February 5, 2010

Weeknights, 6 PM Eastern, 3 PM Pacific, 10:00 GMT. Duration: 3 hr.

Show for Febrary 5, 2010

Too much stuff for three little hours tonight!

No sooner did I talk about the dangerous influence of southern radicalism on our republic, our Union, last night, than the news breaks today that one pissy little repiglicken senator from Alabama is holding up no less than SEVENTY key Obama nominations in the Senate. Why? Senator Shelby wants him some PORK, baby! One southern senator is holding America’s necessary business hostage to his own sense of entitlement and greed. Read More

It ain’t prophecy. It’s just a matter of knowing and understanding these southern political thugs better than most.

Meanwhile, a little ways north of Bama, up in charming NashVegas, uber-bigot Tom Tancredo (yeah, it’s an old Indian name meaning “Don’t Let ‘Em Off Boat”) has told the teabaggers assembled there that the only reason we have Obama is because America lacks a “literacy test” for voters, and hence we have a “socialist ideologue in the White [Man's] House.” Yeah, he said that in the heart of the Old Confederacy, the home of literacy tests, chinese restaurant menu reading tests and waxpaper signature pages. Read More

But there’s some good news to cuss n’ discuss on the Front Porch this evening. A spine, no, really, a SPINE has been sighted in the United States Senate. It belongs to the man who occupies the seat once occupied by a man who was ALL spine, Paul Wellstone. Al Franken stood up to David Axelrod yesterday and gave him hell for the timid, tepid, trepidated way the Obama Administration has approached healthcare. While the first impulse is to say “it’s a start,” the second one is to ask the rest of the simpering senate dems “See? And he’s still breathing! You can do this, too!” Read More

Here in the hills, we have Joe Manchin’s letter to President Obama. Gee, it’s like a letter from home . . . if your home is some coal company’s corporate HQ. We’ll read it tonight.  Read More