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Election-year scrutiny sheds light on disaffiliation, controversy.
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Friday, January 7, 2011
Rejected screwboy claims to be econ dev leader
It's what they do.
When you cut through all the political handicapping, sports prognostication, not-so-clever jokes and pictures of scantily-clad babes, this website exists for the basic purpose of protecting your tax dollars.
It’s what we do.
Like anybody would be attracted to him.
He may bitch the President out in public, but Jackass Joe Wilson's up on his desk fearing the 'mos.
Scaredy-cats
The ostriches of the right dig their heads in deeper:
On the other had, Brent Bozell III, head of the Media Research Center, specifically cited GOProud as a factor:
In addition to WND's report, the Family Research Council -- which has participated in CPAC for several years -- released a statement Thursday commenting on the controversy, and explaining their overall view of how CPAC's organizers have diverged from full-fledged conservatism.
Key quote:
Peer into one ear and you can see the light shining through the other
Here is an inexplicable thing.
The new Speaker of the US House spent the last year campaigning for his party's candidates from here to there. He said they would cut $100b from the federal budget right away. They all lined up and cried, "rah, rah rah!
Lately his party has been chiseling away at that. Now it'd down to $60b. Or maybe $30b, depending on whom you ask.
Today he gave an interview to Brian Williams, the chisel-jawed NBC anchor man.
Williams asked him what programs he wants to cut.
The Speaker said off the top of his head, he couldn't think of any.
The new Speaker of the US House spent the last year campaigning for his party's candidates from here to there. He said they would cut $100b from the federal budget right away. They all lined up and cried, "rah, rah rah!
Lately his party has been chiseling away at that. Now it'd down to $60b. Or maybe $30b, depending on whom you ask.
Today he gave an interview to Brian Williams, the chisel-jawed NBC anchor man.
Williams asked him what programs he wants to cut.
The Speaker said off the top of his head, he couldn't think of any.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Today in the Asylum
Let's recap.
The new majority in the US House says it's bad not to let the minority party offer amendments to bills.
They campaigned that they would "repeal and replace" the health care law will "common sense solutions."
So they have a vote scheduled next week. There's no replace.
Just repeal.
They got no plan. And no amendments will be allowed.
They want to reign in big government.
Today one of their talking heads was getting apoplectic about- "the Thomas Edison light bulb."
Yep. They are against more energy efficient bulbs.
The sub-meme is they are full or mercury and are bad for the environment, at the same time their new committee chairs are arguing environmental regulations of any sort are bad for the environment.
So they want to to spend more, more often, for bulbs that burn out more frequently, and so cost you more, over buying bulbs that last tons longer but cost more at the front end.
You get the feeling these were members of the party that argued Edison's bulbs would kill off the tallow market.
They had their big reading of the Constitution today. They deleted the repealed parts, which let them off dealing with the nigra 3/5 issue, but a birther interrupted the festivities, lending a carnival quality to the seriousness of the New Serious House Majority.
By the time the 90-minute Constitution Fetish Celebration was over, almost no one was left in the Chamber. The new Speaker, Mr Boehner, was having a press conference.
Then they discovered two of the majority party readers hadn't been sown in, thinking they could watch it on TV at a fundraiser and raise their hands. And then they discovered they forgotten to read parts of Articles 4 and 5.
Mr Goodlatte of Virginia, whose idea the stunt was, had to come back out and read them to an empty house.
Justice was served.
Mrs Bachmann introduced a bill to undo all Wall Street reform. She is thinking about running for President.
That is the only good news of the day.
The new majority in the US House says it's bad not to let the minority party offer amendments to bills.
They campaigned that they would "repeal and replace" the health care law will "common sense solutions."
So they have a vote scheduled next week. There's no replace.
Just repeal.
They got no plan. And no amendments will be allowed.
They want to reign in big government.
Today one of their talking heads was getting apoplectic about- "the Thomas Edison light bulb."
Yep. They are against more energy efficient bulbs.
The sub-meme is they are full or mercury and are bad for the environment, at the same time their new committee chairs are arguing environmental regulations of any sort are bad for the environment.
