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What color is the sky in his world?

30 Tuesday Nov 2010

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Claire McCaskill, Jim Demint, Obama, republicans

Lucille van Pelt. Charle Brown. Football.

This has got to be a joke, right?:

Washington (CNN) — President Barack Obama told GOP leaders behind closed doors Tuesday that he had failed to reach across party lines enough during his first two years in office, a senior administration official told CNN….

That’s why Senator Mitch McConnell (r) said this, right?:

….the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president….

Uh, President Obama, you’re not supposed to help them achieve that goal.

Steve McCroskey, where are you?:

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

Indeed.

Is Claire McCaskill (D) trying to tell us something…

30 Tuesday Nov 2010

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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…about tax cuts for the wealthy?

Senator Claire McCaskill (D) via Twitter today:

@clairecmc We should not give more tax breaks to millionaires. Deficit reduction anyone? about 4 hours ago via ÜberTwitter

@clairecmc Spending cuts also necessary to fight deficit. That’s why I’ve been working on Sessions McCaskill spending cap for over a year. about 2 hours ago via web

Mixed messages?

I dunno, maybe that dubya’s tax windfall for the top 1% broke the budget?

Makes you proud to be a Missourian … or not

30 Tuesday Nov 2010

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Billy Long, cap-and-trade, cowboy hats, EPA regulations, Jim Inhofe, missouri, Phyllis Schlafly

Two little tidbits from my morning’s reading that strike me as a kind of commentary on the state of much of Missouri’s political elite:

The deluded:  Phyllis Schlafly is worried that cap-and-trade may not be dead enough to suit wingnutlandians given the statutory obligation of the EPA to enforce the Clean Air Act. She bases her fears on the insights of Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe whom – get this – she considers to be “the Senate’s environmentalism expert.” Let’s see  … isn’t Jim “global-warming-is-a-hoax” Inhofe the guy who tried to debunk the “hockey stick” model of global warming in a Senate speech by citing research that actually supported it? Hard to believe that there are any people in this state who take Schlafly seriously.

The doofus: “Just call me Billy” Long (R-7 elect) who ran on a “fed up” platform pledging to “make a difference,” has found a way to do just that: Long, who seems to have a cowboy hat glued to his head, wants Speaker John Boehner to relax the House rules about wearing hats on the floor. And guess what? It’s a bipartisan effort since he and Florida’s Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson have banded together as the sole members of the “cowboy hat caucus.” I guess he could be up to much worse – and he probably will be soon enough.

 

Resist the catfood commission

30 Tuesday Nov 2010

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Deficit Commission, missouri, social security

The Deficit Commission is supposed to report its recommendations on Wednesday, December 1st. Tuesday is National Call-in Day to let targeted members of Congress know what we think of the catfood commission. We’ve got to start banging the drums now to fight what the co-chairs, Republican Alan Simpson and Democrat (in name only) Erskine Bowles, hope they can get the commission to propose:

  • Raise the retirement age to 69
  • Cut benefits up to 35%for middle-income workers
  • Cut Social Security’s COLA, which does not pay enough as it is

Please make two quick calls. One minute apiece ought to do it. Just tell Senator Dick Durbin (1-202-224-2152), who is on the commission, to oppose meddling with Social Security. Tell Senator Claire McCaskill (1-202-224-6154) that if and when the issue of cuts to Social Security comes before the Senate, she must consider the program sacrosanct.

After all, Social Security is not the reason we have a deficit.

Social Security has not contributed one dime to our nation’s deficit. The Social Security Trust Fund was built up in preparation for the baby boomers’ retirement. In fact, the annual surpluses in Social Security have been used for years to help balance the federal budget.

Today Social Security is owed $2.6 trillion previously loaned to the federal government to cover the cost of other programs. But budget hawks are arguing that there is not enough money to pay back this loan to Social Security, so their answer is to cut Social Security benefits instead.

Working Americans of all ages have contributed money to Social Security and that money belongs to them, not the government. That money is dedicated to paying promised benefits. Social Security should not be used as a piggy bank to pay for bad fiscal decisions of the past.

