Another Seattleite Headed to DC?

Now that we’ve had a taste (pun intended) of Republican deregulation of food safety it’s time to get serious again about protecting our food supply. Perhaps the Chinese model could serve as a prototype — they’re going to shoot the tainted milk profiteers.*

* Hey just kidding! Ann Coulter satire.

Now that we’ve had a taste (pun intended) of Republican deregulation of food safety it’s time to get serious again about protecting our food supply. Perhaps the Chinese model could serve as a prototype — they’re going to shoot the tainted milk profiteers.*

* Hey just kidding! Ann Coulter satire.

Whoa! Stop the presses..

Kevin Hamilton of 2005 Election contest fame is working for Al Franken?

Another one of the voters, an older man named Wesley Briest, initially responded that he voted at the polls — not by absentee. Then Coleman attorney James Langdon showed him his absentee ballot envelope, reminding him that he did not go to the polls, too. Upon cross-examination by Franken lawyer Kevin Hamilton, Briest admitted that his wife, who served as the witness on his ballot, did not fully complete the witness section of the absentee ballot.

As usual, the Republicans are running a shitty case. They don’t stand a chance against a competent attorney.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/colemans-supposedly-friendly-witnesses-backfire.php

Whoa! Stop the presses..

Kevin Hamilton of 2005 Election contest fame is working for Al Franken?

Another one of the voters, an older man named Wesley Briest, initially responded that he voted at the polls — not by absentee. Then Coleman attorney James Langdon showed him his absentee ballot envelope, reminding him that he did not go to the polls, too. Upon cross-examination by Franken lawyer Kevin Hamilton, Briest admitted that his wife, who served as the witness on his ballot, did not fully complete the witness section of the absentee ballot.

As usual, the Republicans are running a shitty case. They don’t stand a chance against a competent attorney.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/colemans-supposedly-friendly-witnesses-backfire.php

As reported in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer website, under “Strange Bedfellows” a couple weeks back.

As reported in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer website, under “Strange Bedfellows” a couple weeks back.

Thanks for stopping by Joel.

Unless it’s too much trouble, paste in the link next time. Kudos to the PI for the scoop on that one.

Thanks for stopping by Joel.

Unless it’s too much trouble, paste in the link next time. Kudos to the PI for the scoop on that one.

Yes, Hamilton is in Minnesota, as is Doug Burman.

Today, a couple of Coleman’s witnesses admitted that they cast illegal absentee ballots. Every day, in every way, this is WA-Gov04 revisited.

Yes, Hamilton is in Minnesota, as is Doug Burman.

Today, a couple of Coleman’s witnesses admitted that they cast illegal absentee ballots. Every day, in every way, this is WA-Gov04 revisited.

Off-topic trolling: About those ‘Herbert Hoover budgets’ being bitch slapped by Krugman groupies on the right-wing margin of HA, remember that Hoover unhinged the budget with unprecedented deficit spending on economic stimulus. Didn’t work for him, didn’t work for FDR …

According to Krugman’s New York Times:

(T)hroughout the 1930s, economic recovery remained frustratingly elusive and arrived only with the buildup for World War II in the 1940s. …
Roosevelt, they say, while brilliant in many ways, did not have a sure grasp of how to guide the economy as a whole. …
During the 1930s, the unemployment rate fell somewhat under Roosevelt, but remained stubbornly high, averaging more than 17 percent for the decade. …

Off-topic trolling: About those ‘Herbert Hoover budgets’ being bitch slapped by Krugman groupies on the right-wing margin of HA, remember that Hoover unhinged the budget with unprecedented deficit spending on economic stimulus. Didn’t work for him, didn’t work for FDR …

According to Krugman’s New York Times:

(T)hroughout the 1930s, economic recovery remained frustratingly elusive and arrived only with the buildup for World War II in the 1940s. …
Roosevelt, they say, while brilliant in many ways, did not have a sure grasp of how to guide the economy as a whole. …
During the 1930s, the unemployment rate fell somewhat under Roosevelt, but remained stubbornly high, averaging more than 17 percent for the decade. …

Maybe if we had less Connelly and more Brendon at the P-I, we’d still have a P-I to kick around. Here’s historian Piers Brendon about PM Anthony Eden during the Suez crisis: “The son of a half-mad baronet and an exceedingly beautiful woman, Eden was said to be a bit of both. He veered between consuming vanity and crippling self-doubt. Eden usually advocated sensible colonial policies and always had the courage of his cliches …”

Of course the bits about half-mad and cliches also accurately describe Connelly. Sux to be you, Joel. See you in the soup line. Maybe you can get seconds, but sixths and sevenths? Forget about it.

Maybe if we had less Connelly and more Brendon at the P-I, we’d still have a P-I to kick around. Here’s historian Piers Brendon about PM Anthony Eden during the Suez crisis: “The son of a half-mad baronet and an exceedingly beautiful woman, Eden was said to be a bit of both. He veered between consuming vanity and crippling self-doubt. Eden usually advocated sensible colonial policies and always had the courage of his cliches …”

Of course the bits about half-mad and cliches also accurately describe Connelly. Sux to be you, Joel. See you in the soup line. Maybe you can get seconds, but sixths and sevenths? Forget about it.

