cassandra_m
"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas." -Shirley Chisholm
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Late Night Video — Autotune the News
This time, you have to Sing your Questions to the President about health care. The news crawl here is very creative….
Cap and Trade One Year Anniversary and the World Has Not Come To An End
Oh yes — we already have cap and trade!
It is called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and it is a year old this month. 10 states in the northeast banded together to try to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants in the region and installed their own version of a cap and trade program. Every power plant in the area needs to buy allowances to emit greenhouse gasses. Allowances are sold on auction quarterly. At some point, the number of allowances on the market get scaled back — increasing the price of the allowance and sending a signal to the plant that it may be cheaper to reduce their emissions.
In Which The News Journal Phones It In Again
…and shows themselves to not be paying attention to one of the biggest legislative efforts of a lifetime.
Today The Editors (a term probably more symbolic than a reflection of the actual work being done) published an editorial in which they intone with all seriousness — Health plan will cost money: It’s time Washington admits it.
Newt Gingrich FAIL — Adults Only Late Night Edition
I laughed so had at this that I almost fell out of my chair:
Special Election Tomorrow! UPDATE with CapeGazette Endorsement
The Special Election for the House seat in the 37th is tomorrow, 12 September. Rob Robinson is the Democratic candidate, running against local lobbyist Ruth Briggs-King. If you are in the 37th — make sure you go vote on Saturday. If you are not in the 37th and want to help out, volunteers are needed to work the polls and get out the vote all day! (UPDATE)
Friday Afternoon Bacon Blogging — RSmitty Holding Me Hostage Edition
Just so everyone knows what is going on here:
Newark Film Festival
Not a paid announcement, but definitely want to point everyone to one of my favorite Delaware events — the Newark Film Festival. It started yesterday and runs though the 17th with films running at the Cinema Center 3 in Newark. You can see all of the showtimes here.
The Trouble with Triggers
Tom Carper (and other Senators) have been hyping a “fall-back trigger” for implementing a Public Option for health insurance reform. The Public Option has strong progressive support and is one of the last big questions to settle in this process.
Health Insurance Reform — Where We Are Now
One of the things that is true about the discussion about this reform effort is that too few people really understand what is currently in the bills drafted. Part of that is because we get distracted by the misinformation about death panels, government taking over medical care and the other litany of lies that fired up the teabaggers over the last month.
Afternoon Open Thread
David Neiwert is the author of The Eliminationists — How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, a book I’m currently reading. If you’ve followed any of Neiwert’s work at Orcinus or at Crooks and Liars, you know that his longtime project is reporting on the fringe right and increasingly he has been reporting on how the ideas and speech of these fringe groups gets mainstreamed.
Late Nite Video — Golf Club Fail Edition
So — I presume you don’t golf with this thing, after you’ve, you know, used it. Check out this video.
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