Open thread

2 comments July 3rd, 2009 07:21am Pat Cunningham

 

 Blogging will be light, at best, over the next few days.

 Feel free to comment on whatever is on your mind.

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Add comment July 2nd, 2009 07:48pm Pat Cunningham

Hypocritical Bushies whine about arrangements for Obama’s town hall meeting

7 comments July 2nd, 2009 01:04pm Pat Cunningham

 

 The people who pre-screened audiences at Dubya’s doings for ideological purity now complain — and wrongly so — that the Obama administration is doing the SAME THING.

 What a bunch of hypocrites!

Investing a trillion dollars makes a whole lot more sense than wasting it

3 comments July 2nd, 2009 09:56am Pat Cunningham

 

Joe Conason writes:

The senators who now claim that we cannot afford to spend a trillion dollars to make long overdue changes in health care know exactly what that amount can buy. They know because they have spent it, year after year, on military misadventures and subsidies to big banks and corporations, without stinting or whining.  Somebody should ask why they think we can afford those trillion-dollar boondoggles but not decent health care for all Americans.

 Read the whole thing HERE.

 UPDATE: Republicans suddenly have stopped citing figures from the Congressional Budget Office as an argument against Democratic proposals for health-care reform.

 HERE’s why.

The Mark Sanford Story

5 comments July 2nd, 2009 09:21am Pat Cunningham

The agony of defeat

4 comments July 2nd, 2009 08:48am Pat Cunningham

 Anything that makes these people this unhappy has got to be good:

 POSTSCRIPT: The antipathy toward Al Franken among the loons at Fox News is explained in part by an episode described thusly by Wikipedia:

 ”In 2003, Penguin Books published Franken’s book Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, which included a cover photo of Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly and a chapter accusing O’Reilly of lying. In August of that year, Fox News sued, claiming infringement of its registered trademark phrase ‘Fair and Balanced.’ A federal judge found the lawsuit to be ‘wholly without merit.’ The episode with Fox focused a great deal of media attention upon Franken’s book and, according to Franken, greatly increased its sales. Reflecting on the lawsuit during a September 2003 interview on the National Public Radio program Fresh Air, Franken said that Fox’s case against him was ‘literally laughed out of court’ and added that the judge’s comment that the case was ‘wholly without merit’ was a good characterization of Fox News itself.”

Wal-Mart wants law forcing big companies to provide health coverage to their workers

15 comments July 2nd, 2009 07:49am Pat Cunningham

The nation’s largest employer has joined with a major labor union in a MOVE seen as a boost to President Obama’s push for health-care legislation.

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4 comments July 1st, 2009 05:56pm Pat Cunningham

Some of her fellow Repubs tiring of Michele Bachmann’s looney knocks on Census

6 comments July 1st, 2009 04:03pm Pat Cunningham

 

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, the darling of wingnuts who find Sarah Palin too intellectual, gets a LITTLE WHAT-FOR from several GOP colleagues.

Glenn Beck gives affirmative nod to guest who wants Osama bin Laden to attack America again

15 comments July 1st, 2009 01:43pm Pat Cunningham

 

 Just when I think guys like this can’t get any nuttier, they PROVE ME WRONG.

 Imagine the kind of howls we would hear if some liberal TV host played patty-cake with a guest who said he wants Osama bin Laden “to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States.”

 UPDATE: Speaking of Osama bin Laden, The New Yorker SAYS he visited America for a few weeks in 1979.

 UPDATE II: Several of our Applesauce commenters want us to believe that Glenn Beck disagreed with, or somehow disowned, Michael Scheuer’s stated wish for another terrorist attack on America.

 But that’s not what happened.

 Scheuer said that “only Osama can execute an attack which will force Americans to demand that their government protect them effectively, consistently, and with as much violence as necessary.”

 Beck’s immediate response was this: “Which is why, I was thinking this weekend, if I were him, that would be the last thing I would do right now.”

 Beck wasn’t disagreeing with Scheuer. Quite the opposite. He was merely saying that Osama would be a fool to arouse the kind of American anger that Scheuer said would follow another attack. That’s why he said “if I were him.”

 Watch it for yourself: