By GottaLaff
New DNC ad:
I'm convinced.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
New DNC VIDEO: Big Insurance Part of the Problem, GOP Doesn't Get It
Quickie: Howard Dean on Health Care edition
By GottaLaff
Today's Quickie:
Shorter Howard Dean just now on The Rachel Maddow Show to substitute host Chris Hayes (looking mighty spiffy in his fancy schmancy suit):
"We need a public option. We don't need an individual mandate, although it would be better with one. I'm tired of being pushed around by the far right wing of the Republican party." (slightly paraphrased)
That was today's Quickie. Will you still respect me in the morning?
No Palin, please, we're British
By GottaLaff
I say, I do so appreciate the British flair for understatement, what?
"It's hard for us to understand, if I can put it that way."
-- United Kingdom conservative party leader David Cameron, quoted by Vanity Fair, on Sarah Palin's popularity.
Pip pip, don't you know, eh Corrupta McDimBulb?
Tally... ho!
Scott Brown bucks party to end filibusters
By GottaLaff
I keep waiting for another shoe to drop. I'm not even sure what that meant, but suffice it to say Brown makes me uneasy. Maybe it's the SenatorFold, or the $750 pink leather shorts.Brown took to the Senate floor Tuesday to announce he would vote for cloture, or to end a Republican filibuster, on a bill extending unemployment benefits and tax credits. This, despite the fact he opposes the bill and technically the filibuster helped his cause.
"I have very serious concerns about the overall cost of the bill," Brown told the chamber, "but my vote for cloture signals that I believe we need to keep the process moving." He also said, "there has been a week of debate and allowing this bill to receive an up-and-down vote, would be a step, I feel, in the right direction."
With Brown’s help, the nearly $140 billion bill cleared the procedural hurdle on a vote of 66-34, setting it up for passage.
However, his two helpful votes are greatly appreciated.
No back wax for Rubio
By GottaLaff
Florida Senate hopeful Marco Rubio never charged a back wax to his Republican Party of Florida credit card, his campaign spokesman told CNN Tuesday, rebutting Gov. Charlie Crist's curious allegation about his Republican primary rival's grooming habits.
HairGate solved! Or is it BackGate? Or WaxGate? GateGate? WaxWax? Oh stop...
Rubio's spokesman Alex Burgos has the details:
"Marco paid $20 for a haircut with a razor on the neck, and he bought some items that went into a silent auction, including gift certificates," he said.
Whew! What would we have done had we not known that?!
As for the back wax claim: "Charlie Crist's obsession with making up things about other people's grooming habits is bizarre for anyone, especially the sitting governor of Florida," Burgos said.
"It's also a shame he cares more about what's in Marco's personal bills than what's in the stimulus bill he supported."
Racist Michelle Obama e-mail affecting Tennessee tourism
Yeah, yeah, yeah, write it on your hand. Actions have consequences ya asshats.
NASHVILLE, March 9 (UPI) -- A racially offensive e-mail comparing first lady Michelle Obama to a chimpanzee is affecting the Tennessee
tourism industry, officials said.
Walt Baker, the CEO of the Tennessee Hospitality Association, forwarded the e-mail Thursday to about a dozen people, including the mayor of Nashville and the president of the Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau, The (Nashville) Tennessean reported.
Development heard from several potential tourists saying they would not be visiting the state after hearing of the e-mail, the newspaper said.
Video- Beck says, based on Massa allegations, "there are four different criminal charges" Rahm Emanuel "could be brought up on"
What a maroon. Media Matters has bunches more of the Beck/Mass summit if you can stomach it. I'm not sure which one was more disjointed.
Weird Evening Distractions
Health Reform Poll Approval Gaining
Andrew brings us the good news.
As this poll of polls shows, if Obama keeps up his performances like yesterday and campaigns like this day after day after day, the first poll - from YouGov/The Economist - showing a clear 53- 47 majority in favor of his reform will become a harbinger of the future. The data is already there that passing this will help the Democrats against the Republicans this fall, if you can get past the Washington bullshit. The last month has been clearly a net positive in public opinion.
