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« Liberal Outrage: May 2009 | Main | Liberal Outrage: July 2009 » Liberal OutrageLamest Coup Excuse Over the weekend the democratically elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was taken out of power by the military. The AP article that first announced that ousting wouldn't actually call it a coup, and instead only said that the Zelaya was "calling it" a coup. The first sentence in the article also made the point of announcing that Zelaya was an ally of Hugo Chavez, as if that made it ok. So we knew from the beginning that this was going to be a weird one. The Obama administration has denounced the takeover but is also refusing to call it a coup. A website called BoRev.net (found via Digby) has compiled the weirdest of the coup-deniers and made a contest out of it. You can go there to vote for your favorite, but they're all pretty warped. By fnord12 | June 30, 2009, 12:03 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link "It is unlikely that new hiring has picked up in any meaningful fashion," Joshua Shapiro, chief economist with MFR Inc., a consulting firm, wrote in a note to clients. "More probable is that long-term unemployed are starting to fall off the rolls." Yaaay!! By fnord12 | June 18, 2009, 10:47 AM | Liberal Outrage | Comments (1)| Link My takeaway from this is that the plan will work of the public option and mandates are left in, but health care proponents just handed a huge PR victory to their opponents due to their lack of confidence or willingness to stand up for their ideals. My spin on this would be "Look, we tried to take the public plan out and it's just way too expensive without it." By fnord12 | June 16, 2009, 1:28 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link I don't know how he's stayed on at Fox as long as he has. By fnord12 | June 12, 2009, 4:55 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link MoveOn has a petition to members of Congress supporting the Progessive Caucus' demand that that any healthcare reform include a Public Option. By fnord12 | June 11, 2009, 1:01 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link MyDD: By fnord12 | June 9, 2009, 10:20 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link Unfortunately for us all, their proposed cuts are even stupider than I'd ever imagined: Vote Republican: We'll save money by letting your children get crushed by cars! We need a better opposition party. Is anyone thinking of reconstituting the Whigs? *If judged by percent of media time devoted to their spokespeople. By fnord12 | June 4, 2009, 5:42 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link « Liberal Outrage: May 2009 | Main | Liberal Outrage: July 2009 » |