Perino Baselessly Claims 2007 Was Year Of The
‘Do-Nothing Congress’

post from Think Progress on 25 January 2008 03:42:00 PM. © Think Progress

During the White House press briefing today, a reporter asked spokeswoman Dana Perino if the reason President Bush’s final State of the Union won’t be addressing Social Security or immigration is because such bold proposals would be “politically not possible.” Saying the President had shown “very bold leadership” in the past, Perino argued that Bush is avoiding “big ideas” because “it is unrealistic to expect” Congress to take them on this year.

Continuing her defense of Bush’s scaled down State of the Union plans, Perino then attacked the current Congress, claiming that 2007 was the year of the “do-nothing Congress”:

It is unrealistic to expect that this Congress is going to take on such big problems this year. They haven’t been willing to do it in the past several years; there’s no reason to think that they would do it this year. Remember, 2007 was labeled the “do-nothing Congress.” Hopefully in 2008, there are some things that we can get done.

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Perino should brush up on her recent history before throwing around such labels. By any fair measure, it was actually the previous Congress — controlled by members of the President’s own party — that earned the title of “do-nothing Congress.”

In a recent New York Times op-ed, Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Thomas Mann wrote that “the 110th Congress does deserve some praise” because “in 2007, the level of energy and activity on Capitol Hill picked up markedly.” In fact, Mann notes, the 2007 Congress also outperformed the vaunted “Republican Revolution” Congress of 1995 on key measures:

In terms of both the number and significance of new public laws, however, last year’s Democratic majority significantly outperformed that Republican Congress. Only one item described in the Republican Contract With America was signed into law at the end of 1995, while most of the proposals the Democrats announced as their agenda were enacted.

Here’s Mann’s op-chart:

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Education System to Fund We'll Get to That After
We Condemn Rap Music

post from Everyday Citizen on 25 January 2008 03:39:55 PM. © Everyday Citizen

People expect government to do ridiculous, stupid, or off-the-wall things sometimes. The taxpayers[...]

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UPI baselessly asserted that Obama paid
"substantially lower than market value" for Rezko property

post from Media Matters for America on 25 January 2008 03:22:55 PM. © Media Matters for America

A January 24 United Press International article reported that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) "closed a real estate deal in 2005 with [indicted businessman Antoin] Rezko's wife while the families lived next to each other," and "paid Rezko's wife a price substantially lower than market value for an adjoining parcel." The article provided no support for the assertion. In fact, Obama purchased the land from Rezko in January 2006 (not 2005, as UPI reported), and he paid $104,500 -- substantially more than[...]

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White House Spokesweasel Dana Perino: "What's
Cuba"

post from Cut to the Chase: Zapping & Snapping The Zeitgeist on 25 January 2008 03:20:00 PM. © Cut to the Chase: Zapping & Snapping The Zeitgeist

Believe it or not, she's far dumber (or to her boss, Bush, ?dumberer?) than she looks and behaves (and those who follow White House press room sessions knows that is QUITE a feat given her past history). Ms. Perino, never short on attitude OR lies OR ways to blame everyone else for what the White House does wrong, not only claimed the 935 certified lies found by a government accounting agency in remarks by Bush and the White House leading up to the Iraq war were really mistakes made by those "other coalition members" who "forced" the Bush Administration to go to war in Iraq (which, uh... would be the Bushies themselves), came up with a new stunner this week.

Namely, Dim Dana announced ? and seemed quite proud of the fact ? that she had no bleeping idea what the Cuban Missile Crisis was. Yeah, you could cite her age (though I know all about it and I wasn't even old enough for a pacifier when it happened), but this event was a seminal one in modern American political history, is at the heart of our supposed rabid hatred of Castro and Cuba, and is at the core of our horrific anti-Cuba (but pro-rich-Cuban-exile bizarro behavior) policies.

But Dana, like her boss, the so-called MBA-holding history major (Bush), is sure that being deadly dumb as denuded, uranium-polluted dirt is a GOOD thing.Media, Politics, United States, World, War, Terrorism, Propaganda, Constitution, Vermont, US.

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Simple Answers to Simple Questions

post from Eschaton on 25 January 2008 03:20:00 PM. © Eschaton

Can this possibly make sense?

No.

This has been another edition of simple answers to simple questions.

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Morning Joe hosts launched misleading attacks on
Obama over state Senate votes

post from Media Matters for America on 25 January 2008 03:14:50 PM. © Media Matters for America

On the January 24 edition ofMSNBC's Morning Joe,co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist ridiculed Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)for "push[ing] the wrong button" when casting votes as an Illinois state senator,referring to a Los Angeles Times article from that dayreporting: "During his eight years in state office, Obama cast more than 4,000votes. Of those, according to transcripts of the proceedings in Springfield, he hit thewrong button at least six times." Co-host Mika Brzezinski noted that[...]

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Beck falsely claimed Dem candidates have not
supported striking writers

post from Media Matters for America on 25 January 2008 03:13:16 PM. © Media Matters for America

On the January 23 edition of his CNN Headline News program,Glenn Beck repeatedly suggested that the top Democratic presidential candidateshave not shown support for the ongoing Writers Guild strike, asking:"[W]hy haven't the pro-union Democratic candidates spoken up on thestrike?" and "[W]hy haven't any of the Democratic candidatesjoined them on the picket line?" He added: "Are they laying low so they don'tupset their Hollywood contributors?" In fact, John Edwards joined striking writers on a[...]

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Another Bipolar Anthem: Hard Times

Drunken, self-destructive but brilliant Stephen Foster was almost certainly bipolar. The lyric to his song "Hard Times" - ostensibly about monetary poverty - will ring bells with anyone familiar with manic depression. This is performed by Kate and Anna McGarrigle along with family and friends that include Rufus Wainwright and Emmylou Harris.

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ABC Uncovers $100,000 Additional Obama-Rezko
Money

ABC Uncovers $100,000 Additional Obama-Rezko MoneyFrom ABC’s Blotter: The Obama campaign says it has given away more than $85,000 in Rezko-linked contributions since Rezko was indicted on federal fraud and extortion charges in the fall[...]

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The Politics Of Lies

The Politics of Liesby P.S BurtonJanuary 24, 2008In the reality of everyday politics, especially at a national level. Rules apply when public servants are suspected of or caught red handed telling whoppers.Presidents on occasion lie, they sometimes do it on a nationally televised address and conclude their remarks with the traditional invocation ” God Bless [...]

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