Grayson Strikes Again

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) walks into the lyin’s den of CNN’s Situation Room to re-iterate what he said on the House floor yesterday when he revealed the GOPers health care reform plan: “Don’t get sick.” And their fallback plan. “And if you die, die quickly.” He did subsequently take the floor to apologize, not to the Rethugs, but to the …

Soylent Green & Corporations Are People Too

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – Let Freedom Ka-Ching www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Michael Moore “…corporations are people entitled to protection under the first amendment.” —Attorney Ted Olsen in oral argument before The Supremes The US Supreme Court is currently deciding a case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission , that …

Arizona Rep Calls Obama “Enemy of Humanity”

At the wingers’ How to Take Back America Conference last weekend in St.Louis, Rep. Trent Franks, [Rethug-AZ] ratchets up the hate rhetoric against President Obama, calling him “an enemy of humanity.”

The Great Brain Robbery

Last week ABC premiered a new one hour sci-fi drama series called Fast Forward. The premise involves a mysterious worldwide 2 minute 17 second long blackout. People driving automobiles, flying in airplanes, or undergoing shock therapy to remove all traces of Glenn Beck shows from their neural circuitry, die. The survivors awake with the ability to see their individual futures exactly 6 months in the future.

Afutilestan

The contents of General McCrystal’s top-down review of Afghanistan ordered by President Obama found its way into the front pages of the NY Times and Washington Post today. As expected, it paints a grim picture and calls for more of everything– more troops, more money, more nation building– on top of the $ 4 billion a month we’re already spending …

Racism, Propaganda, And Health Care Reform

An attendee at today’s teabagger protest on the D.C. Mall In the never-ending triumph of form over substance, politics over policy, and emotionally charged food fights over actual debate, the MSM occasionally interjects some reality into their coverage of complex issues like health care reform. Example in a moment. Take the issue du jour— fictional health care insurance for non-documented immigrants, …

Congressman Wilson’s Wingnut Credentials

During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq and the debate over whether Saddam Hussein had re-constituted his WMD program, a photo surfaced showing him in a friendly and fateful 1983 meeting with Donald Rumsfeld. The Daily Mail wrote a contemporaneous article about how the US supplied various chemical weapon precursors to Saddam in advance of his US sponsored war …