What I’d like to know is why the commission has apparently not even considered the eminently practical solutions of making the wealthy pay social security taxes on their whole income (not just the first $106,800 per individual) and halting all borrowing from the trust fund.

Admittedly, we stand a good chance that the commission will fizzle with no recommendation at all on Social Security. It is composed of ten Democrats, including some Blue Dogs, and eight Republicans; for it to make any recommendation, it must get fourteen members to agree. That’s a very high bar. But it makes me simmer that we may have to fight the 2005 battle again, this time with Democrats in charge.  

Time to get in the face of Missouri’s congressional climate deniers?

29 Monday Nov 2010

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Billy Long, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Climate deniers, Climate-gate, IPCC, missouri, Roy Blunt, Vicky Hartzler

You may have heard by now that a seminal climate denier document, a report by one Edward Wegman which purportedly debunked the statistics behind the hockey-stick model of global warming, and which effectively set the stage for the climategate scam, was largely plagiarized from a book by Raymond Bradley, one of the scientists whose work Wegman was trying to discredit. Not surprisingly, scientific illiterate, Senator Joe Barton, who, as the former head of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, commissioned Wegman’s report, has decided to stonewall and still stands by the report “because he claims it ‘found significant statistical issues’ with climate change data.”

However, the scientific writers on the Deep Climate Website, who analyzed the report and verified the charges of plagiarism in the first place, also contend that the problems not only go further, they involve meddling by Barton’s staff in order to bias the findings. Although Wegman has tried to minimize the contributions of Barton’s staff, he cannot hide the fact that he not only plagiarized Bradley (and Wikipedia (!)), but in doing so, omitted key segments of Bradley’s work that would have undermined Wegman’s contentions that there were statistical errors in the hockey-stick paradigm. In other words, like almost all of the denialist “evidence” dredged up and paid for by corporate energy interests, this entire document was bogus from beginning to end.

Nevertheless, it has had the effect that it was designed to have.  As David Kurtz of TPM puts it, by the time that the report was discredited, “it had already made the rounds and accomplished its main purpose: giving climate change deniers a peg to hang their hats on.” This constant denialist noise is the goal of the those who fund and help propagate the attacks on legitimate climate science. A representative of one such organization, the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is on the record about their strategy:

At an October blogger briefing at the Heritage Foundation, Americans For Prosperity president Tim Phillips explained his organization’s plans for defending global warming pollution. A day after his policy director, Phil Kerpen, claimed the organization did not question the science of climate change at a Center for American Progress Action Fund event, Phillips relished in the success of the “UK email scandals” for convincing people of a scientific “conspiracy” … .

And the AFP and similar organizations are succeeding in their effort to discredit climate science. According to the Pew Research Center, in 2006 79% of those polled responded positively when asked about whether there is solid evidence to support global warming. That number has dwindled to 59%.  

It’s not difficult to understand why denialism is slowly prevailing. Each claim against climate science is widely publicized in right-wing blogs and given credence in the right-wing media machine, but when they are disproved, the story appears only in a few major newspapers, a few specialist, climate-science outlets, and perhaps in the back pages of a few smaller newspapers like the St. Louis Post-Dispatch – and then it disappears. The right-wing continues to cite the discredited stories with no reference to the evidence disproving them – and with no push back from the traditional media when they do so.

Instrumental in this process are GOP politicos who, in spite of contrary evidence, continue to mouth claims that there are real, substantive doubts about climate change or the fact that it is due to human activity. FiredUp! Missouri noted a few weeks ago that almost all the members of the newly elected Missouri GOP congressional delegation fall into this camp. Some of them, such as Vicky Hartzler (R-4), who claims to have access to data that disproves global warming, and Billy Long (R-7), who agrees that the “science is questionable,” are probably dim enough to actually believe that they are quoting real science. Some like Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-9) probably find such beliefs convenient and hope to cash in on the anti-science environment to make a name for themselves – witness Luetkemeyer’s proposed legislation that would have denied U.S. funding to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) because it was engaged in “dubious science.” And of course, there is always Roy Blunt who can be counted on to go along to get along, especially with the energy interests who have funded a significant part of his political career.

