Glenn Greewald Gets It (Mostly)

I just finished reading Glenn Greenwald’s latest post, The misguided reaction to Tea Party candidates. It’s just about perfect except that Greenwald couldn’t resist taking a mild swipe against Hillary. The entire left blogosphere has gone nuts digging up dirt about newly selected Republican nominee for to replace Joe Biden in the Senate. TPM, for [...]

Dumbest Political Move of 2010: Obama Airlocks Elizabeth Warren

For those of you unfamiliar with the term “airlock”, it’s corporate lackey speak for what management does to an inconvenient subordinate.  They need to make a change and there’s a person they have to get rid of but can’t, or not quite yet.  The person is in the way.  So, he or she is given [...]

The latest cringe-inducing Harry Reid moments

This is too much. Harry Reid is sure that Democratic candidate Chris Coons will beat tea party candidate Christine O’Donnell in the Delaware Senate race: …Reid said Coons would have won even if Rep. Mike Castle (R) had prevailed over O’Donnell. “I’m going to be very honest with you — Chris Coons, everybody knows him [...]

Progressive Onanists Opposed to O’Donnell (POOO)

A new group has formed to campaign against Christine O’Donnell, the GOP/TP nominee for the Senate in Delaware. Progressive Onanists Opposed to O’Donnell (POOO) believe that her stance against masturbation violates their fundamental rights. “Wanking is not a lifestyle choice!” said Hairy Seed, founder and president of POOO. “We have a right to self-gratification.” Seed [...]

Can this party be saved?

I’ve been cruising the web, checking out the blind men groping different parts of the elephant and trying to make sense of it all. None of them are seeing the big picture though, with the exeception of Ian Welsh and he’s even more pessimistic than I am. So, I thought I’d throw my own uninformed [...]

A cure among us

Myiq2xu asks: The GOP establishment threw everything including the kitchen sink at O’Donnell and Palin, and it wasn’t even close. Of course the conventional media wisdom is this helps the . . . Democrats? WTF? The CW that O’Donnell’s win is good news for Dems does not surprise me. The meme comes from the fact [...]

’2010 is gone for Democrats’

From Politico: 2010 Is ‘Gone,’ Says Big-Time Dem “He cannot save 2010,” the big-time Democrat is saying of Barack Obama. “It is gone. He must now concentrate on saving 2012. But the biggest fear of some of those close to him is that he might not really want to go on in 2012, that he [...]

Who’s laughing now?

From The Note: Christine O’Donnell, the Sarah Palin and Tea Party backed candidate, dealt a stunning blow to the Republican establishment Tuesday night, defeating the moderate, party-favorite veteran Rep. Mike Castle in the Delaware GOP senate primary. “Don’t ever underestimate the power of we the people. We the people will have our voice heard in [...]

Women Are to Blame For Hillary’s Loss. What Else is New?

As if we want to be reminded of the 2008 election, Rebecca Traister has just written a book expressing her desire for a “Sarah Palin of the Left” and letting us in on the fact that Hillary Clinton’s run for the Presidency was historic, she was the first woman to win a presidential primary, and [...]

Same planet, different worlds

Rebecca Traister comes clean two years too late: In 50 years it could be a magnificent miniseries or something. What are some examples of big stories that people either don’t remember or weren’t even aware of at the time? Here’s a thing that I didn’t know at the time. When Hillary won New Hampshire, she [...]