Well, it’s all over — and the Teabaggers didn’t disappoint.

The CEO of BNY Mellon, Richard Kelly, had a chance to explain why we need gargantuan banks. He flopped.

To date, there is no authentic, 21st Century progressive movement. Those may be fightin’ words to some, but I think they’re true. The contemporary progressive resistance arose in response to a consolidation of neo-liberal, authoritarian power, maybe just in the nick of time. The resistance knows what it resists; it’s less articulate about its own [...]

Rarely are transcripts of official events eye-opening, but this account of Defense Secretary Gates’ Q&A at the Pakistani National Defense University yesterday is amazing. It’s hard to tell, because I wasn’t there, but the vitriol expressed to Gates appears to knock him back on his heels.

It’s handy, isn’t it, the way the President gets to retain plausible deniability for the killing of a US citizen?

Looks like Palin pulled a sleight of hand during last night’s post-speech Tea Party Q&A, using notes on her palm to scoot through the hard parts of the the question.

Super Sunday.  Who’s your team? Washington Journal: 7:45am – David Drucker, Roll Call, Staff Writer & Reid Wilson, Hotline On Call, Editor.  8:45am – Andrew Cline, New Hampshire Union Leader, Editorial Page Editor & Mike Lafferty, Orlando Sentinel, Opinions Editor. ABC’s This Week: Jake Tapper.  Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner talks about “the nation’s economy, budget [...]

Ducking The Devil starring Daffy Duck and the Tasmanian Devil. This Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon was released on August 17, 1957.

The Super Bowl isn’t until tomorrow, but some of our friends from Greater Wingnuttia are already acting like they took a shot to the head from a 350 pound offensive lineman. It makes sense: internet “conservatives” like saying stupid things about “liberals”; the Super Bowl is a major event; the temptation to say stupid things [...]

President Obama has proposed ending one of the more wasteful crony capitalism programs currently funded by the federal government. The government provides students loans in two ways–the first and most effective of which is to just directly loan money to students. This is done through the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program. The other way is to guarantee student loans provided by private companies, through the government-guaranteed Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFEL). Not surprisingly, adding a private middleman adds waste and inefficiency. Eliminating this would save the government $80 billion.