Monthly Archives: April 2010

Timing Is Everything

Big Oil and Coal have messed up in a very visible way lately. Conspiracy theory linking Upper Big Branch and the Gulf oil slick in 5, 4, 3… The summer will undoubtedly see any amount of climate-bill related media events … Continue reading

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Morning Awful

Tim James is so awful that I HAD to do a remix.

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Why Tim James Keeps Looking Down In His Ads

We finally know what he’s doing with those pregnant pauses:

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False Equivalence Quantified

Okay, ODS sufferers! Time to stop saying that liberals “did the same thing to Bush.” We didn’t: This evidence accumulated over ten years shows a shameful but undeniable fact of American politics: our right wing now contains a lot more … Continue reading

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Eulogy

The president eulogizes dead miners.

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Morning Awful

Teabaggery and astroturfery!

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Lone Wolf?

What is it with guys named McVay or McVeigh? From WaPo: The investigation into what McVey was doing with a gun, with formulas for rifle scopes and why his car was equipped with police gear was continuing, Smith said. The … Continue reading

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Choosing Not To Choose

Senator Lindsey Graham explains his holdup of the bipartisan climate bill: “Moving forward on immigration — in this hurried, panicked manner — is nothing more than a cynical political ploy,” Graham said. “Let’s be clear, a phony, political effort on … Continue reading

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More Teabaggers Failing

Remember that prediction I made that this year would see the tea party wear out its welcome with America? Capping a week of MSM rethinking on tea party coverage, Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic asks whether conservatives have gone mad: … Continue reading

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Saturday Afternoon TV

The Crash Of 1929

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Teabaggers Failing

Believe it or not, this is Joe Klein writing at TIME: The anti-Obama forces, it seems clear, are rooted in classic American know-nothing populism–nativist, isolationist, paranoid. Ooo! Ya think? His TIME colleague Alex Altman says the tea parties have gotten … Continue reading

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