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Bear In Mind: Reid’s Public Option NOT For Everyone
One thing that I didn’t take away from the news reports today about Harry Reid’s announcement about the inclusion of a public option in the bill that will be presented to the Senate for a floor vote...
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Chart of 2009: Best Job Loss Numbers Since Recession Began
This pretty much says it all, doesn’t it?In case it doesn’t, here’s Steve Benen:To put last month’s numbers in the larger context, since the recession began two years ago this month, the single “best”...
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On Five Key Economic Tests, GOP Has Been Completely Wrong
Just ponder for a moment what our economy would look like right now if President McCain were running the country and the mad Republican stumblebums were running Congress: The GOP said the stimulus...
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P.S. Obama’s Budget DECREASES The Medium-Term And Long-Term Deficit
Regardless of the fact-free noise you’re bound to hear mewling its way around the nutroots right now, Obama’s budget actually decreases the medium-term and long-term deficit. Fact. The chart, which is...
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TARP Bailout: Will It Be The Best Money We Ever Spent?
Consider this:We still can’t know what the final price-tag for the bailout — by which we mean not just the Treasury’s TARP program for banks, but also the efforts to prop up Fannie and Freddie and the...
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On Arizona: I Really Don’t Know How You Fight The Shamelessly Irrational and Win
In my fresh, wide-eyed younger years, I built an image of government as being a place where two passionate yet rational groups would come together, argue the merits of their respective positions —...
View ArticleProvocation of the Day: Does Anyone Use Blu-Ray?
I was just pondering Blu-Ray to myself this evening and thought I’d open up the topic to comments. Does anyone find themselves using Blu-Ray discs very much? I definitely understand the improvement...
View ArticleWhy Fact Checking Doesn’t Do Much Good
This election cycle yet again reminds me of how useless fact-checking really is. It’s simple: GOP pol spreads a lie; and people listen. Fancy fact-checker fact-checks; and none of the “low information...
View ArticleDemocrats Just Don’t Lie As Often As Republicans
Sure, Democratic politicians lie all the time, they just don’t do it as much or as brazenly as modern GOP pols. For contrast, check out the WaPo’s fact check of Bill Clinton’s speech last night and...
View ArticleHi, Pot? This is Kettle. You’re Black.
You have to love this little bit of “leaked” information about Romney’s “plan” for the upcoming debate: Mitt Romney plans to turn himself into a one-man truth squad during the first presidential debate...
View ArticleOMGz! Romney/Ryan LIED About The Impact Of Their Medicare Plan!? (faint)
Anyone think this will generate more than a relatively minor chirp amongst our esteemed pundit class? A new study [] by the non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation confirms [that] the Romney-Ryan...
View ArticleSully Needs His Meds Again – 1:32 PM Edition
Oh how we love it when Sully has too much coffee and makes sweeping categorical statements that are wrong: If there’s one thing we know about the American public right now it is that it is firmly in...
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White House Suspiciously Silent About Claim That Obama Sold Miley Cyrus To...
Today’s case of omgareyouseriouslyfuckingkiddingme-youridiculousmediaassholes: A number of readers have raised questions [ed: FAINT!] about the president’s statement that he goes skeet shooting “all...
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