Newsweek’s Howard Fineman nails it in this piece:
Why, it’s none other than corpulent Fox News uberfuhurer Roger Ailes!
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 in the Senate, all it takes to stop legislation is one guy plus 40 senators representing 10.2 percent of the country.”
The scumbag’s name is Roger. Ailes, that is. The nation’s top fearmonger. David Carr’s NYTimes piece pretty much says it all about the Fox News evil genius.
Could we please consider getting another Majority Leader?
Finding one who’s not a wuss — or a bonehead — might be the way to go.
Krugman’s take on “improving” jobs situation in today’s NYTimes:
“Congress should have enacted a second round of stimulus months ago, when it became clear that the slump was going to be deeper and longer than originally expected. But nothing was done — and the illusory good numbers we’re about to see will probably head off any further possibility of action.”
Hospital Surgeons in Honolulu Baffled: Still Unable to Find Limbaugh’s Heart.
The chamber could use some industrial-strength air freshener.
Afterwards, Lieberman said, “I voted for WHAT?”
(Which reminds one of the line Lincoln supposedly uttered when he awoke one morning with a hellish hangover: “I freed the WHAT?” )