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6.20% Commie 11.97% Commie
Sun February 28, 2010
Source     Fark Headline Comments
(CNN) Fail Pelosi: Our bill is bipartisan. We've got both Democrats, and liberal Democrats  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (123)
(CNN) Interesting Doctor says Obama has high cholesterol, finally proving to the Birthers that he is American  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (104)
(Fox News) Asinine Pelosi to House: You have to vote for healthcare bill--even if your voters are too stupid to realize it's what they really want  (foxnews.com) (234)
(Some Guy) Asinine When we said half the troops would be "home" from Afghanistan for christmas we really meant "Kuwait"  (dailyexpress.co.uk) (20)
(Crooks & Liars) Hero Comedian Rush Limbaugh applies smackdown to whiny ingrates who can't afford dentures. Go gettum, Rushbo  (crooksandliars.com) (210)
(LA Times) Obvious Health insurer admits that the US healthcare system is completely broken  (latimes.com) (162)
(Politico) Obvious President Obama prepares for 2012 election by appointing his chief campaign fundraiser as new White House Social Secretary. You gotta admit - the man is efficient  (politico.com) (40)
(Big Journalism) Fail Everyone expects journalists to be mouthpieces for the Democratic Party, but reprinting a Democratic Congresman's press release word for word and putting your own name on it is going too far  (bigjournalism.com) (44)
(BBC) Cool The economy grew more than previously thought at the end of 2009. Still has nothing to do with Obama  (news.bbc.co.uk) (125)
(LA Times) Asinine Apparently Chicago police can tell if someone needs a good frisking just by looking at them  (latimes.com) (58)
(Mercury News) Obvious The cost of doing nothing on Health Care = America bankrupt by 2020. Republicans finally announce their candidate. Mad Max 2012  (mercurynews.com) (120)
(Crooks & Liars) Sad Listen to the background chatter cease and the room fall silent after President Obama asks health care summit attendees to consider what life is like for Americans who are not rich politicians (video)  (videocafe.crooksandliars.com) (462)
(College Voice) Scary If you are a professor and asked for a local example of a government official drawing a salary and pension for the same job and answer "the sheriff" then expect him to show up before the end of class and to be kissing his feet  (media.www.mcccvoice.org) (118)
(Think Progress) Dumbass Joe Lieberman (I-srael) now claims that Israel's policy of taking a bunch of Palestinian land is not an obstacle to making peace with the Palestinians  (thinkprogress.org) (139)
(Fox News) Asinine Defense attorney who worked very hard for Democratic party and made large contributions to Obama campaign is finally rewarded for his efforts by being appointed to US Attorney position. Because he lacks experience, some have a problem with this  (foxnews.com) (131)
(AlterNet) Obvious The reason people are skeptical of global warming is because there is too much evidence  (alternet.org) (751)
(LiveLeak) Interesting "On Feb 3rd, National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair, in open testimony before the House intelligence committee, acknowledged that American citizens can be assassinated at our government's discretion" Ron Paul  (liveleak.com) (111)

Sat February 27, 2010
(Old Jarhead) Interesting A U.S. Marine General's take on a nuclear armed Iran  (tartanmarine.blogspot.com) (94)
(Daily Kos) Obvious Unemployment above 10% and presidential approval in the 30s: a portrait of our failure of a one-term President  (dailykos.com) (163)
(Media Matters) Asinine Obama administration meets with dozens of religious organizations, and one atheist organization. Sean Hannity reacts: "Why is Obama giving special treatment to atheists?"  (mediamatters.org) (141)
(AP) Obvious AP fact checks heath care summit exchange between President Obama and Sen. Lemar Alexander (R-TN), once again proving that the facts have a liberal bias  (hosted.ap.org) (157)
(UPI) Unlikely Obama calls for bipartisanship. doo, DOO, DOOP "I'm sorry, the number you have dialed is no longer in service. Please check the number and dial again."  (upi.com) (74)
(Crooks & Liars) Obvious You know why Americans are misinformed? Because the media lies to us and no one does anything about it  (crooksandliars.com) (157)
(Breitbart.com) Amusing Bush says he won't be an annoying ex-president to President Obama like a certain one was to him. Yes, he's looking at you Mr. Habitat for Hamas  T-Shirt  (breitbart.com) (110)
(CNN) Obvious Majority of Americans believe government is a threat to citizen rights. Tea Party on, pinkoes  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (193)
(Some Ditz) Followup Israel to US: "Since you guys wont bomb Iran, we'll go find someone who will." US: Hey, since you're all grown up now, can we stop paying you your allowance, too?  (news.antiwar.com) (225)
