Hold Fast

I watched almost all of Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally this past Saturday from the comfort of my living room. I’m not a conservative Christian and am obviously not the target of his speech, but it struck me as phenomenally long, rambling, and incoherent. There was no arc to it. The only takeaway in this […]

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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mhaQ21ULjo

Via Digby. Transcript below the fold.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPPxBrtrH1c

More brilliant stuff from Sam Seder, this time on the attacks against Muslims related to a community center in lower Manhattan.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8ZLtsnh_Rk

The Senate is voting this morning on a jobs bill that includes state funding for Medicaid, teachers and other public servants. The bill in question has been written to the specifications of alleged Republican moderates Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, both from Maine. Spending has been cut from previous versions. Not only is it deficit […]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4zwCMf8dsc

Greg Sargent is right:
All I’m saying is that raging against successful Republican efforts to block individual Dem initiatives isn’t enough. Raging about GOP obstructionism in general isn’t enough, either. The point is that Dems need to build an effective larger case that transcends individual issues and reckons more directly with the strategy underlying all the […]

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Apparently it is no longer required in quotes printed by conservative columnists, just as it is not required for videos ran by conservative bloggers (let alone for them to be taken seriously by the administration).
Of course conservatives in the media or elected office attacking Democrats or progressives through an out-of-context-to-the-point-of-falsification quote is not new. Only […]

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Paul Krugman hits a home run in today’s column:
But if politicians who insist that the way to reduce deficits is to cut taxes, not raise them, start winning elections again, how much faith can anyone have that we’ll do what needs to be done? Yes, we can have a fiscal crisis. But if we do, […]

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Paul Krugman, responding to the stream of lies coming from Mitch McConnell, Jon Kyl and other leading Republicans that the Bush tax cuts didn’t cost the US government anything, asks:
How am I supposed to pretend that these are serious people?
Well, frankly, I don’t think you do. Pretending only makes the matter worse. Actual serious people […]

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Steve Benen asks:
What did the unemployed ever do to offend the Republican Party this much?
They lost their jobs.

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