Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

Understanding Through Analogies, South Park

Doug Hoffman losing is to conservatives winning as Barack Obama failing is to America succeeding.
Do you see?

ALSO:
Because I’d like to teach more about the educational value of South Park, I direct you to Matt Taibbi’s awesome take on this quote by Goldman Sachs international adviser Brian Griffiths:
“The injunction of Jesus to love others as ourselves [...]

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Important Stats

We all know Politico always delivers the most original angles that no other establishment media outlet even considered publishing - like the important scoop that a few friends of Roman Polanski gave some dollars to President Obama, which (I hope) was too trivial for even Jake “I smell cigs” Tapper.
Today’s most Serious scoop out of [...]

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The Senate’s Biggest Sellout

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid almost has the votes for cloture on a health care bill that includes a public option, which, as Jane Hamsher notes, means that there a few members of the Democratic caucus who will not pledge to vote for cloture and are threatening to participate in a Republican filibuster of the [...]

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Halperin’s “Essential Reading” Is Total Crap

Today, Time’s Mark Halperin posted a rant written by an anonymous “Close Observer of the Health Care Debate” who thinks that “ObamaCare Is/Might be in Deep Doodoo.” Halperin calls this “Essential Reading.”
First off, turning over Serious website to an anonymous source is irresponsible, even for a Serious Journalist. For all I know, it could’ve been some [...]

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This Guy Cracks Me Up

If you’ve woken up today, you know that President Obama was awarded the Nobel Prize. I don’t really understand why he was awarded it, but the idea that this is a sure loss for the White House is so stupid I can’t believe our mindless mainstream media would say it.
In fact, it’s a win for [...]

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SEC Doesn’t Care About Naked Short Selling

If the first day of the SEC’s Securities Lending and Short Sale Roundtable and today’s list of panelists are any indication, the SEC has no intention of curbing naked short selling.
Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi writes:
“What’s interesting about this round table is that virtually none of the invited speakers represent shareholders or companies that might be [...]

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We Need Intellectual Honesty on the Public Option

Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas continues to post the results of Research 2000 polls commissioned by Daily Kos that test support for a misleadingly defined public option.
The survey asks respondents: “Do you favor or oppose creating a government-administered health insurance option that anyone can purchase to compete with private insurance plans?”
This language does not accurately [...]

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More Lies: Joe Wilson Says He Apologized To Obama Directly

A day before his formal rebuke by the House, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) continued to raise funds off of his blatant display of disrespect during President Obama’s address to Congress.
“My outburst during the president’s speech was poor timing, and for that I have personally apologized to the president himself,” Wilson wrote in a Sept. 14 [...]

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BREAKING: DNC, OFA Dump Demand for the Public Option

Organizing for America has dropped the demand for the public option from their open letter to members of Congress. As recently as Sept. 11, the letter featured on OFA’s Health Care Action Center stated that health care reform must:
“Guarantee choice - Every American must have the freedom to choose their plan and doctor - including [...]

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George Will Gets It All Wrong

George Will’s Newsweek column on “Why No One Believes Obama” is the best ever.
He writes, “[Obama's] incessant talking cannot combat what it has caused: An increasing number of Americans do not believe that he believes what he says.” Does he back this up? No, but he writes it, and he’s a MSM journalist who blindly [...]

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