Rose started his recording career as a solo artist for record producers Yabby You and Niney the Observer. He joined Black Uhuru in 1977 after the departure of Don Carlos and Garth Dennis. He led them to international success in the early 1980s, having written most of their popular material. They won the first-ever Grammy Award for reggae in 1985 for the album Anthem,[2] with the hallmark voice of Rose in the forefront.
After the release of Anthem, Rose left Black Uhuru and retired to the Blue Mountains in Jamaica to start a coffee farm. He released a string of singles in Jamaica, but nothing much was heard of him outside the island until 1989, when he was signed to RCA and released the strongly pop influenced album Proud in Europe and Japan.
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Ms Nancy Smash! Go Nancy!
Whotthe fuck wants to hear talking heads praise the GOP and try to hold up limp dick Boner.
I NEVER want Congress to play a game of chicken again!!
They were playing with the lives of all Americans with the Shutdown:
Did you HEAR me you GOPpers?!!
Ametia, SG2:
have been told that Maddow’s opening segment is blistering and postable video worthy.
please help.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/pork-sneaks-into-rushed-senate-budget-bill-54619203930
Live House of Rep. of c-span:
http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/?a
They are voting now.
Thank you!
Enough Republicans have voted now for it to pass.
Signed Sealed Delivered
whoohoo! Dancin’ the win!
Turnin’ up the volume…..great as always with earphones!
YEAH! TURN IT UP!
Playing it over and over!
we need the video of the President’s Press Conference tonight
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some descriptions:
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http://youtu.be/hAnRik_DTzA
Thanks for this; just getting home.
Cory Booker is winner of the US Senate seat! Go Senator, Booker! Whoo Hoo!
Yes!
“Senate passes debt deal to end standoff; House to vote soon”
NBCNews.com – 2 minutes ago
By Carrie Dann, Political Reporter, NBC News. With broad bipartisan support, the Senate voted late Wednesday to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling, closing in on an end to the 16-day standoff that put the United States within hours of a …”
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/16/20992216-senate-passes-debt-deal-to-end-standoff-house-to-vote-soon
The vote was 81 to 18
Republicans can go pound sand. All they have to offer is hate and racism. It doesn’t work anymore. We’re moving forward! New era, baby!
New era…yes…..please let it be so!!
We need a song. Any ideas?
Hee hee…..ever hear this video music:
Alright now!
Josh says” Mom this Stew is off the chain”. :) He’s so sweet! I invited him over to eat.
Nothing like MAMA’s homemade stew and cornbread! Josh is so blessed.
Josh always compliments my cooking. I love this kid.
Aww. Good times with stew!
Save some for Ametia and me :)
Mama fed him..he’s a happy camper…
LOL!
And he took some to eat at work. I like to cook something the kids like and make them happy.
Stew is ready! And big pan of cornbread! Yay!
I warmed the house up with oven heat. *tee hee*
Yummy! Where’s my bowl of stew, hmm?
LOL! …coming right up.
Me too?
Coming right up, Yahtc! And with a glass of cold Dr Pepper. mmmmmm….
Thanks, cool, Dr. Pepper……aah!
“Separate and Unequal Voting in Arizona and Kansas”
October 16, 2013
by Ari Berman
http://billmoyers.com/2013/10/16/separate-and-unequal-voting-in-arizona-and-kansas/
“Ted Cruz says he won’t delay vote on Senate deal”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/10/16/ted-cruz-government-shutdown-deal-filibuster/2994271/
Cruz got his ass handed to him by the powers that be. THE.END.
Hat tip Democratic Underground
LOL!
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/16/showbiz/harry-belafonte-mlk-lawsuit/
http://www.theroot.com/views/man-paralyzed-cops-faces-20-years
About two weeks ago, as tea partiers in the GOP-controlled House were forcing a government shutdown, some House Democrats sent a private and informal message to House Speaker John Boehner: if you need to break with the die-hard conservatives of your caucus to keep the government running and avoid a debt ceiling crisis, we might be able to try to help you protect your speakership, should far-right Republicans rebel and challenge you. This offer was conveyed to Boehner just as he was entering what has turned into the toughest stretch of his speakership, according to two senior House Democratic lawmakers who each asked not to be identified.
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2013/10/16/13930/338
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/10/16/richard-t-greener-harvard-diploma-chicago-man-threatens-to-burn/
It’s Official: Ronan Farrow to Host MSNBC Show
Ronan Farrow – the son of Mia Farrow who previously worked as an Obama administration foreign policy official – will host a weekday program on MSNBC beginning early next year. The announcement came Wednesday from MSNBC president Phil Griffin.
