Thom: The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Ugly.
Jon takes down Graham and McCain for holding up hagel nomination over fake Benghazi outrage (via Crooks and Liars):
Young Turks: FAUX News’ crazy Al Jazeera theory.
Haggeling:
- Stephen on “Friends of Hamas”.
- Sam Seder: How “Friends of Hamas” joke became wingnut reality.
- Ann Telnaes: John McCain’s Iraq war fairy tale.
Maddow: Half of Michigan Blacks disenfranchised by GOP war on Democracy.
Young Turks: The GOP cat fight, staring Newt Gingrich and Karl Rove.
Thom: More Good, Bad, and Very, Very Ugly.
Sharpton: Is wacko Sen. Ted Cruz the new GOP savior?
Washington’s own Fukushima.
Thom: The establishment GOP versus the grassroots GOP.
Maddow: Indiana bill would force women to endure TWO transvaginal ultrasounds, before and after abortion:
Ed: Republicans are demonstrably out of touch with America.
Young Turks: How crazy is Sen. Ted Cruz?
Stephen on his sister.
Seattle Labor mobilizes for immigration reform.
Sam Seder: The Donald threatens blogger over Dump Trump petition.
Young Turks: Drunk tweets from Scott Brown?
White House: West Wing Week.
Greenman: Dark Snow Project.
Susie Sampson’s Tea Party Report: The week in intelligence.
Young Turks: Seven Craziest bills in the nation:
Maddow: No stigma for Sen. Ted Cruz for his McCarthy ways.
Pope Affairs:
- Red State Update: The Pope quits.
- Mark Fiore: Pick-a-Pope.
Sharpton: Obama’s approval up; GOP still hell-bent on destroying him.
Stephen: Horse meat (via Slog).
Thom: Single biggest driver if income inequality.
Lawrence O’Donnell: Who will be the next Republican savior-o-the-month?
Sam Seder: MO GOP lawmaker proposes making it a felony to propose gun control legislation.
Ann Telnaes: Congress takes a recess.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
Seems a judge told the longshoremen, in short, “Stop wasting my time.”
As the Memorandum of Understanding is not yet a binding deal and one of the things that could cause either party to walk from the deal is a to-be-completed environmental review, the Longshoremen are being stupid about filing suit over the arena agreement not having considered environmental impact. Nice try but a law student could have told you that over coffee for far less than your attorney’s charged.
The “hot mic” claims another victim.
Training 9-year-old kids for war:
http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_.....ining?lite
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Makes you wonder about these adults’ judgment, doesn’t it?
“Tens of thousands of Spaniards marched through cities across the country on Saturday to protest deep austerity, the privatization of public services and political corruption.”
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_.....ption?lite
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Sound familiar? Who you vote for does matter. Republicans act like they don’t like us, and we should treat them in kind, given what they want to do to us.
Did you know Sen. Chuck Hagel got campaign donations from a group calling itself “Friends of Hamas”? Neither did anyone else until Ben Shapiro (who works for Breitbart.com, not exactly the world’s most reliable source) broke the “story.” A few minutes of work by a real journalist proved the group never existed, except in the overheated imaginations of rightwing propagandists (see, e.g., Ben Shapiro of the world’s not-most-reliable source).
http://www.slate.com/blogs/wei.....sited.html
Roger Rabbit Commentaries: Have you figured out yet that rightwing propagandists are pathological liars? That absolutely nothing they say is true? I mean, I’m a propagandist too, but there’s a big difference between men and them: I take pains to stick with true facts, while they peddle fantasies so bizarre they’re ruining the good names of reputable propagandists everywhere. Sheesh. They should be drummed out of the corps.
From 5,
I don’t see why this guy Hagel is such a big deal with the Republicans. After all, the guy was actually in the military, and a lot of Republicans never served a day due to draft deferments and “bad” knees. Maybe that’s what they’re mad about – Hagel has credibility when it comes to actual military service.
Bob Woodward, well known
conservativeliberal writer of the WA Post:See you leftist morons in a few months. Back to traveling the world.
7 – Travel to Pluto and stay.. We’d like that better..
@7 All of us thought you were dead. Enjoy your trip, don’t hurry back, we don’t miss you.
@8 Pluto is too damned nearby. Let’s launch him into interstellar space. Find a blank area between constellations and galaxies where there’s nothing to land on for 10 billion light years. That won’t get him out of our hair forever, but redshift will do as a temporary makeshift.
Ever hear the astronomer joke about what caused the Big Bang? It goes, “Some scientists in the universe that existed before this one decided to test their big bang theory.” Apparently the test was successful.
@8 – hahahahahahah
@ 3
Hey, libbies, if you don’t like the idea of kids being trained for war, maybe reconsider introducing bills to reinstate the draft:
Rangel wants to revive draft and include women
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/n.....9GCt17mJ1O
@ 5
I take pains to stick with true facts…
Lie of the Year, so far.
@ 6
Hagel has credibility when it comes to actual military service.
So does Bradley Manning.
Credibility comes in handy when it suits liberal talking points. Other times, military service isn’t so popular with them. Recall what Wesley clark had to say about McCain in 2008:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITI.....rk.mccain/
Recall things said about McCain that same year by Harkin (who has a personal record that should have made him think before speaking) and Rockefeller.
Boiling it down, the GOP sees Hagel as another Republican willing to give cover to Obama’s efforts to dismantle military programs they believe are worthwhile.
Hagel acts as Obama’s puppet, Obama gets to say ‘Hey, it was his decision and he’s a member of the Republican Party.’
It’s been trendy for presidents to appoint someone from the opposite party to a Cabinet post or other high-level position. Presidents from both parties have done it.
It would be interesting, after Obama’s term ends, to see Judd Gregg interviewed about the Commerce position he agreed to take, before figuring out what The One had planned for him and changing his mind about it.
@15 Republicans use words when it suits them too. They lie, steal and cheat then accuse others of doing the same, but they do it best.
This paragraph, or part of it, is trending heavily on the right-wing side of the ‘sphere today:
“The good news is, the world doesn’t end March 2. The bad news is, the world doesn’t end March 2,” said Emily Holubowich, a Washington health-care lobbyist who leads a coalition of 3,000 nonprofit groups fighting the cuts. “The worst-case scenario for us is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens. And Republicans say: See, that wasn’t so bad.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....ml?hpid=z1
I have no idea how this will turn out in the next several days, but I would point out that there aren’t a whole lot of big names, on either side of the debate, on the Sunday shows:
http://www.nationaljournal.com.....y-shows-22
Kaine and Ayotte. Not exactly either party’s clean-up hitters.
Might give one the impression that the sequester is a fait accompli.
#13. I could be in favor of the Draft for Everyone with no collage deferments or deferments for the rich and butt cysted like Limbaugh and what ever Cheny used to avoid the draft. It would cause middle class and upper middle class families to have a stake in the game of war.
It’s so much easier to be a war monger if YOUR kid has no chance of being sent to the fighting.
My father was drafted into service twice and he instilled in me, a healthy disrespect for politicians going to war.
You want to kill support for invading Iran, institute a general draft.
Let’s REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR –
As we go to meet the foe –
Let’s REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR
As we did the Alamo.
We will always remember –
how they died for liberty,
Let’s REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR
Wait. What?
Hawaii Governor warns that sequestration will make Pearl Harbor less secure
Silly Hawaiian Governor.
Doesn’t he realize that the same party dead set on having a sequester is the party that sat in the White House when the 9-11 attacks happened?
Republicans don’t give a hoot about national security or the national economy. They got theirs, tough luck to the rest of you.
Next stop…
Mike da moron @19 – Obummer created the sequester before he was against it. It’s Obummer who hates da military! That’s why he nominated Chucky Hagel!
Oh joy of joys… Soledad O’Brien will be no more on CNN. Heh heh heh!
Back to traveling…
Oh and for the hispanic jackass@8 from Pluto… Not going to visit your home ya moron!
From 15,
Actually, I think Manning did us a service by exposing just how mean our government can be. Julian Assange might be not a nice person, but holding government accountable for reprehensible behavior is fine with me.
Uh.. Where did anyone inject any mention of ethnic heritage??
Could this right wing “space cadet” be a bigot?
Heh. Almost goes without saying when it comes to right wingers.
Who the F voted for it? Teabagger House no? Was it filibustered by the Turtleman and crew in the Senate?
This “space cadet”‘s idiocy knows no bounds.
Sayeth the fool whose credulousness features the gateway pundit, hot air, the “unskewed” pollster, ad nauseum…