No sense of shame

For those wondering what a Hillary Clinton presidency would be like,

This video by Ezra Klein is very insightful:

I wish this was far far from the truth...

The mic was broken, the mediator was asking unfair questions, and Hillary was mean, and he was being so nice by not mentioning Bill's infidelities....

The good, the bad and the sad

The list of nakedly corrupt practices by Donald Trump is long, but not as fun as hitting Clinton.

Via Steve Bates, The Guardian keeps track (tries to keep up with) Trump's lies.

The story of the woman in the Brussels airport bombing.

Scientists ride in to the rescue of a bullied little girl who loves bugs.

Clinton and Benghazi?

What the Rude Pundit said.

This and that

Because reasons.

Ted Rall for president ... of France!

What fracking does.

Who owns your food.

Transparency in corporate campaign cash.  And Congress sells out again for cash.

The Civil War was about slavery.  No matter how many times you try to revise history.

Speak to the hand... Dr. Hand.

Taking away women's right to vote.  Because women can't be trusted.

Hillary Clinton answers a question about abortion.  Anti-rape garments for women because US men can't control themselves?

How many days the Congress plans to 'work' next year.

How to disappear completely.

Confetti News

A gay couple's take on the Chik-Fil-A rumpus.

Chris Hayes and his show UP with Chris Hayes.  One of the best ones out there.

Texts from Hillary.

What's involved with the newest Mars landing.

What has Romney NOT lied about?

Private prisons, public money.

Hillary Clinton

In a wonderfully light moment with Australian comedians.

Clinton flexes some impressive muscle

Talking Points Memo:

Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) get smacked around.

If you hear the dogs, keep going.

If you see the torches in the woods, keep going.

If they're shouting after you, keep going.

Don't ever stop. Keep going.

If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.

Even in the darkest of moments, ordinary Americans have found the faith to keep going.

Thank you, Hillary, for giving the speech of your life.



The pundits could not find anything negative to say.

Frank Rich

Assures us the Democrats are not unraveling over the silliness of flag pins, Pastor Wright, nor bittergate, and that McBush should be careful not to get complacent:

Mr. McCain is not only burdened with the most despised president in his own 71-year lifetime, but he’s getting none of the seasoning that he, no less than the Democrats, needs to compete in the fall. Age is as much an issue as race and gender in this campaign. Mr. McCain will have to prove not merely that he can keep to the physical rigors of his schedule and fend off investigations of his ties to lobbyists and developers. He also must show he can think and speak fluently about the domestic issues that are gripping the country. Picture him debating either Democrat about health care, the mortgage crisis, stagnant middle-class wages, rice rationing at Costco. It’s not pretty.

Last week found Mr. McCain visiting economically stricken and “forgotten” communities (forgotten by Republicans, that is) in what his campaign bills as the “It’s Time for Action Tour.” It kicked off in Selma, Ala., a predominantly black town where he confirmed his maverick image by drawing an almost exclusively white audience.

The “action” the candidate outlined in the text of his speeches may strike many voters as running the gamut from inaction to inertia. Mr. McCain vowed that he would not “roll out a long list of policy initiatives.” (He can’t, given his long list of tax cuts.) He said he would not bring back lost jobs, lost wages or lost houses. But, as The Birmingham News reported, this stand against government bailouts for struggling Americans didn’t prevent his campaign from helping itself to free labor underwritten by taxpayers: inmates from a local jail were recruited to set up tables and chairs for a private fund-raiser.

The Democrats’ unending brawl may be supplying prime time with a goodly share of melodrama right now, but there will be laughter aplenty once the Republican campaign that’s not ready for prime time emerges from the wings.

I'm ready to laugh!













crossposted at SteveAudio

Friday Cat Blogging

In honor of the eternal Democratic primaries...

Oh, grow up!

Still obsessing over the blue dress? After HOW many years?

Via Susie Madrak of Suburban Guerrilla, ABC's Brian Ross drools in delight over Hillary Clinton's presence on the day of the 'blue dress incident'.

Is this where Brian Ross wishes to dwell? Is this where he is most comfortable? Back in the glory days of the Clinton smear campaign, baying at the head of the hounds? Was that his finest hour that he must return to the pitiful bones and gnaw at them once again?

