SOTU Reaction

by John Cole

I gotta say, every time I get some one on one time with that guy, which is basically what the SOTU is- an opportunity for the President to speak to America, I just want to vote for him early and often. The contrast between Obama and the crowd of miscreants in the GOP running to replace him is just striking.

One of the things I found interesting is that if you are a political junkie, you will find the speech from Obama a little bit feistier than those who are casual observers of the political process. I caught the references to Solyndra and telling the Republicans to back off on that nonsense, I got the DADT references, and so forth.

But most of all, every time I hear him speak, I am still aware of all the things I disagree with him on, but think “That is a good man doing what he thinks is best.” That is really all you can ask for from someone, because as far as I can tell, I’m the only one who agrees with me 100% of the time. And as you all know, if you give me a week, I’ll disagree with myself.

We really don’t deserve him. We really don’t.

January 24, 2012 10:31 pm Posted in: Election 2012  165 Comments

Tuesday Evening Open Thread

by Anne Laurie

In honor of Romney’s docu-dump (550 pages, more than a ream of paper) of just two years’ worth of tax returns, I give you Doghouse Riley:

... There’s no sacred text of Alexander Hamilton which consecrates what was done at Bain. There’s no shrine to unfettered rapine honored in every American household. What Bain did—what Willard Mitt Romney and his two hard-scrabbled Hahvahd degrees did—was take every advantage of a gamed system, a gamed system we can call, not for want of a better term but because there is no better term, the Reagan Revolution.

Faced with a troubled, stagnant economy which was in trouble, and had stagnated, largely because its multinational colossi did not want to be bothered adapting to a changing world—one in which energy wasn’t plentiful and cheap, one in which the United States did not stand as the only global player, one in which consumers had begun to take their rightful place in the endless merry-go-round of merchantilism—in other words, the world of the 21st century, the one we’re failing to adapt to today—unless their built-in advantages were preserved. So the Reagan administration, and the Western-Southern alliance in the Congress, defanged and dismantled the legislative safeguards which had for two generations somewhat leveled the playing field, and protected the vulnerable public from the worst of Boom and Bust. Which allowed the “visionaries” and “tenacious achievers” to bleed the system, to convert assets into cash. Meanwhile destroying the assets.

Fooled plenty of people. Made Reagan look like an Economic Miracle Worker, provided you didn’t look too closely or ask why he simultaneously had the worst jobs creation record of any post-war President. Until his successor inherited the snake oil inventory.

That’s what Romney did; his tireless efforts were designed to prove that any idiot with money can make more money, provided making more money is the only thing he cares about.

Apart from the State of the Union address—or, as the Media Village courtiers are pleased to call it, “President Obama’s inaugural campaign speech of 2012”—what’s on the agenda for the evening?

Bless their dedicated souls, the Guardian is liveblogging the State of the Union!

January 24, 2012 8:32 pm Posted in: C.R.E.A.M., Excellent Links, Open Thread, Republican Venality, Romney of the Uncanny Valley  331 Comments

Site Maintenance

by John Cole

I am aware the site has been slow, and we are working on it, but I will once again remind you that there is simply no point spamming the refresh button if your load time is long. It does nothing but slow down the site even more by sending repeated requests.

January 24, 2012 6:58 pm Posted in: Site Maintenance  133 Comments

Afternoon open thread

by Tim F.

My proud Doberman in action.

Chat about whatever.

January 24, 2012 4:36 pm Posted in: Dog Blogging  128 Comments

Deep Thought

by Tom Levenson

Apropos of Angry DougJ’s post below, am I alone in thinking that the obese amphibian gum disease’s constant invocation of Saul Alinsky is the second half of that rare and difficult manouver, the double dogwhistle?

I mean, the basically unhidden message within the Food Stamp President garbage is obvious enough. And throw in that Saaaaauuuul Alinskyiiiiiiiiiii, and it seems to me got the bifecta: an opponent who is at once too Black and too Jewish.

But perhaps I’m being paranoid.  A former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives would never stoop so low.

Image:  Greetings from Hamelin, Johanni et Pauli Sch. and S.H., 1902

January 24, 2012 3:41 pm Posted in: Uncategorized  130 Comments

Eastern PA pet rescue bleg

by Tim F.

From commenter Brendan:

Considering the awfulness that was perpetrated in Arkansas, I was wondering if there’s a good time to put up a save-a-cat post?

There is an incredibly friendly and cuddly little guy on our porch that we’ve named Buster. He’s about a year old, maybe two: he’s small for his age. He will literally jump into your arms and make biscuits (you know, where they knead your skin like it was dough?), purring the whole time. I would adopt him myself but I already have two.

Buster needs to be neutered and get shots, but I can split the price on that. We live in Philadelphia PA, so potential families need to be geographically convenient.

I’ve attached a picture. He is still there, staring at us through the window. He wants a home VERY badly. he is so friendly and loving, you could plotz.

I can be contacted at this email.

If you think you can help, leave a note in the comments and I will make sure that you get in touch.

January 24, 2012 3:15 pm Posted in: Pet Rescue  32 Comments

Give ‘em enough thread

by Angry DougJ

This is a good twitter feed.

What else is going on?

January 24, 2012 2:10 pm Posted in: Open Thread  80 Comments

Good-bye doesn’t mean we’ll never be together again

by Angry DougJ

Steve Benen is leaving his Washington Monthly gig to be on MSNBC:

I have some news to share: after three-and-a-half years at the Washington Monthly, I’m moving on. My last post will be tomorrow and I’ll start my new career at MSNBC on Monday morning.

Working for the Monthly has been an amazing experience, but I’m thrilled about an extraordinary opportunity at MSNBC: I’m going to be a producer for “The Rachel Maddow Show” and an MSNBC contributor. Don’t worry, I’ll still be blogging; I’ll just be writing at a new online home.

That Jonathan Bernstein guy who fills in for him sometimes does a good job, so I hope he takes over. WM has been my favorite blog, along with NoMoreMisterNiceBlog and Atrios, for the past two years.

January 24, 2012 1:01 pm Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing  96 Comments

Oh, stewardess, I speak wingnut

by Angry DougJ

A simple google search could have taught America’s worst columnist that wingers talk about Saul Alinsky all the time. But no:

The Gingrich I seek is not the man above but the one of big ideas. The term gets thrown around a lot, and Gingrich himself is apt to think his every idea is BIG. His mind is always in the tumble cycle. And even when he is spouting boilerplate, he can distance himself from his worn verbiage to say something fresh or provocative or ugly — it’s all the same to him. Out of nowhere, he has exhumed Saul Alinsky, whose fame is limited to university sociology departments, and yet whose name is so perfectly evocative of old-style radicalism, vaguely European in sound, that it fits Gingrich’s recent formulation, “people who don’t like the classical America.” Who dat, Newt?

The reference, although a tad obscure, is nevertheless intriguing. It shows that Gingrich is familiar with the late father of community organizing who died in 1972, and who by occupation and residence (Chicago) is suggestive of Barack Obama.

So dumb, so lazy, so worthless. You’ve never going to convince me that American official discourse is all that different from North Korean official discourse.

January 24, 2012 12:11 pm Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment, We Are All Mayans Now  140 Comments

Negotiations

by Kay

I’ve written several times about our candidate for the state legislature. To recap:

He’s a Steelworker. He’s been married 32 years and has 4 children. He spent 2 years in the military. He worked 2nd shift his whole life, and only became politically active with the Steelworkers in 2002

I spent part of the morning riding around with him yesterday. We filed his financial disclosure form with the state ethics committee (mail), set up his campaign finance account (on-line), opened a bank account and stopped by the local Board of Elections to make sure he was square with them.

John, the candidate, has been voting for Democrats since 2002, and doing “casual” organizing with the Steelworkers since his conversion from Republican to Democrat. After spending some time with him and listening to him, I realize what he really needs right now is a crash course in “Democrats”.

His whole focus has been on labor and economic issues and while those are really, really important here, and will be the center of his campaign, we actually have a fairly diverse group of committed Democrats and liberals, locally, and they will be his base. We have labor, sure, but we also have teachers and nurses and college administrators and county employees and musicians and stay at home mothers and people who work at Wal Mart. It’s a very conservative area, he’s a long shot going in, so he’s going to need every single one of them.

Listening to him, I realized that outside labor and “paycheck” issues, he’s really only thought about his position on gun rights and abortion, but education and the environment, to pick two, are important issues to some Democrats here, and the active people are really well-informed.

