Wonkette (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Chris Matthews, he’s goin’ nuts. Meh. Most of the “issues” on this laundry list are trivial, gossipy tabloid fodder. The only Serious policy item would have to be, in Tweety’s words, “Why DID he bow to that Japanese emperor?” It’s unclear which of the Japanese emperors he’s referring to. [YouTube] Chris Matthews - Dick Cheney - YouTube - History...
Emptywheel (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Mary has already linked to this article on how and why Greg Craig got thrown out in comments. But I wanted to make sure everyone read it. The short version of the timeline it describes is: April 16: Obama releases the torture memos April 17: Greg Craig moves to release Uighurs in US April 20: Dick Cheney says [...]
Don Surber (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Chris Matthews of MSNBC chastised Barack Obama for dithering on Afghanistan. Dick Cheney has succeeded in labeling Obama as a ditherer. As for Matthews, well, B.B. King said it best…
Blog For Arizona (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: First, some background. The Washington Post reported that one of former Vice President Dick Cheney’s daughters, Mary, was “leaving the political consulting firm Navigators Global to start her own consulting company.” Though one of Mary’s friends told...
Right As Usual (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
I found these on IMAO: SLOGANS FOR DICK CHENEY IN 2012 “I know what the hell I’m doing.” “You’d rather me on your side than against you.” “Experience, leadership, normal-sized ears.” “I shoot my friends in the face with a shotgun. What do you think I’ll do to America’s enemies'” “I’m what the Mayans predicted.”...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
A tall American visits a Japanese man and his wife, both shorter than him, for dinner. They receive him on the steps of their home, and the guest greets his host by shaking his hands and bowing low at the same time. Then they all go in and have dinner. This, rather unremarkable, display of good manners would have been quite forgotten by now had the guest not been the American president and his hosts...
They gave us a republic (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
From Digby, Turkey Day Talking Points for liberals breaking bread with wingnut freakazoid relatives: Campaign For America's Future does yeoman's work on many important issues, most recently their campaign to bring back America's manufacturing base. They are committed progressives who put their time and effort into making the country better for average people every day. But for all the important things...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
On Friday night's "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, MSNBC host Matthews took a page out of Dick Cheney's book and accused the president of "dithering" over Afghanistan. "President Obama has his chin out on just about every hot issue out there. Health care. Terror trials. Job losses." Matthews began. He then launched a series of aggressive questions going after many of the...
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | yesterday
Circus Circus by digby Republican strategis Cheri Jacobs said on MSNBC that the KSM trial will be a "referendum on torture." If only. Evidently, she was riffing on her piece this morning in The Hil l in which she compared KSM to OJ Simpson and accused the Obama administration of having the trials in NYC in order to get a liberal jury to acquit Khalid Sheik Mohammed because they hate Bush...
The Liberal Doomsayer (Free subscription) | yesterday
(And I also posted here about a political matter close to home.) As I noted yesterday, “Holy Joe” Lieberman decided to hold his Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on the Fort Hood shootings. And as noted here, he had a hard time getting people to testify ( awwww )… Mr. Lieberman’s hearing made only limited headway because the Obama administration has refused his requests...
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | yesterday
DOWNLOADS: (1263) PLAYS: (3805) Every time we run a Glenn Beck post, someone trolls into the comments and asks, "Why bother with this guy? We should just ignore him! Post more videos on [insert name of preferred progressive figure here]!" We'd like to refer them to this week's special report from the ADL on the rise of populist anti-government rage, the one that officially dubbed Beck our...
CANNONFIRE (Free subscription) | yesterday
I am no fan of Barack Obama. I would have preferred a McCain victory in 2008. And I wrote posts critical of ACORN during primary season. Even so, I cannot freaking believe the latest polls: The majority of Republicans -- and some 26 percent of the overall electorate -- think that ACORN stole the election for Obama . By comparison, only 13 percent of the country thinks that vote fraud helped propel...
Kevin Drum - Mother Jones (Free subscription) | yesterday
Time has an interesting tick-tock this week about Greg Craig, the White House lawyer tasked with dismantling Bush-era interrogation and detention policies. At first, Obama was on board with Craig's plans. Then, reality set in. Here he is deciding whether to release a set of "torture memos" last spring: Obama arrived at [Rahm] Emanuel's office a few minutes later, took off his windbreaker...
Salon.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The best-kept secret in Washington has nothing to do with nuclear codes or Dick Cheney's undisclosed location. It's this: Al Gore is actually pretty funny. Funny enough, in fact, that he managed to raise a daughter who wrote for "Futurama." (Also "Saturday Night Live," but let's just forgive her for that.) Gore does pop up now and then doing cameos in various comedies -- like Thursday...
Delaware Liberal (Free subscription) | yesterday
“Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne Cheney, welcomed their seventh grandchild, Sarah Lynne Cheney, Wednesday, November 18, 2009. She weighed 6 lbs., 14 oz and was born at 8:17 A.M. at Sibley Hospital in Washington, D.C. Her parents are the Cheney’s daughter Mary and her partner, Heather Poe.” Her parents [...]
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