Christie's Infrastructure Mess Penny Foolish, Pound Foolish

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Thursday April 12, 2012 · 11:23 AM PDT

2012/04/12 · 11:23

When you look at your kid and say "hon, we really don't have the money for a new Xbox this month" it's responsible parenting and economic husbanding. But when a state says no to a piece of desperately needed infrastructure 20 years in the planning, because it may well go over budget and costs "too much" it adds up to bad math, short-sighted economics and is a perfect example of how so-called "toughness" and the "willingness to make hard choices" in the real world manifests itself as just bad leadership.

Gov. Christie put the kibosh on a much needed, long planned addition to the tunnels under the Hudson River that connect NYC to the mainland and carry literally millions of passengers each year on NJ Transit and Amtrak. Now a GAO Report shows that it wasn't just bad leadership, it was dishonest to boot.

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Tuesday March 06, 2012 · 6:35 AM PST

2012/03/06 · 06:35

My longtime line in political arguments was always "The Republican party is the party of rich, white males. If you make over $100K a year and are a white male I understand voting Republican, otherwise it's crazy."

About 1985 I added "If you make over $100K a year and are a white Christian male, go ahead and vote GOP."

But now? Now! Even if you're a white, male, Christian, Wall Street 1%er - the only people the GOP's policies do anything for, you are CRAZY to vote Republican. Period! PERIOD!!

The so-called Grand Old Party (which is younger than the Democratic Party, so how in hell did they ever get that stupid nickname to stick?) has gone so far off the edge of the ideological world as to be rendered ridiculous. They've so renounced practical, utilitarian governmental management for partisan think tank generated powergrab nonsense that the only possible healthy denouement for that party is for them to dis-a-ppear.

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Monday June 06, 2011 · 2:52 PM PDT

2011/06/06 · 14:52

Let he who has never flirted throw the first stone. That's all he did, he flirted. That's the word for it. FLIRTING.

He stood up there for 40 minutes and answered every question. People screaming "was it erect?" at him. Intimations of him being a "predator." "Will you support your love child?" was yelled from the peanut gallery!

So afterwards the panel on Dylan Ratigan all believe he handled it as well as possible. Then Tweety comes on to bury Wiener and his "wierdness." He's given a two week to live prognosis by this panel. AND I CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE.

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Thursday November 18, 2010 · 10:37 AM PST

2010/11/18 · 10:37

When Jon Stewart draws false equivalence between Fox and MSNBC, or when Sen. Jay Rockefeller does, or anybody says things like

"There’s a little bug inside of me which wants to get the F.C.C. to say to Fox and to MSNBC, ‘Out. Off. End. Goodbye.’ It would be a big favor to political discourse; to our ability to do our work here in Congress; and to the American people, to be able to talk with each other and have some faith in their government and, more importantly, in their future."

I urge people to not bother noting that MSNBC doesn't make shit up, or that the only progressives are on from 6-7 and 8-11 and there's a Republican on for 3 hours in the morning, and a beltway hack on at 5 and 7. The real difference is Roger Ailes.

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Saturday September 25, 2010 · 10:41 AM PDT

2010/09/25 · 10:41

I am not an economist. Graphs and charts make my eyes glaze over and want to change the channel - Food Network, nom nom nom. But as a political junkie paying attention in America for 50 years I think I know what I know - in 5 simple words: Roosevelt was great, Reagan sucked. But my political party by default will only ever assert the first clause, and run away from the second - just like they ran away from the tax fight this week. (Seems to me both parties announced they don't really want to win this week - the Dems punting on the tax fight and the GOPers unveiling their nonsensical "Pledge to America" - the donkey and the elephant spit the bit like it was dunked in milk a year over its use by date.

Once upon a time, a Latin American political party promised to help motorists save money on gasoline. How? By building highways that ran only downhill...the truth is that the party received hardly any votes. And that means that the joke is really on us. For these days one of America’s two great political parties routinely makes equally nonsensical promises.

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Wednesday October 22, 2008 · 10:14 AM PDT

2008/10/22 · 10:14

From the Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical "Evita" a snippet of lyrics from "Rainbow High" as Evita Peron prepares for another smash hit success appearance before "her people" the descamisados, the shirtless masses that a certain current day Evita refers to as "Joe Six-Pack"

[Eva's dressers:]
Eyes, hair, mouth, figure
Dress, voice, style, movement
Hands, magic, rings, glamour
Face, diamonds, excitement, image

[Eva:]
I came from the people, they need to adore me
So Christian Dior me from my head to my toes
I need to be dazzling, I want to be Rainbow High
They must have excitement, and so must I

$150,000.00 spent at Neiman Marcus, Sak's Fifth Avenue, Macy's, Bloomingdales, Barney's, Atelier's. A good three or four years of Joe Six-Pack salary spent in a period of 2 months to dress up our Alaskan Evita for her public.

