progressive politics and regressive entertainment. like peanut and butter.
April 13, 2013 Leave a comment
Between Rand Paul at Howard & President Obama with Chained CPI the “Party of Lincoln” is just as true as “Party of FDR”
— 0dysseus (@zerOdysseus) April 12, 2013
December 24, 2012 Leave a comment
After his 2008 win, he talked a lot about bipartisanship. This time he’s determined to squeeze it out of Republicans. He believes he owes that to the people who voted for him.
That’s not exactly President Obama speaking. This characterization of the president’s feelings comes from “staffers and friends” as their comments are written up in the Politico/Random House e-book End of the Line and as that e-book is described by co-author Glenn Thrush.
Obama’s first term makes me reluctant to get my hopes up, but the words in Thrush’s article are pretty sweet. Let’s hope the President’s true sentiments have survived the many layers those words were filtered through. Let’s hope that this time, Obama will stand up for progressive values.
November 24, 2012 Leave a comment
The November 19th issue of The New Yorker contains an interesting “Talk of the Town” piece entitled “Seeing Spots,” which is about Priorities USA ads such as “Stage.” You may remember “Stage.” It’s the ad about workers whose lives were severely damaged by the unethical practices of Mitt Romney’s private-equity firm Bain Capital.
November 18, 2012 Leave a comment
I definitely agree that now is the time for progressives to up the pressure on President Obama, to encourage him to be…you know…progressive.
BILL MAHER: It’s now the job of progressives to hold his feet to the fire for causes important to us. If not now, when?
November 17, 2012 1 Comment
Can you remember the past? How about way back to the summer, when McKayla Maroney fell during her vault routine and wound up with a silver medal rather than the expected gold?
McKayla made an “I am not impressed” face during the medal ceremony and was photoshopped into a bunch of other pictures with that expression. Here she was, not impressed by Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan to be the GOP VP candidate. And here she was yesterday, having fun in the White House. President Obama’s likability comes through pretty well here.
November 6, 2012 Leave a comment
Revenge
The best revenge is voting,
Obama said. “Don’t boo.”
Republicans are quoting
The line and trying to
Convince us that
The man’s a rat
Who’s using hate
To motivate.
November 6, 2012 4 Comments
I’m voting for Obama and I’ll tell you why. I’m sick and tired of the bullshit with this “the states will run everything.” This is the answer, “the states will run everything”! I see in Jersey, “we’ll just about have the state run everything” — thank God for the federal government, and thank God for the federal government here in New York. What will we do? There’s no money to sit there and fix the devastation that’s gone on. I mean, what is it? What are these guys, high?…
I’ve had it with this nonsense about “We don’t need the federal government. We don’t need regulations. We don’t need the federal government; the states will handle it.” The states? Where are the states going to get the kind of money to handle this? There’s going to be billions of dollars in repairs.
I’m exhausted from it. When is this election going to be over already?
– Howard Stern on his radio show (November 5, 2012)
November 5, 2012 Leave a comment
Chris Cursed
When Christie said, “It’s come in handy
To have Obama’s help with Sandy,”
His party yelled, “You can’t say that!
You jerk, you praised a Democrat!”
A year ago they prayed he’d run
And be their ticket’s number one.
But now they hate the dirty rat
Because he praised a Democrat.
They screamed to Mitt, “Choose Chris for Veep!”
Their screamings now we’d have to bleep.
He was distinguished. Now he’s fat
Because he praised a Democrat.
Hurricane Sandy Survey (Photo credit: Talk Radio News Service)
November 3, 2012 2 Comments
Okay, so I believe that the recovery would be further along had President Obama and the Democrats passed a larger stimulus. Hey, they could have spent the money on improving the power grid and guarding against storms in the Northeast! Plus, I think it’s a mistake to jump on the Tea Party bandwagon and pretend that focusing on the debt during an economic downturn is anything other than an excuse to cut the social safety net…and thereby make the economic downturn worse. For more insight into this stupidity, take a gander at Dean Baker’s article for Salon.
That said, even with one arm tied behind his back, Obama’s record on private job creation has trounced George W. Bush’s record. Here’s the chart, via ThinkProgress.
Can someone remind me why capitalists are supposed to hate Barack Obama?
November 2, 2012 Leave a comment
America will either vote to re-elect President Obama. Or elect a President Romney, which doesn’t sound quite right, and that’s largely because it wouldn’t be.
- Jon Oliver (Bugle 211 – Electoral Labour)
October 31, 2012 1 Comment
I recognize that lives are more important than votes when it comes to dealing with Hurricane Sandy, but votes do determine whether we as a country deal with the reality of climate change and the necessity of federal responses to natural disasters.
On the one hand, I worry that the aftermath will depress the vote, particularly given that the poor and disenfranchised are more likely to live in areas which struggle to reconnect power and handle large turnouts. On the other hand, President Obama’s professional response to Hurricane Sandy helps his image even as he helps those whose lives have been impacted by the disaster.
It’s been quite remarkable today to watch the keynote speaker of the 2012 Republican National Convention, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, heap praise on Barack Obama. No wonder Rush Limbaugh has started railing against Christie on his radio show. This is a big deal.
October 29, 2012 Leave a comment
With the election increasingly close, it’s essential that President Obama’s team be quick on its feet to refute any new Romney lies, such as Romney’s suggestion that auto companies in Ohio are outsourcing jobs due to Obama policies. (Never mind the fact that Romney has been a chief proponent of outsourcing.) The Obama administration just released this ad, which is good. It’s direct, factual, and doesn’t pull punches.
