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pandagon.net - we are the public option —
by Jesse Taylor
I’ve just been reading this page over and over again today. It’s like a YouTube video, but with words.
Public what now?
The Brea Canyon Monument —
Did someone say Public Fister? No? I must be hearing things* or something. *Explanation here.
Obama's Fault: Keyboard to Chair Interface Problem
doubleplusundead —
Obama's Fault: Keyboard to Chair Interface Problem [image] The only way to secure a computer is to turn it off and unplug it. - Old IT Saying It seems the public fister just can't live without his fucking Blackberry. Of course, their going to let him keep it even though there is an ...
ODS Watch: Washington Times
Oliver Willis —
The Washington Times is really upset that Barack Obama has surrounded himself with U.S. flags.
I mean, who does the guy think he is, the President Of The United States? ...
Public Fister
doubleplusundead —
Public Fister Public Fister. That is all. P.S.: The Memory Hole has not dropped into same and is being developed as we speak. Certain limitations of the crawler originally developed are making the scraping of large sites more troublesome than originally anticipated. Posted by: Moron Pundit at 11:46 AM | No Comments | Add Comment Post contains 42 words, total size 1 kb.
The tolerant left
doubleplusundead —
... You know, since we're not homophobic or anything. But, well, wouldn't it be funny if everybody in Carrie's family was a FAG or a LEZZIE?!!!!11one!!1!eleventy!!! Har! Though, not that there's anyth—yeah, who are we kidding? If you're the slightest bit Christian or conservative or are connected to any such person, rumors about your sexual proclivities are teh funneh! To borrow a phrase, it's BECAUSE OF THE HYPOCRISY !!! Notice that the anti-gay marriage stance of a certain Public Fister is never mentioned. Posted by: Sean M. at 01:43 AM | No Comments ...
What our Greatest Democratic President Knew
Corrente —
But our newest one refuses to believe:
This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain inalienable political rights—among them the right of free speech, free press, free worship, trial by jury, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. They were our rights to life and liberty.
As our Nation has grown in size and stature, however—as our industrial economy expanded—these political rights proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.
We have come to a clear realization of the ...
Obama's summer reading list
Top of the Ticket —
The list of books a president reads during vacation is often parsed for meaning.
And ever since former President Bill Clinton put mystery writer Walter Mosley in the big leagues, many is the author who has dreamed of having a president board Air Force One carrying a copy of his or her book tucked under his arm.
Today, Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton volunteered -- even before anyone could ask him -- that President Obama had brought along a pile of books on his family summer vacation to Martha's Vineyard.
Among the lucky authors, I mean important books, on ...
Bernanke's '60 Minutes' diplomacy -- did public outreach ensure second term as Fed chair?
Top of the Ticket —
President Obama made it official today, interrupting his Martha's Vineyard vacation to nominate Ben Bernanke for reappointment to another four-year term as chairman of the Federal Reserve.
The president said all the predictable things -- that the Fed chair had brought "bold action and outside-the-box thinking" in a way that "helped put the brakes on our economic free-fall." You can read his full remarks below.
And a lot of commentators suggested that Obama had no choice -- despite economic advisor Larry Summers' evident hunger for the job. The president ...
Fed deficit to top $9 trillion -- boon or bust to healthcare reform?
Top of the Ticket —
Citing an economic downtown worse than imagined, with stubborn job losses and red ink spreading for as far as the eye can see, the Obama administration said today that the deficit will top $9 trillion within 10 years. The White House floated the number last week, hoping to blunt the effect of the midyear forecast.This being Washington, the number was greeted as a political matter, seen as a fiscal rebuttal to those torrid town halls and rancorous debates over healthcare policy, or as a vindication of the critics. "A lot of people will look at this deficit and say we cannot afford healthcare reform," ...
Obama: Ted Kennedy opened Oval Office door to people like me
Top of the Ticket —
President Obama, awakened by aides at 2 a.m. today
with news that Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy had died, looked haunted and
grief-stricken today as he tried to frame the legacy of the man they called the
"Lion of the Senate."
“Even though we have known this day was coming for some time
now,” he said, “we awaited it with no small amount of dread.” Unlike his brothers, both felled by assassins' bullets, Obama said, Ted Kennedy's 18-month struggle against brain cancer "has given us the opportunity we were denied when his brothers John and Robert were taken from us: the ...
Shreveport correct not to socialize gas leasing risk
Between The Lines —
While much attention has deservedly gone to Pres. Barack Obama’s various attempts to socialize risk at the federal level, that issue has broken out at the local level in Shreveport as well. ...
Obama, called the last Kennedy brother, to eulogize Ted at Saturday funeral
Top of the Ticket —
Republicans looking for 'great white hope' to counteract Obama? Congresswoman says she didn't mean it that way
Top of the Ticket —
One of the instructive (and occasionally entertaining) aspects of the presidency of Barack Obama, the nation’s first black commander in chief, has been the intermittent surfacing of traditionally submerged racial attitudes. These incidents often take form as slips of the tongue, or perhaps “jokes,” that may or may not indicate racism. But the reaction to such statements serves to remind those in the public glare that potentially offensive references to race -- whether deliberate, accidental or unconscious -- will be ruthlessly picked apart in the blogosphere.
Especially if you are a Republican. ...
