Jun 02 2010
Speaker Pelosi pulled a brilliant move at the end of the last weeks legislative session.
House Democrats are home for a long Memorial Day break with a gift-wrapped wedge issue delivered just in time for district campaigning. One of their final actions before adjourning late Friday was passing a measure that would strip tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas by a 215-204 vote.
The Grand Outsourcing Party. Expect Dems to run on this come election time.
More brilliance below the fold.
May 18 2010
Now here is a rant that would make Keith Olbermann jump up and shout “Hallelujah”
After BP’s CEO Tony Hayward told a British reporter “It’s a relatively small leak compared to the volume of water in the gulf” and “Come on, this is America, there will be frivolous lawsuits.”.
Yeah, cause what’s a few hundred million gallons of oil in the gulf? It’s like saying, “So there is some urine in your tea, it’s still tea! Drink up!”
And thus begins Shep Smith in the smartest smackdown you may ever witness.
More, and transcript, below the fold
May 15 2010
On a vote to buck the Banksters and help out everybody except our financial wizards, the Senate passed the Dick Durbin Amendment to reform Debit fees with a whopping 64 votes. In even more unlikely anti bankster behavior, 17 GOP Senators voted FOR the bill.
As of the typing of this article, hell has yet to begun to freeze.
The final vote tally was 64-33.
Voting in favor: 46 Democrats, 17 Republicans and Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders [I, VT].
Voting against: 9 Democrats, 23 Republicans and Independent Sen. Joseph Lieberman [I, CT].
Good ole Joey Lieberman. He’s with us on everything but the war and Barack Obama.
But this is a great win that will benefit everyone who isn’t a MegaBank or n executive or a servant of them, and a win for everyone else, but, as always, politics make strange bedfellows.
More below the fold.
May 10 2010
I think Al Franken is writing jokes for his fellow Democratic Senators, and I like it.
Witness teh funny
“We have some Republicans who would automatically oppose anybody who was nominated,” Leahy said. “The President could nominate Moses the Law Giver. In fact I told the President, I said you realize if you’d nominated Moses the Law Giver, somebody would raise, ‘but he doesn’t have a birth certificate! Where’s his birth certificate!'”
The bigger news is Senate Judiciary chairman Leahy’s statement that Kagan should get confirmation vote before August .
But for more of teh funny and the reality deprived GOP’s reaction, just go below the fold . . .
Feb 11 2010
Crossposted at Daily Kos
I’ve got to hand it to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), he knocks it out of the park on this. Republicans with their phony deficit concerns want to put the blame of their failed Conservative policies on Democrats and President Obama. But the money quote is right here.
“I really don’t like being lectured on deficits when you (Sen. Gregg) and many members of your party (Republicans) helped cause the situation we are in right now.”
~snip~
“Please, please, spare the lectures on deficit reduction.”
~ Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
A short transcript and more below the fold
Sep 10 2009
Crossposted at Daily Kos
Caroline Heldman: “End of life counselling does not constitute death panels.”
Hannity: “It does to me”
Caroline Heldman: “That is an idiotic reading of that . . . ”
Hannity: “I’m an idiot?”
Pretty much the definition of an idiot is someone who, if you call their ideas idiotic to their face, says something stupid like “I’m an idiot?”
No, Sean, you’re a freakin genius!
The transcript and more below teh stupid fold
Sep 04 2009
This is soooo good I just HAD to share it with my fellow Dharma Bums here at Docudharma.
Meet the PhillyFringeHarmonic, a oof beat classic music troupe who is cuurently featuring their latest work, The GonzalezCantata
This is such a clever Progressive WIN, I just love it.
This was featured on the Rachel Maddow show last night, tickets are on sale this weekend only, so if you are in Philadelphia in the next few weeks you MUST check it out.
Enjoy!
“I Can’t Recall”
“This is not about Alberto Gonzalez”
I wonder if Fredo will be singing this behind bars someday soon. One can only hope.
Cheers.
Aug 24 2009
Crossposted at Daily Kos
A big Hat Tip to one of my favorite bloggers on teh tubes and fellow Dharma Bum, Inky99, who diaried this yesterday night, but it was too good for me to resist, so I gave it a try myself.
I couldn’t make this up if I tried.
1 Million Strong Against Our SOCIALIST Fire Departments: The FaceBook Group
The facebook group is administrated by Troy Conrad, who anyone who knows how to use teh google can quickly learn is a comedian, and apparently quite talented as well.
Just wanted to thank you for the invite, hardly got the time for social Networking but will try my best to call in at tines and say hi
If the twisted mind of Danny DeVito is in on the joke, it’s gotta be good.
Troy Conrad’s comedyjesusshow can be seen here, and is touted as Comedy’s Answer to the Religious Right
The dittoheads, of course, swallow this hook, line and sinker.
More hilarity below the fold.
Aug 04 2009
Crossposted on Daily Kos
How long have you been waiting for this? Well it was worth the wait. For 8+ minutes Unkle Pat is on the ropes, on the defensive, and the tool he is attacked with is the pure, simple, inconvenient truth that the fantasy world of Conservative politics can not co-exist with.
And now that fantasy world is falling down all around them.
I could have titled this diary Death by Stupid. It is really getting that bad, and the GOP just doesn’t get it. They have begun to believe their own spin.
In order to grok fully the utter totality of this beatdown I have broken this video down into it’s Nonsense and Smackdown componenets.
Go below the fold to see the brutal beating explained.
Jul 04 2009
Crossposted at Daily Kos
If you witness a state, county or town fireworks display this Independence Day, you have enjoyed the fruits of American socialism.
Social welfare, public programs and any service that is not performed to make a profit have often been sold to the uninformed, feeble minded and people who do not read books with big words as Socialism. Why, everywhere you look there is socialism. From the public water fountain that does not require quarters to operate, to the fireworks going off over your head this evening, everywhere this Independence day you can find a small bit of what some people call “Socialism” free for your benefit and enjoyment. .
That’s right.
What an amazing country we live in!
Help celebrate America’s rich social history with me below the fold.
