How did these dumb asses beat Hillary?*

WaPo: The president stacked his administration with Capitol Hill veterans to help get the job done. Vice President Biden had served in the Senate since 1972. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel had been a rising star in the House. Senior advisers Pete Rouse and Jim Messina, budget director Peter Orszag and legislative affairs director Phil [...]

Liveblog: Football Playoffs

The Colts are headed to the Superbowl! Now who will they face in Miami, the Vikings or the Saints? The second playoff game starts soon. Let’s talk about it! It’s old man Brett Favre against young whippersnapper Drew Brees. Who will be victorious? Where is Dakinikat? **************************************************************************** It’s half-time in the Colts-Jets playoff game. The [...]

Sunday News and Views: The Week That Changed Everything?

Good Morning Conflucians!!! It has been quite a week in U.S. politics. So far, it doesn’t seem to have registered with the DC Dems that everything has changed. We can only hope that they will slowly wake up to the new realities in time to prevent the Republicans from completely taking over Congress and the [...]

Oh noes! Brad and Angelina have split!

Star Magazine: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are ending their relationship and have signed a $330 million split deal, according to a new British report. Although unmarried, Brad and Angelina have taken legal steps to dissolve their union including how to divide their fortune and who gets custody of their six kids. “The contract was [...]

Are there any Sane Republicans in South Carolina?

Andre Bauer is the Republican Lt. Governor of South Carolina and is running to replace the current Governor, Mark Sanford. You know, the guy who told his staff he was going hiking on the Appalachian Trail and then went to visit his girlfriend in Argentina? So anyway, Andre Bauer held a town hall meeting, and [...]

Saturday Morning News and Views: Populist Uprising Edition

Good Morning Conflucians!!! President Obama was in Ohio yesterday trying to impersonate a populist. “I won’t stop fighting for you,” he thundered in a campaign-style speech in economically sagging northeastern Ohio, remarks that provided a likely preview of the themes in his first State of the Union speech next Wednesday. Trying to shore up public [...]

Friday Open Thread

NFL conference championships are on Sunday. The Jets will face Indy in the Who’s-yer-new-sponsor Dome while the Vikes play the Saints in NOLA. What are you doing this weekend?

RACY? WTF?

Over at Zsa Zsa’s Huff&Puff they are pimping the above video under the headline: Scott Brown’s Wife Music VIDEO: Gail Huff’s RACY ‘Girl With The Curious Hand’ (PHOTOS) The article goes on to report: On Tuesday night, Scott Brown’s wife pleaded with her husband to stop advertising his “available” daughters, but a video we’ve dug [...]

Friday Afternoon News and Views: Have We Finally Reached A Tipping Point?

Tipping points: the levels at which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable; the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point. (Malcolm Gladwell) Was the special election for the Massachusetts Senate seat the final straw for Obama supporters and for Obama’s corporate agenda? It sure looks that way. The signs are everywhere: prog blogs [...]

Hillary Clinton Channels FDR in Internet Freedom Speech

Some people call us Hillary Die Hards like that’s a *bad* thing.  But there’s a reason we supported her for president of the US.  She leads from her principles. That’s it.  The whole shebang.  We didn’t think she was perfect or transformative or a magical change agent.  We figured that she’d piss us off occasionally.  [...]