Your liberal media

Your liberal media

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Beck trashed Christie to Cupp on Piers Morgan's show. Let that sink in an try to get your head around it. I can't think of liberal names to substitute that would make any kind parallel universe sense. Michael Moore trashed Bennie Sanders to Markos Moulitsas who was filling in for Rachael Maddow (?) When that happens Hube and I will be brothers, because at long last - our mutual dream of a liberal media will be realized.
Thursday Open Thread [12.19.13]

Thursday Open Thread [12.19.13]

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Once again, it seems our oh so Constitutional Conservatives need a lesson on what the First Amendment does and does not protect. For the idiots out there who like to claim they love the Constitution but have no understanding of what is in it since they are dumb as rocks, here is a quick refresher course: The First Amendment. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Quick quiz. Who is prohibited from taking action that abridges the freedom of speech? Is it is me, Delaware Dem? Is it a television network? Is it all private persons? Does the Amendment say that a citizen of the United States is allowed to say whatever he wants whenever he wants where ever he wants and then suffer absolutely no consequences for said speech? No. It only says that Congress, meaning thus the Federal Government (and State and local Governments through the application of the 14th Amendment), is prohibited from passing laws the punish free speech. Your private employer can punish you all he or it wants. Yes, you can be fired for expressing your opinions. And it is all perfectly constitutional.
Time for some year end polling….

Time for some year end polling….

First, we will tackle the subject of El Somnambulo's year end review over the next three days. The Good. The Bad. The Ridiculous. First up, the Ridiculous. Here is the schedule for the end of the year polling. Today--The Ridiculous. Tomorrow--The Good. Saturday--The Bad. Sunday through Wednesday--Approval Ratings--Governor Markell Thursday, 12-26-13--Approval Ratings--Lt. Governor Denn Friday, 12-27-13--Approval Ratings--Treasurer Chip Flowers Saturday, 12-28-13--Approval Ratings--Attorney General Biden Sunday, 12-29-13--Approval Ratings--Insurance Commissioner Stewart Monday, 12-30-13--Approval Ratings--Senator Carper Tuesday, 12-31-13--Approval Ratings--Senator Coons Wednesday, 1-1-14--Approval Ratings--Congressman Carney
Wednesday Open Thread [12.18.13]

Wednesday Open Thread [12.18.13]

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A new poll from the ABC News and the Washington Post shows that approval of Obamacare has rebounded from the worse of the flawed rollout and broken website media hysteria in late October and November. Now that the website is working, the approval numbers are back to where they were before:
46 percent of Americans support it, with 49 percent opposed. Opposition is down from a record 57 percent last month amid the new system’s troubled rollout.
Greg Sargent dives deeper into these new numbers...
Eliz. Warren Gets It Right On Credit Score Bullies

Eliz. Warren Gets It Right On Credit Score Bullies

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I read with interest that Sen. Elizabeth Warren is submitting legislation to regulate and rein in consumer credit scoring companies on their abuse of our citizens. This warms my populist heart. It mainly aims at employer's use of this unreliable and often inaccurate information but at least it is a start for us consumers/job applicants.
Tuesday Open Thread [12.17.13]

Tuesday Open Thread [12.17.13]

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The Governor is about to show us whose side he is on? The rich or the poor.
Gov. Jack Markell, who will present a new budget to the General Assembly next month, will not have a significant boost in new tax revenue to cover mandatory cost increases in health care and education, according to new revenue estimates out Monday.[...] “Even though revenues ultimately are still going to be up from last year, they’re not going to be up enough to cover the automatic growth in Medicaid and the automatic growth in schools,” said Rep. Melanie George Smith, D-Bear, co-chair of the budget writing Joint FinanceCommittee. “That’s the real issue.”
Senate Minority Leader Gary Simpson offers the standard Republican prescription for anything involving fiscal matters: tax cuts and more tax cuts. Even though history has shown all tax cuts do is raise the budget deficit, something the Governor and the General Assembly is trying to close. I assume Mr. Markell will not go down the tax cut course, for if he does, he should just join the Republican Party right now. But what I do seem him doing is trying to cut spending on social services to avoid in any way raising a dime in taxes on his friends in the corporate world.

Saturday Open Thread [12.14.13]

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One year ago today, 26 children and their teachers were gunned down in their school in Newton, CT. There are quiet memorials going on all over the country -- the most important one probably being remembering to hug your kids tight today. Especially since there have been 20 school shootings in the US since Newtown and it is apparent that we (not sure if that includes the shooting in Colorado yesterday -- two kids wounded and the shooter killed himself), as a nation, are just fine with the fact that our kids may not return after a school day because of more gun violence. I hope everyone is thinking about all of the families whose children did not get a chance to grow up today.
This Pope simply will not shut up about economic justice

This Pope simply will not shut up about economic justice

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Francis' oppressive tolerance and totalitarian love for humanity - and the way it delivers roundhouse kick after roundhouse kick to the hypocrisy of American "Christians" is endlessly entertaining to me. I daresay, if he had been the Pope when George Bush concocted a pretext to bomb the shit out of Iraq simply because he had a hard on to bomb Iraq - this Pope might have had a few words to say about it.