Liberal Talk Radio

Is the fix in up here in wussy progressive Washington? Various sources are reporting that the Washington GOP watched Huckabee lead in the caucus by a point or two for most of the day yesterday. McCain seemed to take the lead by a point with around 75% of precincts reporting. When the count reached 87.2% [...]

Here’s a good sign the housing market isn’t coming back anytime soon.
The real irony here is that the banks shot themselves in the foot with this one. If they hadn’t pushed through the Bankruptcy Bill in 2005 — which made it harder to delcare bankruptcy and walk away from credit cards — [...]

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 (that’s [...]

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 [...]

It’s not so much the idea that John Edwards knocked up someone but rather that a campaign aide would actually try to cover up for Edwards in such a ridiculous way. That basically makes me not want to trust not only Edwards but anyone surrounding John Edwards, no matter how “selfless” they come off in [...]

That story on the kid from Iceland apparently getting through to the President’s secret phone line includes this tidbit:
A White House official, who asked not to be identified, denied the young man had accessed a private number but instead dialled 202-456-1414, the main switchboard for the West Wing.
Vífill’s mother, Harpa Hreinsdottir, a teacher at the [...]

Perhaps you wondered why that fantastic unsolicited op-ed you wrote received no response from the Times opinon editors? Well, to start, is your father a New York Times bestselling author and a former Times writer & Times guest op-ed columnist? If so, then perhaps that perceptive piece about your semester abroad would fit nicely there, [...]

Eric Schlosser (he of Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness fame) has a great op-ed in the NYT today about the horrid conditions facing the migrant workers who provide you with those oh-so-awesome (meaning, really bland and flavorless) beafsteak tomatoes during the winter.
Migrant farm laborers have long been among America’s most impoverished workers. Perhaps 80 [...]

Gov. Gregoire has called the legislature into special session to restore the 1% cap on property tax increases, caving into Republicans and Tim Eyman right before an election year.
Goldy’s pretty hot and bothered over it, but why? I mean, doesn’t he realize that Dino Rossi will be so awesomely outmaneuvered by Gregoire’s clever ploy [...]

Or, what happens when people who think snarky=intelligent spend too much time in a room alone together, drunk. The Strangler urges a no vote for Rail:
Sound Transit/RTID Proposition No. 1
VOTE NO
The joint roads and transit ballot measure shackles expansion of Sound Transit’s popular light-rail system to a massive roads- expansion package that could never [...]