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The Professional Left is verrah disappointed in President Obama and won’t shut up about it.

Tweet of the Day — Current TV Edition

Posted on March 30, 2012 by | 10 Comments

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Why I Have No Idea What You’re Talking About, Sir

Posted on March 30, 2012 by | 6 Comments

Diplomacy: the art of stating the obvious and getting immunity for it.

Observation:  The Bush administration leaked sensitive information to journalists to start wars.  The Obama administration leaks sensitive information to journalists to stop them.

Two reports today about Iran’s nuclear program and the possibility of an Israeli military strike have analysts in Israel accusing the Obama administration leaking information to pressure Israel not to bomb Iran and for Iran to reach a compromise in upcoming nuclear talks.

The first report in Foreign Policy quotes anonymous American officials saying that Israel has been given access to airbases by Iran’s northern neighbor Azerbaijan from which Israel could launch air strikes or at least drones and search and rescue aircraft.

The second report from Bloomberg, based on a leaked congressional report, said that Iran’s nuclear facilities are so dispersed that it is “unclear what the ultimate effect of a strike would be…” A strike could delay Iran as little as six months, a former official told the researchers.

“It seems like a big campaign to prevent Israel from attacking,” analyst Yoel Guzansky at the Institute for National Security Studies told ABC News. “I think the [Obama] administration is really worried Jerusalem will attack and attack soon. They’re trying hard to prevent it in so many ways.”

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Eric Holder is going to slice up your baby and feed it to Obama’s flying robot army

Posted on March 6, 2012 by | 53 Comments

I identify fairly strongly as a liberal (although this was not always the case), so perhaps it’s not a huge surprise that one of the most frustrating phenomena I experience as a politics junkie is watching liberal leading lights latch on to stupid ideas. Today, for instance, whoever was running the Mother Jones Twitter account sent out this:

The link points, as you can see, to Adam’s Serwer’s latest piece, When the US Government Can Kill You, Explained. His lede:

On Monday, the Obama administration explained when it’s allowed to kill you.

The piece, which discusses Attorney General Eric Holder’s speech Monday on the legal reasoning behind the administration’s national security policy, is accompanied by a stock photo of U.S. Air Force “Reaper” drone armed with guided HELLFIRE missiles — the sort used to kill the American-born al Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki.

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Cal Thomas, Retire Already: Part III

Posted on February 24, 2012 by | 5 Comments

Conservative Columnist Co-opts Black History Month to Honor Republicans

As Black History Month draws to a close, world-renowned conservative columnist Cal Thomas wants to remind liberals everywhere who are too stoned to remember basic American history that the Republican Party really really really loves black people.

Or at least they did at one time.

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Thomas informed us this week in his syndicated column, “Black (Liberal) History Month.” A Republican-led Congress supported the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. Republicans in the 38th Congress passed legislation creating the “Negro Calvary,” also known as Buffalo Soldiers, in the 1860s. And Ulysses “Snowflake” Grant, a Republican, signed the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which allowed blacks access to public accommodations—until it was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

There’s a not-so-subtly-buried trend within this unflatteringly short list of historical “moments” when Republicans fought for African Americans: they all happened a long, long time ago—before even Thomas was born.

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Alien Attack Now Imminent, Republicans Warn

Posted on February 15, 2012 by | 7 Comments

Conservatives are sounding like a celestially-fervid flock of Chicken Littles over President Obama’s plan to reduce the U.S.’s nuclear weapon stockpile by as much as 80 percent.

And for good reason.

As Ronald Reagan knew well in the 1980s—because his wife kept him informed of all inter-galactic current events—20,000 nuclear warheads may have been enough to bomb every sovereign nation on the globe 100 times each, but it wasn’t nearly enough to thwart an alien attack!

Now that the stockpile is in the process of being reduced to 1,550 nuclear weapons, the threat has been compounded.

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How We Win in 2012: Getting Started

Posted on February 10, 2012 by | 10 Comments

We’ve got a country to save. Here’s how we’re going to do it.

Listen up, Team Fuck Yeah.

Our mission is clear: remove Republicans from elected office everywhere we can across the United States. Re-elect President Obama. Hold control of the US Senate. Retake control of the House of Representatives. Win as many governorships, state legislature seats, county and city-level contests as possible.

Even though the GOP field appears to be imploding before our eyes, eventually there will be a name on the Republican ballot line for President, and it is by no means certain that Barack Obama will win that contest, even though conditions look favorable at the moment.  Continue reading →

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Angry Black Links: Foreclosure Madness

Posted on February 9, 2012 by | 6 Comments

Once upon a time, I claimed I would do link round-up posts every day.  We all know how that turned out.  So what I’m going to do instead is link posts “whenever the hell I feel like it.”

Today (so far), it’s just one link.  I’ve got a case of the grumpies and I’m having a hard time caring about anything.

I’m a bit less grumpy than I was a few hours ago, but grumpy all the same:

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Attention, Male Talking Heads on My Teevee: Listen to Rachel, Please

Posted on February 8, 2012 by | 28 Comments

When men can get pregnant, I’ll be interested in their opinions about birth control.

Any of y'all got a uterus? Didn't think so! STFU

My love affair with Rachel Maddow runs hot/cold. Precisely because she’s so smart and incisive, when she’s wrong it is more infuriating than when a dumber, less attentive pundit swings and misses yet again.

But all the elderly white men, most of them Catholics, who are hyping “Obama’s War on Catholicism” beyond any reasonable understanding of the actual American electorate, and the actual relationship between Catholics and their own leadership, need to have a seat and watch Rachel.

Yes, Chris Matthews, I’m looking at you. And you, Lawrence O’Donnell, and you, Mark Shields, and you, E.J. Dionne.

Pull up a chair. Comfy? Ready? OK, click play and learn.

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Should Obama speak to Americans like 8th graders or academics?

Posted on February 7, 2012 by | 25 Comments

Everybody remembers Barack Obama’s famous “Yes We Can” speech.

Can you imagine how powerful, how memorable, how defining it would have been if he had instead called it, “Affirmative! This Collective Is Capable”?

The average American reads at or below an 8th-grade level.

For those who want to communicate with said average American, common sense says speaking to them at an 8th grade level will most effectively convey your message.

For the third State of the Union address in a row, President Obama has done just that. The text of his speeches have been written barely above the 8th-grade reading level.

The teleprompter critics who’ve long argued that Obama ought to be spending more time memorizing his speeches and less time killing terrorists are now arguing that either the president himself is stupid, or he thinks Americans are.

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