From Paul Krugman’s fine NYTimes piece today blasting ridiculous, hard-to-kill Reaganomics:
“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals,” said Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1937. “We know now that it is bad economics.” And last year we learned that lesson all over again.”
Fox Noise comic-strip reporter Roland Hedley’s latest Tweets:
“re: all Nazi stuff, Fox sez all talent must mention Hitler 3x weekly, trying to meet quota. Sorry.”
“Martha’s Vineyard. Hitler had his Eagle’s Nest, POTUS has his Blue Heron Farm. Avian theme coincidence? You decide.”
“Thought experiment: Set “mass murder” aside for a moment. Now, how is Obama NOT [...]
That would be Jim De”Franklin” Mint of Souse Carolina, according to this piece from AP.
As Ko-Ko sang in “The Mikado.” This one from my new Huffington Post blog is a list of Fox Noise enablers (advertisers.) Worth printing out and using.
…for the Net’s most-PhotoShopped shot this year:
“Anyone know where the nearest town-hall meeting is? I gotta stock up for the winter.”
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
–John Kenneth Galbraith
Reading most Ronald Reagan speeches should end that search fairly easily.
A caller cracked up radio talk host Thom Hartmann yesterday after she identified herself as working for a group in Chicago that’s working for campaign-finance reform. Its motto?
“Let’s buy back our politicians.”
Let’s remember the well-deserved nickname Jon Stewart gave now-dead right-winger Robert Novak, and kept repeating:
“Douchebag of America.”
A fitting epitaph, no?
In a first-rate piece in Time mag, respected, first-rate political reporter Joe Klein (“Primary Colors”) rips the GOP’s scare tactics and outrageous lies on health care. An excerpt:
“Given the heinous dust that’s been raised, it seems likely that end-of-life counseling will be dropped from the health-reform legislation. But that’s a small point, compared with the [...]