Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican and the Senate Minority Leader, stepped up to the plate and offered his grim assessment of the state of the Republican Party. Per a CNN report, McConnell said: "We're all concerned about the fact that the...
Chicago Tribune: Senate removes Blagojevich from office 4:53 p.m. Senate vote now official The Illinois Senate has voted 59-0 to remove Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office....
There's a great show on local Chicago PBS called Check Please where regular people pick their favorite restaurants and then review them with two other guests. Back in 2001, State Senator Barack Obama was on the show. But his episode...
I recently moved from my beloved Chicago to the Peoples Republic of Portland and it all happened as my former neighbor (literally--we lived two blocks away) was being hauled away to the pokey. The Rod Blagojevich story is Chicago...
The other day I lauded Georgia Republican Representative Phil Gingrey for having the stones to tell it like it is. Gingrey, in an interview with Politico, said that it is relatively easy for Right-wing blowhards like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity,...
The House quickly passed a version of the economic bailout plan pushed by President Obama today without the support of a single Republican. The massive huge $819 billion stimulus bill passed by a vote of 244-188, showing two things: Democrats...
President Barack Obama gets a lot of props from new media types for his campaign's use of social networking and other online tools for message desimination and organizing. What Howard Dean launched in his White House bid a few years...
Michael Wolff, writing at Off The Grid has a theory that Rush Limbaugh's recent attacks on President Obama might be the product of a little jealousy. "Right now Rush is being played. The Obama dinner with conservative columnists, shortly before...
One of the right's favorite put-downs of their colleagues on the left is that progressives are mealy mouthed ninnies who hem and haw at every detail and argue themselves right out of a decision at the expense of the American...
Conservative writer David Frum, writing at NewMajority.com, bravely identified a core problem within today's conservative movement. I call his words brave because any sort of reality-based critical self-analysis is often met with scorn or charges of betrayal within the confines...
House Republicans today unveiled their own economic stimulus program in response to what President Barack Obama is pushing. There are some good ideas in the GOP's plans and some not-so-good ideas. Among the good ideas is an across-the-board cuts in...
The St. Petersburg Times has an interesting page up called PolitiFact.com which tracks such things as promises made/kept, flips/flops, truths/half-truths/lies, etc. It features an Obameter that tallies Obama's progress on his campaign promises. According to the Obameter, Obama made 510...
The genius of this passage from Politico floors me. I laugh every time I see it: "How can you spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives?" Boehner asked. "How does that stimulate the economy?" Boehner said congressional Republicans are...
This is rich. Reality-challenged drug addict Rush Limbaugh told FOX News tool Sean Hannity that he doesn't trust President Obama and he believes that many Americans have adopted a cultish mentality. "I'm suspicious... when I see the entire media and...
NOTE TO RICH FOLKS: File your taxes right and hire legal help to clean your house. Word is leaking out that Caroline Kennedy removed her name from consideration as a replacement in Hillary Clinton's vacated senate seat not out of...
I guess the answer to my question earlier is being answered. There's a predictable but growing hysteria surrounding Barack Obama's swearing in and whether it's legitimate. Most of us watching on Tuesday heard Chief Justice John Roberts' minor flub of...
A conservative friend (and I mean that in all sincerity, so don't infer any snark where none is implied) posts his hopes for the new administration. He trumpets a common theme I'm seeing from conservatives and one that was apparent...
I recently had to admit to friends that I had broken the first rule of political junkydom: keep your sense of humor. A little backstory: my parents both separately made harmless little cracks about Barack Obama in the days following...
Lindsey Graham is taking some heat on liberal blogs right now for endorsing "indefinite detention" of some GITMO detainees, but I have to agree with what Graham is saying—even if the reason why kills me. Graham told Fox News...
GLONO's 2008 Upright Standing Man of the Year Matt Taibbi takes on Rod Blagojevich and the Democrats' inept handling of the spectacle in Blago's Revenge: Once the blago scandal broke, the Democrats had two choices. They could take the political...
Talking Points Memo is taking a hard and close look at Obama's comments this morning and are focusing on this passage (emphasis added): Going forward, anytime the American people want to know something that I or a former President wants...
I love tagclouds. They are a simple representation of the most common words or phrases in a particular example. Some are applied to websites to show what are the most commonly searched terms or subjects posted. Others are applied to...
(via the Los Angeles Times) "Well, again, we're wondering here whether or not Barack Obama in fact is the president of the United States," reported Fox's Chris Wallace. Citing the fact that both President Obama and Chief Justice John G....
My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well...
According to the folks at NewsHounds, who watch Fox News so we don't have to, Fox's Sean Hannity on Saturday laid the blame for the crash of USAirways Flight 1549 squarely at the feet of Charles Schumer, the Democratic Senator...
Harper?s Index: A retrospective of the Bush era (Harper's Magazine) Percentage of U.S. veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who have filed for disability with the VA: 35 Chance that an Iraq war veteran who has served two...
At noon tomorrow, Barack Obama will be sworn in as our 44th President. Also, tomorrow is the day that the moving truck carrying the Obamas' personal belongings will arrive at the White House. A bit of a break with tradition...
Still setting up the West Coast office out here and busy as hell prepping for the inauguration next week so post count is down, but I had to weigh in on this nonsense: CIA Director Michael Hayden strenuously defended...
Tom Davis, a Republican and now former Representative from Virginia, has some interesting thoughts as to why the Republicans have suffered losses for two national elections in a row and what Republicans might do to make themselves more attractive to...
(via Huffington Post) Joe Wurzelbacher, a.k.a. "Joe the Plumber," whose real first name is Samuel, who might or might not have been an actual plumber, whose first seconds of fame came when then-Presidential hopeful John McCain plucked him from anonymity...
(via ThinkProgress) When the Obama Administration gets down to business later this month, it will have to decide whether or not to investigate numerous potentially illegal activities conducted by Bush Administration officials and if criminal prosecutions are warranted. It would...
ThinkProgress is reporting that President George W. Bush and family are relocating to Dallas after he leaves office in two weeks. The Bushes apparently bought a four-bedroom, ranch-style home at 10141 Daria Place through a private trust that Mr. Bush...
(via Huffington Post) New Mexico Governor and nominee for Commerce Secretary, Bill Richardson, has withdrawn his nomination due to the fact that he is currently under grand jury investigation. The investigation seeks to determine whether a company that has contributed...
If you are paying attention you probably already know the fist line of attack against Obama's plan to stimulate the economy is to rewrite history by claiming FDR's massive infrastructure spending programs "actually prolonged the Great Depression" and that historians...
(via FireDogLake) Counter-culture icon Jello Biafra shared his thoughts recently on the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency and Biafra let the President-elect (or, at least, some of his "people") know what he thought were the most pressing issues...
