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McCabe out at BIAW?

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I’m hearing rumors that long time strongman Tom McCabe is on his way out at the Building Industry Association of Washington, after a string of disastrous and costly campaigns that have splintered the industry and left the once mighty BIAW near bankruptcy, I-1082’s failure being the final straw.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy bigger bastard.

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    The BIAW needs a gigantic shovel to overhaul their industry. Replacing Barney Rubble would be a start.

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    Rossi now McCabe???

    I’m so happy!

    On the other hand it probably won’t take too long to find someone a bit smarter, more low key and just as freaking right wing.

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    The BIAW has been spending all this time and money trying influence elections. Even if I shared the same political views I think I would be mad that they haven’t brought anything constructive back to the membership.

    Energy and resources that could have been used to truly help their industry has been squandered in futile jousting at windmills.

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    There’s a rumour around that Tom snagged a role as Quasimoto in an off-Broadway production of the Hunchback of Notre-Dame. He was chosen due to the fact that the lengthy make-up process would not be necessary.

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    Does this mean Kevin Carns isn’t a $90,000-a-year BIAW troll anymore? Hey, if state and municipal employees have to take pay cuts and furlough days, then it’s only fair private sector bloodsuckers should tighten their belts, too. After all, they live a lot better than government workers to begin with.

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    What’s strange is that rightwing moneybags keep throwing money at failing causes. Tuesday’s biggest loser, of course, was Meg Whitman who is now $150 million poorer with nothing to show for it. Back in 2004, Republican donors spent $2 million to reduce Rossi’s vote tally by 4 votes in court. That’s paying $500,000 a vote to go in the wrong direction! As obscenely rich as these people are, you wonder why they keep flushing such sums down empty ratholes. They must hate their money or something. I wish they’d give some of it to me, if they’re so eager to get rid of it. Hmmm … in fact, they do … I made $2,500 in the stock market yesterday and another $775 today, and I didn’t even have to work for it. My stock portfolio’s valuation is now in all-time record territory and setting new highs every 10 minutes.

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    Maybe now the BIAW members can get beyond building that suburban crapola that nobody seems to want.

    Hell, the next generation of home buyers are skipping getting drivers licenses and cars in record numbers.

    The number of young adults between 20 and 24 who are licensed to drive dropped by five percent between 1994 and 2008, down to 82 percent, according to the Federal Highway Administration. Among 16-year-olds, just 31 percent held a driver’s license in 2008, compared to about 42 percent in 1994. Experts attribute the decline not only to a sour economy, but also to a growing ambivalence among younger generations about driving and car ownership more generally.
    ………

    Younger people these days are more interested in spending their money on socializing with friends or the latest technology. They are more and more likely to put off buying a car and take public transit. Some young people are making the decision to forgo driving altogether.
    http://streetsblog.net/2010/11.....rship-meh/

    In other words, the future is going to call for more urban housing and light rail lines.

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    @8 “Maybe now the BIAW members can get beyond building that suburban crapola that nobody seems to want.”

    I own some of that suburban crapola and it’s so bad I’m having to spend huge sums on basic repairs. Until I replaced it, the roof had been leaking ever since the house was built, and there was water damage everywhere. Fixing it cost over $30,000.

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    @10

    She’s in the running for minority leader. Since her “leadership” as speaker ran us straight into a ditch hopefully they’ll choose someone else. Minority leader Peter DeFazio has a nice ring to it. He’s liberal enough to please the left and can still work well with the right.

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    @8 Cars are very expensive to own and operate. I didn’t learn to drive until after graduating from college because I was poor in my student days. My parents never owned more than one car at a time, and didn’t buy their first new car until their retirement. It was sold to a family member after they couldn’t drive anymore. Mrs. Rabbit and I got by with only one car for the first 25 years of our marriage. Like my parents, I never owned a new car until after I retired.

