Massachusetts Senate Race

Massachusetts Senatorial Candidates Scott Brown and Martha Coakley Next week, Massachusetts voters will be voting in a special election to fill the seat of the late Ted Kennedy. By most accounts, it’s a very tight race between Democratic candidate, Martha Coakley, and the Rethug, Scott Brown. At risk is the vaunted 60 vote Dem coalition majority, which could be decided …

Black Box Financial Crisis

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Dylan Ratigan calls for Geithner’s head Last spring equinox I wrote: Obama likes to brag that he can walk and chew gum at the same time; that he spends at least an hour a day on the economy. Now, I understand that systemic problems demand systemic solutions. But …

A Mind Like A Steele Trap

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. — Groucho Marx Michael Steele, the always entertaining chairman of the RNC who suffers from a monumental case of foot in mouth disease, stole a page, er, title, from Sarah Palin‘s book this week and went, you …

I Feel Rachel’s Pain

On her show Thursday night, Rachel Madow interviewed Mother Jones correspondent David Corn (two of my favorite people). The tag line describing the clip above, “Lack of an honest opposition lamentable”, while accurately describing the content, doesn’t come close to capturing the depth of the problem they address. Lamentable means “bad, unfortunate.” As I read the numerous socio-political-economic crises facing …

Limpbot Champions Unionized Progressive Health Care

No Rush to judgment here Talk about being hoisted upon one’s own anal cyst encrusted pitard. After being released from Queen’s Medical Center on Oahu for a false alarm heart attack (mixing Viagra with Oxytocin, fat burners, steroids and eating like a pig can do that to ya), The Limp One proclaimed: The (confidence inspiring) treatment I received here was …

The Hindmost Returns

The Hindmost, a cowardly Puppeteer from Larry Niven’s Ringworld series Dickhead Cheney is at it again, criticizing President Obama’s response to the failed terrorist attempt to take down an airliner over the U.S. on Christmas Day. Seems that Darth isn’t happy that Obama is implicitly rejecting the Bush Administration‘s idiotic and counterproductive “war on terrorism” frame for something more rational …