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| Blagojevich Holdout Juror Target of Wingnut Wrath It's well beyond the point where you can make this shit up. First they lapped our satire, and now they've lapped our worst estimates of how low they could sink. From John Cole ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 08/19/2010 | 50 | 38 | - | 42 |
| "Every time Boehner opens his mouth, we're going to mention it" The looming election seems to have sharpened the focus of White House messaging considerably. The diary title is directly from a White House official quoted ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/13/2010 | 47 | 40 | - | 49 |
| Survey USA: Clinton +10 in Minnesota. No, Donald, you're not going to win Minnesota. From the article:
* One month ago, Trump led among independent men by 20 points, now that group is tied.
* One month ago, Trump led among all independents by 6, now trails by 5.
* One month ago, Clinton led among women by 15 points, now by 20. ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/29/2016 | 47 | 29 | - | - |
| Newt Gingrich Invites Porn Exec to "Intimate Event"
Above: Gingrich in a menage a trois . H/... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/11/2009 | 46 | 16 | - | 38 |
| RNC Breaks the Law, Sends Out ANOTHER Fake Census Well, it's been exactly one month since Congress passed a law forbidding misleading political mailers designed to look ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/26/2010 | 45 | 55 | - | 68 |
| Stephanie Miller Comes Out Oh well, sad news for us straight guys and potential "future husbands". But good ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 08/13/2010 | 45 | 47 | 2 | 229 |
| A Brief History of Social Security The Social Security Act was passed in 1935. Benefits did not begin until two years ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 03/16/2010 | 42 | 35 | - | 103 |
| Trump Campaign and RNC Schedule a 'Come to Jesus' Meeting Politico is reporting that the totally-not-in-disarray Trump campaign and the RNC are going to have a serious talk:
Donald Trump’s campaign and top Republican Party officials plan what one person called a “come to Jesus” meeting on Friday in... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 08/11/2016 | 40 | 23 | - | - |
| Things You're Not Hearing from Democrats Today
You aren't hearing talk of secession :
Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/03/2010 | 39 | 48 | - | 66 |
| Notes to Self, by Sarah Palin | MeMeMeMeMe | 02/07/2010 | 38 | 27 | - | 32 |
| BREAKING: Spain Moves to Europe, Becomes U.S. Ally Great news!
Spain, which until recently had been ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/13/2009 | 37 | 23 | 1 | 52 |
| Chuck Norris Special Offer: Desecrated Flags, Only $73.50! | MeMeMeMeMe | 09/23/2009 | 36 | 11 | 1 | 69 |
| But What Will We Tell the CHILDREN??? Okay all you gay marriage advocates, I've got one question for you: just how on earth do you think you're going to explain to young children the concept of same-sex marriage? How will they ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 03/11/2010 | 35 | 17 | - | 51 |
| The Stuff Harry Reid Is Made Of
Pictured: Harry Reid's essence. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/23/2010 | 35 | 9 | - | 38 |
| It's Amazing What a Primary Challenge Will Do Senator Blanche Lincoln seems to have had a come to Jesus moment : |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/13/2010 | 33 | 31 | 1 | 62 |
| Rove Finally Admits Bush F*cked Up Katrina Well, it was a long time coming, but I'm pleased to see that Karl Rove is finally acknowledging what most of us have known all along. He's spent years defending the Bush Administration's response to ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/27/2010 | 33 | 47 | 1 | 37 |
| Another very quick look at national polls Just a follow up on teacherken’s diary of yesterday, wherein he posted a tweet from Jeff Gauvin, who tweets out the state of national polling every day. Here is today’s edition:
The average of those 14 polls is exactly 9 points, down from 9.5... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/29/2016 | 33 | 9 | - | - |
| New Poll: Tea Party Going Nowhere Fast There are many interesting things to be found in a new ABC News-Washington Post ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/05/2010 | 32 | 30 | - | 660 |
| I See BM You may have caught a brief mention of this in today's Midday open thread . Or maybe you just skimmed over it ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 07/07/2010 | 32 | 20 | 1 | 119 |
| Two More Senators Sign the Public Option Letter Add two more to the growing list: Debbie Stabenow (MI) ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 02/22/2010 | 31 | 21 | - | 31 |
| Whoa: Clinton up 4 in Alaska Never heard of this particular pollster before, and the sample size was only 400, but that may be a decent sample in Alaska.
