OMG! You guys, Mother Jones has a huge scoop! They have discovered that Mitch McConnell is … a politician!
On February 2, Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the US Senate, opened up his 2014 reelection campaign headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky, and in front of several dozen supporters vowed to “point out” the weaknesses of any opponent fielded by the Democrats. “They want to fight? We’re ready,” he declared. McConnell was serious: Later that
I’ve been keeping my eye out for the next Lefty Icon who, like Obama, will become the revered leader of the “progressive” movement while simultaneously betraying everything it purports to believe. Ladies and gentlemen, Elizabeth Warren:
At a St. Patrick’s Day breakfast in South Boston this past weekend, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) took a jab at pro-legalization Republican State Representative Dan Winslow (R-Norfolk), who is currently vying for the Republican nomination for Senate in
You would never find out that the party of the little people, the bastards that promised transparency in government and have had the most secretive and questionable government, surpassing even Nixon in Nixonian behavior, the SOBs that told us they would abolish Gitmo, the GWoT, pull out of Iraq & Afghanistan, and stop all the hate & killing but then started more wars, drone hit everything and want to do so even to people in … Read more
I rarely say this: good for Alabama:
Republicans dropped a legislative bombshell tonight as they slammed through a dramatically revamped education bill that will give tax credits for families at “failing schools” to send their children to private school or another public school.
Lawmakers voted mid-day to send a school flexibility bill — that would let school systems seek waivers from some policies — to conference committee. The conference committee reported a dramatically different
Good Lord. Steven Sodebergh had this throwaway line in an interview.
I look at Hurricane Katrina, and I think if four days before landfall you gave a movie studio autonomy and a 100th of the billions the government spent on that disaster, and told them, “Lock this place down and get everyone taken care of,” we wouldn’t be using that disaster as an example of what not to do. A big movie involves clothing,
I thought Ed Koch would never die. But he went this morning. Koch, despite being a Democrat and self-professed liberal, was one of the key figures to reviving New York. He was tough on crime, supported the death penalty and pushed back against the unions. When he took over, New York was on the verge of bankruptcy and descending into a crime-ridden hell. By the time he left, the city was rebounding. He paved the … Read more
Yesterday, the DC Court struck down several of President Obama’s recess appointments:
In a ruling that called into question nearly two centuries of presidential “recess” appointments that bypass the Senate confirmation process, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday that President Obama violated the Constitution when he installed three officials on the National Labor Relations Board a year ago.
The ruling was a blow to the administration and a victory for Mr. Obama’s Republican critics
The GOP is moving forward, in several states, with plans to change how electoral votes are allocated. The most recent — passed by the disgusting tactic of waiting until a black Democratic senator was attending the inauguration to shove it through by one vote — is even worse than the plan in Pennsylvania. Under this plan, electoral votes would be allocated to the winner of each congressional district with the remaining two votes going to … Read more
That’s probably the most sensational headline I could have gone with, but it does get to the point of those petitions demanding that the White House allow states to secede.
Although the founders established a perpetual union, they also provided for a government that is, as President Lincoln would later describe it, “of the people, by the people, and for the people” — all of the people. Participation in, and engagement with, government is the
I won’t waste much time on this. A new alternative has been proposed to the $1 trillion coin that is, if anything sillier. It’s that the government should just issue IOU’s. Seriously:
Congressional Republicans have said they will demand immense cuts to popular government programs in exchange for agreeing to raise the nation’s authorized borrowing limit of $16.4 trillion.
Stop right there. I highlighted this sentence in just to show you the author’s delusions. … Read more
