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The casual violence of GOP rhetoric, or what’s new in Todd Akin’s lalaland

31 Friday Aug 2012

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missouri, political rhetoric, Rick Tyler, Todd Akin Carl Rove

I know I’ve implied that various GOP big guns, both nationally and at the state level, would like to spit in Todd Akin’s face. But I never imagined that the idea of homicide was floating through their fevered dreams. However, Carl Rove managed to go there, all in good fun of course:

Rove joked to donors in Tampa on Thursday, “If he’s found mysteriously murdered, don’t look for my whereabouts!”

It must be killing Rove, this democracy thingie, where you have to actually defer to the will of the people, no matter how misguided. Especially since, as Fired up Missouri has pointed out, he’s got five, count ’em, five far more tractable candidates lined up, gussied up and guaranteed to walk the party line with no unseemly drama, all of them salivating to take Akin’s place. Additionally – and this must really hurt – he’s also got 70 very rich donors who’d probably like nothing more than to buy one of these good little GOP boys or girls a Senate seat.

For his part, Akin’s making the requisite outraged noises, but in a rather muted key, as behooves one who believes in turning the other cheek – at least as long as there’s some hope that the GOP moneymen will relent:

Given the current FBI investigation of threats against Congressman Akin and calls for acts of violence and rape against his family and staff, joking as to the potential murder of Congressman Akin is deeply disturbing,” Akin’s congressional press secretary Steve Taylor said in a statement Friday. “I am certain he misspoke.”

And, indeed, he is getting some assistance from the world of professional GOPdom in the person of a a former aide to Newt Gingrich, Rick Tyler, who’ll be helping out the Akin family members who’ve been responsible for running his campaign up to now. It’ll be interesting to see if the campaign takes on a more polished tone. Is it really possible to disguise a skunk by giving it a professional dyejob?

Wherein Mitt Romney says nothing substantive, but it’s OK because he’s a real American

31 Friday Aug 2012

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Never has a political campaign made it so easy for their opponents. The Obama campaign didn’t even have to work to come up with the excellent video summary of Mitt Romneys convention speech (below) which describes Romney’s purported “plan” for America. My question: who calls a set of nice-sounding but fuzzy goals a plan? Isn’t this guy supposed to be an MBA? As I remember from my days as a manager, a plan also needs, in jargon-speak, specific “deliverables” and strategies for attaining them. If Mitt were to package his “plan” as his “aspirations” that would be nice, but then, of course, they don’t differ to much from what we all would wish for. Which, I think, means that anyone of us might do just as well as Mitt in the presidency – who’s to really know?

Of course, the Obama folks are more than willing to fill in some of the blank spaces that Romney left:

For me the real attention grabber in the clips from Romney’s speech – I think it rolled over my head last night – was the part (abut 53 seconds in) where he says that “when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.” Do you possibly think that the implication is that President Obama and those of us who agree with his (real, actual) policy proposals aren’t real Americans? Evidently, real Americans are those, like Romney, who don’t dare let anyone know what it is they’re really proposing to do. Hence, the innuendo directed at the Kenyan President, and fuzzy feel-good rhetoric which is supposed to make the ignorant hoi polloi feel good about Mittens. Holy shades of Sarah Palin! Haven’t we had enough of this kind of tripe already?  

The republican establishment and Todd Akin (r)

31 Friday Aug 2012

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Democracy is just so, you know, inconvenient.

Contrast this:

Exclusive: Inside Karl Rove’s Billionaire Fundraiser

By Sheelah Kolhatkar on August 31, 2012

On the final morning of the Republican National Convention, Karl Rove took the stage at the Tampa Club to provide an exclusive breakfast briefing to about 70 of the Republican party’s highest-earning and most powerful donors. During the more than hour-long session, Rove explained to an audience dotted with hedge fund billionaires and investors-including John Paulson and Wilbur Ross-how his super PAC, American Crossroads, will persuade undecided voters in crucial swing states to vote against Barack Obama. He also detailed plans for Senate and House races, and joked, “We should sink Todd Akin. If he’s found mysteriously murdered, don’t look for my whereabouts!”

[….]

With this:

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D): “Vets For Claire” listening tour in Parkville (August 24, 2012)

[….]

Question: if you had a vote would you prefer that he stay in or stay out?

