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“…spare them the embarrassment of confirming someone who thinks the tax laws apply only to other people.” ?? Seriously? We’re supposed to just be ok with the idea that the Senate would confirm a guy like Daschle, as a former “club member,” and somehow feel sorry for the Senators who had to suffer through the embarrassment of the confirmation?
If they want to be “spared the embarrassment” then maybe they should grow a little backbone, beat Daschle bloody in the confirmation hearings, and then reject him unanimously.
And let’s require audits for every federally elected and appointed official, back as far as the law allows, and forever into the future.
A racist base? In the party that lionized dead apartheid-lover Jesse Helms? Why, I never!
The drooling incontinent Lord Protector of the Senate represents which klavern? What is the traditional attitude of dingy Harry’s cult toward the sanctity of “persons of color”? Hurl indeed.
It is worth savoring the LAT piece on the expansion of rendition (note, not just keeping but expanding the program – I guess when your unwilling to keep the country safe yourself there is the need to expand outsourcing of our intelligence gathering/incarceration of terrorists. A good thing the CIA isn’t unionized…) I would like to suggest a new slogan for Republicans –
Obama – continuity we can believe in.
Hurf,
I’ll see you our apartheid loving Jesse Helms and raise you a Grand Kleegle!
“Observing Michael Steele’s election as RNC Chair, Ben Smith writes: “There is a serious question of whether this could push real committed racists, a small, but real and voting, minority, away from the GOP.” Serious question by whom? And what “small, but real and voting, minority”? Hmm, he doesn’t provide any statistical or anecdotal information to support such a view. (Didn’t Politico used to have a blog that covered the GOP with real sources and facts, sort of actual reporting?)”
Agreed, this is unfounded and shouldn’t pass for unbiased journalism. The science knows that racists are no “real and voting minority” of the Repubican pary, they are a clear majority.
Sinai actually endorsed Obama’s plan, citing personal tax credits and direct aid to states as the quickest economic fixes. But IMHO nothing (not spending, not tax cuts) will work until we unfreeze credit. That means finding a way for financial institutions to unload bad debts and ensuring oversight on Wall Street.
Glenn Greenwald wants to pin the corrupt label on everyone, enhancing his own stature as supposed gadfly, the last honest man in the media. If you start firing a gun in every direction, it’s not surprising that you might hit a bad guy, through sheer chance.
Anyway, language like his is wholly disconnected from reality, better suited to a dorm room at 1AM.
But he’s in Brazil with his partner, right?
“Observing Michael Steele’s election as RNC Chair, Ben Smith writes: “There is a serious question of whether this could push real committed racists, a small, but real and voting, minority, away from the GOP.”
You’ve got to be joking.
So the story on Steele’s victory is what will happen to the racists in the Republican party?
Get real people – there are racists in both parties.
What Steele will do is expand the party’s appeal but crafting a conservative economic message that appeals to the middle class and he will focus on the fiscal and social values shared by conservatives, Hispanics and African Americans.
The only racist thing I saw was Ben Smiths comments
I subscribed to the Politico newsletter for a few months after it began but it is the same old media left wing bias. Too bad. Ben Smith is the New York Times with a blog.
Is there a transcript of Shimon Peres’ remarks at the WEF?
Patterico on Andrew Sullivan torturing himself over torture.
This is E.J. Dionne, the professional wordsmith: “The aspects of the House bill that Republicans and conservative commentators have so eviscerated are the very ones that take substantial steps toward the president’s own priorities.”
Eviscerate, a synonym for disembowel, would indicate that Republicans and conservative commentators have removed portions of the bill, as they would remove the intestines when butchering a hog. That isn’t what happened. They may have condemned the bill, but that’s not the same thing. If E.J. is a prominent spokesperson for the utopians, it’s no wonder they’re fouled up. And doesn’t E.J. have an editor?
A deep, Democratic thinker passes on wisdom from the Athens of the prairie:
http://www.startribune.com/yourvoices/38777072.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUdcOy9cP3DieyckcUsI
I’m waiting for the announcement that Geraldo Rivera has finally found the secret vaults of “Al” Capone which, to the surprise of everybody, contains a letter in which the 1930′s organized crime figure states that he is sorry that he “forgot” to pay his taxes. The letter would further state that he is a registered Democrat and he should therefore be given a “pass” so that he could continue his many business ventures in the great city of Chicago, rather than die of cardiac arrest (possibly associated with the complications of third-stage neurosyphilis) 8 years after completing his sentence for tax evasion at the federal prison located on the island of Alcatraz.
http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/02/spiegel-database-of-west-bank-settlements-and-outposts—-view-larger-map.html
^map of illegal settlements