Hip, Hip Hurrah! Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter are all heroes! They saved the stimulus package (by making it smaller)! Senator Harry Reid just told me so on NPR and God, Charles Darwin and the Flying Spaghetti Monster know he’s never been wrong before. Arlen’s a little unhappy it only has 36% tax cuts, but Susan sounded very chipper.
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There’s a piece over on TPM about how Colliins torpedoed the whistleblower provisions.
How can a party with a 16 vote majority in the Senate roll over (and over and over and over) for the minority party, especially when the minority party is sinking under the weight of a discredited ideology and the worst record of governance–across the board–of any Administration since Ulysses Grant?
Is Harry Reid just being bribed under the table, or does somebody have his mother tied up with a gun pointed to her head, too?
This phony, fake, bogus, fraudulent 60-vote threshold business is a sign of collusion between the Democrats and the Republican lobbyists.
I still believe Reid should make the Rethugs carry out real filibusters to block Obama’s agenda. Stand in the well of the Senate and shout their opposition until the cows die of mad cow disease. It would make great theater and it would also make clear the difference between the party that wants to destroy the country in order to regain power and the party of adults who actually want to prevent a Greater Depression.
But what do I know?
So Mexico says we have lost the war on drugs. http://tinyurl.com/dak3u8
Why don’t we legalize pot, tax the hell out of it and use the revenues for the stimulus package. It will create a multi billion dollar industry overnight.
The industry exists already, it’s more that we ‘subsidize’ drug trade by not taxing it like legal products, providing plenty of incentive for the bad guys. The harder we fight, the stronger the motivation to commit crimes.
It’s actually what would disappear with legalization that is most exciting: international smuggling and associated organized violent crime, prison overcrowding and the #1 tool of institutional racism.
Nah. legalizing pot would just lead to another durn bubble.