I like Matt Taibi’s stuff. He’s straightforward and honest, plus he gets to use naughty words. And if anything was deserved of cursing, it’s the modern day Republican.
As a subscriber, I think RS’s political pieces are maybe the best thing about the mag–because they’re allowed to be hard-hitting and they don’t seem advertisement-based.

Good article, Matt. Very passionate. I’m not the least bit surprised by the hypocrisy of those on both sides of the aisle. At least Diaz-Balart is standing up and making a stink for the benefit of those in his party and the special interests he represents. Now if the Dems would just stand up for the American people we might get this country moving in the right direction towards peace and prosperity again.

“Now if the Dems would just stand up for the American people we might get this country moving in the right direction towards peace and prosperity again.”

Wow! I believe the dems are trying to do that! Are they not the ones who are trying to get us to pull out of the war???

Ron- It seems like a lot more posturing is going on than action being taken. I only vote Democratic because I consider them the lesser of two evils. Where is the balance of ideas?

prior to the so called “reagan revolution” there appeared to be some integrity in repubs like rockefella, percy(of illinois), and actually even goldwater.
then there was the emergence of the “criminal right” laxalt et. al.
it may be a while before they re-group….but i’m sure the dems will find a way to fuck-up…they always do, yes?

Matt makes me want to shout idiotic things like: you’re my hero! And: do me! He’s funny, intelligent and right on, as far as I’m concerned. The true successor to Mr. Hunter S. Thompson. I read his stuff with relish.

I love your work, Matt. It’s brutally honest and hysterically funny. We need more journalists like you! By the way, I’m in the middle of reading Spanking the Donkey. Great book! Your profile of John Kerry is right on target.

Okay, here we have the democrats going back on a major campain promise and you guys are actualy supporting it? You do understand that this makes them as dishonest and as bad as you claimed the republicans were right? Can’t you see the blatant hypocracy being displayed by both sides here? HELLOOOO has the entire country of america gotten so partisan that they can’t see past thier own noses? Crap like this is why i vote 3rd party 90% of the time.

You know, Zepgirl, you are likely right about Matt being the heir apparent to The Good Doctor, but hopefully without the wanton processing of cheesy comestibles that The Good Doctor built his mythos upon.

Matt is not afraid to bring his outrage to a piece he authors. Not partisan outrage, either. Just common-sense “Jeebus! You guys are mind-roasting!” outrage. That is a Very Good Thing indeed.

Washington DC needs more people writing about it who can express that outrage, without fear for access. Just let it fly.

One thing we do know: Matt does not have Cocktail Weenies on his breath. That’s quite reassuring.

All politicians work the same. It is naive to think that the Democrats are as pure as the driven snow, while Republicans are all corrupt.

The republicans are relying on the publics short term memory; with good reason, it usually pays off. The republicans think the rest of us are too stupid to figure out that they did much worse when they were in charge, the reason why they think they can do this is largely due to the democrats lack of will power to stand up to them. The majority of Americans oppose the war now and yet the dems still refuse to do anything about it. No wonder the republicans think they can still get away with whatever they want, their own base of Rush listeners and O’Reilly viewers has left them with the impression the all Americans are that stupid, and with the democrats afraid to challenge anything that they do, it just confirms this belief.

sonofdy
Right. The problem isn’t “the Democrats” or “the Republicans” (who are complaining the same or less as the Democrats when Congress was Republican controlled, Matt… talk about short-term memory and hypocrisy). The problem is the two-party system. When beating the other party is more important than serving America’s best interest, we’re heading in the wrong direction. The reason there hasn’t been a legitimate push for Independent politicians is because most Americans are mindless zombies when it comes to politics and voting habits. RS isn’t helping the cause…

Americans are quickly becoming aware of the fact that Democrats and Republicans are all just politicians. It’s unfortunate that what Americans do not realize is that while the United States hails the imposition of its own economic and political ideologies onto other sovereign states, this country does not practice what it preaches. The problems that we experience in this country today have been building for centuries because of a weak constitution created by rich, white, male protestants that placed entirely too much faith in a system that would allow those in power to place wildcards in their decks. The cute and cuddly perception of our government that is shoved down our throats as early as elementary school is an illusion that shields us from the fact that we do not live in a true democracy or a captitalist society. Big business controls our government a lot more than we do, and even when we vote we don’t get what we pay for. When I learned about lobbyists and the electoral college in middle school civics class I thought I was on Candid Camera. The whole system needs revamping. Things must change before we find ourselves experiencing invasion, civil war, and revolution in our own backyard.

as usual, taibbi nails it. they’re all whores, but especially the republicans.

the democrats are, by and large, stupid. the republicans are, by and large, evil.

i’m with stupid. at least they stumble into doing something right from time to time. evil never does.

Calling republicans evil is one of the reasons why dems will fail again miserably. The other reason is because their pussies hurt.

dude, your name is cooter.

AHAHAHAHAAA!! freudian, i think.

