Is this WTF week?

Sombody said I seem angry lately. You think so? I wonder what gave them that impression. Greg Sargent is buns up and kneeling: What if the Dem base’s lack of enthusiasm is rooted in the fact that Dems aren’t even aware of how much Congress has accomplished in the last two years? A new poll [...]

Christine O’Donnell, Please Stop Existing Now

It’s like my friend Hecate says, Last person I heard say, “I’m you,” was Linda Tripp.Who was, you know, not me. You’re right Christine, you’re not a witch, but you’re not me either. The saddest thing about this ad is it’s mere existence. Women in politics have been called witches for a long time. For example: [...]

The Republicans are worse®?

Kevin Drum at MoJo: That final quote is priceless. “The health reform law did not deliver the uninsured in the way that insurers wanted.” Apparently they wanted the uninsured trussed up and delivered to their doorsteps wallet first, but without any actual obligation on their part to provide decent service in return. And they know [...]

Kiss my ass, Ed!

From Politico: Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell says discouraged liberals need to “get over it” and support the Democratic Party, before they regret it. “This isn’t about President [Barack] Obama,” Rendell said on MSNBC’s “Last Word” Monday night. “It’s about whether the Democratic Party, not perfect, but certainly bent on trying to preserve theories in government [...]

Whose seat is it, anyway?

Lisa Murkowski is not a happy camper: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s campaign is warning Alaska broadcasters not to air ads by a national tea party group that the campaign says are “littered with lies and intentional mischaracterizations” about her and her write-in campaign. Attorney Timothy McKeever, in a letter to broadcasters Monday, said they are [...]

Mostly Shit ‘N Biased Coverage (MSNBC) Unveils Another Shit Slogan to Sanitize its Biased Coverage

New York Times: MSNBC, once the also-ran but now the No. 2 cable news channel, has a new tagline that embraces its progressive political identity. The tagline, “Lean Forward,” will be publicly announced Tuesday, opening a planned two-year advertising campaign intended to raise awareness of the channel among viewers, advertisers and distributors. The tagline “defines [...]

Late Night: Weird News

There sure are some strange news stories floating around tonight. Via Think Progress, the Republican vision of small government and “individual responsibility” was on display recently in Obion County, Tennesee, as firefighters stood by and watched while a local family’s house burned down. Why? Because the homeowner had neglected to pay a $75 subscription fee [...]