I am proposing that we not let this latest expose of falsehoods permeating the climate-denialist cabal go gently into that good night.  I would like to see each of the good Missourian GOPers who represent us in Congress repeatedly called to task for their causal repetition of claims that have been shown to be false. They should be asked on what grounds they accept claims that the climate is not changing or that the change is not anthropogenic. They should be asked to respond to the evidence that climategate is a fraud and to the distortions and forgeries at the heart of climate denialism arguments. At the very least, they need to demonstrate that they have sufficient knowledge to be able to evaluate claims about science before they cavalierly dismiss scientific claims and legislate accordingly.

We need to demand that Missouri journalists do a better job in confronting politicians; we need to call them on it via letters and emails and phone calls when they don’t do a good job, and we need to ask those questions of our Representatives ourselves in letters, emails, phone calls, and at constituent meetings – and challenge their answers. If we ever want serious politicians, we need to call out the dim-witted poseurs we have sent to Washington.    

A hate group, the First Amendment, and a funeral in a small town – part 2

29 Monday Nov 2010

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Daily Star-Journal, funeral, Harrisonville, Jacob Carver, meta, missouri, protest, Warrensburg, Westboro Baptist Church

The story of the funeral of Corporal Jacob Carver in Harrisonville, Missouri last Tuesday had national import. This is true for obvious reasons for the family of Jacob Carver and his friends, but also for the community around Harrisonville. The story of a service member who lost his life in Afghanistan and those who mourned him came to the attention of the nation because a hate group decided to protest at his funeral and a community decided to stand up to that hate group. And that community did so very effectively when hundreds, if not thousands, showed up.

We have a cordial relationship with the Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal – most of the time. Over the past few years we’ve given and gained a grudging respect to each other in covering politics and government in Missouri. On occasion we’ve exchanged photographs for publication. That was the case with this story. I contacted Jack Miles, the editor of the Star-Journal, and offered him photographs I took at the protest and counter protest in Harrisonville. He selected one photograph and ran it to accompany an editorial in today’s paper.

The editorial page in today’s Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal. The paper also ran the photograph in color online.

11/29/2010 2:43:00 PM

Protesting protest beats stifling speech

EDITORIAL

Jack Miles

Editor

First in Weston, then in Harrisonville, one group of protestors with strong feelings showed how to defeat the message of an opposing group of protestors – a group that also showed strong feeling – without violence and without stepping on the U.S. Constitution….

….Outrage amplified tremendously only after the Phelps clan targeted military members as a way to get across his anti-gay beliefs. His message is this: The United States is tolerant of gays and for that sin God allows American servicemen and women to die in Iraq and Afghanistan….

….The Constitution is designed to protect unpopular opinions. Pandering lawmakers who try to curry short-term favor with a majority of voters by disregarding the Constitution risk cracking the foundation that supports all of our freedoms.

That is why I say thanks to the good people who waved Old Glory at military funerals at Weston and Harrisonville over the past few weeks to hide the Phelps clan. As shown in Michael Bersin’s Harrisonville photo, supporters of Cpl. Jacob Carver’s family did a fine job of obscuring and marginalizing Phelps legally.

The anti-Phelps protest did not keep the Phelps clan from carrying signs, but did keep them from being seen and causing needless pain to grieving families, and did so without trampling on Phelps’ right – and the right of all Americans – to express unpopular, even profoundly ignorant, views.

The point is well taken. If we all cherish the Constitution and freedom of expression then we need to do something about it, not by diminishing someone else’s rights, but by exercising our own.

That’s what happened in Harrisonville, Missouri last Tuesday. A half a dozen members of a hate group showed up and left earlier than they probably intended because a community decided to speak up, too.

That’s the way it should be.

The gave us a photo credit. See how it’s done, large daily Missouri newspaper owned by a greedy downsizing corporation?

Previously:

A hate group, the First Amendment, and a funeral in a small town (November 23, 2010)

Where to start? (November 23, 2010)

The original photo.

