With leadership Like Mike Protack, is this surprising?

Poll: Republican Party Now Less Popular Than Dick Cheney
Lost in the news yesterday about the polls showing eroding support for Obama’s policies was a funny detail in the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll: The overall popularity of the Republican Party has now dropped below even the abysmal level of approval enjoyed by Dick Cheney.
The poll found [...]

Deep Pedestrian Thought

I used to live in the 17th and the 35th best neighborhoods for pedestrians in the country. Now I live in the billionth best.
Funny how “pedestrian friendly” correlates to “high quality of life.” Who would have ever thought those things would be related?

Stupid Marketing

Sure the newspaper business is a dying model.  But the dummies that run the New York Times missed a huge opportunity to make the NYT into the Nation’s liberal newspaper of record.   I think over the last eight years there would have been a huge market for first rate  investigative reporting and commentary from [...]

Great Job Mike Castle!

Mike, you sure did a great job on those banking and finance committees for all those years!

WASHINGTON – The federal agency that insures bank deposits, which is asking for emergency powers to borrow up to $500 billion to take over failed banks, is facing a potential major shortfall in part because it collected no insurance [...]

In Your Face Wingnuts

Yes. 64% of Americans favor helping other Americans facing foreclosure.
Only ridiculous, irrelevent Republicans think that foreclosed people should be scorned and spit upon.

Regrets, He’s Had A Few…But Then Again, Too Few To Mention

Let me know if you notice something strange.
One thing Bush hadn’t shared previously was his thinking about Hurricane Katrina, which up until the financial crisis was seen as his biggest domestic failure.
“I’ve thought long and hard about Katrina; you know, could I have done something differently,” he said. Like what? “[L]ike land Air Force One [...]

QOD: What is your “Walk Score?”

Mine is a Horrible 18 out of 100. Basically, I need to get in the car for EVERYTHING.
Check out you score here.
Pretty cool. I’d use this thing if I was moving to a new town and comparing houses. Of course you need to check the score with a first hand [...]

The Future of Neato Shit

I’m not ashamed to say that part of the reason I’d like to get this off shore wind power park deal done is because I was raised at a time when THE FUTURE was a phrase that was steeped in optimism and had an almost mystical significance.
I thought that by now there was going to [...]

Ron Paul Surges in Nevada

You have to admit that a Ron Paul action at the Delaware GOP convention would spice things up.
Outmaneuvered by raucous Ron Paul supporters, Nevada Republican Party leaders abruptly shut down their state convention and now must resume the event to complete a list of 31 delegates to the GOP national convention.
Outnumbered supporters of [...]

Xstryker Picked This Up In A Flash

While we were live blogging the debate Xstryker noted that what Charlie Gibson thinks of as middle class (people who make $200,000 per year) most people would consider rich.
Indeed, people who do have a family income of $200,000 are in the top fifth of the country in income.

Historic Levels of Discontent

At long last, the liberal media has convinced everyone that we are screwed.

Bad media!

Potterville News: “A Black Guy Can’t Win”

So says Bill Clinton and so says Hillary Clinton and so says my (secretly) racist buddy.
This friend is a liberal who I’ve known for years and had a lot of respect for until I found out that he, like Bill Clinton, does not hold black people in very high esteem because he knew an untrustworthy [...]

Comment Rescue:

In response to this post at Calculated Risk (that I found via Atrios), Pay Raise For Congress!! writes:
Taken together, most experts say that what the Fed has done in the last several months is unparalleled in modern times. Indeed, the Bear Stearns deal relied on a provision of the Federal Reserve Act not [...]