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Subliminability Commented on Public Option: Something (Easy) You Can Do by Subliminability

2009-07-29T03:48:29Z

yes, I did mean to say "not." Bad habit.

Subliminability recommended Public Option: Something (Easy) You Can Do by Subliminability

2009-07-28T18:47:14Z

Subliminability Commented on Cornyn: We Need F-22 To Protect Us From...India? by Eric Kleefeld

2009-07-24T23:29:48Z

I hear that many Indians are not even U.S. citizens. A grave threat.

Subliminability Commented on CNN Prez to Lou Dobbs: Drop Birther Story by Rachel Slajda

2009-07-24T20:22:38Z

What is Lou's (and the other birthers') explanation for the birth announcement that appeared in the Honolulu newspaper?

Subliminability Commented on Pelosi 'Wants A Bill,' Congress Should Work Through Recess by Brian Beutler

2009-07-22T18:21:32Z

DC is so hot and muggy in August; it's enough to turn a blue dog red.

Subliminability Commented on Inhofe's Quadruple Bank Shot: Criticizes Hillary's Apology For America Over Hoax of Global Warming by Eric Kleefeld

2009-07-22T15:45:01Z

Conservative Standard No. 5 is the futility of regulation (exemplified here by the claim that carbon cap would cause leakage so vast as to lead to net increases in carbon emissions).

Subliminability Commented on U.S. Chamber To Launch Campaign Fighting Public Option by Rachel Slajda

2009-07-21T19:52:14Z

Good opportunity for some highly publicized dissents/defections from Chamber members -- as happened with their opposition to the climate legislation.

Subliminability Commented on Al Franken's Victory Speech by Eric Kleefeld

2009-07-01T00:56:54Z

An intelligent, straight-talking, funny (but serious minded) new Senator! They need the help.

Subliminability Commented on The Minnesota Senate Race Is Over -- Coleman Has Conceded Defeat To Franken by Eric Kleefeld

2009-06-30T20:08:03Z

Congratulations to Eric Kleefeld . . . the second most relieved man in America!

Subliminability Commented on Could It Really Be Over? by Josh Marshall

2009-06-30T19:46:25Z

One difference is that Pawlenty would not be in contempt of court for refusing to sign the certificate, whereas if he were ordered he potentially could be.

I don't think Pawlenty was a party in the litigation, and, at least in most places, courts can't order people to do things unless the people are first made parties to a case.

Subliminability Commented on Could It Really Be Over? by Josh Marshall

2009-06-30T19:32:28Z

This news, plus a user-friendly interactive map to be created by TPM linking market-dominant health insurance companies and the policy positions of their congressional payees, is Excellent News!!!, for opponents of robust health care reform.

Subliminability Commented on Oklahoma Republican Blames Economic Woes On Obama, Debauchery by Brian Beutler

2009-06-30T19:25:22Z

Perhaps the handful of liberals in OK work overtime in all three categories?

Subliminability Commented on Oklahoma Republican Blames Economic Woes On Obama, Debauchery by Brian Beutler

2009-06-30T17:48:15Z

correction: LGBT.

Subliminability Commented on Oklahoma Republican Blames Economic Woes On Obama, Debauchery by Brian Beutler

2009-06-30T17:40:31Z

That would likely be a reference to LBGT Pride Month, as declared by President Obama on June 1.

Unless she is referring to July, which is National Child-Centered Divorse Month, as well as National Horseradish Month.

Subliminability Commented on Oklahoma Republican Blames Economic Woes On Obama, Debauchery by Brian Beutler

2009-06-30T16:31:31Z

Oklahoma should promptly recall its congressional representatives: Why participate in the debauched national policymaking apparatus?

Subliminability Commented on Health-Care Market Characterized By Consolidation, Not Competition by Zachary Roth

2009-06-30T16:08:30Z

Harnessing public anger at corporate greed to the overwhelming public demand for universal coverage seems like a potent combination, maybe even enough to move the United States Senate.

Subliminability Commented on With Climate Change Vote, House Tries To Prod Senate Into Action--Will It Work? by Brian Beutler

2009-06-29T22:51:02Z

I'm sorry, but this is wrong. While far from perfect, the bill is a dramatic improvement over the status quo from the perspective of greenhouse gas abatement -- which is why nearly all environmental groups (including Sierra Club, NRDC, EDF, and many others) are strongly supporting it. Some level of "giveaways" are inevitable if you want a bill on this devilishly hard problem to pass. Allowances under the Acid Rain program were almost all given away for free; this bill relies much more heavily on auctions. The Clean Air and Clean Water Acts relied heavily on grandfathering. You could have a lovely bill with no transition program, and no political log-rolling provisions -- but that bill would never have a chance of getting enacted, until decades hence, when it will be too late.

Subliminability Commented on Revealed: The Sanford/Ensign Connection by Zachary Roth

2009-06-24T19:53:48Z

"Former" convent indeed.

Subliminability Commented on Is Ensign Walking Back Extortion Claim? by Zachary Roth

2009-06-18T17:14:22Z

Not to quibble, but I think this would have been blackmail, not extortion -- the latter of which usually means extracting money by threatening to do things that are independently criminal.

Subliminability Commented on Americans United Calls On Pawlenty To Put Political Ambitions Aside, Certify Franken's Win by Eric Kleefeld

2009-06-02T19:05:41Z

Yeah, and it looks like there's a pretty strong argument that MN law requires him to sign the certificate once the state challenges are resolved.

Subliminability Commented on Axelrod: Limbaugh Has His Own Experiences With The Law by Eric Kleefeld

2009-05-29T22:00:49Z

I'm not British, and I don't overuse the word, but that is brilliant . . . just empathetically feeling for the source of Limbaugh's crazy rants, Axelrod nails him with a booming left hook.

Axelrod deserves every penny he was paid (and all the pennies Mark Penn was paid).

Subliminability Commented on The Coming War on the Word "Empathy" by The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve

2009-05-27T16:51:50Z

Excellent.

At the baser, tit-for-tat level, it is helpful that both GHW Bush (speaking of Thomas) and Robert Bork used the term 'empathy' as characteristics of a good judge.

Subliminability Commented on Sotomayor and the Republicans by Robert Reich

2009-05-27T02:50:29Z

I agree. Franken or no Franken, think the Maine Senators will support a filibuster of this nominee? No way. Unless she failed to pay taxes -- and the likelihood of that is extremely low -- her confirmation seems certain.

Subliminability Commented on Republican Strategist Cites Rosen Article In Attack On Sotomayor by Brian Beutler

2009-05-26T18:58:24Z

Fred Barnes on Fox today likewise invoked the Rosen piece and its original title, adding that it should get more weight become coming from a "liberal" commentator.

Video embedded at:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/26/sotomayor-lightweight/

Subliminability Commented on Dems Hope For Messy GOP Senate Primary In Florida; GOPers Predict Smooth Road For Crist by Eric Kleefeld

2009-05-13T18:49:19Z

True, but for all its tribulations during 2008, the Democratic Party was never engaged in an internecine war over basic philosophy the way the Rs are now. Barack and Hillary were close on the issues.

Subliminability Commented on Anatomy Of A Sotomayor SCOTUS Whisper Campaign by Brian Beutler

2009-05-06T22:19:34Z

Although Sotomayor's world record in high jump has not been equalled or even approached since set in 1994, and although 17 of the 24 highest jumps in recorded history are his, TNR sports commentator Jeff Rosen has spoken to anonymous sources who believe these jumps were aided by updrafts.

Subliminability Commented on Anatomy Of A Sotomayor SCOTUS Whisper Campaign by Brian Beutler

2009-05-06T21:56:45Z

Greenhouse is awesome, but she isn't a lawyer, which isn't constiitutionally disqualifying, but it would be a first.

Subliminability Commented on Anatomy Of A Sotomayor SCOTUS Whisper Campaign by Brian Beutler

2009-05-06T21:23:05Z

Oops, that was meant to be a response to calchala's second commenting below, positing that the whisper campaign dooms Sotomayor's candidacy.

Subliminability Commented on Anatomy Of A Sotomayor SCOTUS Whisper Campaign by Brian Beutler

2009-05-06T21:21:14Z

I don't agree. I don't know who the nominee should be, though from what I know Sotomayor seems like a strong choice (as Wood and Karlan would also be). But this whisper campaign is pretty insubstantial even on its own terms and Sotomayor would not be a hard sell at all if Obama decides to nominate her. If sniping from conservatives, and anonymous jibes from Democrats who favor another candidate, are disqualifying, no one could be nominated.