Dave Weigel at Slate on Walker’s latest burst of grandious entitlement: The two week sleep-in at the Wisconsin state capitol is over; protesters will no longer crash in the building. The decision comes after a court battle (a polite, short one) over whether it was legal for the state to limit access to the building, …
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A few rebuttals
I just read a few very good rebuttals to Chris Hayes’ claim that DC elites in both parties are so ensconced in their comfortable world of low local unemployment and newly opened sushi bars that they don’t care about jobs for the middle-class. Booman: [T]he reason that Washington DC doesn’t care about jobs is that …
Only a fool would think someone could save you
Via Atrios, Chris Hayes has a good piece on how/why Washington elites simply don’t care about jobs for middle-class Americans: There were already Two Americas before the Great Recession, but in the wake of that seismic disruption, those two continents have only moved further apart. This manifests itself in our politics in two ways. For …
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IOKIYAR, “Charity” & Other Funding Edition
The NYTimes reports the current Republican twist on doing well by doing “good”: Louisiana’s biggest corporate players, many with long agendas before the state government, are restricted in making campaign contributions to Gov. Bobby Jindal. But they can give whatever they like to the foundation set up by his wife months after he took office… …
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Dodd to K-Street
So a few months after swearing he would not become a lobbyist, Chris Dodd has announced he will become a lobbyist: Over the last two years — particularly during the debate over the financial reform bill — Sen. Chris Dodd served on multiple occasions as chief spokesman for, and defender of, the interests of Wall …
“David Brooks Will Decide When It’s Time for You to Die”
In a post that I sincerely hope will be emailed to Mr. Brooks by all his most au courant frenemies, Tom Scocca at Slate discusses the Politics of Entitlement: “We’re going to be doing a lot of deficit cutting over the next several years,” David Brooks announced, plurally, in their column in today’s New York …
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The new Gilded Age
Via Gin and Tacos, this quote from Jay Gould sums up contemporary America as well as it did the Gilded Age: I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. It’s probably too long for a category title, unfortunately.