Seriously, EVERY goddam defeat or “compromise down to a tiny nubbins” issue we deal with on the progressive agenda comes down to campaign finance reform. Every recalcitrant Conservadem and DINO’s crappola voting record can be traced back to who is greasing their palms. EVERY goddam issue: Health insurance reform Climate change Green energy Environmental protection Strengthening labor laws Ending racial […]

Over $10 million per month to lobby Congress, that is. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is under a lot of heat these days. Between being considered persona non grata by the Obama administration and being punk’d by a progressive activist group to losing scads of members due to their positions on climate change legislation and health care reform, they are […]

Watch this YouTube video, especially from 0:25 to 0:40. Transcript: Fat Radio Show Host (Rush Limbaugh): “And now you’ve got Kathleen Sebelius saying ‘you MUST TAKE THE PIG FLU VACCINE! YOU MUST TAKE IT!!!’ Screw YOU, Ms. Sebelius. I am NOT going to take it precisely because you’re now telling me I must.” Look, I’m the most pacifist/Zen/Quaker dude you’re […]

The Lansing State Journal reported yesterday that the ACORN office in Lansing, Michigan is closing its doors after receiving a threatening phone call (H/T Eric B. at Michigan Liberal): An angry voice mail laced with a racial epithet was the final straw for Carrie Guzman. An anonymous caller to the local Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, […]

I used to defend Kwame Kilpatrick when the racist white people I work with in Howell derided him as “the Hip Hop Mayor”. I told them that maybe Kilpatrick’s fresh approach was just what Detroit needed after years of corruption and inept governance. Then the text message scandal broke. And we found out he spent an inordinate amount of money […]

Like it or hate it, the President gave his much-anticipated speech tonight. It appears that after a summer of tea bagging screamers with not a shred of decency when it comes to public debate and dialog, the infection has grown beyond the confines of town halls, school gymnasiums, union halls and other public gathering places. Tonight, during the President’s speech, […]

I’m sure you’ve seen it by now but, in case you haven’t, this has to be one of the most over-the-top conservative Republican scandals to come along in awhile forever. Michael Duvall is a conservative Republican state representative from Orange County, California. While waiting for the start of a legislative hearing in July, the 54-year-old married father of two and […]

Cross-posted at the Daily Kos and the Huffington Post. Yesterday was the BIG DAY for Michigan’s “Energy Citizens”! Yes, the giant groundswell of corporately-funded astroturf outrage at climate change legislation that would put a serious hurt on the profit statements of Big Oil concerns found its way into Livonia, Michigan. It was going to be big. At least that’s what […]

Over at the Daily Kos, I have a semi-regular feature I do called Forays Into Freeperville where I highlight some of the brilliant inanity of a website called the Free Republic. The Free Republic is an ultra-conservative message board and the denizens of the site are some of the most vile and repugnant right wingers you’re likely to encounter anywhere. […]

I highly commend your attention to the DeSmogBlog blog entry “Leaked Memo: Oil Lobby Launches Fake ‘Grassroots’ Campaign”. According to a leaked memo obtained by Greenpeace, the Big Oil lobby is planning an anti-climate change legislation astroturf campaign modeled on the one conducted by health insurance companies to combat health care reform. Event venues have already been selected and plans […]

You’ll love this. Yesterday Glenn Beck interviewed Michael Scheuer, the former head of the Osama bin Laden unit under Clinton and Bush II. He’s so distraught over the final domino tumbling (60 Democratic Senators in Congress, Yippee!!!) that he wishes the terrorists would attack the USA. “The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin […]