Dean Baker Writes to Senator Carper On Social Security
Dean Baker's (from the Center for Economic and Policy Research) letter to Tom Carper, reprinted with permission.
Senator Chris Coons on Face the Nation
Senator Coons was on Face the Nation yesterday morning:
Chip Flowers Fumbles the Implementation of his “Economic” Program
Over the weekend, you may have noticed that a discussion started in the Friday Open Thread comments about how State Treasurer Chip Flowers' first attempt to expand the duties of his office has run into something of a brick wall. If you look at the comments there, you'll note that the Flowers' Fan Club is out in force again, and they are hanging their defense of Chip Flowers on arguments that rely alot on conspiracy theories and not much on the facts on the ground.
Late Night Video — Stephen Fry Says Play with Your Words
...and stop paying so much attention to the language pedants.
An Executive Order to Provide Some Sunlight on Contributions to Political Groups
Today's fun has been to watch some of the reaction to the news that there is circulating around the Obama Administration that would ask Federal contractors to disclose how much money they've contributed to organizations involved in political activity.
Mayors vs. Bloggers!
The past few years have seen an awful lot of angry citizens taking government into their own hands -- including recalling local officials. Some of this is clear payback by wealthy constituents (the recent Miami mayoral recall), and others are focused on officials who campaigned on one thing and did another. The U.S. Conference of Mayors seems to be blaming bloggers for this recall fever.
Late Night Campaign Posters — The Donald
Don't have a video, but this proposed campaign poster is making the rounds:
Playing Chicken with the Debt Ceiling
Business Week provides a Must Read analysis of the current state of the Debt Ceiling debates.
Who Cares What the S&P Thinks?
Yesterday's big news was the S&P placing US Treasuries on a "negative watch" -- they did NOT change the bond rating of AAA, but the negative watch launched off a good deal of breathless reporting and some of the usual opportunistic bull from Republicans. Tommywonk provides an explanation of what this means.
Late Night Video — Google Exodus
The story of Exodus if Moses had Google and Facebook.
Late Night Video — Tea Party Rally Fail
The tejadis held rallies all over the US this weekend trying to rally their crazed and delusional troops into not seeing the political train wreck that is the Ryan Budget passed by the House last week.
Friday Afternoon Bacon Blogging — Baconfest!
It has been a really long time since I've done this -- but with the excitement of the Queen opening and the Ignite Wilmington event and other things going on in Wilmington, I thought I'd post up a report on the Chicago Baconfest. Because we *need* one here in Wilmington.
Happy Tax Day, Part 2
This is an awesome infographic depicting just how miserly the Corporate contribution to tax revenues really are -- in spite of their campaign to convince us otherwise.