We’re having an organizing event on Saturday afternoon in a room at a local diner, where we invited 40 local women to meet the candidate for the US House. I’m hoping 25 will turn out. I’ll take pictures, unless no one shows up, then I won’t. I’ve been negotiating a “plate price” with the (grown) son of the man who owns the diner, and we’re not quite there yet. In our last conversation, I told him I wanted pie included for the per plate price, and he told me I’m getting rice pudding or bread pudding. I told him “everyone knows” those are cheap desserts, and he told me “everyone DOES NOT know that.” But they do know that. I told him to think about it, because he will have to live with his decision on this. How can he sleep at night?

I asked John and his wife to stop by about an hour into the Saturday event, after the US House candidate leaves, not to speak but instead to just meet the local women and hear what they talk about. I think he should go and find out what Democrats talk about, apart from the union thugs he pals around with.

January 24, 2012 11:39 am Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Election 2012  40 Comments

Mitch Daniels screws middle class working people in his state, before he heads off to give his speech to the pundits

by Kay

Sad:

Indiana took a big step toward becoming the 23rd state in the nation with the controversial “right to work” law on the books, as the Senate passed the measure late Monday.
The House could vote on an identical version of the bill today—if, that is, enough House Democrats are present to let a vote take place.
Democrats have repeatedly shut down the House this session, denying Republicans the quorum they need to do business, and they went behind closed doors again late Monday.When Republicans get to take votes on this bill, they have the numbers to win. They proved it in the House on Monday, as they rejected every amendment Democrats offered, including one proposal to let voters decide the issue in a referendum.
Thousands of labor union members packed the House and Senate galleries and filled the hallways outside both chambers Monday. About 110 union members from a Munster laborers union even went to the home of House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, to protest the bill.
“Mr. Bosma and the Republican Party have made it their intention to hit us at our dinner table, so that’s where we want to hit him,” said Kevin Roach, business manager of Laborers’ International Union Local 41.
Bosma, though, said later: “This isn’t my first time to be intimidated or bullied about. It’s not going to stop anything.”
That was clear in the Statehouse. For nearly two hours in the Senate, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle argued passionately, each side citing statistics crafted to back its views.
As union protesters chanted “You lie” outside the Senate chambers, bill author Sen. Carlin Yoder, R-Middlebury, said the legislation will lower unemployment and result in higher-paying jobs. “We’ve heard the argument that ‘right to work’ really means right to work for less,” he said, “and I respectfully disagree with that.”
But Democrats said the legislation is instead an escalator taking Indiana down to lower-paying jobs and unsafe working conditions. Senate Minority Leader Vi Simpson, D-Ellettsville, said lawmakers should legislate by evidence and not anecdote. There’s no solid data proving that “right to work” laws lead to economic development, she said. ‘Right to work’ is nothing more than a race to the bottom for the middle class of Indiana,” she said.

When you’re listening to Mitch Daniels tonight, and hearing pundits afterwards tell us how smart he is and how moderate he is and how he’s the future of principled conservatism, remember that he lied to these people in order to get elected governor. He told them he wouldn’t go after private sector union members. Then he did.

Oh, and just for the record?

Here’s the unemployment rate in Indiana again.

Indiana under Daniels gave away the store to business interests and they got absolutely nothing in return. Gutted business regulation, gutted environmental regulation, sold state assets, deregulated and privatized public schools, destroyed public sector unions, and the unemployment rate in Indiana is comparable to the midwest states around Indiana, states that didn’t make all the concessions demanded by the “job creators”. The promised jobs never arrived.

When John Boehner speaks of Mitch Daniels he has to claim that Daniels was working on “a climate for job creation.” Not jobs. A “climate” where jobs might blow in like the weather, maybe, sometime, depending. Boehner has to use that odd and abstract language because Boehner knows what the unemployment rate is in Indiana, and he also knows that Daniels is a two-term governor who had a free hand to put in place the whole conservative-libertarian wish list. For years. That’s all in place, but the job creators just keep on demanding more concessions from Indiana, and Mitch Daniels just keeps handing them over.

January 24, 2012 9:28 am Posted in: Assholes  80 Comments

Mitt’s TPS Reports Always Have the New Cover Sheet

by mistermix

When I went to confession yesterday my priest told me to say 3 Hail Marys and watch the Republican debates as my penance, so I saw most of last night’s shitshow. I think that priest know what he was doing, because I’ve resolved to keep the boozing and sodomy down to a minimum so I just have to say an Act of Contrition next time. That said, I have a couple of observations.

