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On Tuesday, Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government blog got…

December 25th, 2009 by Joshua Skaroff


On Tuesday, Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government blog got its knickers in a twist over one of the Obama White House’s myriad Christmas trees. (Big Government is a sibling to Breitbart’s Big Hollywood blog, which cranked up a paranoid fantasy about the National Endowment for the Arts a few months back.) The blaring “EXCLUSIVE” led with a blurry photo of a decoupage Christmas ornament adorned with the face of Chinese Communist dictator, Mao Zedong.

“Of course, Mao has his place in the White House,” Big Government wailed about the GCOS, taking the Obama-as-socialist meme out for a yuletide spin.

Except, it wasn’t exactly Mao. It was Andy Warhol’s “Mao.”)

“Southern segregationists in the 1960s, facing the passage of voting rights legislation aimed at…”

November 24th, 2009 by Joshua Skaroff
“Southern segregationists in the 1960s, facing the passage of voting rights legislation aimed at uprooting the foundations of their states’ political and social order, did not go as far in obstructing the consideration of legislation as opponents of health care reform are going today.”

- The Senate Big Picture by TPM Reader JB

President Obama, United We Serve, and the NFL Team Up for…

November 20th, 2009 by Joshua Skaroff


President Obama, United We Serve, and the NFL Team Up for Fitness and Service

Rep. Alan Grayson: “If the President has a BLT tomorrow,…

October 9th, 2009 by Joshua Skaroff


Rep. Alan Grayson: “If the President has a BLT tomorrow, the Republicans will try to ban bacon.”

“It turns out that in eight states, plus the District of Columbia, getting beaten up by your spouse…”

October 7th, 2009 by Joshua Skaroff

It turns out that in eight states, plus the District of Columbia, getting beaten up by your spouse is a pre-existing condition.

Under the cold logic of the insurance industry, it makes perfect sense: If you are in a marriage with someone who has beaten you in the past, you’re more likely to get beaten again than the average person and are therefore more expensive to insure. In human terms, it’s a second punishment for a victim of domestic violence.

In 2006, Democrats tried to end the practice. An amendment introduced by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), now a member of leadership, split the Health Education Labor & Pensions Committee 10-10. The tie meant that the measure failed. All ten no votes were Republicans.



- When Getting Beaten By Your Husband Is A Pre-Existing Condition

“$1.4 million”

August 31st, 2009 by Joshua Skaroff
“$1.4 million”

- Money Spent by the Health Insurance Industry on Lobbying Congress Per Day

“On the morning of the day before the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin, Senator Ted Kennedy called the White…”

August 26th, 2009 by Joshua Skaroff

On the morning of the day before the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin, Senator Ted Kennedy called the White House to inquire if it was appropriate to bring to the burial some earth from Arlington National Cemetery. The answer was essentially a shrug: Who knows? Unadvised, the senator carried a shopping bag onto the plane, filled with earth he had himself dug the afternoon before from the graves of his two murdered brothers. And at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, after waiting for the crowd and the cameras to disperse, he dropped to his hands and knees, and gently placed that earth on the grave of the murdered prime minister.

No spin, no photo op; a man unreasonably familiar with bidding farewell to slain heroes, a man in mourning, quietly making tangible a miserable connection.



- Two Lions: When Ted Kennedy Privately Honored Yitzhak Rabin

“6% fully concede that Obama was born in Hawaii. They just don’t believe Hawaii is part of the…”

August 19th, 2009 by Joshua Skaroff
“6% fully concede that Obama was born in Hawaii. They just don’t believe Hawaii is part of the United States.”

- Beneath the Birther Toplines | TPM

Barney Frank Confronts Woman At Townhall Comparing Obama To…

August 19th, 2009 by Joshua Skaroff


Barney Frank Confronts Woman At Townhall Comparing Obama To Hitler

“The men were drinking beer from clear glass mugs and munching on peanuts and pretzels served in…”

July 30th, 2009 by Joshua Skaroff
“The men were drinking beer from clear glass mugs and munching on peanuts and pretzels served in small silver bowls. The beers:
POTUS: Bud Light
VPOTUS: Bucklers
Gates: Sam Adams Light
Crowley: Blue Moon”

- Beers In The Rose Garden: White House Pool Report