by David Safier It may not be a daily occurrence, but I've been reading accounts of new accidents at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant on a weekly basis. I'm tempted to put up one of those Three Stooges images of them "fixing" the plumbing, but this is too goddamned scary for flippancy. Last week … Read more
by David Safier It's an epidemic. People are voting fraudulently in Arizona in ones and twos! Nine cases discovered, said Ken Bennett in 2012. And it's all them damn illegal imm . . . Um, wait a minute, let me look at the article more closely. Using an interstate database, Arizona officials have found nine … Read more
by David Safier Raul Grijalva was one of nine of legislators who allowed themselves to be arrested at today's immigration rally (official name: “Camino Americano” [“American Road”]). Another was John Lewis, who said, “I’ve been arrested a few times, and I don’t mind getting arrested again for something that is right and fair and just." … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The Tea-Publican "default deniers" are truly a dangerous crowd because they are too ignorant to understand that they are playing with the fire of default that can have catastrophic consequences. Matthew Yglesias explains it for them. Four Reasons Debt Ceiling Breach Means Default:
A new idea is taking hold among House Republicans that perhaps breaching
the debt ceiling isn't such a terrible idea after all. One form this
takes is the patently absurd remarks of Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) who muses
that "I think, personally, it would bring stability to the world
markets." If you think that's right, you might wonder why the Chinese
government is warning that "the clock is ticking" and politicians need to stop screwing around.
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
President Obama in his Remarks at FEMA Headquarters on Monday made this observation:
Last point I'm going to make: The bill that is being presented to end
the government shutdown reflects Republican priorities. It’s the
Republican budget. The funding levels of this short-term funding bill,
called the CR, is far lower than what Democrats think it should be.
Nevertheless, Democrats are prepared to put the majority of votes on to
reopen the government. So when you hear this notion that Democrats
aren't compromising — we're compromising so much we're willing to
reopen the government at funding levels that reflect Republican wishes,
don't at all reflect our wishes.* * *
So Democrats have said we are willing to pass a bill that reflects the
Republicans’ priorities in terms of funding levels. That's a pretty
significant compromise. What we're not willing to do is to create a
permanent pattern in which unless you get your way the government is
shut down or America defaults. That's not how we do business in this
country, and we're not going to start now.
In fact, Democrats have agreed to the sequester funding levels, not the funding levels agreed to in the Budget Control Act, the law that supposedly set priorities for spending limits. The Tea-Publican economic terrorists have already won. Democrats have agreed to the Ryan budget spending levels that American voters overwhelmingly rejected in the 2012 election.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have said that Weeper of the House John Boehner just won't take "yes" for an answer. Reid and Pelosi: Boehner Won't Take 'Yes' For an Answer.