Yesterday I kept up with replying to comments and returning visits. That should be no problem today.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 3:15. To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Common Dreams: The top U.S. oil spill official on Sunday directed BP Plc to submit a plan for reopening its capped Macondo well to flow into the ocean after engineers detected seepage on the ocean floor near the well.
This “seepage” may interfere with plugging the GOP gusher via the relief well.
From Think Progress: The heads of the Republican congressional campaign committees — Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Pete Sessions (R-TX) — appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press today to discuss their party’s strategy for the November elections. Sessions began by saying that everyone knows exactly “what Republicans stand for,” but he quickly proved that even he doesn’t really know. Host David Gregory, visibly frustrated, repeatedly pressed the two campaign chiefs for substance, saying, “these are not specifics, voters get tired of that.” But all he got in return was vapid talking points, like how Republican candidates are “standing with the American people back home.”
We do know what they stand for. Their only hope is that the general public never learns.
From The Nation: Consider: in 1928 the richest 1 percent of Americans received 23.9 percent of the nation’s total income. After that, the share going to the richest 1 percent steadily declined. New Deal reforms, followed by World War II, the GI Bill and the Great Society expanded the circle of prosperity. By the late 1970s the top 1 percent raked in only 8 to 9 percent of America’s total annual income. But after that, inequality began to widen again, and income reconcentrated at the top. By 2007 the richest 1 percent were back to where they were in 1928—with 23.5 percent of the total.
Republicans have destroyed fifty years of progress in just thirty years.
Cartoon: from Cagle.com
OGIM!
8 Responses to “Open Thread – 7/19/2010”
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The last thing everyone wants is to re-open the gusher, but if it is destabilizing the ground underneath it, we could have bigger problems than we do right now.
That’s my fear as well, Lisa.
That is all the Repubs have – vapid talking points. They have nothing to campaign on.
Well, the Repubs have to pander to their friends because that’s the only way they can get money to campaign.
Global warming deniers are the kookiest of the kooks. Read the science – oh wait, you don’t believe in science. Try some facts every once in a while.
Lisa, they think Supply-side Jesus is about to pull them out in the nick of time. The fools don’t understand he’s not the real one. He doesn’t;t love them. He’ll throw them under the bus as fast as they will do it to the Teabaggers.
Republicans won’t dare reveal their agenda or any specific plan. All they do is yell “Freedom!” and “Government Takeover!” over and over and over. It’s up to Democrats to warn the voters, early and often, what the Republican agenda is.
That’s why we both are here, Tom. 🙂
Their only hope is that the general public never learns.
I truly believe that time is running out for the “conservative movement”. Whether you look at the changing demographics of the country, the dying off of an older reactionary generation, and it being replaced with a younger and far more liberal one the logjam will one day break apart. I would like to think that when that happens this ignorant, corrupt and ineffective age will come to an end but I am afraid that the conservatives may destroy us before we get to that point. While many of the things I thought were given in life have been proved false I still believe you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
I agree Beach. It would only apply if all people watched only Faux Noise.