Hominid Views

Thirty-seven percent, eh?
Early in the February 26th edition of Politics Live with Sam Donaldson, the penultimate episode before Donaldson retired from full-time work at ABC News, Senator Chuck Grassley (Liar-IA) answered the first question with a statistical “sleight-of-hand” that would shock even Mark Twain et al… Or maybe not.
ABC News’ David Chalian only highlighted [...]

Sen. Mitch McConnell plumbs his way to Worst Person in the World!
Headzup: Reverend Fred “God hates fags” Phelps responds to Sean Penn.
Colbert with Swede Hereafter (via OneGoodMove).
John Bolton is one CRRRRRRRRAZY MOTHER! (Via Horses Ass.)
New policy on photographing caskets.
Shuster: Rep. Darrell Issa called out on “train to Sin City” bullshit.
Goldy and his friends engage [...]

The population of Washington D.C. may soon get representation with their taxation:

By a vote of 61-37, the Senate passed a bill providing full voting representation for the nation’s capital in the House of Representatives, nearly ensuring that the measure will become law this time around. While advocates were declaring victory already, a court fight almost [...]

Now that President Barack Obama has decided this issue, shouldn’t he, in the spirit of bipartisanship, seek:

advice on dog maintenance from Mitt Romney?
hints on dog handling from George W. Bush?
tips on bonding from Rick Santorum?
suggestions on doggie training and punishment from Seattle Times publisher Frank Blethen?

Just asking.

Greg Sargent has an interview with the Big Dog on Obama address last night:

Speaking of Obama’s speech, Clinton said: “I think he drew the right balance — he didn’t sugarcoat anything, he didn’t say it’s gonna get better tomorrow.”
“I think people appreciate the fact that he’s not jerking them around and [is] just telling them [...]

Gov. Bobby Jindal’s rebuttal to Obama’s address before a joint session of Congress was so bad that even FAUX News gave him numerous thumbs down.
Seriously, what was up with Jindal? His speech sounded like Comedian Rush and Bill-O-the-clown talking points strung together in that out-of-touch fantasy Wingding rhetorical style. I’m guessing that [...]

Huh. And here I though Rick Santelli was simply an over-caffeinated Wingnut, who was suffering from some kind of adverse interaction among his meds.
Nope. It turns out that he is really paranoid and delusional. And a Wingnut.

Cool. My former Governor Gary Locke is going to be commerce secretary. It feels right.
I moved to Washington state as Locke was running for his second term as Governor. After 4.5 years as a constituent, I offer Locke mostly high marks. He was hampered by the [...]

This guy is mentally ill:

U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning predicted over the weekend that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would likely be dead from pancreatic cancer within nine months.
During a wide-ranging 30-minute speech on Saturday at the Hardin County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner, Bunning said he supports conservative judges “and that’s going [...]

Ambassador Dr. Alan Keyes isn’t just crazy. He isn’t just a Wingnut. Nope…Alan Keyes is a fringe-lunatic-batshit-crazy-nut-job. Or something like that.
He’s at it again with the “Barack Obama isn’t a natural born citizen” conspiracy theory nonsense:

I’d like to believe losing that 2004 Senate race to Obama by 70% [...]

The Sunday Funnies (via OneGoodMove).
Michele Bachmann’s insane stimulus rant (via Huffington Post):
Monkey Business:

Going apeshit.
Shuster: Racism in a post-partisan America (via Crooks and Liars).
Olbermann: Racist cartoon or political threat ? (Or both?)
AC360: New York Post’s racist cartoon.
David Schuster and Cenk Uygur on that ape-shit crazy cartoon.

Still Bushed! Three lingering Bush scandals.
Mark Fiore with [...]

I’ve never been terribly impressed with George Will as a columnist. My father, a pragmatist who lived through the Great Depression and was a T-5 in the Army during the waning months of WWII, has long held that Will “has an extensive vocabulary with which he obfuscates anything he writes about.”
As a propagandist, [...]

It looks like Sarah Palin is now disqualified from becoming the next Commerce Secretary.
Let us indulge for a moment in the sage commentary of Ãœberwingnut Bill Dupray:

So it seems that [Obama's four cabinet nominees with tax troubles] were not only tax cheats, they also lied when they filled out the questionnaires. [...]

Gallup’s new Congressional approval poll is out. Congressional approval has jumped to from 19% last month to 31% this month. Support from Democrats has jumped from 18% (Jan) to 43% (Feb). Republicans, from 23% (Jan) to 19% (Feb). Independents saw a modest increase in [...]

Bob Herbert writes:

Listening to President Obama, I was struck by how well he understands that most voters are not driven by ideology and are not searching for politically orthodox leadership. Most want leaders who speak to their needs — especially in this time of economic crisis — and a government that works.
Republicans in Congress [...]