Monday Open Thread [10.17.11]
Some news from the weekend that you may have missed: President Obama is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, and the remaining 40,000 troops will be returned or otherwise redeployed by January. For those progressive critics who like to say Obama has 7 or 8 wars going on at the moment, you will have to adjust your criticism a little bit.
Herman Cain hates drunk driving laws. That should play well. Isn’t Rush Limbaugh now pretty much officially a traitor? Well, no, not yet. But he is getting pretty close. He has sided with terrorists against the United States.
The Water from TSO Photography on Vimeo.
Chris Coons has a series of video responses to constituent letters.
One of the bloggers over at The Big Picture writes of how MoveOn.org is trying to co-opt or at least speak for the interests of the OWS movement. And how the OWS people are not having it.
The head of The Bank of Canada thinks the OWS protests are entirely constructive.
Barry Ritholtz (proprietor of The Big Picture and partner at Fusion Analytics) wrote a column for the WaPo that should have run yesterday but got bumped. He posted it at his blog today:
Occupy Wall Street Must Occupy Congress, AG offices
Worth every minute to read. Some excellent comments there, too.
72% of New Yorkers (in the city) think that the OWS protesters should be allowed to stay in Liberty Park for as long as they want (if they are obeying the law).