Posting History for MeMeMeMeMe
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| 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 |
| Obama unveils new G.I. Bill (includes full remarks) President Obama this morning rolled out something that has been long overdue: ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 08/03/2009 | 98 | 192 | 1 | 53 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Asimov Tells Moyers About the Internet This diary is presented with little comment. I apologize in advance if this 1989 interview of genius Isaac Asimov by Bill Moyers has been posted here before. I frankly didn't take the trouble to ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/31/2010 | 58 | 36 | 1 | 52 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| GOP Chair: Obama Changes Non-Existent Speech...VICTORY!1! About a week ago, we all learned of the latest bit of ripe insanity to emit ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/07/2009 | 59 | 21 | - | 49 |
| "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 |
| CPAC: More Republican Presidents Become Un-Persons Last week, I wrote this diary about the 1956 Republican Party platform; about how, by today's admittedly ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 02/21/2010 | 64 | 46 | 1 | 48 |
| The Scozzafava Purge: I Got Your PURITY For Ya The brilliant Roy Edroso of alicublog regularly does the dirty work that most of us shun: he actually reads the wingnutosphere. I mean ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/02/2009 | 54 | 27 | 2 | 47 |
| Remember Tucker Carlson? Me Neither | MeMeMeMeMe | 03/22/2010 | 88 | 51 | 1 | 46 |
| Obama Slams Massey Mining (With Video) President Obama delivered some remarks this morning on the West Virginia coal mine disaster and about mine safety in general, and I was pleased to see that he didn't refrain ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/15/2010 | 63 | 65 | - | 46 |
| Last Word I got the last word. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 02/12/2011 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 44 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Latest Rightwing Complaint: Taxes Are Too Low No, that's not a typo. In their endless quest to put a negative spin on anything Obama does, the rightwing noise machine is now bitching about the following AP story, ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/08/2010 | 68 | 35 | - | 39 |
| 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 |
| Newt Gingrich Invites Porn Exec to "Intimate Event"
Above: Gingrich in a menage a trois . H/... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/11/2009 | 46 | 16 | - | 38 |
| The Far Right is Arming and Organizing The Southern Poverty Law Center , which has been monitoring rightwing hate groups for 40 years, has ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 03/02/2010 | 179 | 56 | - | 38 |
| Fox Outdoes Itself. Again. Oh man, just when you think they can't dial up the paranoia any more, along ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/07/2010 | 74 | 48 | 1 | 38 |
| The Stuff Harry Reid Is Made Of
Pictured: Harry Reid's essence. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/23/2010 | 35 | 9 | - | 38 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Pardon me, but would you have any grey | MeMeMeMeMe | 05/08/2009 | 28 | 14 | - | 33 |
| Notes to Self, by Sarah Palin | MeMeMeMeMe | 02/07/2010 | 38 | 27 | - | 32 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| January, 2010: "the hottest January we've ever seen" Pssst, don't tell the climate change deniers, but despite the fact that parts of the world had a colder-than-average winter, the planet as a whole somehow still managed to ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 03/01/2010 | 87 | 41 | - | 29 |
| 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 |
| Question of the Day: Why is Economic News Always "Unexpected"? Seriously. Haven't you ever wondered that? |
MeMeMeMeMe | 03/08/2010 | 19 | 7 | - | 23 |
| Glenn Beck: Hey Jesus, Get Out of My Bible! A few months ago when I diaried about a wingnut movement to rewrite the Bible to ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 03/09/2010 | 60 | 37 | 1 | 23 |
| Bill O'Reilly comments on Franken's victory | MeMeMeMeMe | 01/03/2009 | 137 | 151 | 4 | 21 |
| Joe the Plumber: Cub Reporter [with poll!] Samuel Joseph "Jimmy Olsen" Wurzelbacher has attacked a new career. And along with it, the future of satire.
Via Think ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 01/11/2009 | 56 | 18 | 1 | 21 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Tell me I'm worrying about nothing In a diary earlier today entitled Howard Dean on the Process Moving Forward , diarist lowkell quotes Howard Dean on NPR discussing ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 03/05/2008 | 85 | 10 | 1 | - |
| Holy Crap, Martin Bashir: Romney "More falsehoods than the Father of Lies" Call it what you will... brutal takedown , evisceration, gutting, whatever. MSNBC's Martin Bashir has a few things on his mind. From the video:
Romney: I've got five boys. I'm used to people saying ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/11/2012 | 92 | 209 | 2 | - |
| Carbon Unit Josh Romney at Debate
Prepare to initiate jump to applause subroutine. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/17/2012 | 12 | 17 | 1 | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| CNN Oh SNAP: O 48, R 40 [Update: CNN confirms Obama win by declaring it "a draw"] Just in from CNN :
BREAKING: Results of CNN-ORC post-debate poll of debate watchers. Who won debate? Obama 48, Romney 40. +/- 4.5% #CNNDebate
If this snap poll had the same heavily Republican ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/22/2012 | 66 | 32 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| MARIST NV: Obama 50, Romney 47. [More polls added] Overall a pretty good polling day for Obama. Would like to see Colorado less tight, of course.
