US Economy boosts risk appetite

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Lets try this again

post from Firedoglake on 28 June 2012 04:30:37 AM. © Firedoglake

A few days ago, I was certain that the Ever-Less-Supreme Court would be coming down with the health care reform decision that day. So let's try it again...today the Court will come down with the decision.If for some reason there is a concurrence or[...]

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Late Night Karaoke

post from Docudharma - Front Page on 28 June 2012 03:00:00 AM. © Docudharma - Front Page

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Mazda Rx8 Speed

post from Notes about Mazda on 28 June 2012 02:00:30 AM. © Notes about Mazda

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Fascism

post from jobsanger on 28 June 2012 01:07:00 AM. © jobsanger

I know it upsets the right-wingers in this country to hear the word "fascism" (unless they are the ones tossing it around), but really, is there a single one of the above elements of fascism that the current Republican Party is not guilty of? Ever since the teabaggers and evangelicals took over that party, they have been running straight toward establishing an American fascist state (although they prefer not to call it that). But not using the word "fascism" doesn't mean you aren't a fascist.

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GOP's 10 Dumbest Reasons To Impeach

post from jobsanger on 28 June 2012 01:06:00 AM. © jobsanger

No modern American president, not even Bill Clinton (who was nearly impeached), has had to bear the burden of such hatred as the right-wing has shown for President Obama. I'm convinced it is because a large element of the Republican Party (the teabaggers) have not shed their racist views, and just can't accept the fact that an African-American was honestly elected to be the president of this country. And the Republican Party leaders have fed into that racist hatred, in the hope that it will get them back into power.

And one of the ways they have fed that hatred is to declare that they want to impeach the president. They know full well that President Obama has done nothing that would justify his impeachment and removal from office. If he had, the impeachment proceedings would have been started a long time ago. But they also know their teabagger base is not very bright, and they'll swallow all the impeachment talk because they hate the president.

So a lot of congressional Republicans (and Republicans that would like to go to Congress) have expelled a lot of hot air about how they will impeach President Obama. And the reasons they have given for wanting to impeach him range from absurd to really ridiculous. Think Progress has compiled a list of the 10 silliest Republican reasons for impeachment, and I found it very humorous. I thought you might also, so here they are:

1. To get Obama?s birth certificate. Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) suggested that Congress use the threat of impeachment to force Obama to show his birth certificate. [10/13/10]

2. ?Giving away? seven Arctic islands. Wes Riddle, a Texas congressional candidate, is peddling a bizarre conspiracy theory that Obama gave away seven Arctic islands to Russia. Despite the fact that the treaty ceding these islands was ratified by the Senate in 1991, Riddle said he will push to impeach Obama over the matter. [6/22/12]

3. Obama?s new immigration policy for undocumented students.Allen Quist, a former state representative running in Minnesota?s 1st congressional district, said that he would lead the impeachment charge against Obama for the president?s new immigration policy that would prevent one million undocumented students from being deported. [6/26/12]

4. ?Refusing to secure the borders.? Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) told radio host Lou Dobbs that Obama is refusing to secure the border and it ?comes awfully close to a violation of [his] oath of office.? [7/19/10]

5. Failing to extended the Bush tax cuts. Grover Norquist, author of the anti-tax pledge that nearly every Republican in Congress has signed, told National Journal that if Obama allows the Bush tax cuts to expire, ?Republicans will have enough votes in the Senate in 2014 to impeach.? [1/29/12]

6. Not defending DOMA in court. Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) said he ?absolutely? supports impeaching Obama after the administration announced it would not defend a portion of the Defense of Marriage Act in court. [3/2/11]

7. To stop Obama from passing new laws. Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) told a Tea Party group that he would push for impeachment just to block Obama?s legislative agenda. ?It needs to happen, and I agree with you it would tie things up,? Burgess said. ?No question about that.? [8/9/11]

8. ?Shenanigans? in Obama?s immigration policies. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), second-in-command among Senate Republicans, told radio host Bill Bennett that, because of Obama?s immigration policies, ?impeachment is always a possibility? if there are ?shenanigans involved.? [6/26/12]

9. If Obama used the 14th Amendment to declare the debt ceiling unconstitutional. During the debt ceiling showdown, Rep. Tim Scott (R-SC) and other Republicans have floated the possibility of impeaching Obama if he declared the debt ceiling unconstitutional rather than allow the country to default. [7/7/11]

10. If the government defaults. When Republicans forced the debt ceiling crisis, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) announced on Twitter that if Congress doesn?t increase the debt ceiling and the federal government is forced to default, ?Obama would be impeached.? [7/25/11]

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Redux

post from jobsanger on 28 June 2012 01:05:00 AM. © jobsanger

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Paul Sadler Is A Blue Dog After All

Paul Sadler is a candidate for the Democratic nomination to run for the U.S. Senate in the state of Texas. Before the first round of the Democratic primary, he did a pretty good job of posing as a progressive -- saying he was in favor of women's rights and gay/lesbian rights. I was fooled, and even wrote a post saying I could support him if he won the Democratic primary (which he will probably do). It now looks like I'm going to have to eat those words, because in the debate with his only remaining opponent (retired school teacher, Grady Yarbrough), Sadler exposed himself as just another Texas blue dog.

During its recent state convention in Houston, the Texas Democratic Party re-affirmed its progressive roots and beliefs. It is just sad that this party, who finally seems to be finding itself after wandering in the electoral wilderness for so long, will not have a proud progressive senatorial candidate to lead it into the next election.

The party voted for a progressive platform in Houston, but Sadler had already abandoned that platform. I might be able to forgive his opposition to decriminalizing marijuana, even though that is a platform plank. There are too many Democrats without the courage to take a reasonable stand on marijuana (including the president). But Sadler's ideas on how to "fix" the economy are well over the line. He has made it clear that he would vote with the Republicans to cut spending further and refuse to find the money for job creation.

That is inexcusable. Cutting the programs that help hurting Americans will not balance the budget -- and neither will continuing the Bush tax cuts. Their is only one way out of our economic mess, and that is through massive job creation. And that can't be done without some additional government spending. Once people get back to work (and paying taxes) the deficit will be brought down -- and that's the only way it'll be brought down without throwing this nation into a deeper recession. We need look no further than the economic mess in Europe to know this (where "austerity" has been a disaster).

It looks like Sadler is running on the same old blue dog program that has caused defeat for other Democrats for years -- the program that tells voters "I'm a conservative, too, so vote for me." This is a plan guaranteed to fail. Those wanting to vote for a conservative will vote Republican (where the real right-wingers are). Why would they choose a "pseudo-Republican" when there are real Republicans on the ballot?

Frankly, I doubt I'll even vote in the primary run-off. I don't even want to have to choose between an incompetent (Yarbrough) and a blue dog (Sadler). And the Green Party candidate is looking pretty good for November. I don't even know who that is, but at least I can be sure he/she is a real progressive.

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Split-Personality

Political Cartoon is by R.J. Matson in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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A Lesson For Us All

The above handshake is a historic one. The lady in green is , of course, Queen Elizabeth II. And the gentleman she is shaking hands with is Martin McGuinness, a former commander of the Irish Republican Army. It shows how far the English and Irish have come toward reconciling their differences, since such a handshake would have been unthinkable just a few years ago (by both sides).

But I think there is a bigger lesson here that all of us need to learn -- that it is possible to treat our fellow humans with respect and dignity even when we disagree with their beliefs and/or actions. We are all human beings, and we need to learn how to all live together in peace on this tiny planet.

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