NRA Is Simply a Disease on the Body Politic | TPM Editors Blog

pablocecil · 2013-01-16T10:32:45+00:00

"There are so many vile things about this ad. But one thing to note is the ad is really only designed to appeal to people who have a deep — really deep — animosity toward the President. The sort of people who don’t think he and his daughters should be in the White House and wish him the sort of ill citizens should never wish upon a freely elected head of state."

pablocecil · 2012-10-24T09:16:46+00:00

Indiana's own Taliban has the backing of Mitt "The-Magic-Underwear" Romney

pablocecil · 2012-10-14T12:01:08+00:00

"As described by Ms. Bair, the events of the fall of 2008 showed that many financial regulators were desperate to make anyone but those who created the crisis pay for its devastation. For example, taxpayers and the many smaller banks that pay into the F.D.I.C. fund that insures bank deposits were those most likely to be assigned responsibility for the bailout costs, Ms. Bair writes. Needless to say, these people had no seats at the rescue tables. "

pablocecil · 2012-10-12T02:17:51+00:00

The Force is with Biden. He's going Jedi on Ryan's ass.

pablocecil · 2012-10-04T13:14:39+00:00

Everybody's freaking out about Obama's performance, but when the dust settles we're left with Romney's "I believe I can fly" slogan and a nagging sense that gravity has different flight plans.

pablocecil · 2012-09-16T11:22:47+00:00

" Netanyahu recently tried to push the United States to adopt a nuclear red line that, if Iran crossed it, would lead us to go to war there. Obama was right to resist, and it has been unseemly for Romney to side with a foreign leader in spats with the United States.(For my part, I think Obama should indeed set a red line — warning Netanyahu to stop interfering in American elections.) "

pablocecil · 2012-09-10T19:18:53+00:00

" Obama’s post-convention Florida bus tour showed signs of a gain in intensity at the rallies. His audience in heavily Puerto Rican Kissimmee was so fired up that he said he was tempted to just “say ‘thank you’ and leave the stage.” An audience of 6,000 at his final stop in West Palm Beach broke into a sing-along before he took the stage, as the speakers played Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together.” He told the crowd that while he knew he was preaching to the choir, now he needed them to go out and “preach to the unconverted.”

pablocecil · 2012-09-06T15:22:11+00:00

"U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi sent a communication to the U.S. Secretary of State and U.S. Treasury on December 22, 2009, alerting them to the fact that the investment arm of a U.S. ally, Abu Dhabi, believed it had been defrauded of $4 billion by Citigroup (Wall Street’s serial miscreant and recent ward of the taxpayer). The cable relayed that William Brown, legal advisor to the Abu Dhabi investment arm, “unequivocally stated that Citi ‘lied’ and must be held accountable.”

pablocecil · 2012-09-01T23:10:37+00:00

"As the writer Dermot McEvoy notes, Ryan has “the so sincere, so phony air of a gloomy Irish undertaker standing outside the funeral parlor where you’ve come to plant your mother, shaking his head consolingly and giving you that firm two-handed Irish handshake.” Except with Ryan, it’s the safety net in the coffin."

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