NBC First Read :
The race between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney is locked ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/25/2012 | 132 | 23 | - | - |
| Following polls and GOTV are not mutually exclusive activities Just thought I'd get that out there. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/26/2012 | 3 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Reason #26 to be optimistic: Nate Silver rises to 77.4% [+bonus good news] Wed. AM Update : Wang rises! Sam Wang's prediction now at 318 electoral votes, see below.
Nate Silver's latest prediction , as of T-minus 6 days before the election, is a 77.4% chance of Obama ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/30/2012 | 262 | 324 | 3 | - |
| What happened? Where am I? I think I suffered some kind of blackout. It's like the last few hours just...disappeared. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/02/2012 | 124 | 67 | - | - |
| Pew: O+3 [And Nate adds his 2¢] O 50, R 47.
Obama Gains Edge in Campaign’s Final Days, 50% to 47% over Romney pewrsr.ch/Tsny9I twitter.com/pewresearch/st… — Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/04/2012 | 179 | 203 | 6 | - |
| PPP Virginia: O+4 Our final Virginia poll finds Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney 51-47 — PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) November 5, 2012
Bonus:
Our final Virginia Senate poll finds Tim Kaine leading George ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/04/2012 | 55 | 41 | 2 | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Jimmy Carter's grandson strikes again You probably remember back in September when Jimmy Carter's grandson, James Carter IV, was instrumental in digging up and helping publicize Romney's 47% video . We all enjoyed the poetic justice of ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/13/2012 | 260 | 929 | 29 | - |
| New wingnut complaint: Obama is too Christian No, of course I'm not joking. Have you learned nothing? Satire is dead, and wingnuts continue to dance on its grave.
Drudge is flogging a column in Investor's Business Daily that whines about how ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 12/03/2012 | 106 | 127 | 1 | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| "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 | - | - |
| Trump's birther event in its entirety | MeMeMeMeMe | 09/16/2016 | 3 | 3 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Breaking NYT: Yet another story of Trump sexual misconduct Nicholas Kristoff had originally scheduled this story for Sunday, but decided to move it up to today for obvious reasons:
JILL HARTH’S first concern with Donald Trump’s hands wasn’t that they were small. It’s that they were everywhere.
Harth... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/07/2016 | 229 | 269 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| GOP office in NC firebombed. Trump responds about as you'd expect A GOP office in Hillsborough, North Carolina was firebombed last night:
A GOP office in Hillsborough, North Carolina, was firebombed overnight, with a swastika and the words "Nazi Republicans get out of town or else" spray painted on an adjacent... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/16/2016 | 273 | 152 | - | - |
| PPP North Carolina: Clinton +3, huge lead for Dems in early voting The latest from Public Policy Polling in North Carolina:
The Senate race is also close:
The Senate race remains very close with Richard Burr at 42% to 41% for Deborah Ross, and 6% for Sean Haugh.
PDF with full results. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/24/2016 | 64 | 32 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Wapo: Trump halts big-money fundraising, cutting off cash to the party Apparently Donald Trump is not done burning down the Republican Party:
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has effectively shut down his high-dollar fundraising operation for the rest of the campaign, a highly unusual move that deals... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/25/2016 | 186 | 219 | - | - |
| LOL, Newt Gingrich melts down on Fox News Not a terribly important diary, but I enjoyed the desperation of Newt Gingrich on Megyn Kelly’s show, struggling to steer the conversation back to Bill Clinton and away from Donald Trump:
As we enter the final two weeks, the desperation grows... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/25/2016 | 463 | 233 | - | - |
| New Quinnipiac Polls: TIED in GA and IA, up in NC and VA It’s actually Trump +1 in Georgia, but Quinnipiac is calling it a tie, so I’m going with their wording (Edited to add: they are tied in the head-to-head as opposed to 3-way):
Several new state polls have come out, and they all look good for... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/27/2016 | 79 | 49 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| PPP: Slew of good results for Clinton, Senate Only less-than-great news was in NC, where Burr is up by 3, and MO, where Blunt is up by 2. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/04/2016 | 414 | 267 | - | - |