The Okie Himself Says Obama Is Okey-Dokey
Merle Haggard supports Obama? I guess.
Day: June 21, 2012
Pelosi Inadvertently Admits Her Second Greatest Missed Opportunity
I could have arrested Karl Rove on any given day. I’m not kidding. There’s a prison here in the Capitol … If we had spotted him in the Capitol, we could have arrested him.
— House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reacting to Speaker John Boehner’s plan to call a vote on a contempt citation for Attorney General Eric Holder over charges related to the Republicans’ bogus Fast & Furious scandal, and inadvertently naming the second-greatest missed opportunity of of her tenure as House speaker — the first being her decision to take the impeachment of George W. Bush “off the table.”
People Who Respond to Polls Want to Appear Open-Minded About Religion
54%
Of Americans would vote for an atheist or a Muslim (58%) for president, the least among nine hypothetical candidates, according to Gallup. More than 9 in 10 would vote for Jewish, Hispanic, Catholic, female, or black candidates.
Fast and Spurious
Congressional Republicans say they are just curious
About Justice Department docs they say are injurious.
But Obama invoked privilege,
Which pushed them over the edge —
Toward a showdown that’ll just be inglorious.
Wide Partisan Divide Over Immigration
26 percentage points
The gap between Republicans (84%) and Democrats (58%) who say the nation should impose tighter restrictions on immigration.
Daft & Spurious: A Regular American’s Guide to the Tea Party’s Bogus Election-Year Scandal
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If you are as confused as other regular Americans about the “Fast & Furious” controversy that roiled the capitol yesterday, you should watch Rachel Maddow’s backgrounder from her MSNBC show last night — see above or click here.
“Very clearly, they made a crisis, and they’re using this crisis to somehow take away or limit people’s second amendment rights.”
— Rep. Darrell Issa of California, one-time arson and grand-theft auto suspect, now the Republican Party’s chairman of the House Oversight Committee.
— Rep. Darrell Issa of California, one-time arson and grand-theft auto suspect, now the Republican Party’s chairman of the House Oversight Committee.
Maddow points to the bogusness of this controversy as just the latest example of the divide in the country today between the vast majority of normal Americans who are not compulsive Fox News watchers and those whose are.
The conspiracy theory had been incubating on Fox and in right-wing media world for over a year, she says, until yesterday when Republicans “tried drag it out into the mainstream to see if it could survive in the mainstream — see if it could survive outside the right-wing world in which it was incubated.”
The Fast & Furious conspiracy originated in March 2010, Maddow said, which was not coincidentally the same time that the Affordable Care Act passed in Congress. The passage of Obamacare sent tea baggers into fits of rage. They were most enraged about the law’s central feature — and its most conservative, pro-business element — the individual mandate.
The mandate — which was invented by the Heritage Foundation, a thimk tank so right-wing that it is a sponsor of Rush Limbaugh’s show — would require every American to buy insurance, thereby delivering as many as 40 million new, paying customers to giant health insurance corporations.
Fast & Furious Backgrounder – Links to Sources to the Tea Party ‘Scandal’
If you’re new to the tea-party gun-nut Fast & Furious scandal, check out our introduction for regular Americans at this link — and here are a few sources you might also find helpful:
