And we get?

Anglachel discusses the Catfood Commission’s “disingenuous calls for sacrifice.” The general criticism of the class bias in how the commission weighted the sacrifices (most for the little people, few for the monied elite) has been done by other commenters, so I’d like to focus on the last, rather amazing sentence in the above quote. The [...]

I support overturning Roe v. Wade and so should you

Nope.  I am not a anti-choice advocate.  I am firmly pro-choice.  I wholeheartedly support a woman’s right to choose.  But when I read “hair-on-fire’ posts like Digby’s complete with a list of anti-choice proposals from Katha “Obamabot feminist” Pollitt, I think it’s time to dump this turkey and adopt a new strategy: Katha Pollitt draws [...]

This Saturday in Shero News

Hey news junkies! (Who else would be reading a Wonk the Vote roundup on a Saturday morning?) I’m going to start by rewinding to Tuesday night, when ABC aired Cynthia McFadden’s joint interview with Hillary and Gates in Melbourne, Australia (link goes to youtubes and transcript at my blog). McFadden introduced the segment with the [...]

Stalemate

It just occurred to me that the Obama presidency is like what would have happened if Boromir had succeeded in taking the One Ring to Gondor.  They should have sent Faramir to Rivendell. ANYWAY… Anglachel has (yet another) informative post up, Primary Objective, breaking down the dynamics of primary challengers to incumbent presidents.  Go read [...]

Is it any wonder they keep winning?

There is another CDS Fest going on over at Ian Welsh’s place: Gosh , all the partisan BS about Clinton, Hillary and Obama. and ever wonder why the right wing wins ALL the time? One of my earliest memories was the assassination of JFK – I was only three years old but I remember my [...]

No Fat Chicks

This week, one of my professors brought up Sarah Palin in class. I always HATE when professors talk about politics, because the power differential in the classroom leaves you without much recourse to respond. So when my professor started criticizing Sarah Palin for bringing cookies into a school in the midst of an unprecedented Childhood [...]

Friday Night Cookout Open Thread

My recipe of the week: Quesadilla Burgers Quesadillas o 2 (10 inch) flour tortillas o Olive oil o 1/3 cup shredded Monterey jack pepper cheese o 1/3 cup shredded cheddar cheese o shredded lettuce o 1/2 cup diced tomatoes o 3-4 sliced red onion rings o 2-4 bacon slices o southwest seasoned hamburger (recipe follows)

Call me crazy, but . . .

Unless things change dramatically in the next two years there is a pretty good chance that the question in 2012 won’t be “Will the Republicans win?” but instead will be “Which Republican will win?” It could be very much like 2008 when it was obvious that the Democrats could (and did) nominate an empty suit [...]

Matt Taibbi and the Invisible Americans

Part of my problem as we go forward towards a progressively bleak future, is that back in 2008 some of the best progressive writers exposed themselves as pretty horrible thinkers. For example here’s Matt Taibbi then: The New Nixon Moreover, like Nixon, her “invisible Americans” deal is carefully couched to appeal to the fears of [...]

Accountability before Austerity: Talk to the Hand

I have a theory about the so-called Deficit Reduction Commission’s “proposals”, but I’ll get to that in a minute. Yesterday, I found this link from USAToday in Paul Krugman’s Mush from the Wimp post at Conscience of a Liberal: Obama to Congress: Stop Shooting Down Deficit Proposals. In it, Obama is lecturing Congress to get [...]