For the Wisconsin recall elections.
(Listened to a lot of J. Geils band when I was getting ready for karaoke, the song holds up surprisingly well, if a little too much like Desmond Dekker’s “Shanty Town“).
by DougJ| 28 Comments
For the Wisconsin recall elections.
(Listened to a lot of J. Geils band when I was getting ready for karaoke, the song holds up surprisingly well, if a little too much like Desmond Dekker’s “Shanty Town“).
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arguingwithsignposts
Isn’t there a thermometer that’s supposed to be here somewhere?
Warren Terra
We haven’t had an open thread in a while, so I’ll put this here: are we going to have a post about Pawlenty’s insane budget proposal?
From The New York Times:
Just the tax parts of the proposal would be by far the nuttiest budget proposal I’ve seen from a person with any prominence in at least the last dozen years. If you set aside Steve Forbes as not being a serious figure (he’s never been elected to anything and his plan was nakedly an attempt to make himself nearly tax-exempt), it may be the nuttiest budget proposal of the last half-century.
And if anyone can Google me up a comparable alternative to the Post Office, well please do so. This glib slimeball has just proposed the privatization – read “elimination” of the Post Office and Amtrak, and making home-ownership soleley the province of the wealthy.
I know Pawlenty’s stock isn’t too high at the moment, but a lot of pundits have said that the nominee will be him or Mittens because they’re the only non-insane candidates (that haven’t worked in the Obama administration) – and Mittens is a national joke who implemented health care reform. I’d think his putting forward such a completely insane, magical-thinking, extremist budget plan would be news.
cbear
Is this part of your and Cole’s master plan to drive traffic to the site?
I’d suggest trying dicktweets first.
Doug Harlan J
@Warren Terra:
People seem to have lost interest in T-Paw.
arguingwithsignposts
@Warren Terra: He’s obviously trying to outdo Santorum, who was batshit insane in his candidacy speech yesterday.
jibeaux
Ezra wrote about T-Paw, and said in the nicest, wonkiest way possible to please put down the purple drank.
Now who is it I made that internet beer bet with?! I had my money on “not T-Paw” and I will be vindicated! If I can just remember who….
Martin
Cool.
So I found Xe on Google. Can we eliminate the military?
I found Planned Parenthood on Google. Can we eliminate legislative incursions into reproductive health?
I found Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers on Google. Can we eliminate government corporate subsidies?
I found FasTrack on Google. Can we stop building roads now?
I found Batesville Casket Company on Google. Can we eliminate Medicare now?
Ken
@Doug Harlan J:
cat48
Google Test: Since there’s a Tim Pawlenty and GOP, both on Google; they can be eliminated from Govt.
alwhite
Having lived with TP as my Gov for 8 years I have to say, never underestimate his stupidity, his vapidity, his pander-ability or his lust for power. He pulled this shit for 8 years, spending most of the last for running for President. That bland, doofus exterior hides an evil, little man.
Ken
@Ken: Obviously, I don’t know whay I’m doing with the block quote feature. Sorry about that.
Jewish Steel
It does sound like Shanty Town! Good ear, Doug.
But as long as this is the only instance of the black man getting ripped of for his music, I think we can let it slide.
Arclite
@Warren Terra: Wow, just…wow. If he wasn’t sunk already, this will do it.
Southern Beale
Today in media malfeasance:
ABC News talks to Donald Trump about Weinergate and gets the predicted inflammatory response.
UPDATE: My bad, ABC News didn’t ask him about it, Trump issued a YouTube video and ABC just covered it. Which I’m not sure is much better but for the sake of accuracy….
Arclite
@Martin:
Okay, that one had me laughing out loud. Nice setup.
cat48
I especially like the Magic tax cuts that pay for themselves. Just like Reagans & Bush’s!
jibeaux
@cat48:
It also has magical 5% growth for 10 years. If you combine that with Paul Ryan’s 2% unemployment we are looking at one mac daddy of an economy!
RalfW
@arguingwithsignposts:
If it’s in Minneapolis, it may be broken. 101 last hour at the weather service. In early June. Overnight low was technically 78 this am, but it was still 80 deg at 6 am, having dragged it’s way down to there in 9 hours of darkness.
Not that we have a f***d up climate or anything. Nosiree, everything’s fine. Record hi for Mpls today is 95, shattered. I think our average high is about this am’s low.
Whatev. The GOP/The Market will fix this for us. Any day now.
Doug Harlan J
@arguingwithsignposts:
I screwed it up the first time through.
RalfW
@Warren Terra: TPaw’s tax cuts in Minnesota didn’t do squat. We used to be far ahead of our neighboring states in economic growth. We weathered the 2008-2011 shit-storm a tad better than our region, but the differential is narrowing and we’re on our way to the mediocrity that makes highly ambitions nebbishes like Timmy happy.
They never liked the guy in 9th grade that got straight-As and busted curves. Guys like Pawlenty want everyone to be average, in a least-common-denominator sort of way that is stultifying, ultra-suburban, and awful.
I can barely even stand to be from this state these days, except that we now have a fascinating, unpredictable scrapper in the Gov’s office. I don’t know if he can undo 8 years of Timmy + the current crop of MN legislative nihilists (and moral jihadists who hate teh gays) but just maybe Dayton can stop the rampant spread of stoopid. Maybe.
burnspbesq
I’m surprised that there has been no comment here (at least none I have been able to find) on McMegan’s post advocating a 100 percent estate tax. I find her reasoning slightly goofy, but I would assume that when you’re on the losing side of a class war you don’t get to be too choosy about who your allies are.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/06/why-do-we-allow-inheritance-at-all/240004/
Sentient Puddle
@jibeaux: Oh now it all makes sense to me. He’s going for 5% growth by measuring nominally and banking on 2% unemployment to cause crazy-ass inflation! It works beautifully, so long as you ignore the real GDP cratering.
arguingwithsignposts
@burnspbesq:
This is the argument Jane Hamsher made wrt signing up with Grover Fucking Norquist. No, thank you.
jibeaux
I have found Santorum on Google and SWEET MOTHER OF GOD WE DO NOT NEED THAT IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OH PLEASE MAKE IT STOP
arguingwithsignposts
@Doug Harlan J: Yeah, and I requested deletion of that comment. Didn’t mean to sound like your personal editor or something.
Doug Harlan J
@arguingwithsignposts:
I just barely caught the mistake, I appreciate the editing help!
askew
@RalfW:
I have to say that Dayton has been a welcome surprise as Governor. I knew he was liberal but I thought the media would worn him down within the first 6 months. But, he has shown surprising fight.
4jkb4ia
I have just spent a fortune, to the tune of $234.00, on this holiday, and I have no more money. And my mother-in-law is in the hospital, so my husband will be eating none of it. I think it’s fairly obvious why I have been punished. (My mother-in-law should have a speedy recovery….)
In any event, here are the latest fundraising figures for the incumbents from Ballotpedia two days ago:
Campaign Finance Status of Recall Elections as of June 1, 2011
District Incumbent Total funds raised Cash on Hand Opponent
8 Alberta Darling $421,939.81 $219,730.51 Pasch
10 Sheila Harsdorf $110,166.80 $59,472.00 Moore
18 Randy Hopper $131,446.60 $105,615.72 King
32 Dan Kapanke $180,309.84 $99,061.24 Shilling
14 Luther Olsen $34,735.59 $34,527.26 Clark
Cowles has filed nothing.