Brian Williams was careful to phrase his 47 questions about the ark of the horse race covenant, “electability”, in a way that kept him from getting smacked down by Newt. Instead of asking direct questions about each candidate’s weak spot, he repeated one candidate’s attack ads to the another. He also stayed away from Newt’s 3 marriages and counting. This led to an awesome half hour of Romney and Gingrich pounding on each other, with no real clear winner, though it’s probably good news for Romney that he finally landed a couple of solid shots, including channeling Steve Benen by pointing out that Newt resigned in “disgrace”.

The man-on-man action was pretty entertaining, but what struck me is the exchange I embedded above, where Romney unveils the centerpiece of his immigration strategy, “self-deportation”. In other words, he expects undocumented immigrants to leave voluntarily because his administration will make their lives miserable. The questioner, Adam Smith of the Tampa Bay Times, asked the obvious follow-up question, “Isn’t that what we have now?” and Mitt replied with some earnest word salad about “e-verification”, which assumes that some magic card will reverse a 50 year national habit of hiring undocumented workers.

What struck me about that exchange is that it shows how much Mitt and his advisors think that careful corporate-style “message discipline” will paper over the awful parts of Mitt’s policies and resume. Here’s another example from Mitt’s tax return release:

Romney advisers stressed that the holdings in the Caymans—along with those in a Swiss bank account that was closed in 2010 after an investment adviser decided it could be politically embarrassing to Romney—were reported on tax returns and were not vehicles to avoid taxes.

I realize that the job of Romney’s advisors is to put lipstick on many pigs, but the apparent seriousness and earnestness that accompanies communication from Romney’s world makes me think they believe their bullshit will fly. I have to believe that’s because “enhanced messaging” works in business settings, where employees just have to nod and grit their teeth when corporate comes up with some new, stupid euphemism. But Mitt isn’t the CEO of the Republican primaries, and “self-deportation” and “we didn’t avoid taxes with our Cayman and Swiss bank accounts” just don’t cut it in the real world.

January 24, 2012 8:28 am Posted in: Election 2012  94 Comments

Kristol Lite

by Betty Cracker

All English-language software should be equipped with a mechanism that prevents these particular words from being presented in this sequence:

Users who stubbornly attempt to evade the safeguard should have their hard drive erased. Jesus. I get that the Republicans are in despair over their sucky presidential slate, as well they should be. But this constant caterwauling about a Douche ex Machina is getting embarrassing. Suck it up, crybabies!

January 24, 2012 7:10 am Posted in: Assholes, Media, Open Thread, Politics, Republican Stupidity  37 Comments

Late Night Open Thread

by Anne Laurie

Hat tip to commentor Burnspbesq for the best comment I’ve seen on tonight’s debate so far. From Mark Kleiman at Reality-Based Community:

Expert opinion by Mark Kleiman

When Newt Gingrich says that a campaign has gotten “unnecessarily personal and nasty,” I think we should believe him.

I’m just afraid, with all the clearly true things that Mitt Romney is now saying about Gingrich, that some low-information voters might be fooled into thinking that Romney makes a habit of telling the truth.

January 24, 2012 1:32 am Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Open Thread  45 Comments

Unemployment, Bitches

by John Cole

Who knew being unemployed was so profitable:

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released tax records on Tuesday indicating he will pay $6.2 million in taxes on a total of $45.2 million in income over the years 2010 and 2011.

Bowing to increasing political pressure to provide more detail about his vast wealth, the former private equity executive released tax returns indicating he and his wife, Ann, paid an effective tax rate of 13.9 percent in 2010. They expect to pay a 15.4 percent rate when they file their returns for 2011.

Romney’s tax rate is below that of most wage-earning Americans because most of his income, as outlined in more than 500 pages of tax documents, flows from capital gains on investments.

Under the U.S. tax code, capital gains are taxed at 15 percent, compared with a top tax rate of 35 percent for wage earners.

He closed his Swiss bank account shortly after UBS named names, in case you were wondering.

How many of you lucky duckies paid 13% on your income last year? Ahh, patriotism.

January 24, 2012 1:26 am Posted in: Assholes, Sociopaths  105 Comments

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