December 2010
45 posts
“Imagine a military analyst who joins in 2001 at age 25, perhaps in response to...”
– Rortybomb
“The whole process, in which senators facing time pressure to get things done...”
– Obama’s Second Act? by Michael Tomasky
Can someone smart come up with a plan to have a lame duck congress all the time?
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“As for whether or not Barbour can survive a higher-profile controversy on the...”
– Garance Franke-Ruta
HAaaaaaaahaaahahaaaa haaaaaaaahaaaaaa
[wheeze]
Haaaaaaaaaaaa.
House Redistribution
jasencomstock:
AZ+1, FL+2, GA+1, NV+1, SC+1, TX+4, UT+1, WA+1,
IL-1, IA-1, LA-1, MA-1, MI-1, MO-1, NJ-1, NY-2, OH-2, PA-1
%$#@! +25
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Last Barbour note
Digby and others argue that Barbour is too smart to misspeak, and that this is pure Southern Strategy tactics at work, cooking up some of that tea party resentment to boot.
Thomasky:
Barbour may be an ignorant liar, but he isn’t stupid. He’s allegedly running for president. He knows who votes in Republican primaries in his presumed region of strength.
“I just don’t...
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“Barbour is not dumb. If he’s being a revisionist about race in...”
– Dave Weigel
You know what would make people stop saying conservatives are on the wrong side of the Civil Rights movement? Getting on the right side of the Civil Rights movement.
This concludes todays #DoNotElectBossHog content. Probably.
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Haley Barbour Link Day Part 3
The watermelon thing - Ben Smith:
Unlike some politicians, Barbour has never staged a public soul-searching on the subject to draw a line under it, but a reader emailed to point out an anecdote that will loom if he runs for president. The context is a 1982 New York Times article on Barbour’s challenge that year to the octogenarian incumbent Democratic Senator, John Stennis…
This...
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“We just sat on our cars, watching the girls, talking, doing what boys do. We...”
– Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, on watching a 1962 speech that Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave in Barbour’s hometown of Yazoo City. (via officialssay)
Only one of a ton of choice quotes in this story.
(via firthofforth)
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I nominate Haley Barbour for President of...
Image from The Citizens’ Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction:
Today, Matt Yglesias read a cover story about Haley Barbour in the Weekly Standard so that you don’t have to. Thanks, Matt.
In the article, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour reminisces fondly about the ‘Citizens Councils’ of the 1960s, implying that they were an antidote to racism, holding...
Obama: still a centrist
James Kwak:
So no, I don’t think Obama is abandoning his principles for political advantage; I think these are his principles. And while I’m upset at him, I’m upset at him for being wrong on the policy level, not for abandoning anything or selling out. I think a lot of the bitterness on the left comes from people who thought he was more progressive than he is, and now feel betrayed. As I said...
“Democrats have some things they want to do, but in addition to satisfying their...”
– The Decline of America | Mother Jones
Yeah how’s your day going there?
Gail Collins writes a thing about John Boehner... →
Besides the crying gap between men and women, there’s also one between Republicans and Democrats. On the one hand, you have the folks who can’t afford tears because it makes them look weak, and on the other, the people who are presumed to be tough and hard-nosed, for whom crying is an attractive sign of complexity.
Boehner is opposed to extending unemployment benefits for the jobless, and...
Jon John: Cornyn and Thune
lemkin:
Reporter 1: Senator Thune, I was just looking at the list of earmark requests that you requested this year [in the Omnibus spending bill] and it adds up to over a hundred million dollars Thune: I support those projects, but I don’t support this bill [to which my own earmarks are attached; I do not support it because of earmarks.] Reporter 2: Going through this bill, there is earmark...
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“My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the...”
– James Buchan
Enjoy your confused, inauthentic existence, 51% of humanity.
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“I am not so bullish on Europe and America. In both cases, the underlying problem...”
– What Lies Ahead in 2011? by Joseph E. Stiglitz
“The moral case for unions—protecting working families from exploitation—does not...”
– Tim Pawlenty: Government Unions vs. Taxpayers - WSJ.com
Nice move there: “Federal workers are not exploited. Therefore, they do not need the thing protecting them from exploitation.”
Rather than fighting for the increased benefits, compensation and security which come from collective...
“The Senate Republicans did what they said they’d do today — they blocked a bill...”
– Democrats Aghast Over GOP Blocking 9/11 Responders Bill (via ryking)
The GOP would have already raised some amount in the mid six figures on this.
“As Dylan Matthews pointed out, a procedural failsafe that’s theoretically...”
– Ezra Klein - DADT didn’t fail. The Senate did.
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Don't like the tax cuts deal? Then fix the damned...
ArchPundit
Any legislation now requires essentially 60 votes to proceed which is absurd. Absurd reality is still reality though.
You can criticize Obama for some decisions reasonably, but for compromising to get things through the US Senate isn’t one of them. That’s the reality he and we all face.
Apparently many think a magic unicorn out there could overcome this problem. How? That’s...
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“It’s important, however, to keep the actual policy in perspective. If...”
– Ezra Klein - Wonkbook: Everything you need to know about the Bush tax cut deal
Polish a turd enough and you can see yourself in it.
Initial Thoughts on the Tax Cut Deal
Rortybomb:
No Raising of the Debt Ceiling. This should be a no-brainer and a deal-breaker for liberals considering supporting this bill. No Democrat should support this compromise without this issue being addressed. The debt ceiling is going to be hit sometime early next year, between February and April. Alan Simpson is already bragging about how this vote will be a “bloodbath”, forcing the...
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So why is wikileaks a good thing again? →
Cause it brought down Tumblr, obviously.
“In doing some research for my review of “Made in Deganham,” the...”
– An affront to the eyes of God - Roger Ebert’s Journal
Roger Ebert is a national treasure.
South Pol: About President Barbour →
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Jonathan Chait:
Longtime readers know that I’ve been continually puzzled by the Washington press corps’ insistence on treating Haley Barbour as a plausible presidential nominee. The idea of nominating the physical embodiment of the worst stereotypes of the Republican Party strikes me as so…
Just clarify for me: Could he be worse than Palin?
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South Pol: About President Barbour →
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Jonathan Chait:
Longtime readers know that I’ve been continually puzzled by the Washington press corps’ insistence on treating Haley Barbour as a plausible presidential nominee. The idea of nominating the physical embodiment of the worst stereotypes of the Republican Party strikes me as so…
Just clarify for me: Could he be worse than Palin?
I’m still thinking...
About President Barbour
Jonathan Chait:
Longtime readers know that I’ve been continually puzzled by the Washington press corps’ insistence on treating Haley Barbour as a plausible presidential nominee. The idea of nominating the physical embodiment of the worst stereotypes of the Republican Party strikes me as so baffling I wonder every time I read one of those stories if I’m the only sane man on...
Filibuster Reform →
lemkin:
Democrats have exactly two chances to see filibuster reform: The first comes in a few weeks, when they can reform it in any way they see fit and pass said reforms with a simple majority; preserve what they think is good, eliminate the parts they think are choking the system currently. The linked proposal is the best I’ve seen, really. It preserves the notion of unlimited debate but makes...
Illinois Senate Passes Civil Unions →
Suck it, phobes.