The show, which is likely to launch in mid-January, will be closely aligned with Farrow’s activism. And he told The Hollywood
during a phone interview on Wednesday that his desire to join a television network was born of conversations he has had with young people who are frustrated with the vituperative immobility in Washington as well as the current state of TV news.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/official-ronan-farrow-host-msnbc-648996
HOLLERING
Quite a ball to be carrying around!
Maybe with Obamacare he can have it fixed.
BWA HA HA
The DuSable Museum of African American History
Margaret Buroughs
http://www.oakton.edu/museum/burr.html
Dr. Burroughs- a Chicago legend
#TheBoehnerWillRiseAgain.
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WASHINGTON, DC – House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) released the following statement regarding the bipartisan Senate agreement to reopen the federal government and avoid a national default:
“The House has fought with everything it has to convince the president of the United States to engage in bipartisan negotiations aimed at addressing our country’s debt and providing fairness for the American people under ObamaCare. That fight will continue. But blocking the bipartisan agreement reached today by the members of the Senate will not be a tactic for us. In addition to the risk of default, doing so would open the door for the Democratic majority in Washington to raise taxes again on the American people and undo the spending caps in the 2011 Budget Control Act without replacing them with better spending cuts. With our nation’s economy still struggling under years of the president’s policies, raising taxes is not a viable option. Our drive to stop the train wreck that is the president’s health care law will continue. We will rely on aggressive oversight that highlights the law’s massive flaws and smart, targeted strikes that split the legislative coalition the president has relied upon to force his health care law on the American people.”
See more at: http://www.speaker.gov/press-release/statement-bipartisan-senate-agreement-reopen-government-avoid-default#sthash.DcUQtXZ1.dpuf
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Heritage Action: Obamacare safe ‘until 2017’
10/16/13 11:16 AM
By Steve Benen
Late yesterday afternoon, House Republican leaders still thought they’d put together a bill that would put Democrats in an awkward spot, while satisfying the far-right. House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) office vowed a floor vote by the evening.
But around 5:30 p.m. eastern, Heritage Action, an activist project of the Heritage Foundation think tank, effectively vetoed Boehner’s idea. “Unfortunately, the proposed deal will do nothing to stop Obamacare’s massive new entitlements from taking root – radically changing the nature of American health care,” the group said.
Soon after, the bill was quietly killed and the entire House Republican offensive collapsed.
With this in mind, it was interesting to see Michael Needham, the CEO of Heritage Action, on Fox News this morning, offering his assessment of the right’s crusade against the Affordable Care Act. Needham said:
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/heritage-obamacare-safe-until-2017
Keep dreaming, BITCHES.
When will they learn?
The sore losers think by holding the USA hostage is a triump for them.
Government is GOOD, when their are GOOD Americans working in and for it.
Senate deal complete, floor votes on the way
10/16/13 01:05 PM
By Steve Benen
It’s done.
Senate Democratic and Republican leaders on Wednesday reached final agreement on a deal to reopen the government and extend its borrowing authority into February, with votes in the House and the Senate possibly to begin in the afternoon, according to aides familiar with the negotiations. […]
A Democratic leader said the current plan was for the Senate to provide the legislative language to the House, get a House vote, and then have the Senate take up the bill, pass it, and perhaps send it to President Obama before the end of the day.
The order of which chamber goes first may yet change, but the road ahead is no longer in doubt. There were some lingering concerns about whether Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) or other right-wing senators might deliberately delay the vote until after the debt-ceiling deadline, but he and others told reporters this morning that they don’t see the point. Far-right senators could needlessly push off voting on the bill, but they wouldn’t have the votes to defeat it.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/senate-deal-complete-floor-votes-the-way
Poor Rielle Hunter, trying so hard to be a grifter but people keep forgetting about her. Well, here she comes again.
‘In Hindsight, What Really Happened: The Revised Edition: John Edwards, Our Daughter and Me’
Rielle Hunter
Posted: 10/15/2013 10:27 am
I behaved badly. That may seem obvious to you but it’s taken me a long time to admit that, even to myself. For years I was so viciously attacked by the media and the world that I felt like a victim. I now realize that the attacks are actually beside the point. The point is: I behaved badly.
I am very sorry for my wrong, selfish behavior. Back in 2006, I did not think about the scope of my actions, how my falling in love with John Edwards, and acting on that love, could hurt so many people. I hurt Elizabeth and her kids. I hurt her family. I hurt John’s family. I hurt people that knew Elizabeth. I hurt people who didn’t know Elizabeth but loved her from afar. I hurt people who gave their hard earned dollars to a campaign — a cause they believed in. I hurt people who are married and believe in marriage. Many of these people have let me know that I hurt them. Unfortunately, I was not thinking about anyone but myself. I was selfish. I fell in love with John Edwards and wanted to be with him and that desire trumped everything else.
