Thursday Open Thread
Welcome to your Thursday open thread. The election is only 12 days away! What are we going to do afterwards? I think I’ll have to rest my hands for a bit – too much blogging!
I’m starting to believe that Chris Coons is actually running against a rightwing blogger. There seems to be no amount of BS out of rightwing nutjobs that Christine O’Donnell won’t repeat. Yesterday, rightwing nutjob Glenn Beck supported O’Donnell’s evolution nonsense:
On his radio show today, Beck wondered how many people in the country believe in evolution, and said he doesn’t: “I don’t think we came from monkeys. I think that’s ridiculous. I haven’t seen a half-monkey, half-person yet.”
“If I get to the other side and God’s like, ‘You know what, yep, you were a monkey once,’ I’ll be shocked, but I’ll be cool with it,” he said.
“They have to make you care,” Beck continued. “They have to force it down your throat. When anybody has to force it — it’s a problem. You didn’t have to force that the world was round. Truth is truth.”
That makes perfect sense. If evolution were true there’d be half man-half monkeys running around. Just like half dogs-half cats and cows that don’t taste good.
Crazy story out of Cincinnati where a juror realized during opening statements in a criminal domestic abuse trial that she was the anonymous caller to 911 in the case. She reportedly blurted out: “I was the person who made the 911 call. It woke me up out of my bed and I saw him beating on her. I thought she must be dead.” The judge declared a mistrial, and the juror will be a state witness in the new trial.
I guess they picked the right juror?
I don’t know if you’ve seen this video of Anderson Cooper taking apart Christine O’Donnell’s 1st amendment answer. It’s pretty sweet.
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Promise anything to get elected…
Coons Shifts on Tax Cuts for Wealthy: Extend Them All
ABC News ^ | 10/21/2010 | George Stephanopoulos
Chris Coons changed his previous position on the Bush era tax cuts this morning telling me that he would support extending all of the tax cuts for everyone for “several years.” “I am committed to extending the Bush tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans for everybody making up to $250,000, but I would extend them for everyone,” the Democratic candidate for Delaware’s Senate seat told me on “GMA.” “I’d be willing to extend them for several years for all Americans, of whatever income if that also allows us to reach a bipartisan compromise that makes real progress in offering…
Ah here we go with the spin. He hasn’t changed his position,he is simply leaving the door open to a compromise should there be a possibility to extend tax cuts to small businesses or R&D if you read the rest of the post. If there isn’t some incentive to not let them expire, then he will vote against extending it. I’m sure COD is readying her next attack…
Bravo to Coons for understanding the importance of economic uncertainty in a jobless recovery.
Besides, during the lame-duck session of Congress, a compromise will ensue:
[Congress will extend tax cuts to everyone except those making over $1 million. Probably for 2 years].
And then after 2 years, the taxes will rise on everyone over $250,000, like they were during Clinton.
Jesus F. Christ. We are going to be arguing about the Bush tax cuts in the next presidential election.
on my one-man crusade here
if the tax cuts are properly called the Bush tax cuts, as they were part of the bill that W signed, then, by extension …
the tax increases that are set to begin on January 1st should properly be called the Bush tax increases. The same bill/law created them.
…and the bill that fixes them is the “Obama Tax Cuts.”
Now if Congress passes some kind of extension of the tax cuts for the rich, Obama will veto it, right? Because of his campaign promise?
(I crack myself up)
And COD has no backbone, either – http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/odonnell-scrubs-endorsement-from-park51-hater-gellar.php?ref=fpi