Such good, good news. Norm Coleman did the gracious thing by bowing out after a scant eight fucking months of court challenges. What a righteous dude. Fucker. Watching this makes me feel all better, though. I’m just sayin’…

The National Journal released a poll today that shows that 93% of Democrats (or is that Democrat Socialists?) and 57% of Republicans believe that “Dick” Cheney has hurt the Republican party since leaving office. The mistake that is made is to see this as unintentional and to accept “Dick” Cheney as part of a political landscape in which you are […]

With the retirement of Justice Souter, President Obama, a man with nothing better to do these days (wink, wink) now has to tread a very narrow path to pick a new justice. Progressives will surely pressure him to appoint someone who follows in Souter’s liberal-leaning footsteps, perhaps a woman. Conservatives will, of course, are already condemning him for the choice […]

Well, it’s been a week since the Tea Bagging Extravaganza of April 15th. With that bit of distance, I think it’s time to have a look at what the Tea Bagging Parties were all about. It’s time to call them what they were: The Tea Bagging Parties were, plain and simple, nothing more than Anti-Obama Rallies. When you consider who […]

Bob Cesca nails it again: Insane Republicans Reveal An Insane Budget Plan Makes you wanna laugh and cry, all at the same time. I’m just sayin’…

Allow me to just say this: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! UPDATE: The Washington Independent is reporting that the new GOP “budget” raises taxes on many Americans. Well, except the rich, of course… While reporters hooted at the comically simplistic charts and lack of details in the House Republican leadership’s budget plan, the green eyeshade types at Citizen’s for Tax Justice crunched the numbers […]

I watched President Obama’s second prime time press conference last night and thought he handled himself pretty well. The press, however? Not so much. There were, of course, some good questions. But two of them really stuck out as particularly worthless and the President still managed to respond well to them. It’s a tribute to his communications skills, I suppose. […]

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 […]

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.” […]

I’ve been marveling lately at how totally amazingly awesomely great it is that we finally have grown-ups back in charge in Washington, D.C. Then, during the Conservative Political Action Conference this week, they trotted out this little Alex P. Keaton wannabe: How pathetic is your political party when your most eloquent spokesperson is 13 years old? I thought Sarah Palin […]

This past week after President Obama gave what can only be called an inspirational speech to Congress and the nation about his agenda for the next four years and beyond, Republican Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal gave the official Republican Response. Before I go on, it should be noted that his performance during this “Response” has been panned by nearly everyone […]