Posts filed under ‘Democrats, Including Blue Dogs & "Liberals"’
Maybe It’s Best Not to Listen to the NRA After All
I. Am. Loving. This:
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Ayotte Faces Backlash Over Gun Vote
Gun show background checks are pretty universally popular in New Hampshire…and Kelly Ayotte is facing some serious backlash from voters in the state for voting against them last week.
Ayotte now has a negative approval rating with 44% of voters giving her good marks and 46% disapproving. That’s down a net 15 points from the last time we polled on her, in October, when she had a 48% approval with 35% disapproving. 75% of New Hampshire voters- including 95% of Democrats, 74% of independents, and 56% of Republicans- say they support background checks. And 50% of voters in the state say Ayotte’s ‘no’ vote will make them less likely to support her in a future election, compared to just 23% who consider it to be a positive.
Ayotte won her seat in 2010 by 23 points. But in a very early hypothetical match up between her and new Democratic Governor Maggie Hassan, she trails by a 46/44 margin. This issue is really giving her some trouble.
“The issue is really giving her some trouble?” Good. Very good. I think the reason people are so furious about this is because polling shows that something like 87% of all Americans want some sort of background check but the senate blew them off which so clearly shows how special interests control D.C. We thought they were there to represent We the People? Silly us.
I mean, since when did 87% of all Americans want something done about anything? I don’t remember a time, other than this but what did we get? The proverbial big, fat middle finger. It just screams as to how dysfunctional our “democracy” is and folks like Ayotte are the poster child for that now.
Democrats Go Wingnut
My Tweet of the Day:
Democrats actually took this wingnut conspiracy theory seriously last night and voted for it. They should have stormed out of the Capitol en masse* and held a press conference to denounce this insanity. But no, they’re sheeple…
More here: Democrats control the Senate right? Senate votes 53-46 to stop US from joining UN Arms Trade Treaty.
Philly Mayor, Michael Nutter, a “Democrat,” Expected to Veto Guaranteed Sick Pay Bill
A few minutes ago I landed on this article about how Comcast (don’t get me started) is opposing a paid sick day ordinance in Philly: Paid Sick Days Ordinance Has Unexpected Opponent.
The fact that all workers in the United States don’t have three or four or ten or 15 paid sick days per year is one of my new peeves.
A few months ago, during the height of what wasn’t an all-that-bad flu season, I learned that restaurant workers don’t get paid sick leave. So what do they do? They go to work while sick, potentially infecting everyone they serve. So hello — this is a no brainer imho – giving them paid sick days is good for everyone.
Anyway, read more about the greedy, selfish dicks at Comcast via the link above but what struck me most about the article was this:
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Last week, the Philadelphia City Council passed a bill that would require nearly all employers in Philadelphia to provide paid sick days for their workers. (The only exemptions were “mom and pop” companies with less than 6 employees.) The bill now awaits Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter’s signature. Many expect the mayor to veto the bill, as he did a similar bill in 2011.If passed, the bill would make Philadelphia the fifth major U.S. city to mandate paid sick days, following Portland, which passed just such a bill last week.
Again, read more at the link above.
Nutter is a “Democrat.” I am so sick of “Democrats” abandoning democratic principles; not standing for working people.
Nutter has got to go if he doesn’t sign this thing. Everyone should have a bare minimum number of paid sick days for God’s sake.
Memo to Harry Reid Regarding Teasing About Filibuster Reform
Milquetoast Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who wimped out on reforming the filibuster in January because, like an idiot, he thought he could trust a gentleman’s agreement he made with Mitch McDonnell that Republicans would only use under the most serious of circumstances is, maybe, possibly, having second thoughts.
Reid is apparently having “private, if informal, discussionswith other Senate Dem leaders” about taking more concrete action now that McDonnell has gone back on his word. (Shocking, I know.)
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How many times have we heard this before?
Right on to Greg Sargent over at the Washington Post for this stern warning, wise warning:
Empty threats just risk further angering Dem base voters who are already ticked about the filibuster reform punt earlier this year. Empty threats needlessly inflate expectations that Dems are finally going to take real steps to deliver to their supporters a functional Senate, one that is at least somewhat more capable of moving forward with the agenda so many of them worked so hard for in the last campaign.
