I was talking with BooMan tonight about how dumb and empty right wing bloggers are these days. I suggested that the equivalent on our side would have been if in 2003 left wing bloggers spent all their time talking about their designs for the giant puppets they were going to bring to the anti-war demonstrations.* After reading this, that characterization seems to be pretty solid.TPM Headlines:
*To be clear I have nothing against protests or giant puppets.
DemfromCT's (Daily Kos) Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
is it Wednesday yet? Why... apparently it is!
The Arena: The pundits wrestle with Republican unpopularity.
The latest New York Times poll is loaded with good news for the Obama administration and news that would be devastating for the GOP if it were ever able to penetrate the conservative-media echo chamber. While the public is still pretty pessimistic about the future, it's considerably less so than it was before Barack Obama took office.
This sounds shocking on its face -- Obama more polarizing than Bush after the 2000 election? [see Pew poll] But it shouldn't come as that much of a surprise. After all, when a president pushes -- and passes -- an agenda that leans heavily on government spending, Democrats rally around him while Republicans move away from him. Our own polling backs up this theory.
It's all about independents.
Charlie Cook: It's all about independents.
The checks-and-balances argument likely has special appeal to voters who don't identify with either party -- of the three polls, Fox's showed the heaviest preference for the GOP among independents -- and could explain why these voters seem willing to consider the opposition party even as they say they see signs of improvement. The difference is still relatively small, but the GOP has 18 months to press the point.
It's all about independents.
To the surprise of liberals who fear the advent of an evangelical theocracy and to the dismay of religious conservatives who long to see their faith more fully expressed in public life, Christians are now making up a declining percentage of the American population.
A nation facing problems of biblical proportions appears to be looking less and less to religion for answers. According to a new NEWSWEEK Poll, the percentage of Americans who think faith will help answer all or most of the country's current problems dipped to a historic low of 48 percent, down from 64 percent in 1994.
Michelle’s snubbing designers? “I don’t know whether to shake with laughter or with disbelief!” wrote Dmitcha, an African-American who’s a former model and a diarist at Daily Kos.
John Cole on The GM P.U.M.A.
Block party April 7: Rachel Maddow talks to Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, about how the some Congressional Republicans are delaying votes on some of President Obama's nominations.Tragic name:
Having conquered the world of passenger vehicles, General Motors Corp. showed off its vision of future transportation today that’s either exciting or frightening, depending on whether one cares about driving.GM and Segway unveiled the Project PUMA, a two-seat rickshaw minus a rick that uses the Segway’s electric systems to glide around on two wheels. Capable of carrying 700 pounds in a frame about half the size of a Smart car, the PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility) can spin on a pin and “bows” to let passengers in and out.
I think this clears up any doubts over whether firing Wagoner was a good idea. At any rate, due to the tragic name, this photoshopping was just inevitable (the third picture killed me).
Submit to me your own photoshop entrants via email or in the comments.
- atrios adds: Segway The Second I think a big problem for vehicles like this is that they aren't all that compatible with the existing universe of roads and cars. Happy to be wrong.
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Kurtz: Invoking Florida
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) who, in his role as chairman of the NRSC, is fixated on keeping Al Franken from being seated for as long as possible:
"It's blatant hypocrisy that many of the same Democrats who so loudly complained about voter disenfranchisement during the 2000 Florida recount are now willing to compromise this fundamental principle of our democracy when it no longer fits their political agenda."
More troubles for the GOP's master plan to harm children for their own political gain.
Chris in Paris: Roubini: "Cramer is a buffoon"
There are too many digs to repeat so click through to read it all because it's worth it. Roubini has had enough of Cramer and is brutal. He's also right.John Cole: Next Up: Life Insurance"Cramer is a buffoon," said Roubini, a New York University economics professor often called Dr. Doom. "He was one of those who called six times in a row for this bear market rally to be a bull market rally and he got it wrong. And after all this mess and Jon Stewart he should just shut up because he has no shame."Every time there is a small gain or the market has become exhausted from selling off, CNBC is always there to pitch the new bull market that doesn't exist. Their entire existence has been called into question with this recession because they lost all credibility. The entire network is nothing other than a bunch of cheerleaders who are unable to offer any criticism of the system they helped create. The sooner they are sent to the junk pile and shoved aside for a real business network, the better.
Cramer recently wrote in a blog that Roubini is "intoxicated" with his own "prescience and vision" and said Roubini should realize that things are better since the stock market bottom in March.
Roubini said in 2006 that the worst recession in four decades was on its way. He has attracted attention for his gloomy — and accurate — predictions of the U.S. financial market meltdown.
Make of this what you will:
The Treasury Department has decided to extend bailout funds to a number of struggling life-insurance companies, helping an industry that is a linchpin of the U.S. financial system, people familiar with the matter said.The department is expected to announce the expansion of the Troubled Asset Relief Program to aid the ailing industry within the next several days, these people said.
Since I really do not understand all the ins and outs of our economy, I will describe it in ways I understand: it looks like the primary cancer has metastasized.
Things are looking up? April 7: As President Obama returns home after his trip abroad, the economy is still on the minds of many. It appears the public's perception of the economy is getting better. Rachel Maddow talks about the findings with Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman.
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