Rather busy for an “off day” so a short post will have to do. A huge stack of papers to process and grade. Here are the gems among what I ran across on this rainy Monday as I could not get any work outside accomplished. The ground has been wet for most of the winter and I really need to get some work done!
Glenn Greenwald reminds us that the FISA/NSA oversight issue is hardly over and in fact may just be heating up. While I’m sure Alabama’s Jeff Sessions, whom I might actually try to visit with on Wednesday when he come near the Highlands, will cover for Bu$hCo. I certainly will be tempted to ask Jefferson Beauregard about Stormie and now also Scarlotte. Jeffy is apparently THE MAN! You know what they say about men with big ears. And puppets!
Kos sends us to Simon Rosenberg for “It is shaping up to be a very bad year for the GOP” and Kos’ Georgia10 hits Bu$hCo on the United Arab Emirates’s Dubai Ports World purchasing, for 6.8 billion, the keys to several major East Coast ports.
Michelle Pelicki posting at HuffPo reminds us that Ann Coulter is a liar. Angry Ann’s recent “raghead” remarks earned her a bit of a scolding from Michelle Malkin, another flamethrowing ReThuglican shrill in a skirt, and yet Ann keeps cashing in enough to be able to afford Palm Beach property. Why doesn't Ms. Coulter live in the good old Heartland Red States that she professes to value so much?
Josh Eidelson serves up, via TPM Café, a nice piece on Bu$hCo’s “fair weather federalism” showing us how this administration, prompted by one of many conservative think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute, has actively encouraged limits on state power that threaten the pocketbooks of the Big Mules. This Eidelson work tied in nicely with a Nathan Newman and David Sirota In These Times article that dropped today reminding us how the business interests are hemming up progressive efforts at the state level. Big money has a firm hand on many of the states just in case their hold at the federal level starts to slip. I am very interested in Progressive Legislative Action Network, an organization set to launch soon that might help counter this effort.
Peace … or War.
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