Specter says CIA has long record of dishonest dealings with Congress
11 comments May 20th, 2009
Sen. Arlen Specter COUNTERED the preposterous notion today that the Central Intelligence Agency is somehow above misleading Congress.
Archive for May 20th, 2009
Glenn Beck gets his comeuppance
8 comments May 20th, 2009
GOP drops resolution demanding that Democrats rename their party
2 comments May 20th, 2009
 
 Amid widespread ridicule, the Republican National Committee has ABANDONED a proposed resolution that would advise its rival party to change its name to the Democrat Socialist Party.
 The more rabid elements of the GOP likely will see this development as a sign of weakness on the part of Michael Steele and Co. and will eagerly await further instructions from Rush Limbaugh on how to proceed.
 UPDATE: Steele SAYS liberalism will kill you.
Repubs think U.S. prison guards are weenies
9 comments May 20th, 2009
Dick Durbin gives a little what-for to Republicans who seem to think that American prisons are like the Mayberry jail and are run by a bunch of Barney Fifes:
Media Matters cites examples of good journalism, including several from Fox News
2 comments May 20th, 2009
Charles Krauthammer emerges as point man for the anti-Obama punditry
1 comment May 20th, 2009
 
 It says HERE that Charles Krauthammer is “the most important conservative columnist right now” and the leading right-wing critic of President Obama.
 Of course, this is the same Krauthammer who likes to remind us every once in a while that he’s a trained psychiatrist. And under that aegis, he sometimes declares that certain people with whom he politically disagrees are mentally ill.
 Which reminds me of the time that then-Sen. Bill Frist, a physician, presumed to diagnose Terri Schiavo on the basis of a years-old videotape. It turned out, of course, that Frist was wrong — medically and politically.
 Krauthammer, like Frist, engages in malpractice when he invokes his license as a professional to enhance his political arguments.
Does having daughters rather than sons make you more liberal?
4 comments May 20th, 2009
A NEW STUDY suggests that the parents of daughters rather than sons tend to lean to the left on political matters.
A Pelosi-CIA parable
2 comments May 20th, 2009
 (Warning: This video includes one mild vulgarism.)
 UPDATE: Bob Shrum DEFENDS Nancy Pelosi.
 UPDATE II: Remember when Republicans accused the CIA of all manner of political wrongdoing? THIS GUY does.
 UPDATE III: Several media are peddling the FALSE STORY that a new CNN poll shows a sharp decline in Pelosi’s popularity.