Moreover, Obama's strategy of exposing the nihilism and obstructionism of the GOP is working. One YouGov question asked: How much do you think President Obama is trying to work with Republicans in Congress? 48 percent said a great deal or a fair amount. Compare it to this: How much do you think the Republicans in Congress are trying to work with President Obama? 28 percent said a great deal or a fair amount. 60 percent said not much or not at all.
Audio- Limbaugh: "For the first time in his life, Paterson is gonna be a massa" if he chooses Massa's replacement
That is the most convoluted path to calling a man a n word without saying it outright. He must have a daily quota of racist comments to fill.
Michelle Obama's inaugural gown enshrined in museum
The dress was always kind of meh to me, but as a part of fashion history it will surely stand up to the previous entries. This is a real fashion museum.
WASHINGTON, March 9 (UPI) -- The gown first lady Michelle Obama wore to balls celebrating her husband Barack Obama's inauguration is on display at the National Museum of American History.
Obama officially began his tenure as president of the United States in January 2009.
"So, here we are. It's the dress," Michelle Obama said Tuesday about the frock she wore to the inaugural balls. "I am very honored and very humbled, but I have to say that I'm also a little embarrassed by all the fuss being made over my dress. Like many of you, I'm not used to people wanting to put things I've worn on display. So, all of this is a little odd, so forgive me. But, at the same time, I truly recognize the significance of this day. This gown -- and all of the items that we'll see in this wonderful exhibit -- help us connect with a moment in history in a very real way."
Census hiring blitz of 750,000 to cut jobless rate, boost to Obama
By GottaLaff
750,000 is nothing to sneeze at:
The U.S. Census Bureau expects to add up to 750,000 workers to its payroll by May, a hiring binge that could knock the unemployment rate down by as much as a half-point.
The once-a-decade census is coming at the best possible time for President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats, who have taken political lumps for more than a year over a jobless rate that stands at 9.7 percent. [...]
“This is the best-timed census you could ever dream of,” said Heidi Shierholz, who tracks the labor market at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. She believes the March unemployment report will show the economy added jobs instead of subtracting them.
Wendy Button, chief of the decennial recruiting branch of the Census Bureau:
“This is in no way going to solve our unemployment situation [...] It’s going to be a blip. A big blip, but it’s going to be a blip.”
Still, it’s a blip that could help Obama and Democrats.
And that's the kind of blip we like.
Besides, if 750,000 people can make some money, that's good news.
Sources: Massa was investigated for allegedly groping male staffers
By GottaLaff
Via an e-mail alert:
Former Rep. Eric Massa has been the focus of a House Ethics committee investigation into allegations that he groped male staffers who worked in his office, sources familiar with the probe told The Washington Post.
For more information, visit washingtonpost.com:
http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/AADB45/ 4G4M0/EEJRN2/4X8OLT/U6EYE/QR/t
Waiting for more details.
"I'm going to assassinate Michelle Obama."
By GottaLaff
It's time to expose another sick racist:
Here's a tweet that the Secret Service might like to see:
Do these people want to get a call?
Are they simply out to make waves, or get attention? By threatening to kill the First Lady and spewing hate?
Either this person is about 12, very sadly ignorant, and looking for some kind of demented version of Twitter fame, or they are a mentally ill adult who needs an intervention and rehab.
Very sad.
P.S. A Twitter pal of mine did just report this to the Secret Service.
H/t: Davidgs, SupermanHotMale
Doug Hoffman mounts another bid in NY-23
By GottaLaff
If at first you don't succeed...
The certified public accountant from Lake Placid, New York announced that he's making a second bid for Congress. His first run, as a Conservative Party candidate in a three way race, helped spark a bitter divide within the GOP and was one reason Democrat Bill Owen won a district his party hadn't controlled in over a century.
So he used to be a Divider. Now, he wants to be a Uniter.
That's right, now he says he wants to unify the party, get 'em all together-- Republican, Conservative and Independence Parties-- and bundle 'em up to beat the Evil Pelosi Party.
Maybe he'll enlist Barbie McLipSchmutz to campaign for him. That should clinch it.
