Friday Talking Points [282] -- A "Regular Disorder" Rant
[ Posted Friday, November 15th, 2013 – 19:21 UTC ]
Let's see, what happened last week?
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Friday Talking Points [281] -- As The Wedgie Turns
[ Posted Friday, November 8th, 2013 – 18:07 UTC ]
Wedgie: When a political party's "wedge" issue turns on them and instead of dividing the other party, begins to divide their own.
Usage: "Boy, the Republicans are really getting a giant wedgie on immigration, aren't they?"
Friday Talking Points [280] -- Two Obama Promises
[ Posted Friday, November 1st, 2013 – 17:07 UTC ]
To put this another way, while most focused on one broken promise from President Obama this week, he actually made good on an earlier promise -- which is nothing short of astounding and deserves a lot of attention.
Friday Talking Points [279] -- Monkey Business
[ Posted Friday, October 25th, 2013 – 17:02 UTC ]
"I will not yield to this monkey court!"
Friday Talking Points [278] -- ...And The Law Won
[ Posted Friday, October 18th, 2013 – 16:31 UTC ]
I don't know about anyone else, but the image that popped into my head this week was Ted Cruz drunk in some dive of a karaoke bar, doing his version of "I Fought The Law, And The Law Won."
Friday Talking Points [277] -- Who Will Inhabit The Cave?
[ Posted Friday, October 11th, 2013 – 16:56 UTC ]
In this particular instance, the storyline will run with one of either two words to describe the perceived loser: "blink" or "cave." We're going with the cave metaphor, today. Call it media-political spelunking, if you will. Which brings us to the most important question imaginable (to the mainstream media): Who will inhabit the cave? Who will cave, and who will enjoy the bright, bright media sunlight of perceived victory?
Friday Talking Points [276] -- Shutdown Follies
[ Posted Friday, October 4th, 2013 – 17:57 UTC ]
Well, I have to admit -- I never thought John Boehner was stupid enough to shut the government down over Obamacare. Shows what I know, right? Sigh.
From The Archives -- Ronald Reagan Scaremongering Medicare
[ Posted Thursday, October 3rd, 2013 – 17:00 UTC ]
The article below was written in June of 2009, when the public option was still fiercely being debated and the outcome of the health reform effort was not in any way guaranteed (or even, really, in sight -- "Obamacare" wouldn't pass until the following year). Somewhere in my research, I stumbled across what can be said to be Ronald Reagan's first foray into the world of politics.
Friday Talking Points [275] -- Ted Cruz: Senator Ham-I-Am
[ Posted Friday, September 27th, 2013 – 18:10 UTC ]
No, the big point missed in the midst of Senator Ted Cruz's talkfest was the moral of the story he read. By now, most people have heard that Cruz read, in its entirety, the classic Dr. Seuss children's book Green Eggs And Ham -- tucking his own kids into bed, long-distance, via C-SPAN. Cruz then doubled down on his point-missing by comparing Obamacare to the story's green eggs and ham. Cruz really has no excuse for this monumentally idiotic mistake, since (as mentioned) he read the whole story from the Senate floor.
Friday Talking Points [274] -- The Answer To Obamacare, The Universe, And Everything
[ Posted Friday, September 20th, 2013 – 17:17 UTC ]
It's all becoming clear now. House Republicans are just really big fans of Douglas Adams -- that's been their plan all along. Adams, in his brilliantly funny Hitchhiker's Guide series, told the story of the megacomputer "Deep Thought" who spent seven-and-a-half million years working on "the answer to the ultimate question of life, the Universe, and everything." Deep Thought famously came up with the answer to this weighty query: 42.