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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Category Archives: Consensus
Prayer Breakfast
Obama was asked to skip the Prayer Breakfast, but he went anyway. Instead of lambasting the C-Street “Family,” the president staked out the center again and called them to participate in a consensus. Once again, the genius of his rhetorical … Continue reading
The Obama You Voted For
On the left, response to the president’s pantsing of House Republicans has been universal relief. Finally, more than one commenter has declared, this is the Obama I voted for. We’ve all been frustrated by the wishy-washy wishfulness of bipartisanship, haven’t … Continue reading
It Takes Sixty Votes
So I took a cursory look at some bookmarks, and found that Joe Lieberman spoke out against the public option on June 16, July 1, October 27th, and November 1. In other words, with Republicans pledging to “just say no” … Continue reading
Land-Mine Irony
News last week that the Obama administration won’t sign the landmine ban is disappointing, but also ironic: the International Campaign to Ban Landmines was the first success of information-age grassroots organizing on a global scale. Jody Williams won a Nobel … Continue reading
Weisberg Discovers Chess
As the media slowly discovers 11-Dimensional Chess, I get this weird feeling that the best is yet to come. Salon’s Jacob Weisberg sees what I’m talking about: This conventional wisdom about Obama’s first year isn’t just premature—it’s sure to be … Continue reading
Rahm Emmanuel
May 15th, 2007: Rahm Emmanuel stakes out a gun control position on middle ground. It strikes me that Emmanuel understands consensus politics perfectly well.
Gault Joins Stimulus Consensus
Not only are House Black Caucus members demanding more job creation, so are economists, including one ironcally named Gault: (W)ith roughly a quarter of the stimulus money out the door after nine months, the accumulation of hard data and real-life … Continue reading
Afghanistan and the Public Option
Andrew Sullivan describes 11-dimensional chess and the politics of consensus, discovering the same link I made six weeks ago: What we are seeing here, I suspect, is what we see everywhere with Obama: a relentless empiricism in pursuit of a … Continue reading
NYT Discovers 11-Dimensional Chess
After weeks of playing stenographer to Rahm Emmanuel’s disinformation campaign, the New York Times has awoken to the new consensus in Washington: WASHINGTON — After months of plodding work by five Congressional committees and weeks of back-room bargaining by Democratic … Continue reading
Oh, Jim
I like you, Senator Webb. On veterans issues, you’re the best. Even on a progressive issue like Afghanistan or prison reform, I admire your courage. But sometimes you lose me, like when you said you wouldn’t allow Gitmo prisoners to … Continue reading
