__ __ Capsule summary of the latest skirmish, from Dashiell Bennett at the AtlanticWire: Both President Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner have revealed their opening gambits in the great fiscal cliff debate and they are basically starting from the same spot they’ve been in forever. Boehner held a second press conference on …
Late Night Open Thread: Another Disenfranchised Non-Voter Speaks Out
I owe some helpful commentor a hat tip, if you wish to claim it. __ __ Those whose ennui has not completely enervated their ability to care about such mundane matters will no doubt be pleased to hear that Henri has a book to (pre)-sell.
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Friday Evening Open Thread: Searching for A New Scapegoat Paradigm
(via Josh Marshall at TPM) __ Interesting that the Heritage Foundation has found a younger, blurrier Blue-Eyed Paul Ryan imitator to narrate their Red Dawn: Obama reboot trailer. What is best in life?… I figure we have until next Tuesday (Monday being a federal holiday) to indulge our tribalist schadenfreude before turning back to the …
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Open Thread: Blame the Single Ladies!
I like Amanda Marcotte’s explication at Slate: Now that the shock of losing has settled in, the conservative media has moved on to the important task of castigating the various demographics that broke for Obama, a reaction that can in no way be one of the reasons said demographics dislike Republicans. Since Obama won basically …
Helping Superstorm Sandy Survivors
Form email from MoveOn.org Civic Action: … People still don’t have power or water, basements are still flooded, gas shortages have made it hard to run generators, and temperatures are getting down into the 30s. MoveOn members who have volunteered have told us about finding families wet and shivering in the cold, and meeting people …
Open Thread: Snippets for Happy Democratic Warriors
Bits and pieces (still) worth reading… The Washington Post‘s E.J. Dionne, just before the election, on “The Gilded Age vs. the 21st Century“: The 2012 campaign began on Aug. 2, 2011, when President Obama signed the deal ending the debt-ceiling fiasco. At that moment, the president relinquished his last illusions that the current, radical version …
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Open Thread: Snippets — Dissecting Republican Luzers
(Jeff Danziger’s website) Links for a bunch of worthy stories that I didn’t get to use in the craziness of the last couple weeks… Harold Meyerson, at the Washington Post last week, on the GOP’s “King Canute strategy“: … Accommodation with diversity and modernity, however, is simply not part of the Republican DNA. Today’s Republican …
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