The Exquisite Contrarian

The lines have been drawn.  On this side we have the well-respected Bush 43 Secretary of State Colin Powell, his chief of staff and decades-long Cheney colleague Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, and Powell’s replacement at State, Condoleeza Rice. And on the other side we have, weighing in at God-only-knows-what, Dick “The Heartless One” Cheney. (We’d have Bush [...]

Well, OK, that’s not what he said.  Not even close.  But he was that kind of angry, and he was pointing the finger at the last two decades of cozying between those who lead government and want to control our money and those who don’t and already do control our money, or as we around [...]

Why would someone watch 14 hours of hurricane coverage?  That’s easy.  We love train wrecks and we gravitate towards anything that will heighten our emotions – particularly fear.  In other words, the ‘emotional hit’ we obviously lack in our routine day to day. It’s just a shame the media panders to our weakest feelings, like [...]

From the guvnah: “I hates me some DC but man that Capital dome thingy sure does look purdy behind my Planet of the Apes hairdo!”

What’s a w—-? Thanks for censoring this one, MSNBC. No what is this report about?

While attending a Tea Party town hall meeting in North Tempe, Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl told the audience at a that during a private, one-on-one meeting with President Obama in the Oval Office, Obama and he discussed securing the Mexican Border. Kyle quoted the president as claiming as problematic “If we secure the border, [...]

Did the BP chairman really say this?  Wow, they really don’t get it, do they?

Gretchen Carlson of Fox thinks it’s “disingenuous” when the President references God in a speech when he doesn’t go to church every week. We think it’s disingenuous when Gretchen Carlson decides her Fox and Friends role entitles to play God by judging the actions of others while brainwashing her TV followers. More from Mediaite.

We’re really enjoying the Elena Kagan interview process.  It’s almost like getting interrogated by hundreds of overly confident questioners for a crime you didn’t commit (and frankly for a crime which doesn’t exist.  Each member seems to think they’re going to be the one blowing the doors open to some new revelation that makes Kagan [...]

This is the fundamental difference between how Republicans and Democrats view the world.  Republicans generally go to the people who need the police for money while the Democrats prefer to collect and distribute it way up at the federal level.  Logical?