Author - JumpyPants

Open Thread

Prime Time Thread

Open thread for mocking the constant variety of cable news hackery and whatever lathers your shampoo. Tonight! Blagojevich was impeached. One step closer to the headline: "People Aren't Talking About...

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Economy

‘Shameful’ Indeed

WASHINGTON — President Obama fired a warning shot at Wall Street on Thursday, branding bankers “shameful” for giving themselves $18.4 billion in bonuses as the economy was spinning out of control and...

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Mail Bag

Encore Wingnuttery

Thought I'd share another brilliant wingnut e-mail with you. all I can say is what a total MORON you are! It is retards like you that is ruining the rep of the media in this country! Luckily nobody...

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Quote

Doof Quote of the Day

"The other thing he could have done...you can go for centrist compromises and say to your own party, "Sorry, some of you liberals aren't going to like it, but I'm going to change this legislation...

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Economy

Old School, New School

Greenwald makes a smart but off-the-mark case against the president's tactics versus the Republicans: Some Obama supporters will claim that the whole post-partisan song is nothing more than a...

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Mail Bag

Intellectual Violence

From the wingnut mail bag: You won't talk so much when Obama and the democrats destroy this country. I voted with my head ,not my fears, I voted fro freedom, not with my pocketbook. You libs complain...

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Rush Limbaugh

Super Stupid

Here's to hoping that Congressman Mike Pence and his drug-addicted, sex tourist hero Rush Limbaugh become the poster boys for an epic Republican fail on this recovery package. h/t Yglesias

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Economy

Uhhhh-huh-huh-huh

In my Huffington Post column, I mentioned the Drudge headline blasting the STD prevention section of the recovery bill. Turns out, preventing STDs actually does provide relief to the economy -- by...

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Republican Party

Worst Person

Dick Armey is a dick. I mean, we always kind of knew this, but the way he treated Joan Walsh on Hardball was unforgivably awful. Adding... The quote: "I'm so damn glad that you could never be my...

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Open Thread

Prime Time Thread

Open thread for mocking the constant variety of cable news hackery or whatever's salting your driveway. Tonight! How many House Republicans will bang on their pots tonight?

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Quote

Quote of the Day

"When it comes to the weather, folks in Washington don't seem to be able to handle things. My children's school was canceled today because of what? Some ice." —President Obama commenting on the...

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Economy

$2.2 Trillion

Here's a sobering infrastructure report by the American Society of Civil Engineers: Of the 15 areas the engineers looked at, three got worse and only one got better. The three that worsened were all...

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Economy

Counting Down to the Vote

FLOOR SCHEDULE FOR WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2009 House Meets At... 10:00 a.m.: Legislative Business Five "One Minutes" Per Side Last Vote Predicted... 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. H.R. 1 – American Recovery and...

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