Another fine piece in the Times today. He nails it, again. An excerpt:
“A do-nothing Congress, at a time when ever more Americans are losing their jobs and homes, is an even riper target than the Supreme Court — and far more politically vulnerable. Without strong medicine from Obama, we can be certain of the same [...]
NYTimes’ Frank Rich, in his column today, has this on Obama’s situation — love the Baucus line:
“Obama has blundered, not by positioning himself too far to the left but by landing nowhere — frittering away his political capital by being too vague, too slow and too deferential to Congress. The smartest thing said as the [...]
Very funny video from The Onion. Funny excerpt:
“We should just put corporations in office and cut out the middleman.”
If corporations are the same as people now, does that mean a merger is same-sex marriage?
And, is a hostile takeover the same as rape?
“Washington is a whorehouse, and every four years we elect a new piano player.” (Gore Vidal).
“Being a Cubs’ fan prepares you for life — and for Washington.” (H. Clinton)
1) The Senate is a swamp; this just deepens it a bit.
2) Let these GOP morons fillibuster.
3) Change the cloture rule. Super-majorities are always bad news.
4) Time for Obama’s Mr. Nice Guy period to end.
Newsweek’s Howard Fineman nails it in this piece:
Why, it’s none other than corpulent Fox News uberfuhurer Roger Ailes!
Not exactly a shocker, but it needs to be stressed far more often.
…that Fox Noise wants viewers to believe GOP wack job in Massachusetts Senate race Tues. has a good chance of winning?
From Twitter’s funny showtitleforpalinonfox feed:
“Real American Grandstand”
“A Wasilla Cougar in King Rupert’s Court”
“Hee Haw: The Next Generation”
“The Biggest Loser”
In her New York Times column today, Gail Collins stresses a point about the Senate that can’t be said enough, a pathetic situation:
“There are 100 members of the Senate. But because of the filibuster rule, it takes only 41 to stop any bill from passing.
U.S. population: 307,006,550.
Population for the 20 least-populated states: 31,434,822.
That means that [...]