Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Maneuvers In The Dark – Doesn’t work with Margie. More’s the pity.
- Dem Advantage Over GOP Has Expanded Since Election: Gallup: The Huffington Post News Team
- Suddenly, the GOP Doesn’t Want to Let Washington Bureaucrats Make Medical Decisions: Kyle
- Tom Sullivan: Health Care Debate Loses Coherence: Tom Sullivan
- Terrance Heath: Death, Dishonesty & The GOP: Terrance Heath
- Schumer: Reconciliation Is On The Table For Health Care: The Huffington Post News Team
- Hit & Run > “And Then They Started Having Sex” – Reason Magazine – I can understand some of the concerns here, but “Just say no” doesn’t work any better here than at the other end of the age spectrum.
- Grassley Admits That GOP Leadership Is Urging Him To Block Public Option – So the bottom line is that blocking health care is a move designed to gain political power. Wow, how bloodthirstily cynical of the GOP leadership.
- Angry right harasses Rep. Lloyd Doggett with anti-health care chants. – Ah, the standard GOP devotion to civil discourse.
- New Sanctions for Iran? – Money graf: “I mean, if I were the regime, I would be praying for new American sanctions. It’s not only distracting from the “election,” sanctions would actually reinforce the regime’s legitimacy. Sanctions would also put reformers in a very difficult internal position. I mean, how many successful politicians do you know who adopted the “we should give in to the hated foreigners’ threats and attacks” platform?”
- Building in Surveillance – A valuable point: surveillance systems are just as capable of being hacked as anything else, which means all that monitoring capability can be used by anyone who can do so. Think of that next time someone says, “We have to watch for the terrorists!”
- Breaking: L.A. Episcopal Leaders Nominate A Gay And A Lesbian For Bishop – Well, this’ll get some conservative knickers in a twist. But it was going to happen sooner or later.
- Alan Rosenblatt: A Simple Idea to Help Open the Government: Alan Rosenblatt
- Lou Dobbs a ‘publicity nightmare’ for CNN. – What shall it profiteth a pundit if he appeal to the base but sacrifice his journalistic soul?
- Malkin Calls Right-Wing Tea Party Movement A ‘Counter-Insurgency’ – Grass roots assumes that the powerful actually trust the masses to swing their way. Which, clearly, they don’t, hence the rhetorical demagoguery.
- A truce between MSNBC and Fox News? – I’m not sure I understand how journalism, in pursuit of the “truth” and reporting “reality,” should be declaring truces with anyone.
- RNC Adopts Wingnut Agenda: Calls ‘Obamacare’ Socialism, Bans Cap-And-Trade, Condemns Obama’s ‘Czars’ – I’m hoping that this is party-platform-style appealing to the base, not what they really think. Not that what I hope in the political arena is often, if ever, reality.
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