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Barack, You Need To Put Your Boot On Geithner’s Neck

BO my man, I get it. You’ve been assured Tim Geithner is the smartest guy out there. So I understand the desire to have him on board. I really do. But this is getting ridiculous. The Obama administration is engineering … Continue reading

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The Stimulus via RSS: That’s What I’m Talkin’ ‘Bout!

The average person on the street may have no idea how huge this is, but it’s a big, big thing: the stimulus package’s implementation instructions require each government agency that spends stimcash to provide an Atom/RSS feed detailing who received … Continue reading

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Dick “The Prince” Cheney

Proving that leaving office will not stop him from pursuing his career’s logical climax (supervillain), Dick Cheney had this to say: The choice, he alleged, reflects a naive mindset among the new team in Washington: “The United States needs to … Continue reading

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Inaugural Unease

I don’t wanna rain on anyone’s parade, so I’m glad I didn’t post this yesterday. It isn’t as if it’s really about Obama’s inauguration in particular, anyway. It’s just that, well… I could do without the whole thing. The lavish … Continue reading

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Treasury Secretaries & Inane Arguments

Let me start this with one clear statement: If your complaint about Timothy Geithner being appointed to TSec is that you think non-payment of taxes is shady, and you don’t want anyone shady running the Treasury Department, I have no … Continue reading

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What’s the Bigger Dick Move…?

…Barack spending so much time on his speech that he didn’t bother to memorize the oath, or Roberts fucking up the rhythm of the recitation and derailing the thing in the first place?

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Screw “Our Families”, Barack

This irritates me: Dude, there are plenty of underpaid women in this country who are single, shacked up, or married without brats… they matter, too. I know you know that, but still… quit trying to frame equal pay for women … Continue reading

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This One’s for Jane

Absolutely priceless.

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Bob Barr to Penn Jillette

“Republicans have become the party of fear, and Democrats have become the party of hate.” Penn illustrated the point by saying that he dropped by a booth at a fairground in ’04, one that was promoting Kerry’s candidacy. He asked … Continue reading

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Political Cool

This is what McCain is up against: It captures one of those “holy shit” moments, where you’re finally old enough –or the candidate young enough– to look at a presidential hopeful and think, “This guy looks like me.” There’s no … Continue reading

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