Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

Finally, Some Liberals Adopt Far Right Tactics

9th March 2010 by admin No Comments

Of course, the problem is, when they do it, it is directed at their own.
This has been a repeated pattern for months now. The latest example is on the liberal leaning Daily Kos website, where today, a front page recommended “diary” piece asserted the following, ascribing ill motives to those they disagree with, simply by [...]

Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.Com Manipulates and Misleads Its Readers

4th February 2010 by admin No Comments

We’re all for keeping government small where appropriate, which is, ideally, most places.
But we’re not all for the blatant pattern of subjective misrepresentation that goes on, virtually unchecked, all over the Internet — including by sites that are routinely, well, cited.
In this Post, a Biggovernment.com writer starts blatantly spinning in the second sentence (emphasis added):
…basis [...]

Megan McArdle — the Famous 17.6 million Jobs Created, “Jobless” Recovery

30th January 2010 by admin No Comments

Pundit (un)cool: “Where’s ma job at “duuuuuude.” Seriously. McArdle, speaking in the Atlantic.
She’s a bit off on the numbers, too.
As noted here, by actual blogger Tbogg (not to be confused with “Tbow” who is Donkey Joel – Here might be the most ignorant and presumptuous media post ever — Achenbach’s “man“):
Megan McArdle – neither [...]

Yes, Republicans Will Be Able to Filibuster Everything!!

24th January 2010 by admin No Comments

The popular liberal Daily Kos website had this — no kidding around here — as the 3d sentence in a front page Post there today:
Brown’s victory gives Republicans the numbers in the Senate to filibuster most Democratic legislation…
Yes, it does, if one goes by the reasoning of the New Yorker’s Hendrik Helzberg, where the Filibuster [...]

Turning Diamonds into Cow Manure

20th January 2010 by admin No Comments

How Democrats can miss the central things going on in terms of politics outside of their own choir, and repeatedly play directly play into their opponents framing, is hard to fathom. But they can do it.
We hate the current health care bill, for reasons to be skipped here. But we agree that given the enormous [...]

Just How Bad Are Democrats At Controlling the Debate?

20th January 2010 by admin 3 Comments

Ponder this Headline under Time Magazine’s “Top Headlines” today:
Does Brown’s Senate Win Mean End of Health Reform?

This was the actual title.
And it’s not like Time pulled this out of the blue. Many Democrats and other sources before the election, had been wondering the same thing. Maloney: Health Care Dies if Coakley Loses.  Here are a [...]

What Democrats Repeatedly Miss

18th January 2010 by admin 1 Comment

Paul Krugman is a Democrat, and a Liberal.  However questionable, the Atlantic ranks him as the most influential commentator in America. (Then again, it ranks Rush Limbaugh as number 2, and George “I know nothing about science” Will as number 3.)
Whatever one thinks of his politics (or his recent “debate” with Salon columnist Glenn Greenwald) [...]

Want More Proof the Left Allows the Right to Define Things for It?

4th October 2009 by admin No Comments

In front page news today, the Chicago Tribune, and the Fox Channel, noted that the word “conservative” is out. Conservatives shall no longer refer to themselves as conservatives, which has become too associated with the ideas of large, imperial, self righteous and overly intrusive government at the expense of individual liberty, authoritarianism at the hands [...]

Who is Chris Matthews Mocking Here?

3rd October 2009 by admin 30 Comments

Chris Matthews says some incredible things at the beginning of this video, but truly, there is little that is more incredible than this statement at around minute :30.
How come you knew that the way to beat these guys was to put em on defense.
The common sense mind boggles. It reels.  Very uncharacteristically, it grasps for [...]

A Great Ad For Republicans

26th September 2009 by admin 1 Comment

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 [...]