Attn: Beltway Dems. Republicans WILL NOT Moderate after the election.
Seen a number of articles in the last month, including a couple over at TPM, wherein the President and a number of other Beltway Dems, particularly in the Senate, keep claiming that after the election,...
View ArticleFollow Up on Racism at CPAC
The wheels are just coming off the GOP. A CPAC session sponsored by Tea Party Patriots and billed as a primer on teaching activists how to court black voters devolved into a shouting match as some...
View ArticleHey, Did You Hear The One About The Dead Hooker?
Sorry about the flippant headline, but it's difficult to choose between black humor, disgust, and pure cynicism when I read about this. A Texas jury acquitted a man for the murder of a woman he hired...
View ArticleNakedCapitalism: ACA Coverage could cost 33.74% of annual income.
Clever Handle has a diary up about Michael Olenick's article today at Naked Capitalism, and this diary should be regarded as somewhat of a companion piece, addressing some different issues than the...
View ArticleFraming the ACA Disaster: Getting Ahead of the Curve
Read nyceve's rec listed diary, and followed the link through to Bob Laszewski's post entitled "The Obamacare Rollout: The Administration Needs a Plan B––Now!", and got to thinking about the real scale...
View ArticleNo, YOU Shut Up!
No, YOU Shut Up!But, uh, I just wanted to say that, uh, I'm not sure that . . . . . . . telling people to STFU about violence . . . . . . . is the best way to conduct reasoned discourse . . . .. . ....
View ArticleLOLOMG: Rick Wilson's Debate Tips For Non-Donalds
[W]e go to war against the disruptive, postmodern, blowhard candidate we have, not the one we want. Get on it. Just one of the great lines from It's Time To Declare War on Donald Trump, which is...
View ArticleObama's SEC Chair Resurrecting W Era Deregulation Plan
Mary Jo White was nominated by President Obama to head the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 24, 2013. Her husband, John White, was the SEC Director of Corporate Finance under Jeb!'s...
View ArticleI. Don't. Buy. It. $4.5T for Steve Mnuchin. Just. NO!
Been a long time since I posted here. But today, I’ve seen several posts praising Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi over this alleged deal supposedly ”negotiated” with Mitch McConnell. A deal which...
View ArticleI hate the new format.
I would register my discontent with the new format, except I can’t even find a place to do so. Even the search function doesn’t allow me to find a place to say “Don’t like the new front page.” Pundit...
View ArticleIt's going to get a lot worse in Idaho.
I’ll keep this short. You’ve probably heard that we’re already rationing care, under crisis standards of care. I’ve been watching the local news, and I think we are in for a genuine sh*tstorm in the...
View ArticleMy "Most Shared List" hasn't changed since Dec. 16.
Is this happening to anyone else? I’ve tried logging out and back in, refreshing the page, closing and reopening the browser, etc. Just wondering if it’s happening to anyone else.
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