Empty threats make Dems look weak and do nothing to discourage continued GOP obstructionism. If the status quo is really acceptable enough to Democratic leaders to forestall further action, they shouldn’t bother pretending otherwise. If this is the Senate we’re going to have to live with, Dems should just level with their voters on this point. No more feints and hints without real action.
My sense is Reid — exactly the wrong kind of leader for these times — doesn’t have the guts but as Sargent says, it would be nice if he’d either pass the reform or let it go and level with us.
Barack Obama Says He Can Kill Me If He Wants To
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Holder Tells Senator That Obama Does Have Authority To Kill Citizens With Drones On U.S. Soil Without Criminal Charge or Conviction
Attorney General Eric Holder this week held out the possibility that the President could kill an American citizens with a drone attack on U.S. soil without any criminal charge or trial.
It will be difficult for people to find someway, as in the past, to blame this policy on Republicans. The kill list policy of Obama belongs to him. As I discussed in earlier columns [...] it is astonishing how citizens, including so many liberals and civil libertarians, have remained relatively silent in the face of a classic claim of authoritarian power. The relative silence over this latest development shows just how passive the country, and particularly liberals, have become in challenging Obama on his aggregation of executive power. It also is the latest evidence showing Obama’s evisceration of the civil liberties movement in this country. There is little observable movement left after it was divided over loyalty to Obama in the first term. A president has previously said that he can kill U.S. citizens on his own authority. It was then revealed that the citizen does not actually have to be involved in an imminent terrorism attack. Now he claims the right to use that authority in the U.S. The response at every stage has been a collective and prolonged yawn from a people growing comfortable with a burgeoning security state and an imperial president.
Remember civics class? Innocent until proven guilty?
Remember the right to be formally charged with a specific crime and to know what those charges are? Remember the right to a lawyer? Remember the right to be presented with all the evidence against you? Remember the right to question those who present evidence against you? Remember the right to present evidence in your defense and to challenge that presented against you? Remember the right to a jury of your peers? Remember the right to be judged guilty, or not?
Constitutional lawyer Barack Obama has tossed those apparently trivial (to him) rights out the window. He, and he alone, can now decide if you’re guilty of whatever. And he, and he alone can execute you. We the People have no right to a trial by jury anymore.
I’ve lived my life resting in knowing I had the right to due process. Knowing that if I faced charges of any kind I was guaranteed a trial by jury. I’d have my say in court; I could defend myself.
That’s gone. Obama has decided he can kill me without any of that if that’s what he wants to do.
Ed Rendell’s Fake Persona as a Liberal Pundit on MSNBC
Ed Rendell, the former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania makes regular appearances on “Morning Joe.” They tout him as a liberal but he’s nothing more than a greedy old ba*tard who has sold his soul (if he ever had one). Still, we have a right to know that:
Ed Rendell today is a co-chair of Fix the Debt — nevertheless, in media appearances on [the MSNBC] network he is regularly introduced only as the former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania.
He is special counsel to the law firm Ballard Spahr, where he focuses on privatization in housing and infrastructure. Rendell is a senior adviser at Greenhill & Co., a multinational investment bank. Rendell is also on the advisory board of Verdeva, a technology development firm, and an operating partner at the venture capital firm Element Partners, a company that has recently invested in natural gas “fracking” in Pennsylvania and nearby states.
Ed Rendell has numerous conflicts of interest that belie his role as neutral or “liberal” commenter.
Sign the petition: MSNBC: Disclose Fix-the-Debt co-chair Ed Rendell’s Conflicts of Interest When Booking.
Let’s not let MSNBC lie about it’s supposed liberalism. Ed Rendell is a corporate hack. It should disclose that when he’s on. “Former Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania?” Yeah, technically true, but Ed Rendell’s been doing a whole lot of things since he was that.
Open Letter to Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO)
Dan Alan Vowell (Via SayItAintSoAlready.com)
I emailed this letter to Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) today:
On Tuesday, 2-26-13, my husband, a 61-year-old msn who delivered mail in south Boulder for 36 years, was diagnosed with a brain disease called frontotemporal degeneration. In essence, his frontal lobe is disintegrating.
No known cause. No known cure.
The trajectory of this disease is, unless he dies of some other cause [my husband] will linger for 8 to ten years in a state of incoherence while I spend my time caring for him and paying for his care.
