Ricci don’t use that number

Yesterday’s 5-4 Supreme Court decision in Ricci v. DeStefano predictably resulted in lots of bloviating by gasbags who didn’t let complete ignorance of the court’s holding get in the way of releasing tons of heated air into the atmosphere.  Having actually read the 93 page decision I am happy to inform you that it is [...]

It’s Official…Al Franken, “Number 60″ Should be/is on His Way to the Senate

The long-awaited decision is finally in from the Minnesota State Supreme Court: From Talking Points Memo: The Minnesota Supreme Court has handed down its much-expected ruling in the heavily-litigated Minnesota Senate race from 2008 — and it’s a unanimous one — deciding against Republican former Sen. Norm Coleman’s appeal of his defeat in the election [...]

You Don’t Have to be Stupid to be Ignorant, II

It’s been said that the left hold their firing squads in an inward facing circle. If we allow the qualification that the shooters tend to be ideologues, then Plukasiak’s responses to dakinikat’s post on the Honduran situation suggest that he would be in the front row, if he wasn’t already the Generalisimo that ordered the [...]

Monday Morning News with The Confluence

Election 2008 — and related stories Pawlenty may certify Franken if battle drags out I Want My Money Back! (Pres. Obama!) Health Insurance for Everyone!! Yesterday the Washington Post published a bizarre story.  Apparently there are activists pushing Congress to enact Health Care Reforms that Congress has no intension of passing.  And those efforts are [...]

Silly Video Open Thread

h/t tweet from Synchronize23 Has anyone seen Rico? I could use a seltzer with lime.

The Usual Suspects

Dan Balz has a piece in the Washington Post today about the efforts by both parties to “reform” the presidential primary system. The article is mostly about the Democrats’ problems though. Surprisingly, Balz to some extent acknowledges that the 2008 Democratic primaries were handled in a way that severely damaged Hillary Clinton’s chances. But he [...]

Smoking Kool-aid in a crack pipe

I was bored and I hadn’t been by Blogstalkers for a few days so I dropped in to see what they were up to. Naturally, they’ve been talking about us.  People ask me why I visit their site and the reason is that it gives me a glimpse into the minds of the Failbots.  If [...]

A small evil group to which no one we know belongs

Early in the primary season last year, my colleague from up the hall told me of a dinner she had with her Wall Street working neighbors.  Now, not all of the people in NJ who work on Wall Street are evil people.  Some of them were just rank and file finance types.  One of my [...]

Sunday Brunch at the Confluence and Your Morning News

Good Morning Conflucians!  Sit right down…no reservation needed.  Sure it’s a bit early for brunch, but Rico has graciously mixed up a batch of his killer Mimosas before heading off to bed.  What’s on your mind this morning? How about a few conversation starters? House passes climate-change bill Obama implores Senate to pass climate bill. Plus, [...]

That was us

Over at Hullaballoo Digby writes: last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart did a nice little rundown on all the cases where the Obama administration’s promises of “transparency” and adherence to constitutional norms have turned out to be shall we say, a bit opaque. There were those who saw the writing on the wall [...]