Some excerpts from the Harper’s Index:
- Amount spent last year on U.S. broadcast-television advertising: $40,000,000,000
- On U.S. Internet advertising: $49,000,000,000
- Portion of white Americans who say that the closing of a local public library would have a major impact on their family: 1/4
- Of Hispanic Americans: 1/2
- Percentage of state legislative bodies that have become more Republican since Obama became president: 87
- Portion of likely North Carolina Republican-primary voters who believe that a Muslim should be allowed to be president: 1/6
- Date on which Saudi Arabia was appointed to chair a panel at the U.N. Human Rights Council: 5/7/15
- Number of cane lashes to which the country sentenced a free-speech blogger in June: 1,000
- Percentage of likely Republican voters who say they could imagine supporting a military coup in the United States: 43
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On this date at Daily Kos in 2009—The Corporate Empire Strikes Back: Corporate Dems Seek "Alternative" To Public Option. Again:
Yesterday we learned:
Even as Senate Majority Leader Reid seeks votes for a healthcare bill with a public option that states can opt-out of, Reid has allowed Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Del., to work on what one aide called a "Plan B" if Reid cannot line up 60 votes for cloture.
The "Plan B" Carper has come up with is not a co-op, and not a trigger, but a co-op trigger. A co-op that wouldn't even happen unless it was triggered. Which it wouldn't be, because "triggers" are the legislative equivalent of sternly worded letters; they don't happen. That's the brilliant plan being dreamed up because not only is the public option too controversial, not only is an option with opt-out controversial, not only are the ineffective and nonsensical "co-ops" too controversial, and not only was a trigger itself much too scary, but the only thing Carper and some other Dems think would be milquetoast enough for the Senate to stomach would be a trigger that does nothing attached to a co-op that will do nothing.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Are guns actually making their owners more frightened? Greg Dworkin rounds up reviews of the “policies” from the GOP debate and other horse race news. More on Mizzou. Cop who killed a 6-year-old may have had a pre-existing beef with his father! Super PACs break the prison barrier.
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