And then instead of apologizing when I should have, I went on to hurt more people by writing a book. I truly did not realize at that time how damaged I was and because of that, when I wrote my book I made more mistakes, ones I feel horrible about.
My publisher came up with the idea of me going through my book and annotating all of my regrets and mistakes. I liked that idea. I thought it was innovative and interesting, but of course the actual execution of that idea turned out to be excruciating. Owning your past mistakes is no day at the beach but I do believe it is an important endeavor to undertake.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rielle-hunter/apology_b_4100599.html
SMGDH Go away, Rielle Hunter.
TEN TAKEAWAYS FROM THE GREAT G.O.P. CAVE-IN
1. President Obama won. For once, he held firm, and it worked.
2. The G.O.P. lost, and so did the Tea Party. Both saw their approval ratings fall to record lows.
3. It was a big waste of time.
4. The United States was also a loser. Its reputation in the eyes of the world was further damaged. U.S. “soft power” took another blow.
5. Republicans need remedial lessons in game theory. If you aren’t willing to go over the cliff, and your opponent knows that, there’s no point in engaging in brinkmanship.
6. Ted Cruz is a charlatan. He pushed for a government shutdown and then joined a protest by veterans and Tea Party members against the closure of national monuments.
7. If anyone has a justification for smoking, it’s John Boehner. Really, wouldn’t you want a Camel Ultra Light if you had his job?
8. The two-and-a-half-week government shutdown probably reduced quarterly G.D.P. growthby about 0.3 per cent. But much of that loss will be made up when the government re-opens.
9. Warren Buffett came up with the best quote of the crisis: “Creditworthiness is like virginity. It can be preserved but not restored very easily.”
10. We get to do it all again in January and February. But next time, we’ll all be aware in advance that the G.O.P.’s threats to force a debt default are empty.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2013/10/ten-takeaways-from-the-great-gop-cave-in.html#entry-more
I hope that all of those right leaning “independent” voters remember this Tea Party inspired faux debacle in November of 2014 when these idiots are up for re-election.
Charles Pierce’s nickname for Senator Pittypat:
‘ Huckleberry J. Butchmeup.”
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
From April 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xIlxQ6aJLuM
“Due, Tananarive (1966- )”
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/due-tananarive-1966
Hat tip to Dave. From Florida:
“Man burned after Halloween ‘prank’ involving gasoline, wooden cross and fire”
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20131016/NEWS01/131016006/Man-burned-after-Halloween-prank-involving-gasoline-wooden-cross-fire?nclick_check=1
From 2011:
“Rita Dove recites poetry at the White House Poetry NIGHT”
Jay Carney WH presser live now.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/live
Thanks, Ametia!
Why We Had to Cleave the GOP
by BooMan
Wed Oct 16th, 2013 at 11:18:02 AM EST
President Obama sat down with Univision reporter Claudia Botero and told her that he would begin pushing anew for a comprehensive immigration reform bill as soon as the government shutdown/debt ceiling crisis is resolved. Now, it’s still a bit premature to begin talking about the likely fallout from the shutdown crisis, but one of the arguments I have been making throughout is that the Republicans need to be cleaved in two if we are going to be able to do things like pass a transportation bill, end the sequester, or pass immigration reform.
I can’t say that I am confident that we’ve made a sufficient breakthrough, but we’ve done the preliminary work. Here’s the deal. So long as Speaker Boehner was adhering to the Hastert Rule that says that he can’t bring a bill to the floor that doesn’t have the support of the majority of the Republican Caucus, then most of the president’s agenda was dead on arrival in the House.
That was a very bleak prospect for the president’s second term. There have been a few discrete times when Boehner has been willing to break the Hastert Rule…to avoid the fiscal cliff, for example, and to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. But Boehner had to be very selective with these transgressions, lest he invite an internal revolt. Obviously, he was unwilling to stick his neck out to avoid a government shutdown or keep us from coming up against a debt default.
Yet, the Hastert Rule is an artificial rule. It isn’t part of the Constitution or the official rules of the House. There are several parts of the president’s agenda that actually have the support of the majority of the House, if not the majority of Republicans in the House. There is probably majority support for turning off the sequester and transportation and farm bills. There is almost definitely majority support for comprehensive immigration reform.
To get movement on these issues, the prerequisite is that Republican moderates in the House get comfortable with defying the Tea Party movement and working with the president. That is no easy task, considering the way the Republican base feels about Obama. A second prerequisite is that the Speaker, whether Boehner or some replacement, be willing to bring bills to the floor. That is also a heavy lift.
But, if it is going to happen, the only way it could happen is if there is a major rift in the Republican Party between the sane Republicans and the crazy ones. There is no guarantee that this will be sufficient, but it can’t happen without the rift.
