A majority of Americans still blame George W. Bush for what George W. Bush did Did you hear that George W. Bush’s institute just put out a book about the economy? That’s the kind of news that turns everyone into LOLGOP. I said, “Dick Cheney’s book about hunting tips is to follow.” The great Rob Delaney offered: Same publisher as […]

Charlotte, here we come!

First, a big thanks to those of you who have already contributed to Eclectablog during this round of fundraising. I realize times are tough for most of us so it’s gratifying to see people contributing to something they believe in.

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Via Progress Michigan:

Women Take Over the Capitol to Rally and Lobby Legislators on Wednesday

Hundreds of women will meet at the Capitol to share their vision for a better Michigan for women and make their voices heard with Michigan legislators.

Details after the jump.

This time he’s gone TOO far!

ALERT THE PRESS!!! FIRE UP THE TORCHES!!! MAN THE PITCHFORKS!!!

President Obama has dissed every business owner, alive or dead, EVER!

How? He said this:

“If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

He totally did. I learned about it from a Romney campaign email and, by God, IT’S TRUE!!! OMG!!!

POTUS leadership: UR doin it right Today, at the direction of President Obama, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced an Executive Order that “interim final regulation that immediately extends eligibility for health insurance coverage under the Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) program to temporary firefighters and fire protection personnel working on wildland fires across the country”. These brave men […]

Oopsie

Remember that racist “Yellow Girl” Superbowl ad Pete Hoekstra ran last winter? (You can read my pieces on it HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.) Somehow a station in the Flint/Saginaw area ran it again this morning by accident.

Oops.

Swing and a miss, Mitt

Mitt Romney attended a high dollar fundraiser at a country club recently and said this:

We’re accused, by the way — in our party — of being the party of the rich. And it’s an awful moniker, because that’s just not true. We’re the party of people who want to get rich. And we’re also the party of people who want to care to help people from getting poor. We want to help the poor.

Can we just back up a minute and take a look at what Republicans really stand for?

Facing the music

Despite two absurd attempts to have petition signatures thrown out, Tea party Troy Mayor Janice Daniels will officially face a recall in November.

Daniels, shown right with deejay Thayrone “your audio g-spot will now be massaged by the mink glove of soul” X, challenged the petitions based on corrections not being initialed by the circulator (not required) and because signers didn’t include their zip code (also not required.)

More after the jump.

Baby needs a new web server

So, yesterday, LOLGOP broke the internet. More accurately, he generated so much traffic at Eclectablog with his piece “Your Affordable Care Act Rebate Can Save Lives” that he overloaded the servers at our web hosting company and they shut us down for several hours. So, we need to upgrade and it’s going to cost about $600 per year to do that.

That’s the kind of thing we’re asking you for donations for: to keep Eclectablog humming along flawlessly, even when one of our posts hits the front page of Reddit and is getting nearly 500 hits per minute (I’m not kidding.)

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WARNING: ObamaCare is a ticking time bomb that could go off and save millions of Americans from heartache and illness. Something strange is happening all over America: Insurance companies are sending checks to their customers. When I received mine, I was shocked. Aren’t I supposed to be paying you, Humana, more and more as I’m increasingly scared of using any […]

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