Wednesday Open Thread
Hochul getting this close to half the vote is astonishing in a district where in 2010 the Democratic candidate got just 26 percent of the vote. Even in the very good Democratic year of 2008, the Democratic nominee got just 40.5 percent. To get a sense of how this result might extrapolate elsewhere, look at very Republican Wyoming County. Hochul lost it, as President Obama did in 2008. But Hochul matched Obama’s 36 percent share of the vote. If every Democratic House candidate in 2012 could reach Obama’s 2008 vote share, Democrats would be back in control by a substantial margin.
That’s correct. The only thing to prevent it would be a grand bargain on the budget and medicare. But with the GOP refusing to budge on tax increases on the rich, and with the Dems refusing to budge on more tax cuts and the killing of seniors everywhere, it is doubtful it will happen.
This is an absolute rejection of Paul Ryan’s budget plan and the GOP’s overreach since taking the House. The Ryan Plan will go nowhere and members who voted for it are in jeopardy, especially freshmen. Tuesday’s results will send shock waves in Washington. Ryan’s Purina Plan is dead. The only remaining question is will any GOP senator facing re-election next year support it? I can’t wait to see. To be clear, Western New York might as well be West Texas. The voters in this very red district told the GOP that their plans don’t work for them. I am looking forward to parsing the numbers in this race. Clearly Republicans crossed party lines to support Hochul.
Tommywonk on the costs, financial and otherwise, of the First State using coal power:
The report, “A Coal Plant’s Drain on Health and Wealth,” projects that the new coal power plant would lead to “442 asthma attacks, as well as 3,340 work days lost to sickness, 40 heart attacks, and an estimated 26 premature deaths” annually.
These findings square with a Harvard study, titled “Full cost accounting for the life cycle of coal,” which was recently published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. The authors calculate the externalities (environmental and health costs) of coal power to be $345.3 billion annually.
Delmarva Power’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), now before the Public Service Commission, projects the benefits of current plans to shift from coal to renewable energy to be $1.8 billion to $4.3 billion over the next ten years. That’s $2,000 to $4,750 for every Delaware resident, and 12 percent to 30 percent of retail electricity sales in Delaware. The PSC has extended public comment period on the IRP to May 31, and will likely hold hearings on the plan afterwards.
And then there is this:
Why is there no stronger mention of Eric Cantor being the ‘Bridge Troll’ refusing to even let an ambulance pass (i.e., pass disaster relief) until he gets paid (with spending cuts). Whatever horror Bush’s incompetence caused, he at least didn’t go this far.
And someone should check out Desert Beacon’s point that at the same time, Republicans voted to refuse to fund needed upgrades to our Weather Satellites.
“…the externalities (environmental and health costs) of coal power to be $345.3 billion annually.”
Since Republicans view simple mindedness is viewed as a virtue, it is pretty unlikely that you’ll ever get them to view down stream costs as actual costs. “Externalities” are confusing egg-head mumbo jumbo used to raise taxes.
Oh, I am getting to Cantor, Jim. Be patient.
How about this? How gross is this?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703864204576313572363698678.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories
I was the exta-curricular QUEEN in high school/college. Thank god I got out when it was still free or I would have never have had any of the opportunities that made up the best parts of that experience. Let alone not being able to take certain classes because I might not be able to afford it.
Senate voting on Ryan budget tonight, debating right now:
http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN2/
Four different budgets are up: Obama’s budget, the Ryan plan, and budgets introduced by Toomey, and another by Rand Paul. The Toomey and Paul budgets should be just as damning a vote as the Ryan plan.
Dumb question: How are budgets originating in the Senate? Don’t they contain revenue provisions which would require them to originate in the House?
What happened to my posts? Delaware Dem you said you’d move them to the open thread but I don’t see them there.
And MJ, HI again, missed you 🙂
You’ve got some nerve calling me a troll when this site is essentially one giant troll to keep good hearted libs from learning what’s really going on in the world. No, you’d rather keep them pumped on on partisan bs and wedge issues than address real truths about issues that matter like economics and war. Thus the reason why everytime I check this site you’ve got nothing but another hate thread about some Republican.
Posting this for the 2nd time on this site. It got removed before (I wonder why, looks like your handlers don’t want you learning the truth about politics libs), but I won’t let them stop me from bringing you the truth.
Yesterday during Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress a 28 year old Jewish woman stood up and spoke truth to power. She called for an end to Israeli war crimes and the occupation of Palestine. She was then immediately ASSAULTED BRUTALLY by members of AIPAC while your Congress applauded in order to drown out her cries. Netanyahu then said that this was a sign of real democracy.
Delaware Liberal does not want to discuss this issue. There is no mention of the fact that a liberal activist was brutally assaulted for her political views while members of Congress applauded and laughed, and guards did nothing.
In other words, dissent will now be met with outright violence. And this crappy blog doesn’t even see fit to mention it.
Think for yourself Delaware Liberals, you’re being turned into the partisan wingnuts you hate so much without even knowing it.
Here’s the links to the story of a liberal activist being physically beaten by members of AIPAC while Congress applauded. I encourage you to watch the video, if you have the stomach to watch a war criminal and his lackey’s smirk and laugh while they pretend we live in a democracy.
http://www.moveoveraipac.org/2011/05/jewish-protester-disrupts-netanyahu-during-congressional-address/
And remember, wars are ok when a democrat is president.
meanwhile back to the United States – Oh, is Arizona still IN the United States??
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/25/jose-guerena-arizona-_n_867020.html#comments
Whybother, your posts were moved to the Tuesday OPEN THREAD. These new posts will be moved to the Wednesday OPEN THREAD. They were moved because they were most decidedly off topic to the post at hand. When I moved them yesterday i told you in the comments why they were being moved, and to not do it again. You now have. You are now banned for twice violating the spam rule. You were warned. Goodbye.
The original warning: http://delawareliberal.net//2011/05/24/sarah-palin-to-announce-run-for-president/#comment-236693
Michelle Obama dons enormous Afro in honor of the Queen.
Hahaha, anon. A warning I guess to watch where you stand.