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Entries from July 31st, 2009

Friday's funny politics

July 31st, 2009 · 6 Comments · Comedy, Democracy, News, Politics

Happy Friday!  Here is Sarah Palin, as interpreted by William Shatner.  Thank you Conan O’Brien: Here’s more news from Auto Tune , a fabulous political satire group.  Michael Gregory and company are evil geniuses.

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The Arena: public opinion on health care

July 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Health Care, News, Politics

This is a great discussion on health care reform from Politico. Check it out, then take a few seconds to offer your opinion in the health care poll below. The Arena: public opinion on health care | POLITICO.com Shared via AddThis [polldaddy poll=1818803]

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The politics of false indignation

July 30th, 2009 · No Comments · News, Politics, Republicans

This is Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI).   On Monday congressman McCotter introduced a resolution to the United States House of Representatives, asking president Barack Obama to apologize to James Crowley, a white police officer in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Rep. McCotter believes that officer Crowley, and all police officers, were defamed, ridiculed and undermined when the president [...]

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I have a Glen Beck problem

July 29th, 2009 · 6 Comments · News, Political Fringe, Racism, Republicans

From Politico 44: FOX News host Glenn Beck dialed up his rhetoric against President Obama Tuesday, branding the president a “racist” in an appearance on the morning show “Fox and Friends.” Beck charged that the president’s handling of the controversy over the arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. displayed a “deep-seated hatred for [...]

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Two democratic senators with their own housing crisis

July 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Democrats, News, Politics

From Politico’s Huddle: SENS KNEW ABOUT VIP MORTGAGES: New revelations about what Sens. Kent Conrad and Chris Dodd knew about their “VIP” mortgage rates with Countrywide. From The Washington Post’s Zachary Goldfarb: “The Senate ethics committee has interviewed a former Countrywide Financial executive who testified under oath that Sens. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and Kent [...]

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The Hatfields vs. the McCoys

July 28th, 2009 · 10 Comments · News, Politics, Republicans

“We got too many Jim DeMints (R-S.C.) and Tom Coburns (R-Ok.). It’s the southerners. They get on TV and go ‘errrr, errrrr.’ People hear them and say, ‘These people, they’re southerners. The party’s being taken over by southerners. What they hell they got to do with Ohio?’ ” This quote is from Republican senator George Voinovich [...]

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Sotomayor clears one big hurdle

July 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Democracy, News, Politics

As expected, judge Sonia Sotomayor will win approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee in her quest to become the 111th Justice to the United States Supreme Court.  The full senate will take up her vote next week.  The panel was split along party lines with only one republican senator, Lindsay Graham (R-SC), voting in the [...]

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Democrats take the birther fight right to the GOP's doorstep; a loon opens the door

July 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Democrats, News, Political Fringe, Politics, Republicans

UPDATE: I erroneously reported that Congresswoman Bachmann blocked the resolution.  It did indeed pass yesterday, after the quorum, with the congresswoman supporting it. This is getting really good.  On Monday democrats in the house, specifically Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), introduced legislation to recognize Hawaii’s 50th anniversary of statehood.  They also took this opportunity to proclaim that [...]

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The post-racial society? WTF is this?

July 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Health Care, Political Fringe, Racism, Republicans

The proliferation of racist material has got to stop.  Are people really this stupid and bigoted to think that this is simply a joke?  I’m not laughing and neither is anyone with even one functioning brain cell.  Yet here we have a GOP activist, circulating this crap amongst his fellow members in one of those [...]

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Monday weekend round-up

July 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Democracy, Democrats, Health Care, Iran, Middle East, Politics, Republicans

Will there be a health reform bill without GOP support? One democratic leader says no. A monumental few days of meetings will take place between the U.S. and China beginning today. More banks are being shut down in Georgia and New York.  That makes 64 in 2009. Footage from 1996 shows Professor Henry Louis Gates [...]

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