Displaying 2,071 To 2,100 Of 16,275 Comments Sorry, I knew that, I just read it too quickly. I think I got excited thinking Connie and Sherrod both on together. (Connie is on right now here in Az.) » Posted By bito On April 16, 2012 @ 6:28 pm I certainly would hate to play sports with them. “I win my 1 point to your 70 points!” » Posted By bito On April 16, 2012 @ 5:51 pm See what happens when I leave town? ID Needed To Attend Open Polk School Board Meetings Like to have your say or even just go watch government in action at a Polk County School Board meeting? You better bring your driver license or a state-issued ID card. “They simply can’t do that,” said Barbara Petersen, president of the Tallahassee-based First Amendment Foundation. “The law clearly forbids them from asking for identification” as a condition of attendance. “What are they thinking?” http://www.theledger.com/article/20120413/NEWS/120419668 » Posted By bito On April 16, 2012 @ 5:48 pm Oh, k’es and KT, you two will have to try and catch this online later, two of my faves from Ohio will be on Maddow tonight. MaddowGuestList @MaddowGuestList Monday 4/16 on #Maddow: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse; Connie Schultz, syndicated columnist for “Creators Syndicate” » Posted By bito On April 16, 2012 @ 5:37 pm Well she may have milked it but it didn’t change the polls. Mitt is still down 19 points with women, his numbers with Hispanics is getting worse and his negative numbers are still very high. » Posted By bito On April 16, 2012 @ 5:32 pm A little gift for Mitt [img]http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/191280/yoursign.jpg[/img] » Posted By bito On April 16, 2012 @ 5:06 pm And k’es’es Senator, Sherwood Brown brought that up today. Amazing! » Posted By bito On April 16, 2012 @ 4:58 pm k’es, and the R’s use it as excuse saying we need complete tax reform, not just piecemeal. Ha, they won’t even pass a small part of Obama’s tax reform and they expect us to believe that they would pass a whole package? The House won’t pass anything raising revenue, the Norquist “Oath”, they won’t pass anything that closes loop holes, again the Norquist “Oath” and the Senate would filibuster anything. Not just a party of NO but a party of frauds and deceivers. They have crying “complete tax reform” for years and what has come out of the House? Nothing but hot air! What oath is more important the oath they take as members of congress or the one to a bloody lobbyist? » Posted By bito On April 16, 2012 @ 4:55 pm Sally, wow, Poor Ann must have gone through some major depression from feeling so undignified about not having a job! Romney: Mothers On Welfare Need Jobs To Have The ‘Dignity Of Work’ The comment was uncovered and aired on MSNBC’s “Up w/Chris Hayes,” Sunday morning. “I wanted to increase the work requirement,” said Romney in New Hampshire. “I said, for instance, that even if you have a child 2 years of age, you need to go to work. And people said, ‘Well that’s heartless.’ And I said, ‘No, no, I’m willing to spend more giving day care to allow those parents to go back to work. It’ll cost the state more providing that daycare, but I want the individuals to have the dignity of work.’” But it was this very idea, that raising children is not “work,” that started the Romney campaign’s “war on moms” attack against Democrats this week. Immediately following Rosen’s comments on CNN Wednesday night, the Romney campaign kicked into high gear attacking Rosen and defending motherhood as “hard work.” » Posted By bito On April 16, 2012 @ 3:45 pm The out come is all ready decided, it will be filibustered, but the vote on the Buffet/Reagan Rule is being voted on right now. » Posted By bito On April 16, 2012 @ 3:34 pm The debt and deficit problems have been solved! The R’s have found the problem and it seems to be all those greedy bastids on the SNAP (food stamps) program! Seems that biggest problem in the new farm bill is not the subsidies to ADM, Cargill and other Big Ag companies no it’s the 3 dollars a day people get on food stamps. 