(Foolocracy) Fail The South Dakota Legislature wants the science from both sides of the global warming debate taught in the schools...next class: how astrology and cosmology explain global warming  (foolocracy.com) (276)
(BBC) Amusing Not news: Hearing, "Spare change, guv'nor?" Fark: Having it as the Tory election slogan. Extra-farklicious: The Lib Dems pretending they have a chance in the elections  (news.bbc.co.uk) (12)
(Mother Jones) Unlikely Birther, Truther, Tea Partier, Oath Keeper, freeper, Christian, and Fark Independent® named "Pray" prepares for the day "Hitlery" Clinton or Barack Hussein "Osama" declare martial law, unmask as lizzard people  (motherjones.com) (188)
(Some Guy) Stupid AMA, 6 months ago: A public option will result in us making less money, so we're not going to help you. AMA, now: Medicare payments about to be cut? Why won't you government officials help us?  (naplesnews.com) (65)
(Reason Magazine) Amusing Rep. Maxine Waters (D-ERP)  (reason.com) (165)
(National Journal) Interesting George Wallace is the real father of the modern GOP, and not for the reason you may think  (nationaljournal.com) (79)
(Telegraph) Interesting Gordon Brown insists Britain not involved in torture, conveniently forgetting the cuisine  T-Shirt  (telegraph.co.uk) (49)
(BBC) Fail Silvio Berlusconi, who passed a law against prosecuting him for his crimes, who has an 18-year-old girlfriend, and who owns six out of seven of Italy's television networks, has declared that his legal foes are akin to the Taleban  (news.bbc.co.uk) (47)
(Think Progress) Dumbass Trent Frank (R-AZ): "Far more of the African American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery."  (yglesias.thinkprogress.org) (388)

Fri February 26, 2010
(Washington Post) Interesting Inspired by the Tea Party movement, progressives form the "Coffee Party" as a grassroots effort to promote their issues and give trustafarians something to do all day other than smoke weed  (washingtonpost.com) (79)
(Some Guy) Amusing John Thune (R-eally StupidD) goes on Fox News to talk about health care, and gets his ass handed to him by Shepard Smith. Wait, what?  (politicususa.com) (86)
(Daily Kos) Asinine Senate votes in favor of extending unemployment benefits. Just kidding, Jim Bunning (R-KY) holds up the process, tells his Democratic colleagues "tough shiat" and complains about missing a basketball game  (dailykos.com) (131)
(American Thinker) Obvious The main factor that explains the ferocity, the hateful, the sheer derangement of the left's anti-Palin barrage is this: They are powerless to stop her. And they know it  (americanthinker.com) (673)
(Media Matters) Asinine Right-wing noise machine, unable to debate the merits of the conversation, decides the health care summit was too boring to care about  (feeds.mediamatters.org) (415)
(Think Progress) Dumbass Jim Bunning (R-emember to set your DVR next time) complains that he missed the Kentucky vs S. Carolina basketball game because of all this work he's expected to do  (thinkprogress.org) (104)
(CNN) Interesting 60% of Americans prefer socialism  (cnn.com) (622)
(Yahoo) Obvious Charlie Rangel (D-ishonest) found to have broken House ethics rules; Nancy Pelosi begins working furiously on doing nothing about it  (news.yahoo.com) (154)
(Fox News) Cool When even 46% of Fox News viewers agree with Democrats on Health Care Reform, maybe its time Republicans get on board  (foxnews.com) (302)
(NYPost) Interesting Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you  (nypost.com) (116)
(The Weekly Standard) Obvious Obama was so anxious to listen to GOP, he spent more time talking today than all GOP participants combined. Bonus: Also exceeded total of all other Democrats  (weeklystandard.com) (685)

Thu February 25, 2010
(Talking Points Memo) Fail Harry Reid accurately states that "no one has talked about reconciliation". You know, except for the Senate, the House, the President, all major political pundits and the entire bozosphere of the Fark politics page  (tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com) (149)
(Wall Street Journal) Dumbass Karl Rove: At the summit, Republicans need to correct Obama's many lies without going Joe Wilson on him  (online.wsj.com) (174)
(National Review) Asinine CBO report rigged so that no matter the results of the stimulus, it would show jobs saved  (corner.nationalreview.com) (248)
(CSMonitor) Asinine Newt Gingrich rushes to aid of defenseless insurance companies, recently stripped of their antitrust exemption, skirts  (csmonitor.com) (57)
(Reason Magazine) Obvious Obama's idea to control health insurance premiums he thinks are too high will work as well as price controls did when Richard Nixon tried them back in the 1970s  (reason.com) (56)
(LA Times) Obvious The Tea Party is "an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals"  (latimes.com) (250)
