"If this is organized, we suck."

Regrettably, seems a lot like the Democrats sometimes. Nice of the wingnuts to show us up for once...

Finally a teabagger expresses a sentiment I can agree with! They do suck!

About 10 teabaggers showed up. But in Fox News math, estimates were in the several hundred thousands.

Steve Miller, the director of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), testified under oath this morning about Bonner and Associates sending fake constituent letters to members of Congress.

He's a joker, he's a smoker, he's a midnight toker. Take the money and run.

Maine is a state with same day voter registration and very high turnout. Same day voter registration is a huge plus in getting youth turnout up, since college students living in dorms can register to vote on that basis and then cast their ballots. This could be a factor in the same sex marriage referendum.

A year ago a state legislator tried to restrict voting for college students living in dorms, but the bill didn't even get out of committee.

Bad driving is genetic,

http://www.livescience.com/culture/091028-bad-driving-genes.html

Will not auto insurers soon regard this as a pre-existing condition?

And, like blindness, shouldn't your driver's license reflect this?

* "Tea Party" activists tried to organize a "flash mob" ..... about 10 right-wing activists showed up."

That's what Republican grassroots looks like without Dick Armey's little corporate whoring and astroturf seeding.

"Iran wants to change the nature of the nuclear deal. What a surprise."

It's also not a surprise to read Mr. Benen parroting neocon/liberal hawk propaganda. He does want a prominent place in the mainstream media, after all.

What makes you think "an infusion of federal stimulus money has averted widespread program cuts and worker layoffs"?

"At least 180 state workers will be laid off in coming days and more than 3,200 nonunion employees must take seven days off work without pay before June, Gov. Chet Culver said Wednesday.

But the fates of employees in the state corrections and public safety departments will hang in the balance for another week."

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20091029/NEWS/910290365/1007/NEWS05

Too little, and too much of it to the wrong people.

Re the Teabaggers flashing their activist lights:

The "we suck" comment was fun but I'm not sure that I didn't like this one better:
"It's like we're in different cars but we're all going in the same direction," Abbott explained.

A funeral cortege, to a T; take off your hats, everyone, and observe a moment of silence.

Of course only 10 teabaggers showed up. Grandma and Grandpa don't know how that tweeter thing works.

I wonder if the anti-Dobbs ads get pulled now that Dobbs' house entertained gunfire.

Oh my god.

10, teabaggers assembled in one location.

It's the downfall of our republic. Blood will be shed. May the demoncrats all shake in their boots.

(problem is we are shaking, but it's from laughter)

Nothing, nothing at all about how Pelosi has betrayed progressives and is not allowing a vote on the Weiner or Kucinich amendments? Seriously, Steve? Seriously?

Oh, wait, I forgot Rule #1 of BenenBlogging - if there isn't a way to blame something on the Republicans and/or Christians, it doesn't make it onto Political Animal.

Pathetic.

flubber nails it

Gridlock, @18:52,

What's really entertaining is how Dobbs is talking about it. From Think Progress:

"My wife and I have now been shot at, my driver, my house has been shot and hit…"

That, to me, *sounds* like he's reporting 4 shots; a veritable barrage. Yet, we *know* that there was only that one... It's, a bit, like the Teabagger count on 9/12 :)

"One Northern Virginia Teabagger said, 'If this is organized, we suck.' "

Yes indeedy, you surely do.
And, as we learn in our "Logic I" lesson, "'If/then's don't negate."
So, "If this is not organized, you still suck," is also true.
Organized or not, full-time, non-stop suckage, that's our teabaggers.

At least 50 showed up in Providence, Rhode Island, in front of City Hall to support the public option, single payer and access for all. We got good vibes from bystanders too.

flubber nails it
Posted by: Disputo on October 29, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Considering that you're the same person that's not much of a reach.

Some more biofuels updates.

http://gas2.org/2009/10/28/video-shows-how-coskatas-next-gen-flex-ethanol-is-made/

http://gas2.org/2009/09/30/update-breakthrough-biodiesel-process-now-running-at-commercial-scale/

They are reaching respectable volumes of production. Companies that are everywhere, like Walmart and JB Hunt, can probably make their own fuels from local sources. As could, to get a little fanciful, the US military in Afghanistan (using the evercat/mcgyan modules), where gasoline and diesel fuel cost $400/gal.

Just a thought.

from the CBO report:

The estimate includes a projected net cost of $894 billion over 10 years for
the proposed expansions in insurance coverage. That net cost itself reflects
a gross total of $1,055 billion in subsidies provided through the exchanges
(and related spending), increased net outlays for Medicaid and the
Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and tax credits for small
employers; those costs are partly offset by $167 billion in collections of
penalties paid by individuals and employers. On balance, other effects on
revenues and outlays associated with the coverage provisions add $6 billion
to their total cost.
Over the 2010-2019 period, the net cost of the coverage expansions would
be more than offset by the combination of other spending changes, which
CBO estimates would save $426 billion, and receipts resulting from the
income tax surcharge on high-income individuals and other provisions,
which JCT and CBO estimate would increase federal revenues by
$572 billion over that period.1
Provisions Regarding Insurance Coverage
H.R. 3962 would take several steps designed to increase the number of
legal U.S. residents who have health insurance. It would require individuals
to purchase health insurance, starting in 2013, and would in many cases
impose a financial penalty on people who did not do so. The bill also would
establish new insurance exchanges and would generally subsidize the
purchase of health insurance through those exchanges for qualified
individuals and families with income between 150 percent and 400 percent
of the federal poverty level (FPL).
1 The $572 billion figure includes $558 billion in revenues from tax provisions (estimated by JCT)
and $14 billion in additional revenues from certain provisions affecting Medicare, Medicaid, and
other programs (estimated by JCT and CBO). (For JCT’s estimates, see JCX-43-09.)

Yeah, right.

The tax on medical devices was a nice touch, because most of those devices are made by corporations.

While you fixate on your bright shiny stimulus, Melissa Bean is setting up the next global cataclysm so her paymasters can take it all away from you:

http://harpers.org/archive/2009/10/hbc-90006000

But if you want to be a big Dem playa you'll shut the fuck up about it.

*MSNBC is only too pleased to air an anti-Dobbs advertisement.

Politico's audience front and center in the comments section there. Not in the least surprising.

Paragraph of the week.1

David Brin

Indeed, when Ronald Reagan removed the solar panels that Jimmy Carter had erected on the White House - and got adulation for calling upon his followers to "think only of this morning!" - I knew that we'd be in for a generation of spendthrift foolishness. Thirty years of delays in doing much about energy independence coincided with virtual abandonment of ambition in science or space, while we spent ourselves into deep debt, based upon a Supply-Side theory that made no sense, even before it was disproved. The left did chime in, with idiocies of its own. And then came a high-treason madness called Culture War...