It’s a special triple holiday-eve edition of the Podcast, as the panel celebrates Tax Day, Teabagging day and Goldy’s birthday. The panel tries to get to the bottom of what the teabaggers are stewing over…and under. (Goldy is shocked when he learns the street definition of teabagging.)
Former news anchor Susan Hutchison is running for King County Executive. Has Ms. Hutchison sullied herself through associations with the Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Center? Are the anti-science views of a candidate even relevant for the position?
Back to taxes, the panel is split over the efficacy of a state income tax on the wealthy. Is the projected budget shortfall an opportunity for legislators to seize the moment for progressive tax reform, or does the electorate need more time for reflection and deliberation?
Goldy was joined by Seattlepi.com’s Joel Connelly, Executive Director of the Northwest Progressive Institute Andrew Villeneuve, Effin’ Unsound’s & Horsesass’s Carl Ballard, and Seattle Drinking Liberally co-organizer Chris.
The show is 43:10, and is available here as an MP3:
[audio:http://www.podcastingliberally.com/podcasts/podcasting_liberally_apr_14_2009.mp3][Recorded live at the Seattle chapter of Drinking Liberally. Special thanks to Confab creators Gavin and Richard for hosting the Podcasting Liberally site.]
It’s not too soon to start thinking about unseating a few Republicans and Dinocrats in 2010. Anybody got any names of who they’d like to see run and who’d they to see gone?
Maybe we could con John Roskelley into running in the 5th CD?
http://www.johnroskelley.com/
Some Southern states are “threatening” to secede from the Union due to the unfortunate legal election of a black man to the presidency.
What I say is: go ahead; we’ll kick your sorry asses again!
Rather than some cross-section of America, the visuals of the tea-bagging folk made it look more like they might only be the most rabid of right-wing radio and Fox News crowd. Either that or there’s absolutely zero brown people in America. I kept looking for a black face. I figured that’d for sure be our Puddy. Alas, no luck.
@2: Daddy Love
The southern republicans talk big – but in the end after all their blather they accepted the stimulus package. Their supposed “principles” are just mush.
Where were all these idiots when Bush set a record deficit, spent a trillion on an unnecessary war and still managed to wreck the economy?
Hypocrites.
Who’s the guy breathing in to the mic?