(RealClearPolitics) Unlikely Pelosi: Health Care reform will create 4 million jobs, 400,000 immediately. Granted, most of them will be as rainbow collectors and unicorn wranglers, but hey - a job's a job, right?  (realclearpolitics.com) (160)
(Think Progress) Obvious New survey shows that conservatives hate "spending", but overwhelmingly hate all cuts to actual spending on actual things  (yglesias.thinkprogress.org) (79)
(Huffington Post) Fail I'm not a 9/11 truther, says former Obama administration "green job czar," I just willingly put my signature on stuff that I haven't read and have no intention of reading  (huffingtonpost.com) (334)
(NYPost) Obvious Democrats need to stop whining about GOP filibuster threats. "Besides, has a filibuster ever prevented eventual enactment of anything significant that an American majority has desired, strongly and protractedly?"  (nypost.com) (92)
(Some Guy) Scary Saudi Arabia passes law criminalizing miscarriages. Just kidding, it's legislation passed in Utah and it's now waiting on the governor's signature  (clevelandleader.com) (209)
(C-SPAN) Obvious Wanna watch the government talk about not doing anything about health care? The Health Care Summit discussion thread now open  (c-span.org) (1210)
(Washington Post) Obvious Conceding that today's health care summit will be as predictable as kabuki theater, Democrats work on strategy for the real negotiations to follow behind the scenes  (washingtonpost.com) (186)
(Pensito) Hero Rep. Weiner on House Floor: 'Republicans Are Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Insurance Industry'  (pensitoreview.com) (315)
(Huffington Post) Obvious It's getting to be that a man cannot attend white nationalist events, exploit racial stereotypes or associate with unrepentant and sometimes violent racists without being accused of racism  (huffingtonpost.com) (319)
(The New York Times) Obvious NY Times: Paterson turned a blind eye to domestic abuse  (nytimes.com) (23)
(Talking Points Memo) Amusing Bush, talking about Palin: "I mean, I don't know what her deal is, but my belief is in 2010 and 2012, public leaders need to have intellectual curiosity"  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (151)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Republicans claim nuclear option "unprecedented" in health care legislation, except for, y'know, 1982, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1997, and 2005. Other than that, totally unprecedented  (americablog.com) (143)

Wed February 24, 2010
(Yahoo) Asinine Senate votes to extend PATRIOT Act for another year. How's that for hope and change?  (news.yahoo.com) (339)
(Salon) Obvious Senate Dems adopted 161 amendments and key GOP planks while soft-pedaling the public option. That's not compromise?  (salon.com) (121)
(Yahoo) Obvious Sen. Scott Brown (R-ino) learns the hard way that, for Republicans, voting against Obama is WAY more important than doing what's right  (news.yahoo.com) (128)
(USA Today) Hero Robert Byrd: the voice of reason on the filibuster debate? It's more likely than you think  (content.usatoday.com) (92)
(Media Matters) Obvious Obama administration arrests, Mirandizes, prosecutes in the civilian system, gets guilty plea from a dangerous terrorist in a triumph of the American justice system. Republican response: Not a single word  (mediamatters.org) (172)
(BBC) Unlikely "I don't want to be rude, but you have the charisma of a damp rag and come from a non-country."  (news.bbc.co.uk) (40)
(Talking Points Memo) Stupid Remember when Obama suspended his presidential campaign to address the banking crisis? That was awesome  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (140)
(Washington Times) Asinine If you had 11 days in the "How long will it take Congress to ignore the new PAYGO law" pool, collect your prize  (washingtontimes.com) (111)
(Rolling Stone) Scary It might look like we saved Wall Street, but according to Matt Taibbi, the banks conned us, they are holding out on us, and the worst part is that they're going for the reload  (rollingstone.com) (155)
(ABC News) Obvious Politicians continue the fight to give unused medications away instead of flushing them. Partly because it's fiscally responsible, but also because it's annoying to have so many relaxed fish who sleep well despite their massive erections  (abcnews.go.com) (44)
(Reason Magazine) Obvious Although he took top honors at CPAC, Ron Paul is to the future of conservatism what Keith Olbermann is to the future of liberalism  (reason.com) (167)
(Washington Post) Interesting NBC's Olympics coverage is a microcosm of the USA's cultural narcissism: We are so convinced of our own superiority that, when we lose, NBC doesn't even bother to show the gold medalist on screen  (newsweek.washingtonpost.com) (171)
(Some Guy) Obvious You know that far-left, socialistic health care bill Obama is proposing? It's almost identical to the Republicans' health care reform plan from 1993  (kaiserhealthnews.org) (116)