The insurance retired Post Office employees get is good, but it doesn’t, by any means, cover extraordinary expenses like we’re facing.
When was the last time you held a freakin’ town meeting?
Not only that, but the treat of breaking up the P.O. adds an incredible amount of stress to our lives because taking away letter carriers’ benefits is part of that whole deal. [As in the Republicans' plan to break all of our backs].
The only way I can pay for my his care is to try to qualify for Medicare/Medicaid. That means we sell all the assets we’ve built up over the years and put all that money into caring for my sweet Dan.
When he dies, I have nothing. I’m on the street.
What the hell are you all doing in Washington when we are desperate out here?
I want to offer a (slight) apology to Udall. I’m angry and I lost my temper. I could have worded this a little better but at the same time, I’m furious. As in seeing red.
Where are you Marko?
The Problem With the GOP’s “Obama Is Supposed to Lead” Argument
Republicans are out with new spin on the sequester today: Where’s Obama? He’s supposed to lead.
And here’s the perfect response to that:
Apparently, yes.
Here’s a brilliant take-down of the (ridiculous) Obama-should-lead argument.
Republicans Are Going to Have to Start Hating Israel
Uh oh. Republicans are undoubtedly seething and probably working the phones behind the scenes trying to get one of these posthumously awarded to Ronald Reagan:
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On Israel Trip, Obama to Get Medal
(CNN) – When President Barack Obama visits Israel next month, he’ll be awarded the Presidential Medal of Distinction, Israeli President Shimon Peres’ office announced Monday.
Obama, the first sitting U.S. president to receive the recognition, will be awarded the medal for making “a unique and significant contribution to strengthening the State of Israel and the security of its citizens,” according to a release announcing the news.
He’ll receive the award at a dinner at Peres’ residence in Jerusalem, slated to be attended by senior figures from Israeli public life and the Obama administration. The award is given to “private” individuals and organizations that have made “outstanding contributions to bettering the world.”
Democrats Have a Big Hypocrisy Problem When it Comes to Jack Lew
Democrats should be ashamed of their behavior here. So inconsistent and hypocritical:
President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign famously trolled Mitt Romney for having bank accounts in the Cayman Islands throughout 2012, with campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt calling it proof that the Republican “bets against America.”
It’s a line that was echoed during the election by Governor Martin O’Malley, the Democratic National Committee, and several web ads on Obama’s own YouTube channel, which featured at least 20 videos mentioning Romney’s Cayman accounts. A search for Cayman Islands on the Obama campaign’s website brings back more than 1200 results.
But now that one of Obama’s own cabinet nominees is defending his own Cayman account, Democrats are suddenly silent on the matter.
Jack Lew, who has been nominated for Secretary of Treasury, invested $56,000 in a CitiGroup venture capital fund based in the Cayman Islands’ Ugland House, a building that Obama called in 2008 “either the biggest building or the biggest tax scam on record.”*
Lew sold his investment in 2010 for $54,418 when he was confirmed as the White House budget director, and his Cayman fund went unnoticed until the Obama campaign effectively used Romney’s offshore bank accounts to paint him as greedy suit willing to do anything to earn a dollar.
I have no respect for hypocrites.
* BTW, here’s a photo of Ugland House:
(Image via NYPost.com)
Ugland House is notorious because it’s the registered home address of some 18,800+ corporations.
Something to Remember When Talking Heads Complain About Government Leaks
I just came across this great quote:
When a government becomes invisible, it becomes unaccountable. To expose its lies, errors, and illegal acts is not treason, it is a moral responsibility. Leaks become the lifeblood of the Republic.
– Daniel Ellsberg and John Perry Barlow
(Via.)
(Image via Earth-Seven.com)
The article from which this quote comes is about the White House’s “White Paper” on targeted killings and drones but its wisdom applies across the board. As the government becomes more and more secretive (as in the kill list, drone strikes* and its deliberation on approving (or not) the Keystone XL pipeline, for example), the less, obviously we know. And as those things happen under the ever-creeping tendency of our government to side with the corporatocracy and against the people, leaks become more and more important. We have a right to know what our government is doing because after all, it works for us and if it won’t tell us so we can hold it accountable, we need leakers who will.
Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, John Bolton, Lindsay Graham and Erick Erickson Praise Obama’s Drone Plan/Kill list
They’re all warmongers so if they love it, I don’t!
(Image via WeAreHere.eu)
This:
GOP and TP on Obama’s Foreign Policy “Successes”
To wild GOP crowd cheers, Newt Gingrich and Michele Bachman vehemently defend Obama’s assassination policy.
And this:
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Graham Defends Obama on Drones
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) will offer a resolution next week commending President Barack Obama’s use of drones and the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki.
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Skip the Drone Debate, Just Kill the Terrorists Before They Kill Us
We no longer have to transport ourselves to a magical alternate reality to ponder what a love child between Richard Nixon and Dick Cheney would look like. Given a Justice Department memo obtained by NBC News, we can conclude that child would look like none other than President Barack Obama.
“Just kill the terrorists before they kill us.” Land of the free and home of the brave? No. When I saw folks tearing up at the Super Bowl over those words I gagged.
We’re a scared bunch of sheeple. We stood by while almost 60,000 Americans were killed in Vietnam because our leaders told us the commies were coming to get us. Ten years ago yesterday, Colin Powell lied his face off in front of the United Nations Security Council and as a result, we invaded Iraq because they (I’m gagging again) supposedly had WMD and were ready to send a mushroom cloud over the U.S.
None of that was true.
Yet, again, we’re so scared of the lies we’ve told ourselves, all in the name of kill them before they kill us.
Defense spending — our tax dollars! — has doubled since 2001.
Ten years ago there was no such thing as the Department of Homeland Security but now we’re dumping untold billions dollars into that agency because it’s supposedly keeping us “safe.
And now we have drones — millions going to defense contractors for their new toys that we’re paying for — AGAIN, out of our tax dollars that — and President Obama’s kill list predicated on his supposed authority to kill Americans without their Constitutional right to be charged and tried by a jury of their piers.
They tell us these drone strikes are keeping us safe. But they aren’t: “Drone attacks are doing nothing but inciting more hatred” say Pakistani protesters. Google it yourself. There’s a whole bunch of info out there about how drone attacks are actually making us less after
So when will be again become the land of the free and the HOME OF THE BRAVE and when will we stop being scared little people who sacrifice their future for defense contractors and politicians who want to enrich them?
Obama Calls Out Lazy Media, Fox and Limbaugh
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I like the plain truth President Obama told Steve Kroft in his 60 Minutes interview tonight:
You know, Steve, I gotta tell you, the — you guys in the press are incorrigible. I was literally inaugurated four days ago. And you’re talking about elections four years from now.”
And I like the plain truth he told The New Republic too:
One of the biggest factors is going to be how the media shapes debates. If a Republican member of Congress is not punished on Fox News or by Rush Limbaugh for working with a Democrat on a bill of common interest, then you’ll see more of them doing it.
Memo to Obama and all Democrats: Keep it up, hammer away at it, drive it home and for God’s sake, don’t let up!
Does the NRA Own Your Congressperson?
OpenSecrets.org has a new post up documenting how much money “our“ (so funny) representatives have taken in from the NRA.
Here are the first 20 people on the list:
Go here to see the rest of them. Oh, and bear in mind, the names don’t stop with those listed on the first page. Be sure to click through to pages 2 and 3. (OMG.)
And note the graph at the top of the page summarizing donations to Democrats (blue) and Republicans (red):
So when someone says Republicans work for the NRA, there is evidence to back it up, as in this sh*t.
Either Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) is an Idiot or He Thinks We Are
Michigan Senator Carl Levin (D) on the filibuster reform disaster today:
If Levin actually believes his own words, I fear for his mental health. Republicans are not going to work with Democrats. Period. Or, if he thinks we’ll believe him, he sorely he needs to retire and go home because he’s waaay out of touch. I.e., he’s either BSing himself or he’s BSing us. Maybe both.
More on the whole filibuster thing here: Senators Against Democracy.
Bipartisanship Won’t Work When One of the Parties is Insane
I’m listening to Tom Harkin on Ed Schultz’s radio show talking about filibuster reform and how Harry Reid is “still trying to negotiate with Mitch McConnell.”
I’ll say it again:
I really don’t understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane. Imagine trying to negotiate an agreement on dinner plans with your date, and you suggest Italian and she states her preference would be a meal of tire rims and anthrax. If you can figure out a way to split the difference there and find a meal you will both enjoy, you can probably figure out how bipartisanship is going to work in the next few years.
