Headlines - Sunday

Krugman: Triumph of the Dull - h/t Dick

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In his CPAC speech, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell insisted that conservatives are more "interesting" and "fun" than liberals. Here's his proof: "who wants to hang out with guys like Paul Krugman and Robert Reich when you can be with Rush Limbaugh?"

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If you add John Boehner's favorability

rating (16%) to Mitch McConnell's (22%),

that's only 38%. Still way too high, if you

stop and think about it.

 

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Gulp. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. reported a 96 percent drop in its fourth quarter profit. 

 

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Joe the plumber thinks certain members of Congress should be shot

 

Think Progress bravely ventured into the CPAC snake pit:

On Wednesday, Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher said that if he were in Congress, he would "probably be in jail" because he'd be charged with "slapping some member." He added, "And that's not [bull] either." ThinkProgress caught up with Joe at CPAC yesterday and asked him which members he would most like to slap. "Pretty much anybody that's stood there and said anything bad about our troops, pretty much anybody who sat there and talked treasonous talk about America," Joe said.

And, then Joe took it further, describing who could be shot, yes, shot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xXSKCH7oJE&eurl=http://www.americablog.com/2009/02/cpac-extremism-continues-with-joe.html
 

 

 

 

The crowd went wild when Mike Huckabee announced

that next year's CPAC would convene in Tennessee in

June and would be called 'Wankeroo'.

 

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King County (Seattle area) deputy doesn't take any guff from teenage girls. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipb_PeXOdT4&eurl=http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/

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Via Digby.

You'd think with all the porn that the Bible Belters watch, they'd figure this one out.

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Michelle Malkin: When the President proposes things like trillion dollar budgets that have earmarks that he claims do not exist, yes, I hope that fails. When he proposes the same kind of wealth re-distributionist policies that had appalled me under the Bush administration, yes, I hope they fail.

Malkin then became increasingly defensive, arguing, "It certainly doesn't make me some kind of racist for wanting to disagree with the President."

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Barry Ritholtz on the outburst by Rick Santelli (which was yet another campaign for the extremely wealthy, extremely reactionary Koch family and their wealthy friends who have every reason to make sure Obama fails in raising their taxes.) No wonder Obama came out punching today.

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Obama helicopter security breached: ttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29447088/

Chicago man charged with mailing HIV-infected blood to Obama: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/28/chicago-man-charged-with_n_170781.html