TX-GOV Dem Nominee: I'll 'Undo Some Of The Damage' Of New Textbook Standards

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/tx-gov-dem-nominee-ill-undo-some-of-the-damage-of-new-textbook-standards.php

http://www.TheWarIsMakingYouPoor.com

Next year's budget allocates $159,000,000,000 to perpetuate the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. That's enough money to eliminate federal income taxes for the first $35,000 of every American's income. Beyond that, leaves over $15 billion to cut the deficit.

And that's what this bill does. It eliminates separate funding for the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, and eliminates federal income taxes for everyone's first $35,000 of income ($70,000 for couples). Plus it pays down the national debt. Does that sound good to you? Then please sign our petition in support of this bill, and help us build a movement to end our permanent state of war.

The conservatives should jump aboard! No taxes (on the first $35,000)

the animal was a Vole. or Phil Gramm

There is so much to digest in this little blog entry.. It seems as if the only people that can put all of the pieces together are the people who get their news from sources outside the spectrum of the corporately blinded press.. Most Americans have not heard of Obama's efforts because the media sweeps it under the bed.. The media is looking for the next big sex scandal or their busy prepping up Princess Palin for the next outlandish statement made on the FOX Spin Cycle.. The real story is >>> is that the Free Press has been hijacked by America's Corporate Anarchists.. The commercials that you watch on the Talking Heads Circuit on Sunday will pretty much tell the tale.. Big Oil masquerades as "Green Energy" , Big Banks tout their fiscal sanity, and General Electric talks about "American Investment" while in the past 30 years GE has pretty much moved all manufacturing to China... Vital information is filtered through this corporate mesh and sanitized for public consumption.. I firmly believe that our country has lost it's fiery belly because we don't know what the truth is, and if we do know the truth, there is a Tea Party member that minimizes consequence into an edible bite sized morsel..

Personally my heart goes out to Bobby Jindal and to the people on the Gulf Coast.. Don't get me wrong I can't stand the GOP,LLC ,but, this tragedy ascends politics .. As we slowly watch the ecological genocide unfold in the gulf I can't help but cry for the shrimpers and fishermen that are going to have their lives up-ended.. I am envisioning the sound crashing blue waves being replaced by black swells, sloshing and slurping ... Every time I start my car I feel guilty about my human desire to get from point A to point B and I really don't know how to change it..The one thing I know I can do push my legislators but I am afraid that our economic disaster just pushed back our "Green" initiative.. The Bush administration is the gift that keeps giving and it almost appears as if Obama is also in the pocket of our lords and masters in the Petroleum Industry...

Revelation 16;3~

~Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it became like the blood of a corpse. And everything in the sea died.

I'm not religious but this is kinda creepy

@n8chz: and speed labs....

@Blue Mark (# 26)

First of all, if that's the reality, then what business does Thom have giving these bozos a platform?

But even if your assessment is partially true, it's far from completely true. Thom could be far better-prepared than he is. Saenz's main argument , for example, appeared to be that there's an easily-discernible "plain meaning" to the language of the Establishment Clause, and he threw in a bit of what would be called "legislative history" were this a statute, to spice up his case. He claimed that the phrase "separation of church and state" is not present in the Establishment Clause (true), and that therefore, the idea of church-state separation is not present there either (false). It's not, or shouldn't be, difficult to refute this, but it can't be done in a soundbite. So Thom needs to be prepared to refute the soundbites, as well as to note that real discussion of these issues can't take place in rightwing soundbite-land. He doesn't. Nor did Thom question the identity, training, or credentials of the so-called "constitutional expert" that Saenz mentioned he has at beck and call (or perhaps that should be Beck and call). That "expert" was no doubt trained at some fine educational institution such as Liberty University and well-versed in presenting one-sided "arguments" with little basis in reality and no recognition of any facts that undermine those talking points.

Thom also needs to be better-prepared for the rhetorical attack tactics of the rightwingers, and particularly to be better-prepared to call out this rhetorical dirty pool as it occurs, whether it's their frequent filibustering of him (occasionally, but far too rarely, he calls out this behavior), or aggressive and tendentious framing of issues, or the aggressive "yes or no" framing of questions, timed to be impossible to respond to, as n8chz notes upthread, or the cherry-picking of historical points that Maxrot noted, also upthread.

If Thom can't do that, then IMHO he has little business giving these people Yet More Airtime.

Someone should have explained to the con's that wanted to get rid of the instability zone created by the Middle Class "free time". That the unemployed have lots of free time too. The 1920's and 1930's weren't exactly stable periods for America, and the FDR created middle class was yet to emerge.

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the oil leak and right wing hypocrisy:

when Katrina hit, Bush abandoned the people of new orleans and blamed their misfortune on the LOCAL government, saying the local democrats did not have a proper response.

when the oil leak hit, the right blames the FEDERAL government for lack of response.

when Obama tries to save the economy ruined by bush and deregualtion, and bring health care to the people, the right screams in horror about a socialist takeover of the financial and auto and healthcare industries.

if last year, Obama would have shut down every off shore oil well and kept them idle until every one of them had an acoustic blow off preventer valve installed, the right would have whined hysterically about how he was trying to crippple big oil and private enterprise by over reaching and micromanaging their affairs.

when the private sector and BP devastate the gulf, the right wing points the finger at Obama for not having the government do enough.

according to ronald regan, the darling of the right, the most frightening words in the english language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you." big guvmt basically is evil and not to be trusted, and the private sector is the answer to everything.

when the private sector trashed the gulf, the right demands action from big guvmt to save the gulf.

wall street and big oil profits are privitized. wall street losses and gulf shore cleanups are socialized.

Obama SHOULD step in, kick BP out and end all off shore drilling. we need to end our dependence on foreign AND domestic oil. it is time to go green.

@N8chz:"Maybe you can get them at the Texas School Book Depository" good one! :D

@ harry. nothing so profound or intellectual. just the nickname of our son when he used to be a toddler.

John Snow was never Treasury Secretary during a Democratic Congress.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Snow

I would love to understand why Conservative seem so comfortable not having facts behind their arguments.