Michele Rollins Joins the “Let Them Eat Want Ads” Caucus

Let The Eat Want Ads — that is what Greg Sargent has named the GOPers who cluelessly think that the reason why people are unemployed is because they get unemployment benefits.

Chris Coons Takes a Stand on Off Shore Oil Drilling

Chris Coons releases a video statement on stopping drilling off of the Delaware shores and investing in Delaware’s alternative energy business.

Doobifying the BP Oil Spill

For you youngsters out there, that refers to the Doobie Brothers. They were lame band when I was a kid too. But they did provide material with which to parody the situation with BP:

General McChrystal’s PR Offensive Failure — Update

This morning’s news has been full of reactions and some deconstructions of the upcoming Rolling Stone article that profiles the top U.S. Commander in Afghanistan, but apparently ends up dissing President Obama, VP Biden, the WH National Security Team and the State Department along the way. I haven’t been able to find the article to read (there was a pdf at Politico that I can’t find), but what I do read makes me wonder what the General was thinking wen he agreed to this.

Senator Al Franken Calls Out the Rot that is the Conservative Judiciary

This is an extraordinary address that Senator Franken made to the American Constitution Society this week. Choice bits:

Happy Father’s Day!

Happy Father’s Day to all of the Dads out there. I’ve posted President Obama’s Father’s Day Proclamation this year, which salutes dads and all of the men doing the work of dads.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is Not M*%#*@F*%^$#! Apologizing to M*%#*@F*%^$#! BP

….or to any other oil company, or to any other big business for that matter. Note to Congress — this is how it’s done, people:

(T)his American Government of ours should never be on its knees before corporate power, no matter how strong. It should never be in the thrall of corporate wealth, no matter how vast.

Visualizing the Problem

Visualizing the problem of cleaning up the oil in the Gulf:

Jim Westhoff Moneybomb

Hope this isn’t too late , but Jim Westhoff (running for 35th District Rep) kicked off his moneybomb effort last night and we’ll let him take it from there:

Colin Bonini Still Thinks Governing is a Stunt

So here we have another episode of the Delaware Republican party — the Supposed to Be Governing Division — putting out news and PR bait in form of silly bills rather than actually working at the State’s problems. In other words, its reruns from these people again.

The Loop Current

A look at the dysfunctional cycle of supporting hydrocarbons, where everyone benefits except you.

Don’t Get Mad, Mr. President. Get Even.

This is the title of Frank Rich’s column from yesterday’s NYT, which, as always, is a Must Read. Like Rich, I find the emphasis on getting some anger from the President a lazy and childish response from the media. A media who perpetually is looking for the ratings-boosting human drama rather than trying to figure out how,exactly, something like this could possibly happen. So instead of trying to figure out how the legendarily dysfunctional Bush-era Minerals Management Service was still largely dysfunctional this far into the Obama Administration, we get plenty of ink on how “angry” the President is.

The Right on the Verge of Another Defeat in the Culture War

NYT columnist Charles Blow points us to an eye-popping new survey by the Gallup organization, a survey that shows new and convincing majorities of Americans who no longer hold moral objections to gay and lesbian people. This is what a specific piece of bigotry losing its power looks like: