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Black Chamber of Commerce CEO jousts verbally with Barbara Boxer.

All Topics, Politics boxer, senate

Black Chamber of Commerce CEO jousts verbally with Barbara Boxer.

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A spotlight on Indian health care’s victims.

Perhaps our esteemed congresscritters should work out the “kinks” in this system before blessing us with version 2.0.

Politics health care, single payer

Marion Barry—King of the Setups.

Politics dnc, marion barry

At least that’s how I read it.  I *could* be wrong.

Politics acorn, al franken, iran

Heh.. . more of a headline than a post. But that’s what Rasmussssen is saying right now.

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A curious trend considering the legendary quality control institutionalized in non-union Japanese transplants couldn’t possibly have.  Just. Stopped. Working.

It’s like they just started cranking out the lemons.

Some recent examples:  Toyota’s Prius has crap headlights. Honda’s Insight sucks.   But Obama’s people’s car Chevy’s Volt?  It’s gonna kick both their asses.

Don’t think for a minute that the hard earned record of marketplace success enjoyed by Japanese automakers over the decades– witnessed by millions of objective consumers — is immune from the extraordinary influence of a political-media machine mostly concerned with propagating the worst kinds of marketplace manipulation in the name of “Change”.

Economy, Media, Politics, SocioFascism chrysler, gm, honda, obama, toyota, union

Devolving into teh stoopid.

And as I watched the deniers make their arguments, I couldn’t help thinking that I was watching a form of treason — treason against the planet.

I mean, really.

Environment, Politics global warming, krugman

Nothing like reasonable House floor debate with a Democrat.

Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio countered that, without the bill, the United States would remain energy-dependent on people who want to “fly planes into our buildings.”

The facts, although interested, are irrelevant.

Politics cap, global warming, trade

Olbermann gets sacked by Kossacks for getting off on Gov. Sanford’s indiscretions.

Politics olbermann

So. What.  He likes-a da bootyfull wimens:

ROME – Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has told a gossip magazine he has never paid a woman for sex, as he continues to be dogged by suspicions stemming from his purported fondness for young models and starlets.

Berlusconi gave his first direct response to the claims in an interview with Chi magazine to be published Wednesday. Previously, he had simply dismissed as “garbage” and a smear campaign reports that an acquaintance of his had paid at least three women to attend parties at his residences.

“I have never paid a woman,” Berlusconi was quoted as saying in the interview. “I never understood what the satisfaction is when you are missing the pleasure of conquest.”

Neither have I!

Politics berlusconi, italy

‘Bout time we dictated the g*damn situation over there.

With a coveted seat on the Guardian Council, al Sadr would undoubtedly speak for millions of disaffected Iranian Gen Y’ers.

Oh yeah, this is a completely unfounded rumor.

Politics, Religion, SocioFascism, War al sadr

Obama is  “opening dialogue” by visiting Saudi king, even though he already met with the King in April to “open dialog”.    Have we not gotten anywhere in the last two months?

Politics obama, saudi

From Glenn:

PELOSI’S LATEST SPIN: I Was Told Interrogation Methods Were Lawful. Hey, that’s what Bush was told, too!

Well said, sir!

Politics bush, glenn reynolds, pelosi, Politics, torture

We’re not interested in censoring bloggers.  We’re just interested in imprisoning them.

Politics, SocioFascism cyberbullies, prejean, sanchez

Hitchens figures murderous al Qaeda masterminds merit no harsher treatment than German agent provocateurs received during World War II. Treat them with a little human dignity, and our chances of flipping them are greater.

We know that often works.  So why is there this assumption that the American interrogators don’t try this approach?  Who started the myth that, the instant we capture a potentially valuable target, we immediately begin waterboarding him?  Perhaps every other approach up to  that point had failed?  Seems like everybody would be happier if we just shot these assholes at their point of capture.

It’s OK to slaughter dozens of militants on an Afghan battlefield but it’s absolutely reprehensible to collar one in a cell in Cuba.  Or pour water on their face.

Politics, War torture, waterboarding

Ed Morissey on Arlen Specter’s curious assertion of being left behind by a GOP lurching rapidly to the right:

First, let’s deal with the canard that the GOP has moved “far to the right”. When exactly did that happen? When a Republican-controlled Congress, yoked to a Republican White House, grew federal spending by 50% in six years? Would that be the GOP that created a new entitlement program for prescription medication? The same Republicans that expanded spending above inflation on discretionary areas like education 58%, health research and regulation 55%, community and regional development 94% and on entitlement programs like Medicare 51%?

So yeah, except for the massive increases in domestic spending, their “rightness” pretty much jumps off the charts.  Just ask any Democrat.

Politics pennsylvania, specter

After a recent close call with the swine flu, the President might have some second thoughts about his initial smarminess around his predecessor’s habit.

Politics bush, obama, swine flu

The smart congressman from Massachusetts singing a completely different tune in 2005.

“Those who argue that housing prices are now at a point of a bubble seem to me to be missing a very important point. Unlike previous examples we have had when substantial excessive inflation of prices later caused problems we are talking here about an entity, home ownership, homes where there is not the degree of leverage where we have seen elsewhere. This is not the dot-com situation. We had problems with people having invested in business plans of which there was no reality; people building fiber optic cables for which there was no need. Homes that are occupied may see an ebb and flow in the price at a certain percentage level. But you’re not going to see the collapse that you see when people talk about a bubble and so those of us on our committee in particular will continue to push for home ownership.”

So, are housing prices today just “ebbing and flowing” or did something burst?

We don’t necessarily expect politicians to predict the future–we just want them to man up instead of hiding behind their gerrymanders.

Politics barney frank, housing, tarp

Tom Maguire is following the breadcrumbs on the Jane Harman/AIPAC investigation.

Politics aipac, harman

Out of all of the major issues facing America on April 15th, it just so happened to be the perfect time, naturally, for the DHS to warn against right-wing militias!

Politics, SocioFascism dhs, napolitano, obama

But it’s not quite working yet.  Are we content to sit back and wait for the worthless UN Security Council to prevent North Korean missiles from penetrating our allies’ airspace?

Is Alaska an ally?

Politics alaska, japan, jong, korea, noko

Mickey -

Although you had some misgivings about Obama’s fuzziness on immigration amnesty, you still voted for him.   Not that McCain offered a stark alternative on this issue.

Now you seem surprised that he’s virtually opened the immigration floodgates without so much as enacting a single law?

It’s hard to believe Obama adviser Cecilia Munoz doesn’t realize reopening the amnesty issue could have this effect.

No.  It’s not hard to believe that Munoz, a lifelong, strident activist for immigration rights, failed to estimate the effect of reopening this issue.  Couldn’t have seen that one coming, eh?  What is hard to believe is that Munoz didn’t float this even sooner.

Do liberals think that none of these silly little academic debates we have online have any real world impact?

All Topics, Politics amnesty, illegal alien, illegal immigration, immigration, kaus, mickey kaus, shamnesty

A summary of Western European political trends.

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What do you get when you cross the most explosive political issue of 2007 with timing that is precisely wrong?

You get President Obama’s first catastrophic political defeat.

I mean, he can’t limp into the mid-terms without adding at least several million new Democrats to the rolls, can he?  If Card Check can’t do it–legalizing twelve million illegal aliens should be able to.

What specifically in the current immigration regime is so bad that the President feels he must throw the country into torrential debate when there are already two protracted wars and a second Great Depression to deal with?

Politics amnesty, obama