Archive for the 'politics' Category
New Philly Weekly: Climate Change Follies
I’ve always been confused by the debate between which term is more appropriate to describe humanity’s carbon dioxide driven destruction of our world: global warming or climate change? “Climate change” has such a passive sound to it, but “global warming” is confusing: how come it snows so much if the globe is getting warmer?
So for [...]
Let’s Not, and Say We Did
The NY Times’ Ross Douthat wants Democrats to make a deal with Republicans on health care. Here we go again.
You don’t even have to read the article to know that it’s a hopeless clutter of gibberish and magical thinking, but because I love you dammit I tried to get more than a paragraph in…
Even in [...]
A Failure of Leadership
Over at Daily Kos, some fucking hippy is arguing that defeat is a winnign strategy. No, i’m totally serious:
Geez, don’t you get it yet? The more Obama is seen extending his hand and the more the Republicans obstruct, the more likely it is that the average American out there will get the message that the [...]
Why Do You Keep Punching Yourself? Why Do You Keep Punching Yourself? (Part 2)
Emboldened by the response to President Obama’s face-off with House Republicans last week, the White House is intensifying its push to engage Congressional Republicans in policy negotiations as a way to share the burden of governing and put more scrutiny on Republican initiatives.
Top aides say Mr. Obama intends to follow through quickly on his State [...]
Why Do You Keep Punching Yourself? Why Do You Keep Punching Yourself?
Remember that awful bull from elementary school who pulled that trik on you? He’d mash your on hand into a fist, and use it to whack away at your head, taunting you with cries of “why do yo keep punching yourself?”
It looks like the DNC hs internalized that experience:
Joe Sudbay of Americablog reported that the [...]
Not Content with Ruining Health Care Reform, Baucus Now After Jobs Bill
Someone go throw this guy off a mountain or something:
Democrats from the president on down say jobs are their No. 1 priority, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid expects to announce details of a bill this week. But a squabble among Senate Democrats is complicating early efforts to bring a bill to the floor…
And when [...]
New Philly Weekly: Ed Rendell Sucks
How Foxwoods got a suckjob from Ed Rendell, and what it means:
it appears that Foxwoods lawyer Steve Cozen — who’s not only a close friend of Ed Rendell but a VERY generous funder — worked pretty hard to get the exemption. According to the Inky report, Rendell says he told Cozen he would sign the [...]
Shorter Gail Collins: Americans Are Selfish Pussies
And she’s rigt, too:
As I was saying, last November, the Justice Department announced that the terror trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed would be held in Manhattan. Almost everyone in New York rallied around. This was seen as standing up to terrorism.
“It is fitting that 9/11 suspects face justice near the World Trade Center, where so [...]
Deep Thought
The well-groomed brokers and traders bent on sticking up for Wall Street gathered on Wednesday in best-behaved form — no chanting, no shrill whistling, pretty much no noise at all — to mark the formation of the financial world’s modest alternative to the Tea Party movement.
Things had gotten entirely too annoying. First it was White [...]
Ed Rendell Sucks
Monica Yant Kinney has a must read in the Inquirer today:
“Having suck with me,” the governor explains, “doesn’t mean I will do stuff for you.”
In Ed’s lexicon, suck is strictly a noun. It refers to influence, preference, a VIP spot in the governor’s crowded mental garage… Suck is an emotional IOU paid in full only [...]
