So claimeth one Eva Lorraine Molina in a diatribe against the behavior of women in general and conservative undergraduettes in particular, which gets the treatment it deserves at Firedoglake: Hee hee. Our society doesn't even hold conservatives to the standard of being against torture or being for decent healthcare.Read below the fold...
“The taxpayers want their money back and they want the government out of our banking system,” Representative Jeb Hensarling, a Texas Republican and a member of the Congressional Oversight Panel examining the relief program, said in an interview.
Four years ago a hurricane slammed into the Gulf Coast of the United States. Early in the morning it looked like the threatened city of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the storm's path, might have "dodged a bullet." The rest of the Coast had been whacked hard, but the storm, unlike Allison in Houston, hadn't "parked" above New Orleans. Then the levees failed. Read below the fold...
Nice Polite Republicans being the on-air home of Cokie Roberts and David Brooks, I've started sleeping through Morning Edition. But this week something strange has happened. Partial transcripts of a couple of NPR interviews by Steve Inskeep as proof:
Let me set the scene for you. The meeting had been called "Coffee with the Congressman" and set up for the basement of the city's Chamber of Commerce offices. Then they found out more than 1,000 people wanted to come.
Enter the one-block-down First UMC of Lubbock, which offered its Great Hall / gym for the meeting, with a hallway out front to host the coffee, drinking water, cookies and napkins -- and the tables of handouts. The video below is from the local Fox News outlet, Channel 34:
and from the local ABC News website you can see exactly how the stage looked during the town hall, during which the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce representative who introduced the representative from Americans for Integrity in Government to introduce the congressman:
In Lakewood Washington last night a town hall for Adam Smith drew a young man carrying a poster of the President altered to resemble Adolf Hitler. Several members of the crowd, among them some older attendees, took exception and the poster was destroyed. Shortly thereafter the young man departed.
From the News Tribune account: Read below the fold...
The GOP is in retreat across the land. They don't want to admit it, but they are. So they're responding with ratcheting up their rhetoric and trying to dodge the truth via dissembling, distraction, and pretty pictures. Read below the fold...
The man credited with pulling the Crescent City out of the muck 
