Kentucky GOP senator Jim Bunning screwed over 1.2 million jobless Americans with one filibuster. And that ain’t all:
“This means that construction workers will be sent home from job sites because federal inspectors must be furloughed.”Federal projects shut down include more than $38 million in project funding for Idaho’s Nez Perce National Forest and Fernan Lakes [...]

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Anyone remember Lynn Forester de Rothschild? Think reeeeeaaaaalllllly hard back to the closing days of the 2008 election; and you may recall an upper class white woman with strong ties to the investment class making a big regretful noise that, contrary to decades of loyalty to her Democratic Party, she could not in good conscience [...]

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My favorite all-time Tom the Dancing Bug recurring theme is Lucky Ducky. More specifically, it’s Hollingsworth Hound, the perpetually aggrieved and victimized dog banker who suffers from Lucky Ducky’s privileged position in the upside-down world of conservative thinking.
I mention this, because Ruben Bolling revived him as an illustration for a post linking to Matt Taibbi’s [...]

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Found via Gawker, which provides context. And there is a Facebook group. Of course!
Speaking of doing good for Haiti, Ruben Bolling has announced a Tom the Dancing Bug Haitian Relief Challenge. The two topper-most donors will receive an original drawing from Mr. Bolling his own bad self. And that would be sweet!
Spread the joy…

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Like a lot of people who care about democracy and free speech and citizen power, I think the Supreme Court ruling allowing corporations to spend money on candidates like a coke-crazed Yuppie on a high priced call girl worrying and distasteful.
That said, my reaction yesterday was pretty underwhelmed compared to the Gotterdammerung predicted by other [...]

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