We’re wondering if there were any uncomfortably long pauses…

29 Monday Nov 2010

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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2012, Claire McCaskill, Jim Talent, missouri, Senate

Senator Claire McCaskill (D) via Twitter today:

@clairecmc Just ran into Jim Talent at Lambert. Nice friendly conversation. Asked him if it was gonna be a rematch. He said he “was working through it”  about 4 hours ago  via ÜberTwitter

He’s got to know that he’ll have access to an unlimited amount of money. Then again, he’s got a record to run on.

Uh, would that include bringing a hot meal to everyone without health insurance when they get ill?

28 Sunday Nov 2010

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4th Comgressional District, health care reform, missouri, Vicky Hartzler

U.S. Representative-elect Vicky Hartzler (r) weighs in on repealing health care reform in Friday’s Kansas City Star online:

The wrangling on health care is far from over

….Hartzler said “it is time to listen to the people and repeal this onerous law in favor of common sense reforms…”

Evidently “common sense” means providing a hot meal. From over a year ago:

A health care story

….Randy Huggins:…Last Thursday I went to a health care information forum, I guess you could call it, Vicki Hartzler [a declared Republican candidate for the 4th Congressional District seat] held here. And she had concerns about the legislation and she had things that she liked about the legislation. Then she said she had solutions. The solution that she offered for the pre-existing condition my grandson had was, she offered to bring the family a, a hot meal. [pause] We’re hungry, but that’s not gonna help his heart, so.

SMP: And so, do you, do you feel some frustration when, when dealing with this, you know, the subject of health care reform and when you feel like people give you solutions that really aren’t solutions?

Randy Huggins: Absolutely it’s frustrating. [pause] I, I just, I don’t understand where they’re coming from. Why they can’t see the need to fix, the system’s broken. And they don’t see any need to fix it or to change it in any way. Just….

“…it is time to listen to the people and repeal this onerous law in favor of common sense reforms…”

Yeah, right:

Posted on Monday, November 22, 2010

New poll undercuts GOP claims of a midterm mandate

By Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON – A majority of Americans want the Congress to keep the new health care law or actually expand it, despite Republican claims that they have a mandate from the people to kill it, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.

The post-election survey showed that 51 percent of registered voters want to keep the law or change it to do more, while 44 percent want to change it to do less or repeal it altogether.

Driving support for the law: Voters by margins of 2-1 or greater want to keep some of its best-known benefits, such as barring insurers from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions. One thing they don’t like: the mandate that everyone must buy insurance….

Uh, if there is no individual mandate and you get sick, that’s a pre-existing condition, right? Evidently those people who “don’t like the mandate” believe that if you’re healthy and you don’t want to pay for insurance you shouldn’t have to, but when you get sick you can then buy health insurance to treat your now pre-existing condition at the expense of everyone else who bought insurance before they got sick.

That’s not personal responsibility nor is it even fair.

Well, it is “common sense” in the world of right wingnut republicans. Figures.

The GOP START non-starters

28 Sunday Nov 2010

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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John Danforth, missouri, New START Treaty, nuclear arms control, Richard Lugar, Roy Blunt

Now that the various doofi and charlatans elected through the efforts of the “angry” (befuddled?) Tea Party faithful are doubling down on their efforts to kill the New START nuclear arms control treaty – which had  strong Republican support before the great GOP unwashed bought lock-stock-and-barrel into partisan, anti-Obama obstructionism for its own sake  – those GOPers who retain a minimum of intellectual integrity are starting to see the light. Speaking of a growing Tea Party-led movement to punish Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) for pointing out that opposition to START for political purposes is dangerous to the welfare of the U.S., former Missouri Senator John Danforth indicated his belief that things are getting out of hand, observing that if a politician of Lugar’s stature and foreign policy expertise “is seriously challenged by anybody in the Republican Party, we have gone so far overboard that we are beyond redemption.”

It doesn’t seem to be just the old-line GOP elite like Danforth who feel this way. For example, the “Letters to the Editor” section in today’s St. Louis Post Dispatch consisted entirely of letters deploring and debunking the arguments put forward in an anti-START op-ed by former Missouri Senator Jim Talent.  Not one letter supported Talent’s position.

