. Via commentor JordanRules. If H&R Block thinks they can turn a buck helping people sign up, Obamacare / the Affordable Care Act is here to stay! Also, comment from a lurker in the thread below: I’m a DC local right now I’ve got a housemate who’s interning on the Hill for one of the …
Open Thread: “Experts Agree: Meese Is A Pig!”
The re-emergence of Reagan-lamprey Ed Meese figureheading the latest Koch Brothers assault on our democracy inspired some pre-Internet nostalgia from TNR‘s Michael Schaeffer: … For people who followed politics, of course, Meese was the guy behind some of Reagan’s most divisive policies. But ordinary commuters also experienced the Meese-bashing in ways they didn’t with other …
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BJ Pet Calendar 2014: First Call for Photos
On the “news that doesn’t suck” front, I am very pleased to announce that Beth S. has once again graciously volunteered to assemble this year’s Balloon Juice Pet Calendar. These were her specifications last year: I’m looking for the highest resolution images possible. The photos themselves won’t be that large, but the largest and highest …
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The Big Money Behind the Teahadists’ Shutdown
I saved this over the weekend, so that more of you would see it. The NYTimes had a long expose on the One Percenters doing the planning for Ted Cruz’s totally spontaneous grass-roots uprising against Obamacare and other public spending: Shortly after President Obama started his second term, a loose-knit coalition of conservative activists led …
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Monday Morning Open Thread
(Jerry van Amerongen – Ballard Street via GoComics.com) It’s a political cartoon, if you replace the name ‘Martin’ with ‘Ted Cruz (R-Tex)”… Another happy thought for a Monday morning — here’s Professor Krugman on “Shorting Out the Wiring“: … Ever since Reagan, the Beltway has treated Republicans as the natural party of government. Sunday talk …
Late Night Open Thread: Apocalyptica
(Tom Toles via GoComics.com) . The MSM is getting desperate, too. Jon Chait, in NYmag: … The debt ceiling turns out to be unexploded ordnance lying around the American form of government. Only custom or moral compunction stops the opposition party from using it to nullify the president’s powers, or, for that matter, the president …
Open Thread: The Notorious RBG
Nice little Washington Post “lifestyle” piece on Judge Ginsburg: … It shows what a different time it was in judicial politics that Ginsburg — a leader of the American Civil Liberties Union, a believer in the “evolving” Constitution and promoted by the White House as a supporter of abortion rights — was approved by the …