Full report is here. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/29/2016 | 30 | 24 | - | - |
| Obama's Katrina? Not So Much, Says America This looks like yet another rightwing meme fail. A new poll is out about American's perceptions of the oil spill, and there are some encouraging numbers. We'll look at opinions on offshore drilling ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/06/2010 | 29 | 40 | - | 51 |
| Dear Mr. President: Make BP Pay More Than It Has! By now, we've all heard the news that BP has agreed to put a paltry twenty billion ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 06/16/2010 | 29 | 20 | 1 | 53 |
| Pardon me, but would you have any grey | MeMeMeMeMe | 05/08/2009 | 28 | 14 | - | 33 |
| J.P. Patches, R.I.P. There may not be many readers here (especially at this particular time of the weekend) who know what this is about, but I thought I'd share it anyway :
SEATTLE —
Chris Wedes, the loveable iconic ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 07/22/2012 | 28 | 14 | 1 | 167 |
| 'Scuse me while I whip this out | MeMeMeMeMe | 05/01/2011 | 26 | 27 | - | 193 |
| And That's What Stupid Is All About, Charlie Brown! A Tennessee mayor was so upset at having "A Charlie Brown Christmas" preempted by Obama's Afghanistan ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 12/04/2009 | 25 | 14 | - | 55 |
| GOP blames Obama for Congressional override of his veto (yes, really. Not a joke, I swear) Well folks, pack it up, head home and await the sweet meteor of death. We have reached peak “Thanks Obama”:
On Wednesday, Congress was so determined to pass a law to sue Saudi Arabia that it overrode President Barack Obama’s veto.
Let’s just... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/29/2016 | 25 | 38 | - | - |
| Margaret and Helen Strike Again From where I sit, the entire Republican Party should head to OZ – looking for a brain, a heart and a pair of testicles.
These are the words of 82-year- |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/17/2010 | 24 | 42 | - | 39 |
| PPP National: O50, R48 Our national tracking poll finds Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney 50-48 based on interviews conducted Friday-Sunday: publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/11211… — PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/04/2012 | 24 | 10 | - | - |
| Incontinence Comix Presents: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed-SUPERVILLAIN!!1 Since Republicans see the world like a comic book anyway, we might as well have some fun with it... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/15/2009 | 22 | 37 | 1 | 204 |
| Whitehouse Amendment Fails - Usury Remains Legal This is disappointing :
The Senate has rejected a proposal aimed at lowering credit card rates by ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/19/2010 | 22 | 20 | - | 156 |
| LOL - Rotten Tomatoes on New Palin Film This will be short. You've probably already heard about the new documentary The Undefeated , all about Sarah Palin, written by Sarah Palin. She ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 06/29/2011 | 22 | 36 | - | 545 |
| Paging BruinKid... There better be a BruinKid diary in the works about tonight's episode of Bill Maher , because:
On his show tonight, Bill Maher squared off with Dinesh D’Souza, the face of a new anti-Obama ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 08/31/2012 | 22 | 11 | - | 220 |
| New GNM-HRM Poll: Race Deadlocked A new poll conducted by Good News McCain Research™ on behalf of HorseRace Media has the national race tied, showing Mitt Romney trailing President Obama by only 20 points, within the poll's 30-... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/28/2012 | 22 | 33 | - | - |
| Markey to Deniers: Go Live on the Greenland Iceberg Saw this and thought it was too good not to pass along:
The Hill reports that on Saturday, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), |
MeMeMeMeMe | 08/09/2010 | 21 | 37 | 1 | 54 |
| Reid Eats His Wheaties: Calls GOP Tactics "anti-American" Whoa. We've been seeing a new and improved Harry Reid lately, |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/28/2010 | 20 | 24 | - | 27 |
| Citizens United Freaking Out Over Kagan A couple of days ago, the diary Why Kagan Makes Sense: Citizens United made the case that Obama's litmus test for Kagan was the ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/11/2010 | 20 | 23 | - | 111 |
| Nate Silver: "Gallup vs. the World" For those of you who respect Nate Silver (and I think most of us do, even when the analysis he brings is less than promising for our side), you're going to love what he has to say today about Gallup : |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/18/2012 | 20 | 43 | - | - |
| SuperShallowEgotistWithMultipleNeuroses
Um-diddle-diddle-um-diddleye
Um-diddle-diddle-um-diddleye... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/10/2009 | 19 | 12 | - | 135 |
| GOP State Senator Has Food Poisoning He ate some meat that's been hanging for years :
BUTTARS: I meet with the gays here and there. They ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/20/2009 | 19 | 10 | 1 | 120 |
| Question of the Day: Why is Economic News Always "Unexpected"? Seriously. Haven't you ever wondered that? |
MeMeMeMeMe | 03/08/2010 | 19 | 7 | - | 23 |
| GOP Candidates Got Some 'Splainin' to Do Thanks to this post at Balloon Juice , we've got a nice rundown of various GOP candidates looking like assholes on the Libya ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 08/21/2011 | 19 | 22 | 1 | 227 |
| "What I did do was have a personal computer that was hooked up to a private phone line" - Powell Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, has released an email exchange between Colin Powell and Hillary Clinton:
House Democrats late Wednesday released a full email exchange in which Colin Powell advised Hillary Clinton just after she was sworn in as... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/07/2016 | 19 | 27 | - | - |
| Smoking Gun: Vatican Ordered Cover-Up Advocates for those abused by Catholic priests may have just gotten all the proof they were ever looking for ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 01/18/2011 | 18 | 13 | - | 53 |
| South Carolina GOP Holds Nostalgic Gathering
This photo is from a gathering entitled "A Southern Experience", held by The National ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/18/2010 | 17 | 23 | - | 57 |
| Just one more data point: Nate Silver shows *improvement* for Obama Updated just a little bit ago. Yeah, it's a teeny tiny incremental improvement, but still an improvement .
