Thom Hartmann Breaks Down 40 Years of Republican Treason

And does a very thorough job of it. Now at least we have Herman Cain!

When Economic Forecasts Go Horribly, Horribly Wrong

In 2008 when President Obama assembled his economic team to help deal with the growing financial crisis, even their worst nightmare scenario woefully underestimated the depth of the economic collapse. Their failure is now our failure.

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Has Chris Christie Gotten the Gift of Arrogance?

Chris Christie still will have less experience at governing than Obama had when he ran for President, a whine conservatives often threw at President Obama, but New Jersey Governor just might go ahead and enter the GOP primaries if he can shed his own notion that he isn’t arrogant enough to run for President. From [...]

Republican Thugs Part 9 – Michael Moore Edition

In yet another version of our continuous Republican Thug series, comes probably the most disturbing one yet.

In an excerpt from his upcoming book \"Here Comes Trouble\", Michael Moore tells us some stories of republican hatred, violence and plain stupidity. He talks about random people attacking him, hiring Navy Seals to live with him [...]

Polls Polls Polls

In the wake of this weeks election results, where California Democrat Janice Hahn, soundly beat a \"tea party\" candidate for the seat vacated by corporatist Blue Dog Democrat Jane Harman. Here in Wisconsin the democratic challengers to the ethically challenged republican senators facing recalls withstood a primary by “fake” democrats that cost the taxpayers of [...]

Sorry it took so long…

From Andrew Sullivan comes this gem:

Image courtesy Andrew Sullivan (click for full size)

No doubt we’ve come a long way from the days of former President George W. Bush – who once vowed to bring Osama bin Laden to justice – saying of bin Laden, “I don’t know where he is, nor do [...]

Are progressives deserting President Obama?

Yesterday I noted how at least one Democratic insider (no doubt one of many Democrats) opined that a primary challenge to President Obama in 2012 would be a good thing for the Democratic Party’s chances of winning the White House, if not in 2012 then in 2016.

Chatter about President Obama’s reelection chances and the [...]

It took awhile….

But George Bush FINALLY thought out a decision and made the right one. As Huffington Post reports,

Former U.S. President George W. Bush has cancelled a visit to Switzerland, where he was to address a Jewish charity gala, due to the risk of legal action against him for alleged torture, rights groups said on [...]

Some good news on a Friday!

George Bush always seemed disinterested in politicing, government, campaigning, etc… This weekend he will confirm that as reported

by Sam Stein in the Huffington Post:

I don’t want to go out and campaign for candidates. I don’t want to be viewed as a perpetual money-raiser. I don’t want to be on these talk shows [...]

We used to care…

When the president broke the law. They even made a movie about it. Heck it even defined David Frost’s career by getting Richard Nixon to admit that he thought he was above the law.

Fast Forward to present day and we find out that the George W Bush White House, committed gross violations of [...]