Midday Open Thread
Posted by admin | Posted in Politics | Posted on 15-03-2010-05-2008
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- The health care debate, as seen by .
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… Sean Wilentz’ appreciation of Ulysses S Grant in the wake of conservative efforts to knock him off the bill in favor of Ronald Reagan:
In reality, what fueled the personal defamation of Grant was contempt for his Reconstruction policies, which supposedly sacrificed a prostrate South, as one critic put it, “on the altar of Radicalism.” That he accomplished as much for freed slaves as he did within the constitutional limits of the presidency was remarkable. Without question, his was the most impressive record on civil rights and equality of any president from Lincoln to Lyndon B. Johnson.
- In case you , although this will come as no surprise, the Republican National Committee is “paying for signs and political buttons used by Tea Party groups” … you know, the grassroots movement that’s not affiliated with any political party.
- Michele Bachmann (LUNATIC-MN) breaking the law:
At a rally at the Minnesota State Capitol on Saturday, Bachmann declared illegitimate the potential route that House Democrats could take to pass the health care bill …
“But mark my words, the American people aren’t gonna take this lying down,” Bachmann later said. “We aren’t gonna play their game, we’re not gonna pay their taxes. They want us to pay for this? Because we don’t have to. We don’t have to. We don’t have to follow a bill that isn’t law. That’s not the American way, and that’s not what we’re going to do.”
Bachmann continued. “Because it’s one-party rule now in Washington, D.C. Their Chicago tactics, their Chicago friends, twisting Democrats’ arms, threatening their own team members with ethics charges and a submission. This handful of people thinks (sic) they can enforce their will on 300 million Americans? They’re not gonna do that. This is dictatorial, what they are doing. We are not compelled to follow a non-law just because Obama and Pelosi tells us we have to.”
- Republicans are if John Ensign (R-NV) can serve effectively in the wake of his sex scandal. You’d think the “family values” crowd would be shouting it from the rooftops … which of course they would be if Ensign was a Democrat.
- Apparently of Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s death were greatly exaggerated.
- A promising :
AIG to Withhold Million in Bonuses from Staff
… followed by an eye-rolling story:
AIG is paying out million to about 70 people, most of whom are former employees of the unit that was behind its near-collapse in September 2008, the source said on Sunday.
- Jeffrey Toobin what the Supreme Court might look like after John Paul Stevens.
- A conservative California judge says our present drug policy benefits dealers and terrorists, and the most patriotic thing he can do is work to repeal it in this
- Greg Mitchell, who turned the now-defunct trade publication Editor and Publisher into something worth reading, at The Nation magazine. — Meteor Blades