Congress
« Previous EntriesAn even very specialer blog post: Nancy Pelosi/AL FREAKING GORE event liveblog
Saturday, July 19th, 2008Speaker Pelosi is coming to Netroots Nation to answer your questions in just a few minutes! And, of course, I’m going to be liveblogging the whole thing. Should be interesting.
I wonder if the Speaker watched yesterday’s Harold Ford event. If I were her and I saw it, I would be tranqed up to the eyeballs […]
Joe Lieberman is a terrible human being: The Journey Continues
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008This is pretty funny:
If McCain were to pick Lieberman, more than twice as many in Connecticut would be more likely to vote against McCain than would be likely to vote for him.
But-but-but … he’s a centrist! He’s strong among independent voters! He’s a defender of the common man against the forces of the be-turban’d order […]
Pizza for breakfast?!
Friday, June 20th, 2008Senator Norm, this is not how to make an effective green screen ad:
If you’re going to use green screen at all just take it and run with it:
The audacity of something
Friday, June 20th, 2008So in my last post, I asked, “Where the fuck is Obama” on retroactive immunity. Little did I know that, as I was blogging away, Obama was revealing to the world where he was: crouched under his desk, hiding from anything that would look like a strong statement in one direction or the other.
Awesome.
Uh, congrats?
Friday, June 20th, 2008Despite their being in the majority, there’s nothing particularly weird about the Democrats surrendering to the Republicans on civil liberties. I mean, that’s what Democrats are good at. If Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer woke up one morning and realized that they were in the majority, it would throw everything out of whack.
You know what […]
Yay, compromise!
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Compromise, paraphrased:
We want retroactive immunity and you don’t. So, as a compromise, how about telecom companies only receive retroactive immunity if we provide evidence that they thought they weren’t doing anything illegal? And by “evidence” we mean, “you taking our word for it.”
Once again, the glorious forces of capitulation have defeated the evil armies of […]
Obama learns lessons of 2006, chooses to ignore them anyway
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Hey, does anyone remember that anti-Lieberman primary challenge in the 2006 Connecticut Senate elections? The one with Ned something? Ned … Ned Lamont? I think I might have mentioned that race here before.
Obama was involved in that one somehow, wasn’t he? Oh yeah, that’s right - he endorsed Lieberman in the primary and then, when […]
The Texas Republican State Convention
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008God I wish I were there right now. It sounds wonderfully surreal.
I can’t help but imagine a planning session in which the state Republican party all gets together and debates the critical issue of the day: Should the convention’s theme be racism, or horribly schlocky godawful country music?
Eventually a guy with a 10-gallon hat silences […]
Say cheese!
Monday, June 9th, 2008The ghost of Jack Abramoff* continues to haunt the corridors of the White House. The Waxmeister, head of the House Oversight Committee, has put out a report conclusively demonstrating the corrupt lobbyist extraordinaire’s involvement in setting White House policy. Among the highlights: “Abramoff was, in essence, human resources manager for the policy arm of the […]
Zelliciousness
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008Check this shit out. Lieberman, who, remember is chair of the Senate Government Oversight Committee (making him the horribly stunted evil twin brother of Henry Waxman, I guess), apparently feels that his time is better spent exercising oversight over … YouTube videos.
As mcjoan points out, the letter that Lieberman’s writing to YouTube is officially being […]