Most of the focus on the administration’s strategy has been on their desire to get rid of the leverage the Republicans have used through hostage-taking. What makes this element so important is that the Congress has to pass a budget eventually, and without the hostages, they have to do it sooner rather than later. And they’ll have to actually make concessions rather than just pocketing the administration’s concessions and governing through sequestration. This will quickly put a final inglorious end to the Norquist Pledge, which is a major achievement.
But the cleavage in the Republican Party is arguably more important because, without it, there is no hope of building a governing majority in the House.
I don’t think this governing majority will emerge smoothly, if at all, from the current crisis, but I expect it to kind of evolve over the next few months as the GOP really begins to digest how badly they are divided. Immigration reform could be the vehicle. A battle over the Speakership could be the vehicle. A battle over the Farm Bill could be the vehicle. The next budget or debt ceiling deadline could be the vehicle. In every one of these debates, the fissures in the GOP will be coming to the fore.
So, this battle is going to have real consequences
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2013/10/16/11182/204
Warren Buffett knows DAMNED well the Dems have not used the debt ceiling as a weapon.
Artist Gertrude Morgan painted inspired testaments on recycled paper.
From Wikipedia:
“TOOLS OF HER MINISTRY: The Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan”
http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/5aa/5aa94a.htm
GOP gets nothing.
*GIGGLING* President Hotness!
LOL Teddy was “CRUSIN’ for a BRUSIN’
Thanks for link, SG2.
Carl Bernstein: GOP leadership ‘cancerous’ H/T TOD
x2
I LOATHE these folks. GOP proposing to stop a castrophe they created. And we’re supposed to be grateful for their fuckery? GTFOH
For Ted Cruz & GOP
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/16/opinion/beale-12-years-a-slave/
“12 Years a Slave” is easily the most hard-hitting portrayal of slavery since the 1977 TV blockbuster “Roots.” It is the kind of film that many people will avoid, in part because of its depiction of everything from the surrealism of slave markets to whippings, rapes, hangings and the myriad ways in which slave owners terrorized and ruled over their property.
The thing is; the many people who will “AVOID” the movie are the very ones who SHOULD & NEED to see it.
Denial is not that river in Egypt, folks.
Why Isn’t the GOP Complaining About the Deficit? Because It’s Dropping — Fast.
Posted on October 16, 2013 at 7:35 am by Bob Cesca
My Wednesday column:
As we careen headlong toward the debt ceiling deadline, with the House Republicans and Speaker John Boehner in full Three-Stooges-Trying-To-Fix-The-Plumbing mode, the issue area that’s been overshadowed by the grandstanding, political props and brinksmanship is government spending itself.
The budget deficit is really the 4,000 pound gorilla in the room and the Republicans refuse to discuss anything other than the fact that employer mandate for the dreaded Affordable Care Act begins a year after the individual mandate. Yes, we’re in the middle of a showdown over the debt because of Obamacare rather than, you know, spending and fiscal responsibility.
Why aren’t they talking about the deficit? That’s easy: they can’t say anything bad about it because the Obama administration’s record on the deficit is kind of stellar.
Let’s review some numbers.
http://bobcesca.thedailybanter.com/blog-archives/2013/10/why-isnt-the-gop-complaining-about-the-deficit-because-its-dropping-fast.html
The Houston Chronicle REGRETS endorsing Ted Cruz.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/buyers-remorse-ted-cruzs-hometown-paper-regrets-endorsing-him/
The Houston Chronicle, which endorsed Houstonian Ted Cruz (R-TX) in the general election for Senate last fall, now regrets its endorsement, according to an editorial published this morning.
The Chronicle’s endorsement had been qualified to begin with, as the paper had preferred Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, whom Cruz upset in the Republican primary. But the editors now long for the days of Cruz’s predecessor, Kay Bailey Hutchison, whom the paper said worked with her colleagues toward solutions, rather than against both.
We’re not sure how much difference one person could make in the toxic, chaotic, hyperpartisan atmosphere in Washington, but if we could choose just one it would be Hutchison, whose years of service in the Senate were marked by two things sorely lacking in her successor, Ted Cruz.
For one thing, Hutchison had an unswerving commitment to the highest and best interests of Texas at all times.
…And dare we say it? We miss her extraordinary understanding of the importance of reaching across the aisle when necessary. Neither sitting Texas senator has displayed that useful skill, and both the state and the Congress are the poorer for it.
…When we endorsed Ted Cruz in last November’s general election, we did so with many reservations and at least one specific recommendation – that he follow Hutchison’s example in his conduct as a senator.
Obviously, he has not done so. Cruz has been part of the problem in specific situations where Hutchison would have been part of the solution.
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Karma! It’s what’s for dinner! :)
I’m on a roll; don’t judge me. LOL
OOPS!
Oh my.
Justices Weigh Michigan Law and Race in College Admissions
WASHINGTON — Just four months after the Supreme Court largely ducked the question of whether the University of Texas may take account of race in its admissions decisions, the justices heard arguments on Tuesday about whether Michigan’s voters violated the Constitution by forbidding race-conscious admissions plans at that state’s public universities.
The new question led to a lively argument that illuminated the justices’ very different understandings of the meaning of equal protection, the workings of the political process and the value of affirmative action programs. The court appeared closely divided, with the five more conservative justices seeming generally inclined to uphold the ballot measure.
The measure, known as Proposal 2, was a response to Grutter v. Bollinger, a 2003 Supreme Court decision that upheld the use of race as one factor of many in law school admissions to ensure educational diversity. Proposal 2, approved in 2006 by 58 percent of Michigan’s voters, amended the State Constitution to prohibit discrimination or preferential treatment in public education, government contracting and public employment.
Groups favoring affirmative action sued to block the part of the law concerning higher education. The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in Cincinnati, ruled last year that the initiative, which amended the State Constitution, violated the federal Constitution’s equal protection clause.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/16/us/justices-weigh-michigan-law-and-race-in-college-admissions.html?smid=pl-share&_r=0
These fools REALLY think they are doing America a favor for faking crisis and faking deals. The GOP got MAJORLY OWNED by POTUS & the DEMS.
Karma is a bitch and remains UNDEFEATED.
I have NO sympathy for these people.
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South Dakota Conservatives Abandon the Tea Party Government Shutdown
By: Adalia Woodbury
Tuesday, October 15th, 2013, 9:12 pm
The Tea Party’s claim that a government shutdown will force Washington into fiscal responsibility doesn’t mean much to its supporters in South Dakota. A devastating blizzard that destroyed 80,000 heads of cattle earlier this month is showing them the hard way that there are circumstances in which people need government. The only thing more traumatic is realizing that government isn’t there because of the very shutdown they supported.
When Hurricane Sandy devastated businesses in eastern States, Tea Party members of Congress opposed Sandy aid to rebuild businesses because that’s ”pork”.
The Tea Party doesn’t believe in pork, because that leads to a culture of dependency which is bad unless they are the dependents .
When supporters of the Tea Party shutdown start sounding like liberals, it’s the proverbial canary in the coal mine. Take Silvia Christen, the executive director of South Dakota’s Stock-growers Association.
Some ranchers lost all their cattle. They’ve yet to find one alive… They’re facing absolute destruction. … one appropriate role for these guys is to lend a hand after disasters like this … and they’re not here.
Then there’s Scott Reder who lost all of his cattle in the blizzard. Since the shutdown, Reder passes a federal Farm Services Administration office whose doors are closed. Like most ranchers, he subscribes to solving his own problems and when help is needed he looks to his neighbors.
In other words, Reder isn’t someone who subscribes to this imaginary culture of dependency that Tea Party lawmakers talk about. Losing his cattle and his livelihood through no fault of his own, Reder is seeing that government actually can be a friend when you’re in need.
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/15/south-dakota-conservatives-abandon-tea-party-titanic-government-shutdown.html
Where’s that lady in pink graphic, SG2? Eff these fools
LMBAO
The hollow men
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 | Posted by Liberal Librarian at 6:34 PM
This crisis was manufactured, yes, but for a purpose.
The country as it is trending is a country which frightens an unfortunately significant number of Americans. Not significant enough to win elections, as one does in a democratic republic, but significant enough so that it adheres to itself the power of destruction.
If the Tea Party caucus in the House was its own party, and not part of the GOP, it would be a toothless, useless animal. It doesn’t have the votes to pass the renaming of a post office, much less matters of national import. But, it is part of the GOP caucus, and its power doesn’t lie in numbers. Its power lies in what any mafioso would recognize: that of extortionate threats. And any Republican who might want to make an accommodation with the Democrats has to look over his shoulder, wondering what Freedom Works will do when the next primary comes up. If they were men and women of honor, they would damn the next election and do what’s right to save the country. But we have to come to the point where we stop deluding ourselves: there is no moderate GOP caucus. If one existed, it would have revolted by now, siding with House Democrats and ending this farce. It hasn’t. And it won’t.
Today’s GOP, all of it, from John Boehner down to Louie Gohmert, consist of hollow men and women. They’re not in government to serve the commonwealth. They don’t believe in the United States, not the country as it exists. They believe in a country which never existed, where everyone knew one’s place, and people like them were at the top, or, more frankly, local capos.
There are no moderates. They all serve an ideology of death, one which says that if the country can’t conform to their vision, then they will destroy it, and take the rest of the world with it as well.
