Liberal Talk Radio

At this point, nearly 7 full years into the Bush regime, there’s hardly a malediction I can hurl in Monkey Boy’s direction that hasn’t been spoken before.  And yet somehow I’m still amazed at the idiocy of both Bush and the toadies with which he’s managed to surround himself. Faced with the prospect of stagflation [...]

Ezra Klein: The difference between Romney and McCain is that the press hates Romney for lying to them, while McCain has figured out how to get them to lie for him.

Credit where due. Wal-Mart is rolling out some newer, more energy efficient stores: The High Efficiency stores use technology tested and developed in two experimental green stores Wal-Mart opened in 2005 in McKinney, Texas, and Aurora, Colorado, including a white roof that deflects the sun’s heat. The latest generation takes the energy savings built into [...]

As recently as this fall, Rudy Giuliani ranked highly in both nationwide and state polls. Now, it’s gotten so bad that even people in the tri-state area are wondering about his chances: For months, the Republican establishment in New York and New Jersey marched nearly in lock step behind Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former hometown [...]

NBC banned Dennis Kucinich from last night’s debate. I think Kucinich is a great congressman and I wish we had more like him. At the end of the day, 95% of congressmen are bought-and-paid-for corporate douchebags, but he’s not. That said, his presidential campaign is basically an ego trip. Read Jason Zengerle’s article in TNR [...]

A while back, I wondered if one of the right-wing TV hacks (Hannity, O’Reilly, etc.) would start trolling for incendiary comments from, say, Al Sharpton and gin up some kind of controversy wherein Barack Obama would be asked to “denounce” Sharpton every time he fired off his crazy-ass mouth. Y’know, just because he’s black, and [...]

On the show this week, we railed a bit on the Democrats in the Washington State legislature for being incredibly timid with this upcoming session. It’s not quite clear to me how much of this is House Speaker Frank Chopp’s doing, and how much of it is Governor Gregoire’s (who’s up for re-election). Certainly there [...]

I made up my mind a long time ago that I didn’t like Mitt Romney. Still, you’d think the founder of Bain Capital would be above economic populism: In his speech at the Detroit Economic Club, Mr. Romney took Washington lawmakers to task for being a “disinterested” in Michigan’s plight and imposing upon the state’s [...]

Phil Carter, Iraq vet and attorney, has a few problems with that article we mentioned on Iraq vets in this week’s show.

Bill, I really don’t need you to tell me that the leading Democratic candidates for president are hesitant to discuss the relative benefits of the troop surge in Iraq. I seem to have read somewhere that the surge is working. That’s good! It’s important to take care of stuff in Iraq! But you know what? [...]