Sure Happy It’s Thursday Open Thread

Next week is the shortest work week of the year (followed by the longest weekend) for anyone with a traditional job.   For people in retail sales it’s the beginning of the nightmare before Christmas. For others it’s just another week. Some people will be traveling (with and without junk-touching) and others will be staying [...]

James Carville: “If Hillary gave up one of her balls…

…and gave it to Obama, they’d both have two.” That’s what James Carville is supposed to have said at a breakfast meeting this morning.  (Why don’t I get to go to breakfast with James Carville?? ) But James is wrong. Hillary has ovaries of kryptonite. There’s more to it than that.  Stan Greenberg and Carville [...]

Avoir le cafard

Avoir le cafard – To have “The Bug.” Designboom (via Blue Lyon): american kills’ by chilean-born new york based artist sebastian errazuriz is a public installation showcasing the suicide rates of US soldiers. after searching on official war sites on the internet, he accidentally found out that 2 times more american soldiers had died in [...]

Thursday: Stating the Obvious

I was flipping through channels last night, trying very carefully to avoid broadcast news, when my low battery powered remote got stuck on PBS during the NewsHour.  There was Judy Woodruff interviewing Pete Domenici and Alice Rivlin about their (yet another) budget deficit reduction plan.  This one is just another version of “stick it to [...]

Miss Cleo says “Don’t hold your breath”

New York Birdcage Liner: Reid to Push to Allow End of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ In a direct challenge to Republicans who support the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy barring gay men and lesbians from serving openly in the armed forces, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, said he would push ahead with [...]

Et tu, Brute?

The schadenfreude keeps on coming: George Soros Tells Progressive Donors Obama Might Not Be The Best Investment At a private meeting on Tuesday afternoon, George Soros, a longtime supporter of progressive causes, voiced blunt criticism of the Obama administration, going so far as to suggest that Democratic donors direct their support somewhere other than the [...]

She’s baaack!

Nancy Pelosi survives Democratic revolt Bruised but not beaten, Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday locked up the votes needed to transition from speaker to minority leader in the new Congress, topping Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.), 150-43, on a secret ballot in a private Wednesday meeting of House Democrats. The 43 votes against her — and the [...]

Tina Fey repeats a zombie lie, PBS edits it out

Last week Tina Fey was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. In her acceptance speech she said this: I would be a liar and an idiot if I didn’t thank Sarah Palin for helping get me here tonight. My partial resemblance and her crazy voice are the two luckiest things that ever happened [...]

What’s a “Liberal” Again?

President Obama is considered a “liberal” Democrat in denial by the Village. If you ask Obama about his “shellacking” (can I take the time to point out how lame that word is and how sick I am of hearing it?) two weeks ago he will say that it was a messaging problem. While he was [...]

Hellooo? Paycheck Fairness Bill? Anyone??

For some peculiar reason, the news that there will be a vote on the Paycheck Fairness Bill today has somehow slipped right under the radar.  How could that be??  Where is NOW?  This issue gets second billing on their front page. Did anyone really buy that crap the Democrats were floating about Lilly Ledbetter?  I’m [...]