What do they say they like about her? Oh yeah, that she's so real. Yeah, right! Real takes a whole lot of clothes and make up apparently.

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Thursday October 02, 2008 · 8:22 AM PDT

2008/10/02 · 08:22

Morning Tug Job was particularly tuggy this morning going on and on, incensed, about the pork in the bailout plan. But very conveniently for everyone's favorite grumpy old man they never, NEVER noted any that McCain voted for it anyhow. Remember "I will make them famous and you will know their names"? Well, one of those names is McCain.

With the disdain Mika and Joe showed for the "sweeteners" you'd think they would have noted the irony of the Porkhunter voting for it, but not so much.

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Sunday January 13, 2008 · 1:06 PM PST

2008/01/13 · 13:06

In one of the many contentious comment strings in the last few days I wrote:

"Looks like we're going to be dealing with race and gender for the next 10 months. So good!"

But after further thought I now believe I was wrong. This has gotten so out of control so easily, so quickly, I'm getting a bad feeling about this.

Our mission is to elect a Democratic president, the best Democrat we can put in the WH, in order to stop digging the hole we've been digging since Reagan. And start filling it in. That's everything. There are no moral victories left, no margin for error whatsoever. We can't afford the next president of the United States to be a Republican. The world can't afford it.

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Wednesday January 09, 2008 · 11:17 AM PST

2008/01/09 · 11:17

Shocking comeback... for the favorite.

Talk on TV about the "Bradley Effect." If the polls were that off in NH it must be because people will tell pollsters they'll vote for a black man but in the privacy of the voting booth they wont. Thusly, 48 hours ago Obama was an "unstoppable bullet" and now he's just one of three candidates again.

Edwards just can't break through past the rock stars.

Nothing has changed. Really, after two states we're back to jump street. Iowa might as well have not happened at all.

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Thursday July 12, 2007 · 9:02 AM PDT

2007/07/12 · 09:02

It's a Bob Woodward special that just came over the e-mail wire from the WAPO, 6 months later we find out that the CIA's assessment of Iraq was so bleak that in relief it makes Bush and his enablers sound ridiculous:

Early on the morning of Nov. 13, 2006, members of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group gathered around a dark wooden conference table in the windowless Roosevelt Room of the White House.

For more than an hour, they listened to President Bush give what one panel member called a "Churchillian" vision of "victory" in Iraq and defend the country's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki. "A constitutional order is emerging," he said.

Later that morning, around the same conference table, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden painted a starkly different picture for members of the study group. Hayden said "the inability of the government to govern seems irreversible," adding that he could not "point to any milestone or checkpoint where we can turn this thing around," according to written records of his briefing and the recollections of six participants.

"The government is unable to govern," Hayden concluded. "We have spent a lot of energy and treasure creating a government that is balanced, and it cannot function.

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Friday July 06, 2007 · 2:28 PM PDT

2007/07/06 · 14:28

I am pissed. Just totally pissed! I don't know how you can watch Michael Moore's new film and not be. More than Fahrenheit 9/11, more than Bowling with Columbine. Because there is no reason, not one legitimate reason, that we average Americans have to live lives of unnecessary life-shortening stress over healthcare and daycare and education. No reason we have to live in a society that puts profits over people. There's no reason that we couldn't be more human and humane. I feel cheated.

Firstly it ruined my 4th of July. If America was still a British colony we'd have national health care. Our forefathers sure didn't show much forethought.

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Thursday February 15, 2007 · 12:54 PM PST

2007/02/15 · 12:54

Billo and social conservatives are always on about how Europe is going to hell in a handbasket because marriage rates are down (except for gay marriage rates, they're up) and lordy we don't want to be like the Dutch, Swedes and Fins.

Well Unicef did a survey of 21 of the major industrialized nations to see how well we're taking care of our children. 'Cause children are the future don't you know? Can you guess what perfectly delicious (and shameful for Americans) findings they have published?

The Netherlands, followed by Sweden, Denmark and Finland, finished at the top of the rankings, while the U.S. was 20th and Britain 21st, according to the report released Wednesday by UNICEF in Germany.

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