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Open Thread 10/8

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– It looks like Ed Murray is proposing to go back to square one on the missing link (Seattle Times link). Boo.

-The people responsible for closing down the government sure don’t like that parts of the government are shut down.

– Guaranteed income seems like a solid idea.

– As you may know, the Sierra Club has been carrying on a big, and quite successful campaign all around the country opposing new coal power plants and lobbying to retire old ones – including the Colstrip plant in Montana, which supplies about 20% of the power to Puget Sound Energy Customers

– The New York Times had a piece on the government shutdown that included an in depth look at Lakewood.

– Hispanic and youth outreach? Pfft. Let’s turn the Tea Party up to eleven!!

– This is really what you think of women? That none play football in this country? That there aren’t women who recognize teams on tape and not paper? Do you live under a rock? Is it a big rock labeled “Sexist”?

Comments

  1. 1

    I found this. Thought it was too good not to share.

    Oct 2008: “You’ll never get elected and pass healthcare.”
    Nov 2008: “We’ll never let you pass healthcare.”
    Jan 2009: “We’re gonna shout you down every time you try to pass healthcare.”
    July 2009: “We’ll fight to death every attempt you make to pass healthcare.”
    Dec 2009: “We will destroy you if you even consider passing healthcare.”
    March 2010: “We can’t believe you just passed healthcare.”
    April 2010: “We are going to overturn healthcare.”
    Sept 2010: “We are going to repeal healthcare.”
    Jan 2011: “We are going to destroy healthcare.”
    Feb 2012: “We’re gonna elect a candidate who’ll revoke healthcare NOW.”
    June 2012: “We’ll go to the Supreme Court, and they will overturn healthcare.”
    Aug 2012: “American people’ll never re-elect you-they don’t want healthcare.”
    Oct 2012: “We can’t wait to win the election and explode healthcare.”
    Nov 2012: “We can’t believe you got re-elected & we can’t repeal healthcare.”
    Feb 2013: “We’re still going to vote to obliterate healthcare.”
    June 2013: “We can’t believe the Supreme Court just upheld healthcare.”
    July 2013: “We’re going to vote like 35 more times to erase healthcare.”
    Sept 2013: “We are going to leverage a government shutdown into defunding, destroying, obliterating, overturning, repealing, dismantling, erasing and ripping apart healthcare.”
    Oct 2013: “WHY AREN’T YOU NEGOTIATING???”

  2. 2

    Well the Republican response to yesterday’s EPIC smackdown by the president

    “If Republicans and Speaker Boehner is saying there are not enough votes, then they should prove it. Let the bill go to the floor and let’s see what happens. Just vote.”

    is the equivalent of, “Unh-Unh…DID NOT!”

    Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) on Monday said Democrats have no evidence that a no-strings-attached spending bill would pass the House.

    CNN’s Anderson Cooper pressed Labrador to explain why a so-called “clean” continuing resolution to fund the government shouldn’t immediately be brought to a vote.

    “You know, we could bring it to a vote and it would lose,” Labrador said on “AC360.” “And this is a beautiful talking point that the Democrats have, because it is something they have no evidence that there is anybody willing to vote for this bill.”

    “Well why not bring it up and see?” Cooper asked.

    “Why should we?” Labrador responded.

    O.K. Rep. Labrador R-Couldn’t find his ass with both hands

    All 200 Democrats and 17 Republicans support passing a continuing resolution with no additional legislative strings attached that would reopen the federal government, which has been partially closed for a week over a bitter policy dispute between Republicans and Democrats on health care. The number 217 is significant in that it is the minimum needed for the measure to win approval in the House.

    Up or down vote…where have I heard that before.

  3. 3

    I just goes to show you how important the bi-elections can be. That’s when the party faithful turn out and the “not generally interested” stay at home. The Republicans took the House in 2010 because they were organized and motivated, and the Democrats were resting on the laurals of their 2008 victory.

    Now is the time to get organized for the 2014 elections – if we can’t take back the House, we can cut a big swath into the Republican majority.

  4. 4

    “You know, we could bring it to a vote and it would lose,”

    And yet Republicans were on the losing end of more than 40 votes to repeal health care.

  5. 5

    And I didn’t even have to pay them anything to tank the stock market so I can buy cheap stocks from their rich friends. Good grief, Goobers are dumb!

  6. 6

    @6

    And those on the right who are so concerned about the spending in Washington have just increased spending. T-Bills, which the Treasury was selling with an interest rate of 0.03 on October 1, have now jumped to 0.297, that’s 10 times the previous rate. The rate on Monday was 0.16, so it almost doubled overnight.

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