Other than C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, Morning Joe on MSNBC is the best wake up program on cable television. The fact that the idiotic FOX and Friends has higher ratings is a better example than anything I can come up with as to how dumbed down America’s political conversation has become in the last thirty years. Former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough (whom I have to admit has grown on me) may be a bit of a pompous blowhard, but he has the slightly left-of-center Mika Brzezinshi there to keep him in line. The guest rostrum every morning consists of a healthy mix of opinions and ideas. It’s pretty “fair and balanced” – as opposed to their half-witted counterparts over at FOX.
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FOR THE RECORD: I wasn’t all-that-crazy about Barack Obama’s latest nomination for Supreme Court Justice. Elana Kagan is hardly the progressive firebrand that I was praying for. What was needed, I felt, was someone with the heavy duty, left-leaning gravitas of the late William O. Douglas – that court’s last, true Liberal. What was desperately [...]
Well the new 2010 platform for the Texas Republican party is out, and if you’re either gay, a lover of porn, or both, it might make you cringe. Of course at this point, nothing Texas does surprises me any more.
Republican Governor Bob McDonnell has declared April to be “Confederate History Month,” in Virginia making it the first time in 8 years that such a proclamation has been issued in the state.
There’s an interesting new Harris poll out which reveals just exactly what Republicans think about President Obama:
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