Found this blog via Balloon Juice, which led me to this article:Last year saw major street demonstrations in London and Greece; this year Tunis, Egypt and Yemen. For years, Paris has played host to various strikes and protests. Many of these were initiated and fueled by social networking sites and other iInternet resources.

Why then, with an ( Read more... )

I'll be over here, sending my tax cuts to Planned Parenthood.

At least my congressman Rush Holt is safe for another 2 years. But it was pretty dicey.

Representative John Murtha, aged 77, has died due to complications from surgery.

The poor old guy.

Oh man, this is going to release a deluge of crap in his district that's going to make Massachusetts look like an 8th-grade election for class president.

Found via Balloon Juice. If you get past the dirty words in Matt Taibbi's blog post on True Slant, you find gems like this:

Anyway this teabag thing has really gotten out of control. It’s amazing, literally amazing to me, that it wasn’t until Obama pushed through a package containing a massive public works package and significant homeowner aid ( Read more... )

Thanks to Mr. David Shuster for pointing out this Kevin Drum post on Mother Jones:

Like everyone else, I was amused when Texas Governor Rick Perry, a Republican, requested help from the CDC with swine flu medication just a week or so after he said that the "federal government has become oppressive" and that if Texans started considering seceding ( Read more... )

Steve Benen discusses the significance of the switch over on the Washington Monthly blog.

Me, I'm still trying to pick my jaw up off the floor.

Hooooooooly shit.

Specter To Switch Parties

Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter will switch his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat and announced today that he will run in 2010 as a Democrat, according to a statement he released this morning.

Specter's decision would give Democrats a 60 seat filibuster proof majority in the Senate assuming ( Read more... )

McConnell: GOP becoming 'regional party'
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a blunt warning to Republicans Thursday: Their party must regain lost supporters plus blacks, Hispanics and voters on both coasts - or risk becoming a permanent minority party with a limited power base ( Read more... )

I love this story!!! From WaPo:

It was billed as the biggest, most eye-popping of the inauguration hotel packages: the JW Marriott's $1 million "build-your-own-ball" offer. You get 300 rooms, four suites, $200,000 worth of food and drink, and a primo site overlooking the Pennsylvania Avenue parade route.
And it was snapped up within hours of ( Read more... )

Via Balloon Juice:

This is, quite honestly, the first semi-sane thing I have seen written at Red State in several years:

We Lost Because We Suck: There’s no conspiracy, really.
So, we have this great big circular firing squad going about whether to purge moderates, or socons, or fiscons, or libertarians, or Methodists, whatever. No, Virginia, there ( Read more... )