"Gone Fishing"

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Tony Hayward. Chum.
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h/t Think Progress

'Randslide'

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For now, it's the gimmicky word o'the day.

And the focus of plenty of media punditobabble. Frank Rich offers his take.

But the question is, will Randslide avalanche over the Dems? Or backfire on the Republicans and bury their corporatocracy once and for all?

Seems to me, if you can't even answer a straight question from Rachel Maddow, then the real Randslide is right into obscurity. Dr. Paul, your fifteen minutes are ticking....
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In a Blaze of Glory....

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Don't you think for a minute that a son of the Dakota prairies (North, that is) will go quietly into retirement. Nosiree.

Way to go, Byron. Give 'em hell.
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Infowrestling

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The announcement today of Elena Kagan's nomination for Justice on the Supreme Court was just the latest opportunity for the punditocracy to be unleashed like baying dogs upon we hapless teevee viewers who actually hold out hope for a bias toward facts and news on the cables instead of the seemingly ceaseless wallowing in partisan talking points.

I agree with Donna Brazile.

Meanwhile. Instead of running for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut, perhaps pro wrestling empresariesse Linda McMahon should spent her gazillion$$$$ on buying herself a cable "news" network. She'd fit right in.
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Rich.

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Taking a poke at the eminently pokeworthy Washington press corps' preening selves.
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While Times Square played out virtually unreported.
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Maybe if they'd turned on the New Year's Eve balldrop....
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They R all Faux Snooze now.
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Community Banks Just Say...

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When a community banker in North Dakota says banking status quo must end, when it's a lead op-ed piece in the state's largest daily, you gotta believe it gets noticed.

Financial reform must be passed into law. And I don't think it's a stretch to presume this banker means now, before North Dakota loses one of the most powerful progressive Democratic Senators to retirement.

Can do, Byron and Kent and Earl?
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UPDATE: And spare me the Beltway Conventional Wisdom that oooooh, boogah-boogah, we can't do [fill-in-the-blank] reform because too much is being done already, just because The Village Elders are still stuck back in the era of "can't spit and chew pretzels at the same time...."

It's out there now, Cokie.
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crossposted at firedoglake's The Seminal

My Amendment's Better'n Yourn

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NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg probably thought that if the loophole couldn't be closed now... Well, he probably never imagined, given The Incident in Times Square, that the loophole would not only not be closed, but would be protected by the likes of Lindsay Graham and Susan Collins.

Who would expect U.S. Senators to actually protect the rights of terrorists to buy arms? To selectively support one Amendment while trying to tear down the other? To be so, yes, anti-Constitutional. Anti-law enforcement.

Who's the fool who ever said the Republican party supports law enforcement? Pah!

Or, as commenter Zimzone over at ThinkProgress put it:

Shorter Graham:

We’ll take away your Constitutional rights on Miranda but not your Constitutional right to bear arms.

WTF?

WTF, indeed.
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