Watching Chucky Grassley’s ridiculous flailings lately, maybe this web site should be called “D.C. Horse’s Asses.” That term fits Grassley perfectly.
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You gotta love Cong. Barney Frank. When one nutjob stood up in his Massachusetts town-hall meeting yesterday and started her rant about Obama being a Nazi, Frank shot back derisively, “What planet have you been living on the past few years?”
We need more Congresspeople to say similar things.
The audience laughed at the wack job in [...]
My new Huffington Post piece explains how to have some impact.
Go after FCC licenses and cable carriages on local systems.
Former DNC chairman Howard Dean said again this morning on Stephanie Miller’s Air America radio show that “we will have a health-care bill with the public option.” Hope he’s right.
Some are suggesting that the President’s seeming to back away from the public option is a trial balloon — or an attempt to activate his political [...]
From Maureen’s NYTimes column today:
“Sarahcuda knows, from her brush with Barry (Obama) on the campaign trail, that he is vulnerable on matters that demand a visceral and muscular response rather than a logical and book-learned one.
“Mr. Obama was charming and informed at his town hall in Montana on Friday, but he’s going to need [...]
HHW secretary Kathleen Sibelius sounds like the Administration is getting ready to ditch the public option. It’s “not the essential element,” she says. We, um, disagree.
And caving in on the end-of-life provisions also looks like it might well happen.
Isn’t it time for the Prez to go on the warpath against the serial-rapist insurance companies?
Sorry, but [...]
The “Doonesbury” regular’s latest funny tweet:
“Poll: Baby Boomers say old age begins at 80, three years more than US life expectancy. Death is the new Old.”
“Sure enough, President Obama is now facing the same kind of opposition that President Bill Clinton had to deal with: an enraged right that denies the legitimacy of his presidency, that eagerly seizes on every wild rumor manufactured by the right-wing media complex.
“This opposition cannot be appeased. Some pundits claim that Mr. Obama has polarized [...]
AP — Rock legend Bob Dylan was treated like a complete unknown by police in a New Jersey shore community when a resident called to report someone wandering around the neighborhood.
(Wonder if he told the cops it was the vandals who took the handles).
People shouting at Congresspeople are acting like spoiled brats. Or so says my new Huffington blog here.