Sunday, July 19, 2009

Women must be penalized for having sex. It's in the GOP party platform.

I guess by this logic we shouldn't allow a public plan to help cover chemotherapy, lest we incentivize cancer? Maybe the GOP opposes universal healthcare because it will incentivize people to get sick? Or something.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

establishment journalists who are the most aggressive opponents of investigations of high-level government lawbreaking.

Trying to prevent investigations of their friends, colleagues and bosses in political power is one of the few times they're willing so explicitly to turn themselves into advocates, as Chuck Todd did here.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Is this too much?

Death Squads, Cheney, and American Standards:

And, really, and, c'mon, what would be surprising would be to find out that Dick Cheney wasn't constructing a skull chair.

God it is a good post. But srsly:

There's your scales of Republican justice: travel office employees fired? It's a crisis that demands millions of dollars spent to discover nothing. Potential secret CIA death squads and the involvement of at least the Vice President in lying to Congress in violation of the law? Nah, why bother? Let's move forward, not look back.

Washington Post is essentially giving the Obama administration one last chance to turn back before we all drown in Republican tears.

The Bush administration left a ton of suspicious-looking threads hanging out in the open, and the story seems to imply that pulling any one of them hard enough will irreversibly open a Pandora’s Box of unwelcome surprises.

Cutting edge perception management.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

The CIA withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former VP Dick Cheney

the reason Washington is terrified to investigate this is because they know that so many laws were broken so flagrantly that any investigation will lead to the indictment of Bush and Cheney, and that, for obvious reasons, terrifies the Democrats

After all, all they have to do is get some clerk in the Justice Department to write them a note legalizing it and it's all good.

Well done scott


Fred, with his toothy smile, clip-on tie, and pink rosebud pinned by a proud and loving mother to his short-sleeved, polyester dress shirt from Sears, is a refreshingly goofy arbiter of moral justice. It’s as if one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse favored pastels and resembled Napoleon Dynamite’s brother.

Republican Senator just periodically patted him on the thigh and technically the fingers extended into the inner part.

Through out the dinner? Was it Lindsey Graham?

Did the Northern Alliance and US Special Forces massacre 2000 prisoners?

And then ChimpCo covered it up?