As probably nobody remembers, BTC News once boasted our own White House correspondent, the inimitable (actually, truly) Eric Brewer. Eric went into the White House press room and despite no journalism experience whatsoever, stayed composed while asking some very tough and valuable questions. You can see his work under the category “White House Dispatches” . . . → Read More: I want a new White House correspondent! Damn it!
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So this guy sez: “Our friends on the right … seem to think we don’t have enough problems and are working like gangbusters to transform more than a billion people around the world into our sworn enemies,” citing all the undeniably bigoted anti-Muslim activity on the right. And then this guy sez: “It occurs . . . → Read More: IOZ: Actual dead people possibly louder than live mouthy ones It’s a common complaint of the privileged classes lately that lazy unemployed Americans won’t take jobs that pay little more or less than they’re getting from unemployment. It’s mostly an artifact of the far right but, as things far right so often do, it’s drifting into the ideological lexicon of the political class’s center, . . . → Read More: Real Americans take any old job rather than look for something better Yes, it’s true: Obama’s budget is officially Socialist, or will be real soon. From the Economic Policy Institute: President Obama’s 10-year budget proposes to increase government spending by 2.4% over the baseline spending trajectory. This increase, which represents 0.5% of gross domestic product (GDP), has numerous goals: address the current economic crisis, create . . . → Read More: The Conservative Sun~Ray Treatment, plus: Obama’s Socialist Budget! The reason FDR turned out to be such a visionary reformer is that he was facing the very real possibility of a socialist/populist revolution that he could only hope might be successfully quelled by the military. FDR wanted to preserve capital, and he had to give up some things to do that, and to . . . → Read More: Why I am best kept away from earnest people
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. Lots of people were amped by New York Congressman Anthony Weiner’s fairly epic temper tantrum following the failure of the House to pass the bill funding health care for 9/11 rescue workers. And it was satisfying to see someone rip into somebody else on behalf of a good cause. Sort of a Mr. Smith . . . → Read More: Democrats. Whatever. Fuck ‘em. An hour or two before I learned that Barack Obama had described black Americans as “mongrels” on the television show “The View,” I ran across a very short piece in Politico that quoted Obama, from the same show, as calling for Charlie Rangel’s resignation. The post had generated more than 200 comments (more than . . . → Read More: Turns out I’m not alone in thinking Obama’s use of “mongrel” is odd I don’t know what this says about me, but is there any possibility that it’s life-affirming? A stamp of approval on my recent posts? Can I market my “Impeach Obama” campaign as “Approved by Homer Simpson?” . . Since I wrote the post arguing that if a Republican president had done some of the things Obama is doing, then liberals would be hot off the mark in calling for his impeachment, the ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights have gone to court to sue for their right to represent the only known . . . → Read More: Major update to my post advocating Obama’s impeachment |
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