What Obama Wants
I’m conflicted. I want to be healthy, but I also really like fast food. Sometimes I’m good, and I can resists the Arby’s down the street. But sometimes… How can you tell what someone really really...
View ArticleI Recant
During the 2008 election I supported Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton. I felt then, as I do now, that Clinton would have been a rot in the White House and in her leadership of the Democratic Party. I...
View ArticleYawn
The BBC reports: The United States is abandoning efforts to persuade Israel to renew a freeze on settlement-building as part of efforts to revive Middle East peace talks. Yeah, why not? Despite the...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to President Obama
President Obama You are a loser. Loser loser loser. You may not get the message, but…you’ll still be a loser.
View ArticleMaddow On Obama
Maddow on Obama: He’s the inverse of Ghandi. Rachel, have I told you lately that I love you?
View ArticleBipartisanship
Markos has a post up entitled “McConnell handled ‘bipartisanship’ correctly“. It starts with a quote from Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority leader: “We worked very hard to keep our fingerprints off...
View ArticleCramdown
Via Atrios: Assholes Timmeh And Larreh. In the fall of 2008, Democrats saw a good opportunity to pass cramdown. The $700 billion TARP legislation was being considered, and lawmakers thought that with...
View ArticleMore, Please
His learning curve may be longer than the orbit of Neptune, but still. On Thursday, Mr Obama defended his decision to criticise Republicans, sometimes by name. “I think it’s fair to say that I have...
View ArticleObama Spies on You
An excerpt from typically-brilliant piece from Glenn Greenwald regarding warrantless wiretapping: In 2006, The New York Times‘ James Risen and Eric Lichtblau won the Pulitzer Prize for their December,...
View ArticleSpying on Scientists
Note that this is all taking place under the Obama Administration: A wide-ranging surveillance operation by the Food and Drug Administration against a group of its own scientists used an enemies list...
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