What is this? Some sort of Republican contest to see who can be the biggest dumbass in the entire party??? Via the Boston Herald: Steele panned President Barack Obama’s long-stated plan to let income tax rates return to higher levels for families making more than $250,000 a year. “Trust me, after taxes, a million dollars is not a lot of […]

What more evidence do you need than this? From the White House blog this week: Nine months ago, the White House sent the nominee for GSA Administrator, Martha Johnson, to the Senate for its consideration. Today, she was finally given a vote and was overwhelmingly approved by a margin of 94-2 [Update: make that 96-0 after the remaining two switched […]

So this morning I blogged about Senator Shelby putting a “blanket hold” on 70 of President Obama’s appointees. The backstory to this is that he is doing it to secure a couple of key earmarks for his district. Yup: The key issue is that Shelby wants the Air Force to tweak an RFP for refueling tankers so that Airbus (partnered […]

I hate to give Brian Rooney more attention than he deserves because the only thing that would be worse than Tim Walberg regaining his seat in MI-07 would be if Brian Rooney were to succeed in defeating Mark Schauer. But his latest “press release” screams to be addressed. It is a nauseating example of exploiting one’s children, in this case […]

Any Republican who argues that they are not the Party of NO should be told flatly to shut the hell up. Ugh. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) has put an extraordinary “blanket hold” on at least 70 nominations President Obama has sent to the Senate, according to multiple reports this evening. The hold means no nominations can move forward unless Senate […]

I emailed Countdown with Keith Olbermann (MSNBC) yesterday after my blog entry which I cross-posted at Daily Kos spent the day at the top of the Recommended List. Looks like he liked it: Now, tell me Mark Schauer and the Dems in general are going to use this to stick this “War is Peace/Hate is Love” message right up the […]

This is brilliant. Republican Message Guru Frank Luntz recently sent out a memo to Republicans giving them his assessment of how they should best combat Financial Reform legislation that is being pushed by the Obama administration along with numerous Democrats. Here’s the FAIL: On page 14 of the memo he shows an example picture of a happy couple in front […]

President Obama met with Republicans today in a Q&A session that was an amazing sight to see. At the last minute, the Obama administration asked that cameras be allowed and we should all thank heavens that happened. Watch this and enjoy. More of this, please. Much, much more. I’m just sayin’…

Looks like the anti-HCR Teabagger-types have realized that they just can’t seem to get those millions and millions of people to show up at their protests (remember how well their “Die In” went?) Now comes the “Virtual March”. Yes, kids, no need to actually GO to Washington, D.C. Why stand in the cold for your principles when you can do […]

I’ve written about Tim Walberg before. He’s an über right-wing Republican one-term Representative from Michigan’s 7th Congressional District. In a press release today, he quotes a Huffington Post piece I did today that was posted here on Saturday. Then he goes on to say this: At the Western Washtenaw Democrats meeting last Friday, Mark Schauer came out strongly in favor […]

As reported by Devilstower on the front page of the Daily Kos a couple of days ago, the Teabaggers were ready to hit the ground protestin’ at the Detroit Auto Show. Ready to protest bailing out the auto industry. You know, the one that employs 60% of Michigan workers? Well, they were outnumbered by some union folks who showed up […]