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UCmeNdc's JournalAlabama's corruption leaves blogger in Jail Indefinitely?
Now that the New York Times and other major media outlets have taken notice of Roger Shuler's plight, you'd think he would become a cause celebré for bloggers everywhere. You'd think that the judge, a crony of politician Bob Riley, would come under high scrutiny for ignoring the First Amendment in his quest to squelch any negativity about Alabama's Favorite GOP Son, Bob Riley.
Nope. Nada.
Matt Osborne:
Alabama has been transformed into Karl Roveistan, a country where it is not safe to be liberal or a Democrat. Political prosecutions have become a normal way of life here while massive political spending and resentment politics have allowed the GOP to take over every statewide office. The “Heart of Dixie” is now entirely under the control of people who often do not seem to regard liberals and progressives as humans, let alone Americans deserving the protection of laws and a Constitution. The unlawful and illegitimate arrest of Roger Shuler is a feature of the new Alabama, not a bug, and if allowed to proceed unchecked we can expect this outrage will also become “the new normal.”
- See more at: http://crooksandliars.com/2014/01/alabamas-corrupt-judges-leave-blogger#sthash.lvCxQXki.dpuf
Rachel Maddow: “The Governor has absolutely and blatantly not told the truth"
The opening segment of Tuesday night's The Rachel Maddow Show is an outstanding example of why Christie’s Bridge-Gate Scandal Boosts Rachel Maddow To Ratings Victory Over Fox News. I wonder what cable news channel Christ Christie watched tonight? Was he curious enough to sit through what Rachel Maddow had to say about him and his disproved denials?
Needless to say, it was must see t.v. and something wonderful to behold. With the skills of Sherlock Holmes, she identified every discrepancy in Christie's assertions and tore apart every inkling of credibility that he might have hoped to retain. She flat out said that statements he has made are provably not true. She might as well have just used the word liar. And then she went on to prove it.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/15/1269754/-Rachel-Maddow-Destroys-Any-Credibility-Chris-Christie-Might-Think-He-Still-Has
GOP filibuster unemployment benefits
The Senate failed to clear the 60-vote hurdle on two proposals to extend unemployment benefits, thanks to a GOP filibuster.
Legislation to bring back unemployment insurance for over a million long-term jobless Americans failed to clear the Senate on Tuesday, leaving no clear path forward.
- See more at: http://crooksandliars.com/2014/01/senate-votes-unemployment-benefit#sthash.T0rLaflF.dpuf
Racial Appeals Have Helped Wreck the Middle Class and is essential to GOP wins
Democracy Now's Amy Goodman and author Ian Haney López take the viewers through the GOP's long history of using racist dog whistles to get people to vote against their own economic interests.
- See more at: http://crooksandliars.com/2014/01/dog-whistle-politics-how-use-coded-racial#sthash.RMxdW0Oj.dpuf
No, Congress, You Shouldn’t “Pay For” Extending Unemployment Insurance
The simple truth is, Democrats are still being outmaneuvered by Republicans on economic policy. They’re letting the GOP call the shots, rhetorically, even though Republicans lost two out of three seats of federal government (the Senate and White House). They even lost the total popular vote for the House of Representatives.
Here’s how Dems fumbled the economic debate. First, they seem to have accepted the Republicans’ insistence that there be no tax increases for corporations, which are reaping record profits, and the very wealthy, who are capturing a historically high percentage of our national income. Democrats have treated this as a fait accompli and barely even mention these tax hikes any more, even though they’re politically popular and urgently needed.
Then Democrats accepted the idea that any new initiatives, even those which address our ongoing economic crisis, must be “paid for.” Since new taxes on the wealthy are off the table, beleaguered poor and middle-class Americans are the only ones left to pick up the tab – either through reduced services or indirect tax hikes that leaves corporations and rich individuals alone.
- See more at: http://crooksandliars.com/2014/01/no-congress-you-shouldn-t-pay-extending#sthash.GEvzxSjs.dpuf
West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin declares a state of emergency after spill contaminates Elk River
A chemical spill into West Virginia's Elk River has led to a tap water ban for up to 300,000 people, shut down bars and restaurants and led to a run on bottled water in some stores as people looked to stock up.
The only safe use for the company's water is to flush down a toilet or put out a fire, Lawrence Messina, spokesman for the state Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety announced on Twitter Thursday evening.
West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin declared a state of emergency Thursday for nine counties and includes West Virginia American Water customers in Boone, Cabell, Clay, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Putnam, and Roane counties.
- See more at: http://crooksandliars.com/2014/01/300000-without-water-after-coal-industry#sthash.w6Jo288s.dpuf
Christie: Incompetent or vindictive ? (Liar)
Editorial Page New York Daily News:
[If you take him at his word] Christie stands as a hardball-playing governor who horribly misjudged or distorted the character of those around him and compounded the felony by trying to skate by their wrongdoing without full investigation. Take his denials of knowledge with skepticism, and the man is a monster.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/08/1268212/-GOP-Newspaper-Thug-Christie-is-Finished
Texas GOP chair attacks ‘Abortion Barbie’ Wendy Davis and ‘Hispanic’ running mate
The chairman of the Denton County Republican Party in Texas said this week that her New Year’s resolution was to defeat state Sen. Wendy Davis (D), who she referred to as “Abortion Barbie,” and also “Hispanic Sen Leticia Van De Putte as her running mate.” In her Jan. 7 newsletter,…
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/09/texas-gop-chair-attacks-abortion-barbie-wendy-davis-and-hispanic-running-mate/
War on Poverty taught women to stay single for handouts, says Fox’s John Stossel
Women have learned to remain single to receive benefits from the government, according to Fox Business host John Stossel, and they want handouts.
Stossel said on Fox News’ Fox & Friends that the “War on Poverty” only helped the nation’s poor for five years. After that, progress stopped because people — particularly women — learned to depend on government handouts, he explained.
“They taught women, ‘better not have a man in your house because you’ll get more money if there’s no guy there,’” Stossel remarked. “And so people adjusted their behavior. And now they want more handout — what didn’t work, the handouts — they want to do more of.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/09/war-on-poverty-taught-women-to-stay-single-for-handouts-says-foxs-john-stossel/
New report kills GOP’s radical agenda, Obamacare slows costs to healthcare?
The furthest-reaching political news of the week has nothing to do with who clogged the George Washington Bridge or what Robert Gates thinks of Barack Obama’s completely justifiable skepticism of David Petraeus and the war in Afghanistan.
It came in a seemingly boring actuarial report from a government agency most people probably have never of, showing that for the first time since the 1990s, total U.S. healthcare spending grew at a slower rate than the U.S. economy at the beginning of the current decade.
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I’ll get to the politics in a minute. But the boiled-down version of the debate is as follows. Healthcare inflation began slowing shortly before Obamacare became law, and has decelerated further since then. It’s certainly possible that this correlation is strictly coincidental — that the slowdown is entirely secular, or so overwhelmingly a symptom of the Great Recession that it will reverse itself when economic recovery is at hand.
But there’s a decent chance that Obamacare has contributed to the slowdown, and prominent health economists — including ones who don’t have dogs in the fight — are engaged in a lively effort to settle this very question. Opinion journalists and political partisans are engaged in a similar debate, although for very different reasons.
http://www.salon.com/2014/01/09/most_important_political_news_this_week_new_report_kills_gops_radical_agenda/
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