• Nov. 6 forecast goes from 86.1% yesterday to 86.4% today
• Nowcast goes from 96.9% ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/04/2012 | 17 | 27 | - | 452 |
| U.K. Telegraph exclusive investigation: Donald Trump faces foreign donor fundraising scandal The UK Telegraph has done an exclusive investigation:
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is facing a fundraising scandal after a Telegraph investigation exposed how key supporters were prepared to accept illicit donations from foreign backers.... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/24/2016 | 17 | 43 | - | - |
| Snowball Launches Bid for Hell Newt Gingrich is planning a big announcement this Wednesday:
Former House ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/09/2011 | 16 | 7 | - | 112 |
| That's it, we're done. We win. Barack Obama just won the election.
Bill Kristol has declared Mitt Romney the winner of tonight's debate:
Mitt Romney is more than holding his own with Barack Obama tonight.
That's Bill Kristol. ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/22/2012 | 16 | 19 | - | - |
| Meet the Minerals Management Service Today you may have heard that President Obama made some remarks about the ongoing oil spill. In ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/15/2010 | 15 | 24 | - | 42 |
| When Obama Calls a Late Night Press Conference | MeMeMeMeMe | 09/17/2012 | 15 | 35 | - | 382 |
| Can We Talk??? How silly has airport security gotten? This silly:
Joan Rivers was among the many travelers to get snared in the ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 01/05/2010 | 14 | 5 | - | 10 |
| The Statute of Liberty
Are you ready for an American history ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 06/01/2011 | 14 | 20 | - | 108 |
| 'Register to vote' Google searches double after Obama speech Diary title shamelessly stolen from this story on MSNBC :
Google reported that searches for "register to vote" doubled nationwide in the moments directly following Obama's speech. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/08/2012 | 14 | 30 | - | 211 |
| GOP Nominates Someone Nuttier Than Angle You've probably heard of Sharron Angle . She's been nominated by her party to challenge Harry Reid for his Senate seat in Nevada. ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 06/22/2010 | 13 | 17 | - | 31 |
| Atlas Begged "For America to compete effectively, businesses must work with local, state and federal entities.''
That was our Galtian hero, John Aglialoro, producer and ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/27/2011 | 13 | 25 | - | 143 |
| ZEE-ROH Zee-Roh. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/05/2012 | 13 | 10 | - | 227 |
| Harry F@cking Reid Preach:
In the name of decency, Republicans should admit that this deviant - this sociopath - cannot be president.
Please read the entire thing. It is beautiful. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/07/2016 | 13 | 45 | - | - |
| Fox News is on it... Have no fear, Republicans, Fox News is here!
All ya'll wingnuts chill the fuck out...Fox has got this! |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/05/2012 | 12 | 10 | - | 161 |
| Carbon Unit Josh Romney at Debate
Prepare to initiate jump to applause subroutine. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/17/2012 | 12 | 17 | 1 | - |
| BofA and Wells Fargo Rush to Beat Wikileaks Looks like they're cutting a deal :
U.S. regulators may ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 02/25/2011 | 11 | 18 | - | 208 |
| Could Financial Reform Actually Break Up the Banks? It's a slim hope, but it's at least possible.
As mentioned in ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/21/2010 | 10 | 12 | - | 41 |
| Unemployment: Obama vs. Reagan The next time a wingnut starts shouting at you about Obama's poor employment record, you might want to share a few of these charts with them:
Reagan:
Obama:
Note the unemployment rate when each ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/05/2012 | 10 | 18 | 2 | 87 |
| Trump finally tells the truth... Talking Points Memo is reporting that Trump has finally agreed to three debates with Hillary Clinton:
“I will absolutely do three debates,” Trump said in a phone interview with Time.
He also made a promise that, for once, he is sure to... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 08/09/2016 | 10 | 14 | - | - |
| Real Financial Reform Just Got More Likely Three strong candidates for the Federal Reserve Board have long been rumored, but now President Obama ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/29/2010 | 9 | 30 | - | 36 |
| Break-ins and arson: STUNNING U.S. Attorney news [UPDATED] From Raw Story . See the disgusting details below the fold. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/01/2008 | 8 | 31 | 1 | 29 |
| Support the GOP's Plan to Strengthen Wall Street Reform No, that's not a misprint. And I attest that I am of sound mind and body.
Just what, you ask, is their plan? |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/21/2010 | 8 | 10 | - | 20 |
| Ebert on the Prescott Mural If you have a few minutes, you might want to read this extraordinary essay by the ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 06/07/2010 | 6 | 21 | 2 | 30 |
| Last Word I got the last word. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 02/12/2011 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 44 |
| Curveball Admits He Was Lying Who could have foreseen , etc. etc.:
The defector who convinced the White House that Iraq had ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 02/15/2011 | 4 | 10 | - | 94 |
| Following polls and GOTV are not mutually exclusive activities Just thought I'd get that out there. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/26/2012 | 3 | - | - | - |
| Trump's birther event in its entirety | MeMeMeMeMe | 09/16/2016 | 3 | 3 | - | - |