The Other Progressive Washington

Progressive Change Campaign Committee
has kicked off a new action item NormDollar.com
A dollar a day to make Norm go away.
Re: Senator-in-Waiting Al Franken.
Now that is a scary specter.
The Local Treament?

[Belated entry: Ross Hunter for King County Executive.] **

[And By George from Churchill downs?
A reference to the Old Guard?
(A pun on the source by George & our founding)]

[and new labels or invective? The Sting verses* The New Foundation.]

*word play or hard work (speaking of retro)[Maybe only them needs code words. Not! . ]
** May Day! <5-1-09 update>
Too Embedded?

Obama: most popular 100 days since Reagan

In context it is cherry picking, for since Eisenhower, Reagan and Obama are only average at 63% in the Gallup Poll. However the degree of difficulty as to the dives they face as to comparable handi-caps, of Lincoln and FDR are off track bets. The parimutuel may be political and polarized. (sarcastic cynicism) But now for a more detailed data dump for your own skew. And talk about fun with math.

[Meanwhile: less popular The Need to Roll Back Presidential Power Grabs by Arlen Specter is a win and place for the show.]
[Another one up on Bush: beat his record on getting a Republican to defect.]

He said, She said?

Enhanced Interrorgations?
Goldberg and Hannity have some interesting points aside*.
Meaning they seem to have presented an argument for prosecutions for lying to the American People, not to mention looking back.
"...all of them were given very specific details that enhanced interrogation would be used..."
To be fair and balanced, I doubt he would apply the same standards to himself or the past. I do think prosecution is the thing, only the forum is the question.

* meaning the sorts the thing

[First let me say that my sorting above might hinge on the charge of "political expediency". That is what former CIA Director Porter Goss accused Speaker Pelosi of employing, if not amnesia. But really I think it could be more a matter of not being able to be direct about who was told what by whom when and when was it authorized** to implement or leak. OK, enough parsing or passing the buck game, but the new game in town is also "political expediency" with the move of Sen. Arlen Specter announcing his switch and plan to run in the Democratic primary to finish out his legecy.
** temp link here of my own expediency]

Not your Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

The Liberal Media Myth:
brought to you by the VRWC.
Now we* are talking.
Truthout.org-
George Lakoff: Who needs a Rush?

For later:
www.TomPaine.com
www.OurFuture.org
TheNation.com
unknown filter: Financial Times
www.americanprogress.org

* Spin Offs:
Not your Liaison Report
Whatcha gonna do about it?

Out there alternatives:
National Tea Party re: The Looking Glass

Almost under the google: RNC debates Red Label Tea Party.
Can we suggest the VRWC party for them?

The Greatest Generation to Degeneration.

Who needs Re-Generation?
"Just doing my job."
My counsel made me do it.
Who said almost such?
(I won't even touch Sean)

Whatcha gonna do about it?

Worst Person Crowded Senator Ben Nelson (D) Nebraska

"Too many Americans...get their news from entertainers (who) tell them what to be angry about today." "...Jon Stewart, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Keith Olbermann, and Rachel Maddow." "Responding to the talking points of either extreme is not the way to enact good public policy." "There is a lot of inaccurate and incomplete information out there thanks to talk shows from either the left of the right." "Facts often get in the way of a good rant."

The Senator should face the music and correct things right away. Maybe the Fairness Doctrine then? Just kidding. He should start with Steven Colbert. CORRECTION: The Ed Show (Apparently he handled Colbert well enough, and Ed Schultz is who he should fish or cut bait with.)
The Senator makes some very good points even though his list is not fair and balanced on the face of it.

[Senator Byron Dorgan (D) North Dakota: "no solace in being right"]

Happy Earth Day!

Huffington Post did not exactly have it easy to find.
This is a jab at those who fall for the fair and balanced.

[Late breaking yesterday: Torture Breaks
Counselor to State: Philip Zelikow
Senater Armed Services Committee torture "reverse engineered".
Senator Carl Levin declassified report
Plausible Progress]
[Today: tortured Republican ]
[4-23-09 update Rant on Big Eddie!

The Hand-Shake Heard Round the World. [*]

The Washington Note's Steve Clemons on Keith Olbermann
A shift in policy?
See follow up to justice there (ACLU)and
Impeach Torture Architect Bybee here (CCR).

Meanwhile Jane Harman is in for it again. But this time could it be a reverse sting? I don't know if Jane Harman will think of the excuse but this could be an opening into the Gonzales Justice Department practices. There are deeper implications ...

