Democrats settle into the job they know best Dems never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity (see, e.g., healthcare). Rethugs never miss an opportunity to bully Dems into missing an opportunity. And the circle of life goes merily along… UPDATE: Apology to House Dems: While the Senate has cowered from the debate over a public option in the face …
Truth in advertising from the Medical Industrial Complex Bob Cesca at HuffPo, in his post The Health Insurance Mafia Deserves a Good Screwing recounts his personal experience of losing his family’s medical insurance after his provider, without cause, raised their premium threefold overnight; and makes the case for a public option. Atul Gawande of The New Yorker provides a clue …
Tweety during his silver tongued false equivalency rant On his Hardball show yesterday, Chris Matthews did a segment called The Hate Machine about the dog whistle relationship between right wing extremists and their “conservative” enablers in the media. Though he didn’t mention the inciters by name, I will– O’Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, Savage, and Beck being just the most prominent hate …
CNN’s Rick Sanchez’s smackdown of a lying Bully-O Has it really been six years since the publishing of Al Franken book, Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them ? Chapter 13 is dedicated to television’s most arrogant narcissist, Bully Bill O’Reilly, a self-styled “cultural warrior” and former war correspondent. (He once covered the Falkland Islands war for CBS and …
Poor Whoopi Goldberg must have thought she was having an acid flashback while listening to her co-host on The View, Elisabeth Hasslebeck rail on about Barack Obama’s failure to even mention the word “democracy” during his 55 minute speech at Cairo University last week. Not only did Obama mention the word numerous times, he even made it one of the …
“Look out behind you!” – An ancestral Rethuglican deception ploy The ability of primates to deceive a perceived competitor for access to resources or mates conferred obvious survival advantages on those who mastered it. So successful were the results that their victims had to develop effective countermeasures. In time, they evolved the ability to detect physiological clues– facial expressions, vocal …
Having failed in their previous wars—the war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on anything not right wing crazy, the Rethugs have launched a new one—the war on empathy.
