Holy shit, Kucinich

So Dennis Kucinich is, as we speak, introducing articles of impeachment on George Bush. I’m watching it unfold now, and holy shit. To say the least. More later.

Jack Cafferty is my hero

By and large, CNN pisses me off. They give shows to guys like Glenn Beck and toss Wolf Blitzer at politicians despite the fact that he’s soft as marshmallow fluff when talking to guests.

There is one glimmer of angry, bitter, rational light in the bowels of CNN though, and his name is Jack Cafferty. An actual conservative who gets pissed off when the economy is mucked up, loves small government and hates neocon imperialist military operations, he’s the go-to guy for righteous hand-of-god anger. His latest unloading on McCain’s assertion that the economy is very strong is a classic. Long quote ahead.

Really, Senator McCain? That’s not what millions of Americans are saying. A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll shows 78% of those surveyed rate economic conditions as “poor”. Only 22 percent say “good.”

Here are some of the reasons: The economy lost another 49,000 jobs last month, which means more than 324,000 jobs have been lost since the first of the year. The unemployment jumped to 5.5% last month – that’s the biggest increase in the unemployment rate in 22 years.

More and more Americans are losing their homes: one million homes are now in foreclosure. The equity Americans have in their homes-their biggest asset-has declined to the lowest level since the end of World War II. Americans’ net worth has declined by a staggering $1.7 trillion dollars.

Then there are the rising costs of energy. For the first time in our history, gasoline now tops $4 a gallon and is headed higher. Oil traded at a record high of $139 a barrel Friday, with predictions of $150 a barrel by July 4 and Goldman Sachs saying it could reach $200 a barrel within two years. The peak summer driving season is just getting under way. These fuel prices impact the cost of virtually everything else.

And, with the nation on the brink of recession, the stock market is taking a hit too – declining almost 400 points last Friday alone. The U.S. dollar continues to weaken against almost all foreign currencies – declining 15% against the euro in the last year. We are $9 trillion in debt thanks to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the irresponsible fiscal policies of the Bush administration. And we continue to run huge trade deficits with China.

No really, Jack. Tell us what you think. No need to mince words.

FOX, you clever bastards.

I wrote earlier about conservatives I agree with for some reason, but I’m glad that at least FOX has managed to arouse my ire with a reliable frequency. What we have here is Barack Obama doing the “fist-pound” thing, and the alabaster-white pundits of FOX respond with:

HILL: A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently. We’ll show you some interesting body communication and find out what it really says.

Now, the expert they bring on doesn’t mention anything about terrorism, but what we’re seeing here is, yet again, a hilariously nosebleed-inducing way of being ferociously racist without actually seeming racist.

Here’s what FOX has done: they can’t out and out go after anything “black” that Obama does, while you know they’re just aching to do it since the only blacks FOX accepts are either neanderthal conservatives like Alan Keyes or “hey look at the crazy black dude” like Al Sharpton.

So now FOX has responded by interpreting everything vaguely black-ish that Obama does, anything even tangentially racially-twinged, as itself racist, anti-American, or in this case, “terrorist” like. Expect far more of this in the future.