Going to give this live-blogging thing a try again. It’s been a while but I won’t listen to the speech otherwise for fear it will depress me (see the things I do for you!)
Tonight we are listening to the dulcet tones of Diane Sawyer on ABC (because I don’t have cable and PBS keeps cutting [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Politics'
All the pretty things he says: Obama’s first SotU speech
January 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics
Tags: obama·state of the union
Dreaming little in a big way
January 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics
President Obama had a sit down with Diane Sawyer on Monday where he happened to mention that he would rather be an awesome one-term president than a mediocre two-term president. Which is of course the right answer to her question … I mean, what else was he going to say?
But here’s the problem: he is [...]
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5 things Obama might talk about
January 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics
So tomorrow is Obama’s big day … his first State of the Union address. And we don’t really know what he’s going to say but we have some ideas. So here are 5 things Obama could talk about and the odds that he will.
Voting representation for DC residents: oh, aren’t you just adorable with your [...]
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And there shall be no end to the crazies
September 21st, 2009 · 6 Comments · Politics
So this last weekend, DC was the site of the annual Values Voter Conference. This is what autumn in DC is all about you know. Hordes of people descending on our green space, riding our metros, waving their crazy signs for their crazy causes. It was the teabaggers a couple of weeks ago, the ultra-reliopolitical [...]
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A nation’s great sickness
September 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politics
I know. I should have been writing about this health care debate. The biggest news of the late summer and I didn’t touch it once. It wasn’t as if there was anything else to write about. Other than apparently Michelle Obama does indeed have thighs (have I mentioned my girl-crush on her?).
But I can’t write [...]
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Sometimes politics is annoying
August 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
The best thing about Ted Kennedy dying? He managed to get the media talking about something else other than Nazi death panels and showing YouTube video of crazy crazies yelling at representatives that THEY VOTED FOR against socialized medicine THAT THEY PARTICIPATE IN! Jeez.
Watching the news the last three weeks was essentially this chart come [...]
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And who among us is without blame?
August 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
I should be all over this CIA torture stuff. I should have been writing some long, involved post giving you some history and some punditry and some well-thought out opinions which — although liberal in nature — would try to take an even-handed approach.
But I can’t. The whole thing is way too depressing. It’s depressing [...]
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Can conservatives make the rainbow connection?
August 12th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Politics
Ever since civil unions in Vermont and gay marriage in Massachusetts, it’s been interesting watching conservatives struggle with how to approach the issue of same-sex marriage. Not the religious conservatives, since they don’t struggle with it … but political (let’s call them secular) conservatives who understood that, because the share a party bed with the [...]
Tags: gay marriage·Republicans
Alaska will be the new Arizona in forty years
July 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
Do you know what this is?
Evidence that the Bush administration withheld information that didn’t nicely fit its political ideology.
Proof that we as a world are in deep, deep trouble when it comes to climate change.
Signs that if you are under 30, you’ll be snowbirding in Alaska come 2050.
A desperate attempt on the Obama administration to [...]
Tags: climate change