The Real Reason Why Obama Caved on Tax Cuts

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Wednesday December 15, 2010 · 12:20 PM PST

2010/12/15 · 12:20

Like many of you, I watched Leslie Stahl's interview with soon-to-be Speaker of the House John Boehner in complete astonishment, because while I have heard mention of his predisposition for crying in public, I had never actually seen him do so -- and with so little provocation! This wasn't a case where something came from out of the blue and slipped past his guard. This wasn't a setup. 60 Minutes was doing a fluffy biography piece on him and asked him all the sort of background questions you'd have expected them to ask. His guard should have been up, but he bawled like a little kid nonetheless.

And I think I should say here that I have no problem with a grown man being overly sentimental, or crying occasionally in public. But I do have a problem when the man in question is about to become the Speaker of the House. Although it makes me wonder if he sometimes uses his tears to get people to do what he wants (see the video.)
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Does Julian Assange Make You Nervous?

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Monday December 06, 2010 · 10:44 AM PST

2010/12/06 · 10:44

Well, Julian Assange makes me nervous, mostly because I've never seen or read an interview with him where he doesn't come off like an all knowing, egotistical anarchist bent on re-shaping the world into one giant fishbowl where no one can hide anything from anyone else.
If George Orwell were writing today he might have coined the term WikiBrother rather than Big Brother.

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Sarah Palin From The Heart

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Saturday November 27, 2010 · 3:53 PM PST

2010/11/27 · 15:53

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I have rarely been as angry as I was the other day when I first heard Sarah Palin's comments on Michelle Obama reported during a piece on her new book, "America by Heart."

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Wednesday November 24, 2010 · 1:07 PM PST

2010/11/24 · 13:07

President Obama made the following statement today from the Oval Office.

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Monday November 22, 2010 · 7:46 PM PST

2010/11/22 · 19:46

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It just struck me the other day about how incredibly powerful Independent Voters are in America today -- and how remarkably lazy they are. With all this power they have to choose our leaders, they generally pay little or no attention to what's going on in the country -- unless its something which affects their wallets or the well being of someone they know personally.

And it really isn't fair.

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Monday November 15, 2010 · 12:32 PM PST

2010/11/15 · 12:32

Campaign 2012 is here!

The Obama Pad is: Communicating, Super Smart, Shovel Ready, Crime Fighting, Budget Balancing, Job Creating, Flag Waving, Axe Grinding, John Boehner Fighting, Tea Bag Kicking, Jedi Mind Trick Using and Presidential.

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Monday November 08, 2010 · 12:34 PM PST

2010/11/08 · 12:34

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Well, it was as inevitable as Lindsay Lohan failing a sobriety check,but here we are, two years after he left office, and George W. Bush has written a book. Which means that we're all going to be forced to suffer through an interminable cascade of interviews designed not to sell books (although that will be a side effect) or educate the public about his Presidency, but rather to shield George W. Bush from difficult questions or anything else which might interfere with his carefully choreographed effort at rehabilitating his image with the American People.

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Friday November 05, 2010 · 11:34 AM PDT

2010/11/05 · 11:34

If you believe in the old adage that "politics makes strange bedfellows," then you'd be hard pressed not to agree that the Teabaggers are the bedbugs of the political world.

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Thursday October 28, 2010 · 11:38 AM PDT

2010/10/28 · 11:38

I do a lot of Political Satire on YouTube where I try to listen and respond to all the feedback my work gets. One of my subscribers sent me this message yesterday, and it explains quite eloquently what this video is all about.

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Friday October 22, 2010 · 2:59 AM PDT

2010/10/22 · 02:59

If you're like me, you're probably a bit tired of some of the really, really, stupid and racist humor floating around concerning President Obama. I have to hand it to the Right and their absolute inability to see or own up to the truly racist quality of so much of what is being passed around in conservative circles masquerading as political satire concerning the President.

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Tuesday October 05, 2010 · 10:41 AM PDT

2010/10/05 · 10:41

If you haven't seen Republican Senatorial Candidate Christine O'Donnell's first campaign commercial, you really owe it to yourself to click on this link and check it out: http://www.youtube.com/...
I don't recall ever having seen a campaign commercial more completely devoted to fluff than this one was. She doesn't mention a single, serious issue. She doesn't talk about what she would do as a United States Senator. The entire commercial is devoted to making her look and sound like the "girl next door" who's being bullied by the toughies down the block.

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Wednesday September 22, 2010 · 10:54 AM PDT

2010/09/22 · 10:54

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Once upon a time there was a young Abstinence Advocate named Christine O'Donnell who ran for the GOP Senate nomination (to fill Vice President Biden's Senate Seat) in the tiny, magical state of Delaware. Much to the surprise of Mainstream Republican leaders Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, young Christine was taken up by a tornado of Tea Party Supporters, crashing her down upon their hope for re-gaining control of the senate away from the Democratic party in the November 2010 elections.

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