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Vice President Joe Biden’s communications director Jay Carney is expected to be named the new White House Press Secretary, likely on Friday when a series of other big staff moves will be announced by President Obama, according to a senior Democratic source familiar with the process. A carney? What a political CIRCUS. Har har har [...]
That tremendous waste of resources known as the “Homeland Security Advisory System,” a color-coded chart letting you know how many times you will be murdered by a terrorist today, is finally being phased out by the Obama administration. It’s a sad day for fear. That chart may look like the keys on a toddler’s xylophone, [...]
Though he is currently leading landslidingly in the polls, Rahm Emanuel is no longer eligible to run for mayor of Chicago, because an appellate court ruled 2-1 that he did not meet residency requirements because he did not, you know, reside there. This will be appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court, of course, which hopefully [...]
Oh for Christ’s sake: “Sen. John McCain, R-AZ, tells CNN he believes his good friend Joe Lieberman would make a good defense secretary for President Obama, calling him ‘one of the most informed members of the Senate on national security issues and homeland security issues.’” How helpful of him! You know, just the other day [...]
We did it, you guys! We defeated Robert Gibbs with our restless coverage of his LEGO-based terrorism when there was nothing else to write about last week! Yes, Mr. Robert Lane Gibbs, famed White House press secretary, is leaving the White House forever, to go work in an actual building like an actual professional member [...]
Your editor thinks it was adorable when young Riley Waggaman said this morning that “Democrats win” on this whole tax cut thing, because c’mon, Riley, even Democrats themselves don’t think that. You are Thinking Progress too much. According to Dick Durbin, Nancy Pelosi, and “many other House and Senate Democrats,” that strange, menacing smoke monster [...]
With the news out today that the nation’s unemployment rate has hit its highest point in months, it was obviously the perfect occasion for the Obama administration to get out in the media and brag about how well they’re doing. Thus, Austan Goolsbee, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, sat down with John Harwood [...]
Democrats in Congress were too afraid even to try to pass an extension of the Bush tax cuts for the middle class before the election, because Republicans saying anything at all about Democrats and taxes is very scary! Of course, Republicans still used this anyway, because they have no problem turning anything and everything into [...]
The New York Times posted an article last night entitled “Obama Advisers Weigh Ad Assault Against the GOP,” which detailed the Democratic Party’s plan to propagate the notion that Teabagger ideas have taken over the Republican Party, based on unnamed sources. So, hey, welcome to the show! Your librul media has been sort of doing [...]