(Pew Pew Pew) Interesting Support for labor unions among Americans, which was as high as 58 percent in 2007, is down to 41 percent. A spokesman for unions is expected to respond after his break  T-Shirt  (people-press.org) (134)
(Daily Kos) Interesting Glenn Beck is now scaring the GOP establishment. And by "GOP establishment", we of course mean Rush Limbaugh  (dailykos.com) (152)
(Yahoo) Dumbass Newt Gingrich: Let's work together until we finish defeating the left and then we won't have to work with them as much  (news.yahoo.com) (28)
(Washington Post) Followup VA Republican who said that disabled children are a punishment from God for prior abortions is upset that people have misconstrued his statements to mean he believes that disabled children are a punishment from God for prior abortions  (washingtonpost.com) (66)
(Talking Points Memo) Interesting Health care reform not dead yet. In fact it thinks it will go for a walk  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (73)
(Talking Points Memo) Asinine Arizona to change motto to "The Birther State"  (tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com) (144)
(Salon) Obvious The Democratic Party's deceitful game  (salon.com) (91)
(Chicago Tribune) Scary Illinois has a $13 billion budget defict. "Any elected official or candidate who says you can solve this without a tax increase is either incredibly math-impaired or intentionally deceiving voters." Subby votes for both  (chicagotribune.com) (133)
(Breitbart.tv) Fail NEWS: Obama declares that using the 51 vote "Reconcilliation" budget process to be "Against the founders intent" and "Arrogant". Same old Same old: In 2005, before he wanted to use it for health care  (breitbart.tv) (252)
(CNN) Obvious 2/3 of Americans think that the Republicans in Congress are not doing enough to cooperate with President Obama, according to an new national poll that was obviously produced by the liberal, Obama-loving media  (cnn.com) (236)
(CNN) Fail Sen. Carl Levin declares war on Blackwater, only seven years too late and a name change short. Senator, you get 30 minutes of finger-painting for a good job  (cnn.com) (51)
(Boston Globe) Interesting Massachusetts could be first state to require open access to car diagnostic codes as lawmakers decide today which side hired the best lobbyists  (boston.com) (185)
(Huffington Post) Cool Bill Nye calmly and thoroughly owns hysterical climate change denier on The O'Reilly Factor  (huffingtonpost.com) (1111)
(Politico) Dumbass RNC spends twice as much as before for things like private planes, limosines, catering and flowers. Ahhh, fiscal responsibility  (politico.com) (428)

Tue February 23, 2010
(Some World Government) Unlikely Orly Taitz jumps biggest shark yet, appeals to UN for protection from US courts  (washingtonindependent.com) (226)
(Fox News) Amusing Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-on'tloveamerica) caught on tape laughing at a suggestion that the Pledge of Allegiance be recited  (foxnews.com) (339)
(St. Louis Globe-Democrat) Asinine Missouri lawmaker introduces bill requiring governor to play Powerball  (globe-democrat.com) (37)
(Free Press) Amusing Snowman tea party in Michigan protests corncob pipe & carrot tax. Protestors add "you can take my broom from my warm, dead hand."  (freep.com) (53)
(Google) Followup Canadian premier defends decision to flee to the US for open-heart surgery: "Suck it, plebes"  (google.com) (215)
(Some Guy) Interesting "Hot Air" blog that was purchased by the Christian conglomerate Salem Communications from conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, has suddenly become an advocate for all things ghey  (renewamerica.com) (99)
(Think Progress) Obvious Polls show that in a generic ballot race, the GOP is poised to pick up the most seats in the House. Ever. As in, bigger than 1994  (yglesias.thinkprogress.org) (196)
(Rasmussen Reports) Interesting Forty-one percent of voters favor Obama's health care plan, while 56 percent oppose it and the remaining 3 percent actually read the plan's summary  (rasmussenreports.com) (180)
(Yahoo) Amusing Jimmy Carter objects to comparisons with Obama; thinks Carter administration was FAR better  (news.yahoo.com) (74)
(Talking Points Memo) Dumbass John Bolton is concerned that Obama's recent successes in Afghanistan are sending a signal of "weakness"  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (185)
(Some White House) Dumbass White House blog biatches that GOP hasn't posted a health care plan, links to GOP health care proposal right in the middle  (whitehouse.gov) (99)
(Las Vegas Sun) Interesting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would win election if the health care bill kept the public option, according to poll commissioned by the progressive group Committee for Providing Hints to Dumbasses  T-Shirt  (lasvegassun.com) (38)
