Day 9: Mike Castle’s Betrayal of Delaware
Congressman Mike Castle is part of the American Taliban, also known as the Republican Party.
They Fell For It.
You have to hand it to the Republicans. They are good. They know how to act as an opposition party. They have extreme party loyalty. When the Borg Queen, er…
Pointing the finger
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy We can't delay, and we can't go back to the same, worn-out ideas that led us here in…
The Condescension of Andrew Card.
For the second time in as many weeks, Andrew Card has thrown a little temper tantrum. Last week, he threw a fit on the conservative Michael Medved show. Yesterday, the…
Justice Ginsberg Had Surgery for Cancer Today
Via NPR Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the only woman currently serving on the nation's highest court, underwent surgery Thursday for removal of a cancerous tumor from her pancreas.…
Well, we have been calling them the American Taliban for years…
"Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban. And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person's entire processes.…
Comment Rescue: America’s Burning
Okay, I'm paraphrasing in the title, but Unstable Isotope made an interesting comment: Even people with a job right now are not feeling too secure. That’s why consumer spending has…
Crazy a$$ thought for the day
If 2 wars, Tax Cuts, Defense Spending, Derugulation out the whazzo, privatizing everything were supposed to be good for the economy AND, not signing the Kyoto Protocol, not raising CAFE…
Tom Carper, The President is Talking to You
By way of a Washington Post Editorial... In recent days, there have been misguided criticisms of this plan that echo the failed theories that helped lead us into this crisis…
QOD
I'm having a hard time understanding the tax break proposed for home buyers, so please lend me a hand. My question is this: Is this tax break putting the cart…
And the hits keep on rolling
New claims for unemployment benefits spiked to a quarter-century high of 626,000 last week, as businesses continued shedding workers to cope with the economic downturn. The number represents a larger-than-expected…
Laying Straws On The Camel
Al Mascitti is now on the air pointing out that paying money to fix the National Mall and saving the tidal basin is a good idea. Nice work Cassandra. It…
No Travel Money For State Reps & Senators
Good. Every so often a conference can be useful, but by and large these things are nothing but junkets. Donna Stone would have pitched a fit - but the voters…