Archive for December 2009
Activist Wednesday: He’s…Tired.
Posted by: madamab on: December 30, 2009
- In: Current Events | Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread | Politics | Propaganda | Snark
- 31 Comments
Our Widdershinian friend Beata, she of the ever-changing avatar , alerted us to this laughable puff piece from (of course) the AP about our poor dear Commander in Chief. It was so funny that I simply HAD to deconstruct it for today’s post. The title alone is priceless. CAPITAL CULTURE: Big First Year Leaves Obama [...]
Morning Widdershins: The Duck Came Down from the Ceiling
Posted by: chatblu on: December 29, 2009
- In: Current Events | Economy | Healthcare | Iran | Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread | Politics
- 42 Comments
Anybody (other than me) remember the show “You Bet Your Life,” starring Groucho Marx? Every week, they had a secret word. When one of the guests uttered said word, a rubber duck came down from the ceiling with a sign around its neck emblazoned with the word. The guest won $100, which was a bunch [...]
MW: A Day in the Life of the Oppressed American Male
Posted by: madamab on: December 28, 2009
Picture this, my friends: It’s Bizarro World, and instead of a corporate and religious patriarchy that’s hostile to women, we’ve got a corporate and religious matriarchy that’s hostile to men. (Yeah, I know that has never happened in the history of the universe, but go with it.) What would a day in the life of [...]
Morning Widdershins: Bye-Bye, Bobby!
Posted by: chatblu on: December 27, 2009
- In: Breaking News | Current Events | Israel | Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread | Politics
- 15 Comments
Robert Wexler will resign from Congress effective January 03, 2010. He has served six terms, representing the Fl@rida 19th Congressional District, encompassing northern Broward and western Palm Beach counties. He has been a lightning rod for a number of years, yet has easily won seven terms in Congress. Supporters and critics are equally fierce and [...]
Morning Widdershins: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, 2009
Posted by: chatblu on: December 24, 2009
- In: Current Events | Healthcare | Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread | Snark | War
- 25 Comments
‘Twas the night before Christmas, and a tough one at that The house in foreclosure, here we all sat. Our belongings were strewn, all helter-skelter We need to pack up, and get down to the shelter. The children were curled up, asleep on the floor Their beds had been repo-d, sent back to the store [...]
Fauxtivist Wednesday: Look! In The Senate! It’s…A “Progressive Pony” Fallacy
Posted by: madamab on: December 23, 2009
- In: Current Events | Healthcare | Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread | Politics | Snark
- 66 Comments
I have a question for you, Widdershins. Have you, perchance, received an email like this recently? MadamaB, As you probably know, the White House and Democratic Senate leaders caved to Joe Lieberman and took both the public health insurance option and Medicare expansion out of the health care bill. That means no competition and no choice [...]
Morning Widdershins: Festivus for the Rest of Us
Posted by: chatblu on: December 22, 2009
This is the eve of Festivus, and I’m posting this in order to remind everyone to get their supplies ready for the Big Day. Festivus was conceived by writer Dan O’Keefe. Originally it was a commemoration of his first date with spouse Deborah in February, 1965. Later O’Keefe viewed the holiday as a movable feast, [...]
MW: All I Want For Christmas Is Adequate Representation
Posted by: chatblu on: December 21, 2009
UPDATE from MB: Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake has seen the light and now wants to “Kill the Bill.” Click here to sign her petition. You know, the whole “by the people, of the people, for the people” thing? Unsurprisingly, this appears to have devolved into “by the lobbyists, of the bought and paid for, for [...]
MW: Hooray! It’s National “We Told You So” Day!
Posted by: madamab on: December 20, 2009
- In: Current Events | Hillary Clinton | Iran | misogyny | Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread | Politics | Snark | War
- 34 Comments
Ya know, as the Senate health care bill (which was already bad enough) descends into the deepest abyss of clusterfuckiness in order to appease some old, vagina-hating, corporatist white men who are totally unnecessary to its passage, I keep wondering if this is a joke. Wasn’t this bill supposed to be the big, signature accomplishment [...]
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