3 (^%##% GD Fucking dollars a day for food is to GD much! Man, I am pissed! billions of subsidies to grow field corn, but 3 dollars a day is too much. Ask me why I’m voting Democrat! Grrrrrr! Oh that’s right, the low income, working poor, disabled and elderly poor don’t have lobbyists, Big Ag do. » Posted By bito On April 16, 2012 @ 2:20 pm Murph, I could only watch maybe the first 5 minutes of MTP, it was intolerable, IMO. I think his first sentence included “Hillary Rosen, a Dem operative…” and then Freaky-Eyed got on with a string of lies that that have been all fact checked as false and not a peep out of Gregory, nor did he give Sen. Gillenbrand time to refute. That was the first 5 minutes and it was ‘click’ for me. It might have as well have been Lush moderating. » Posted By bito On April 15, 2012 @ 8:02 pm Cher, those are some good numbers but a slight disagreement with NYT. The last two polls I saw on CO. and PA. they are more than leaning or up to grabs to me. Both were running +10 points for Obama. Early but good numbers. » Posted By bito On April 15, 2012 @ 4:35 pm And this: David Axelrod @davidaxelrod As the GOP primary season closes, lots of enduring memories! (Put another way, video is the enemy of Etch-a-Sketch.) http://bit.ly/I2a6a2 Mitt Romney: Memories to Last a Lifetime » Posted By bito On April 15, 2012 @ 4:17 pm How Washington Forgot Where The ‘Buffett Rule’ Came From It’s been nearly seven months since President Obama introduced the Buffett Rule. He first described it at the White House last September, shortly after the GOP’s persistent refusal to take any new tax revenue from wealthy Americans sank his bid to pass major deficit-reduction legislation and nearly turned the standoff over raising the debt ceiling into a full-blown economic calamity. But the beltway pudnuts can’t seem to even remember 7 months ago, and now they mislead the voters by calling the Buffet Rule campaign “gimmicky.” It was part of a package,not last minute, ya dolts! Fast forward to this week. Americans are paying their taxes, Mitt Romney — a poster child for tax inequity — has all but cinched the GOP presidential nomination, Obama has renewed his push for the Buffett Rule and the Senate will hold a vote on a Buffett Rule bill next week. The synergy is clear, and intentional — part of a careful political strategy. But the upshot thus far isn’t that Republicans are retreating from their anti-tax absolutism (they’re not) but that high-profile members of the commentariat have forgotten all of this history. “It’s total gimmickry,” said Politico Executive Editor Jim Vandehei on MSNBC Thursday. “It’s 1 percent of what you need to take care of the deficit. There’s a big danger for President Obama in that they become so insanely political in an insanely political culture With such great memories like Jim Vandehei and Dana Milbank “Obama’s claim that the Buffett Rule ‘is something that will get us moving in the right direction toward fairness’ would be more convincing if he took other steps in that direction, too,” wrote Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank Is it any wonder that the voter is confused and misled? And when they are on their perch tittering about Obama and “no comprehensive tax reform do they even bother to think that it wouldn’t even begin to make it out of the House and filibuster in the Senate? It’s “no new taxes” and “cut taxes to all the R’s. And yet all of this is largely beside the point. All Buffett Rule critics knock Obama for not pursuing more comprehensive tax reforms. If they’d paid even passing attention to the events of 2011, they’d know that the only tax reforms Republicans back either raise no revenue, or are conditioned on the idea of locking in the Bush tax cuts permanently. They imply future cuts to government programs that neither Democrats nor most Americans are prepared to accept, but are at the root of the GOP’s tax strategy. The Buffett Rule is designed to make those demands politically noxious — and perhaps clear the way toward a more reasonable approach to balancing the country’s priorities. This comment could almost be on AdLibs post considering how this is just some more deception by the MSM. True PUDNUTS! » Posted By bito On April 14, 2012 @ 11:01 pm Sally, while reading the article you linked to I spotted this one: And I find it amazing that the NRA is writing the same hysterical anti Dem letters to their members that they have used since who knows when. I do remember when I phone banking in rural Central Florida, I was amazed on how many people told me that they wouldn’t Dukakis and other Dems because “they will take our guns away.” When I asked “who told you that?”, I usually got the same answer, “the NRA.” It didn’t matter what I said about it not being true, they were convinced. Jump to today’s speeches at the NRA convention and their letters, it’s exactly the same, just change the name. The National Rifle Assn. is spoiling for a fight. I