Alan Simpson: America Is a Cow w/300M Tits. Plus, 10M MOTUs?

By: emptywheel Sunday February 6, 2011 1:21 pm

Alan Simpson claims he misspoke back in August when he called Social Security “a milk cow with 310 million tits.” He explains, “I meant to say that America was a milk cow with 300 million teats, and not just Social Security.” Oh. Okay. So Social Security is not the only way we suck at our [...]

The Anonymous Coward Returns

By: emptywheel Friday September 3, 2010 6:02 am

The White House was okay with Robert Gibbs attacking the Professional Left and their Catfood Commission Co-Chair attacking, well, everyone. But they wouldn’t let Steven Rattner’s claim that Rahm Emanuel had attacked the UAW go unanswered. Rattner depicts White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel as a force to be reckoned with who disparaged unions [...]

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