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I would never have entered the political arena so enthusiastically were it not for popcorn!

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Open Thread

post from Crooks and Liars on 13 March 2012 11:30:53 PM. © Crooks and Liars

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I wonder if his wife is interested in family planning. SAY NO MORE!

Open thread below....

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Open Thread for Night Owls: If you thought
airline deregulation messed things up, just wait

post from Daily Kos on 13 March 2012 11:30:03 PM. © Daily Kos

Open Thread for Night Owls Phillip Longman and Lina Khan at the Washington Monthly write:

In 1978, however, a group of liberals including Ralph Nader, Ted Kennedy, Kennedy?s then Senate aide Stephen Breyer, and an economist named Alfred Kahn, whom President Jimmy Carter chose to run the CAB, conjured up a plan to drive down the cost of airline fares by fostering more price competition among airlines. Though they called it ?deregulation,? the practical effect of eliminating the CAB, especially after subsequent administrations abandoned antitrust enforcement as well, was to shift control of the airline industry from experts answerable to the public to corporate boardrooms and Wall Street.
Over the years, most Americans have adopted a pretty standard line about the results. On the one hand, complaining about the indignities of flying?overbooked, late, or canceled flights; surly flight attendants; and, more recently, terrible in-flight food service and high fees for checked baggage? has become a staple of American life, much like complaining about Internet providers or health insurance companies. On the other hand, we?ve told ourselves, at least the increased competition has made air travel cheaper. And at least most of us can still get where we need to go by air.
But now we find ourselves at a moment when nearly all the promises of the airline deregulators have clearly proved false. If you?re a member of the creative class who rarely does business in the nation?s industrial heartland or visits relatives there, you might not notice the magnitude of economic disruption being caused by lost airline service and skyrocketing fares. But if you are in the business of making and trading stuff beyond derivatives and concepts, you probably have to go to places like Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Memphis, St. Louis, or Minneapolis, and you know firsthand how hard it has become to do business these days in such major heartland cities, which are increasingly cut off from each other and from the global economy.
And it?s about to get worse. [...]

Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2003:

As expected, the Senate passed the ban of so-called Late-Term Abortions, sans an exception for the health of the mother, by a 64-33 vote.
Now if this quote from Bush doesn't scare everyone who cares about Choice, then nothing ever will:
"Partial-birth abortion is an abhorrent procedure that offends human dignity, and I commend the Senate for passing legislation to ban it," Bush said in a prepared statement. "Today's action is an important step toward building a culture of life in America."
Note Bush's choice of words: "an important step". All those who decry "slippery slope" arguments, that the ban on this rare procedure doesn't mean Bush and GOP will ban all abortions, need only read those words once again:
Today's action is an important step toward building a culture of life in America

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The American League of Lobbyists has written POTUS, calling on him to "tone down his attacks on lobbyists"
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High Impact Posts are here. Top Comments are here.

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By: cwaltz

post from Comments on: Alabama and Mississippi Primary ? Live Blog ? Update: Santorum Wins Alabama and Mississippi on 13 March 2012 11:28:49 PM. © Comments on: Alabama and Mississippi Primary ? Live Blog ? Update: Santorum Wins Alabama and Mississippi

Popcorn time!

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By: Twain

post from Comments on: Alabama and Mississippi Primary ? Live Blog ? Update: Santorum Wins Alabama and Mississippi on 13 March 2012 11:16:21 PM. © Comments on: Alabama and Mississippi Primary ? Live Blog ? Update: Santorum Wins Alabama and Mississippi

Karl Rove is right now sharping his pencil and making plans to crush Frothy. The battle from here on is likely to be a bloodbath.

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Daily Kos Elections liveblog thread #8

post from Daily Kos on 13 March 2012 11:07:29 PM. © Daily Kos

Results: AL, MS, HI

8:14 PM PT (Steve Singiser): We are sure you were wondering which "some dude" emerged in Mississippi for the right to take on Republican Sen. Roger Wicker. His name is ? well ? Al Gore. Obviously, not the Al Gore, but a local Democratic party chair and army vet. He won the light-turnout Democratic primary with 55 percent of the vote.

8:23 PM PT (Steve Singiser): We might have a cliffhanger tonight, after all! As Alabama continues to report, Mitt Romney has benefited from a bit of a surge in the Mobile area. He has no chance of victory, but he is starting to breathe down Newt Gingrich's neck for second place. What was a 5000+ vote margin is now down to 1300 votes, with 84 percent reporting.

8:27 PM PT (Steve Singiser): And, late in the game, our final closely contested race has been called. In AL-06 (Birmingham suburbs), incumbent Republican Rep. Spencer Bachus has won his primary, with 58 percent of the vote. A pretty weak showing, but good enough to move on to November, where he will be heavily favored in this uber-red district over Democrat Penny Bailey.

8:50 PM PT (Steve Singiser): Last week, when Barack Obama took a bare majority in Oklahoma, despite being mixed in with a variety of "some dudes", it actually became marginally big news. A few political yakkers, mostly on the right, insisted that Obama's percentage tonight was a "stat to watch." In Alabama, at least, Obama cruised to a win with 81 percent of the vote. 19 percent selected "uncommitted."

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By: Palli

post from Comments on: Alabama and Mississippi Primary ? Live Blog ? Update: Santorum Wins Alabama and Mississippi on 13 March 2012 11:04:55 PM. © Comments on: Alabama and Mississippi Primary ? Live Blog ? Update: Santorum Wins Alabama and Mississippi

Mrs. Santorum did not really home school 5 of those kids when they lived in Virginia and he represented PA in the Senate.Their Pennsylvania home school district paid for a cyber school. When the district asked for the money to be returned because the children were not living in state, the school district had to go to court for the money with Santorum fighting it all the way!

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3rd

It's at least possible at this point that Romney could come in third in both Mississippi and Alabama. Looking likely he'll lose both. [...]

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Late Night FDL: Sexy Time

Since it's GOP primary night, time for gratuitously juvenile, R-rated Late Night.[...]

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