Obama's press conference yesterday was once again evidence that while he is perhaps the most intellectually capable president we've had (probably since Carter) he has little sense of the moment and no capability whatsoever of matching justifiable outrage with events that demand it.  While it was noble of him to say the responsibility for the Gulf horror is his, that's really not the point.  ...

The so-called Teabag Movement" is fascinating and much like the gathering storm on the horizon. To minimize it and believe it will blow over is a big mistake.  Close attention must be paid.

At first glance, it seemed this movement was classic Astroturf.  But it's tapped into and given vent to seemingly bottomless hatred.  Words and deeds that were unthinkable even five years ago are becoming ...

"Quite frankly, the solutions are just about as obvious," said Elizabeth Warren last night on Real Time with Bill Maher.  A perfect encapsulation of the frustration a lot of us have been feeling as of late.  Maher is hit or miss for me, but last night's show (with panelists Elliot Spitzer, Nora O'Donnell and Seth McFarlane) stood in stark relief to the shit-slinging, irrelevant Teabagger vs. DMC mouthfests that pass for “informed” cable channel debate.

Watching the show, it became clear to me that our fundamental choices are far simpler and much more profound than the mechanics of fixing healthcare or righting the economy, and that without resolving these two questions as a nation, we’re doomed.  They are:

Are ...

We should be laughing our asses off, the media should be laughing their asses off and putting this story in places where alien conspiracy theorists and the Flat Earth Round-up goes.  That anyone beyond desperate propagandists (read Fox) takes this "movement" seriously is flat out funny.  Keep moving.  Nothing to see here...

“Until now,” Murray Hill Inc. said in a statement, “corporate interests had to rely on campaign contributions and influence peddling to achieve their goals in Washington. But thanks to an enlightened Supreme Court, now we can eliminate the middle-man and run for office ourselves.”

"Murray Hill Inc. is believed to be the first “corporate person” to exercise its constitutional right to run for office. As Supreme Court observer Lyle Denniston wrote in his SCOTUSblog, ...