Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]