In Uber-Related events: the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 deserves mention.
Alt Source: OpenCongress - GovTech - CircleID

Also Socialism out, Fascism in. Republicans (Chris Mathews) "shopping for invectives" (Tony Blankley) "that's silly"

[[*] Apologies if I heard that and cannot credit anyone I might haveor did I...?]

National Tea Party

Taxed Enough Already?
A day late and a dollar short or
through the looking glass*of sovereignty.
Governors Palin and Perry have issued claims of sovereignty.
From where does that sprout?
Said the tortoise to the hare or
was it Alice to the rabbit?
The Queen fits in somewhere, oh yeah.
No man is an island.

* link added 4-16-09 The radical middle off the conspiracy fringe
Not to mention Straight Talk from the Heartland on The Ed Show
[updates:Not your Liaison Report]
["Solutions Center"]
[4-17-09: Local - King County Executive]
[See footnote sort in Comment and pun "Patients for change".]

"Solutions Center"

The Office of the Republican Whip
Think Progress
Huffington Post
The Obama Plan: A Foundation.
Obama on TruthOut
[4-16-09 : Huffington Post]

Not your Liaison Report

The Ed Show
The Rachel Maddow Show
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report

[4-16-09 Update: Just what was I alluding to? Just the superiority of the above links. And it is just to apologize for not including Keith Olbermann and Countdown to Change.
And follow up to justice.(ACLU)*]

* update (CCR) 4-21-09

The Irony of the Boat

Or is it the mess of the age? I must look up The Boat [*] as well as the mess, in reference to earlier thoughts. The Titanic and the Ice Bergs and possesion is 9/10ths of the law or some sort or what is above water or below the deck chairs.

Not to mention mess (Rachel Maddow), and compartmentalization. (Jeanette Walls)
This reference to an MSNBC contributor is in lieu of a piece with guest Michael Hastings but compartmentalization nonetheless.

[*] 4-14-09 Link there and The Boat added here. As well as mess of the age.]

Speaking of on the wall

Or Off it.
I drop two links here for pre-reference:

Everyone Should Pay Income Taxes:
It's bad for our democracy to exempt half the country. by Ari Fleischer / Wall Street Journal Or as The Week put it "Then more people would want less government spending."

And Tea Parties Forever by Paul Krugman / New York Times

Or Just Verses Not? OK they are both spin and I think I have spun it only slightly if at all hear here re: the weak.
My last crack might be off kilter but I am implying I know the spin on these verses and might support the latter over the former. It would only be fair not necessarily balanced to read them.
[OK, I am dizzy only glancing at the first few Ari paragraphs, (which I had previously not seen) as they were just about the spin and the flip-flop, so bingo and kudos to me. And a closer look at Krugman's Tea Parties Forever nails the MoveOn advice.]
[Some are fond of saying that you cannot tax corporations since costs will be passed bown, well deductions are also passed up, so I think that the balance has been (only) slightly struck. Nonetheless some points may be drawn from both pieces but not without more striking out into how work only trickles up and maybe money should not be treated as capital let alone a product or the point.]
[Not to mention the Triplex of Hitchens, Hartmann and Hedges or the rational middle? It is more likely the tri-pod of progress, or heart, hedge and hitch.]

[Update: 12-16-11 As The Week put it, link corrected. And Triplex amended.]

On the wall verses on the table.

My punctuation and spelling are as intented,
versus not exactly clear.

From a discussion[*] on the Wiemar Republic and the issue of gun control springs the economic impact in the Treaty of Versailles*, the word Realpolitik, crept into my search which landed me on Noopolitik which brought me this source on a letter and this reference to Fred Kaplan. (My earlier comment on similar material including Fred Kaplan.)
[To be update as well as linked to economics--not to mention boat and recent links:
Humpty Dumpty
"Trust but verify"
Atlas
American Exceptionalism!]

* no pun on vs or vs., nor reliance on this article per se.
[bold links for referenced revisiting and no slouches embedded there]
[A Plan to B-Team: upgraded in progress]
[especially naught / exactly]

[*] this is not necessarily the discussion but the source was the Thom Hartmann show last week to which I had my own contribution via the ethernet, I might per se.

Humpty Dumpty

and The Great Wall? *
Do we have the right gatekeepers?

* Pre-post-or-us?

