree with him that this is not what Obama was talking about. However, I just don’t know what you do when you have an opposition that is living in an alternate reality. Do you continue to work with people who...