Choices, clarified

The Hillary2012 robocalls have spread to swing states and while we’re not really sure who is doing them or for what purpose (it could be that they just want Hillary in 2012), there’s something that the Obama contingent should keep in mind. We have heard over and over again that Hillary has no plans to [...]

Dear Democratic Party

Will you please get your shit together? The NYTimes is reporting today that some of you want to break up Obama’s (less than adequate but at least it’s something) Jobs Bill into tiny pieces that you think *might* pass.  Do any of you remember your party’s history?  This is a Lesser Depression.  Maybe we’re not [...]

Thursday: The Ass in the Room

Digby has a new frontpager.  By the way, the Ass in the title doesn’t apply to Digby.  She’s a great writer.  No, really.  And I think her heart is in the right place.  It’s just that she’s a bit, um, chickenshit.  SHE called herself that, not me. Anyway, what brought about the addition of ThereIsNoSpoon [...]

Oh. My. God. We are so screwed.

Paul Krugman and Anglachel have two important posts up.  After you read them, you’ll get a sickening feeling that things are about to get worse.  If anyone expected Barack Obama to use his veto pen to stop the Republican Horde from wrecking havoc, they might want to rethink that notion.  As Paul says in Freezing [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Same old, same old

Jonathan Alter at Newsweak has a post that is full of fail: Why the Midterms Matter The GOP’s agenda has to be stopped. But elections aren’t just about who wins. They’re about what happens when one or the other party wins. We’re so eager to promote ourselves with the smartest take on how President Obama [...]

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 [...]

Breaking up is hard to do

Elon James White at Salon: Defending Obama and the Democrats is hard. Not because I don’t think they’ve done some good in the past two years, because I do. It’s hard because I find myself constantly defending them, even when I’m not ecstatic about what’s happening. Don’t let my overly public defense of the Democrats [...]