– John Cole /Balloon Juice in approximately 2010.
What’s with Harry Reid — still — not getting that?
House Republican Leaders: Our Tea Party Members Are Crazy, We Can’t Control Them So Give Them What They Want
This is what Republicans call compromise:
Republican leadership officials, in a series of private meetings and conversations this past week, warned that the White House, much less the broader public, doesn’t understand how hard it will be to talk restive conservatives off the fiscal ledge. To the vast majority of House Republicans, it is far riskier long term to pile up new debt than it is to test the market and economic reaction of default or closing down the government.
GOP officials said more than half of their members are prepared to allow default unless Obama agrees to dramatic cuts he has repeatedly said he opposes. Many more members, including some party leaders, are prepared to shut down the government to make their point. House Speaker John Boehner “may need a shutdown just to get it out of their system,” said a top GOP leadership adviser. “We might need to do that for member-management purposes — so they have an endgame and can show their constituents they’re fighting.”
Let’s Not Give Republicans Any Ideas
Imagine the House and Senate having their own armed forces (here’s looking at you Tea Party Republicans):
“Congress Building” in Tripoli, Libya (Via LibyaHerald.com)
Congress Sets up its Own Military Force
The [Libyan] General National Congress has decided to set up its own armed force to protect its premises, members and employees. It will be independent of the army or the police. It will be under the direct command of the President of the Congress, from whom it will take its orders.
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It is not known how large the new body will be. Resolution No 1 for 2013, setting it up, has no mention as to its size. It is thought its forces will also act as bodyguard for Congress members wherever they are in the country.
And We Thought 2012 Was Bad…
If we thought the news coming out of Washington in 2012 was maddeningly, pull-your-hair-out bad, it looks like we’re in for even more fun this year:
President Obama signed the “fiscal cliff” deal developed by Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, averting across-the-board spending cuts for two months, raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans, and averting a number of other tax increases. But the Washington Post notes that the deal assures additional budget fights in the coming months.
“The next big deadline is likely to come around the end of February, when the Treasury Department will exhaust the measures now in place to extend the nation’s $16.4 trillion debt ceiling… Republicans hope to use that moment to force Obama and congressional Democrats to agree to major spending cuts in return for the increase.”
Next, “in early March would come another deadline: the $110 billion cut in spending, half from the Pentagon, delayed as part of this deal. A month or so later — on March 27 — a short-term measure that funds government agencies will lapse. Without a renewal, the government will shut down.”
It’s a good thing there isn’t anything else that needs to get done.
Is Obama Responsible For The Seemingly Endless Stalemates We Find Ourselves In?
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The discouraging thing about the “fiscal cliff” negotiations is not that they have gone into the eleventh hour, or that they may go into the new year, or even that they won’t resolve the long-term budget deficit. It’s that President Obama has retreated on his hard line on taxes. In the months before the election, and in the weeks after his victory, Obama had a clear position: The Bush tax cuts for income over $250,000 were ending. He would not sign any extension, and if Republicans refused to extend tax cuts for income below that level, he would hold them responsible for it until they did.
Now, by all accounts, Obama is prepared to extend the Bush tax cuts up to $400,000 a year. Or maybe more. As of Friday, Obama had told Republicans they could have the tax cuts extended on income up to $400,000 if they would accept the estate tax rising from its Bush-set rates. As of last night, Democrats were conceding the estate tax plus the higher exemption on tax rates, which had risen to $450,000. And Republicans still hadn’t agreed to it! Why would they, when Democrats keep hurling money at them? By midnight, Republicans might be getting the Saturday Night Live version of Obama’s offer (“a 1% raise on the top two Americans — just two people”).
The erosion signals not only a major substantive problem in its own right, but it also raises disturbing questions about Obama’s ability to handle his entire second term agenda.
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Obama is surely going to have to accept a lot of bad policies in his negotiations with Republicans (a fact I’ve argued to some of my harder-line liberal friends in several columns). But the tax cuts are the one area where he enjoys overwhelming leverage over the Republicans. Their only threat is to block extension of tax cuts on income under $250,000, a wildly unpopular stance countless Republicans have acknowledged they could not sustain for long without courting an enormous public backlash. This is the hand where Obama needed to collect all the chips.
