Keeping up with Madame Secretary: Women and Girls Front and Center

Wonk the Vote here, bringing a Week’s worth of Hillary, with the cause of women and girls informing every foreign policy move Madame Secretary makes. I thought it would be nice heading towards the week’s end to collect some Hillary headlines and share some quick thoughts on it all. It’s good for the spirit. Especially [...]

They call him “The Freak”

  SFGate: Tim Lincecum’s experience on the national stage has been so sad, it’s almost funny. He was picked for three All-Star teams. He missed the first at Yankee Stadium in 2008 because he got sick. He started at St. Louis in 2009 and surrendered two runs in the first inning. He made the trip [...]

WTF Week continues

Over at the Plum Line at WaPo they are calling the above clip “Sharron Angle’s ‘Willie Horton’ ad.”   Between her thinly veiled endorsements of violence, her railing against government spending while receiving government health care, and her recently revealed attempts to force third-party candidate Scott Ashjian out of the race, Sharron Angle’s extremism has [...]

Bipartisan BOHICA

Every time you hear how “the Republicans are worse” you should think about this story from Moneynews: A bill that homeowners advocates warn will make it more difficult to challenge improper foreclosure attempts by big mortgage processors is awaiting President Barack Obama’s signature after it quietly zoomed through the Senate last week. The bill, passed [...]

Morning Madness Meditations

    It’s another manic day in the deepest. darkest suburbs of central NJ but my mind is turned westward.  I am very worried about the mental state of our Petulant Klown.  He’s got some serious hypergraphia lately, for good reason.  But Klowns like voters can be very unpredictable.  He’s obviously worried about the Democrats. [...]

Late Night Hilarity: Obama says Don’t Sulk, and Donna B takes to twitter to pretend she cares about the hippies being punched

H/t to Dario for linking to this story in the comments. It’s from the Washington Post, with the headline “Obama warns Democratic donors against ‘sulking and sitting back’ in midterms” : CRESSKILL, N.J. – President Obama returned Wednesday night to his get-off-your-duffs message, warning Democrats at a low-key million-dollar fundraising dinner against “sulking and sitting [...]