• The clock is ticking.
• The MOTUs make backup plans.
• I’ll believe it when I see it.
• Like a virus killing the host.
• When Pravda covers The Undefeated.

Someday one of our wars is going to end…as long as there’s a negligible accomplishment.

En Vogue — Giving Him Something He Can Feel.

There are many rooms in the House of Wingnut Prose. Each is squalid and awful, yet each possesses its distinct redolence, from the billowy fumes of the Den of Goldbergian Flatulence, to the bitter stench of the Chamber of Malkinesque Resentment. And then we have the Hall of Incompetent Bombast, in whose dark depths we [...]

In exposing Mr Minnery’s basic error in understanding the definition of “nuclear family” in the HHS study Minnery cited, Senator Franken made clear that such a fundamental mistake in reading the report made all of Minnery’s testimony suspect and unworthy of consideration by the committee.

On Monday Venetian Casino Resort, LLC. filed suit against Tea Party Nation Corporation of Franklin, Tenn for $642,144 in unpaid hotel bills and interest. According to a contract attached to the suit, Tea Party Nation agreed to pay the resort $579,148 in the event of a cancellation. The Palazzo alleges the group still owes $554,148, plus and 18 percent interest charge of $87,996.

The saddest part of Jane Hamsher’s interview on Ed’s show last night was listening to Ed groan in the background as Ms. Hamsher calmly explained that it was his supposedly Democratic President who was insisting on putting Social Security and Medicare at risk as a condition for avoiding a default on the national debt. How could this be?

The sneaky provisions hurt the worst. The Business Roundtable and the US Chamber of Commerce say: Let’s quit taxing corporations. The Pretend Democrats see how close they can come to achieving the will of their corporate masters.

I think it’s pretty clear that someone played a dirty trick on Michele Bachmann (probably Tim Pawlenty’s campaign) by planting a story in The Daily Caller about her frequent migraine headaches. The DC article hinted at salacious allegations of pill popping and headaches that leave Bachmann incapacitated for days. ABC News piled on with similar allegations from a former staffer that said Bachmann’s headaches left her unable to function.

Susan Sarandon, Mark Ruffalo, Gloria Steinem, Nawal El Saadawi, David Straithairn and Edward Asner speak out on behalf of the Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers.