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Really didn’t intend for this whole day to be about the GOP presidential candidates, but sometimes that’s how the news cycle, well, cycles. Some other odds and ends:
* PPP poll tests exact text of the Blunt Amendment GOPers are backing to overturn administration’s contraception coverage mandate. It gets a thumbs-down by a 25/67 margin.
* Kevin Drum explains why wages stagnate while profits continue to go up.
* Dennis Ross, hardly a Middle Eastern dove, tells Israelis to chill since economic sanctions aganst Iran are working.
* Sunday was 70th anniversary of executive order authorizing internment of Japanese-Americans. Bill Ong Hing urges Americans not to make same mistake with terrorism “suspects.”
* Politico’s Vogel and Phillip offer everything you’d ever want to know and more about campaign “burn rates.”
* Mike Tomasky says what GOP needs is not new candidates, but a new “base.”
Have a happy and safe Mardi Gras, everyone. I plan to wish I were in New Orleans (something I do often), but then get a good night’s sleep before Ash Wednesday.
Selah.
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MichaelF on February 21, 2012 6:40 PM:
Happy Mardi Gras to you, Ed. Just got back from NOLA -- used to stay late or overnight, but am getting old, so I hit the parades and wandered through the Quarter and Marigny for a bit before heading back to Baton Rouge. So it goes.
Anyway, have been reading Political Animal since Kevin Drum was writing, but enjoyed Steve Benen and now you plus the weekend guest bloggers. Thanks -- you help keep us liberal in Red State America sane.
Cheers.
Mark on February 21, 2012 7:34 PM:
"This GOP establishment is barely less loopy than the base"
Maybe, but not by much.
This is what happens when you let a small demographic of your base drive the show.
T2 on February 21, 2012 9:53 PM:
Watched a show on Billl Clinton.....impeached, hated beyond hate by the GOP. Eight years,two wars, 9/11, cheated election in 2000, Great Recession.....now another Dem hated beyond hate . I suppose we'll see another impeachment starting in 2013. Well funded by the Roberts Supreme Court. A lot lies in the next two Supreme Court appointments...the nation.
Skip on February 21, 2012 10:32 PM:
Yes, but who tells the Republican base how to think? GOP Propoganda Media is who. Their media allows conservatives to believe that their way of thinking is the RIGHT way, their belief system the Truth, and their opinions catered to, not challenged.
This media driven empowerment has allowed the worse of the party to show through, crazys talk like they have validity, irrational elected officials now clutter the House, and Newt is running for president. Newt!
What the Republican party needs is a hard reality check; to accept the facts about the state of the world and the planet and their cracking party. They need to be told to get their belief system back into the church and start working on the challenging issues of today, instead of hiding in their conservative-tailored media-created alternate reality.
M. Murphy on February 21, 2012 11:50 PM:
A bottle and your friends and you?