Is this supposed to be a serious forum or slapstick cynical? I’ll go with slapstick cynical.
A few of the attorneys in the firings were launched because they were too slow investigating Democratic voter fraud. That’s funny. Who republican vote are we going to oppress? The bigots? Racists? Or, the fraudulent religious groups? Minority groups have been voter oppressed for years. Twice, deliberately under the Bush campaigns. The whole things smells or ironic hypocrisy.
The Dems also recently handed Bush an emergency war spending bill. He’s threatening to veto it because of some pork. Two things here are really comically hypocritical. Tragically, he’s going to say no to the very money he needs to give to the military, Halliburton, Blackwater, and KBR. Not so tragically is the complaint about the pork. First of all, the pork is going to be spent here, inside our own borders. Secondly, isn’t that what the whole emergency spending bill is? Pork??? It’s not all going to the military, so the money going to Halliburton, etc. is exactly pork.
Thirdly, and this time I’m serious. If Bush vetoes that spending bill, and ’stays the course’ in Iraq, he could be setting himself up for some serious crimes. If he continues to send troops into harms way without the proper equipment, it’s on him. Conduct unbecoming, or something like that. If he vetoes the bill, the dems will go ahead with the subpoenas, he’ll use executive power, and then they’ll impeach him. He has reached the end of his corporate windfall, and it has to stop.

Diaz-Bullart is the biggest drama queen in Congress. I love seeing him squirm now that his cape has been stripped away.

Agree with Brent, RS needs to do more politics.
Nutz, the Dems can’t stand up straight anymore.
AIPAC, with the help of Hoyer and Pelosi now have complete control of our congressmen and key committe chairs. Not a bad thing in itself in a way. But its Israel pushing hard for action in Iran. (It was their faulty intelligence that pushed our pliable congress into Iraq.) The Dems are so bound by pleasing AIPAC, they’ve withheld humanitarian and other vital U.S. action in several instances and they’ve begun to share much of Bushs hard core foreign policy ideas. That displeases most Democrats who view strong diplomacy and a balanced foreign policy as keys in stopping terrorism and in choosing our 08 nominee worlds.

It was just announced that Pelosi removed an ammendment from the Defense spending bill requiring the President to get approval from Congress before invading Iran. Pat Buchanan was on the news furious about it.
She removed it at the request of AIPAC, after attending their conference.

The selection of Hoyer for majority leader, after ’someone’ brought out old dirt to shame Murtha, was not because of his good work. I hadn’t heard an intelligent thought from him in the 8 years I’ve been politically tuned in.

On his website, (until recently) was this AIPAC tribute:
“There are some who believe that we must demonstrate more even-handedness in the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. I do not.”
The 2004 President of AIPAC was Steny Hoyers sister.

There will be no fair and balanced foreign policy under this Democratic Congress.
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ya’ know, sartre once wrote, “hell is other people”. i appreciate sartre. yet i’m beginning to believe that hell must be being matt taibbi, yes?

Gary Jacobs, Al Qaeda funder,

“To claim that AIPAC was responsible for the Iraq war is possibly the most ignorant statement I have seen about the group in a long time.”

Obfuscation is your religion. Hazmaq said Israeli intelligence was responsible for the Iraqi invasion-not AIPAC. And you know what? He was mostly right. What’s absurd is to continually deny there is a problem with the American Israeli lobby in this country when said lobby is GOING AGAINST THE MAJORITY OF U.S. JEWISH OPINION.

You yourself said on these posts you were against the U.S. attacking Iran. Know what? 54% of U.S. Jews are with you according to an American Jewish Committee survey in late 2006. Only 38% believed the U.S. should attack Iran.

Now Gary, why in hell are you on these posts defending AIPAC, which recently convinced the democratic leadership to remove a provision in their defense spending bill which would force Bush to get congressional authorization before attacking Iran, WHEN YOU YOURSELF DON’T EVEN AGREE WITH THEM?

And don’t give me shit about how AIPAC doesn’t want the U.S. to attack Iran. Visit the groups website, “The Iranian Threat” is their number 1 agenda item. AIPAC is trying to drag us to war with Iran. It is a war we don’t have the resources to fight. And it is a war that-if we disrupt China’s oil supply-will spell suicide for the United States’ economy.

And I suggest you rethink your decision not to condemn the Bush administration’s policy of funding Al Qaeda affiliated groups. It ruins your credibility in this country, even as a propagandist. Chalk that up to my 90%.

Anyone seen that video of Karl Rove rapping?

I found it offensive. Not because I was imagining someone who just lost, say, a son over in Iraq watching this. Not because Rove has screwed over black people in every way to the extent music of theirs is about the only thing he has left to ruin. And not because Rove was so terrible. I found it offensive because David Gregory was right up there with him, laughing and grinning with him. How the fuck did you get hip-deep in shit in Iraq again, a vigilant mainstream media?

Whenever I read something by Matt it’s like a breath of fresh air. Living in Canada, it’s awful having to watch a neighbour do things like Iraq to themselves.

Correction:
Karl Rove was actually just dancing (badly) to another guy rapping. Sorry, if you think no one is allowed to laugh during the war Mr. Fun Police.

It’s fine to dislike Rove, but do it for a legit reason.

I guess you missed the point. I stated disgust at the marriage between the press and the people the press is supposed to take to task, not at Rove’s inability to rap – or dance – or however you want to split hairs about it.

that’s his job, to take focus away from the real issue and turn it to something totally irrelevant. dissembling… the administration and it’s cronies are masters at it.

Funny how I didn’t even bring up that subject though, Jed. Oh, and how are your bashings of me related to anything political?

ur all fukd!

What’s up with the no-posts from
Taibbi? Please tell me he just took the summer off and that RS didn’t can the best writer they have.