Speaker Boehner to Republicans: Pleeeeeeease vote for my highway bill. Pretty please?
Report: a heck of a lot of Texans could be disenfranchised under Texas' new Voter I.D. law.
Also in Texas, healthcare for low-income women gets caught in the crossfire of the war on Planned Parenthood.
Santorum's Southern strategy. And why next Tuesday is do or die for Gingrich. And Ron Paul pins his hopes on Hawaii and a convention floor fight.
How the new G.I. Bill is failing veterans.
The first climate-change-induced human migration?
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The last thing this country needs is a ranting lecture from John Boehner. Americans are fed up with Republican intransigence, arrogance, stupidity and partisanship. This "party of no" has known all along that their agenda of cut, cut, cut is designed to kill as many jobs as possible and utterly wreck the American economy. It's all part of their plan to sabotage the country and defeat Obama by any means they can devise. Their entire play so far has been to blame Obama for everything, bemoan the destruction of our country in the most vile and violent rhetoric imaginable, and duck any responsibility for their own record or to offer their own proposals. http://www.sunstateactivist.org
If their fight over Planned Parenthood was about something besides taking benefits away from women you'd see them scrambling to find a low-cost alternative to PP for these benefits.
Bad Intel with the Bush Administration, I don’t think so. It is more like an incompetent Republican moron. Everything the Bush Administration touched they messed up, but they did seem to know how to get all kinds of money for their back pockets. And people want to call that smart, well it is not, except literal corruption, greed, arrogance, hypocritical, power craving, deceiving, and outright betrayers to the American people and the world. And Republicans want another idiot like this in the white house so the average American people have to pay for their screw ups caused by the Republicans and rich. I don’t think so. It is high time the Republicans and the rich pay for their own mess, because it is literally enough is enough. The American people don’t need another Bush Administration in the white house, senate or congress.
Well said.
Which repug will make a stupid remark to celebrate International Women's Day?
Allen West from Florida
Time for women in Virginia to start demanding their Fourth Amendment rights...
http://mabworld.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/virginia-guns-welcome-women-not-so-much/
"An unknown number of voters hold passports, concealed handgun licenses or military IDs that also would be accepted." So, in Texas they can get a concealed handgun license without a state ID but they can't vote without a state ID? OK.
On last night's show, noting that Romney won the wealthy every time in the primaries, Rachel said that there no rule in politics like it, that usually there is an "exception that proves the rule". That is a bad idiom. Think of it this way: if you say "all swans are white" and then you see a black swan, it doesn't make sense to say it "proves the rule". It might mean that Natile Portman has finally gotten in touch with her burning sexuality, but it definitely doesn't mean that the rule is true. Quite the opposite, actually.
That rule-proving phrase is a not well-known-enough misuse of a Latin phrase "The exception confirms the rule". It's easier to grasp the meaning when you realize that said rule is implied. The classic example is a sign saying "No parking on Sunday", which confirms the (unstated) rule that parking is permitted Monday through Saturday. The meaning you were after is that such an exception would be an outlier and that indeed is what you said a moment before.
You've gotta read this. Admittedly, it's a long slog, and you have to accept macroeconomic modelling stuff that you don't understand, but this speech by Paul Krugman is extraordinarily pertinent - to politicians, to academic professionals, to public intellectuals, and especially to us folks in the public who tend to trust them to know what they're doing.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/economics-in-the-crisis/
Here's a challenge for the Maddow team. Can you figure out how we can make state and local elections sexy so that young people will participate, volunteer, and vote?
National elections get all the razzle-dazzle of national attention -- movie stars, five-star fundraising, cable news coverage. State and local elections get local yokels, the Holiday Inn and news at eleven. No wonder nobody cares.
I would suggest that the brilliant, hardworking folk of the Maddow show start working on the problem. Maybe a "state news" segment, alternating among those states with the reddest government and the largest Maddow viewership?
The regressives have taken over our state governments. We need to get them back.
The regressives have taken over our state governments.
So apparently, the right somehow get their people out to vote. Granted most are probably not young. I am not sure on the complete demographics of Rachel's show - and the rest on MSNBC, but my guess is that young people are not watching it in large numbers and/or in large blocs of time.
There are other island nations that have been dealing with rising ocean levels: Maldives (Indian Ocean), Marshall Islands (North Pacific). Here on the Gulf (of Texas) Coast, we're watching beaches wash away (not just from erosion) little by little. Anyone who thinks the ocean is not rising is a complete idiot, and the only explanation on offer is . . . global warming.
Pretty soon, we'll have island nations that are totally underwater, except for that oil rig over what was once the main island. Is it possible to have a true nation state that's totally under water??