Hominid Views

The headline from Rasmussen Reports practically screams: “58% Favor Waterboarding of Plane Terrorist To Get Information“.
No shit, Sherlock!
Humans have a strong innate ability to react to their own fear by trying to punish those who evoke the emotion. They do this whether the punishment is warranted or not, and [...]

I don’t wish death on anyone…and I most certainly don’t want Rush Limbaugh to die in freakin’ Kenya!
(He should have insisted on being flown to Wasilla for treatment.)
Besides…if he dies, the word “titular” will likely fade from the political vernacular. It’d be a sad ending for such a perky word!

Imagine where the rabid right would be taking this thing if the underwear bomber had been from Kenya instead of Nigeria!

It is Barack Obama, of course.
Despite all-out attempts to smear Obama by the right wing kook house, Obama’s leadership and achievements have prevailed.

Why does Sen. Jim DeMint hate America?

Majority Leader Harry Reid will schedule a vote when the Senate returns in January from its holiday recess to break the hold Republican Senator Jim DeMint put on the nomination of counter-terrorism official Erroll Southers, Reid spokesman Jim Manley said.
“In light of the outrageous and petty move by Senator [...]

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Everyone who is panicking and/or trying to gain a political advantage through fear over the “underwear bomber” needs to write the above 1000 times on the blackboard after class.
The fact is, the terrorists win from such panic and hyperbole. [...]

Senate Moderates are going to give up on cap and trade? Via Politico:

Bruised by the health care debate and worried about what 2010 will bring, moderate Senate Democrats are urging the White House to give up now on any effort to pass a cap-and-trade bill next year.
“I am communicating that in every way I [...]

The question: who is the political satirist of the decade. Vote here.

Young Turks: Michelle Bachman turns out to be a welfare queen!
Merry Chris… Err… Happy Holidays:

Obamas’Christmas Greeting
Sen. Roland Burris’ Night Before Health Care (via Mediaite):

Liberal Viewer: ACLU Christmas spirit beats Bill O’Reilly and Ann Coulter..
Headzup: Santa Obama meets an unhappy kid.
Mark Fiore: Dogboy and Mr. Dan’s Christmas Special.

Maddow: Tea partiers are the new “GOP Baggers” [...]

The Senate finally got their “up or down vote” on health care reform. It passed easily, 60-39:

The Senate voted Thursday to reinvent the nation’s health care system, passing a bill to guarantee access to health insurance for tens of millions of Americans and to rein in health costs as proposed by [...]

The Republicans were hoping to have ACORNs roasting in an open fire this holiday season. Alas, there is no evidence of illegal activity:

The controversial community organizing group Acorn has not broken any laws in the last five years, according to a Congrssional [sic] Research Service report released Tuesday evening.
The report, requested by Representative [...]

Sen. McCain channels the recently deceased Ted Kennedy (via The Plumb Line):

I think Senator Kennedy would appreciate the outcome. I don’t think he would appreciate it on a party line vote. I worked with him on many issues across party lines. There has never been a major reform accomplished in the history of this country [...]

About freaking time…Seriously! The Party of No/Death is not going to be able to kill health care reform now.
Ronald Reagan comes to mind. Following a tough congressional battle to authorize the sale of AWACS planes to Saudi Arabia in 1981, Reagan supposedly quipped: “I feel like I’ve just crapped a pineapple!”
With [...]

Politifact has the “Lie of the Year”:

“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are [...]

The cost savings from the Senate version of the health care reform bill look promising. From the CBO Director’s Blog:

CBO and JCT estimate that the direct spending and revenue effects of enacting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act incorporating the manager’s amendment would yield a net reduction in federal deficits of $132 [...]