Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Bart Stupak and Sarah Palin get to take to the NY Times and the Washington Post to lie through their teeth, while those trying to correct the record are left struggling to get the word out on blogs and any old way they can.
Here is Rep. Lois Capps with a point by point evisceration of Stupak’s lies.
(via Amanda Marcotte)
This morning, Gore appeared on MSNBC, where Andrea Mitchell read from Sarah Palin’s Facebook page to ask the former vice president questions about climate change.
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This Patrick Ruffini tweet made me laugh out loud:
The New Yorker:
O’Neill watched all this with anguish. Shortly before he was fired, he confronted Cheney about the Administration’s latest proposal to cut taxes by another six hundred and seventy-four billion dollars over ten years, pointing out that the country was “moving toward a fiscal crisis.” The Vice-President stopped him. “Reagan proved deficits don’t matter,” he said. “We won the midterms. This is our due.” In fact, Reagan didn’t prove anything of the kind. Early in his first term, Congress was forced to adopt emergency tax increases and spending cuts to restrain the ballooning budget shortfall. Despite this remedial action, it wasn’t until the early nineties, when George Bush Senior and Bill Clinton raised taxes, that the nation’s finances were put in proper order, opening the way to the longest economic expansion on record.
And because I am +4, I’m not even going to go into the role that Gramm, of Gramm/Rudman/Hollings, played in the repeal of Glass-Steagal and the meltdown of last year that has led the way in getting us to where we are now.
But yeah. Republicans are all fiscal conservatives now.
A doughnut with no holes is a danish:
Senate Democrats said on Wednesday that they were not sure exactly what was in a deal that the majority leader said would surmount a disagreement over a proposed government-run health plan. But they voiced guarded optimism that it would ultimately help them pass major health care legislation.
Rank-and-file Democrats said the preliminary agreement — reached among a group of 10 senators, 5 liberals and 5 centrists — suggested that they would be able to resolve some seemingly intractable differences over the public plan, insurance coverage for abortions and other disputes, including how to pay for the nearly $1 trillion bill.
We shall see…
Another victim in the war on Christmas:
G & G help mom and dad decorate. Somewhere, Mrs. Claus is frantically screaming “GREEN BALLOONS!”
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I’m also afraid this might void my Apple warranty:
Go ahead. You tell him to move. Have at it.
I don’t recall the last time I was in a foul mood from basically the time I woke up until the time I went to bed, but today was one. The weather is really irritating me. The temperature jumps twenty degrees in one hour, it goes from rain crashing against my window to sunny blue skies to purple bruised clouds with whipping wind. I’m all discombobulated.
Think I’m going to turn off the tv, eat dinner, and play Bioshock until I fall asleep.