The Politimat for Current Politics

I think the story of Joseph Stack crashing his plane into a Texas IRS building is fascinating. Where’s the Press? This is a clear act of domestic terrorism, but it feels difficult to find anything out about it. Blame the Tea Parties So it’s clear that this guy would be part of the Tea Party movement. It was only [...]

I’ve stopped watching almost all political TV now. I realized it’s just bad and mostly frustrating. In addition, they take too long to say what they are trying to say. I can read the news much faster and move on. I have kept The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on my TiVo but I don’t [...]

I was just watching Jon Stewart’s interview with Newt Gingrich. Newt Gingrich is so evil and spiteful and hateful of our President and nobody calls him on his bullshit. Jon was trying to be polite and it just killed me to watch it, so I turned it off. I give up, The United States has already [...]

Tonight I saw on The Daily Show how John McCain has flip-flopped on his promise to consider repealing don’t ask, don’t tell when the leaders of the military wanted to. Now they want to and he doesn’t. I guess he doesn’t respect the leaders of the military and doesn’t believe they are able to make [...]

So far, I really like Hardball with Chris Matthews. It’s so much more balanced that Keith Olbermann. He still has an opinion but he’s very logical. But it might be helping that Obama is kicking some ass these days. I had lost faith in him, but now I’m thinking he might be pretty cool again. Today [...]

Tonight while watching Countdown with Keith Olbermann I finally had enough and removed my TiVo season pass for the show. The format of that show has just become ridonculous. He was trying to describe the story where four people (I think) were arrested for trying to wiretap the phone of a Democrat. However, his version of [...]

This morning while I was in the shower, where I often do my best thinking, I realized that the right wing news channels and crazy right wing personalities have no better friend than Keith Olbermann. He gives them more publicity and attention every day which almost certainly increases their audience. Keith Olbermann’s job seems to [...]

I think it’s actually a good thing that Scott Brown won the Massachusetts Senate race. Martha Coakley was clearly lame and would have only shown further that Democrats can’t accomplish anything. Let’s face it, the Democrats had a dream situation for the past year and they still couldn’t get anything done. Obama’s promises are not [...]