There is a lot to say over those who obsess over other people's sex lives, but pawing over the Clinton's exposes a great deal more about the writer than about the long ago sex act. It offers nothing new.

So... who cares?

Because it worked so well for Georgie

Bill Kristol recommends using the fear part of the Hate and Fear Republican Party tactics to Hillary Clinton:

This morning on Fox News Sunday, New York Times columnist Bill Kristol recommended that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) employ the “politics of fear” to attack Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL):

KRISTOL: [Obama’s] riding a wave of euphoria. She [Clinton] needs to puncture it. The way you puncture euphoria is reality, or to be more blunt, fear. I recommend to Senator Clinton the politics of fear.

Lessee.... Bush is polling at 19%. There are more than twice as many Democratic voters as Republican voters coming out for this campaign. People have begun to figure out that hate and fear aren't reality but just a very unpleasant state of mind. People are sick of dirty politics. People are really sick of negative politics. Hillary Clinton was booed when she tried to go negative on Barack Obama.

And Bill Kristol is a Neocon Rovian smirkfest.



So... tell us again why this man is getting air time?

Dammit.

I had been hoping he'd hang in there for Super Tuesday:

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Democrat John Edwards bowed out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday, saying it was time to step aside "so that history can blaze its path" in a campaign now left to Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.

"With our convictions and a little backbone we will take back the White House in November," said Edwards, ending his second campaign in a hurricane-ravaged section of New Orleans where he began it more than a year ago.

Edwards said Clinton and Obama had both pledged that "they will make ending poverty central to their campaign for the presidency."

"This is the cause of my life and I now have their commitment to engage in this cause," he said before a small group of supporters. He was joined by his wife Elizabeth and his three children, Cate, Emma Claire and Jack.

I'm really tired of the media tweaking the truth to get a 'two man race' and blathering about gender and race while ignoring Edwards. A really good example was on the Republican side where they frothed about Romney, McCain and Giuliani. Giuliani, who was polling LOWER than Ron Paul, yet they ignored Paul altogether.

Haven't we learned anything in the last horrible eight years? Tell us the facts and let us make up our own minds.

The ugliness of hate and ignorance

Exposed:
Roger Stone has decided calling Hillary Clinton a cunt is hilarious. This exposes him as a misogynistic homophobic deeply closeted Neanderthal. Don't believe me?

Take a look at his picture. There's something really really wrong with the guy.

And speaking of brain rot:

Topeka, KS (CNS) - One religious group took Brokeback Mountain personally. Reverend Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church has reportedly been urging people to "picket" recently deceased actor Heath Ledger's funeral because of his participation in the film Brokeback Mountain.

The church group apparently feels no compassion for the actor for playing a "fag" in the movie. The multi-awarded 2005 drama film is a story about two men's sexual relationship with each other in the American West.

"Yes! WBC will picket this pervert's funeral, in religious protest and warning," a flyer, which reportedly is being passed around, reads. It then goes on to include bible verses and claims "God Hates Fags! & Fag-Enablers!"

The leaflet concludes with "Heath Ledger is now in Hell, and has begun serving his eternal sentence there - beside which, nothing else about Heath Ledger is relevant or consequential."

Wingnuts, Republicans, haters, and warmongers. They all deserve each other.

When a bloated gasbag meets a pin

The amazing adventures of Chris Matthews and the blogswarm.

Does Chris Matthews cross his legs

And put his hands protectively in his lap when he's talking about Hillary?

Because he sure is scared of her.

Georgie must be really pleased

That his dad and Bill have bonded so...

ORANGEBURG, South Carolina (CNN) – Former President Bill Clinton said Monday that the first thing his wife Hillary will do when she reaches the White House is dispatch him and his predecessor, President George H.W. Bush, on an around-the-world mission to repair the damage done to America's reputation by the current president — Bush's son, George W. Bush.

"Well, the first thing she intends to do, because you can do this without passing a bill, the first thing she intends to do is to send me and former President Bush and a number of other people around the world to tell them that America is open for business and cooperation again," Clinton said in response to a question from a supporter about what his wife's "number one priority" would be as president.