From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE
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Oh, never mind me…[snip snip snip]…I'm just measuring and sizing up the drapes for Congressman Ed Markey's new Senate office and…
Ha ha! Just kidding! Even I know that you don’t measure anything for anything until all the votes are counted, signed, sealed, and certified.
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Honest. These long, flowing swatches of curtain fabric are for our dog. She thinks she's Super Dawg so we're making her some, um, capes! They're not, I repeat, not for Ed Markey's new Senate office.
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But. If these half-dozen jumbo doggy capes were to end up as drapes for Ed Markey's new Senate office---and I'm not saying they will!---boy howdy that'd be cool. Just look at where he stands on ths issues:
It's time to send our
progressive James
Bond to the Senate.
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Described in the Almanac of American Politics as “one of the House’s most legislatively productive and creative members,” and by Politics in America as “a power player on climate change,” Ed has been a successful and productive legislator on a wide range of issues including national energy policy, the environment, promoting an economy that creates jobs in innovative telecommunications and clean energy industries, and consumer protection.
Ed voted in support of ObamaCare, which…moves us from a “sick care” system to a “health care” system, investing heavily in preventive services and in health information technology to lower costs, reduce medical errors, and improve the coordination of health care services.
Ed is pro-choice and a strong champion of a woman’s ability to make her own decisions about her reproductive health.
Medicare represents a promise our country made to its seniors that they will have health care security when they retire. Ed is committed to upholding that promise and will continue to lead the fight against any effort to cut benefits for seniors. He strongly opposed the Ryan Budget, which would have ended Medicare as we know it by turning the program into a voucher program.
Ed Markey is an unwavering supporter of equal rights, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. He has actively fought for marriage equality and worked to end discrimination against the LGBT community.
When Ed gives a stump speech,
he gives it from an actual stump!
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He will stand against Republican attempts to strip workers of their rights to organize and collectively bargain. He will fight to raise the minimum wage, expand benefits, such as healthcare to workers, and increase workplace safety.
Ed will be an active and passionate voice to create jobs and promote economic growth. Ed is a firm believer that strong competition, coupled with a level-playing field, fosters economic prosperity.
Ed is a longtime champion for increasing corporate accountability and cracking down on the type of fraud and manipulation on Wall Street that led to the financial market meltdown.
Wow. So get out there, Massachusetts Dems (if you need to know where your polling place is,
go here), and quill your X next to
Ed Markey's name on your ballot today. Because if Ed wins…
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…these doggy capes may have to be re-purposed.
Cheers and Jeers starts below the fold... [Swoosh!!] RIGHTNOW! [Gong!!]
Cheers and Jeers for Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Note: How come my pets never canvas the neighborhood stapling reward notices to telephone poles when I'm missing?
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By the Numbers:
Days 'til Canada Day: 6
Days 'til the Twin Ports Bridge Festival in Duluth, Minnesota: 11
Rank of the spring of 2013 among warmest springs on record: #8
Rank of May, 2013 among warmest Mays on record: #3
(Source: National Climatic Data Center)
Per-person annual beef consumption in Argentina and the U.S., respectively: 129 pounds, 57.5 pounds
(Source: Time)
Number of states whose highest-paid public employee is a sports coach: 37
(Source: Harper's Index)
Yesterday's high in Portland, Maine: 92
Stanley Cup:
Chicago Blackhawks win the series against the Boston Bruins 4 games to 2
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Tuesday Words of Wisdom from the Right-wing Blogosphere:
Seems the GOP LOSERship has evolved into GOB (Gang Of Bitches).
Bending over to take it hard and often is all good for the GOB so long as they get some special interest re-election pork grease attached to any crummy Ocrat bill that is rammed into the GOB.
---Commenter Fredc at RedState
All together now: 1…2…3…
Classy!
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Puppy Pic of the Day: It does make ya wonder…
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Busy li'l button
this morning.
JEERS to No-drama Monday. Yesterday the Supreme Court kicked the affirmative action case back down to the lower court with clear instructions to---these are their exact words---"GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER, YOU FREAKS! YOU MADE US MISS OUR LAWN DART TOURNAMENT FOR THIS?" Otherwise, it was quiet on the marriage-equality and voting rights front. Maybe we'll find out today. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe Thursday or Friday. Refresh key, prepare thyself for more mid-morning punishment.
