Politics

Chess for Dummies – Part II

Mar 8th, 2010 | By shep | Category: Barack Obama, Politics

John Cole starts a comment war, featuring none other than Glennzilla himself, with this comment:
Glenn consistently mocks the 11-dimensional chess when Obama’s defenders use it deflect blame when the Obama team has made mistakes… More than likely, I’d bet these stories are coming from Rahm’s buddies who think they are doing him a favor.
Cole was [...]



Chess for Dummies

Aug 12th, 2009 | By shep | Category: Politics

Lots of otherwise smart liberals are rending their garments in angst over the idea that Barack Obama has lost the message war on heath care reform and is being punked by Republicans because he naively believed he could earn their support through bi-partisan outreach.
Digby: “I actually suspect that many in the Obama White House believed [...]



Berlusconi Loses A Fan

May 3rd, 2009 | By Mark | Category: Politics

Seems the old guy was acting a bit ridiculous at an 18 year old’s birthday party, and his wife got pissed.



Pat Buchanan: Slyly re-framing the question, but otherwise getting it right

Mar 20th, 2009 | By Ara Rubyan | Category: Politics

Behind our disaster lie the greed, stupidity and incompetence of the leadership of a generation.



Flirtin With The Fascists

Mar 9th, 2009 | By Mark | Category: Politics

Note to the Galtists: Destroying this system through some kind of general strike is exactly what Mussolini and Franco dreamed of doing.



Is Michael Moore to the Democrats What Rush Limbaugh is to the Republicans?

Mar 6th, 2009 | By Ara Rubyan | Category: Politics

In a word, no. In two words: hell no.



Does this mean it’s Romney on the Oligarch ticket in 2012?

Feb 8th, 2009 | By Ara Rubyan | Category: Politics

You need to force the new private equity owners of [the banks] to break them up so they are no longer too big to fail.



Bipolar Press

Feb 4th, 2009 | By shep | Category: Politics

The corporate press, from the NY Times and Washington Post to Chris Matthews and Brian Williams, treats both Democratic rationality and Republican insanity with exactly equal credulity.



You won’t like him when he’s angry

Dec 12th, 2008 | By Ara Rubyan | Category: Politics

Whatever you do, don’t cross Rahm Emanuel.



The Senator from Dixville Notch?

Dec 4th, 2008 | By Ara Rubyan | Category: 2006 Elections, Politics

The Minnesota Senate race gets weirder and weirder…