I don't know who created this, but this is a great quote. Definitely words to live by.

Another public service from Media Matters

Media Matters continually busts conservative (and sometimes liberal or other) lies. They are a treasure. Here they uncover how blatantly false or misguided the criticisms of the recovery plan are. Its just a shame that these lies get repeated in the media so often. In the end the bill will pass because it must.

The RNC (barely) picked Michael Steele as its new chair

I'm shocked because I don't know what it means.

If they'd of gone with Dawson, then I'd have laughed and said the social conservatives had won, that the party would redouble its efforts to do nothing but obstruct and attack, and I would have blogged an obituary for the GOP.

But with Steele, its possible that the party make a concerted effort to get out from under the thumb of the more destructive elements and be the loyal opposition while working to build the brand again....or maybe they just were barely astute enough to not chose the racist.

Party Identification in 2008

There's talk in the blogosphere of a liberal tide sweeping the nation. While I hope its true, It certainly never feels that way when I find myself in South Carolina. And judging by the eagerness of newsmedia to put a microphone in front of every crackpot conservative, it would take a huge tide for this country to truly enter an era of liberalism.

But Gallup finds some pretty interesting data to support the idea that the liberals are coming. And it goes along with my own earlier observation that Rush Limbaugh and his ilk are certainly on the (slow, loud) way out.


Most surprising is that S. Carolina is only the ninth most republican state and is actually tied in terms of party affiliation

Health Care reform

The New Yorker published an excellent discussion about the reality of health care reform.

It is wonderful that the author took the time to explain how other countries that have successful universal care got there. It puts the lie to what I think is an overly idealistic goal of some liberals, to immediately and fully implement a state run health care system. Its simply neither realistic or reasonable.

rush limbaugh

I'm amused and bewildered by the surprise elicited from the news that limbaugh wants obama to fail. Of course he does, he's not patriotic, he's a side-show barker and needs to speak this way to get attention. Worse, he can't remain relevant if "the other side" succeeds.

But what I really don't get is how blind he is. For nearly 20 years limbaugh gained wealth and notoriety as his ideological compatriots ran the country. And his audiences were huge. But guess what? A generation of white males, such as myself, and such as those who are now dissilusioned with the military, etc have grown up to voting adults. And we don't listen to limbaugh [1]. What I mean is that a generation of men who should have grown up to be the next generation of "angry white men" simply aren't "angry white men". Limbaugh's audience is graying and those that might have been expected to replace them did not appear. Why? Because of the failure of the very "medicine" Limbaugh advocated so successfully. We watched while the partisan, hard headed, old-fashioned form of governing and way of looking at the world limbaugh insisted was best failed.

Limbaugh will continue to make money and be the voice of a breed. It just happens that its a lot like the panda - to dumb to breed itself. But the panda has a leg up on the "politically relevant angry white male"; the panda doesn't bite those who try to help.


[1] I can't get the data on demographics for radio without an Arbitron subscription, but I can look at the traffic to his website.

Sproles

Darren Sproles is an electric cannonball. I had to write it because its true and no one else had yet said it.