So they want to to spend more, more often, for bulbs that burn out more frequently, and so cost you more, over buying bulbs that last tons longer but cost more at the front end.
You get the feeling these were members of the party that argued Edison's bulbs would kill off the tallow market.
They had their big reading of the Constitution today. They deleted the repealed parts, which let them off dealing with the nigra 3/5 issue, but a birther interrupted the festivities, lending a carnival quality to the seriousness of the New Serious House Majority.
By the time the 90-minute Constitution Fetish Celebration was over, almost no one was left in the Chamber. The new Speaker, Mr Boehner, was having a press conference.
Then they discovered two of the majority party readers hadn't been sown in, thinking they could watch it on TV at a fundraiser and raise their hands. And then they discovered they forgotten to read parts of Articles 4 and 5.
Mr Goodlatte of Virginia, whose idea the stunt was, had to come back out and read them to an empty house.
Justice was served.
Mrs Bachmann introduced a bill to undo all Wall Street reform. She is thinking about running for President.
That is the only good news of the day.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Sooner, maybe later
I'm taking another little break. For one thing, I've had the holiday blues, and don't make good company to anyone. For another, all the news seems to be boatloads of stupid and I don't feel like going there. Talk among yourselves. I'll be back....well, whenever.
Let them eat cake
A theatrical production of unusual pomposity will open on Wednesday when Republicans assume control of the House for the 112th Congress. A rule will be passed requiring that every bill cite its basis in the Constitution. A bill will be introduced to repeal the health care law. On Thursday, the Constitution will be read aloud in the House chamber. And in one particularly self-important flourish, the new speaker, John Boehner, arranged to have his office staff “sworn in” on Tuesday by the chief justice of the United States.
Those who had hoped to see a glimpse of the much-advertised Republican plan to revive the economy and put Americans back to work will have to wait at least until party leaders finish their Beltway insider ritual of self-glorification. Then, they may find time for governing.
The empty gestures are officially intended to set a new tone in Washington, to demonstrate — presumably to the Republicans’ Tea Party supporters — that things are about to be done very differently. But it is far from clear what message is being sent by, for instance, reading aloud the nation’s foundational document. Is this group of Republicans really trying to suggest that they care more deeply about the Constitution than anyone else and will follow it more closely?
In any case, it is a presumptuous and self-righteous act, suggesting that they alone understand the true meaning of a text that the founders wisely left open to generations of reinterpretation. Certainly the Republican leadership is not trying to suggest that African-Americans still be counted as three-fifths of a person.
There is a similar air of vacuous fundamentalism in requiring that every bill cite the Constitutional power given to Congress to enact it. The new House leadership says this is necessary because the health care law and other measures that Republicans do not like have veered from the Constitution. But it is the judiciary that ultimately decides when a law is unconstitutional, not the transitory occupant of the speaker’s chair.
All of this, though, is simply eyewash — the equivalent of a flag-draped background to a speech — compared with the actual legislation the Republicans plan to pass. And though much of that has no possibility of being enacted, it does suggest the depth of the struggle to come. The bill tauntingly titled the “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act” has nothing to do with increasing employment and will never reach the Senate floor, but shows that the leadership is willing to threaten the hard-fought access to health care for millions of the uninsured, just to make a political point.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Tim Scott, maybe
So the Republicans take over the House tomorrow, and good on 'em. Elections work that way.
They seem to have a long list of things they want to repeal, and little they want to pass, although Congressman Issa is asking several hundred big corporations and trade groups what regulations they'd like him to get repealed.
It's a new form of outsourcing.
I see in the papers they intend to read the Constitution out loud to show they are for the bits they are for and showcase all the bits they want to repeal.
Justice Scalia, who's coming over to school the newbies in Mrs Bachmann's con law class, has opined that the 14th amendment doesn't afford women or gay Americans freedom from discrimination.
Which leads to the question, when they read the Constitution, who gets to read the part about black people being 3/5ths of a person?
They seem to have a long list of things they want to repeal, and little they want to pass, although Congressman Issa is asking several hundred big corporations and trade groups what regulations they'd like him to get repealed.
It's a new form of outsourcing.
I see in the papers they intend to read the Constitution out loud to show they are for the bits they are for and showcase all the bits they want to repeal.
