Landrieu and Lincoln Line Up. Health Care Debate Is On.
on Nov 21, 2009 in Democrats Health Care It’s happening… Two final holdouts, Sens. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, announced in speeches a few hours apart on the Senate floor they would vote to clear the way for what is expected to be a bruising, full...

9,000th Post On Donklephant
on Nov 20, 2009 in Blogging It feels a little hard to believe, but we’re marking another milestone on the site today: 9,000 posts in a little over 4 years. Many, many, many thanks to my fellow contributors who have written thousands of thoughtful posts. And many, many, ma...

Climate Email Hacked
on Nov 20, 2009 in Climate Change CRU emails hacked hockey sticks To paraphrase Julie Andrews, “The Blogs are Alive …”, but this time with stolen emails rather than “Music”. Documents and archived emails were stolen from the University of East Anglia’s Hadley Climatic Research...

Uh, oh, “virus” infected NY-23 computerized voting machines
on Nov 19, 2009 in News A local newspaper in upstate New York’s 23rd Congressional District, scene of the hard-fought and nationally prominent special election (won — so far anyway — by the Democrat after his Conservative opponent conceded), reports that a...

Jon Stewart Interviews Lou Dobbs, Reveals More Paranoia
on Nov 19, 2009 in Barack Independents Media Obama Video As many of you know, I’ve been a fan of Dobbs. Yes, he has been leading the far right on issues like immigration and border security, but he opposed the Bush tax cuts, wanted to raise the minimum wage, is pro choice and favors gay marriage. Mea...

Big Spenders, All
on Nov 19, 2009 in Politics budget deficit The deficit explosion under the Obama administration is a common complaint by fiscal conservatives, and is often represented with a graph such as this one, courtesy of the libertarian think-tank, Cato.org: However, as Cato points out, the fiscal yea...

CBO Says Senate Health Care Bill Cuts Deficit By $127B
on Nov 18, 2009 in Democrats Health Care Legislation And it’ll achieve 94% coverage. And it costs $849B. CNN has more about some of the key points in the new bill… Among other things, they’ve agreed to subsidize insurance for a family of four making up to roughly $88,000 annually, or...

Stimulate This, Baby
on Nov 18, 2009 in Taxes making work pay payroll tax real tax rates Stimulus Michael Boskin is a professor of economics at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Today, in the Wall Street Journal, he proposes a temporary payroll tax reduction as a second try at a stimulus. He starts his argument...

Newsweek’s Dumb (And Sexist) Sarah Palin Cover
on Nov 18, 2009 in Media Palin Why oh why oh why oh why? They gave her an incredibly easy way to ignore the more substantive arguments against her legitimacy as a candidate and focus on their dumb decision to run with the above nonsense. And this isn’t just coming from her c...

Free the Yuan
on Nov 17, 2009 in Barack Cartoons China Economy Obama Political Graffiti Art cartoon dalai dollar economics free Hu inflation Jintao lama pics picture political president protectionism tibet yuan ...