know because, as an NRA member, I’m on its mailing list. “If gun owners like you and me don’t stand up to this lawless administration now, there’s no telling how far they’ll go to destroy our Right to Keep and Bear Arms,” the group’s lead lobbyist, Chris Cox, warned in a Valentine’s Day e-mail. » Posted By bito On April 13, 2012 @ 5:55 pm I just spoke to a couple of people that have been involved with law enforcement, hearsay evidence?, that it is state by state on rights to pursue/citizens arrest. Florida does have the right to pursue and obtain identification and then back off/stand down. Law enforcement highly discourages it-call 911! One can be sued if they are wrong if they wrongly identify or wrongly attempt to detain. » Posted By bito On April 13, 2012 @ 4:59 pm To be fair KT, the audio experts didn’t say it was Trayvon’s voice, they said it wasn’t George’s. Being that there were only 2 people there…. 😉 » Posted By bito On April 13, 2012 @ 3:43 pm Women of Arizona, please be aware that you now have to register your cycles with the proper authorities! Governor Jan Brewer Signs Arizona’s Extreme New Abortion Law Life now starts earlier in Arizona: In practice, the state has banned abortions after about 18 weeks. Despite its name, critics derided the Women’s Health and Safety Act that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law today as cruel, dangerous, and hostile to women—likely to deter many Arizona women from seeking an abortion, and to distress those who nonetheless go through with one. Life starts earliest in Arizona, which now defines gestational age as beginning on the first day of a woman’s last period, rather than at fertilization. In practice, that means the state has banned abortions after about 18 weeks (20 weeks from the last menstruation) except in the case of medical emergencies. While that provision has been much discussed, abortions after that point account for only about 1 percent of the procedures currently performed. […] The law “disregards women’s health in a way I’ve never seen before,” said Center for Reproductive Rights’ state advocacy counsel, Jordan Goldberg. “The women of Arizona can’t access medical treatment that other women can.” Goldberg said her group is meticulously reviewing the law to consider a possible suit on behalf of client providers. “This legislation is consistent with my strong track record of supporting common sense measures to protect the health of women and safeguard our most vulnerable population–the unborn,” Gov. Brewer said in a statement. Oh there’s more, much more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/12/governor-jan-brewer-signs-arizona-s-extreme-new-abortion-law.html War on Women? What War? » Posted By bito On April 12, 2012 @ 8:19 pm FC, looks to that the news source was the Romney camp. MSNBC/NBC couldn’t bother to do their own fact-checking, I guess. Silly, sloppy and lazy season. » Posted By bito On April 12, 2012 @ 7:49 pm Bingo KT! While we make fun of it, this is a serious thing to much of Asia. Globe & Map kids, Japan is but a stone’s throw from that wacko kid and “government.” » Posted By bito On April 12, 2012 @ 7:42 pm Kalima called it a “premature rocketation”. 😆 » Posted By bito On April 12, 2012 @ 5:14 pm “Breaking” News: The Coyote has filed a police report, seem N.Korea stole one of his rockets. Broke up soon after lift-off. » Posted By bito On April 12, 2012 @ 4:54 pm I hope they don’t Sue, the case is about the shooting and death of an unarmed 17 year old, calling Hannity would make it a Hannity circus/made for media distraction, IMO. » Posted By bito On April 12, 2012 @ 4:17 pm Of course they can call Sean Hannity to testify if his testimony has any material use/fact to the case (gained through deposition.) Are you thinking that Mr.Zimmerman made a full confession to Hannity or just wanting a segment on his show? I’m just trying to figure out what he could add? It making it the “trial of the century?” He would make it more of a circus. » Posted By bito On April 12, 2012 @ 3:34 pm Talk about “lazicrats,” (h/t KQ) what better example of laziness than this Hilliary Rozen non-story? Until late this morning MSNBC was saying she worked for the Obama 2012 reelection team-WRONG, then she was working for the DNC -WRONG,again. Quality fact checking no? She’s a pudnut who happens to be a Dem. Yesterday, Democratic strategist and CAP Action board member Hilary Rosen — a partner in a PR firm who has no role in the Obama campaign — said on CNN that Ann Romney has “never worked a day in her life.” Almost immediately, the Romney campaign falsely labeled Rosen an “Obama adviser” and demanded the Obama campaign distance itself from this non-advisor. The Obama Campaign swiftly responded that Rosen’s comments were “inappropriate and offensive.” Straight from the Romney campaign? Seems so. