Yes, another year down. In political terms, it was sort of a win for our side, kind of a crab victory, because most of the advances came from walking sideways at best. It wasn’t that good a year for the president, for both good and bad reasons, but despite many articles dubbing him “Loser of…
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The Budget Deal: same old same old, same old
The budget deal that President Obama will soon be signing is in fact so old-fashioned that the Republicans are apologizing for it, claiming that either 1) they’re going to get their pound of flesh before raising the debt ceiling next year (probably sometime in March, depending on Uncle Sam’s cash flow) or 2) they’re just…
Saudi Arabia and Israel: A marriage made in heaven?
When will the lion lie down with the lamb? Well, not any time soon. When will Israel lie down with Saudi Arabia? Well, right about now, judging from “warnings” emerging from neo-con windbags gods like Charles “Krautman” Krauthammer, who says that the failure of President Obama to intervene in Syria, plus his obvious desire to…
Paul Ryan’s total phonus-balonus budget (which doesn’t even exist!)
I should probably stop using so many parentheses and exclamation points in my heads, but when they fit they fit, you know what I mean? Actually, the fact that there isn’t going to be any grand budget deal growing out of the Tea Party’s “shut it down” fiasco is becoming so obvious that I scarcely…
Smashing Time
Dave Weigel has a nice piece over at Slate explaining why the Tea Party Republicans in the House won’t negotiate with Obama. Because they think he’s lying, about everything. Everything that anyone in the Executive Branch says about the government shutdown and the debt ceiling is a lie. In fact, any statement, by any expert,…
Barack Obama: Not without guile, not without stupidity
What a difference a day, or at least a couple, make. I just finished patting Obama on the shoulder for pulling a fast one on the Republicans. Now it seems he’s doing his level best to live up to the caricature the right wing has drawn of him—an empty suit in search of a teleprompter….
Mickey Kaus, still alive
Still alive, and still paranoid! Yes, the Mickster, whom I’d just about forgotten about, is pushing his unique brand of jive at, where else, the Daily Caller. Mick’s latest and greatest is to do something I would have thought impossible—attack Texas senator and right-wing attack dog Ted Cruz from the right! How did he do…
Republicans to Hispanics: Hell yes we love you! Just not right now!
Did I predict this? Well, probably not, but, anyway, Bill Kristol and Rich Lowry, two of the biggest DC dicks going, have joined forces to take out the immigration-reform bill, which was likely 99.44% dead in the House of Representatives already. As about a million people have pointed out, Kristol is playing the same game…
Peggy Noonan 2013—colder, sordider, and stupider than ever you could imagine
The Republicans never seem to hit bottom. Latest in the hit parade of Republican folly is the “theory,” earnestly advanced by Stan Veuger of the American Enterprise Institute and promoted in a fury by Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal, that the 2012 election was stolen from the Republicans by those light-fingered liberals at…
Diva down 2; the berating of Bachmann
It’s an axiom in Washington that “they” never kick you until you’re down, which is exactly what is happening tohapless Michele Bachmann. The normally dispassionate Politico has gone seriously ape-shit on the issue, devoting half a dozen stories Bachmann’s various faults, failures, and fatuities. The premier bashing point for Politico’s rants is that Michele was “ineffective,” which is…