The new appropriately named DNC ad: “Stealing Democracy” Over a year ago in a post titled Soylent Green And Corporations Are People Too, I warned about the implications for our democracy if the corporatist dominated US Supreme Court ruled the way I expected them too in the Citizens United case. And when they ruling came down last January, in A …
Wow, you know the Teabagger crazy train has really run off the rails when Karl Rove gets in a fight with Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh over his dissing of their party’s candidate for a critical senate seat. Rove told a devastated Hannity, who has been singing senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnell‘s praises, that she doesn’t evidence basic character traits like “rectitude, …
A Dire Straits message for President Obama Is President Obama suffering from Stockholm Syndrome brought on by the D.C. culture of Regulatory Capture corruption he inherited? Regulatory capture occurs when a state regulatory agency created to act in the public interest instead acts in favor of the commercial or special interests that dominate in the industry or sector it is …
Was NAFTA a plot by illegal aliens to monopolize the food industry? Boy, are there a lot of dots to connect over the whole immigration issue right now, a disharmonic convergence of factors ranging from the consequences of Clinton’s disastrous NAFTA bill to how the new Arizona law, which in true Rovian fashion, seems designed to suppress voter turnout in …
Damn! I absolutely hate it when Karl Rove agrees with me, however obliquely. UPDATE: Double Damn! Now’s it Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn, warning his audience about Fux News. From Politico: “What we have to have is make sure we have a debate in this country so that you can see what’s going on and make a determination yourself,” Coburn added …
Americans For Progress conferees erupt in cheers at news that the USA lost the Olympics Last January, Rush Limpbot declared he wanted President Obama to fail. He rightly got a lot of heat for it, including from traditional conservatives desperately clinging to the illusion that their brand hasn’t been hijacked by wingnut/dittoheads who put political victory (and the power it …
More than once in my travels in Alaska, people brought up, without prompting, the question of Palin’s extravagant self-regard. Several told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the definition of “narcissistic personality disorder” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders— “a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of …
