Liberal Talk Radio

Now that the president has released his “long form birth certificate,” many have hoped that this would put the so-called “birther” controversy behind us. Sadly, I don’t believe that will happen. Why? The “birther” construct, that the President of the US is not native-born, has never been about Barack Obama’s country of birth. It’s been [...]

Following up on my own post from yesterday, here’re my quick thoughts on the President’s State of the Union address last night. In general, I thought the speech was solid — rhetorically, not a masterpiece, but it accomplished what it needed to.  I was most impressed by the President’s solid instinct to generally avoid the [...]

Okay, so maybe I’m the last one to hear about this (and it wouldn’t be the first time), but I caught some of Rachel Maddow’s show last night and found myself terrified by a video of a “birther” hijacking a GOP town hall meeting.  (Not the same video, ’cause I’m lazy, but here’s an earlier [...]

When we four humble bloggers are on the verge of retirement* in 30-40 years, will the conventional wisdom regarding national elections be “well, Governor Smith has a lot of neat ideas, but we must keep in mind that the American electorate hasn’t elected a governor to the presidency since George W. Bush in 2000?” *Yeah, [...]

On the occasion of Norm Coleman’s concession and Al Franken’s election: Can you imagine what this would be like if breaking a filibuster still required 67 votes? Jiminy Christmas!

I had dinner at Dick’s on the way to the post office. That’s right, folks. Instant service. 100% beef. I could go on, but I got drunk and need to go to bed.

On Inauguration Day in 2005, I had pretty much the same thought as this TPM reader is having now: [Had Kerry won], we would not have had eight years of experimenting with the extreme ideology that the Bush administration has inflicted on the United States of America. And, it is this experiment that has provided [...]

Someone is regretting that he or she failed to have the RNC logo monogrammed on everything.

Bye, Ted. Thanks for the memories.

My God, don’t you know what the Internets can do? Methinks the person who monitors this is going to be rather busy.