(Think Progress) Dumbass Steve King (R-eally loves terrorism): Terrorist attacks against government agencies are understandable because the IRS is un-American  (yglesias.thinkprogress.org) (174)
(National Review) Asinine After Glenn Beck's stern denunciation of him at CPAC, there is now a movement among the right wing blogodome to brand Roosevelt as a socialist. TEDDY Roosevelt  (corner.nationalreview.com) (174)
(Texas Tribune) Amusing Dallas Tea Party invites Olbermann to meet their black friend  (texastribune.org) (79)
(The Hill) Interesting The House is annoyed that 290 bills it passed have disappeared into the Senate's black hole of laziness and indifference  (thehill.com) (115)
(Pajamas Media) Hero Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) asked the DOJ to investigate what he called "the greatest scientific scandal of our generation". Bonus: also asked former Vice President Al Gore to be called back to the Senate to testify  (pajamasmedia.com) (787)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious It's full speed ahead for Obama's health care plan, which "manages to take the worst of both the House and Senate bills and combine them into something more destructive"  (online.wsj.com) (201)
(politics.co.uk) Obvious Politicians: "God and religion are stupid." Voters: "fine, good luck finding a new job." Politicians: "Did we say 'stupid?' We meant 'awesome'"  (politics.co.uk) (109)
(NYPost) Dumbass Municipal union boss complains of government envisioning "a system devoid of workers", which of course is vastly inferior to the current system devoid of working  (nypost.com) (17)
(Seattle Times) Sad Remember a time when facts settled arguments? Those were the good old days, before the dark times ... before people became estranged from critical thinking, divorced from logic, alienated from even objective truth  (seattletimes.nwsource.com) (699)
(SFGate) Obvious The hubris of insurance companies make it increasingly easy for President Obama to institute National Health Care. This is why we can't have nice things  (sfgate.com) (225)

Mon February 22, 2010
(Daily Kos) Hero In first major test of his tea bagging credentials...Scott Brown (D-Mass) signs on with socialist Obama jobs bill  (dailykos.com) (313)
(Fox News) NewsFlash Former President Cheney hospitalized  (foxnews.com) (1182)
(Washington Times) Interesting In 2004, George W. Bush went 214 days without a formal press conference. Today, Obama just beat that record  (washingtontimes.com) (227)
(Deseret News) Interesting Leaked Interior Dept document shows Obama Administration planning to create "stealth" national monuments  (deseretnews.com) (211)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Virginia Republican says disabled children are God's punishment for women having abortions  (newsleader.com) (228)
(Media Matters) Amusing Fox News implies that J.D. Hayworth, birther Republican running for McCain's senate seat, is a transsexual  (mediamatters.org) (53)
(ABC News) Sad Report confirms the KGB kidnapped and tortured dissidents in a secret prison in Poland. Wait, did I say the KGB? I meant the CIA  (abcnews.go.com) (450)
(Washington Post) Interesting Evan Bayh released a document diagnosing the fatal flaws of the US Senate. "Power is constantly sought through the use of means which render its effective use, once acquired, impossible."  (voices.washingtonpost.com) (81)
(The Hill) Obvious Union and liberal groups decry "small, puny" $15 billion jobs bill, want Congress to shake taxpayers upside-down until at least $180 billion falls out  (thehill.com) (211)
(Think Progress) Hero Why is there no picture of Rep. McMorris Rodgers (R-NoNoNoNoNo) posing with a giant check at local event annoucing a stimulus-funded project? The state's governor solves the mystery: "We never thought to ask her since she voted no"  (thinkprogress.org) (197)
(Huffington Post) Amusing And the latest commie libtard to slam the GOP for stimulus hypocricy is... Arnold Schwarzenegger?  (huffingtonpost.com) (108)
(Daily Kos) Interesting Baseless speculation indicates that Rahm is gone  (dailykos.com) (106)
(Salon) Obvious "The very idea that a political party dominated by neocons, warmongers, surveillance fetishists, and privacy-hating social conservatives will be a party of "limited government" is absurd on its face"  (salon.com) (314)
(Politico) Interesting President Obama's health care proposal. It's an 11-page PDF, but has a link you can click to order your free pony  (politico.com) (329)
(The Raw Story) Amusing Fox News prior to CPAC: "This is where the next President will be anointed." Fox News after Ron Paul wins CPAC straw poll: "These things are waaay unscientific. It's really more about bragging rights, anyway"  (rawstory.com) (342)
(Huffington Post) Cool General David Petraeus launches a three-pronged offensive against Cheneyism. Mission Accomplished  (huffingtonpost.com) (187)

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