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“Today our airwaves and public debates are filled with attempts to not just denounce opponents’ logic but to impugn their motives. Demagogues and rabble rousers are not new to American history — but the economics and the technology have changed. A large number of these folks are making millions of dollars dividing America into segments and yelling, ‘Sic ’em!’” Former Senator Sam Nunn

Posted 6:33PM, Mar 19 2011 in ·

“Today, some Washington voices are calling for U.S. force to be applied, somehow, on behalf of the people trying to overthrow Moammar Gaddafi. Some interventionists are Republicans, whose skepticism about government’s abilities to achieve intended effects ends at the water’s edge.” George Will

Posted 11:59AM, Mar 09 2011 in ·

“The point we have been trying to make for the last couple of years is that Republicans need to stop whipping up crazy people with violent political rhetoric. This is really not a hard concept to follow. There are crazy people out there. Stop egging them on.” John Cole

Posted 11:32AM, Jan 10 2011 in ·

The U.S. Senate Is A Body of Malfunction

“On one of the most shameful days in the modern history of the Senate, the Republican minority on Thursday prevented a vote to allow gay and lesbian soldiers to serve openly in the military of the United States. They chose to filibuster a vital defense bill because it also banned discrimination in the military ranks. And in an unrelated but no less callous move, they blocked consideration of help for tens of thousands of emergency workers and volunteers who became ill from the ground zero cleanup after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.”

Posted 11:37AM, Dec 10 2010 in ·

“Republicans have a problem. The most-talked-about figure in the GOP is a reality show star who cannot be elected. And yet the same leaders who fret that Sarah Palin could devastate their party in 2012 are too scared to say in public what they all complain about in private. Enough. It’s time for the GOP to man up.” Joe Scarborough

Posted 10:56AM, Nov 30 2010 in ·

“When did public stupidity cease to be a liability?” Janice Kennedy

Posted 11:40AM, Nov 25 2010 in ·

“I’m traveling by air today — I know, I’m an idiot — and when I got to the Miami International Airport and Permanent Construction Zone I found that we have new security procedures, requiring that all passengers remove all of their dignity and place it in little gray bins.” Dave Barry

Posted 11:52AM, Nov 14 2010 in ·

Bill Moyers: "Welcome to the Plutocracy!"

“Rove, other conservative groups and the Chamber of Commerce have in fact created a ‘shadow party’ determined to be the real power in Washington just like Rome’s Opus Dei in Dan Brown’s ‘The DaVinci Code.’ In this shadow party the plutocrats reign. We have reached what the new chairman of Common Cause and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich calls ‘the perfect storm that threatens American democracy: an unprecedented concentration of income and wealth at the top; a record amount of secret money, flooding our democracy; and a public becoming increasingly angry and cynical about a government that’s raising its taxes, reducing its services, and unable to get it back to work. We’re losing our democracy to a different system. It’s called plutocracy.’”

Posted 9:52PM, Nov 08 2010 in ·

“This was not a rally to ridicule people of faith, or people of activism, or to look down our noses at the heartland, or passionate argument, or to suggest that times are not difficult and that we have nothing to fear. They are and we do. But we live now in hard times, not end times. And we can have animus and not be enemies. But, unfortunately, one of our main tools in delineating the two broke. The country’s 24-hour, politico, pundit, perpetual, panic conflictanator did not cause our problems, but its existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems, bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen. Or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire, and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected, dangerous flaming ant epidemic. If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.” Jon Stewart

Posted 4:25PM, Oct 31 2010 in ·

Congressional Support For Veterans Shows Sharp Partisan Divide

“The Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America’s 2010 Veteran Report Card, based on the key veterans’ legislation that came to a vote during the 111th Congress, exposed a sharp partisan divide on the level of support for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, as MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow tabulated yesterday. Of the 94 elected officials that earned an A or A+ rating from IAVA, 91 were Democrats. Of the 154 officials who received a D or F, 142 were Republicans.”

Posted 1:05PM, Oct 23 2010 in ·

“The accounting scandals at Enron and WorldCom dispelled the myth of effective corporate governance. These days, the idea that our banks were well capitalized and supervised sounds like a sick joke. And now the mortgage mess is making nonsense of claims that we have effective contract enforcement — in fact, the question is whether our economy is governed by any kind of rule of law.” Paul Krugman

Posted 11:49AM, Oct 15 2010 in ·

Fri. Oct 08, 2010

Asked and Answered: The Palin Edition

The Palm Beach Post has an article with the headline “Sarah Palin in West Palm Beach: ‘I’ll run for president if the American people want me to!’”

Okey Dokey, Sarah. Have a poll:

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