Let’s have a swinger party!

(No, this isn’t that kind of post. Get your mind out of the gutter.) From Hugh at Corrente: Michael Kwiatkowski’s recent post on dumping Obama appeared here and at FDL’s Seminal. In it, he took shots at Jane Hamsher and the Seminal for being openly hostile to organizing a progressive alternative to the Democrats. As [...]

Thursday News: Downwind

We didn’t start the fire but we wouldn’t mind being downwind of one of the biggest marijuana bonfires the world has ever known.  134 tons of confiscated weed were set ablaze in Mexico yesterday.  We’re a little puzzled over the draconian steps to eradicate the pot before it makes its way across the border.  What [...]

A Wonk catch-up on a Wednesday night (and Hillary Goes Purple)

Wednesday — Tori Amos I wasn’t able to get my news junkie fix all day today, so this is just me catching up on a Wednesday night and sharing some quick thoughts on stories that caught my eye. The Hill reports that “Voters are not worried about ‘extreme’ label on candidates.” According to the Hill’s [...]

Barack “O’Reilly” Obama Dumps Gay Nominee for Federal Bench

And why did the President get so “wee wee’d up” that he decided against nominating Daniel Alter, and openly gay New York attororney, federal judgeship? (Alter would have been the first openly gay person to serve as a federal judge). Yes, Conflucians, President Obama truly is transformational. He has completed his transformation into Bill O’Reilly. [...]

The Nineties as viewed through the CDS looking-glass

From the comments over at Ian Welsh’s blog: We paid for that “prosperity” later … The “clinton” economy benefited from the initial stimulus of cheap goods imported into the US from the free trade agreements… the exported jobs would take more time, the explosion of consumer credit, greenspan’s irresponsibility in nourishing a huge stock market [...]

Dirty pool

From the Kansas City Star: Three months ago in Kansas City, the NAACP first raised charges of racism within the tea party movement. Today a report is being released accusing tea party groups of providing platforms to anti-Semites and other bigots. “These groups and individuals are out there, and we ignore them at our own [...]

Wednesday News

Good Morning Conflucians!! We start off the morning with a real stunner. Virginia Thomas called up Anita Hill and left a message that it’d be just find and dandy if Anita would admit she’s a liar and apologize: A spokesman for the university confirmed that Hill turned the message over Monday to the school’s Department [...]

Hillary to LGBT Youth: “It gets better… take care of yourself.”

From Secretary Clinton: Like millions of Americans, I was terribly saddened to learn of the recent suicides of several teenagers across our country after being bullied because they were gay or because people thought they were gay. Children are particularly vulnerable to the hurt caused by discrimination and prejudice and we have lost many young [...]

Mrs. Clarence Thomas asks Anita Hill to Apologize

This is unbelievable: In a voice mail message left at 7:31 a.m. on Oct. 9, a Saturday, Virginia Thomas asked her husband’s former aide-turned-adversary to make amends. Ms. Hill played the recording, from her voice mail at Brandeis University, for The New York Times. “Good morning Anita Hill, it’s Ginni Thomas,” it said. “I just [...]

Extreme Makeover – Democratic Party Edition

  We all know that the leadership of the Democratic party is rotten to the core. They are corrupt and don’t represent the people that elected them. Obama could not have stolen the nomination without their help. Trying to reform the party by sending a few new faces to Washington every few years is like [...]