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A trio of actors from the "West Wing" TV show took aim at Specter's decision Tuesday at a press conference to promote the bill. Bradley Whitford, who played Josh Lyman on the NBC show, said Specter took the easy way out."He is down 15 points in polling, coming from the right in the Republican primary," Whitford said. "You cannot allow compromise on the fundamental right of workers to actually be able to form a union. It's disappointing. It sounds to me like he's more worried about his job than his constituents' jobs."Asked if they had met with Feinstein to learn her concerns, the actors said no such meeting had been arranged."But we would welcome that opportunity," said actor Martin Sheen, who portrayed President Josiah Bartlet on the show.
nevermind, i see that it is realsomeone needs to tell these people that they're not even pretend politicians anymore
it's the whole "we want to meet with her" bullshit
How would that get us out of a recessionhow
btw, I'm digging the Richard Schiff avatar, Triumph.
What’s Wrong with Washington?Washington has always been out of sync with the rest of America, but since Obama’s election, Beltway pundits seem more stubbornly and stupendously irrelevant than ever. Have three decades of being wired for Republican power blown their jittery, Twittering minds?by James Wolcott May 2009 ...In the first weeks of the Obama administration, “bipartisanship” was the reigning buzzword, and when the Beltway thinks bipartisan, it pictures President Reagan and Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill putting aside their differences and forging a legislative partnership, a ruddy pair of genial patriarchs bonding over the Blarney Stone. (Their Sunshine Boys routine supplies the first point of reference for nearly every stream of consciousness Sam Donaldson wades into on This Week.) If only the ghosts of the Gipper and the Tipper could inspire similar outreaches across the aisle, pined the Beltway oracles, playing matchmaker. When the newly elected Obama was assembling his Cabinet, Time reporter Karen Tumulty, writing for the magazine’s Swampland blog, offered “an out-of-the-box suggestion” for who should become health-and-human-services secretary—former Republican governor and candidate Mitt Romney, that aerosol can that couldn’t. As with so many who pride themselves on thinking outside the box, Tumulty would have been better off closing the cardboard flaps instead. Such stunt-casting would have dashed any hopes of a political future for Romney within the Republican Party against the jagged rocks, and stuck the Obama administration with a possible prima donna, violating its no-drama edict. Throwing Romney’s name into the hopper reflected the fetish that Washington entertains for a centrism that converts everything to mush. At his Trail Mix blog at Congressional Quarterly’s site, Craig Crawford ventured even farther outside the box—and into the ozone—to unveil his own magic pick for H.H.S. secretary: Mr. Flour Power himself, Newt Gingrich. Anticipating the rhubarb this selection would provoke, Crawford wrote: Now before you lefties have a collective heart attack, think about it. Something as big as overhauling our entire health care system will be tougher to get done on a purely partisan basis. There are Republicans who want to play. As much as it would infuriate liberals, picking Gingrich would be a hyper-bipartisan move.Only within the Beltway popcorn popper could Gingrich, whose serpent tongue and ogre ego did so much to polarize discourse in the 1990s and abort reform, be considered a foxy catch. Only in Washington, D.C., could Gingrich, a magpie of futurist jargon and a bumptious opportunist, pass himself off as an iconoclastic force and centrifuge of ideas, a cross between Buckminster Fuller and Che Guevara leading a commando raid on the buffet table. And only within the punditocracy could “hyper-bipartisan” be bandied about as an aphrodisiac....With the election of Obama and the identity branding of MSNBC as an anti–Fox News Justice League, there is some evidence of rewiring taking place, certain clusters of once-firing neurons falling dormant. Webmeister Matt Drudge’s bugle calls no longer send the media swinging from the monkey bars; hardy and unrepentant, radio host Rush Limbaugh has been re-inflated for one last hurrah, hogging the spotlight until the glow of his fancy cigar is finally extinguished; Ann Coulter has whittled down into a novelty act; the neoconservatives, whose virile rhetoric helped dig so many graves in the Bush era, grace us by their absence; the policy wonks fielded by the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute give off less of a power hum. (If anything, it’s Wall Street rather than Washington, D.C., that seems wired Republican down to the slightest twitch, with CNBC serving as the conning tower of supply-siders, flat-taxers, Laffer-curve zealots, Reaganauts, hedge-fund ringmasters, and deposed Masters of the Universe who defend corporate interests and decry labor to the last drop of their protein shakes.) As Tucker Carlson pointed out at this February’s annual cpac (Conservative Political Action Conference), in Washington, D.C., so much of the tomahawk fever mobilizing the conservative movement since 1992 was raw, unrefined Clinton hatred—a visceral loathing that transcended doctrinal differences and fused Billary into a burning focal point. Obama doesn’t rouse the same foaming action, except in fringe, nativist, gun-toting-Jesus blogs buried so deep in the reeds of the Internet swamp that even Fox News bookers wouldn’t handle them with sterilized tongs. The trillionaire spending sluicing through the system will flood the defenses of the permanent lobbying-consulting-appropriations apparatus, shifting the sandbars and the magnetic fields of Washington influence. (In 1993, Clinton couldn’t get a $16 billion stimulus bill passed through Congress.) To be wired Republican when the agenda is being set by the Obama–Rahm Emanuel muscle machine is to risk being dial-up in a broadband era, a dinky holdover.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/01/stephen-colbert-rips-apar_n_181673.htmlomfg First time I've seen those Beck clips. Holy shit
The economy business confuses me.
The problem with mark to market rules is it doesn't account for situations like the one we are in right now. The changes might be necessary short term so banks aren't crushed underneath the wight of assets that might have value but are essentially valueless, but I hope (lord I hope) that this is only temporary and that real regulation will follow to fix the underlying cause of the problem.
That article is poorly sourced enough for me to chalk it up to wonk hysteria.
http://us1.institutionalriskanalytics.com/pub/IRAstory.asp?tag=351Make sure you're sitting down before reading that.
Yeah, I mean this image pretty much sums up the European leaders reaction to him:(Image removed from quote.)
Quote from: Cheebs on April 02, 2009, 11:47:52 PMYeah, I mean this image pretty much sums up the European leaders reaction to him:(Image removed from quote.)Yeah some of you need to read up on international affairs. Berlusconi would be an awesome drinking buddy and not much else. And the Russians eh. All smiles fro the camera now but we'll see what happens when the shit hits the fan. Hopefully Obama's charm and rationale still prevails.
Jobs Report:March -663kUnemployment rate 8.5%Jan revised down from -655K to -741kNo February revision
STRASBOURG, France — French President Nicolas Sarkozy offered enthusiastic support for U.S. President Barack Obama’s new strategy in Afghanistan, saying his country was preparing to do more to help the alliance fight there.Sarkozy told a joint news conference after talks with Obama today that France totally endorses and supports America’s new strategy in Afghanistan.Sarkozy added France is prepared to do more in terms of police training and is helping Afghanistan rebuild.... did Michelle blow Sarkozy? He's like our best friend now.Also, did Obama hit that Bruni broad? Hottest politician's wife ever.
Michelle Malkin is outraged about that, Jinfash.Saudi king is a douche, but I guess Obama is just playing politics. Pfft.
When JWF sent a link to the photo with Obama bent down like a serf (further than either he or Michelle dipped for Queen Elizabeth, by the way)