I would like to believe that Boehner will come to his senses. But he has shown no hint of that. He has no sense. Whether it’s fear or brute callousness is immaterial. The results are the same. He can’t lead because he doesn’t want to lead. The scuppering of yet another House GOP plan by conservative interest groups because it wasn’t bloody enough is evidence of this. Boehner’s plan was another awful one, but not awful enough. So he has again abdicated all responsibility.
This is a manufactured crisis, but one manufactured with a purpose.
The hollow men who fund the GOP don’t care a whit for the Constitution, only insofar as it can be interpreted to benefit them. And if it stands in their way, better that the whole house burn. They’ll survive, or so they think. They think themselves masters of the universe, able to thrive in any environment, even one of chaos. But chaos respects nothing but brute strength, and they may find that the skills which served them well in a regulated market will be as ash in the brave new world towards which they wish us to slouch.
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2013/10/the-hollow-men.html
From Charles Pierce:
A great portion of the courtier press that now expresses horror at what is going on now went gleefully along for the ride as it became inevitable. Any members of that courtier press who relished the pursuit of Bill Clinton’s penis, or conducted the absurd campaign of untruth that was waged against Al Gore between 1999 and 2000 lost the right years ago credibly to denounce conservative extremism and Republican vandalism. That means you, Roger Simon of Politico, who was so shocked the other day to discover that racism may have afflicted the process of government since the president’s election, but who once claimed to right to make candidates like Gore “jump through hoops” for the pure hella-fun of it. That means you, Chris Matthews, who chased the presidential dick for two years, all the way through an impeachment process that was a constitutional absurdity, but who now discovers that the campaign of destruction never truly stopped. That means you, Andrew Sullivan, with your current existential torment over How It Came To This. (Pro tip: The Bell Curve? Betsy McCaughey on health-care? Fifth-column liberals? You helped.) This means you, David Brooks, sucking your thumb on book leave while the monster that you got rich feeding grows into its full power. This means all of you who went along for the ride on torture, and on Iraq, and who hid under the bed after 9/11. This is how the power came to rest with Ted Yoho, who is a fool and a know-nothing. This is how historical inevitability is created. This is how its momentum becomes unstoppable. This is how the wreckage piles up.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/today-in-the-reign-of-morons-101613
Damn, Charles Pierce is good. Well said.
UH OH! Charles is totally PIERCING these MOFOS
Chad Pergram ✔ @ChadPergram
Reid & Pelosi spoke just a bit ago. Expecting roll out of Senate deal this am. There’s a scenario to move this in Senate & Hse today.
8:04 AM – 16 Oct 2013
IF you live in New Jersey, suck it up and go vote for Cory Booker today.
Default Was Never An Option
by BooMan
Wed Oct 16th, 2013 at 09:03:53 AM EST
A few days ago, Rolling Stone published a Tim Dickinson article on the inner doings of “the Republican suicide machine.” It’s a big piece, and on page four there is a description of John Boehner, Eric Cantor, and their relationship to the business community.
John Boehner and Eric Cantor are a little different than freshman lawmakers like Rep. Ted Yoho of Florida whose day job in 2009 was cutting the balls off large mammals in his veterinary clinic. Rep. Ted Yoho was recently quoted saying that a default on the debt would “stabilize” global markets. That’s the kind of clown that Boehner and Cantor have been trying to humor and placate.
If you want to know why I have been so serene about the threat of default, it’s because John Boehner and Eric Cantor are creatures of big business, and they have almost nothing in common with the Tea Baggers who forced this crisis upon the Republican leadership.
From there, it was easy to game this thing out. Boehner would never get his caucus to pass anything, and he’d be weakened and forced to rely on Democratic votes. He would never default.
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2013/10/16/9353/3839#1
The Morning Plum: John Boehner’s `moment of truth’ arrives
By Greg Sargent
October 16 at 9:01 am
From the very beginning of this whole crisis, two facts have been plainly obvious to anyone who cared to appreciate the basic dynamics of the situation:
1) The incentives always argued overwhelmingly in favor of Dems refusing to concede any meaningful ground to the GOP demand for major unilateral concessions in a context where Republicans were using the threat of extensive harm to the country to get their way. This was the only way to prevent this from happening to Dems — and the country — again.
2) There was never any compromise that could prove acceptable to both Tea Party conservatives on one side, and Obama and Senate Dems on the other. One side believes it must reserve the threat of widespread damage to the country as leverage to cripple the Obama presidency before it destroys the country. The other wants to end use of that as leverage for good. That core difference was inherently unbridgeable.
Today, with Senators close to a deal to reopen the government and lift the debt limit, John Boehner may finally have to come to terms with those two facts, and accept their implications: The only way out of this mess is through an alliance of non-Tea Party Republicans and Democrats.