Senator McCaskill: I don’t have a vote. Um, the people have a vote. And the people have voted. They have voted by a very comfortable margin that, um, they want Todd Akin to represent them in this election. And so he and I will have this race, and we will discuss the differences we have, and then the people will have another vote and they’ll decide whose voice they want in the United States Senate.

[….]

So, tell us again, who respects Democracy?

Furniture and the RNC

31 Friday Aug 2012

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invisible chair., Mitt Romney Clint Eastwood, Obama, president

The American President (1995)

….We’ve got serious problems, and we need serious people, and if you want to talk about character, Bob, you’d better come at me with more than a burning flag and a membership card. If you want to talk about character and American values, fine. Just tell me where and when, and I’ll show up. This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up. My name is Andrew Shepherd, and I am the President.

Apparently, some angry person at the RNC babbled on about invisibility with a chair prop on stage last night.

Invisible Obama ‏@InvisibleObama

Someone should tell Marco Rubio he’s standing on my foot right now. 9:24 PM – 30 Aug 12

I was otherwise engaged.

Michael Bersin ‏@MBersin

I had the opportunity to watch a really embarrassing event on national television tonight, instead I ended up watching the KC Chiefs. 8:46 PM – 30 Aug 12

Someone caught the invisiblity chair thingy:

Snap.

Akin goes on the attack – dismisses his “six second mistake”

31 Friday Aug 2012

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Claire McCaskill, Mediare, missouri, Political lies, stimulus, Todd Akin

Todd Akin thinks he’s being treated unfairly – after all, he only made a “six second mistake” when he mispoke about lady parts, rape and the right to chose not to carry your rapist’s baby:

“My six-second mistake is well known. But Claire McCaskill’s six-year record is something you should know.  “McCaskill voted with Obama 98 percent of the time. She cast the deciding vote to pass Obamacare, that cuts Medicare by over $700 billion dollars. She voted for Obama’s budget-busting stimulus spending and raised our taxes but didn’t pay her own.

What’s this election about? Saving our country.

I’m glad that Akin feels so sanguine about his little misadventure in expressing his deepest beliefs. He wants us to think that Claire McCaskill’s six year record more than balances his little error – and maybe to the reality-challenged rigtwingers who form his base that’s the case. Who can account for lunatics anyway?

However, in common with Missouri GOP spokesperson, Mr. Prouty, whom we referenced in a previous post, Brother Todd has failed to get his facts straight. He thinks Claire McCaskill has voted with Obama 98% of the time. First of all what does 98% of the time mean? Much of what Claire McCaskill and other senators have voted on is routine, or otherwise so removed from the scope of partisan distinction that it’s almost impossible to make quantitative statements of this sort – and if you do, I’d really want to know what your criteria is. We’ve already noted (and documented) the fact elsewhere that McCaskill’s voting record is a lot more complex than can be digested in simple soundbites – and it’s far from always being congenial with a progressive, or even the Obama administration agenda (and, FYI, they’re not always the same thing either).

But where Todd, who likes to claim that he’s an honest man, really oversteps the boundaries of truth is when he echoes the dishonest claims about Medicare that are also being promulgated by Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. As I am now writing for the umpteenth hundred time, the $750 billion that Obamacare cuts from Medicare are mostly administrative costs, including subsidies to private supplemental insurance programs with inflated costs. These supplemental programs will not go away, but will be tied to quality metrics so that we get a better bang for the buck. As The Swampland notes, The Obamacare cuts that Claire McCaskill supported will not change the program’s benefits:

The idea, however, that the Affordable Care Act struck a dangerous blow to Medicare that will change the program in fundamental ways is untrue. Under the new law, Medicare will remain a wildly popular, public single-payer health insurance system that provides comprehensive coverage to millions of Americans.

Nor does pious Brother Todd tell us that he voted for the Ryan budget that makes those same identical cuts, plows the money’s into the deficit (where it’s hardly a drop in the bucket) instead of using it to expand benefits, and then, after taking the Medicare loose change, voucherizes Medicare, essentially destroying the program for current as well as the future retirees who are the only ones Ryan says will be affected. Pretty devastating. And just like the lying Romney/Ryan duo, Todd hasn’t got the cojones to admit what he’s proposing to do with Medicare, but tries to lay it off on Claire McCaskill. For shame, Rep. Akin.

Oh, and by the way – there is a consensus among economists is that the stimulus did work. But I’ll give Brother Todd a pass on his naysaying piece of GOP BS on the topic since he probably gets his economic information from the same sources who told him about the birds and bees.  

