I think that Alvin Greene is a pretty strong argument for the "fifty state strategy"

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

It should be no surprise that Ann Coulter, who has built a career on calling people ugly, derided students at the University of Ottowa for apparently saying of her "you're ugly"

While the right wing, and all political figures are guilty of hypocrisy, for some reason I find nothing so offensive as their willingness to decry political correctness, while themselves acting as cowards and crying "wolf" and complaining of oppression when they are so unfortunate as to hear language they themselves have used directed back at themselves. 

To Ann Coulter, I say, grow up and act like an adult. The injured child whimpering I hear from you on a daily basis is just not becoming of you.

Let me get this straight.If I'm not mistaken we had two protests in Washington DC this weekend : one against the war, where people laid down motionless in front of the White House - the other against HCR, where people chanted "kill the bill, then kill the nigger" to black congressmen.
And who was arrested?
Houston. .   we have a problem.

If you haven't been following the Texas Board of Education school book story, Jon Stewart provided a peek into the madness on his March 18 Daily Show.  
In Texas, against recomendations, some self labeled right wing Christian fundamentalists in charge of updating school book guidelines explicitly exclude an entry on Oscar Romero who was murdered by right wing fundamentalists while advocating for human rights.
I've got an offer for her :Let's go ahead and exclude Oscar Romero from the History Book as dictated by this small group of right wing fundamentalist. But then add a chapter about why his story was censored and a reference to a wiki page where you can find out all about him. 
As Stewart intones, it's kind of like the ghost of Romero is being assassinated by right wing death squads in some sort sick cycle.

People get out and vote for winners. People don't get out and vote for losers.   I can't be the only one thinking that it's really that simple for this November???   By their own claims, the reason the tea baggers are so excited is because it feels like they are having an effect. By our own admission, the reason progressives and Democrats are so demoralized is because DESPITE the fact that we gave our time and energy to give them a super majority, these bozos can't seem to get anything done.   If HCR passes, the tea baggers are demoralized. If HCR doesn't pass, the Democrats are demoralized   So here's the question : Can it really be true that some Dems don't want to vote for HCR because of what it might mean for their prospects in November? If they want to be losers - they can be losers.  But like it or not they are Democrats, and if HCR doesn't pass they will be losers.  And can anyone tell me what happens to losers in November. . . .

David Kurtz links a Rasmussen poll suggesting that the Tea Pary is more popular than the GOP.

Go figure.

  Next thing you're going to tell me that dreams are more popular than reality.   Being high is more popular than the hangover.   Mardi Gras is more popular than cleaning up vomit the morning after.  Teabaggers hate reality the same way any doper hates withdrawal.   And the GOP is just no longer strong enough to satisfy the level of delusion and denial required to keep the high going after an eight year binge.   Tea Party to the rescue! Pure, distilled, unadulterated self-rightousness is the only thing on the market that can keep the fantasy going for now.

This strikes me as an important development. I'm hoping this means good things.

McClatchy is reporting that Iran's most senior Islamic cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri said, "No one in their right mind can believe" the official results from Friday's contest

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iran/story/70155.html

 

"A government not respecting people's vote has no religious or political legitimacy," he declared in comments on his official Web site. "I ask the police and army personals (personnel) not to 'sell their religion,' and beware that receiving orders will not excuse them before God."

I'm thinking that Obama's pick of Hillary at State must have been obvious for a man who knew he'd need her to reassure the Israelis while he reaches out to engage the non-Israelis who have an interest in cradle of civilization.

From what I understand, Hillary Clinton had cred with Israel that Obama desperately needs over the next . . .  however long it takes to get a sane dialog started.

Any thoughts on where this is going?

 

I'm sorry, but I feel like I'm witnessing the ebodiment of class war in the rhetoric surrounding Sotomayor right now.

Anyone else feeling it?

The current economic crisis in large part grew from honest businesses with a group of rouge capitalist that were willing to say anything to "demonstrate" a huge profit in order to justify even huger bonuses.

When AIG sold credit default swaps, they were selling insurance when they had no insurance (cash reserves) to sell.  That's fraud.
To recall a more familiar expression,
They wrote checks their asses could not cash.

The problem in proving it, is that it was not simple fraud.
The, cover they laid was pro forma at best, but they played the game.
Insurance relies on models, and AIG CDS traders most likely hired mathematicians and software engineers to build them models that would "justify" the bet. 

Of course the model relies on the input -- as long as property values continue to grow at 20%/year the CDS was a great bet!
Each party in the conspiracy had a pretty good idea what the collective was doing, but they could all claim they were just doing their jobs: making the sale, doing the math, providing market analysis - and the bonuses kept coming.

Without question, we know that these people participated in fraud in order to enrich themselves.  But proving fraud requires proving intent - and if you thought AG Gonzolez's performance was impressive. . . . . how many times to you really want to listen to "I don't know what I did or why I did it" . . . only to learn that even if you could get a fraud conviction they already spent all their money on ice sculputure and hookers.

I've been watching the progression of Republican "leaders" apologizing to Rush Limbaugh.
And I'm beginning to believe that after 8 years of apologizing for such sins as standing in front of his shotgun blasts, the cream of the Republican party is feeling a little lost without without Dick Cheney to tell them how naughty they've been.

For some choice apologies : http://www.dccc.org/content/sorry

When Josh Marshall quoted TPM reader PD on the subject of bitch-slap jujitsu, I couldn't help but contemplate the magnitude of Rush's impact.

I wondered, "The bigger he is, the harder they fall?"

   

Now we're hearing that McCain is dropping the Barak <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/222237.php">*Hussein*</a> Obama bomb.

Has anyone asked McCain  (or his surrogates) what's changed since February 2008 when McCain felt obliged to <a href="http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/02/mccain_apologizes_for_radio_ho.html">apologize</a> that Bill "Willie" Cunningham, a conservative radio talk show host in Cincinnati emphasized Barak *Hussein* Obama

Any word whether

It sounds like the McCain campaign is going to settle on
"America Workers" as their final answer for the meaning of "fundamentals".

When Wall Street bankers were still getting $100 million bonuses you thought the economy had made great progress.

When your benefactor John Thain got a $15 million bonus from Merrill in 2007, and went on to bundle several $100 thousand for you, the fundamentals where solid.

And the day Merrill Lynch disappeared, the checks had just started rolling into your campaign and I heard you felt the fundamentals were pretty strong.

Yesterday you noticed that the workers of America are unhappy about something, and that you'd better call them strong too, so you said that they were the "fundamentals" which you were referring to all this time

And it is true, the workers of America ARE the fundamental thing that makes the American economy work.

And that is why it's fundamentally wrong that American workers are getting screwed in the economy the Republicans built these last 7 years.

Americans are not whining but describing a very simple economic reality. This economy has been harder and harder on American workers every year since Phil Gramm got rid of all those regulations, and Dick Cheney got rid of those pesky "worker rights", and George Bush decided he wanted to have a war.

Maybe they'd whine a little less if some of the financial gurus out there were put out of work, so those $100 million bonuses and $10 million salaries could be better spent on $70,000 salaries.