Month: June 2011

Who Saved Michigan, Who Wanted it to Fail?

Today, in a speech officially announcing his candidacy for president that the cable networks couldn’t be bothered to cover in full, Mitt Romney declared that our country is inches away from no longer being a free-market...

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We’ve Reached Peak Stupid

We’ve officially reached Peak Stupid. In this video, Donald Trump explains that he eats his pizza with a plastic knife and fork because he doesn’t carry knives and forks around with him and using a plastic knife and...

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Hypocrisy So Thick You Can Choke On It

Sometimes the hypocrisy is so thick that you can choke on it. Obama has made some pretty “outrageous claims” on the Republican [budget] plan, Boehner said, lamenting the “demagoguery” in Washington. He disputed assertions that...

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Hey Indiana, You Can’t Do That

I’d like to enjoy this slapdown the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) delivered to the Indiana legislature and Governor Mitch Daniels, but I worry that it will just instigate another holy war in Congress,...

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Dealing With Republicans

It doesn’t matter what Jared Bernstein says. It doesn’t matter what Paul Krugman says. Or the president. They aren’t listening. They are not going to listen. They are going to crash the car into the ditch. And,...

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