http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a litttle salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, "All politics is applesauce." Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:23:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en THIS seems pretty significant. http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/07/catholic-bishops-endorse-health-care-bill/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFFmeDw4wfc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/07/obamas-weekly-address-is-about-ft-hood/    Uh-oh! Rep. Eric Cantor, the second-ranking Republican in the U.S. House, is DISSING the teabaggers and Rush Limbaugh.  How soon will the loonies label him a RINO? http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/06/eric-cantors-apostasy-risks-wrath-of-wingnuts/ THIS KIND OF THING was inevitable, I suppose. http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/06/worldnutdaily-tries-to-tie-ft-hood-shooter-to-obama/    One of our semi-regular commenters here at Applesauce has opined, without any supporting evidence, that the tragedy at Ft. Hood is the result of the U.S. military infringing on the religious rights of its personnel.  One wonders what this fellow might think of THIS CASE, in which it is alleged that ... http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/06/another-example-of-government-trampling-our-religious-rights/    Follow me on this:  Unemployment figures released today are said in some quarters to portend a one-term presidency for Barack Obama.  Another harbinger of tough-sledding for the president looms in the likelihood that his approval rating in the Gallup poll will soon slip below 50 percent. (It's at 52 percent as this ... http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/06/jobless-rate-poll-numbers-spell-doom-for-reagan-er-i-mean-obama/    As we've pointed out here before, opposition to gay marriage is much more common among older Americans than younger folks.  Eventually, then, most of the homophobes will just die off.  HERE's a chart that dramatizes the demographic gulf on the issue. http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/06/homophobes-are-a-dying-breed/    While I don't want to make light of people facing medical emergencies, I can't help but note the delicious irony in THIS ACCOUNT of a teabagger rally staged yesterday at the Capitol in Washington:  "By the time it was over, medics had administered government-run health care to at least five people ... http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/06/opponents-of-government-run-health-care-suddenly-find-need-to-avail-themselves-of-same/ THIS STUFF is hilarious. Be sure to watch the video, wherein Stewart perfectly mimics the Beck style. http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/06/jon-stewart-parodies-glenn-becks-conspiratorialism/ How embarrassing is this? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvKOQA6qrhE&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/06/boehner-mistakes-declaration-for-constitution/