Vicki Reggie Kennedy: lawyer, widow, next U.S. senator from Massachusetts?
Top of the Ticket —
Time Magazine has called her “The Woman Who Saved Ted.”
Now, though she has said she is not interested, pressure is
mounting on Victoria Reggie Kennedy to save his agenda -- serving as interim senator from
Massachusetts until January when a special election is planned to fill the seat
held by her husband, the late Edward Kennedy.
Connecticut Democrat Chris Dodd, one of Kennedy’s closest
friends in the Senate, said on Sunday that "whatever Vicki wants to
do, I'm in her corner. She brings talent and
ability to it, and to fill that spot I ...
First Dog Bo sports a new leash. Of course he loves Obama (photos)
Top of the Ticket —
They were all the rage at Martha’s Vineyard when President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and their daughters, Malia and Sasha, vacationed there last week -- T-shirts with first dog Bo Obama’s image,
like the one pictured here in an Oak Bluffs shop.
So we suppose no one should have been surprised Sunday when
Bo came off Marine One and bounded off the steps toward the White House
sporting a new leash.
Yep, it says “I Love Obama.”
The guy handling the dog in the photo is Sam Sutton, a White House aide. ...
History, dynamics confirm Vitter's favored position
Between The Lines —
... . Since 2008, he has voted with Democrat House leaders about 90 percent of the time, and with Democrat Pres. Barack Obama 84 percent of the time. And, given the actions listed above, reminding voters of them can effectively counteract any of the few deviations Melancon could try to cherry-pick as examples of his presumed “independence.” ...
Real health reform more than shedding charity hospitals
Between The Lines —
Perhaps its members have been reading this space regularly, or maybe they actually derived it independently, but Louisiana’s Commission on Streamlining Government looks set to recommend that there be a radical overhaul of indigent health care delivery that will encourage and challenge both the Gov. Bobby Jindal Administration and the Pres. Barack Obama Administration. But whether it’s enough to constitute true reform is another matter. At the end of last year Jindal said plans were being made to fundamentally remake the indigent care system by removing ...
Joe Wilson Made David Axelrod's Day
Politics Daily —
Filed under: Woman Up I was just wondering how David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs were going to regain control of the White House message machine. They have a deft touch, those communications guys, but the post-election honeymoon had ended and the president's boat was taking water. The awkward Steve Hildebrand outburst ...
Republican Rep. Joe Wilson's heckling of Obama sparks fundraising flood to his Democratic opponent
Top of the Ticket —
In eight years of George W. Bush's presidency -- despite huge differences on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and contentious debates over torture policy, No Child Left Behind and immigration reform -- no elected official ever heckled the president of the United States when he addressed a joint session of Congress.
But last night, as President Obama was making the case for his healthcare reform initiative, 62-year-old South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson called the president a liar. To his face.
It happened when Obama was rebutting the myths about healthcare reform, including the ...
Analysis: House admonishes Wilson for remark
Wolfe Reports —
Round of applause, fellas. There’s a reason Congress has such a low approval rating, and it’s for events of political theater like the one that unfolded Tuesday evening in the U.S. House. Maybe it’s because we’re friendly with partisans of both sides, and they all get fired up about this, but it seems to us that after the initial kerfuffle, this thing should have gone away.
Let’s recap: During President Barack Obama’s health care address, U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson yelled, “You lie!” from the House ...
Barack Obama is a Jedi
Wolfe Reports —
If President Barack Obama had the mind control powers of a powerful Jedi, he probably wouldn’t be having so much trouble with health care. Eg., “These aren’t the regulations you’re worried about. Move along.”
But, that hasn’t stopped him from trying. Insert your “It’s a TARP!” jokes.
No, the President isn’t joining Princess Biden in a war against Darth Aetna. Turns out he was doing a publicity photo shoot promoting Chicago for the 2016 Olympics. ...
Fox News, after being left out of media blitz, calls Obama White House 'a bunch of crybabies'
Top of the Ticket —
... President Obama -- selling healthcare, parsing Afghanistan, dodging ACORN -- conducted a marathon of interviews with top TV networks. Taped Friday from the White House Roosevelt Room, the 15-minute sessions ran yesterday on CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC and the Spanish-language Univision. Topping the charm offensive: his appearance tonight, his first as president, on David Letterman's late-night comedy show. ...
Shreveport reaping badly sown past spending choices
Between The Lines —
... Of course, none of it should have been any surprise at all, including the amount. A good chunk of the entire request to the council months ago had formed a much smaller overall request to the federal government shortly after Pres. Barack Obama rammed into policy his spending bill that singlehandedly roughly tripled the fiscal year’s deficit. A giveaway politically in the guise of somehow being an immediate stimulus to the economy, in relative terms Glover was one of the most enthusiastic hogs to belly on up to the trough when he asked on behalf of the city for over $ ...
Yes, college is that important
Wolfe Reports —
Early Thursday morning, Sen. Kevin Bryant put up a post (referring from padded-cell winner Michelle Malkin) citing an English lord making remarks to the effect of President Barack Obama ceding American sovereignty. One would have thought this sort of silliness would have been shut down in the ’50s, or when the John Birch Society was at its height of yelling at clouds.
Why is this something that people, elected officials, are concerned about enough to post? There are enough real issues for conservatives to nail the Obama administration with. You can call your shot, ...
