What happens when you’re in a Twitter ‘spat’ with Chip Flowers and don’t even know it?

What happens when you’re in a Twitter ‘spat’ with Chip Flowers and don’t even know it?

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According to Jonathan Starkey over at the News Journal, I was in a Twitter spat with Chip Flowers over a tweet I sent on Sunday about one of his challengers, Sean Barney, getting a choice spot on msnbc while the network scrambled to cover President Obama's surprise visit to Afghanistan. Apparently, Flowers wasn't too keen on my innocent joke that he was "pissed" at Barney's free airtime (or, in true Flowers fashion, one of his employees was pissed, since he blamed the now-deleted tweet on an unnamed staffer). According to Flowers, Memorial Day is "above politics."
Congressman John Carney’s Fraudulent Fiscal Conservatism

Congressman John Carney’s Fraudulent Fiscal Conservatism

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On Friday, Congressman Carney took to Facebook to burnish his cred in the Fiscal Austerity Games, to tell us all that he was named as one of the "Fiscal Heros" of the front group Fix the Debt (Senators Carper and Coons are in this group, too):
I’m humbled to have been named one of Fix the Debt’s Fiscal Heroes, but there is much more work to be done. For far too long, both Democrats and Republicans have spent trillions of dollars the nation didn't have. I will continue to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to make the tough decisions necessary to put the country on better fiscal footing.
Unfortunately, Congressman Carney just voted YES to authorize the FY 2015 National Defense Authorization bill -- a bill that specifically INCREASES the budget for the DoD. Increases DOD programs over the objections of the DoD:
Once and for all…Is Congressman John Carney Stupid or Cynical?

Once and for all…Is Congressman John Carney Stupid or Cynical?

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It is a question that keep coming around and I used to think that he was simply not very with it. But when I keep hearing that he is being used like a two dollar whore by Peter G. Peterson (and he seems happy about it) I have to assume that he knows about Peterson's half a billion dollars applied to advocating for cuts to social safety net programs - and just doesn't give a fuck.
I’m humbled to have been named one of Fix the Debt’s Fiscal Heroes, but there is much more work to be done. For far too long, both Democrats and Republicans have spent trillions of dollars the nation didn't have. I will continue to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to make the tough decisions necessary to put the country on better fiscal footing.

Friday Open Thread [5.23.14]

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Regarding this real scandal of the cover-up by local VA officials in Phoenix of wait times for care of veterans, to the larger and more general scandal of long wait times for our veterans who need medical care, Jon Stewart reminds us that yes, while President Obama deserves blame for not fixing this problem, we should not forget who 1) exacerbated this problem during the Obama presidency (answer: Republicans); and 2) who caused this problem during the previous presidency (Bush and his Bush Republicans). Indeed, treating veterans badly is a bipartisan enterprise going back to 1783.