JedL finds President Obama Ready to rumble
President Obama's announcement earlier today of his earmark reform plan (full video and transcript at DKTV) was not only interesting on a substantive basis, but also on a political one.
Although his tone was calm and measured, and while he never mentioned the Republican Party by name, President Obama quite clearly called the GOP out for its hypocritical attempt to exploit the earmarks issue.
Watch for yourself:
Josh says: That Should Help His Chances
From Lisa DePaulo's interview with Michael Steele, asking him to explain his pro-life views ...
DePaulo: Are you saying you think women have the right to choose abortion?
Steele: Yeah. I mean, again, I think that's an individual choice.
- John Aravosis (DC) on Steele interview:
"On whether homosexuality is a choice: "Oh, no. I don't think I've ever really subscribed to that view, that you can turn it on and off like a water tap. Um, you know, I think that there's a whole lot that goes into the makeup of an individual that, uh, you just can't simply say, oh, like, 'Tomorrow morning I'm gonna stop being gay.' It's like saying, 'Tomorrow morning I'm gonna stop being black.'"
Comparing being gay to being black? The religious right is going to FLIP. Well, they're already going to fire him over the abortion comment - the gay one is just icing on the cake."
Cole on Government By Underpants Gnomes
A Sam Stein piece informs us that John McCain is working on a ten point plan of economic principles for the GOP. .... "..."
Why do Republican economic principles sound so familiar:
Step 1: No tax increases
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Profit!Why not, I guess. It worked so well for California.
via AmericaBlog: Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston have broken off their engagement.
TPM: Coleman Accuses Political Enemies Of Hacking Donor Data
Norm Coleman is accusing his opponents of mounting a Web security attack -- which has led the campaign to encourage online donors to cancel their cards -- while multiple sources say the Coleman camp itself negligently posted the data online.
Benen: ERIC CANTOR AND THE ETERNAL DEBATE....
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor appeared on MSNBC this morning, offering the latest in finely-tuned Republican talking points:"Interestingly, today, Andrea, we hear the announcement that the administration is working on a second stimulus plan that could approach another $1 trillion. And in fact I think there's an admission there that the first path that we had objected to didn't work. And in fact the plan that I personally to President Obama was tested and our analysts told us that the predictions were we could have created twice as many jobs at half the cost."
Those are three sentences. Each sentence is obviously false. One can debate whether Cantor was deliberately deceiving the audience or just doesn't know what he's talking about -- the subject of an eternal debate -- but either way, his comments weren't even close to being true.
Let's take them one at a time. ... ... ... [at the link]
The other day, Josh Marshall argued that the policies coming from congressional Republicans are so transparently ridiculous that they are "simply not part of the discussion when it comes to repairing the US economy or arresting our slide into deep economic misery. And any reporters who aren't clear about this are just lying to their readers or viewers.... ... "I'd only add that they shouldn't be part of the conversation, but yet, there they are, on national television, repeating blisteringly stupid talking points.
They're necessarily part of the conversation -- despite being hopelessly and shamelessly wrong -- because no one dares shut them out.
- And here, via TPM, we have Cantor in his own words, allowed to say whatever he wants with no pushback
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