President Obama Addresses the Nation on Joblessness and Economic Crisis
Posted by Jeanne Devon on September 9, 2011 · 39 Comments
Last night the president addressed the nation on jobs, the economy and the “political circus.” The full transcript is below. What did you think? Address by the President to a Joint Session of Congress United States Capitol Washington, D.C. 7:09 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, and fellow Americans: Tonight we meet at an urgent time for our country. We continue to face an economic crisis that has left millions of our neighbors jobless, and a political crisis that’s made things worse. This past week, reporters have been asking, “What will this speech mean…
Category Barack Obama, Economy, Nation · Tags Barack Obama jobs speech, economy, unemployment
Us vs. Them in a Back to Basics War
Posted by Jeanne Devon on September 2, 2011 · 57 Comments
~Free market under-regulated air in Beijing, China It’s become increasingly clear in the past months that the Environmental Protection Agency is squarely in the crosshairs of the Republican Party. But it’s not just insignificant or annoying rules and regs that irritate the right. The battles being fought are elemental and huge – The Clean Air Act, The Clean Water Act, massive extraction projects that could cause harm to our country on a massive scale. The EPA believes it is a fundamental right that citizens of this nation can breathe clean air, and drink clean water. The “nanny state” believes that…
MUDFLIX – Senator Bernie Sanders Stands Up for the Middle Class
Posted by Jeanne Devon on July 1, 2011 · 30 Comments
Welcome to Mudflix! We’ll be posting interesting videos of 10 minutes or less on a regular basis to spur interesting conversation and lively debate. Feel free to pop some corn and chime in with your buttery little fingers. And who better to launch our new feature than my Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Yes, I know I don’t live in Vermont. I live in the state of Alaska. This means, as a progressive, I also live in the state of Denial, which means I’ve adopted him whether he likes it or not. There’s also a great follow-up from Robert…
Category Bang it, Barack Obama, Economy, Nation, Skulduggery · Tags Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders middle class, Mudflix, Robert Reich, shared sacrifice, US economy
Alaskans Would Vote Obama Over Palin in 2012
Posted by Jeanne Devon on June 29, 2011 · 22 Comments
On the longest day of the year, in the Land of the Midnight Sun, Hays Research Group in Alaska came up with some interesting numbers. Seems that average Alaskans, if faced with the choice of voting for Barack Obama, or Sarah Palin in 2012, would come down decidedly NOT on the side of our ex-half-governor. That’s right. If “The Undefeated” ran, she wouldn’t be. Again. Here’s the breakdown: Obama Strong 34% Obama Not so strong 6% Undecided – Lean Obama 2% Palin Strong 25% Palin Not so strong 6% Undecided – Lean Palin 5% Other Candidate 7% Undecided / Don’t…
Category Barack Obama, Election 2012, Sarah Palin · Tags Barack Obama, Obama 2012, Palin 2012, Palin approval in Alaska, Palin Obama Alaska, Sarah Palin
Palin’s Campaign Film “The Undefeated” Reviewed (Insert Explosion Here)
Posted by Jeanne Devon on June 23, 2011 · 115 Comments
When returning to my hotel room Friday afternoon. I noticed something slipped in the crack of the door. I was attending the Netroots Nation convention at the Hilton in Minneapolis. As is their habit, the evil (and much smaller) twin of Netroots Nation, called “Right On Line” puppydogs our convention, trailing behind and choosing to hold their convention in whatever city Netroots does. It’s a great strategy if your goal is to look kind of pathetic and really obnoxious at the same time. This year, they were not only in the same city, they were in the same hotel –…
Category Alaska Legislature, Bang it, Barack Obama, Election 2012, John McCain, Oil Tax, Republicans, Resource Development, Roll your eyes into it, Sarah Palin, Sean Parnell, Strategery, Teabaggery, Todd Palin, Whackjobbery · Tags Netroots Nation, Palin movie, Palin the Undefeated, Right Online, Sarah Palin, The Undefeated
Sarah Palin and Greta Van Susteren – Reflections of a “Hateful Blogger”
Posted by Jeanne Devon on May 22, 2011 · 105 Comments
By Jeanne Devon She will run, she won’t run, she will, she won’t, she will… Everyone is weighing in. Everyone is asking. Hints are being dropped. Money is being raked. And yes, I believe that Sarah Palin is getting ready to inflict herself upon the nation once again. The national spotlight beckons to her like yummy brains to a zombie. (Here, you can imagine her doing a robot walk with stiff knees and arms stretched out muttering “Must…Have…Attention…”) But before the official announcement is tweeted to the world, the ‘lamestream’ media must do its due diligence and feel around…
Palin Thanks (almost) Everyone for Bin Laden’s Capture.
Posted by Jeanne Devon on May 2, 2011 · 150 Comments
I listened with the rest of the nation last night as the news leaked about the death of Osama bin Laden at the hands of U.S. forces on the ground in Pakistan. And I listened to the President deliver (as usual) a thoughtful, respectful, address to the nation. And then, I wondered, what would critics of the president say? What would they say about the fact that Barack Obama as Commander-in-Chief did in two years what George W. Bush as Commander-in-Chief couldn’t do in eight? The last words in the President’s speech urged us to remember the unity we felt…
Michele Bachmann's "Fact Optional" Rebuttal to the State of the Union
Posted by Jeanne Devon on January 26, 2011 · 84 Comments
Where to begin? It’s kind of like a hybrid of Sarah Palin’s “book” America by Heart, and a bad hangover. She was kind enough to dumb it down for the masses, though, to make it sound all “real” and everything. And it’s impressive how much tripe she was able to stuff in this delusion sandwich. Watch the speech if you dare. It’s only six minutes. Pearl divers can hold their breath for that long, so you should be able to get through. For a brilliant dissection and fact check, we turn as always to the fine folks at Media Matters….
Don Young Darkens the Door and Crosses the Aisle
Posted by Jeanne Devon on January 25, 2011 · 34 Comments
Yes, the 20 term Congressman for All Alaskans (who voted for him) has decided that he will attend the State of the Union address for only the third time since 1974. Why isn’t he a regular? “Because I’m an old hunter,” he told APRN. “And when you have the president, the vice president, the speaker of the House, the president of the Senate, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Supreme Court, the diplomatic corps, and everybody together under one roof, it always gives me great concern.” Although I appreciate the Congressman’s caution and sentiments, the thought of Don Young holding the…
Blue Texas in Obama v. Palin Matchup?
Posted by Jeanne Devon on January 24, 2011 · 120 Comments
There is a debate raging up here in the Great Land. And it goes something like this: Position A – We do NOT want Palin as the GOP nominee. No way, no how. We’ve suffered through more Sarah Palin than anyone, and we’ve seen the super scary morphing from affable, anti-corruption “fresh face” bipartisan ethics champion to shrieking, self-serving, rabid Tea Party ideologue. And thanks, but no thanks. As improbable as it may seem that she’d actually win, look what has happened in the past in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. To use some violent political metaphor in honor…