Yet in spite of the near consensus of informed opinion and the growing public awareness of the issue, Missouri’s new Senator-elect, Roy Blunt has decided to run crazy with the GOP herd, calling for a delay in the START treaty because “no bilateral strategic arms reduction treaty with the Soviet Union or Russia has ever been ratified during a lame-duck session.” He says lame-duck, I say lame. Even certified fools recognize the old stall if you can’t dredge up a substantive objection ploy.

We can only hope that if Harry Reid wants to play at bi-partisanship, he’ll listen to those few remaining GOP pols with some integrity – perhaps Richard Lugar himself who, unlike Blunt, doesn’t seem to feel that working during the last months of a duly elected Senate is a failure to respect his states’ voters, but just doing business. Consequently, Lugar has called for a swift vote in the lame-duck congress and has implored his fellows to “Please do your duty for your country” – something that, novel as it may be for him, Roy Blunt ought to try now that he has been promoted to the supposedly more august Senate.  

UPDATE:  Steve Clemons writes in The Washington Note that Blunt’s position is seriously wrong:

Senators “elect” Roy Blunt (R-MO), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Rob Portman (R-OH), Rand Paul (R-KY) and Marco Rubio (R-FL)** have written to Senator Reid stating, as reported by Joshua Rogin:

On Election Day we were elected to represent the constituents of our respective states in the Senate. Out of respect for our states’ voters, we believe it would be improper for the Senate to consider the New START Treaty or any other treaty in a lame duck session prior to January 3, 2011.

Too bad guys!

You are not yet elected and the incumbent Senators seating in seats they “won” previously have ALL the powers embedded in their positions until 12 noon, January 3rd.

Your efforts to impose your will beforehand are extralegal, irresponsible, and unconstitutional

Of Roy Blunt specifically, he has this to say:

Roy Blunt — this was clever, but you know it was wrong. Dial down please.

But isn’t that always the way with Blunt?  We all know that he, unlike some of the latest crop of GOPers,  knows that what he is doing is usually wrong and what he says about it is, to use the polite term, crap, but he does and says it anyway. Didn’t I say something abut charlatans above?

Where’s Kansas City on fundraising for the 2011 earnings tax vote?

27 Saturday Nov 2010

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campaign finance, earnings tax, Kansas City, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, Proposition A, Rex Sinquefield, St. Louis

The short answer? Nowhere.

Posted on Sun, Nov. 21, 2010 10:15 PM

The Star’s editorial | KC lags St. Louis on earnings-tax battle

….Twenty days later, Kansas City has no campaign committee, no stockpile of funds and no collaborative bid in place to explain to voters all of the good reasons to renew the tax….

Meanwhile, in St. Louis at Citizens for a Stronger St. Louis:

Loss of Earnings Tax Would Be Catastrophic for St. Louis

Without the revenue from the earnings tax, the city would be forced to make massive cuts to public safety services, including to fire and police services.

These cuts would lead to a lost of businesses and population, which in turn would cost the City tens of millions of dollars more in revenue.

A 10% drop in the City’s businesses and population alone would cost St. Louis $31 million. Combined with the lost earnings tax, the City would lose 47% of its current general fund budget.

The results of losing 47% of the City’s discretionary funding “would be so disastrous that they would result in the City’s ruin.”

More than 2,000 jobs in the City would be lost. Source: State Auditor’s Fiscal Note [pdf]

This past week at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

CONTRIBUTION OF MORE THAN $5,000.00 RECEIVED BY ANY COMMITTEE FROM ANY SINGLE DONOR – TO BE FILED WITHIN 48 HOURS OF RECEIVING THE CONTRIBUTION

A101422 CITIZENS FOR A STRONGER ST LOUIS [pdf] 11/24/2010

Husch Blackwell

190 Carondelet Plaza

St. Louis, MO 63105

11/23/2010

$10,000.00

[emphasis added]

Previously:

St. Louis leads the fundraising way on the April 2011 earnings tax vote (November 16, 2010)

Any bets that the Royals follow through for Kansas City? (November 13, 2010)

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