The Lying Liars

Just plain making up the news. Ayers and Wright have not visited the White House - just people with the same names. That didn't stop Drudge, Goldfarb, Morrissey, and Mary Katherine Hamm from jumping on the fake story. BUSTED.



Source: Andrew Sullivan

The Cheney Family Values

Lawrence O'Donnell takes on the disgusting Cheney family. A Chickenhawk father and a chickenshit daughter.

Saluting the fallen dead upsets the Cheney's. Think on that.

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Source: http://www.realitychex.com/

Fox = Shitty Opinions Wrapped In Fear Spread As "News"

The Fox Opinion is on 15 hours a day. Fox News is on 9 hours a day. That is by their own admission.

Can you tell the difference?

Jon Stewart has the goods.



Source: MediaMatters

Public Option Trumps Bipartisanship

More and more Americans prefer a Bill with a Public Option than a Bipartisan one.

"Americans by 51-37 percent in this latest ABC News/Washington Post poll say they’d rather see a plan pass Congress without Republican support, if it includes a public option based on affordability, than with Republican backing but no such element."

Republicans need to get out of the way. The old way of "divide and conquer" fear politics is over. You tried it, you failed. This is not a race to the bottom.

Source: ABC News

Reduces The Deficit? GOP Will Be Against It

Democrats are the Party of fiscal responsibility. End of story.

The House reform bill passes the CBO with flying colors. Not only does the bill qualify below the president's $900 billion price tag, but it also reduces the federal budget deficit by $104 billion over ten years, according to the official word from the CBO. That's better than the Senate Finance bill which only reduced the deficit by $81 billion.

It's also worth mentioning that a "robust" public option would've made for a cheaper bill.

Why are Republicans against lowering the deficit? We all know the answer. Dick "Deficits Don't Matter" Cheney punk'd his boytoy George Bush for 8 years spending on everything in sight while borrowing to pay for it. The Conservatives are the personification of debt.

We learned our lesson, now don't forget it. Republicans do not want to govern, they want to control.

Source: Bob Cesca

The Mob That Wasn't

Just as support for the Public Option is higher than ever, you get news from the other side. The mob that wasn't meets the "government takeover" of health care that wasn't. Pelosi Bill met with about 10 protesters. Yet another teabagger FAIL.

"Tea Party" activists tried to organize a "flash mob" to protest at the Capitol this morning, when House Democrats unveiled their health care reform bill. By most estimates, about 10 right-wing activists showed up.

One Northern Virginia Teabagger, Joann Abbott, a grandmother, said, "If this is organized, we suck."

What are the chances this Grandmother is on some form of government-run health care?

Source: Washington Monthly

Call 'Em Out: Sarah Palin Edition

Palin has no use for empirical evidence, it's all pure politics. Honesty is but a shadow. Her base loves her for that.



Andrew Sullivan: The list of all her lies is here.

True Cost Of War

The true cost of war. Obama honored the return of 18 fallen Americans Thursday at Dover Air Force Base. The dramatic image of a president on the tarmac was a portrait not witnessed in years. An 18-year ban on such coverage was lifted this year under Obama's watch.

The naysayers and Righties will have their opinions, but this is how a President represents his country and reminds himself, as well as all of us, how important one life is. Who else could have spread this message?

Obama's respectfulness and innate decency

threatens his foes. You can't blame the guy for taking the matter head on, either. You don't see him hiding on his "ranch".



Source: HuffPo

Troops Maybe, But More Education: Yes

Making the case for more schools and less troops in his Thursday column:

"It’s hard to do the calculation precisely, but for the cost of 40,000 troops over a few years — well, we could just about turn every Afghan into a Ph.D." -- Nicholas Kristof

The butter versus bullets scenario of how to occupy another country is teaching us again and again, people need something to live for that the military can't supply. Not to say they are our next big trade partner, but stability in that region means something to the world.

Kristof adds:

"In short, there is still vast scope for greater investment in education, health and agriculture in Afghanistan. These are extraordinarily cheap and have a better record at stabilizing societies than military solutions, which, in fact, have a pretty dismal record."

And if someone does not educate these people, the hateful fundamentalist groups will. Denying the importance of education is guaranteeing the next generation of opposition. The Islamic Wahhabi extremists offer scholarships for the best pupils to study abroad before returning to become leaders of their communities. How do you counter that?

Source: NYT

Bush's "Get Motivated" Seminar Over-priced At $4.95

Lifelong mediocre guy and selfish moral blank George W. Bush's "Get Motivated" seminar sounds great, too bad I couldn't afford the prestigious $4.95 admission fee. As Stephen Colbert said, "what am I, made of nickels?"

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