One Year Ago Today

obama had a clean debt limit solution

he did not take it.  when will people understand that he wants to cut social security.  he wants to cut medicare/medicaid.  he's a multi-millionaire and a sociopath, like so many other of these assholes in washington.

if he had wanted to raise the debt limit without needing to harm older and poorer americans, that douchebag mcconnell gave him an easy way.  he did not want it.  he wants to hurt millions of americans--or at least doesn't give a flying fuck if his imbecilic policies harm or kill the most vulnerable.

the clock is ticking at current tv

i know olbermann doesn't think so, but his novelty will turn into an unwatched pumpkin if he doesn't get some more tv over there on the current tv network.  spitzer.  uygur.  there's a couple of good ones.  get them booked, even if they have non-competes they probably don't mention current tv since olbermann's contract didn't either.  sign 'em, make the announcements, and then figure out what sort of schedule you can build.  something's better than the nothing they got going now over on current tv.  the good things about spitzer and uygur have been their reluctance to join in the relentless obama fluffing of the village idiots.  olbermann should be able to do something with that...actually begin to build a counter-counter narrative.

is cenk uygur out at msnbc?

he was riding obama pretty hard, so his reluctance to join in the lawrence o'donnell-led fluffing probably put him in the doghouse.  no problem as along as keith olbermann and current tv pick him up.  he'd be fine over there, and the quicker olbermann get's some more actual content over there, the better off he is.

thomas voeckler is a tough son of a bitch

good for him.  he's riding hard and smart.  with the schlecks not ready to command the race and contador not up to his previous drug-induced dominance, it could be a cadel evans vs. thomas voeckler time trial for the win.  voeckler probably wouldn't be up to that, but if evans runs the alps as an exercise in covering the schlecks and contador, and if voeckler can hang with that style of anti-racing, well then who knows what he can do in a relatively short individual tt.