Politics Plus

Yesterday I pulled a dumb move.  I forgot to check my Oxygen before I left for pulmonary boot camp.  It ran out right after Lady Torquemada (She’s really a sweetheart, and I tease her without mercy.) put me through my paces.  In completing my errands, I walked over a mile without oxygen and by the time I returned home, I was fried.  So my backlog of comments is still waiting and will be answered today.  I hope to put a dent in visiting as well, because I have a hellacious week coming up next week.  I had something special planned for today’s lead article, but it’s not available yet.  If it becomes so, I shall add a third post.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:28.  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From The Washington Independent: CBO estimates that enacting both the Senate-passed health reform bill and the reconciliation bill (which contains the fixes to the Senate proposal) would cut the federal deficit by $138 billion over the next decade.

Needless to say, Republicans continue to parrot the lie that the bill costs too much.  Michael Steele, referring to the CBO report, said, “It’s a lie.”

From TPM: A few hours after Rep. Dennis Kucinich switched his support to become a critical vote for the health care bill, he took to the House floor to ask wavering colleagues to join him. Astonished colleagues pointed to Kucinich (D-OH) darting from member to member on the House floor yesterday, saying privately they’d never seen him get so involved in whipping a vote.

Go, Dennis, Go!!

From Think Progress: Fox News host Glenn Beck on his radio show this morning — said the timing of the vote is unholy. He warned that Democrats intend to “take away the liberty that we have right from God” on “the Sabbath, during Lent.” Beck agreed, calling the Sunday vote an “affront to God,” and something “our founders would have never” done “[o]ut of respect for God”.

If the Faux Noise goose steppers in the House object so much, they should honor their convictions and not attend. 😀

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TGIF!!

Yesterday was one of those days.  I got tied up in chores and did not even get the new OS installed on the cell phone.  But I did catch up on comments and get a little visiting in.  Today I volunteer helping in a therapy group for former prisoners, so I may not even catch up on comments.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:53.  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From Crooks and Liars: It’s a disquieting thing, when one sees four-star general officers thinking that they need to be more proactive and outgoing about their advice on foreign policy and national security issues. It’s not that they aren’t smart people and don’t have good ideas – far from it. They can be very clear thinkers, if not a little impatient with the pace of Beltway politics. For instance, we discover that General David Petraeus is suggesting to the White House that Israel’s politics are endangering US military personnel and the chances of their success in stabilizing the region.

Dropping military aid to Israel would save American lives.

From TPM: The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected Orly Taitz’s appeal of the $20,000 fine imposed on her for making frivolous filings in a long-running Birther case.

$20,000 is clearly not enough!

From Daily Kos: Republicans are threatening to make life difficult for Democrats if they try to push health care reform through the Senate using the budget reconciliation process.

Gee!  Do you really think they might try to obstruct the Senate? 😯

From Huffington Post:

I love it!!

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Happy hump day!!

Yesterday I caught up on replying to comments and returning visits.  I also visited several other blogs.  I hope to do the same today.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:55.  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Take:

Karl ‘Turdblossom’ Rove continued to rewrite history with the lie that Bush administration officials never claimed that Iraqi oil revenues would help pay for Iraq’s reconstruction.  I remember that claim repeated frequently.

Cartoon:

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OGIM!!

Yesterday I caught up with comments and returned recent visits.  I started to visit other blogs when my grocery delivery arrived.  By the time I dealt with a problem with the order and got everything put away, I was pooped.  I expect to do more visiting today.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:38.  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

62 years ago today, I was born.

Yesterday in an interview with BBC, Karl Rove, aka Turdblossom, proclaimed to a foreign audience that he was proud of torture, although he claimed it was not torture.  He parroted the now thoroughly debunked GOP lies that it provided intelligence that kept America safe.  The best way for him to accomplish this is to stay abroad.

A new study reveals that the median wealth for single white women from 36 to 49, is $42,600, 61% of single white men of the same age.  But single black women of the same age have a median wealth of $5. 😯

Don’t forget tonight.

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What’s up for the weekend?