A Tax Cut Compromise for Almost Everyone - With Poll

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Saturday November 13, 2010 · 8:25 AM PST

2010/11/13 · 08:25

There's been much Sturm und Drang in the last few days over the expiration of the Bush tax cuts and what Obama should do about it. Obama has made clear that he wants a middle class tax cut AND that he opposes the Bush extension for the upper income brackets--but shortly after the November spanking, he backed off and started to signal a compromise position. He may be feigning an effort at decoupling the cuts, but many progressives are afraid he'll ultimately cave and compromise with an temporary extension of Bush's cuts OR worse with a permanent extension.

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Democrats should ...

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Democrats should ...

Let the tax cuts expire

25 votes

Compromise on a temporary extension of Bush tax cuts (2 years)

1 vote

Compromise on a permanent extension of Bush tax cuts

3 votes

Introduce a bill that only extends the cuts for those making 250k or below. Veto anything else

37 votes

Introduce a bill that only extends the cuts for those making 500k or below. Veto anything else

23 votes

Introduce a bill that only extends the cuts for those making 500k or below. Consider temporary extension of Bush tax cuts if all else fails.

4 votes

Other...I'll tell you MY genius plan in the comments

4 votes

Hidden Histories: The OTHER 9/11-Chile under Pinochet

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Saturday September 11, 2010 · 10:33 AM PDT

2010/09/11 · 10:33

Today, September 11th marks an anniversary of terrorism and mindless violence perpetrated against a largely innocent population. But it’s not only the twin towers attacks in New York city that has an anniversary on 9/11, that date also marks the 1973 coup d'etat in Chile by one of the most brutal dictators of the 20th century—Augusto Pinochet.

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Sunday July 25, 2010 · 9:11 AM PDT

2010/07/25 · 09:11

There’s general agreement that the Bible has a word or two to say about man’s relationship to the environment. The most commonly quoted verse is from Genesis, 1:28:

...Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth (Gen. 1:28).

This can be read as God giving mankind free reign over every living creature, environmental consequences be damned. The more moderate view argues that man must act as responsible stewards for the earth and all its creatures. Both interpretations assume that Man, through the auspices of God, knows what’s best and that there’s a certain alignment between the notion of man’s continued ‘fruitfulness’ and a healthy environment.

But is that the case? What if man’s effort to ‘be fruitful and multiply’, to seek a stable food supply and to protect his species through the modest means of agriculture are actually what is causing (and has caused) environmental crisis after environmental crisis? Most available evidence indicates that’s exactly the case.

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Tuesday December 15, 2009 · 7:25 PM PST

2009/12/15 · 19:25

Here's a Hidden History that will broadcast tommorrow regarding Joe Lieberman's glaring conflict of interests in the Healthcare Reform area.

This is, hopefully, a nice compact (less than 2mins) MP3 on Lieberman and his wive's various problems--to put it kindly -- with their continued genuflection at the altar of big Pharma....

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Thursday August 20, 2009 · 9:12 PM PDT

2009/08/20 · 21:12

Arthur Frommer, travel guru and a man who has, to say the least, been around has suggested in a recent blog post that he will not be traveling to Arizona because of the outrageous behavior of its gun toting citizens and he's debating whether to warn others against the place in his travelogues--as a national boycott.

Good on him. A lovely little boycott ought to make the citizens of Arizona remember that despite their so called 'independence' they live out on a baked chunk of land that would be a reasonably desperate piece of desolation if it weren't for the other 49 states (place a good chunk of the world) providing them with tourist dollars.

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Sunday August 09, 2009 · 8:15 PM PDT

2009/08/09 · 20:15

Just returned from leafleting in nearly 100 degree weather for the public option at our famous (infamous?) Water Melon Festival, in Richmond, VA, capital of the ex-Confederacy and home of quite a few fellow traveling tea baggers.

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Tuesday January 27, 2009 · 6:36 PM PST

2009/01/27 · 18:36

If you hit google news right now (01/27/2009, approx. 7:45 EST), you would see the"Death of John Updike" ensconced between a headline heralding "Obama Visits Capitol to Press Republicans on Stimulus Plan" and another far more crude declaring "Man Kills His Wife and 5 Children".

Updike would find his obit caught thus between the proverbial rock of a politics he never really liked or understood (he was much more conservative than liberal) and the hard place of the brute philistine of human nature (he was a soft spoken gentleman of letters who was both hospitable as well as charming) par for the course.

He had a knack for being caught between those extremes.

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Monday January 19, 2009 · 6:19 PM PST

2009/01/19 · 18:19

What you need to know is that Pete Seeger is 89 years old and according to Tommy Stevenson of the Tuscaloosa News he actually hoboed with Woody during the Depression and Dust Bowl. When he got on the stage with Springsteen, he had the crowd sing the song, "This Land", as it was actually written, as not only a celebration of this great land, but as a demand for workers' and people's rights.

That is, he restored the verses that have been censored from the song over the years to make it less political. Orginal lyrics after the jump.

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Tuesday November 18, 2008 · 7:31 AM PST

2008/11/18 · 07:31

From a discussion on Prop 8. Newt Gingrich in all his nuthood

GINGRICH: Look, I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence, to use harassment. I think it is prepared to use the government if it can get control of it. I think that it is a very dangerous threat to anybody who believes in traditional religion. And I think if you believe in historic Christianity, you have to confront the fact. And, frank -- for that matter, if you believe in the historic version of Islam or the historic version of Judaism, you have to confront the reality that these secular extremists are determined to impose on you acceptance of a series of values that are antithetical, they're the opposite, of what you're taught in Sunday school.

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Sunday November 16, 2008 · 8:22 AM PST

2008/11/16 · 08:22

Looks like the Church of the Latter Day Saints and its various fund raising entities are getting some serious blow back from the gay community because of their support for the anti-Gay marriage initiative, Proposition 8.

Here, in one pleasant reading is the list of all those who contributed to the Mormon effort to make gay folks second class citizens.

I can't say that I blame them. Now Rick Moran and a few other dim bulbs on the right are railing against this because....

Rather than trying to change their opinion, they are making these people enemies for life. And carrying out pogroms like this against people who oppose gay marriage based on their religious beliefs borders on bigotry

To which one can respond in one of three ways:

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Saturday November 08, 2008 · 6:28 AM PST

2008/11/08 · 06:28

On Tuesday, Americans chose as their next president an African-American named Barack Obama who campaigned on a near-universal health-care plan, allowing the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy to expire, and a move away from the belligerent foreign policy of the past eight years. Republicans, and some journalists, had spent months (falsely) saying Obama is the single most liberal member of the U.S. Senate -- and maybe even a socialist. The American people responded by electing him in a landslide.

This, naturally, is very good news for the Republicans, according to many pundits. It proves once again that America remains a "center-right" nation.

Right about now, you're probably scratching your head, wondering how the election of the "most liberal" member of the Senate, a man who campaigned on a promise of near-universal health care, could possibly be described as evidence of a conservative country.

To be sure, it requires some creative thinking.

You can read the rest, here

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Sunday November 02, 2008 · 4:24 PM PST

2008/11/02 · 16:24

Many of you will know this feeling. Your father, an otherwise intelligent and thrifty man, will vote for the silver haired gent who owns 11 houses and thinks 5 million barely breaks middle class. McCain may seem the least responsible steward of the economy you could imagine, and yet, your father will vote for him. Your mother, respectful, tactful, generally wise, will offer her franchise to a woman who likens herself to a pitbull with lipstick. Your sister and brother in law, though in principal against war and violence in the abstract, will vote for war in violence in the here and now to encourage, in the abstract, the distant possibility of a Supreme Court appointment that will overturn Roe V. Wade, sending thousands of mothers with unwanted pregnancies to bloody back alleys again.

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