Neo-Decepticons At It Again

Transforming the Middle East, one neocon deception at a time No, this isn’t a review of the new film sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (worldwide 5 day gross $381 million), in which a race of evil alien robots known as the Decepticons return to earth in an attempt to redeem their former glory. Rather, it’s a commentary on an …

This Week In Teh Crazy

When Michelle Bachmann is even too much for Glenn Beck The leaderless Rethuglican Party has no shortage of members eager to grab headlines with ever more outrageous claims and demonizations of the Democrats and President Obama. And I am not referring here to the kind of vitriol vomited out daily by the demented talking heads of professional right wing media. …

Funambulist In Chief

Despite receiving a thumbs up from a number of conservative foreign policy observers, and the public at large, for his handling of the current Iranian domestic turmoil, the wingers seem to have settled on a narrative that President Obama has been too timid in his response to same. It was a theme dutifully picked up by the MSM at Tuesday’s …

Top Ten Reasons Why Gov. Sanford Disappeared

The Sanford family during happier times 10.  Needed a break from his family…values. 9.  Has a Senator Ensign problem (affair with another woman). 8.  Has a Senator Craig problem (affair with a gay lover). 7.  Has a Senator Vitter problem (chatty prostitute). 6. Was hospitalized for an ass transplant after getting his butt kicked by the South Carolina legislature for …

Attacking Health Care Reform

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! Making Rick Scott the front man for the medical industrial complex’s attack against health care reform is like hiring Dracula to head a Red Cross blood drive. Scott is the former Columbia/HCA CEO whose company was fined, between 2000-2002, a record $1.7 billion for overbilling state and federal government health plans.  …

The Rocky Rethuglican Horror Show

Socialized Medicine. Takeover. Bureaucrat. Rationing. Frank Luntz is certainly earning his money these days, focus group testing emotionally reactive words like these for distribution by the Medical Mafia and their mostly Rethuglican hit men and women on Capitol Hill. As one vet wrote Senator Sanders this week: “I’m active duty military. I have served in the Air Force for almost …