Interestingly, you rarely see one of these on a new Mercedes

31 Friday Aug 2012

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Spotted in west central Missouri.

It’s probably not Mitt Romney’s (r) vehicle.

Standing up for McCaskill: She is what she says she is

30 Thursday Aug 2012

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Claire McCaskill, Jonathon Prouty, missouri, Missouri GOP, Political lies, Todd Akin

It’s time to point out some home truths about Claire McCaskill’s voting record. Why, you ask, is this important? Anyone can check out her record online – anyone who’s interested in the truth that is. But the fact is that she’s a  Democrat running against the Republican machine and Republicans in general are no longer interested in the truth. Just consider the Romney campaign functionary who recently declared that “we’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers strategy.” Which is to say, truth be dammed. And it’s becoming equally clear that Missouri Rpublicans aren’t going to let the campaign against Claire McCaskill be dictated by facts either.

Although the state GOP is clinging to the story that they too scorn the their bumpkinish Senatorial candidate, Todd Akin, Talking Points memo reports that their disdain has not, in fact, stopped them from launching the usual dishonest attacks aimed at Claire McCaskill. I sympathize. I know how hard it is to keep quiet in the midst of a violent spleen attack; I lived through eight years of President George W. Bush after all. Nevertheless, after sampling their rhetoric, I would recommend that if these folks have to throw tantrums, they try for just a smidgen of accuracy. Specifically, a GOP official in a fit of high dudgeon claimed in response to a McCaskill ad:

This is about Claire McCaskill’s disingenuous effort to paint herself as a moderate when she clearly is not,” Missouri GOP communications director Jonathon Prouty told TPM. “We have always worked to hold McCaskill accountable, and we will not allow her to get away with distorting her record of rubber-stamping Barack Obama’s agenda.”

Buddy, from where I’m sitting here on the real left, not the GOP fantasy left, McCaskill is a moderate’s moderate. If you examine her record carefully, you’ll see that she’s voted with Republicans and she’s voted with Democrats. She’s made me screaming mad so many times I can’t count them – and I’ve probably also written thanking her for standing up for the good of the average Missourian just as many times.  Mr. Prouty should get it clear in his head that there’s a big difference between moderates and Republicans. The former are still able to think for themselves.

You want to know what drives progressives into a fury, just consider the fact that McCaskill’s votes on energy policy and regulation have frequently been in sync with one the oil industry’s favorite congressman, Roy Blunt – in spite of the fact that she doesn’t benefit nearly as much from the generosity of the energy industry. She’s been consistent about her approach to energy from the beginning, even though many of her votes angered those of us who make up the Democratic base. Her main goal has been to save Missourians from any increases in their utility and gas bills. Short term thinking that will catch up with all of us, but you sure as shooting can’t call it rubber stamping the Obama administration agenda.

McCaskill also, sadly, immediately broke with progressives on the question of deficit reduction, which most of us on the left think should be deferred until the economy has recovered more fully. McCaskill, though, has been seriously hawkish about deficit spending. She actually introduced legislation that would have drastically capped spending; heck, she she even voted against extending Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Emergency Contingency Fund (ECF) funding.  Wrong-headed, yes. Obama rubber stamp, no way.

On the liberal side, McCaskill’s been equally consistent in her positions. She’s been a stalwart if somewhat muted defender of a women’s reproductive rights. She stands up for union people, including currently unpopular public unions, the teachers, firemen and policemen that the Republicans think we can do without. She defends the minimum wage, because she’s been around long enough to realize that the “job-killing” claim the GOP makes against it is so much smoke – a fair minimum wage brings prosperity to everyone. She seems willing to insist that the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes, although she’s willing to quibble about what that share might be. McCaskill also stands closer to the liberal side of the aisle when it comes to protecting Medicare and Social Security, while her opponent, Todd Akin is on the record for turning Medicare into a voucher program and privatizing Social Security.

And yes, Virginia, Claire McCaskill voted for Obamacare. And someday, when the disinformation campaign that the right has waged against this historic legislation has faded away, a much older Claire McCaskill will be able to point with pride to her vote which helped insure affordable health care for all Americans. As far as I’m concerned, this single vote means that Claire McCaskill passes an important test – she voted for a program that would make America a better place and, given the fury of the conservative campaign to demonize that program, she did it at the risk of her career.

