I’ve been wondering if some of the Cons’ relianace on euphemisms isn’t just a habit of repeating “things that sound nice” or the conventional wisdom. Perhaps they aren’t intending to deceive. Maybe it’s just a matter of repeating what they hear, like someone who’s memorized the lines in a foreign phrase book.
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It Is a good day!
By Kathy Sullivan 2 on October 9, 2012 in
Tags: Barack Obama, Big Bird, Democrats, John Boehner, Mitt Romney
Today is a good day for Demcorats: 1. Governor John Lynch will be endorsing Maggie Hassan tomorrow. Having the most popular official in the state endorse is a good thing, especially when the Republican nominee has tried to change his stripes from “I will be radically different from John Lynch” to, “I will govern like [...]
Village Pundits Sneering At Women’s Issues
Something has been bothering me the last couple of days, and it isn’t just the way Akin’s comments about women and their magical powers to stop pregnancy while being raped blew open the door on how Republicans like Paul Ryan don’t believe in choice, even for victims of crimes, and would use abortion bans to [...]
Campaign Issues
This is a nice compilation of sound-bites. It’s recently occurred to me that, if it’s true that 35% of American adults are functionally illiterate, those are people who don’t like to read (most people don’t like what they’re not good at) and prefer to get their news aurally. That’s why they tune in to talk [...]
On Holding Down The Conversational Fort, Or, Jobs, Republicans, And Hooey
By fake consultant on January 2, 2012 in
Tags: Congress, Democrats, economy, elections, Environment, HR 2587, jobs, Keystone XL, Labor, Law, NLRB, Obama, Republicans, Union
As the next Congressional fight over payroll tax extensions and unemployment benefits and pipelines gets set up in the next few weeks for either its final chapter or to be kicked down the road a bit farther, one or the other, you’re going to hear a lot from our Republican friends about how much they [...]
On Doing Better Than 50%, Or, Could More “Made In USA” Mean More Jobs?
By fake consultant on August 15, 2011 in
Tags: Democrats, Economics, elections, jobs, Labor, Made in USA, Obama, TSA, Union, White House
We gotta grow some jobs, and that’s a fact, and we probably aren’t going to be able to do it with big ol’ jobs programs funded by the Federal Government, what with today’s politics and all, and that means if this Administration wants to stay in the jobs game they’re going to have to find [...]
On Organizing Anger, Or, Could Olbermann Primary Obama?
By fake consultant on August 6, 2011 in
Tags: Democrats, elections, Obama, olbermann, politics, primary, White House
It was just a couple of nights ago that Keith Olbermann was challenging us, in one of his “Special Comments”, to rise up in the streets and take back this country. He pointed out that the only way those on the left were going to be able to fight against those who are looking to [...]
On Speaking To Power, Or, When Sanity’s Gone, There’s Always Satire
By fake consultant on August 1, 2011 in
Tags: @whitehouse, #thanksalot, action, Comedy, Congress, Debt, debt ceiling, Democrats, Economics, elections, humor, medicare, Obama, politics, Republicans, satire, snark, social security, Twitter, White House
So everybody’s hearing the news, right? There is a tentative debt ceiling deal, and this Administration and Congressional Democrats seem to have won everything they wanted: Republicans get to have multiple “we don’t approve” votes before 2012 on raising the debt ceiling, there won’t be any new revenue, there’s going to be another “hostage-taking” event [...]
On Running Your Own Government, Or, Why Pay The Military?
By fake consultant on July 29, 2011 in
Tags: Congress, Debt Limit, Democrats, economy, elections, Medicaid, medicare, politics, Republicans, social security
I have not been talking about the insanity around the debt ceiling and debt and deficit and the efforts of Republicans to drive us all off the cliff, but I am today – and I’m going to do it by allowing you to grab ahold of this problem and see for yourself just how unbelievably [...]
Hitler Holds News Conference, Blames Balanced Budget Amendment For U.S. Defeat
By fake consultant on July 27, 2011 in
Tags: "Tea Party", Alternative History, Balanced Budget Amendment, Comedy, Congress, constitution, Democrats, economy, elections, humor, Mae Cadoodie, Republicans, satire, snark
(FNS – Washington, New Germany, April 17, 1947) America’s new Führer, Adolf Hitler, announced today that his official War History would in fact acknowledge that one of the biggest contributing factors to the defeat of the Allies was the insistence of the former United States of America on sticking to its Balanced Budget Amendment, which [...]
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