Besides, who could resist a face like this:
Nancy Pelosi "gets what she wants"
By GottaLaff
Today's Quickie, directly from the Thom Hartmann Show just now:
Thom Hartmann: Will Nancy Pelosi get the votes for health care?
Ellen Ratner: She gets what she wants, to quote someone very high up. And Blanche Lincoln is now considering a two step process.
That was today's Quickie. Was it good for you?
The Lies of "Conservatism" and the "Center" are Immoral
By GottaLaff
Your Daily Dose of BuzzFlash, brought to you by Mark Karlin:
Much more here.The modern "conservative" movement is nothing more than a massively funded and highly effective communications strategy to shift America into an oligarchy that functions for the super wealthy through tax cuts and for corporations through the elimination of safety regulations for the public good and the privatization of government.
That's not conservatism; that's highway robbery. It's a crime.
All this came about through the organized strategy and financing of wealthy financiers and corporations to build a network of think tanks, media-owned outlets, reporters toting the oligarchy line on the "benefits" of unrestrained "free trade," public relations initiatives, and front organizations to move America from an evolutionary society relying on the strength of innovation and a dynamic educated middle class to a relatively static society in which those at the top are in a members-only club growing obese with wealth while kicking others down from the ladder to the top and demanding tithes from them.
The most vital cudgel used to achieve this economic and social imbalance that stultifies the American nation and is immoral to its founding principles is the notion of "centrism." It is beat into us by Republican and Democratic politicians (Rahm Emanuel and the White House being current exemplars), the corporate mainstream media, and, of course, the relentlessly effective GOP echo chamber.
What is "centrism" other than an artificial metaphor, given that America is confronting so many issues and that the vast majority of society wants to move forward, not backward. What most Americans want is not static "centrism," but movement ahead. [...]
After all, so called "Conservatism" is the opposite of progress. [...]
America prided itself on breaking away from the fixed and stultifying inherited upper class rule of Europe, only now to have an interest group with such massive amounts of funds to create a "natural order" of winners and losers; in essence, to reverse the American Revolution.That's not "centrist" or "conservative"; it is immoral, even treasonous.
[...]The created fiction of the "center" is used as an excuse for inaction on behalf of America's obscenely wealthy interests.
VIDEO- David Corn bets Brad Blakeman $1000 that he, Karl Rove lied
By GottaLaff
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Dee-lish! David Corn offered to bet former Bush spokesman Brad Blakeman $1000 that he and Rove were lying about the WMD inspectors being denied access to inspection sites. Right there on the Tee Vee Machine.
March 20, 2003:
Bush urged journalists to leave the country in his television address late Monday. "For their own safety, all foreign nationals — including journalists and inspectors — should leave Iraq immediately," the president said.
Bush ordered the inspectors out. Blakeman owes David Corn $1000.
BREAKING: Producer will plead guilty in Letterman case
By GottaLaff
WNBC producer expected to plead guilty to extortion in the David Letterman case.
Manpower says employment picture is sound
Manpower should know, they are everywhere.
MILWAUKEE, March 9 (UPI) -- Private U.S. staffing firm Manpower Inc. said Tuesday that prospects for job hunters should improve in the second quarter.
In a recent survey, 73 percent of employers indicated they would keep staff levels unchanged in the second quarter, Manpower said. In addition, employers in 12 out of 13 industry sectors indicated positive Net Employment Outlooks for April through June, "meaning employers in most industry sectors plan to add staff during the second quarter," Manpower said.
"We continue to see encouraging signs in hiring activity in the United States," said Manpower Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Joerres in a statement.
Video- Glenn Beck advertiser offers "survival seeds" as defense against "emerging totalitarianism"
And with the paranoid idjits that watch that clown, I'm sure they'll make a killing.
Rubio's Grooming Becomes a Campaign Issue
How do the Republicans feel about metrosexuals? Via Taegan-
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) accused rival Marco Rubio (R) of getting his back waxed in an interview on Fox News last night.
Said Crist: "He's trying to pawn himself off as a fiscal conservative. And yet just in reason weeks, two weeks Hairy-back ago it has come out in news accounts he had a Republican Party of Florida credit card that he charged $130 haircut, or maybe it was a back wax -- we are not sure what all he got at that place."
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