HT to David Bernstein, whose hilarious blog post takes Charlie Baker, Richard Tisei, and the rest of the goofy GOP gang to the woodshed over their absurd call for the Attorney General to investigate some sort of nefarious quid pro quo … [Read more...]
Archives for July 20, 2010
Local blogger hits the big time; leaves the rest of us in the dust. ;-)
I'm talking, of course, about Garrett Quinn. Garrett's rise to fame and fortune began at a small, obscure, conservative blog that ripped off its software platform and even its name from its more popular and more reality-based … [Read more...]
Senate finally advances unemployment bill, no thanks to Scott
By the bare minimum 60-40 vote, the Senate finally overcame weeks of mindless Republican obstructionism and advanced a bill to extend unemployment benefits. Final passage is expected later this week. Sadly, our own Senator Brown voted … [Read more...]
Kudos to the NAACP, sort of…
Recently the North Iowa Tea Party ( a small group of about 200 people) advertised a billboard comparing Obama to Hitler and Lenin. The billboard was condemned publicly immediately by the larger Iowa Tea Party and every other person I heard … [Read more...]
What’s the Cost of a Bad Vote?
(Cross-posted at Open Left.) We all know the statistics. Over 4,400 American service men and women killed. Over $730 Billion spent. Longer than American involvement in World War II, longer than the Civil War, longer than … [Read more...]
Did Fannie, Freddie and Barney Frank Cause the Housing Bubble? Probably not
According to this chart from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. The U.S. is the only country in the world with Fannie, Freddie, and Representative Frank, but our housing bubble was less than in many other countries. … [Read more...]
Mark Williams on Tea Party Racism
I tracked down the original 15 July blog post by Tea Party Express chairman Mark Williams that has re-ignited allegations about racism in the Tea Party movement. Williams wrote an imagined letter from ""NAACP President Precious Ben Jealous" … [Read more...]
Rep. Dempsey Wants to Avoid “Free For All” of Actual Bidding or Making Sense
In a truly ridiculous defensive move, Rep. Brian Dempsey (committee Chairman and devoted lackey to Mr. Speaker) takes one for the pro-track team and sends out an aide to take the one for the team and deliver of the of the stupidest … [Read more...]