Yeah, What Athenae says

Athenae at First Draft sums up why the left- and by left, oh best beloveds, she is including independent and working class liberals such as ourselves- are fed up with Obama and the Democratic party. Warning: The following excerpt has expletives and strong feelings that may make some of our more delicate commenters feel oogie. [...]

Still not getting it

Paul Krugman: Aha. I almost forgot to mention this, but one of the surprises of last night is that Harry Reid, supposedly a completely hopeless case, is still Senator. How did that happen? Reid did something Democrats almost never do: instead of apologizing for his party, he ran against a person with a habit of [...]

More Glenn Greenwald, less Matt Lauer. Please.

Glenn Greenwald wrote about Hillary Clinton speaking in Cambodia yesterday : Secretary Clinton: The past must be confronted, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Cambodia yesterday and urged its government to proceed with more prosecutions of surviving Khmer Rouge officials. This is how The New York Times described her visit: Secretary of State Hillary [...]

Stop that meme!

One of Axelrod’s minions paid us a visit last night: ellen887, on November 3, 2010 at 1:16 am Said: Hmmmm. republicans gain 56 seats in house (so far) and 6 seats in the Senate-hardly a bloodbath. In fact, the last time a Democratic congress lost seats was under Bill Clinton, with 54 republican gains in [...]

The Ring of Gyges (It’s a post election blog)

Note: This is a post election blog but it has a slow buildup.  It will all make sense by the last paragraph. Last week, Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) was fined $750 million for failing to clean up a production facility in Puerto Rico.  Here’s a quick summary of how the case went: The plant in [...]

Wednesday News

So apparently we had a little election yesterday. Let’s recap the story so far. We had this lovely hopeful Democratic party ready to put the Bush years behind them, roll up their sleeves, and get to work fixing the damage. Much the same way the Clinton’s did in the 90′s. But along the way, a [...]

Aftermath

This post is quite possibly the best thing Anglachel has ever written: The course for the next generation was set back in 2008, when the Stevensonian elite subverted their own party’s electoral process (Be a Democrat for a Day!) so that they could feel morally superior voting for a black man. Obama himself has said [...]