Maybe we should take a time out from our “mad as hell and won’t take it anymore” moment to remember how good things really were when the Republicans were kicked out of office in 2006 and 2008 because they’d made such a mess of the country.
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We are now officially a society divided with “Yes, we can” and “But should we”? The Yes people on one hand and the But people on the other.
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What? Make the rich actually pay taxes? Or pay their fair share? Why…why…that’s just un-American!
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“The government is expected to announce on Wednesday that three-quarters of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated — and that much of the rest is so diluted that it does not seem to pose much additional risk of harm,” reports today’s New York Times!
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BREAKING NEWS: Here, on the 100th day of the Gulf Oil Disaster, the New York Times announces the Gulf is all good now. Nothing to see...move along...go on about your business...thanks for playin'. Gee, who knew it would be so easy?
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It is Le Quatorze Juillet and Americans are storming the metaphorical Bastille! At least, according to yesterday’s ABC-Washington Post opinion survey: 58 percent of you think the President sucks. 68 percent of you think Democrats suck. 72 percent of you think Republicans suck. 150 percent of you think BP sucks. 80 percent of Ohioans...
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Officially, 15 million Americans are out of work. Half of those have been out of work for 6 months or longer. So a Senate minority wants to celebrate the Fourth of July by giving millions of Americans a bottle rocket up the butt?
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"Say, General, when you’re not off fightin’ and snake-eating and stuff, what do you do for fun?”
“Um…er…excuse me, Mr. President?”
“You know, what do you like to do on your down time? I like basketball and golf and reading. You read much, General?”
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Republican senators (well, Shelby of Alabama) went on the TeeVee Box this morning to say, well, they MIGHT vote to regulate the derivatives trade. Of course, they’ll have to explain to their benefactors why they could suddenly read the hand-writing on the wall and, well, while they like that direct Wall Street-to-Capitol Hill cheese...
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Okay, so here’s what we’re gonna do. We’re gonna take it to the streets! Grab your wheelchairs; we’re headed downtown to protest by breathing and sneezing on people!!
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