    Things will only get worse for young people. Many will still be unmarried and living with their parents in their thirties because there aren’t going to be jobs for this generation. Any work that’s portable will end up in the Third World. A recent Time magazine article used pilots as an example of jobs that will stay in the U.S. because you can’t offshore flying a plane. I think that’s wrong; someday airliners will be flown with remote control by guys operating joysticks at computer consoles in India and China. Human labor has diminishing value in the brave new world and eventually will become obsolete. When that happens, we will have to invent a new system of income distribution, because the masses won’t stand for a handful of people keeping the world’s whole economic output to themselves while millions live in abject poverty. Current economic trends are a prescription for revolution.

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    Damn, Micheal,
    Speaker Pelosi was the most spineful D in Leadership in DC, the House took tough votes so the Senate and White House could waffle and take their own sweet time. We should all have her back until she decides to step away, and she certainly has my heartfelt thanks.

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    @14

    I don’t disagree with you. But, the end result was we lost the house, there’s a lot of stuff that could have gotten done that didn’t get done and some stuff that did get done that will get undone. Time to give someone else a shot.

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    @16

    I guess I should add that, in general I’d like to see leadership positions turnover more often than they do.

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    Folks…this thread is about McCabe and the BIAW. If you want to discuss other things (including comments on this comment)…take it to an open thread. This one should do.

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    Mark Centz spews:

    Damn, Micheal,
    Speaker Pelosi was the most spineful D in Leadership in DC, the House took tough votes so the Senate and White House could waffle and take their own sweet time. We should all have her back until she decides to step away, and she certainly has my heartfelt thanks.

    This, as the kids say.

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    Erin ‘Bam Bam’ Shannon should go next. Actually a complete change in leadership is in order. Consumer expectations have changed and the next generation of remodels and home buyers will not be looking for crap construction built on swamp land.

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    Kevin Carns isn’t a $90,000-a-year BIAW troll anymore

    I think Carns now has a job as a spokesman of some sort for the Republicans in the State Legislature.

    I heard him on a KUOW news story a while back.

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    @27
    As long as they replace her with someone who’s foul mouthed and really hot… (j/k)

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    @14 and Michael: I’m with you, Mark. She did her job — with grit and determination — unlike Reid and the President. We owe her the decision at least.

    But I agree that De Fazio would make a great leader in her stead.

    I agree with this piece by Saletan (a conservative) channeling Frum:

    Pelosi’s Triumph
    Democrats didn’t lose the battle of 2010. They won it.

    [snip]

    They’re wrong. The big picture isn’t about winning or keeping power. It’s about using it. I’ve made this argument before, but David Frum, the former speechwriter to President Bush, has made it better. In March, when Democrats secured enough votes to pass the bill, he castigated fellow conservatives who looked forward to punishing Pelosi and President Obama “with a big win in the November 2010 elections.” Frum observed:

    “Legislative majorities come and go. This healthcare bill is forever. A win in November is very poor compensation for this debacle now. … No illusions please: This bill will not be repealed. Even if Republicans scored a 1994 style landslide in November, how many votes could we muster to re-open the “doughnut hole” and charge seniors more for prescription drugs? How many votes to re-allow insurers to rescind policies when they discover a pre-existing condition? How many votes to banish 25 year olds from their parents’ insurance coverage?”

    [snip]

    Politicians have tried and failed for decades to enact universal health care. This time, they succeeded. In 2008, Democrats won the presidency and both houses of Congress, and by the thinnest of margins, they rammed a bill through. They weren’t going to get another opportunity for a very long time. It cost them their majority, and it was worth it.

    And that’s not counting financial regulation, economic stimulus, college lending reform, and all the other bills that became law under Pelosi. So spare me the tears and gloating about her so-called failure. If John Boehner is speaker of the House for the next 20 years, he’ll be lucky to match her achievements.

    Will Republicans revisit health care? Sure. Will they enact some changes to the program? Yes, and Democrats will help them. Every program needs revisions. Republicans will get other things, too: business tax breaks, education reform, more nuclear power, and a crackdown on earmarks. These are issues on which both parties can agree. Which is why, if you’re a Democrat, you deal with them after you’ve lost your majority—not before…

    Here: http://www.slate.com/id/2273708

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    30
    I feel all better now. People like lost think that, somehow, the New Deal will be redone. Those people, of course, are wrong. This year’s healthcare bill, in fact, will not be redone. We won. Something. Now, let’s go bash troglodyte heads!

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