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Salon: Why’s GOP calling Rangel “crooked Harlem Democrat”?
Thats easy! Its because the GOP is America’s Racist Party. And in Harlem there are mostly black people, you see.
And while I’m thinking about it, Salon partially answered their own question earlier today in this piece (tipped to us by WTPWB’s biggest fan JEG, IV), describing in no [...]
Seeing straight
Not that it bothers me all that much, but does it strike anyone that blind jokes about David Paterson are more acceptable, or at least more common, than before it came out that he used the power of his office to intimidate a victim of domestic violence, bungled budget negotiations and gave false testimony under [...]
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Charlie Crist FTW
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) broke from his party and defended his “pragmatic” stance on accepting stimulus money in his state of the state address yesterday. He managed to work in a few “back to reality” jabs at fellow Republicans as well. The joys of lame-duckedness (duckhood?):
A few governors may have rather loudly condemned the [...]
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Can’t get much worse, so…
Why not shut the fucker down and see what happens? From The Awl, a little nugget that first made the rounds last week:
Don’t say the Republicans aren’t doing anything; they’re on pace to surpass a historic benchmark! “The frequency of filibusters — plus threats to use them — are measured by the number of times [...]
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Early Exits [Part 3: NY-GOV]
NY GOV: Not David Paterson.
(Politico, I’ll be expecting my job offer, salary and benefits package any day now)
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I don’t go to school and I kill people! What-evah! I’ll do what I want!
(alternate title: “*Epic Facepalm*”)
The hired murderers / certified morons over at Blackwater have done it again, and again, and again. And again today!
It seems to be that — because Blackwater doesn’t have nearly enough guns already — the security firm illegally diverted weapons from a U.S. weapons facility for its own soldiers’ employees’ “personal use” [...]
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Ahmadinejad liked Titanic better, sources say.
[via Peter Combe at a tale of a few cities]
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Talk to the Hand: Robert Gibbs is either a mad jovial fellow, has landed his dream job, or both. Probably both.
Robert Gibbs is having a good couple of weeks, at least according to his mood. By now you’ve undoubtedly read about Sarah Palin cheating on the big exam, to which our Press Secretary In Chief had this response:
That’s “Milk, Eggs, Bread, Hope and Change.”
I like it. We need a little less Tony Snow and a [...]
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Early Exits [Part 2]
Arizona Senate
As much as we’d love to see John McCain get rolled by his own party, WTPWB predicts McCain over primary challenger J.D. Hayworth, but it’ll be closer than anticipated (lets get saucy and say within five percentage points). McCain will ride that victory into the November generals, where he will best an upturned mop [...]
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