Today on his radio show, Ed Schultz of MSNBC continued his often lonely fight for universal health care by pointing out the rank hypocrisy of the religious right in its silence, or worse, opposition, to making health care available to all Americans. Quoting the bible, he spoke of Jesus’ commitment to feeding the poor, [...]
Delving again into the preemptive political inoculation I was talking about yesterday, an infuriating redundancy forced upon me by Rush Limbaugh, who today dismissed a Swastica painted on a black Congressman’s door as too “politically convenient” to be anything but a false flag operation by one of the dang darky’s supporters, and all I can [...]
The birthers, ‘baggers and death panelists, alarming and aberrant as they seem on the surface, are nothing but the latest manifestation of a drearily familiar Republican tactic; crassly and audaciously projecting their own least desirable traits on Democrats to delegitimize them since they can no longer beat them. Having nothing to offer the American people [...]
(Just after posting this I learned that Digby substituting today for Glenn Greenwald has written about this same issue. She is looking at, “The bad apple approach doesn’t solve the political, legal or moral problems. Indeed, that seems so clear that you have to wonder if this isn’t being done to serve some other purpose.” [...]
Although I’m somewhat reluctant to admit this, I probably listen to more talk radio than most 70-year old Teabaggers. Because of the nature of my job, I have several hours alone each day at work, performing tasks that, to put it mildly, leave my brain less than fully engaged, and the three-hour shows, punctuated by [...]
Rachel Maddow has done a superior job of connecting the dots behind the town hells. Last night she had a seven minute scary discussion (at the 8-minute point) with an insider, Frank Shaeffer, who deeply regrets helping his father create a dangerous monster that is running amuck to kill for the health industry real health [...]
It turns out that the real injured party in the Boston Police scandal involving Justin Barrett, who richly earned a brief suspension for not vaguely enough calling Henry Louis Gates a “banana-eating jungle monkey” in an embarrassingly public forum, is Officer Barrett himself, who has now decided to sue everybody in sight for “conspiring to [...]
Listening to the Ed Schultz Show today on the radio at work, I was enjoying the discussion brought forth by substitute host Norman Goldman, when he opened the show by asking listeners, “What do you want from your government, and how would you like to pay for it?” The question was drawn from the debate [...]
Having recently read David Neiwert’s “The Eliminationists,” I would have naturally been alert to anything from the GOT (Grand Old Teabaggers) that vaguely hinted at, basically, killing everybody they don’t like, but here lately I can’t even keep up with it all. The process has taken on a thudding, accelerating, warp speed, primed during the [...]
Before I let a professor friend of mine have his say on heath care reform and his report on a talk Dennis Kucinich gave in my area Sunday, let me briefly vent my anger at the Repug Thugs trying to kill any meaningful reform. It contrasts with what Dirigo told us on my last post [...]