Quibbles and Bits, Debts and Taxes Edition

Here's another heaping helping.    Consume if you so dare...

>>I'm watching Johnny Boner's reply to President Obama as I write this.   His finger pointing at Obama is both hilarious and sickening at the same time.    For those who think Obama caves too much, watch as Johnny Boner talks about his "experience running a small business", how this crisis was one of the President's making, etc., etc., etc.   This is what Obama has to negotiate with - someone not willing to negotiate at all, and a group of Tea-Party absolutists who are actually willing to let the government go into default, thinking that the people are so stupid that they will in turn blame Obama.    

This has become the immovable object meeting the irresistible force - something has to give, and the stakes are our futures.     For my money, I say that between the two participants in the virtual "debate",  the adult in the room was the President.   

>>Recommended Reading: The Plot To Seize The White House, by Jules Archer.   This tome details the plot that many of our industry captains of the day, like J.P. Morgan and the Du Pont scions,  planned to bankroll as an attempted fascist coup, using the unimpeachable character and standing of General Smedley D. Butler as their front.    The problem?  The fact that Butler's character was unimpeachable, to the point where he exposed this treasonous plot, and its sick use of American war veterans.   Butler paid for his honesty with his reputation and public image - sullied by the corporate press of the day.    I'm still delving into the pages of this tome, and will talk about it in future postings.   But I say - don't miss it.   

OK, so the heaping helpings weren't so heaping this time.   There's more to come later - stay tuned.

Smart ALECs

This link contains a veritable bumper crop of documents from the American Legislative Executive Council, a lovely group of righties bent on downsizing the government and corporatizing everything else.   The've apparently developed a nice, efficient "cookie cutter" approach to law, creating "sample bills" for use by their minions in the states where Republicans took control in the 2010 election wave. 

The latest edition of The Nation has a complete series on this band of minions.   Remember what our mamas taught us all those years ago, about being careful what you wish for because you might get it?   If you voted Republican, I hope you've now learned your lesson.    I say the same to those who voted for Corporate Dems like Blanche Lincoln.   That assumes, of course, that a conscience exists in those who support ALEC's garbage.