Sorry again about dropping out on yesterday's Outlook and Underbuzzed. As will likely be the case until the debt ceiling is raised -- or News Corp. is indicted -- a lot of stories are falling through the cracks, slow-movers and others. Add your own in the comments. Here are mine for today:
The GOP is the party of defense. Here's the Republican Party expressing its agenda to troops and veterans in just the past 24 hours. Eleven Senate Republicans voted against spending on the military and veterans. This comes at the same time that active-duty troops are making so little money defending America's foreign interests, that the banks who benefit from those foreign interests are foreclosing on our troops at a rising pace.
I wonder about the wisdom of a News Corp. employee using violent rhetoric against a member of Congress even as cries grow on both sides of the aisle to investigate News Corp.? And in this case, it was "Don't retreat, reload" rhetoric directed at a Republican. By a Republican whose previous rhetorical targets are still recovering from getting shot in the head.
ThinkProgress makes the same point I made earlier this week -- that Murdoch funneled at least a million dollars to the US Chamber of Commerce, which has been actively lobbying to weaken the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which Murdoch's company is now accused of violating. Not hard to see how this works.
I don't like getting into horserace stuff, but Mitt Romney's concession of Iowa, if true, could change the race in some interesting ways. Namely, if there's no Bachmann-Romney rivalry to track in Iowa, it raises the possibility that the media need to cover conflict will end up elevating someone as the anti-Bachmman in the battle to be the anti-Romney.
I haven't followed this one, but the hunger strike at Pelican Bay is bringing some appalling conditions to light. I'm old enough to remember when people cared about this kind of thing at least in part because they recognized that how we treat others reflects on us. (And, no, I'm not knockin' the young folks. I'm saying folks my age and older should know better because we lived through times when this was classically American thinking.)
That's my Underbuzzed for today. What have you got?
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ThinkProgress makes the same point I made earlier this week -- that Murdoch funneled at least a million dollars to the ANTI- US Chamber of Commerce
maybe thi swill help in opening up and bring down the ANTI-American CoC
Pilot, I know exactly of what you speak....add C Street, and the Evangelical Right, and the Koch Brothers to your list.....Wolves in Sheep's clothing.....Anti-American cockroaches.
Thankful Mom
yuppers them and any others like those so called american think tanks!
or that should be Anti-American Stink Tanks!!!
smiling i like to say>> Anti- American KockRoachs!!!
Smiling, I will say from now on "Anti-American KochRoachs!" HA! and they only come out when you turn the lights off in the kitchen and seal and corrupt every thing. Cowards!
I hate to think that but the more that happens and is said, I believe you may be right.
smiling,
good i stop by and check this out.
Monday Morning coffee and good laugh to start the week off.
Would someone PLEASE explain how a representative from ONE state....Mr. Cantor......can feel that he should have more power than a man who was elected by Americans from EVERY state in the country. The U.S. President was elected by the majority of people around the nation. I resent a representative from ONE state...not mine.....feeling he has a right to speak for the other states and feeling that he has been given that power by the American people. DAM...it is TIME to end this perceived power. I join our president in the feeling that ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. The Republicans have tried to sabotage everything that President Obama has done since day one. CANTOR YOU SPEAK FOR ONE STATE...NOT THE OTHER 49.
PROTESTERS RALLY OUTSIDE MURDOCH’S HOUSE
from TP
now things are starting to get good! need them to visit rogers house as well. 24/7
What was the "non-binding" thing that the Senate voted on yesterday? It said something like everyone with an income of $1 Million or more should be giving a little more since most incomes at the bottom were going down while theirs went up. Most of what I remember is all Dem's voted yes, all Rep's voted no. I missed some of the bit, but I'd like to know what it was.
You pretty much have it down Carol. The bill voted on was called a "Sense of the Senate bill". It was non binding, and EVERY nopublicon voted no on raising taxes on people earning $1 million or more a year.
Listen to your show every night...Tonight Heidi Harris said that they ought to drop unemployment....I live in Las Vegas and the unemployment here is the highest in the nation...What it she talking about....If the government wants to save money quit sponsering race car teams....
With all of the Republican idiocy in Washington and my state of Wisconsin, I was thinking.......If history repeats itself, LET THE BEHEADINGS BEGIN!
How about not paying the RepubliCONs paychecks? They're not working anyway, & the average person who decides not to do his/her work gets fired! We need to stop paying for their meals, gym, transportation, & housing allowances (both in D.C. & in whatever state they come from) - no one pays for the average American's home cuz they still have to live SOMEWHERE! They've made enough money for too many years - if they had to worry about where to get the money to live & eat, maybe they'd actually GET IT! Let them struggle like everyone else - of course, it'd take a LONG time before they actually felt any pain.
WE are supposed to be their bosses, not the ones who are buying them now! They're bought & paid for, that's for damn sure!!!
Hi Ed, your apology is accepted concerning ruppert murdocks news corp
Read Matthew 7:1-6
How much did G E make ? Your parent company, How much did they pay in taxes?
it ryhmes with hero
Hi Ed your apology concerning Ruppert Murdocks News corp is accepted.
Now read Matthew 7:1-6
How much did G E ,your parent company make last year? How much did they pay in taxes? It rhymes with hero. Did they get a tax credit? yes they did!
LOL
all you have to do is dream.
Jeff, GE used the tax code. The tax code needs to be changed where everyone--everyone and every entity pays some of the freight
No different than what Pelosi and the other Leftists do.
Don't impose Californian beliefs on West Virginians!!!