For as much as several Conservadems and basically all of the Republicans continue to run around calling Obama's 2009 stimulus bill (ARRA) a failure (or even worse), even the 2008 Republican Presidential candidate's economic adviser insists that those statements are simply untrue.

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Dishonorable Republican Hypocrisy
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PolitiFact's Lie of the Year: 'Death panels'

By Angie Drobnic Holan
Published on Friday, December 18th, 2009 at 5:15 p.m.

Of all the falsehoods and distortions in the political discourse this year, one stood out from the rest.

"Death panels."

The claim set political debate afire when it was made in August, raising issues from the role of ( Read more... )

In my opinion, Dick Cavett is a national treasure. Here's a great blog he wrote this weekend about Sarah Palin. He does mention Barack Obama in it so this isn't totally off-topic.

Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing. Three out of these five implements - answering machine, fax machine, printer, phone and ( Read more... )

Yeah, but we already knew that... it gets even better.

1) She didn't know Africa was a continent.
2) She didn't know which countries were in NAFTA / North America.

Wow! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/palin-didnt-know-africa-

G.O.P. has become the party of intoleranceYou might think, perhaps hope, that Republicans will engage in some soul-searching, that they’ll ask themselves whether and how they lost touch with the national mainstream. But my prediction is that this won’t happen any time soon ( Read more... )

Two items from the current issue of The New Yorker:

1) Sarah Palin, socialist: “we’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.”

2) The cover: "A True Scare"

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Palin calls for Senator Stevens resignation"After being found guilty on seven felony counts, I had hoped Senator Stevens would take the opportunity to do the statesman-like thing and erase the cloud that is covering his Senate seat," she said in the statement. "He has not done so. Alaskans are grateful for his decades of public service but the time ( Read more... )

"I have great respect for the senator,
and he needs to be heard across America..."

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