Yes We Can’t (Maybe)

With a new ABC-WAPO poll showing 57% of voters supporting a public option, WAPO reports: Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid is facing intensifying pressure from liberal lawmakers to revive a proposed government insurance plan before health-care reform legislation reaches the Senate floor, amid signs that moderate Democrats may be warming to the idea.” Reid, the man who has the …

Great Moments In Douchebaggery

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Rape-Nuts www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Ron Paul Interview Senator Jeff Sessions and 29 other Rethugs vote for gang rape Whoring for the defense industry has just sunk to a new low. WTF is wrong with these people?

The Best Thing About Obama’s Nobel Prize Is…

…it’s driving the Rethugs, and especially the neocon wing of the wingers, over the edge. Come to think of it, maybe that figured into the committee’s reasoning.

Afutilestan (II)

Urban renewal, Afghanistan style Under its own heading, FEAR OF A FUTILE MISSION INCREASES, Huffpo links to an article in today’s Time’s Online that provides another point of view about current conditions in Afghanistan. While we’ve heard plenty from military commanders, diplomats, politicians, and the punditocracy, we haven’t heard anything from the grunts on the ground who have to actually …

Goin’ Rowg

Wasilly — ALASKA You might know by now that Sarah Palin has been pallin’ around with a wicked extremist ghostwriter. And with the help of this weg, she’s written a 400 page book in less than two months! And the ink-laden pulp will be on the shelves just in time to celebrate Turkey Day. But the irony only begins there.

When Teh SOCIALISM Comes!

When Teh SOCIALISM comes… Teh Great White Stoopid will be dressed up like rodeo clowns and forced to live in feed lots with the other cattle. Right to Far Right: Rush Limbaugh (with ginormous man-boobs), Michele Bachmann, Jim DeMint (with banjo), Bill O’Reilly, Max Baucus (chicken suit), Glenn Beck, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell (in back), Rick Santorum, (seated), Sarah Palin …

Grayson Strikes Again

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) walks into the lyin’s den of CNN’s Situation Room to re-iterate what he said on the House floor yesterday when he revealed the GOPers health care reform plan: “Don’t get sick.” And their fallback plan. “And if you die, die quickly.” He did subsequently take the floor to apologize, not to the Rethugs, but to the …