"Trust but Verify"

Not Iran "That's what they say".
but the Left. (Psycho Talk)
No diplomacy or patriots left behind.
The end is near. Butt not to humor.

Re: Do you know what "shovel ready" even means?
[It struck me that the title is just part of the set up and works well at that. I mean it was typical of me to assume that each Cc: was an indication that the sender did not know what "shovel ready" even means. (Maybe they do, maybe they don't, but it fits into my spin as I fell for it.)]
FYI: Most projects start from the ground up. I can't really think of any that don't. There is also the term in projects called "breaking ground", which takes a shovel or other heavy equipment. So really I guess I have made even more sense of the cartoon, since stimulus is a lot like fertilizer. I wonder where the blank think it comes from?

I use the term "blank", because I did not want to pin it on just the Republicans, Conservatives or the rich since that would be too much of a PC.(Political Cartoon)* But I wonder just what they are thinking.

*originally thinking of Proper Characterization

(Answer to awkward riddle here: For some stimulus comes from above, and for others it is all in their heads.)

[Maybe for most (or at least too many) it is not even wondered about.]

P.S. Oh and I actually have a compost pile, I just need to work it.
[The above was concocted between the "left behind" and the "shovel ready" links being embedded, not that I dig burro wing anyone, but we do all end up worm food. Not to mention hot air.]

ATLAS

MoveOn!

[O...I forgot the biggest hint/label of all, & link added.]

American Exceptionalism!

"I am heartened..."
These words shouted between the lines to an answer Barack Obama gave in his NATO post-speech conference. They are my words which I do not know if they appear anywhere in his feelings, but it was about what he had learned there.

"The play's the thing"

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
Republicans war against class war. nOT!

The Provacateur: ThinkProgress

My play with words was the thing and the The Provacateur is aptly titled and actually fair and balanced for a righty but the results will be the thing. Oops, my "war against class war" typo lost an "n" which I picked up in OT*, whose link is accidently apropos in dropping the ball of context, like employment, the housing bubble, and debt. Which allows me to pick up and run with a comment which almost dribbled off my court of discourse, called inflation. One can keep passing the ball or the buck but when there is a leak or continual need to pump it up, something has got to get charged up. And I almost had a turn over again, but the bottomline is, that the median income would not have risen without all the spending, which would not have happened without the borrowing, not to mention the cost of war which buried us more. It must be remembered that no budget can exclude true costs, and they have always said that freedom is not free, but the budget must include the cost of peace and progress. Not to mention the price of values and the passing the buck.

* I had meant "warn" against, but the slip was priceless in the OT
BTW, I did foul out here by plowing to the basket and missing the point which could clear the net: inflation is a tax [Should the zebras call for another net that conflates March Madness, the month of Fools and other institutions?]
[technical foul or side line HINTS: war and nOT links are more like the wikipedia (last 3) with some "facts" in dispute or cherry picked if not even left off the court of reading, but The Provacateur: ThinkProgress links are more comprehensive if not comprehended only from a team perspective.]

Americans will be Edified!

Congratulations to Ed Schultz for getting his own hour. The Ed Show

Thanks MSNBC.

the good is hard to find...

in the UN Human Rights Council resolution: U.N. body adopts resolution on religious defamation - Reuters
But is it in the close call 23-11-13 or the new member at the table?

Here is analysis from the Council on Foreign Relations.

My comment (not finding the draft or text): It seems that promotion of tolerance is hard to achieve by some sort of intolerance. Yet tolerance of intolerance is so difficult. I feel that the discussion is about a renogiation of terms and well as fields or spheres of influence.

"I'm king of the world!"

Speaking of being in the same boat * and cheesiest lines.

Gordon Brown floats a line: The G20 conference is no Bretton Woods but the kind of inflation we need is from the G2 to the G20 and the kind of deflation is from our leaders to chairs at the tables.

And the only thing more important than the four pillars of Obamanomics ** is holding the world together before it sinks together.

[The world is not the Titanic nor just a movie, but that does not mean there is not a tip of an iceberg.]
[More heads up at another table.]
[Just in case you wonder about the top line, the bottomline is "we the people"]

* "We the People" to "King of the World": "YOU'RE FIRED!" ...a letter from Michael Moore

** A Plea to Congress
Obamanomics:
We are all in this together.
Focus on the comprehensive if hard to comprehend interrelatedness of Education, Energy, Healthcare and World Finance.
Not to mention the cost of peace.

[4-14-09: The Boat added here and there]