Posted by JumpyPants America doesn't torture. But Big John Cornyn, gangland boss of the dwindling rural mafia known as the Republican Party, doesn't necessarily agree. And so he's going to hold up...
The Villains
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Beyonce performs for the Obamas at the Neighborhood Ball
The Insane Notion of Steady Good News
Posted by JumpyPants A lot of people ignore the news because they just hate being bummed out. But since President Obama's election (I urge you to say or write "President Obama" at least 10 times a...
Us Is Them
Posted by JumpyPants Of the many, many remarkable themes President Obama spoke of yesterday, one that has been little-remarked upon by the Extremely Serious and Knowledgeable Televisual Punditry is...
Fear Is Not Comfort
Posted by JumpyPants My cousin just got back from a visit with our extended family in the Ohio River Valley. That's the northern part of Appalachia, where Obama could barely muster a vote. My family...
Hassle-n-back!
Posted by JumpyPants I don't watch The View. There, I said it. But I do watch pieces of it when HuffPost posts them, and they are sometimes kind of mildly sort of a little entertaining. Or they were...
Inclusion
Posted by JumpyPants I'm with Bob on this one 100%. Obama and his team should get Rick Warren to step aside today. And if they want to be all about inclusion, here's an idea: have a Christian...
Jeb Bush: Gay Pedophile?
Posted by JumpyPants Jeb Bush was governor of Florida when a Republican congressman was found to be a gay pedophile. Jebby - that looks like gay child molesting taint to me. Did you procure the boys...
Their CEOs Are Better Than Our CEOs
Posted by JumpyPants Hey, Wall Street and Detroit - check it out and get your damn priorities right:
Really, Republicans? REALLY?
Posted by JumpyPants Despite the fact that Obama didn't endorse Rod [expletive]ojevich for his 2002 gubernatorial run, and that A-hole-Rod didn't endorse Obama in his 2004 senate race, and further...
“Mother[expletive]”
Posted by JumpyPants Politico has more details about the Obama-Blago relationship, which seems to consist of Blago hating Obama because Obama is ethical: He also appears to think little of the...
Breaking: Obama from Chicago!
Posted by JumpyPants Patrick Fitzgerald has said that the President-Elect has clean hands in this whole Blago dung heap. But apparently the lead investigator's word isn't enough for all the talking...
Testicular Virility
Posted by JumpyPants I sure picked a fun day to return to Bob's blog. Wading through the landfill of sleaze and feckless behavior that is the hallmark of the Rod [expletive]ojevich history, one of my...
Among his many crimes…
Posted by JumpyPants Rod [expletive]ojevich was indicted today for several federal crimes. It's not currently a federal crime to be awful at telling jokes or doing Bill Clinton impressions, but if it...
Rod [Expletive]ojevich!
Posted by JumpyPants I've been waylaid by post-election exhaustion, work, job hunting, children and medical situations, but feel compelled to get back to blogging now that the heroic Patrick...
Our Next President Is A Good Writer
Posted by JumpyPants As someone who scratches out a living casting feelings into words, I feel a certain kinship with the president-elect, and though I would not deign to compare my skill as a writer...
Our Next President Is Funny
Posted by JumpyPants For proof of the president-elect's sense of humor, I submit Exhibit A from his book, The Audacity of Hope. "The president" would be G.W. Bush, and "I" would be the next President...
Love
Posted by JumpyPants It dawned on me just now, oddly, as I was readjusting my 3-year old's car seat straps, how simply wonderful it is to have a man who is our president-elect stand in front of...
Throw Out the Rule Book
Posted by JumpyPants For nearly my lifetime, the conventional wisdom has been that no one, certainly no Democrat, can win the presidency if they are not from the south, if they are a senator, and...
JumpyPants Liveblogging President Elect Obama I
Posted by JumpyPants 11:03 - Bob is on the radio now, and we have a new president-elect! 11:05 - Roland Martin gives stirring pronouncement, connecting Obama to the NAACP. Gergen connects Obama to Dr...