For the most part, though, McCaskill’s votes have been on non-controversial issues, and bills that’s she’s introduced or sponsored have been equally non-controversial, directed at cutting waste and fraud in government contracting, at promoting transparency in campaign spending, and at protecting our veterans, along with some short-sighted efforts to cut the deficit – which prompted Slate’s Dave Weigel to dub her a “Tea Party Democrat” – a label that becomes even more ironic when one recollects McCaskill’s consistent vendetta against and refusal to take earmarks – while Tea Party caucus member Todd Akin defended the practice as ” an extension of a lawmaker’s constitutional duty to appropriate money.”

If you consider the voting records and achievements of both Claire McCaskill and Todd Akin, I think that you will have to conclude that McCaskill is just as she presents herself – a mostly reasonable, sometimes wrong-headed, centrist Democrat, who, no matter how she strays when it comes to progressive orthodoxy, manages to get lots of good, neutral, center-of-the-road stuff done. On the other side of the equation stands a bible-spouting zealot who in ten years hasn’t put forward any non-ideological initiatives; nor has he accomplished much of anything for Missourians besides warm his back bench perch, vote reliably for right-wing causes, and stick his foot in his mouth on a regular basis.

Sadly, since Republicans can’t point to positive achievements or sympathetic policy positions, they seem to think that their only alternative is to exaggerate, distort and outright lie, not only about the other guy, but about what they themselves stand for. Just as Paul Ryan told one whopper after another in his convention speech last night, we can expect to hear more lies and exaggerations about Claire McCaskill’s record over the next two months. Strength, brothers and sisters – we’ll need it as the Grand Old Party morphs into the party of grand mendacity.

 

PPP, 8-28/29/2012: Stakin in there

30 Thursday Aug 2012

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2012 elections, Claire McCaskill, Public Policy Polling, Todd Akin, United States Senate

The latest from Public Policy Polling says: Claire 45, Akin 44

So, the changes from last week:

Akin’s support with Rs up from 71% to 78%, Akin’s support with Ds up from 8% to 15%, Akin’s support with Independents down from 45% to 38%.

McCaskill’s overall approval down 1%, down 7% with Dems, down 5% with Reps and up 2% with Independents.

Yes, this doesn’t add up, because this poll was 33D/35R/32I, up from 30D/39R/32I. Nice to see that the likely voter universe has changed a bit in the last week. (Their likely voter model may still hang up on you if you didn’t vote in 2010)

But in the spirit of fairness, I hope for a poll next week conducted over days 1 and 2 of the DNC.

Full results

August 20th flash poll results in parentheses

Q1 Do you approve or disapprove of President Barack Obama’s job performance?

Approve 39% (42%)

Disapprove 55% (55%)

Not sure 5% (3%)

Q2 Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Mitt Romney?

Favorable 51% (48%)

Unfavorable 43% (45%)

Not sure 6% (6%)

Q3 If the candidates for President this year were Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, who would you vote for?

Barack Obama 41% (42%)

Mitt Romney 53% (52%)

Undecided 6% (7%)

Q4 Do you approve or disapprove of Senator Claire McCaskill’s job performance?

Approve 40% (41%)

Disapprove 55% (53%)

Not sure 5% (5%)

Q5 Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion

of Todd Akin?

Favorable 33% (24%)

Unfavorable 56% (58%)

Not sure 11% (18%)

Q6 The candidates for Senate this fall are Democrat Claire McCaskill and Republican Todd Akin. If the election was today, who would you vote for?

Claire McCaskill 45% (43%)

Todd Akin 44% (44%)

Undecided 11% (13%)

Q7 Do you think Todd Akin should withdraw from the US Senate race, or not?

He should withdraw 37%

He should not 54%

Not sure 9%

Q8 Do you accept Todd Akin’s apology for the comments he made last week, or not?

Accept his apology 53%

Do not 40%

Not sure 7%

Q9 Who did you vote for President in 2008?

John McCain 49% (49%)

Barack Obama 44% (44%)

Someone else/Don’t remember 7% (7%)

Q10 Would you describe yourself as very liberal,

somewhat liberal, moderate, somewhat

conservative, or very conservative?

Very liberal 8% (9%)

Somewhat liberal 12% (16%)

Moderate 33% (27%)

Somewhat conservative 29% (29%)

Very conservative 19% (19%)

Q11 If you are a woman, press 1. If a man, press 2.