Justice Scalia, who's coming over to school the newbies in Mrs Bachmann's con law class, has opined that the 14th amendment doesn't afford women or gay Americans freedom from discrimination.
Which leads to the question, when they read the Constitution, who gets to read the part about black people being 3/5ths of a person?
Landmarks of a sort
Well, golly....this little blog made it to 100,000 visits last night.
Not, objectively, a big deal; no prizes to be awarded. It reads the same way at just over 100,000 as it did at just under 100,000. But we humans like out little landmarks, so I say "thank you" to the readers who keep showing up. I hope I can keep up your reasons for visiting, and am grateful for your past check-ins.
Not, objectively, a big deal; no prizes to be awarded. It reads the same way at just over 100,000 as it did at just under 100,000. But we humans like out little landmarks, so I say "thank you" to the readers who keep showing up. I hope I can keep up your reasons for visiting, and am grateful for your past check-ins.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Saturday, January 1, 2011
They're either parasites or piranhas, just as long as the cost can be shifted to others
FITSNews is busy this weekend, having it both ways.
On the one hand, they- and I use "they" advisedly- are all worked up that SC has slow Internet access speeds.
On the other hand, they are sucking up to the Milliken heirs because Dad died in time for them to make out like bandits on the estate tax rates.
Never mind that the grudging acceptance of change is why SC has things like crappy Internet service. States- and statesmen- who have their head other than in their- well, if you want progress, you have to make it happen by investing in it. FITS constantly argues the secret to growth and improvement is to eliminate public spending and leave it to the good will of the private sector to fix the rest.
It's an instructive paradigm, when you look at the career of the richest man in the state. He was interested in low taxes, paying the state GOP's debts when they failed their own principles of thrift and recrimination, making money for his company, emancipating blacks when the opposite became bad for business, and planting trees. With all its technology and patents, where was Milliken & Co. advancing the state's infrastructure?
Nada. Milliken and FITSNews believe it will happen by magical thinking. Kinda like FITSNews's hissy fit that the governor-elect hasn't installed him as boy concubine/policy advisor.
Milliken clung, to the end of his life, to protectionism- that the duty of the government whose party he paid to send reps to DC to deny the power of owed him a big wall saving him from having to compete with the rest of the world.
And as for FITSNews, well, they're just pilot fish.
Full of the holiday spirit
Pinchbeck Christianists will always be with us.
How much of the navy did the President take on vacation this time? A third? a fourth? all of it? Is Hawaii ringed by warships whose staffs walk poodles?
It's remarkable how many who preen themselves over their holiness are so small-minded and mean-spirited toward others.
The Queen of England, of course, is excepted.
How much of the navy did the President take on vacation this time? A third? a fourth? all of it? Is Hawaii ringed by warships whose staffs walk poodles?
It's remarkable how many who preen themselves over their holiness are so small-minded and mean-spirited toward others.
The Queen of England, of course, is excepted.
SC's Charles Foster Kane dies, sled yet to be found
SC GOP sugar daddy Roger Milliken has died at 95.
It's hard to imagine how a man so cleverly forward-looking in business could be so backwards in his social views. He urged a local college on whose board he sat to integrate, but put his money behind Strom Thurmond at the federal level. He was probably the last of the great patroons of the textile industry, preaching for free markets while seeking continued government protectionism; professing his fondness for his little worker bees but closing plants when they voted to unionize.
A graduate of Yale on French history, he made his career in a state- and backing a party- where being unlettered- even anti-education- is an electoral recommendation.
But he planted a lot of trees in and around Spartanburg. Condolences to his family.
It's hard to imagine how a man so cleverly forward-looking in business could be so backwards in his social views. He urged a local college on whose board he sat to integrate, but put his money behind Strom Thurmond at the federal level. He was probably the last of the great patroons of the textile industry, preaching for free markets while seeking continued government protectionism; professing his fondness for his little worker bees but closing plants when they voted to unionize.
A graduate of Yale on French history, he made his career in a state- and backing a party- where being unlettered- even anti-education- is an electoral recommendation.
But he planted a lot of trees in and around Spartanburg. Condolences to his family.
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