MSNBC: The High School Flick from Hell

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Thursday January 28, 2010 · 8:15 PM PST

2010/01/28 · 20:15

First, I watch and more or less enjoy Keith Olbermann nightly. But he's a pompous, thin-skinned asshole and anyone who can't see that is some kind of simpleton or fool. And, increasingly, he's a dangerously deranged asshole, one who can't even use the abuse of good drugs and lots of them as any kind of reasonable excuse.

Hell, even that scumbag Jon Stewart can see through this sick fraud at this point as KO's slide into madness and monomania deepens.

I'm not a big Ed "I Was a Middle-Aged Right Wing Republican Two Days Before Yesterday and Brought My Cheap Dogmatism With Me" Schultz fan, either. Or of Saint Rachel The Overrated, for that matter.

Chris Matthews, on the other hand, I'm really liking these days.

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Saturday October 31, 2009 · 7:32 AM PDT

2009/10/31 · 07:32

So there's this piece in The Guardian by Chris McGreal on the trainwreck that's shaping up in the Virginia governor's race. McGreal's no doubt a typical debauched drunk from the UK, but he gets it mostly right even if he does quote Larry Sabato. But McGreal didn't talk to The FatMackeral. What follows is a somewhat true story which unfolds in a lurid dive on the Virginia-West Virginia border called "Bukowski's." Oh, the links. Some of them are useful, too.

Yours in fear & loathing homage, Halloween 2009...

jonimbluefaninWV

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Tuesday October 27, 2009 · 6:30 PM PDT

2009/10/27 · 18:30

It didn't take 24 hours for that sell-out bastard to ruin my buzz. Which was probably the first good sustained one since the stim package passed.

Okay, or maybe the Cairo speech.

First, I'm a Democrat, same as that sociopath prick from blue-blood Connecticut used to be. So I ain't happy on that level, to say the least. But here's the deal: I work for a small business, a sleepy little country weekly newspaper in eastern, rural, working-class West Virginia.

A shoestring shop operation that qualified for that damn measly little public option. And there's not a single person in that office that either couldn't have used it or didn't outright need it...

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Saturday October 24, 2009 · 10:31 AM PDT

2009/10/24 · 10:31

Let's keep it simple stupid, huh?

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Thursday January 29, 2009 · 2:47 AM PST

2009/01/29 · 02:47

and Barack and the Congressional Democratic authors of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act get it, not so much wrong, but...less right.

I'm fired up from watching Rachel last night on MSNBC. Now that the House GOP members have marginalized themselves with their en bloc "no" vote, can we stop waving the post-partisan olive branch and improve this meta-urgent legislation?

As Rahmbo's famously said, This is a crisis too good to waste.

And this moment in history's too urgent to make flawed policy based on good intentions.

Update: This excellent diary by Gangster Octopus (a fantastic Naked Lunch-worthy name) gives the complete rundown on the report card by the American Society of Civil Engineers on the state of our American infrastructure.

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Saturday December 13, 2008 · 4:07 AM PST

2008/12/13 · 04:07

Who is preferred in kossack-land? Chris Cilizza's column provided this recent polling data:

A new Marist College survey shows Kennedy and state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo as the frontrunners -- each garnering 25 percent support from the 503 registered voters surveyed on Monday. No other candidate scored in double digits.

Among self-identified Democrats, Kennedy was the choice of 31 percent while Cuomo was the preferred option for 21 percent; the numbers were reversed among Republicans with 34 percent choosing Cuomo and 21 percent naming Kennedy.

A Public Policy Polling survey, which conducts automated interviews, put Kennedy as the clear frontrunner for the job with 44 percent while Cuomo trailed with 23 percent.

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Who Should Succeed Hillary?

284 votes Vote Now!

Who Should Succeed Hillary?

Andrew Cuomo

50 votes

Caroline Kennedy

198 votes

Other

36 votes

Dem WV Governor Sets Obama Straight on Coal Policy

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Wednesday December 10, 2008 · 5:49 AM PST

2008/12/10 · 05:49

This morning's story in the Charleston Gazette by the indispensable award-winning environmental reporter Ken Ward Jr. says:

Gov. Joe Manchin said Tuesday that he opposes President-elect Barack Obama's plan to cap greenhouse gas emissions to try to curb global warming.

