Yesterday I clearly needed to rest, and except for cleaning out my email, paying bill, and the normal hours I spend in research I rested, sleeping longer than usual in the afternoon. I’m current with replies. Today I may have an errand to run.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 3:19 (average 5:08). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From MoveOn: The Best Quote From Barack Obama We’ve Seen This Week
The Republican project to transfer wealth from the poor and middle classes to the 1% IS class warfare. This is another example of Republican projection.
From Washington Post: Congress passed a $150 billion economic package Friday, extending for the rest of the year a payroll tax holiday for 160 million workers and unemployment benefits for millions of others.
On a 293-132 vote, a bipartisan House coalition supported the compromise plan to keep giving workers a small amount of extra cash with each paycheck while also providing a continued cushion for the unemployed.Shortly afterward, the Senate voted 60 to 36 to approve the plan. It now goes to President Obama to be signed into law, giving him a victory on a portion of the massive jobs bill he presented to Congress last fall.
Score a big one for the good guys!
From LA Times: Pat Buchanan has been dismissed by MSNBC, the left-leaning news network, four months after the channel suspended him.
In an angry post on his blog, conservative commentator Buchanan took his critics to task, writing, "After 10 enjoyable years, I am departing, after an incessant clamor from the left that to permit me continued access to the microphones of MSNBC would be an outrage against decency, and dangerous."
Buchanan says the calls for his firing began with the publication in October of his book "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?" about America’s decline, which critics have called racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic.
Buchanan was fired because he made racist comments on air, while plugging his white-power book on MSNBC time. Good riddance to bad Bircher rubbish.
Cartoon:
10 Responses to “Open Thread–2/18/2012”
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Mr Obama’s Quote of the Week — I love it! He might have his big contributors and super PACs, it seems to survive in US politics at this level you have to have them. But Mr Obama has his head screwed on right and is going in the correct direction. He’s not perfect and I think he would agree with that. But he listens; he tries to work with people unlike some Republicans I know of. Vote Democrat in 2012 and put sanity back in the Congress! Keep Mr Obama in the Whitehouse.
Payroll Tax Cut — Yeeee ha! Of course I’m sure that the Republicans will try to make political hay with that one saying they were for the American worker. What they won’t do is remind everyone how long it took to get there and how they tried to obstruct it. I love it when the ‘bad guys’ paint themselves into a corner without a wimdow!
Pat Buchanan dismissed by MSNBC — Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy! His rant about his departure just goes to show what a nice guy he is, not!
Cartoon — The Party of No, at it still. I can hardly wait for the Republican elephant to go TU! Good work!
Amen!
They are already trying to take credit for it.
Amen. More coming.
Thanks!
Well here’s a news flash – it’s hard to get money out of a stone.
Well, holding people’s taxes cuts as hostage is very nice, now is it?
It’s not about you Pat, really it’s not you. The network says we have to cut back. (So really it is about you!)
What is their obsession with birth control – I just don’t get it?
Too true, Lisa.
According to them, they never did and would never.
All about him!
It’s a distraction.
3:42
Definitely “class warfare” and we didn’t start the war.
They agreed to the extension of the tax cuts but are still railing about how it’s going to be paid for. God forbid they impose any more tax on the rich!
Pat Buchanan ~ good riddance to bad rubbish!
They oppose birth control because it means less cannon fodder for their wars.
Good time!
Amen!
Amenagain!
Partially!
3:45 Patty and I are close. Where’s TomCat? He finished so fast that he has already showered and left town.
Rarely am I that good. I’m pretty good on tomorrow’s but catchable.
Just for the record, Buchanan’s Ten Most Idiotic, Racist, Bigoted Quotes (and no doubt is what tough to whittle them down to just Ten):
http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/02/17/427875/why-msnbc-dumped-pat-buchanan-his-10-most-outrageous-statements/
Great minds fall in the same ditch, Nameless. That article is the basis for number 2 tomorrow.