The New York Times is reporting that Goldman Sachs has decided it doesn’t want the TARP bailout money after all and is going to return it. You know what? It’s not going to matter. They should get used to the way things are right now with the federal government looking over their shoulder and pretty much the whole country breathing […]

Yeah, the bonuses are infuriating. Absolutely, maddeningly infuriating (I refuse to say I’m “outraged”. That word got used up this past week.) But let’s keep things in perspective. Like this: 1000 Times I’m just sayin’…

Cross-posted from the “Recommended Diaries” list at The Daily Kos. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, has a guest post at The Washington Note this week that could probably be seen as a very public Covering of One’s Ass. Daily Kos diarists halcyon and Valtin point in that direction, for sure. But there’s a […]

My wife and I moved about two and half years ago to be nearer to Ann Arbor because it’s truly one of the most awesome Midwest towns. It combines the excitement of a university town with progressive liberal politics and sprinkles the whole thing with awesome restaurants, pubs, and places to shop. One of our favorite hangouts is the Arbor […]

Cross-posted at Daily Kos. From time to time, it’s “fun” to wade into the slime muck that is the [whispers] Free Republic to see how they are reacting to things. For those that do not know, Free Republic is one the two largest conservative forums on the web. They try desperately to be as relevant as the liberal Daily Kos […]

The Associated Press today is reporting that the top Republicans in Michigan are delaying the spending of Stimulus Package money while they form a “special appropriations committee” to study how best to spend it for a few months. Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop of Rochester said he wants the effort to be bipartisan and include members of the Democrat-led state […]

You gotta hand it to the Republicans. When they want to defeat something, they will go to any lengths to do so. Including just totally making shit up. By now, every American is sure to heard about Harry Reid’s “Sin City Express” earmark that was in the stimulus package. As it’s told, he was able to include a pork barrel […]

The Republicans are convinced (or at least appear to be convinced) that they are winning the debate on the economic stimulus package. Eric Cantor produced an obnoxious video that I refuse to link to that has a giant floating “0” (the numeral zero) amidst things that were supposedly in the stimulus bill (most of which have been debunked) all set […]

David Weigel reports over at the Washington Independent that Rep. John Campbell (R-CA) thinks our society is now beginning to look like the society in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. “The achievers, the people who create all the things that benefit rest of us, are going on strike. I’m seeing, at a small level, a kind of protest from the people […]

It’s easy-peasy. Just head over to this site, click a few drop-down menus and before you know it, viola! You have your very own personalized apology to the de facto head of the Republican Party. Be the first on your block to pucker up and kiss the extraordinarily large, flabby buttocks of the Conservative-in-Chief. He’s waiting… I’m just sayin’…

The other day, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele made a horrible mistake. By total accident, without meaning to he did something for which is eternally sorry: He criticized the ACTUAL head of the Republican Party, comedian Rush Limbaugh. “Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh — his whole thing is entertainment. He has this incendiary — yes, it’s ugly.” […]