This Bloomberg poll report is making the liberal rounds, but it is irresistible: At the same time, 70 percent of those who sympathize with the Tea Party, which organized protests this week against President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, want a federal government that fosters job creation. They also look to the government to rein in [...]

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Shorter Harold Ford: “Dude, I coulda totally pwned that bitch if you pussies hadn’ta hold me back.” Glad that sideshow’s over. I have not lived in New York in 15 years, but I still take its politics very seriously. I didn’t want no Teabagging Palinites and I don’t want no Carpetbagging Blue Dogs. FWIW, I [...]

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…but Congresscritters do not see inherent conflicts of interest or bribery in the close connections between campaign contributions and contract awards to their donors. “Simply because a member sponsors an earmark for an entity that also happens to be a campaign contributor does not, on these two facts alone, support a claim that a member’s [...]

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From your “liberal” New York Times: But haven’t I read economists saying that a bill that small will make almost no dent in unemployment? Is that sort of thing the only hope for bipartisanship? It depends on what you mean by bipartisanship. Nothing is stopping Mr. Obama and Congressional Democrats from adding more Republican ideas [...]

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Taking a holiday break, I wasn’t planning on a cartoon this week for In Contempt. But the Christmas day testicle bomb FAIL proved inspiring. For some definitions of “inspiration.” Page 26 of the “Search Party” story line is up at Wanderlost. Ma Pig gets an unwelcome surprise.

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This woman was paid real U.S. currency to write these words: By staying in Hawaii, the president has sent the message that the situation really isn’t all that serious, that things can proceed just fine until he’s back. And isn’t it that kind of reasoning that emboldens our never-vacationing enemies into thinking Christmas Day is [...]

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Let us play the world’s smallest violin for Lou Dobbs. Then cut the instrument in half and rub it on rat genitals for Sarah Palin. Dobbs went on O’Reilly to imply with the subtlety of a railroad spike through the head that CNN is in the tank for Obama and could not countenance his “rigorous, [...]

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A new cartoon has appeared on In Contempt. How it got there, I don’t know. But it’s kinda cute. I think I’ll keep it around. At least until it bores me, then I’ll trade it in for an upgrade. Speaking of which, I put a hundred smackers down on a guitar on Monday; after two [...]

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Paul Krugman explains why the Obama-Geithner bank plan leaked to the NY Times this morning is a waste of tax-payer money: Bank runs can be contagious; partly that’s for psychological reasons, partly because banks tend to invest in similar assets, so one bank’s fire sale depresses another bank’s net worth. So now we have a [...]

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Judd Gregg just withdrew from nomination for President Obama’s commerce secretary. For all of his “my bad” posturing, I tend to agree with Doug J at Balloon Juice that Gregg’s move is well-timed to inflict political damage on the ObamAdmin. Following two weeks of conservative whinging and compromises that have weakened the effectiveness of the [...]

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