What is Schumer smoking? Has he seen the incoming House?

Merry Days, Steve!

For your Christmas Eve listening pleasure - A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, read by Patrick Stewart:

http://www.archive.org/details/AChristmasCarolReadByPatrickStewart

"The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went. Every one of them wore chains... The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever."

* North Korea's official news agency called, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the incoming chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee "human scum" in response to her request that North Korea be added to the list of state sponsors of terror.

Gotta hand it to the North Koreans. They are a revolting bunch, but a stopped clock and all that.

As repugnant as the North Koreans are they sure called a spade a spade.

"Human" was an interesting concession, though. Or perhaps coming from a NK official it was a pejorative.

Grover Norquist, America's Grinch, doesn't care if the states go bankrupt. What a surprise. Reagan & Bush I quadrupled the federal deficit, Bush II doubled it, and this goofball was AWOL. Now he wants to green light state bankruptcies and finish off the municipal bond market. What a guy.

My favorite Norquistism:
"Federal taxpayers, who have been hit with more than $350 billion in higher taxes in just the past two years, cannot afford to absorb the $3 trillion in unfunded liabilities run up by state governments."

Yep, those darn invisible Obama tax increases that only wingnuts can see. What is this guy smoking and when will Pat Robertson help legalize it.

Grover Norquist doesn't mind the notion of states going bankrupt. Imagine that.

"I say let them crash!"

I would like to offer a Merry Christmas to all that celebrate the holiday and in whatever manner that you choose to celebrate. I have always found John Henry Faulk's Christmas Story to be moving. It speaks to real hardships and genuine hopes for a better world. Here's to all of our hopes for a better, more just society and world.

Thank you for that AK , very moving story.(if someone has the brains to understand it, and the right has not a clue)

"Grover Norquist doesn't mind the notion of states going bankrupt. Imagine that."

How noble of him. But I would bet that Grover Norquist would mind the notion of Grover Norquist going bankrupt very much. I think he would mind it very much, indeed.

NORQUIST IS AN IDIOT. Remember when Orange County defaulted on its bonds? Their borrowing rate skyrocketed. ANY PERSON suggesting that must have a vested interest in bond sales or is just ignorant of economics.

* And finally, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) told MSNBC yesterday he expects the first six months of 2011 to be a productive period on Capitol Hill. Specifically, he said, "My prediction: The next sixth months will be more like the lame-duck, where there was a lot of productivity, than like the previous two years, when there was a lot of dart-throwing." I have no idea where his confidence comes from, and I'm fairly certain he's completely wrong, but here's hoping Schumer's prediction comes true.

Maybe this is a sign that filibuster reform is really going to happen. If it does, then the Senate could become workable again. Of course, that leaves the House, which is about to become *un*workable again.

Then again, there are plenty of interesting parliamentary tricks Pelosi could indulge in. And the realities of governing could end up smashing down on the GOP House caucus like a ton of bricks. I'm not holding my breath for that last one, but we'll see.

Norquist prolly wants to use bankruptcy to make economic demands IE selling off publically owned property to private interests.

"Grover Norquist doesn't mind the notion of states going bankrupt. Imagine that."

yet i'm sure grover still expects his roads paved,streets paved and schools functioning. in his world, the magic revenue fairy will make sure this happens.

I've always said that to be a Republican these days you have to be stupid or evil--no in between.

Grover Norquist is an exception in that he is both stupid and evil.

Merry Christmas! If it's in keeping with the situation.

Grover Norquist does realize that if States could avail themselves of the bankruptcy courts, bankruptcy judges could order tax increases to gain more revenues, doesn't he?

Merry Christmas to all!

The AP runs political analysis pieces I disagree with from time to time, but this week's piece on the White House is just a train-wreck.

Just another hit piece by the Associated Propagandists.