Sigh.
Paula Deen was roundly criticized earlier this summer for her past use of the N-word, but among Georgia Republicans, the embattled celebrity evidently has more fans than America's most beloved civil rights icon.
Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling tweeted out a striking nugget on Wednesday from its survey of the Peach State. According to the pollster, Deen is more popular among Republican voters in Georgia than Martin Luther King:
Among Georgia Republicans, Paula Deen has a 73/11 favorability rating; Martin Luther King Jr. gets a 59/28.
I suppose we could come up with some pithy things to say here, but really: why bother?
Ed. Note: We'll be doing some software updates to Daily Kos tonight starting at 9:30 PT, and expect the site to be down for up to one hour. See you on the other side, night owls.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2007—We Can't Wait for Bipartisan Solutions:
"We need a consensus."
This is what Joe Biden said a little while ago, when asked by Keith Olberman if he would appoint a Republican to head up the Pentagon or the Department of Homeland Security. I don’t have the exact language, but he seemed to imply that nothing would work unless it had significant support from Republicans.
I was floored.
If there is anything that has been apparent since the Democratic takeover of Congress, it’s that many and probably most of the current Republican members of Congress will NEVER work with Democrats for the good of the country. Since the rise of Newt Gingrich, the majority of Republicans in Congress have demonstrated that they don’t care about the good of the country. Grover Norquist is inadvertently one of the most honest of conservatives, and when he referred to bipartisanship as date rape, he wasn’t revealing just his own personal view, he was describing the mindset of much of the Republican Congressional caucus and its allies in think tanks, among campaign hacks and activists, and in a sizeable chunk of its electoral base.
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Tweet of the Day:
Tea partiers are boycotting Ebony. That's really going to hurt the magazine's advertising revenue. #whitepeopleboycottingebony
— @AvrilPrakash
On today's
Kagro in the Morning show,
Greg Dworkin's:
WaPo sale, Twitter expands the conversation, "The Tea Party's Path to Irrelevance," "daylighting" of urban rivers. Tim Murphy's
MoJo piece, "Meet the Town That's Being Swallowed by a Sinkhole."
Joan McCarter on Idaho's wildfire season (and the plight of the "Smokejumpers"), Romney's speech, the shutdown showdown, Obama on Leno, Liz Cheney's carpetbagging and the "crazy pants" story of the terror alert. The latest on wacko cop Mark Kessler. Jay Rosen's "The Toobin principle," in the national security versus free society debate.
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