Obama’s Attack on Social Security

OK, I know they aren’t talking privatization anymore now that the stock market collapsed, but I like that cartoon anyway. And yes, the siege on the social safety net continues, with a slight hiccup, as Myiq2xu reported in the previous post. Apparently some Democrats–probably members of the shrinking Democratic wing of the Obamacratic Party–had a [...]

Democrats Make Obama Retreat on Social Security

Elana Schor at TPM: The New York Times reports this morning that the White House had abandoned plans to unveil a Social Security “task force” at today’s fiscal summit, raising the question of whether the Obama administration is ready to conduct separate debate over the long-term health of Social Security and Medicare — or whether [...]

Palin Derangement Syndrome, will we ever find a cure???

First of all I saw this on CNN’s political ticker (they always do their Palin stories on the ticker so that people can comment): The mainstream media made it a mission to destroy the vice presidential candidacy of Sarah Palin, the Alaska governor says in a new documentary released Monday. In an interview taped last [...]

A change whose time has come, or a recipe for disaster?

I saw this article this morning in the Washington Post and thought that it would be a good topic of discussion at this site.  As many of you know, we have some of the finest legal minds out there as front pagers and contributors to this blog, so I’d certainly like to get their take [...]

Monday: The Bankers and Obama.

They paid for him.  They paid big money to get what they wanted. Liberal Rapture has an account of an unknown insider that is uncanny in its summary of Obama.  The account could be completely fabricated but if it is true, it is told from the perspective of someone who was present at many of [...]

Sunday: Divide and conquer with racism

I was going to write about how David Broder is Public Enemy Number One.  However, it’s more disturbing to see how accusations of racism are cropping up just when *real* unity would seem to be very important. Let me just say for the record that unless Barack Obama is Jesus Christ himself, he is subject [...]

A letter to President Obama (or should I say “Jock in Chief”)?

(crossposted from Heidi Li’s Potpourri) Dear President Obama: One of your Cabinet Secretaries, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is striking a chord with women abroad and at home as she mixes in, with her discussion of global warming and economic security, the issue of women’s empowerment, as a matter of democracy and social justice. Might you consider [...]

STFU and GTFO is not a cogent rebuttal

We recently have seen David M-M-M-My Sirota and former PUMA Chuckie Lemos respond to substantive arguments with personal insults and spittle-flecked rants.  There must be something in the Kool-aid these days because lots of Obama fluffers seem to be going bug-fuck nuts: 

Imaginary Racism

Last night I saw upon the stair A little man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today Oh, how I wish he’d go away Remember last year how Obamanation claimed that failure to support Teh Precious was ipso facto evidence of racism?  It’s baaaaack!  Over at OpenLeft Paul Rosenberg disinters a zombie talking point from [...]

Obama’s “Fiscal Responsibility Summit” and the Week Ahead

It’s going to be a big week for the Obamagharchy. In order to short-circuit the coming Obamageddon, our Dear Leader is making “fiscal responsibility” the focus of his week. On Monday, President Obama will meet with lots of “experts” and think tank denizens to discuss the future of what is left of the social safety [...]