Got this in an email from the Tea Party Nation today: If you could fog a mirror in 2008, you no doubt saw the terrible effect the drive by media had on the election. They might as well have been the advertising arm for Barack Obama. Yeah remember that? Muslim and “not American”? Reverend Wright? Palling around with terrorists like […]

Last night the Senate voted for cloture on the tax cut deal the Obama administration negotiated with the Republicans. The vote was 83-15. When was the last time the Senate voted as nearly a single voice on anything?! Somehow this will get spun as a horrendous failure for the president I’m sure. I’m guessing the several million people whose unemployment […]

A federal judge today ruled in favor of a Virginia law that declares part of the newly-enacted health insurance reform law unconstitutional. The specific part of the new law in question is the individual mandate that requires all Americans to have a minimum level of health insurance or face a tax penalty. It will likely be decided by the U.S. […]

Like so many other progressives, I’ve been pretty politically-existentially angsty about the recent tax cut deal President Obama struck with the hostage takers Republicans. However, after listening to his press conference yesterday and learning more about it, I’ve come to realize that, not only did he really have no choice but to cut a deal, the deal he got is […]

This blog entry was first posted on Daily Kos yesterday morning and it has, surprisingly, been one of my most popular diaries there in a very long time. I posted it as a snarky, sarcastic jab at what I think of as Obama is Ruining EverythingTM conservatives and also to highlight that there definitely ARE some things to be quite […]

Having read numerous blog entries, articles and diaries on Daily Kos about hippy punching and whining prohibitions and bucking up demands I have become convinced and hereby issue this firm directive to all “base” Democrats: DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, VOTE FOR BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA OR JOE ROBINETTE BIDEN, JR. ON NOVEMBER 2ND, 2010. If you do, you will be […]

Oh, lordy, lordy. This is some very good news. From the President’s Weekly Address. [T]oday, I’m announcing that the Department of Energy is awarding nearly $2 billion in conditional commitments to two solar companies. The first is Abengoa Solar, a company that has agreed to build one of the largest solar plants in the world right here in the United […]

Bush apologists tell us all they want that we “need to quit blaming Bush for everything”. But there’s a reason we blame him for the USA being in two wars, in what Paul Krugman this week called The Third Depression and that our unemployment levels are so high: George W. Bush and his administration put us here. More to the […]

The water cooler talk in my oh-so-conservative workplace this morning was about how “Obama is going to grant millions illegal immigrants amnesty by using and Executive Order so he has more voters in 2012”. Aye, aye, aye… So I whipped out my trusty Googles and searched and, sure enough, a bunch of GOPosaur senators, the usual list of suspects, has […]

I spent the past three days in southern Alabama. I flew into Pensacola and as our plane approached the airport, you could see a broad line of reddish-orange oil hovering just off shore. One of my colleagues owns a vacation home on Orange Beach on the border of Alabama and Mississippi. Everywhere I went, in every restaurant, in every bar, […]

More good news for Michigan! Looks like President Obama will be back to make yet another Commencement address in June. Congratulations to Kalamazoo Central High School for winning the Race to the Top Commencement Challenge. This means President Obama will speak at their Commencement ceremony on June 10th at 7:00 p.m. Well done! Here’s the official White House press release: […]