Both the Democrats and Republicans are apparently trying to raise money off of the health care “debate” and Congressman Joe Wilson’s, um, unusual “involvement”(causing some to wonder this). This post gives part of the two fundraising solicitations, one from each party:
From this morning’s fundraising email from the NRCC, signed by [Joe] Wilson:
There has been a lot of debate [...]
Archive for September, 2009
A Great Ad For Republicans
Posted: 26th September 2009 by admin in Congress, Government, Political Communication, Political Strategy, Politics, SportsTags: " "Democrats, " "Health Care, " Medicare, " Obama, "Joe Wilson, Congress, DCCC, Fundraising, health care debate, Healthcare, Lie, Medicaid, Mislead, National Defense, NRCC, Paul Begala, Political Attacks, Republicans, Spin
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The Enormity of the ACORN Scandal, in Perspective
Posted: 26th September 2009 by admin in Congress, Government, Media, Media Slant, Political Communication, PoliticsTags: " Obama, "Far Right, ACORN, Alan Grayson, Big Government, Bills of Attainder, CEO, Chief Counsel, Congress, Constituion, Defense Contractors, Defense Industry Fraud, Dick Cheney, Federal Reserve, glenn greenwald, Government Fraud, Halliburton, Iraq, Matt Taibbi, Military Contractors, Pimp, Prostitute, Rolling Stone, Scandal, Taxpayer Funding, Taxpayers, Tea Partiers
The far right has been constantly complaining about how the “media” has not covered the latest Acorn scandal enough. That is, the fact that the already scandal plagued poverty assistance organization had some random employees caught on film giving rather nefarious business advice to 2 undercover operatives, posing as pimp and prostitute. (The most damning [...]
The Lengths to Which Some Go to Fight Against the Idea that We Influence the Skies
Posted: 25th September 2009 by admin in Climate Change, Environment, Politics, ScienceTags: " Obama, al gore, amthropomorphic, cato institute, climate, Climate Change, CO2, conservatives, economics, environmentalist, fuel sources, geologic record, global surface temperature, greenhouse gases, heat, james inhofe, NRO, patrick j michaels, planets, production, senator, UN
Here is another Insta-BS link, perhaps gloriously citing the idea that global warming data may have disappeared!
Quoting from the link itself (NRO’s gloriously subjective “The Corner” blog, with emphasis added):
Imagine if there were no reliable records of global surface temperature. Raucous policy debates such as cap-and-trade would have no scientific basis, Al Gore would at this [...]
INSTA BS Makes a Great Point About Tea Protestors!!
Posted: 25th September 2009 by admin in UncategorizedTags: " "Health Care Reform", "Far Right, cable news, capitalist, conservatives, economic summit, G20 economic summit, gG20, glenn reynolds, goverment, instapundit, james taranto, march, Media, nancy pelosi, protesters, protests, rhetoric, sound bite, tea baggers, tea parties, tea protestors, twitter, unAmerican, violence, wall street journal
And, really, quite an extraordinary point it is.
This is neither a liberal nor a conservative site (which probably means that online, where people tend to self select like mad to have their views reinforced, it won’t achieve world wide fame and mad top 5 blogs of all time status) but some of the far right conservative sites [...]
This is just embarassing.
I THOUGHT THAT OBAMA’S ELECTION WOULD MEAN THEY WOULDN’T HATE US ANYMORE: FBI arrests Jordanian citizen for attempting to bomb skyscraper in downtown Dallas. (Via JWF).
Is that supposed to be funny? Yeah, much of the world might not, because we wouldn’t be seen, rightly or wrongly, as quite as much of an [...]
What is Missing With Democrats, and Media Complicity Today
Posted: 18th September 2009 by admin in UncategorizedIf the ”Left” (whatever that is) engaged in something like this, would the staunch Right put up with it??
Not a snowball’s chance in you know where.
Here, while playing nice with the WSJ’s James Taranto, we noted what Nancy Pelosi said in regard to her somewhat foolish, politically divisive comments about “carrying swastikas.”
In response to the question “Do you [...]
Nancy Pelosi’s Dismissiveness, and the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto’s Bizarre Logic.
Posted: 18th September 2009 by admin in UncategorizedWe’ve noted the scary logic of Taranto before. Here, here, here, here, and here.
Today, September 18, after pointing out what appears to be hypocrisy on the part of Pelosi — who, concerned over hateful speech that incites violence, had apparently — according to Taranto, anyway, engaged in some “hate speech” herself, Taranto notes:
As the AP [...]
WSJ’s James Taranto: Health Care Reform “Killing Grandma”
Posted: 18th September 2009 by admin in UncategorizedTaranto used the phrase “kill grandma” to describe health care reform in the title to his WSJ best of the web column (which his column is most assuredly not part of) yesterday. Maybe he was using it as a term of art. It still helps to feed and fuel the excessive ignorance, and often misplaced [...]
How to Prevent Winning, in Football
Posted: 17th September 2009 by admin in UncategorizedTags: ben roethlisberger, buffalo bills, denver broncos, john marshall, lane kiffin, mike goff, mike greenberg, mike shanahan, MNF, monday night football, NFL, nnamdi asomugha, oakland raiders, phillip rivers, pittsburgh steelers, prevent defense, san diego chargers, steve young, tom cable
For those who may remember, in week three of last season, when the Bills were still good, the Raiders –then still under Lane Kiffin (who was replaced later in the season by then “interim” and now current head coach Tom Cable) — at Buffalo, had essentially controlled Buffalo’s offense for close to 54 minutes.
Then, with [...]
What Are the the Tea Bag Protestors, Protesting About?
Posted: 17th September 2009 by admin in UncategorizedTags: " Bush, " Obama, "Democratic Party, "Far Right, "Glenn Beck, ACORN, american spectator, blogosphere, carcinogens, corporate influence, dick armey, economic freedom, Environment, fox news, fundamental rights, glenn greenwald, greenhouse gases, janeane garofalo, joseph lawler, libertarian, National Security, oil, olbermann, ron paul, rush limbaugh, salon, secretive, tea baggers, tea party, town-hall, toxicological
In an earlier column, we highlighted the perspective on the tea baggers from those seeing it from the top of their perch, as this otherwise extremely contorted article points out:
Tea Party attendees and health care town-hall protesters share the common belief that the extravagant spending of President Obama and the Democratic Party will eventually lead more people [...]