Archive for the “Politics” category
Two great things
by Pete on October 26, 2009
So you take the peanut butter in this hand, and the chocolate in this hand… I have to say, I’m quite surprised that any version of a public option is being included in the bill being put forward. Desite the (…)
Who gives a shit what Dick Cheney thinks?
by Pete on October 24, 2009
This morning’s New York Times: PRAGUE — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had a blunt response on Friday to the latest broadsides from former Vice President Dick Cheney: “Who cares?” That, in fact, is the perfect response. Dick Cheney (…)
Still waiting
by Pete on October 23, 2009
I’m still waiting for all the Congressional Republicans so violently opposed to government-run healthcare to introduce legislature eliminating: Medicare Medicaid The Veterans Administration Their own healthcare plan For that matter, I’m still waiting for Congressional Republicans to come up with (…)
The “public option trigger” idea is a scam
by Pete on September 9, 2009
Digby hits the nail on the head regarding this stupid public option trigger plan that has become all the rage over the last week: The lesson is that triggers are bullshit, designed to make everyone feel ok about doing the (…)
The crazy
by Pete on September 6, 2009
John Cole watches the Left fret about conservatives being emboldened by the resignation of Van Jones, and offers the following advice: I think you fail to realize how these guys think. Nothing makes them feel emboldened or empowered- they had (…)
Dispatches from the man-sized safe
by Pete on August 31, 2009
I think Publius is right on the money with this assessment of Dick Cheney: But I don’t think that “winning” the torture debate is his actual goal. To me, the goal of his recent charm offensive is simply to kick (…)
Acting stupidly v. being stupid
by Pete on July 24, 2009
As we all now know, about 3% of the President’s press conference this past Wednesday night was devoted to answering a question about the Cambridge, MA police department’s arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. President Obama stated that (…)
Palin’s future
by Pete on July 4, 2009
Anyone currently contemplating Sarah Palin’s political future would do well to keep two major components of right-wing political narrative in mind: The media, the political establishment, and the public discourse is controlled and dominated by liberals, and As long as (…)
Krugman is right, except for this one part
by Pete on June 22, 2009
Krugman has an NYT post today titled “Climate change fantasies”. Discussing the varying estimates of the impact on household budgets of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade plan, he points out that CBO estimates of the plan’s cost in 2020 come out to (…)
David Broder is going to be surprised
by Pete on May 28, 2009
In his Washington Post column this morning, David Broder concludes with the following regarding Republican opposition to Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court: I have to believe that many Republican senators will seize the opportunity Obama has provided and (…)