Woman 55% (53%)

Man 45% (47%)

Q12 If you are a Democrat, press 1. If a Republican, press 2. If you are an independent or identify with another party, press 3.

Democrat 33% (30%)

Republican 35% (39%)

Independent/Other 32% (32%)

Q13 If you are white, press 1. If African-American, press 2. If other, press 3.

White 82% (74%)

African-American 10% (-)

Other 8% (26%)

Q14 If you are 18 to 29 years old, press 1. If 30 to 45, press 2. If 46 to 65, press 3. If you are

older than 65, press 4.

18 to 29: 18% (12%)

30 to 45: 25% (22%)

46 to 65: 37% (46%)

Older than 65: 20% (20%)

Campaign Finance: Who would want to politicize the judiciary?

30 Thursday Aug 2012

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Uh, people with a lot of money, as opposed to people with very little money?

Previously:

The irony impaired opponent of the “Missouri Court Plan” (January 31, 2008)

The irony impaired opponent of the “Missouri Court Plan” – part 2 (May 13, 2009)

On the November 2012 ballot:

Constitutional Amendment 3

[Proposed by the 96th General Assembly (Second Regular Session) SJR 51]

Official Ballot Title:

Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to change the current nonpartisan selection of supreme court and court of appeals judges to a process that gives the governor increased authority to:

       appoint a majority of the commission that selects these court nominees; and

       appoint all lawyers to the commission by removing the requirement that the governor’s appointees be nonlawyers?

[emphasis added]

Law firms with a vested interest in an actual, you know, functioning state judiciary have started to line up to write checks to preserve the Missouri Court Plan against this corporatist and right wingnut assault by initiative.

The irony here is in the transparency.

This month, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C121294 08/04/2012 MISSOURIANS FOR FAIR AND IMPARTIAL COURTS COMMITTEE Simmons Browder Gianaris Angelides & Barnerd LLC One Court Street Alton IL 62002 8/3/2012 $10,000.00

C121294 08/09/2012 MISSOURIANS FOR FAIR AND IMPARTIAL COURTS COMMITTEE SRC Holdings Corporation 531 S. Union Ave Springfield MO 65802 8/8/2012 $10,000.00

C121294 08/17/2012 MISSOURIANS FOR FAIR AND IMPARTIAL COURTS COMMITTEE Langdon & Emison 911 Main Street Lexington MO 64067 8/15/2012 $10,000.00

C121294 08/22/2012 MISSOURIANS FOR FAIR AND IMPARTIAL COURTS COMMITTEE The Simon Law Firm, P.C. 800 Market Street Suite 1700 Saint Louis MO 63101 8/21/2012 $25,000.00

C121294 08/23/2012 MISSOURIANS FOR FAIR AND IMPARTIAL COURTS COMMITTEE O’Brien Law Firm, P.C. 815 Geyer Ave Saint Louis MO 63104 8/22/2012 $10,000.00

C121294 08/25/2012 MISSOURIANS FOR FAIR AND IMPARTIAL COURTS COMMITTEE Robb & Robb LLC 1200 Main Street Suite 3900 Kansas City MO 64105 8/24/2012 $25,000.00

C121294 08/29/2012 MISSOURIANS FOR FAIR AND IMPARTIAL COURTS COMMITTEE Simmons, Browder, Gianaris, Angelides & Barnerd LLC One Court Street Alton IL 62002 8/28/2012 $10,000.00

[emphasis added]

Gee, we seem to have a good idea about some of the people opposed to the November initiative gutting the Missouri Court Plan.

Campaign Finance: Bam!

29 Wednesday Aug 2012

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Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C001135 08/29/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Missouri DRIVE Fund 1850 E. Division Street Springfield MO 65803 8/27/2012 $40,000.00

C001135 08/29/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Democratic Governors Association – Missouri 2201 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Suite 320 Washington DC 20007 8/27/2012 $470,000.00

C001135 08/29/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Teamsters 245 PAF 1850 E. Division Street Springfield MO 65803 8/27/2012 $10,000.00

Previously: Campaign Finance: Dave Spence (r) writes his campaign another monster check (August 19, 2012)

I dunno, a $750,000.00 check does tend to make a $470,000.00 check look small.

As if there’s gonna be any more television commercial time to purchase?

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