Creating their own reality

When dealing with a large group of influential conservatives who believe FDR created the Great Depression, Theodore Roosevelt was a socialist, and Joe McCarthy was a hero, what's there to talk about? -- Steve Benen on the Conservative's re-write of history.

Your moment of Rachel

Maddow destroys the Right, again. Brilliant.

Friday Cat

Not a pox on both houses

John Cole on David Broder's latest bi-partisan pony:

It is particularly galling to me that anyone could watch the last two years and have a “pox on both houses” mentality. One side of this debate has been deceitful, disgusting, and downright disingenuous about everything . . . Bipartisanship, Broder’s Rosebud, is dead, and it is pretty clear which side is to blame--the ones wielding the signs screaming Don’t Tread On Me from the Capitol Hill Balcony might be the place to start.

While I won't lament the death of bi-partisanship, to even nominally blame the Dems for its demise is ridiculous. The Dems are bending backwards to make their bills GOP-lite and all they've gotten in return is cries of Armageddon. David Broder needs to wake up.

Offshore drilling

Another futile exercise in trying to garner GOP support. John Boehner's already come out against the plan (surprise, surprise). Next up, Sarah Palin telling us that Obama is trying to socialize the oil industry.

Not radical

“Any objective observer looking at this bill would say this is a middle-of-the-road, centrist approach to providing coverage to people and also to reducing cost.” -- Barack Obama on health care reform.

I may not like this about our new health care law, but it is a selling point for many. The fact that Democrats let TeaBaggers, the GOP, and the media paint it as radical, from day one, is a mistake that will be hard to overcome. The Right's noise machine is just that loud.

On false equivalence

Eugene Robinson:

The [Hutaree] episode highlights the obvious: For decades now, the most serious threat of domestic terrorism has come from the growing ranks of paranoid, anti-government hate groups that draw their inspiration, vocabulary and anger from the far right.

It is disingenuous for mainstream purveyors of incendiary far-right rhetoric to dismiss groups such as the Hutaree by saying that there are "crazies on both sides." This simply is not true.

This is serious shit and nothing pisses me off more than the media's knee-jerk need to blame both sides equally (on this, or any other subject). Nothing.

The enthusiasm gap

Now less gappy. Amazing what a bit of spine will do for the base. Keep up the fight and I'll vote twice come November.

Terrorist fist jab II

They've infiltrated our military. Uh, oh.

Truth in Comics

If it's Sunday, it's Truth in Comics.