Friday Open Thread

Woohoo, it's Friday! Does anyone have any exciting plans for the weekend? Let's get this open thread started. On the lighter side, "20 Unholy Recipes: Dishes So Awful We Had…

Metaphor Fail

Brand new Massachusetts Senator and conservative darling Scott Brown was interviewed on Fox (of course) and asked about the incident in Austin, Texas. His answer was interesting, to say the…

Falling In Love Again

George Bush left office with approval ratings in the 20s. He was responsible for getting us into a disastrous war based on lies and for the worst recession since the…

Thursday Open Thread

It snowed last night! Why do you hate us Weather Goddess? In other news, it's actually Thursday and the week is more than halfway over! Are you ready for your…

Warm Up Your Dialing Fingers

Next week President Obama will convene his bipartisan health care summit. It's expected that sometime in next few days, the Senate bill + reconciliation sidecar will be introduced. The reconciliation…

Mt. Vernon Statement

Conservatives had an event for the launch of the CPAC conference where they unveiled a new document called the "Mt. Vernon Statement." This is a statement of conservative principles that…

Regular Folks

The Tea Partiers are just regular folks. A tea party gathering in Asotin County, Washington turned more than a bit ugly on Saturday when a featured speaker actually called for…

Wednesday Open Thread

Did you ever have the feeling that half the week has gone with you even noticing? That's the feeling I'm having this week. It's already Wednesday! So, are you ready…

Castling

[Ed. note - cassandra_m contributed considerably to this post.] 2009 presented quite a dilemma for Mike Castle. The Republican party required obedience from all its members for their policy of…

Sabotage Fail

When Evan Bayh announced his retirement, it suddenly put a fringe Democratic candidate Tamyra d'Ippolito into the spotlight. In Indiana to qualify to be on the ballot, you need to…

Tuesday Open Thread

Welcome to another snow day Tuesday! Even though we only got a dusting last night, it was enough to make the commute a nightmare this morning. So, what's on your…