Greatest Speech on Health Care Reform EVAH!

Obama was for it before he was against it. The man who revived “Harry and Louise” to use against Hillary in the primaries doesn’t want to make the same mistakes she made. He drew a line in the sand and said everything is negotiable. What surprises does he have in store for us tonight? He’s [...]

Mt. Wilson and the fire

The last couple of weeks, the world in all of Greater Los Angeles has looked like this: I’m 70 miles further west. The skyscrapers would be too small to see (and they’d be hidden behind the curve of the Earth) but the cloud looked much the same. That’s how huge it was. (There are many [...]

Afghanistan: Is It Worth It?

The Public Debate has been revolving intensely around Health Care lately, so we haven’t had much of a chance to discuss the War in Afghanistan. Last night, I read an impassioned article by Tom Engelhardt, discussing the costs, escalation, public opinion, fraudulent elections, private contractors, ect. I would strongly recommend it to anyone, because it [...]

Wednesday morning at 5 O’clock

The world – or at least that bit of it that sits between Canada and Mexico – waits with bated breath for President Obama’s speech clarifying his Health Care Plan to the joint session of Congress tonight. Meanwhile: U.N. Afghan panel cites fraud in vote as Karzai pulls ahead Citing “clear and convincing evidence of [...]

Tomorrow’s Game Changer

Tomorrow, President Obama is going to appease all of our petty worries about Health Care Reform with yet another rambling diatribe written by a fat, ugly frat boy turd about absolutely nothing that doesn’t outline the specifics of his plan Historical Speech. How exciting! So what should we expect from our fearless leader tomorrow night? [...]

NJ has a place to go! Chris Daggett airs his first campaign ad

If you’ve been following this blog for the past couple of months, you should know that Democrat Jon Corzine, the incumbent, is trailing Republican Chris Christie for Governor of New Jersey.  Christie’s lead over Corzine has dwindled in the past week.  He now has about 6 points over Corzine.  But the curious thing is the [...]

More Buyer’s Remorse–This Time from a Former Obama Campaign Advisor

Ben Smith has a new story at Politico about recent remarks by Steve Hildebrand, who was deputy campaign manager of Obama’s 2008 campaign for the presidency. Hildebrand told Politico that he is “losing patience” with his former boss. Obama, he said, “needs to be more bold in his leadership.” “I’m not going to just sit [...]

Joan Walsh is having a Kool-aid flashback

From Salon: Barack Obama’s Labor Day speech to an AFL-CIO picnic in Cincinnati on Monday was strangely heartbreaking to me, both thrilling and painful. Painful because it felt so much like a fall 2008 campaign rally, back when this charismatic political superstar with an inspiring but untested trans-partisan appeal began to close the deal, pulling [...]

Glenn Beck is a skidmark on the underwear of mankind.

(h/t Egalia at TGW) This is an open thread.

Labor’s Heroes: Remembering Mother Jones

“The elderly woman smoothed her black dress and touched the lace at her throat and wrists. Her snow-white hair was gathered into a knot at the nape of her neck, and a black hat, trimmed with lavender ribbons to lend a touch of color, shaded her finely wrinkled face. She was about five feet tall, [...]