Just a little update on Ken's post from last Saturday on everyone's least favorite brothers… Something to keep in the back of your mind while pondering President Obama's State of the Union message of equality from tonight. Clearly, what the Kochs are doing to America in their anti-democratic jihad, is sociopathic. But is it criminal?
I think Murray Kempton would have approvedof Rachel's WaPo column."It's annoying to pay for information -- I know. But if you don't subscribe to your local paper or pony up to get behind its online paywall, who's going to pay reporters to cover the news where you live? A free press isn't that kind of "free." An accountable democracy doesn't work without real information, gathered from the ground up, about people in power, everywhere.
The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,The Daily Show on FacebookAs a service to people who watch Fox News, which has made a great effort to block out the unfolding Chris Christie scandal, here's what happened today to their shockingly incompetent hero-- aside from this, of course:Chris Christie succeeded at one thing in his press conference
The best thing that could happen for America in the 2016 presidential race would be for the GOP to give the far right extremists and crazed teabaggers exactly what they want to happen in the Republican Party primary: a win by Ted Cruz. Cruz is a smart, well-educated guy and he will be able to make a cogent and articulate case for right-wing extremism. When Romney lost to Obama last year, the true believers of the right fringe said it was because Romney wouldn't or couldn't make the case effectively.
As soon as I had heard there was something big brewing in Utah,the first person to come to mind for an inside scoop was Ryan Combe, a progressive Democrat who ran for Congress last year. He said the day had been "shaping up to be one of the most shocking days in Utah’s political history when around 2pm a ruling from U.S.
I ran into a neighbor, one of the world's most talented drummers, the other day and he asked me if the DCCC is as bad as I say it is on my blog. "Even worse," I assured him, telling him about quintessential Steve Israel recruit Jennifer Garrison. He asked me to suggest some candidates he could contribute to who were the opposite of Garrison. I suggested the 2 Blue America candidates in the L.A. area, Eloise Reyes and Lee Rogers since he could meet either one of them if he wanted to.
Last week I was stunned when I heard Rachel Maddow's first report on how Chris Christie took revenge on a mayor for partisan differences by essentially shutting down the traffic on the country's busiest bridge for a few days. Turns out, it's the world's busiest bridge-- and Friday, Maddow did a little update (above). The words "dangerous sociopath" come immediately to mind. I wonder how many voters will see this as the ultimate example of why a self-entitled bully like Christie must be kept as far away from lethal power as possible.
The senators had to stay up past their bedtimes Wednesday and Thurdsay because Miss McConnell is having another one of his pointless hissy fits. A career-long hater of democracy-- and someone who had pledged to obstruct everything President Obama set out to accomplish, including even the orderly functioning of government, McConnell has ramped up his now-failed agenda of blocking all presidential nominations but pointless delaying tactics.
Yesterday there was a House Intelligence Committee briefing about the situation in Iran. The Administration would like to get the AIPAC shills in both parties to calm the hell down while they're defusing a difficult and persistent problem with Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Oklahoma state Rep. Doug Cox (R-OK) is the chairman of the Public Health and Social Services Committee. First elected in 2005, he's also a physician who graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in 1978. If you think every Republican in Oklahoma is as radical and extreme as GOP sociopath James Lankford, you haven't met Doug Cox yet. Last February, Rep. Cox-- who, unlike lunatic freak Dr.
