Archive for March 18th, 2009
March 18th, 2009
 
 Can you name the person to whom I refer in the headline above?
 Hint: He’s a prominent Republican. In fact, he’s the unofficial boss of the GOP, a man to whom Republican politicians are required to apologize if they utter merely a word of disrespect toward him.
 That’s right. It’s El Rushbo, who has NO TRUCK WITH the rabble who dare to speak ill of the bonus babies at AIG.
POSTSCRIPT: At least Limbaugh is consistent on the matter of the AIG bonuses, which is more than some Republicans can say, as we see HERE and HERE.
March 18th, 2009
 Accountability! What a concept!
March 18th, 2009
 
  Lou Dobbs, CNN’s resident pseudo-patriotic xenophobe, SAYS he doesn’t like “ethnic holidays” like St. Patrick’s Day and wishes we had an “American day.”
 What a repugnant fellow!
March 18th, 2009
 
 Some right-wing hatemonger mocks John McCain’s daughter for being overweight, and McCain SHIES from an opportunity to condemn the offender.
March 18th, 2009
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 Oh, yeah. Let’s return to the policies that got us into this mess.
 THESE PEOPLE are funny, funny, funny.
March 18th, 2009
 
Jeffrey Toobin has a GREAT ARTICLE about Roland Burris in the current issue of The New Yorker.
 It’s a little long, but well worth your while for its insights on Illinois and Chicago politics and how Burris navigated those tricky waters in his rise to prominence.
March 18th, 2009
 
 This is kind of an inside-baseball thing, but Nate Silver has a FASCINATING PIECE this morning on how the story about the AIG bonuses evolved over the weekend into a big deal.
 The most interesting aspect is that conservative bloggers were a little late to the party.
 As Silver puts it, “[T]he conservative blogs were quite slow in gravitating toward the story, not really focusing upon it until late yesterday morning, in spite of the fact that it had all sorts of potential to be damaging to the Obama administration…Complicating matters further for Obama was that the liberal blogosphere wasn’t covering for him; on the contrary, the blogosphere tended to be eager to perpetuate the story.”
