CT Blue

Yesterday I wrote a post, the thrust of which was that we are living in a world made largely fact free by the right wing echo chamber. I mentioned the fact that a friend of mine got an email from a right wing friend in which she claimed that Obama had spent his term blaming […]

Steve Benen, at the Washington Monthly, points out that there are more Republicans leaving Congress than Democrats, though you’d never know it, given the press accounts of Demcrats heading for the hills. The latest, a Georgia Congressman named John Linder, is from a safe seat, so it’s not likely that it will create an opportunity […]

There’s nothing new under the sun, as digby reminded us yesterday. Yesterday was the anniversary of JFK’s assassination. Here, as she points out, is a leaflet passed around in Dallas the day he was killed. Seems Obama wasn’t the first traitor we’ve had as a president. But check out the last item in the Bill […]

The only thing keeping the inept Democratic Party afloat is the even more inept, and far more politically tone deaf Republican Party. Case in point, is the special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, made possible by Obama’s strategic elevation of its former Republican Congressman to a federal post. The 23rd is the most […]

Why does Bill Kristol go on the Daily Show, not to mention Stephen Colbert? Is he a glutton for punishment. The poor fellow is hopelessly outclassed, as his latest round with Jon Stewart proves. Why must we turn to a “comedian” if we want to see one of these guys called to account? As a […]