Tea Bird

Imagine a Progressive United States

Well, some jokesters did and created a fake New York Times website complete with articles.
Headlines include such gems as:
“National Health Insurance Act Passes”
“Nation Sets Its Sites on Building a Sane Economy”
and
“Troops to Return Immediately”

The Associated Press: McCain might skip his own election-night party

From the Dept. of Confidence Boosting:

John McCain’s election night watch party might be missing John McCain. Instead of appearing before a throng of supporters at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix on the evening of Nov. 4, the Republican presidential nominee plans to deliver postelection remarks to a small group of reporters and guests on [...]

The Wages of Blackness

The AP tries to quantify the depth of the racist hole that Barack Obama’s campaign will need to scale:

Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks — many calling them [...]

McCain Doesn’t Know Spain

The rain in Spain falls mainly on leftist dictators in South America.
From Talking Points Memo:

Well, we’ve heard the interview now. And John McCain either doesn’t know who the Prime Minister of Spain is, thinks Spain is a country in Latin America, or possibly both.
In case, you haven’t seen our updates from last night, yesterday [...]

Wheels come off Straight Talk Express?

From First Read:

From NBC’s Mark MurrayFor a candidate who prides himself in “straight talk” — and whose political image in part is based on that truth-telling reputation — Saturday proved to be a brutal day for John McCain and his campaign.
First came a front-page New York Times piece noting that McCain “has drawn an [...]

Palin vs Bloggers

Sullivan feels some censorship heat and sheds some light:

There are so many chilling details in the NYT’s account of Palin’s paranoid, vindictive, corrupt abuse of gubernatorial and mayoral power, I don’t quite know where to begin. But I wonder how the right-wing  blogosphere feels about a small-town tyrant who keeps an enemies list and seeks [...]

Why McCain Ignores Media Criticism

From Political Wire:

Politico surveys the impact of Sen. John McCain getting called out by the news media for fabrications in his advertisements and speeches.
“Current campaign aides and other Republicans who’ve closely watched the race, however, have a very different response to the media elites and good-government scolds: We don’t care what you think.”
“McCain seems [...]

Sullivan on Palin re: Obama taxes

From Andrew Sullivan:

Another revealing exchange:
GIBSON: Why do you both keep saying that Obama is going to raise people’s taxes? It’s been pretty clear what he intends. He’s talked about middle-class tax cuts, extending Bush tax cuts on everything but people who own or earn more than $250,000 a year — cuts taxes on over [...]

Republicans shouldn’t knock community organizers

From Roland Martin:

Republican operatives I talked to said the lines were brilliant and that community organizers don’t play to the GOP’s strength.
I disagree. And so do the many folks who have sent me angry e-mails. They include white Republicans, black Democrats, people from Small Town, U.S.A., and Big City, America.
At a time when Americans [...]

More on the Community Organizer Mocking

Mocking community organizers is not the way to reach places like western PA and the rust belt battleground states.
From the Catholic Democrats:
Catholic Democrats is expressing surprise and shock that Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech tonight mocked her opponent’s work in the 1980s for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.  She belittled Democratic [...]