“Horsefeathers” to become new Rethuglican campaign ad Any doubt that the Rethuglicans are bereft of ideas and have instead adopted a strategy of just say no to everything President Obama has been put to rest over the last week. As Greg Sargent at his Plumline blog puts it: On Friday, GOP Senator Jim DeMint told a special-interest attack group that …
The Medical Mafia‘s first salvo in the present health care reform war came in the form of an ad run by CRC Public Relations, the group that ran the Swift Boat ads, for a group that calls itself Conservatives for Patients’ Rights. CPR is led by Medicare fruadster Rick Scott, the founder of the Columbia/HCA hospital chain, who got nailed …
Glenn Beck tapping his lizard brain on health care reform This week belongs almost exclusively to the Bekasaurus, for sheer histrionic, over the top, bat shit losing it, as the audio below reveals. The context is the battle over health care reform, per a caller to his radio show. At about 1:25, the caller asks: What the hell is wrong …
Part of the full-court press that President Obama is mounting for health care reform involves ads aimed at conservative Dems in various districts. (Whoda thunk that “bipartisanship” with the Just Say No Rethuglicans was a fool’s errand to begin with?) Harry Reid might not like it, but WGAF. UPDATE: The labor union AFSCME and one of the nation’s largest health …
Bob Herbert in his column Monday in The NY Times asks: What is up with the banks and the rest of the financial industry? The people running this system remind me of gangsters who manage to walk out of the courthouse with a suspended sentence and can’t wait to get back to their nefarious activities. These malefactors of great wealth …
Tick tock, tick tock… Euripides observed that those whom the gods would destroy they first make crazy. Today’s NY Times article, Palin’s Long March to a Short-Notice Resignation documents the Greek tragedy that has become Sarah Baradiva’s sorry little life. Proving that the law of karma is chock-a-block full with irony and not a little humor, the writers save the …
Back in March, I wrote: From the Wall Street/DC Axis of Evil, the Treasury Department— oh hell, let’s just call it what it is: a wholly owned subsidiary of Goldman Sachs– will announce tomorrow its plan to further reward the very people who brought down the country’s financial system and by extension, the world’s. Matt Taiibi has a more complete …