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/04/12/463276/meet-the-romney-campaigns-anti-women-surrogates/ Is this just the first squirrel of the “silly season?” » Posted By bito On April 12, 2012 @ 3:03 pm ICYMI: ProChoiceGrandma @ProChoiceGramma FLOTUS is on The Colbert Report. What a smart and beautiful lady! And great sense of humor! » Posted By bito On April 11, 2012 @ 9:07 pm Sally, months ago there was a set-to about the Koch’s “donating” money to universities for the establishment of new chairs and schools. People were up in arms because they also get the final say on who gets the chair. Thing is the Kochs (and other corporations) have been doing this for years.Left leaning groups haven’t been doing it. No monies? Less foresight? » Posted By bito On April 11, 2012 @ 8:03 pm A little background on the author that wrote the “ACA will increase the budget” study. Koch-Funded GOP Economist Uses New Math To Find That Health Reform Increases The Deficit. George W. Bush’s Social Security privatization guru Charles Blahous — who now works for the Koch-funded Mercatus Center — is out with a new report alleging that the Affordable Care Act adds $340 billion to the deficit. The new math relies on the old “double counting” meme — an argument advanced by Republicans in Congress in the final days of the health care reform debate alleging that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) appropriated the same revenue for extending the solvency of the Medicare trust fund as it did for paying out benefits. Just shocking that the fellow is involved with the Kochs, no? Relying on my memory is always a very risky thing, but I do remember the R’s using “but your double counting” argument during the mark-ups on ACA. Which was debunked then. Maybe he should review Ryan’s “Path to Poverty” budget, he uses the same method! The federal government has in fact used this kind of system from time immemorial — including in the GOP’s latest budget proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) — and Republicans have long argued that they would use Medicare savings for deficit reduction AND strengthening the program. Consider this 1997 press release from the Senate Republican Policy Committee making this very same case about the Balanced Budget Act:…. http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/04/10/461265/gop-economist-deficit/ Now my question is “why did WaPo publish the crap?” » Posted By bito On April 11, 2012 @ 3:55 pm The official didn’t know the charge and spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to release the information. Wow, what would he have released if he did have authority? And that is how cases get jeopardized. » Posted By bito On April 11, 2012 @ 12:07 pmComments Posted By bito
No ID? No admittance. And a state open-government advocate says that’s a problem.
Gloating over her milking it certainty won’t help close the gap on any of those numbers! Her gloating shows how out of touch her and Mitt really are.
I don’t know if I have heard one word used so many times the last few day as “Gimmick/Gimmickry ever.
https://planetpov.com/2011/12/01/time-out-for-ot-vol-18/comment-page-1/#comment-180978
I would love for them to go back to the original format with a panel of questioners and I wrote them many times about that. Gregory has sucked from the get-go, I think
I think most here agree that the line was crossed when he was told to stand down, and we are correct! Natch! 🙂
Picky, picky, picky 😆
Where did MSNBC do their fact-checking?
Now I’m not sure if this is the instance of Charles Blahous — and the Koch-funded Mercatus Center — but it sure sounds like it to me. Since the ’70s the RW has been funding, and open funding -meaning the just give millions of dollars and say do your thing, while Dems and LW funders give out dribs and drabs for grants with strings. C’Lady can tell you a lot about this and the days and hours she has spent on grant proposals.
Of course the study is bogus, but it get’s coverage because it uses the cover of a university or center that without investigating know one knows it’s Koch money.
Who’da Thunk?
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