Archive for July, 2011
My Crazy Idea: The Great Tip Jar Rattling of 2011.
Let me toss a few number at you. These are fundraising totals, for the first half of 2011 (candidates’ figures from Open Secrets). The Republican National Committee: $36.6 million ($6.7 million in June alone). Mitt Romney: $18.3 million. Ron Paul: $4.5 million. Tim Pawlenty: $4.5 million. Michele Bachmann: $3.6 million. Herman Cain: $2.55 million. Newt Gingrich: [...]
Tim Geithner, Liar.
I’m sorry if the title of this post offended you, but it’s true. Tim Geithner went on national television today and accused Republicans of something he knows is not true. That makes him a bald-faced liar, by any definition of the word. The Treasury Department on Sunday accused House Republicans of “praying for default,” because [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – The Fear in their Eyes Sunday Edition
Do you remember back in the more innocent days of the 1990s when Hillary Clinton inveighed against the Republicans and their “politics of personal destruction”? Well, you’ve probably figured out since then that she wasn’t exactly speaking from an abundance of honesty. Now, she’s working for a man who has marinated in the same sort [...]
The World Sucks Today. How About a Sock Puppet?
I know there are plenty of serious things going on around the world right now. There are 91 people dead in Norway today at the hands of at least one radical supremacist, and I’ve no doubt the story will get more dark and twisted before we’re done with it. The President has completely checked out [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Reform and Raise Saturday Edition
I love this Power Line post by Stephen Hayward on the GOP and taxes. There is a good case to be made for tax code reform that would raise taxes slightly on the nearly half of all workers who don’t currently pay any taxes in exchange for large spending cuts that would increase those same [...]
The Mendacious Harry Reid Kills a Debt Ceiling Deal, Goes on Vacation
Senate Democrat Harry Reid, whose party controls all the scheduling for the Senate, had this to say yesterday: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Thursday said House Republicans’ pending “cut, cap and balance” proposal is among the worst pieces of legislation to appear on the floor in Senate history. … “I think this piece [...]
How to Go from Flat to Funky in Three Easy Steps
Step One: Open the door. Step Two: Get on the floor. Step Three: Everyb….wait. Do I really need to spell out the third step? By the by, I used to have a pretty wicked crush on the short-haired blonde dancer in this video back in the way. Never did learn her name.
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Solipsists and Guitar Riffs Friday Edition
As anyone who shows up for The Delivery’s pre-show warmup quickly learns, I love music and I’m a big fan of musicians who can write good songs and good lyrics. Those are more rare than you’d expect. But lyrics can be tricky for me. I appreciate, for instance, that Sting is a skilled lyricist and [...]
That’s What You Said