That McCarthyite dolt from Minnesota, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, has struck again by announcing in an interview with KLTK yesterday (reported in the local City Paper) that her qualms about Obama's spending bill-overspending, says she-have led her to believe "we're running out of rich people in this country ( Read more... )

I'd tend to call it the less-weighty "transition" rather than "interregnum," but he has the right of it and hey, Paul Krugman just won a Nobel in economics, so pay attention:

Everyone’s talking about a new New Deal, for obvious reasons. In 2008, as in 1932, a long era of Republican political dominance came to an end in the face of an economic and ( Read more... )

The message is slowly trickling through the Republicans' attempts to hide it: Obama's tax plan really is the best for 95% of Americans ( Read more... )

Sarah Palin likes to sing a song of six-packs, but she doesn't do so without criticism. The aptly named copperwise has responded here:

Sarah Palin et al. like to call us "Joe Six-Pack," and they think we like it too. They think it sounds folksy and homey and cute ( Read more... )

Dear American ( Read more... )