ABC reporter who doesn't understand how income taxes work finds rich people who don't know either and makes a story out of it.
- atrios: Do They? I guess I'm actually curious if the people working for ABC have any idea how the income tax works or not. Some times I can't tell if media outlets are playing stupid or if they are stupid.
QOTD, Tom Watson: Looking for all the world like the sweating floor manager on the late afternoon shift at Larry Flynt's Hustler Club in an unbuttoned shiny black shirt and undersized sport coat, Rush Limbaugh leaned his meaty hands on the lectern at the CPAC conference and slipped a greasy dollar bill into the G-string of the writhing conservative dead-enders packed into the garishly lit Omni Shoreham in Washington DC.
DailyKos' BarbinMD: Coward Watch
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But instead of waiting for the media to raise the question with Republican lawmakers, let's ask them ourselves. Let's call our Congresscritters today and find out if they agree with this statement from Limbaugh:
The dirty little secret ... is that every Republican in this country wants Obama to fail, but none of them have the guts to say so; I am willing to say it.
So call your Republican congressman or Senator and ask them if Rush Limbaugh was wrong. It's a yes or no question; certainly they should have, in Rush's endearing words, "the guts to say so."
In the comments, please list the name, the district, and their office's answer and I'll follow this up later today with the responses we get. And if you're lucky enough live in a Democratic district and/or state, you can still help by calling the office of a neighboring Republican.
Contact information:
Switchboard for both the Senate and the House: (202) 224-3121
Like shooting fish in a barrel, Stewart on CPAC.
TeeVee is mostly a vast wasteland for coherant thought, cable teevee most of all. But I always feel smarter after watching Maddow (and Colbert/Stewart). Last night was wonderful. Three Maddow segments posted hither and yon below. The entire show is here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/
Barney and Rachel. You know what that means - economic clarity with a dash humor.
March 2: The Dow closed at its lowest level in more than 12 years, amid the news that AIG is getting billions more in bailout money. Also, Republicans are speaking out against President Obama's budget plan. Rachel Maddow is joined by Rep. Barney Frank, D-MA.
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Kevin Drum on Earmarks: As it happens, I think all the hyperventilating over earmarks is kind of silly. Getting rid of them wouldn't reduce the federal budget by a dime (the earmarked money would just go elsewhere), and in any case I don't have a huge issue with senators having some say in where money is spent in their states.
Isikoff on destroyed interrogation tapes
March 2: It's been revealed that the CIA destroyed 92 tapes reportedly showing harsh interrogation tactics. How did this happen? Rachel Maddow is joined by Newsweek%u2019s Michael Isikoff.
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Benen: REPUBLICANS' MADDENING JUDICIAL GAMES...
In Bill Clinton's second term, Senate Republicans did everything they could to slow the Democratic president's drive to fill judicial vacancies. By 2001, those same Senate Republicans changed their own rules to make it easier for George W. Bush to stack the federal courts. By 2003, a group of senators led by Orrin Hatch had completely re-written the rules on senatorial objections to would-be judges.Left without the traditional tools, Senate Democrats started filibustering the most extreme right-wing nominees. This, Republicans said, was literally unconstitutional and an affront that tore at the fabric of our system of government. "Advice and consent," the GOP said, meant giving every judicial nominee an up-or-down vote. Anything else, they said, would be an outrageous insult to our democracy.
According to reports in Roll Call, Politico, and The Hill, Senate Republicans have miraculously changed their minds again.
President Barack Obama should fill vacant spots on the federal bench with former President Bush's judicial nominees to help avoid another huge fight over the judiciary, all 41 Senate Republicans said Monday.
In a letter to the White House, the Republican senators said Obama would "change the tone in Washington" if he were to renominate Bush nominees like Peter Keisler, Glen Conrad and Paul Diamond. And they requested that Obama respect the Senate's constitutional role in reviewing judicial nominees by seeking their consultation about potential nominees from their respective states.
"Regretfully, if we are not consulted on, and approve of, a nominee from our states, the Republican Conference will be unable to support moving forward on that nominee," the letter warns. "And we will act to preserve this principle and the rights of our colleagues if it is not."
In other words, Republicans are threatening a filibuster of judges if they're not happy.
Even by the standards of the congressional GOP, this is truly ridiculous. The same people who said judicial filibusters were literally illegal are threatening to launch judicial filibusters. What's more, they also want to see the failed former president's unsuccessful judicial nominees put on the federal bench for life -- just a gesture of goodwill.
All that talk about up-or-down votes has gone completely out the window. The passionate arguments about an elected president being able to stack the courts with like-minded judges, enjoying lifetime appointments, are but a memory. Why, it's almost as if the Republicans' deeply held principles vary depending on the president's political party. That couldn't be, could it?
My friend Kyle, who had a terrific piece on this,
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Their shamelessness knows no bounds.
TPM: Jindal Calls Limbaugh A "Great Leader" For Conservatives, Is Glad Steele Apologized
Check out this excerpt from Bobby Jindal's appearance last night on Larry King Live. Jindal was asked about Rush Limbaugh's declarations of wanting President Obama to fail. He not only couldn't bring himself to repudiate Rush's remarks, but also praised Rush as ...
Rachel never has two people on set with her. Until today. Be afraid ....
Huffington and Sparks on GOP failure wishes
March 2: GOP in Exile: Radio show host Rush Limbaugh says he wants President Obama to fail. And many GOP leaders are agreeing with him. Is the Republican Party really rooting for failure? Rachel Maddow is joined by Huffington Post editor Arianna Huffington and comedian Hal Sparks.
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Hal Sparks was a player in my niece's Political Mud video last fall. Good video.
I'm going to have to watch the Daily Show clips when I get home. Should help me take my mind off of Greenwald's posts today.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the heads up. I added Glenn to the latest post.
ReplyDeleteI'm having so much fun with the Limbaugh follies and some positive things that sometimes I avoid Greenwald cause it is almost always such a downer.