By Madeleine Begun Kane
Nothing brings out Republican hypocrisy like a nice, juicy U.S. Supreme Court vacancy. Take Karl Rove, for instance, on Obama’s potential nominees to replace Justice David Souter:
Karl Rove rails against the possible nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor because “her opinions…have been very liberal.” But when Sandra Day O’Connor retired, Rove said the [...]

 
There will be no shortage of media analysis of last evening’s milestone Presidential Press Conference. A new phenomenon is the use of Twitter to fill-in the blanks behind the scene.
Ana Marie Cox http://www.twitter.com/anamariecox or simply @anamariecox for Twitter followers is National Correspondent for Air America Radio and contributor to both The Daily Beast and The [...]

Two new limericks by Madeleine Begun Kane
 
Rudy’s Family Values
How to become a GOP family values champion:
1. Marry your cousin.
2. Pretend you didn’t know she was your cousin.
3. Get your lengthy marriage to your mystery-cousin-wife annulled.
4. Marry someone else, have kids, then cheat on your second wife very publicly and notoriously while you’re New York City mayor.
5. [...]

 
By Madeleine Begun Kane
(Two new, hysterically funny limericks from Mad Kane - Ed.)
Fox News “pundit” rants always look foolish, especially when they’re packed with gleeful predictions of Democratic failures. And most especially when their predictions turn out to be dramatically wrong.
Such, thankfully, was the case with the loony rantings indulged in by Newt Gingrich, Glenn [...]

by Madeleine Begun Kane
I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed the House Republicans’ number-free budget. And I’m looking forward to the expanded version they’ve promised for next week — the one that won’t have any letters in it either.
Republican Road To Remedial Math (Limerick)
The purported Republican budget
Has no numbers, so how can we judge it?
There’s no dollars or sense
In [...]

 
It’s been done before, an FDIC/Comptroller of the Currency (or similar insurance or governmental institution elsewhere) bank take-over. I witnessed my first in Miami in 1991 when a former employer in the mid 80’s, Southeast Banking Corporation of Miami, then Florida’s oldest bank, had a deep liquidity crisis.
It was a swift, brutal, painless to depositors [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
The Bush countdown calendar’s down to its last sheet. 385 pages gone. It’s been almost 2-years since that freezing day Obama announced his candidacy on the Illinois Statehouse steps. We are more than halfway through a positively giddy festival of a celebration weekend. Thousands are milling about the Washington DC Mall just wanting [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
One does not become POTUS after 3-years in the Senate without making shrewd moves. These two are genius: separating John McCain’s political legacy from the ‘Wasilla Hillbilly’ and letting others carry the torture debate so he can honestly say he has no choice but to pursue prosecution of highest Bush officials for war [...]

By Denis Campbell
No one chooses their middle name, it’s bestowed by (hopefully sober at the time) parents. The only time anyone even hears it spoken aloud is to the guffaws of fellow classmates during high school graduation. History is working against Barack Hussein Obama and creating an off-the-silly-meter story.
There is no requirement he say ‘it.’ [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
“I told Marshall that no matter how long he lives, there will never be another day in American history quite like the day Barack Obama is inaugurated.” These were the words of our friend Charley James’ pal Susan in Washington whose 17-year old son is coming home from university for the occasion. “Without [...]