Archive for May 18th, 2009
David Anderson tries to act sane and pass off as a regular citizen
Jesus….do these nutjobs never get censored at the News Journal First, Rep. John Kowalko proposes tripling our taxes with a single payer/player health scheme, and now he thinks that taxpayers need to sacrifice more to pay for years of older spending. Kowalko proposes massive increases in the gas tax and personal income tax, just so […]
The Bigot Who Cried Wolf.
Back in late 2002-early 2003, when the Senate Democratic Caucus met to determine their leaders, Senator Thurman Adams threatened to bolt the caucus, along with Bob Venables and George Bunting, to align with the Republicans if Adams was defeated in a caucus vote for President Pro-Tem. Since the Senate composition at that time was 13 […]
Liberal Blogger Gets Big-Time Gig
Congrats to Ezra Klein, whose ‘Tapped’ blog over at The American Prospect has been ‘bulo must-reading for some time now. He will now write for the Washington Post. The Beast Who Slumbers wants to share these inspirational words from Klein’s farewell post. Because it demonstrates the potential and power of the blogosphere: But we’ve also learned […]
GOP Recruitment of Castle Failing?
From the News Journal: “I’ve been calling him and e-mailing him and I’ve been encouraging my other colleagues to call him and e-mail him and go by and visit him,” said Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. “I got sort of an indication the other day we ought to […]
Joe Biden’s Revenge?
The New York Times‘s Maureen Dowd has admitted to “inadvertently” plagiarizing from Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo. Maureen Dowd, if you remember, exposed Joe Biden’s plagiarism in 1987. New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, in an email to Huffington Post, admits that a paragraph in her Sunday column was lifted from Talking Points Memo […]
Question(s) of the Day
Why is the press focusing more on what Nancy Pelosi might or might not have been briefed on than on what war criminals Cheney, Bush, and their malodorous malefactors might or might not have done when it comes to torture? And, what will it take for the press to focus on what now appear to […]
Research Trip to Kauai
I just got an incredible deal on tickets to Kauai for the summer, so I plan to do some research on Dave Burris’ assertion that we should all take up shovels against paying for roadwork. The story goes like this: There was a flood that washed out a bridge to the Polihale State park in […]
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