JEERS to unexpected levity in inappropriate places. Let's check in with the opening arguments by the defense lawyer in the George Zimmerman case, shall we? Yes, let's:
Office of George
Zimmerman's lawyer.
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I would like to tell you a little joke.
Uh oh, this can't be good…
Knock knock. Who’s there? George Zimmerman. George Zimmerman who? All right. Good. You’re on the Jury. Nothing? That’s funny.
Phew. For a while there I thought this trial might turn into a circus.
P.S. Nancy Grace just peed her pants over that joke. Hurry, hurry, step right up---the big top is open for business!
CHEERS to lookin' out for the womenfolk. 103 years ago, on June 25, 1910, President William Howard Taft---meddling in Americans' private affairs via dastardly federal government action---signed the White-Slave Traffic Act, which said that women couldn't be transported across state lines anymore for "immoral purposes" like forced prostitution. It's more popularly known as the Mann Act, but I think they shoulda called it the Men Are Pigs Act. Anyway, my point is: don’t kidnap women and drag 'em across state lines to fuel your sex trade. Thank you. A public service message from this blog and the Ad Council.
JEERS to waking and baking. This morning we heard a familiar sound around the neighborhood:
Portland, ME yesterday
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Hummmm...[drip]…hummmmm…[drip]…hummmmm…[drip]…hummmmm…
Yes indeedy. Less than a week after summer starts, window-mounted air conditioners are suckin' down the juice as the long-awaited (or, for some of us, dreaded) heat and humidity envelop southern Maine. Expected high today: near 90. If it's going to be a sizzler where you are, make sure you stay in the shade, wear loose-fitting clothing, and drink plenty of vital fluids. Don’t forget the lime twist and the teeny umbrella.
CHEERS to our replacements. I don’t want to go cold turkey on Netroots Nation, because 1) it's always a downer when it ends and 2) there are some good write-ups that I want to toss in the time capsule. Like this one from The San Francisco Chronicle, on how demographics of the convention are skewing in a whippersnaperish direction:
And STAY there, you
liberal hooligan!!!
Back at the first Netroots Nation---called Yearly Kos back then---[Markos] Moulitsas said the “crowd was older. We were more focused to trying to show that we had power.” Bloggers, just three years from getting credentialed at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, were still considered an unknown quantity. Did they really have influence? Yup.
Moulitsas is right, the conference has evolved a ton from that first event back at Vegas in 2006. Yes, whipper-snappers, I was there at that first Netroots Nation…and the crowd was older. Lot more of the gray ponytail, anti-establishment crowd. Not so much anymore. Now, there are a lot more politinerds.
Glad to hear it. Personally, I get along with the young'uns quite well as long as they follow the golden rule: no texting while you're hauling me around the convention hall on a Roman shield.
WHOOPS to pissing off the wrong people. On June 25, 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry met their Waterloo at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana. Moments after the shooting stopped, a corporal arrived on the scene with an urgent message from HQ: "Duck!" Fate is a cruel master.
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Five years ago in C&J: June 25, 2008
JEERS to a chip off the old block. During President George H.W. Bush's last year in office, consumer confidence plunged to 50-something on the Conference Board's scale. Yesterday we found out that, during President George W. Bush's last year in office, consumer confidence plunged to 50-something on the Conference Board's scale. I'm sure the next time #41 and #43 meet, they'll spend a little extra time together not caring.
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And just one more…
Happy Birthday!!!
CHEERS to the Wise Latina. Happy birthday (and blessings on your camels) to Supreme Court
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who turns 59 today. She'll mark her fourth year on the bench in August, and I think she's done a fine job so far. She's not John Roberts, who promised to be an impartial "umpire" but now walks every pro-business batter who shows up to play; or Clarence Thomas, the porn-addicted serial tax dodger with the wife who's a walking conflict of interest; or Samuel Alito, the State of the Union grumbler; or Antonin Scalia, who never met a Koch brother he didn’t fluff and thinks nothing of flipping off those who displease him. So, in honor of your birthday, Your Honor, we got you the best present we could think of: a summer off from sitting next to those weirdos.
Have a nice Tuesday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial:
Bill in Portland Maine is a deeply flawed, sociopathic ideal of the perfect human. BiPM does not recognize the societal structure surrounding him that allows him to exist. Bill in Portland Maine, to be frank, is a turd.
---Chris Kluwe
6/23/13
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