Comrade Bush Nationalizes Financial Sector

Good afternoon, glorious working people of the United Socialist Republic of America.
That’s right, the party of “small government”, the party that calls us liberals “socialists”, the party that hates the idea of public schools, libraries, police, fire fighters, and will stop at nothing to prevent universal medical care will leave the White House in January [...]

Ifill Should Not Moderate the Debate

Yeah, Gwen Ifill penned a book about racial politics that talks about Barack Obama. So what? She is a journalist. It is her purpose in life to have opinions while remaining objective. Therefore, there shouldn’t be any problem with her moderating a debate.
But there is a problem, and its that Republicans are idiots. They are [...]

Krugman to Pelosi: Your Bill is Dumb.

As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, the bailout bill failed in the house.
Paul Krugman, progressive economic genius, speculates as to what might happen:
I assume Pelosi calls a new vote; but if it fails, then what? I guess write a bill that is actually, you know, a good plan, and try to pass it — [...]

Krugman, Others Describe Absurdity of McCain/GOP Bailout Proposal

First of all, holy shit, Paul Krugman is a blogger? If you don’t know what is going on because you don’t quite understand economics, read Krugman. He is a progressive Princeton economist who can explain the stuff at a 5th grade level..
I say again:READ KRUGMAN! Because his story (linked above) is better, [...]

Travel Blogging: People I Hate

CHARLOTTE DOUGLAS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT — Here is a list of people I hate that I have encountered en route to DC:

The Slow Walker
Guy Who Stands on the Moving Walkway
The Loud Republican (This is not limited to traveling)

Loud Republican Who Complains About Recent Increases In the Size of Government as if It Were Not the [...]

Bush wants $700 Billion to Nationalize Mortgage Industry.

Where is the money coming from? And isn’t this the kind of thing Bush has criticized Hugo Chavez for?
In the video I linked yesterday, Chris Hayes of The Nation discussed Republicans being all about handouts when giant corporations need them, but when Democrats want to help people with things like healthcare, there is no money [...]

Republicans Cry When They Get What They Want

We all remember GOP representatives camping out in DC during the summer recess to throw a fit about Democrats being responsible on energy issues. Today, in what was first thought to be a cave in, the Democrats allowed the GOP their vote on offshore drilling. The problem though is that the Republicans voted against [...]

Now You’re Just Talking Crazy

As I was going to sleep last night, a profound thought occured to me.  ”If the federal government believes it’s an ‘emergency’ to rescue Bear Stearns, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and now AIG, what does this tell us about our priorities?”
Now, don’t get me wrong.  I actually think the feds got those right, particularly AIG. [...]

I Don’t Want a Bi-Partisan Candidate

At a VoteVets function in Denver during convention week, I had a conversation with Matt Stoller (who I also agree with regarding this being to weird to not be planned) about partisanship and polarization. We agreed that these are good things.
I’m a democrat. I’m a progressive. And I’m not too afraid of the [...]

Making My Job Easy

Blogging isn’t easy. Fellow bloggers, I’m sure you agree. For those of you who don’t agree let me explain. Unless you are one of the few who are lucky enough to do this for a living, we all have other lives. I have a wife, a toddler and attend school full time [...]