Is there anything that could make Senator Baucus’ disdain for the American people more clear than openly admitting he isn’t even slightly interested in doing his goddamn job?
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You see? We definitely need government overlord protectors because businesses aren’t responsible enough and don’t recognize that they have a monetary incentive to do what is good for their businesses all on their own.
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CBS4 Denver: A former Secret Service agent who oversees Denver’s police, fire and sheriff’s departments submitted his resignation Monday amid community anger over police officers caught on video hitting a man during a violent arrest. [. . .] An independent police monitor publicly clashed with Perea over the decision to suspend rather than fire the […]
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The New York Times on Cuomo, Clinton’s Housing Secretary (because the founders definitely put a proviso in to the Constitution that the federal government oversee fucking housing): And, in an effort to reverse decades of discrimination against blacks and Latinos, Mr. Cuomo pushed the government-sponsored banks, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to buy more home […]
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Apparently, lawmakers in DC, as well as a bunch of do-gooder type researchers, have nothing better to do than critique films and their use of cigarettes. The number of U.S. movies showing people smoking has declined since 2005, but cigarettes are featured in far too many films and could be influencing young people to take […]
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The Times, again, bending reality to fit their narrative of tax cuts adding to government debt: Republicans say cutting taxes would ease millions of families’ financial difficulties while encouraging the creation of jobs. But tax cuts mean higher government deficits, and Thursday’s report illustrated that clearly, estimating that extending the entire Bush tax cut package […]
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Though it shouldn’t be taken as an overt sign that they are abandoning their pro-Obama point of view, the Times has, once again, exposed one of the many kinks in Obama’s armor: A more national, outward-looking strategy for creating a “postpartisan” dynamic might have included White House partnerships with Republican governors or even with conservative […]
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Some shit just makes me so mad that commenting is impossible.
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The New York Times on a close Senate Race between Majority Leader and longtime establishment Democrat Harry Reid, and Sharron Angle, where a Tea Party candidate may beat the most powerful man in Washington behind Obama: Mr. Reid’s advisers made clear that the only way they could win was to make Ms. Angle so distasteful […]
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From the Marijuana Policy Project: Back in May, when Kentucky Republican Rand Paul defeated an establishment candidate to win his party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate, I pointed out that one of the issues Paul used to win over voters was his support of medical marijuana laws. Now, in a telling political move, the son […]