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The negotiating style Obama has displayed in these instances is what poker players call “tight-weak.” A tight-strong player avoids throwing in his chips, saving them for a big hand, which he plays aggressively in hopes of a huge win. A loose-weak player plays lots of hands, bluffing frequently. Tight-weak is the worst of all worlds — when you have a weak hand, you lose, and when you have a strong hand, you fail to maximize your position.
Obama claims, and seems to genuinely believe, that he won’t let Republicans jack him up over the debt ceiling again. But if Republicans could hold the middle class tax cuts hostage, they’ll try to hold the debt ceiling hostage. Indeed, they will probably discover other areas of traditionally routine policy agreement that can be turned into extortion opportunities.
Obama may think his conciliatory approach has helped avoid economic chaos. Instead, he is courting it.
Obama has the support of the American people when it comes to taxing income over $250,000. But, it appears he has caved on that, so one wonders what it would take for him to play a “tight-strong” hand for once, if he won’t do it on this.
For example, yesterday on Meet the Press, Obama said he would put his “full weight” behind passing some sort of gun control legislation next year. Yeah, right. I’ll believe it when I see it. Obama campaigned for a year on tax increased for those making above $250,000 but here we are, looking at a $450,000 threshold.
Maddening.
Al Qaeda Disbands — Congress Doing the Job of Destroying America
Gotta love Andy Borowitz:
Al Qaeda Disbands; Says Job of Destroying U.S.
Economy Now in Congress’s Hands
The international terror group known as Al Qaeda announced its dissolution today, saying that “our mission of destroying the American economy is now in the capable hands of the U.S. Congress.”
In an official statement published on the group’s website, the current leader of Al Qaeda said that Congress’s conduct during the so-called “fiscal-cliff” showdown convinced the terrorists that they had been outdone.
“We’ve been working overtime trying to come up with ways to terrorize the American people and wreck their economy,” said the statement from Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. “But even we couldn’t come up with something like this.”
I think this whole “fiscal cliff” thing is way overblown so I don’t agree but this still gave me a chuckle.
The Unrealistic Hope for “Bipartisanship”
As we head into the weekend, the only “news”we’ll be hearing is what’s happening with “negotiations” surrounding the “fiscal cliff.”
Here is one of my favorite quotes of all time. I printed it out a few years ago and have had it on my desk ever since. And it’s been relevant ever since. It’s from John Cole over at BalloonJuice and I think, though I’m not positive, it’s from roughly 2009. I’m going to bear it in mind this weekend:
I really don’t understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane. Imagine trying to negotiate an agreement on dinner plans with your date, and you suggest Italian and she states her preference would be a meal of tire rims and anthrax. If you can figure out a way to split the difference there and find a meal you will both enjoy, you can probably figure out how bipartisanship is going to work in the next few years.
(Image via ClubPenguin.Wikia.com)
Or the next few days.
Will Democrats Walk Into This Republican Trap?
Check out this tweet (my Tweet of the Day) from Greg Sargent over at the Washington Post:
He’s exactly right. On March 29, 2012, Republicans passed “the Ryan Plan” which included cuts to Medicare. Then, during the summer and fall, especially after Romney picked Ryan as his VP, they ran as far away from the Ryan Plan as they could. Now they want Democrats to do their dirty work for them and propose cuts to Medicare so they can get what they want (Medicare cuts) but blame the Democrats when We the People go nuts.
Hopefully (and that’s a big hopefully) the Democrats aren’t stupid enough to fall for it. They own Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security and people love those things. If they propose serious cuts, Republicans will use it against them for decades.
Most Voters Think Santa is a Democrat
Of course he is!
(Image via AP)
PPP’s new holiday season poll sees voters in giving moods towards both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney – voters believe both men will be receiving presents from Santa this holiday season rather than a lump of coal, with Romney perhaps getting some sympathy presents. Voters say Romney will get presents by a 63/37 margin compared to 51/49 for Obama. Some other findings:
- 44% of respondents said Santa was a Democrat while 28% say he is a Republican.
Quote of the Day (About Gun Control)
There’s no deeper indictment of our spineless political elites than that bob costas [sic] is now America’s top advocate for gun control.
(Via.)