The exact type of public servant we desperately need right now.

s/
Jim, never having operated a bagpipe assembly

The exact type of public servant we desperately need right now.

s/
Jim, never having operated a bagpipe assembly

#7:
Please keep up the fine work, as you present the perfect face of today’s Republican Party.

With Mr. Connelly’s background, proven history of good journalism, and insight, do you really think he’s going to have trouble finding something?

#7:
Please keep up the fine work, as you present the perfect face of today’s Republican Party.

With Mr. Connelly’s background, proven history of good journalism, and insight, do you really think he’s going to have trouble finding something?

So we didn’t get out of the 1930s until the govt. committed to massive overemployment for all, mobilization of the entire nation as directed by govt., higher spending, way higher spending, govt directed takeover of industry to make tanks and planes?

That would seem to confirm Krugman’s main point — this stimulus package does not go far enough. You have to go much, much farther. Like we did in WW2.

And just imagine if the money actually built stuff that didn’t even then get blown up promptly.

So no. 6, please admit you are totally wrong, by the very example you cite.

WW2: Democrat led, full employment, much stricter govt. control of all sectors, full empoyment and valuing every worker, we did miracles.

That about right?

So we didn’t get out of the 1930s until the govt. committed to massive overemployment for all, mobilization of the entire nation as directed by govt., higher spending, way higher spending, govt directed takeover of industry to make tanks and planes?

That would seem to confirm Krugman’s main point — this stimulus package does not go far enough. You have to go much, much farther. Like we did in WW2.

And just imagine if the money actually built stuff that didn’t even then get blown up promptly.

So no. 6, please admit you are totally wrong, by the very example you cite.

WW2: Democrat led, full employment, much stricter govt. control of all sectors, full empoyment and valuing every worker, we did miracles.

That about right?

WW2: Democrat led, full employment, much stricter govt. control of all sectors, full empoyment and valuing every worker, we did miracles.

Aside from the inconvenient truth that 110,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans were underemployed in FDR’s concentration camps, the Keynesian spending of WWII did indeed put America to work building the arsenal of death.

That is, aside from tens of thousands of Americans who became terminally unemployed in Europe and the South Pacific. War is an excellent Keynesian public works project for putting millions to work digging trenches, slit trenches, and graves.

Senator Wheeler, back then, talked about FDR’s rush to war as a New Deal project for plowing under every 4th American boy. Eight years of New Deal never got unemployment below 14%, but Franklin’s Secret War (read Persico’s book) thinned the labor pool and culled the herd.

WW2: Democrat led, full employment, much stricter govt. control of all sectors, full empoyment and valuing every worker, we did miracles.

Aside from the inconvenient truth that 110,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans were underemployed in FDR’s concentration camps, the Keynesian spending of WWII did indeed put America to work building the arsenal of death.

That is, aside from tens of thousands of Americans who became terminally unemployed in Europe and the South Pacific. War is an excellent Keynesian public works project for putting millions to work digging trenches, slit trenches, and graves.

Senator Wheeler, back then, talked about FDR’s rush to war as a New Deal project for plowing under every 4th American boy. Eight years of New Deal never got unemployment below 14%, but Franklin’s Secret War (read Persico’s book) thinned the labor pool and culled the herd.

(That’s a forefather from Gangs of New York, by the way …)

Joel gives Big Media, BM, a bad name and a bad smell. Still, stink isn’t disqualifying for general admission to the soup lines. Will give Big Joel, BJ, a chance to suck up some prole chic and some gruel. Sounds like a progressive wet dream.

(That’s a forefather from Gangs of New York, by the way …)

Joel gives Big Media, BM, a bad name and a bad smell. Still, stink isn’t disqualifying for general admission to the soup lines. Will give Big Joel, BJ, a chance to suck up some prole chic and some gruel. Sounds like a progressive wet dream.

With the news that there is Mercury in a large percentage of high fructose corn syrup and that the FDA has known about it since 2005 and done nothing; I’m liking that someone who actually cares about food safety might be going to DC.

With the news that there is Mercury in a large percentage of high fructose corn syrup and that the FDA has known about it since 2005 and done nothing; I’m liking that someone who actually cares about food safety might be going to DC.

Seems there’s been just one instance in any living person’s memory that a publicly-funded project was undertaken aside from warfare, that put a great many people to work, stimulated the economy in the short term, and spawned a plethora of technical advances that led to decades of real growth, and that was the space program in its heyday.

Seems there’s been just one instance in any living person’s memory that a publicly-funded project was undertaken aside from warfare, that put a great many people to work, stimulated the economy in the short term, and spawned a plethora of technical advances that led to decades of real growth, and that was the space program in its heyday.

Uh huh, 14. Too bad for your assertion that progressive historian William Manchester wrote that JFK’s space program was the mother of all boondoggles.

Uh huh, 14. Too bad for your assertion that progressive historian William Manchester wrote that JFK’s space program was the mother of all boondoggles.