We have now grown up as a country after 8 years of being run by a petulant child. What a wonderful and historic day, and what an opportunity we have to save this country from the worst impulses of conservatism.
The Republican party is in shambles and has a choice to either grow up or [...]
Want to know what rightwing Republican economic policies and Alan Greenspan combined to do to our economy? Give this NPR broadcast a listen. (click on the “full episode” link under the photo)
What ought to really boggle the mind on this economic horror is that it is just one slice of the pie. [...]
If being a POW is absolute qualification for good judgment and common sense we better listen to what this guy has to say. Why being a POW is no recommendation or qualification for the Presidency. This from a military website written by a POW who had been in Hanoi for two years by [...]
I’ve had concerns about Hillary’s candidacy for a long time but they have varied in intensity and focus over time. My main initial concern was that I really didn’t want a legacy President but that she was vastly more qualified for the job than just about anyone else and that Obama was interesting but [...]
GritTV interview with Kevin Phillips.
Probably the best article I’ve read on the situation in Iraq and it comes from a Canadian publication, Macleans. Free of spin and ideology the author speaks from direct experience outside the protective bubble of US propaganda but also outside of the internal American political debate as well. Iran is seriously engaged in [...]
But what’s really true is that, like Jane Smiley, I too have seen this coming. The behavior of today’s Republican Party is a direct outgrowth of its historical political posturing and policy-making. I think for me that awareness came the day my father, a lifelong Republican and a conservative in the traditional [...]
A few weeks ago 7 soldiers, mostly sergeants, serving in Iraq wrote a scathing Op-Ed for the NYTimes voicing their frustrations with the mission, the failure of leadership and the desperate condition of our military in Iraq. Their voices mostly disappeared into the ether, with little or no mention in the major media, no [...]
Riverbend is alive and well and now in Syria, having successfully escaped the surging hell that was her home city in Baghdad. She’s been offline for about 4 months since announcing that they would be leaving Iraq and her latest entry explains the difficulties they encountered in just getting a ride, let alone getting [...]
No, I don’t mean George Bush, Dick Cheney or their gang of thugs though lord knows they are criminals too. I’m referring to the excellent Wesley Clark Op-Ed piece in today’s NYTimes that spells out, in ways even a fifth grader can understand (at least one who attends a school where social studies hasn’t [...]
What? You don’t remember that headline from today’s Denver Post? That’s because the actual headline was “Capitol gunman’s notes bizarre”
The article goes on to say
In his writings, Snyder had a preoccupation with abortion. In one entry, he said it was his responsibility as sovereign ruler to stop abortion at once. In another entry, [...]
Bruce Fein of the American Enterprise Institute is no liberal, he’s as conservative as they come and I likely disagree with him 80% of the time on 80% of the issues, but he loves his Constitution and this thoughtful, engaging discussion between Bruce Fein, Bill Moyers and The Nation’s John Nichols is fascinating and revealing [...]
Make no mistake about it, this is a direct result not only of illegal invasion and occupation but of the bush/cheney policies that took us there and the insanity of politicians like Lindsey Graham and John McCain and all the other Republican candidates for the nomination in 2008.
From the first link:
Lopezromo said a procedure [...]
In case you were wondering which bush-hating America loathing liberal nutcase was responsible for yesterday’s quotation it was none other than…oops…Barry Goldwater. Oh well, these guys long ago stopped being conservatives if they ever were but read the entire article at the link. It’s a fascinating dissection of the shift in conservative politics [...]
Yes folks, we’re here to play another game of “guess who said this?”…and here’s today’s pertinent quote.
We hear praise of a power-wielding, arm-twisting President who “gets his program through Congress†by knowing the use of power. Throughout the course of history, there have been many other such wielders of power. There have even been dictators [...]
Does this make anyone else’s spine crawl? “Be discreet”
It’s far too creepy, and what makes it even creepier is that all of us who take a plane, if we’re paying attention, follow these rules or something like them for ourselves.
But this:
“When you go through security, treat it like you’ve been pulled over for speeding,” [...]
Eugene Robinson has an excellent commentary in the WashPost. His subject is both overdue for mention and really ought to go without saying, but given the last 6 1/2 years of absolute disaster and mayhem when our government was turned over to a bunch of sociopathic Middle School dropouts one would think we might [...]
You might not realize it as you watch major networks or read major newspapers but a white Christian terrorist planned to use napalm against Americans a couple of days ago. He was arrested before Jerry Falwell’s funeral and had created a rather nasty bomb for use against protesters at the funeral. The news [...]
Read this from DailyKos, it explains a lot about how the Republican party got hideously unacceptable behavior to become national policy and urges patience as we work to bring the nation back to solid ground and rational policy thinking.
Understand very clearly how this works. For the last 12 years, the GOP has been pretending [...]