The collapse of the House’s plan to end the crisis — precipitated by conservatives who said it didn’t extract enough in concessions on Obamacare in exchange for averting widespread harm to the country – once again confirms point two above. Meanwhile, Jackie Calmes has a good piece reporting on the White House’s conclusion early on that the only real option was to refuse to legitimize GOP extortion tactics, having been badly burned in 2011. This basic White House motive should have been obvious for weeks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/10/16/the-morning-plum-john-boehners-moment-of-truth-arrives/
What This Cruel War Was Over
It is not so much the behavior of the lone idiot that matters, but the tenor of the crowd around him.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Oct 15 2013, 9:35 AM ET
On Sunday, a group of conservative radicals held a protest in Washington. Eventually they walked to the White House. One of these radicals felt it was a good idea to wave the flag of slavery, treason, and terrorism in front of the home of America’s first black president. Lone idiots are often drawn to protest action. The behavior of such idiots, while alarming, should not necessarily be taken as an indicator of the aims and thrust of the protest. On the contrary, it is not so much the behavior of the lone idiot that matters—but the tenor of the crowd around him.
If, for instance, you witness a march against military action in Syria and see a Nazi flag among the protestors this should disturb you. But you would be heartened to see the protesters snatch the lone idiot in their midst, eject him from their party with great vigor, and give him some blows for good measure. The flag would still disturb you, but perhaps you might be able to see it as a fringe action, and not the heart of the protest itself.
It is the wisdom of the crowd that matters. The wisdom that marked Sunday’s crowd was the idea that the president “bows down to Allah” and needs to “put the Qu’ran down.” The wisdom that marked Sunday’s crowd was the notion that Obama was not the president of “the people” but the president of “his people.” The wisdom of Sunday’s crowd held that the police, doing their job, looked “like something out of Kenya.” It’s not so much that a man would fly a Confederate flag, as Jeff Goldberg notes, in front of the home of a black family. It’s that a crowd would allow him the comfort of doing it.
I was in a crowd once. It’s been almost 20 years. But I remember most is how emphatically we were drilled, that day, on the politics of respectability. Our wisdom was conservative—too conservative for my tastes, frankly. But I obeyed the edict of the day which held that had any black man who came to the Million Man March and so much as stole candy bar would doom us all. That was our wisdom. It’s a good memory. But I fear that it is no match for the wisdom of Sunday’s crowd. The blue period is upon us.
MORE: I don’t know if I am effectively communicating what is wrong with that picture and why it is deeply infuriating. If a patriot can stand in front of the White House brandishing the Confederate flag, then the word “patriot” has no meaning. The Nazi flag is offensive because it is a marker of centuries of bigotry elevated to industrialized murder.
But the Confederate flag does not merely carry the stain of slavery, of “useful killing,” but the stain of attempting to end the Union itself. You cannot possibly wave that flag and honestly claim any sincere understanding of your country. It is not possible.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/what-this-cruel-war-was-over/280559/
“You cannot possibly wave that flag and honestly claim any sincere understanding of your country. It is not possible.”
Those who wave the confederate flag haven’t got a sincere understanding of much of anything. Their dogs are smarter than they are.
And, to think of just how many of those types wanted to secede after President Obama was reelected!
How many of those people are pushing their State’s Rights agendas right now for such purposes as disenfranchising voters, ignoring where federal money is really supposed to be spent in their states, etc.?
@lIZA These fools are so ENTRENCHED in their own NARROW-MINDED stupidity.
October 15, 2013 5:59 PM
Three Theories of House GOP Brinkmanship—And One More
By Ed Kilgore
As we await the next development in the fiscal saga, it’s worthwhile to look at three theories kicking around today for exactly why House Republicans are continuing to engage in economy-risking and popularity-damaging brinkmanship, even after they’ve abandoned their earlier audacious demands for (serially) a disabling of Obamacare and “grand bargain” budget negotiations with higher taxes left off the table.
One fairly straightforward hypothesis is from WaPo’s economics writer Neil Irwin, who suggests House GOPers are suffering from the “sunk cost fallacy:”
So they have to “win” something Democrats don’t want to give them, or the “sunk costs” of a bad strategy will have been for naught.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2013_10/three_theories_of_house_gop_br047335.php
October 15, 2013 3:44 PM
Boehner’s Moment of Truth Approaches
By Ed Kilgore
This report from Salon’s Brian Beutler, which echoes others, indicates that any idea John Boehner had of supplanting a nearly-done Senate deal with his own is falling apart:
The “stick it to Congressional staff” bit is a reference to the Vitter Amendment, that demagogic favorite of the Defunding Obamacare crowd which bans the federal health insurance subsidies that would have been made available after a Republican amendment to the Affordable Care Act forced Members of Congress, their staffs, and executive-branch political appointees into the Obamacare exchanges. The initial Boehner proposal, which I’ve called Vitter Lite, would have applied the provision only to principals, not staff. So restoring the original language is a trophy for the Right and a concession that this proposal will in no way be “bipartisan.”
