Careful What You Ask For

From TPM: 2/22/2012 Just over a week ago, the New York Times ran an eye-opening story about a key paradox in U.S. politics: It turns out the biggest critics of federal spending — Republican base voters — are some of the biggest beneficiaries of the social safety net. Expand on that irony, and you’ll find that some of the most conservative …

Chairman Issa Is An Asshole

Four days after the 2010 election, Issa declared he would hold hundreds of hearings over the next two years: “I want seven bleedings hearings a week, times 40 weeks.”

Mitt Romney: Outsourcer-In-Chief (Update)

Mitt Romney and his fellow Bain Capital out-sourcing pioneers In an article in today’s WAPO titled “Romney’s Bain Capital invested in companies that moved jobs overseas”  investigative reporter Tom Hamburger writes (emphasis mine): Mitt Romney’s financial company, Bain Capital, invested in a series of firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by American workers to new facilities in low-wage countries like China and India. …

Fux News Triggers Giant Reagan Boner

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Bod Squad www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook  Obama’s body language reveals a weak child slouching America towards a nuclear holocaust After noting cable television’s “wall to wall coverage of something that they’re not sure of or if it …

Proceedings Of The Senate Fluffer Committee

MOTU Jamie Dimon, enduring a high profile US government inquiry as only a supreme narcissist can   You know, being called to testify before a Senate committee on a matter fraught with danger for one’s career, and perhaps one’s very liberty, would usually have the testifier sweating bullets.  Not so for the man who has been called Wall Street’s most …

Rooting For Failure

 Speaking uncomfortable truth to power Stating the obvious, via ThinkProgress: A media strategist who was a senior adviser to Mitt Romney when he ran for governor in 2003 said that he thinks Republican lawmakers are “rooting against the economy” to ensure that President Obama doesn’t win re-election. Rob Gray, a senior adviser on Romney’s gubernatorial campaign, is a Republican media …