Presidents Who Love Too Much

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – Unrequited Gov www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election March to Keep Fear Alive A prez with benefits smothered in a fuck you sauce… Watching President Obama try to explain his capitulation to  the Rethugs over taxes and unemployment insurance reminded me of a book I read about …

Nuke It Closed?

Matt Simmons’ interview on Bloomberg News Forty days and forty nights– that’s how long the rupture of BP’s Macondo Well has been spilling its oily guts into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of nearly a million gallons per day. That is,  if you accept the twice revised estimates of BP and the US government that initially pegged the …

Judgment Day

It’s time to excise the cancer for the American body politic known as Bush-Cheney Administration. When both Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and former Grand Inquisitor Darth Cheney agree that critical documents be declassified about how torture was used during the previous eight years, you know the worm has turned. In other words, it’s time for a truth commission. …

The Death of Conservatism

For your bumpers. Australopithecus Republicanus boisei brain-buckets must die off. Frank Rich. The tsunami of populist rage coursing through America is bigger than Daschle’s overdue tax bill, bigger than John Thain’s trash can, bigger than any bailed-out C.E.O.’s bonus. It’s even bigger than the Obama phenomenon itself. It could maim the president’s best-laid plans and what remains of our economy …

Arrogant Presumptuous* Traitorous Muslim Metrosexual

Traitorous Muslim Metrosexual— That’s how the right-wing meme machine is trying to define Barack Hussein Obama these days. . .

McSame’s Economic Policies: That’s Rich

McSame demonstrates he no longer needs his wife to access the internets Frank Rich begins his New York Times Sunday column yesterday by noting what a favor Barack Obama did for his presidential rival, John McSame, by traveling overseas this weekend: THE best thing to happen to John McCain was for the three network anchors to leave him in the …