Manchin said he told Obama recently that he's "on a different page" regarding Obama's proposal for a carbon dioxide emission "cap-and-trade" program. The governor said he's concerned the federal government will impose such emissions on coal-fired power plants before utilities come up with workable plans to control those emissions.

Manchin spoke during the opening session of his second annual Energy Summit, a gathering of industry officials and boosters at Stonewall Resort. The governor repeated his pledge to next year introduce legislation to encourage more alternative energy production in West Virginia. But he did not provide details of his plans, and said that alternative fuels will not replace the nation's reliance on coal.

"Coal is the cornerstone fuel of the future," Manchin said. "Every economist and expert I talk to says we're going to use it, but in a different form."

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Tuesday December 09, 2008 · 2:14 AM PST

2008/12/09 · 02:14

All he's done (seven weeks before taking office) is...propose a public works spending package of staggering size and substance. And embrace without any equivocation the Chicago door-and-window-plant workers while simultaneously calling national attention to the justness of their cause. And appoint as head of Veterans Affairs a general whose career was tossed into the crapper when he spoke the truth during the ramp-up to war in Iraq (and thus repudiated the Bush-Rumsfeld Pentagon legacy).

As the MSM television chattering classes continue tediously to manufacture accounts of a mass uprising on the Left that isn't happening--and fosters the myth that progressives are trapped in an endless political childhood (bitter, unrealistic ideologues who throw shattering tantrums when they don't get everything they want from Santa Claus)--someone needed to refuke this MSM grotesquerie.

And Guardian America's Michael Tomasky has done it

Update: Joe Klein weighed in on Tomasky's piece on Swampland. (He likes the green infrastructure spending, loves Gates at Defense.)Swampland

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Sunday November 23, 2008 · 12:43 AM PST

2008/11/23 · 00:43

Here's the NY Times story about the contenders. I'm wondering who is preferred in Kossack-land as Hillary's Senate successor from my beloved former home, the Empire State?

Update: The re-election scenarios would be interesting. In 2010, the appointee would be on the ballot to fill out the remainder of Sen. Clinton's term, which expires in 2012. Also on the ballot that year? Gov. Paterson and Chuck Schumer.

Update Two: Thanks to everyone who's voted!

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397 votes Show Results

Who Should Succeed Hillary?

397 votes Vote Now!

Who Should Succeed Hillary?

Bill

37 votes

Caroline Kennedy

89 votes

Nydia M. Valezquez

42 votes

Andrew Cuomo

68 votes

Carolyn B. Maloney

6 votes

Kirsten E. Gillibrand

25 votes

RFK, Jr.

55 votes

Nita Lowey

17 votes

Byron W. Brown

5 votes

Adolfo Carrion Jr.

0 votes

Brian Higgins

7 votes

Steve Israel

1 vote

Gregory W. Meeks

6 votes

Ashley A. Dupre

13 votes

Tina Fey

26 votes

Enough. Dump Clinton Now. Please.

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Wednesday November 19, 2008 · 3:19 PM PST

2008/11/19 · 15:19

Have to wonder if Obama and his people aren't already regretting this. What's happened to No Drama Obama? The most progressive Democratic Party battleship since the USS Woodrow Wilson suddenly is leaking like the Titanic.

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Wednesday November 12, 2008 · 4:37 AM PST

2008/11/12 · 04:37

More ammo for pushback against The Right's Kristol-izing post-election meme.

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Monday November 10, 2008 · 4:17 AM PST

2008/11/10 · 04:17

Rumor this morning, just mentioned on "Morning Joe," is that Hillary's a "dark-horse" candidate for Secretary of State.

Update: Andrea Mitchell says she's heard the rumor but hears that Hillary is uninterested. Sounds about right to me. So the question becomes: Who's planting the rumor, and why?

Update 2: Just hypothetical answers to the question posed in the update: Lanny Davis? Mark Penn? Bill?? <snark>

Update 3: So. There was something to it, after all. Hmmmm...

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