By request – Unemployment (and Uninsured) Chronicles

(Photo source, Darth Dragon on Flickr) As I did in last weeks’s Unemployment Chronicles, (and many thanks again to Laurie again for suggesting it), I’ll talk about some of the things that I’m going through now that more than half a million Americans are unemployed.  While the President parties in Camp David this weekend, probably [...]

Defending Government By Astroturf

The latest trumpeter of the “Obama Drama Equals Bad PR” song, Marc Ambinder is the most recent addition to the growing chorus of Obama fluffers playing what’s rapidly becoming a hauntingly familiar and disturbingly discordant  tune.  The reason the American public is getting impatient with the whole stimulus bill kerfuffle and the Spokesmodel in Chief’s [...]

Is Stimulis Right For You?

“Are you an economy with performance issues?” Stimulis That Makes You Go Mmm-mm-m “Stimulis” was written and produced by Ted Balaker, and edited by Alex Manning. [cross-posted from Lady Boomer NYC]

Obama responds to Krugman

Here (MP3) (NSFW) and here (MP3)  (NSFW) Okay, not really.  Well, it’s really Obama talking, but he’s not talking to Krugman. (h/t The Phoenix)

Friday: Ruh-Roh, The Shrill One’s Hair is on Fire

Remember the accounts of Richard Clark and George Tenet at the 9/11 Commission hearings about how they were running around the White House with their hair on fire trying to get Condi’s and W’s attention in the summer of 2001?  They knew something bad was going to happen and even went to the trouble of [...]

Astroturf Reactions

TelePrompter Jeebus gave another speech last night: A fired-up Barack Obama ditched his TelePrompter to rally House Democrats and rip Republican opponents of his recovery package Thursday night – at one point openly mocking the GOP for failing to follow through on promises of bipartisanship. [...] Obama’s words bore only a vague resemblance to the [...]