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2013_10/boehners_moment_of_truth_appro047333.php
It’s still extortion for the sake of extortion
By Jonathan Bernstein
October 15 at 4:23 pm
We have two interesting theories today about what’s happening in the House. One is from Neil Irwin, who posits that it’s all about a sunk costs fallacy — Republicans are mistakenly continuing to ask for things they can’t get because that’s the only way to justify what they’ve already given up by following their current strategy. The other theory, well-articulated by Greg Sargent, Jonathan Chait and Danny Vinik, is that Republicans are still fighting for the principle of extortion.
I strongly agree with the latter theory — way back in May, I argued that radical Republicans were fighting over the principle of extortion for the sake of extortion:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/10/15/its-still-extortion-for-the-sake-of-extortion/
The Wall Street Journal editorial page has had enough: “It’s time to wrap up this comedy of political errors.”
“President Obama called their bluff, no doubt in part to blame the disruption on the GOP and further tarnish the party’s public image. Now the most Republicans will get out of this is lower public approval and a chance to negotiate with Mr. Obama again before the next debt-limit deadline. If the Senate passes its compromise, Mr. Boehner will have little choice other than to bring it to the floor and let it pass with votes from either party. Mr. Obama will have to deliver enough Democratic votes to pass it.”
“At least that’s better than getting the blame for whatever happens if Treasury stops sending out Social Security checks in order to prioritize debt repayments. The politics of that are little better than defaulting on debt. Republicans can best help their cause now by getting this over with and moving on to fight more intelligently another day.”
Premiums on Obamacare marketplaces beat expectations, report shows
When open enrollment begins on the online, state-based marketplaces established under Obamacare, premiums nationwide are expected to be around 16 percent lower than originally predicted, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department said in a new report released Wednesday.
The administration sees the lower-than-expected premiums as a sign that the plan to drive down health costs for consumers by increasing competition is working. They also point to the insurers entering the individual health insurance market for the first time as a sign of strong competition, as well as the variety of plans that will be available on the market.
For families nationwide, “these new options will finally make health insurance work within their budget,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told reporters Tuesday.
She noted that, according to the report, six in 10 uninsured Americans will be able to find coverage for less than $100 a month, while the average consumer in one of the 36 states with a federally-run marketplace will be able to choose from an average of 53 different plans.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57604498/premiums-on-obamacare-marketplaces-beat-expectations-report-shows/
Rep. Clyburn Slams Ben Carson’s Obamacare ‘Slavery’ Remark
Oct 14, 2013
By Jada Gomez-Lacayo, Editor
There’s no denying that President Barack Obama‘s Affordable Care Act has been met with resistance from the right. However, Dr. Ben Carson has taken an extreme view — the neurosurgeon believes that the healthcare initiative is the worst thing since slavery. U.S. House of Representatives Assistant Democratic Leader James Clyburn completely disagreed, and aired his views on “NewsOne Now” with Roland Martin:
“I think that Dr. Carson is trying to find a way to endear himself to conservative voters. He has declared himself a candidate for President… That is the kind of manufactured controversy that has been engulfing this country for a long long time and I’m very disappointed…”
http://newsone.com/2740165/james-clyburn-talks-ben-carsons-obamacare-comments/
Love this clip where Mitt buries himself. He is obviously not a fact checker and believes the rightwing propaganda and the lies he is told, and ultimately shows that he is just another front man for GOP plutocracy. Truth never matters to these people.
Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
A year ago today, Pres. Obama said “Please Proceed, Governor” and the rest is history. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXpKq4UYtXw …
7:16 AM – 16 Oct 2013
Good Morning, Everyone :)
Good Morning, Rikyrah & Everyone! Happy HUMP day. :-)))
Yawn……Good Morning!
Hee Hee……SG2, I recommend you start wearing mittens, a snow hat, snow pants and a winter down jacket :) That should keep you warm.
(Just ignore it when citizens of your warm State laugh at you.)
@Yahtc
If I turn on the heat folks are gonna get mad at me. I can’t even be warm in my OWN house.
Try this, SG2:
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5045/5220502654_f6dc88a8b4_z.jpg
@Yahtc
bwa ha ha ha.. yeah, I’m almost driven to it. I sneaked and turned on the oven to pretend i’m getting ready to bake something. *tee hee*
Ha! A warm oven! Love it!
Sometimes those around you just don’t understand:
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@Yahtc
I got tricks. Yes I’m bad today but I’m cold. I’ll make up for it by cooking Stew for them later.
:)
Good morning, everyone!
I’m cold! I don’t like cold weather.
LOL Mornin’ Cowgirl. This is snuggle weather, lady. Get busy snuggling.
@SG2
Sooky Sooky!