Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Democratic leaders in the Senate are scrambling to avoid defections on President Obama’s jobs package, which appears headed for defeat on Tuesday.
A lack of Democratic unity on the president’s bill would be embarrassing for the White House, which has been scolding House Republicans for refusing to vote on the measure.
Obama has been touring the country, aiming to put pressure on the GOP to act. But Senate Democrats have indicated they are feeling some heat. Last week, Democratic leaders revised Obama’s bill, scrapping his proposed offsets. Instead of raising taxes on families making more than $250,000 annually, Senate Democrats lifted that figure to $1 million.
Despite the changes, the legislation still does not enjoy the support of all 53 senators who caucus with the Democrats. A handful of Democrats are undecided or leaning no on the bill.
Democrats who will vote no or are leaning no include Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Jon Tester (Mont.) and Ben Nelson (Neb.), who all hail from red states and are up for reelection next year.
Republican and Democratic analysts say it will be politically difficult for Obama to blame the GOP for blocking the bill if more than a few conservative Democrats break ranks.
“It is important to have the vast majority of your people, because what we are doing here is a political exercise at the moment, since there doesn’t seem to be any chance that the Republican side really wants to do anything,” said Steve Elmendorf, a senior adviser to former House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt (Mo.) for 12 years. “This needs to be a 90 percent vote.”
Well, I’m hoping like the dickens it’s defeated in one way or another, just because we’ve already seen the economic recovery power to be enjoyed by means of spending stimulus and it seems to be nine steps forward & ten steps back. But this could be a big nothing…maybe Biden ends up breaking the tie. Or, a bunch more democrats defect and the whole thing is a big flop.
Not too much to be learned from this particular story, except the opportunity to watch one of these super-duper charismatic speech-makers who construct these narratives…I mean the Obama-like people, who spin these tall tales and then start believing them…and then reality, inconveniently, fails to obey. After all that money I paid to pollute the environment, in the form of my President flying around on Air Force One creating this fiction about Republicans gumming up the works with the Jobs Bill. And, as is always the case, He did such an excellent job giving all those speeches! But now we see Republican obstructionism doesn’t have a whole lot to do with it.
At this point, the best case scenario is: Early recovery, in the form of Obama’s re-election becoming a more and more dismal and remote prospect, up to some point where the “smart money” starts to move away from Him. And then businesses will start to anticipate a change in policy well before the elections, and take a gamble. That’s our best hope right now. But I’m not going to believe my own wild, tall tale, I’m going to wait for it to happen. Still & all, it’s a good hope to have.
We know what doesn’t work.
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