Slow night in the Cole household. Tunch demonstrates the level of activity:
I think I am going to watch another old episode of Californication and go to bed early so I can deal with the garden before it is 4000 degrees outside.
by John Cole| 50 Comments
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Slow night in the Cole household. Tunch demonstrates the level of activity:
I think I am going to watch another old episode of Californication and go to bed early so I can deal with the garden before it is 4000 degrees outside.
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(Steve Sack via GoComics.com)
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One a day when the idiocracy is in full cry, thank goddess for Mr. Charles P. Pierce, our generation’s Finley Peter Dunne:
… Let me just say now for the record that, if John Boehner and Eric Cantor and the rest of the children who regularly decline to govern, all those folks who put the “jerk” in “jerk-off,” can be persuaded to roll around in thorn bushes rather than waste the nation’s time with another giddy spasm of self-abuse, not only would I support them wholeheartedly, I would be more than willing to sell tickets…
The institution of the Senate has taken a lot of heat over the last three years as the place where good policy ideas go to be killed by Republican vandals. However, as is made plain by today’s extended exercise in flogging the dolphin, the Senate is also the place where the lunatic emanations of the craziest House Of Representatives in American history usually disappear. For this, we should be at least marginally grateful. If you want to see what the real Republican plan for health-care reform is, lend an ear to David Dreier, one of the allegedly “reasonable” Republicans in the House.
“While I don’t think that someone who is diagnosed with a massive tumor should the next day be able to have millions and millions and millions of dollars of health care provided, I do believe there can be a structure to deal with the issue of pre-existing conditions,” Dreier said.
This is a mock government we have now — a succession of events so fundamentally detached from reality that it’s a wonder the people engaging in them don’t arrive at the House chambers on the backs of unicorns. Internet conspiracy fantasies drive congressional investigations. For the 32nd time, the House votes to repeal an act that will not be repealed, and that they know will not be repealed, and engage the entire legislative branch of government as set decoration for a thousand 30-second spots on local televisions stations back home. This is not what a serious democracy does. This is what a campaign does, over and over again. It makes you wonder on which side Cantor parts the hair on his palms.
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Apart from self & general abuse, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
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Real Americans love this stuff:
Mitt Romney’s campaign asked a production company with an unfortunate name to cover up its logo while handling a Romney event in Grand Junction, Colo., according to the local press.
The company, Snob Productions, has handled lighting and sound for various political candidates, including President Obama in 2008. But Romney’s campaign was apparently concerned the name would feed into Democratic attacks on the candidate’s wealth in an embarrassing way, according to the Daily Sentinel.
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A little uppity of them to treat their Galtian better this way, no?
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For your edification, a dog that’s afraid of swimming trying to cross a stream that is about knee deep.
Chat about anything but Mitt. For the love of god.
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I mentioned I have had company for the past couple of days, and today we made some pretty delicious ribs. Rubbed em down yesterday, let ’em sit for 24 hours in the fridge, then slow cooked them on the barbecue with applewood chips and an occasional spritz of apple juice. That’s what is left from two racks. I also made homemade coleslaw, a tomato/onion/cuke salad, and the kicker was we made a bunch of deviled eggs, which I just adore. These came out really well.
What are you all up to?
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(Mike Luckovich via GoComics.com)
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And not just in London! Via Paul Constant, Pema Levy at TPM2012 informs us that “the fate of the Ron Paul campaign comes down to Nebraska”:
Ron Paul’s last hope of challenging Mitt Romney for the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention comes this Saturday at the Nebraska state GOP convention. If he gets a plurality of delegates in Nebraska, Paul’s name will be put forward for nomination, and he will be given 15 minutes to speak before the first round of balloting in Tampa — an embarrassing situation that Romney wants to avoid…
According to the Republican National Committee’s rules, Paul needs a plurality of delegates from at least five states in order to have his name put forward at the convention. He currently has four: the delegations from Iowa, Maine, Minnesota and Louisiana. Nebraska is the last state to hold its convention, and could become the crucial fifth state for Paul.
In anticipation of what could be a divided convention, the Nebraska GOP is ramping up security for the event. ”It’s been communicated to us from other RNC members from around the country to watch for specific things,” McGrain told NBC News.
“Their experience has been instructive to us. We’ve received correspondence from those who attended the Nevada and Louisiana state conventions where they had significant disturbances and problems. It arose from not everyone being on the same page and we have the benefit of that hindsight.”…
Paul supporters in Nebraska say they aren’t looking for trouble this weekend. Laura Ebke, chairwoman the libertarian group that is leading the effort to get Paul delegates in Nebraska, told the Associated Press that there was no disruption planned “unless the party instigates something.”…
Nine out of ten Slog commentors assume that the RNC will conspire, either before or after the state convention, to ensure that Rmoney’s triumphant march to Tampa shall not be waylaid. Of course, the loyal Paulistas commenting at Talking Point Memo have no intention of letting the minions of “the Man from Kolob” steal their First Amendment rights, but one fears the odds are not in their favor…
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Apart from toasting (continued) confusion to our enemies, what’s on the agenda tonight?
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