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This was the moment—this was the time—when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals. That man is an absolutely electrifying speaker. My god.
GQ has an article about Rahm Emmanuel, Illinois Congressman and one of the architects of the Democratic Party’s November triumph, and the state of histrionics the party elite found itself in during the waning weeks of the campaign: Rahm delivers a...
A great article on the microcosm that is the Senator-only elevators on Capitol Hill is to be found at the New York Times today. A few particularly amusing anecdotes are shared about the elevator, including these two about my beloved Minnesotans: S...
You know your Presidency is screwed when Bill Clinton polls better on honesty than you. Yeah, I know that the actual results fall within the polls margin of error, but it’s a pretty bad sign that they’re ranked equally in this category. Everyone a...
How can you not love a scandal with this name? Porter Goss, the unqualified CIA director, resigned unexpectedly today in events that appear linked to the Duke Cunningham bribery and hooker scandal. Party of morals and family values indeed.
Taken from the transcript at Daily Kos: Now, I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don’t pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that refle...
Stodgy Seattle corporate law firm, Perkins Coie, is defending Osama Bin Laden’s former bodyguard and chauffeur. The rationale: Yes, they’re helping a suspected terrorist. But it’s not an example of “you’re with us or you’re with them.” It’s what m...
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serv...
Every now and then, someone on Slashdot actually does say something useful: I personally look forward to the day when the GOP has something to do with, you know, conservatism again. “Spend responsibly” rolls off the tounge better than “constant w...
Ruy Texiera has an interesting analysis of El Presidente’s first hundred days in his second term: The President’s miscalculation that a 2.5 percent margin of victory in the popular vote constitutes a mandate for trashing the New Deal’s most popula...
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