[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Ahistorical (Talking Points Memo)
- The idea that the modern day Democratic Party is the political party that really has blood on its hands from opposing integration is being advanced more frequently these days among some conservatives, but mostly at the fringes of the Republican Party. Until now. No longer is it just fringe revisionism…
- Change the Subject? (Talking Points Memo)
- Rand Paul: Obama's criticism of BP is "un-American."
[HAHAHAHAHAHA...
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HAHAHAHAHAHA...
-L]
- They Did It (Talking Points Memo)
- By a vote of 59-39, the Senate gave final passage to the financial reform bill this evening. Brian Beutler has the details.
Not voting were Democratic Sens. Robert Byrd and Arlen Specter. Bucking their parties with yes votes were Republican Sens. Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Charles Grassley, and Scott Brown; and with no votes were Democratic Sens. Maria Cantwell and Russ Feingold.
Historians will probably conclude that the package of reforms was surprisingly modest given the depth and severity of the 2008-09 financial crisis. A harsher historical judgment might find that the political and economic power wielded by the financial industry in the late 20th and early 21st centuries was so extensive that it could weather a near total collapse of the system without having to yield its power or privilege.
- Like a Friggin' Rock (Talking Points Memo)
- Back when Nevada Senate candidate Sue Lowden (R) first got into the chickens and health care barter business, a lot of folks said it wouldn't damage her politically. I even heard from some people who said the focus on the story itself was a product of elitism and that ordinary people would identify with Lowden (no doubt, the view of people deeply in touch with the lives of middle class and working families who'd mainly prefer to forego health insurance and pay in livestock, which they have in abundance).
But now the verdict is in. And if this is the verdict, Sue Lowden should probably consider an appeal.
- Bret Easton Ellis Inserts Foot in Mouth When Talking About Female Directors
- [Film at eleven. -L]
- Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Kim Cattrall (Women & Hollywood)
- Here’s to Kim Cattrall for standing up for her convictions instead of buckling under pressure. She refused to pose with an actual cougar because she hates the term and what it says about women to get on the cover of a magazine targeted at women over 40.
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