April 28 Open Thread: Pew Says Democrats No Longer Want Compromise
Somebody please show this Pew Research graph to Chris Coons: It shows that, while Democratic voters used to value compromise more than Republicans, but over the past year that’s no longer true. Perhaps if someone attaches a clue to a TV camera lens Coons will notice it.
Andy Slavitt, who served as the acting administrator for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Barack Obama, warns that some Republicans want to try again to repeal and replace Obamacare before the 2018 midterm elections. The “thinking” here is that this would fire up the Republican base. The genius behind this idea is Rick Santorum, who has no job to lose. Opposing it is Mitch McConnell, who does.
Christina Jedra of the News Journal put together a comprehensive and rather damning story about Interfaith Community Housing exploiting ex-cons in a “training” program that appears to be little more than free labor for the affordable-housing charity.
Another one bites the dust: DelCo Rep. Pat Meehan abruptly resigned from Congress yesterday, supposedly so that he wouldn’t put his staff through an ethics investigation. But given that Rep. Charlie Dent pulled the same stunt last week, this looks like an effort by Republicans to force special elections in disappearing districts.
Apparently the subject of racial differences on IQ tests is making a comeback, which should be no surprise in the age of Trump. Before you jump on that bandwagon — or even if you just want to know the scientific case against any meaningful link between the two even if both are heritable — Slate’s Will Saletan has a great explainer that’s also a mea culpa — he explains that a decade ago he fell into the same trap.
Joy Reid, who apparently has a TV show on some cable network, has been in the news for denying she wrote homophobic stuff on a blog 15 years ago. Reid also happens to be black and progressive, which makes this an intersectionality throwdown to rival the Royal Rumble, but she played it poorly by first claiming the lame old “I was hacked” card before admitting that yeah, she wrote them, and she’s sorry. Vox detailed the controversy just before Reid came clean, but if you catch up now you’ll be able to better enjoy the coming calls for defenestration and apology tour.
Even when confronted by facts, Coons can’t help looking for middle ground with his traitor, gun nut, climate change-denying, nationalist, GOP buddies.
Being seen looking for compromise is an end in itself.
Coons’s class knows it will never be touched by the disastrous consequences of his Republican compromises.
True.
Great reporting by Jedra.
Joy Reid is a hack. She just straight up lied first. Got busted. Then apologized. Totally Trumpian lie too. I was hacked. Fake News! Garbage.
Beautiful day at the jazzfest. Jazz funeral for Antoine. As it should be.
https://articles.nola.com/jazzfest/index.ssf/2018/04/remembering_fats_domino_funera.amp
Tonight a trip to the world famous music venue Tipitina’s for some Galactic funk.
I don’t buy the apology since she still denies even possibly having written the posts and didn’t apologize for stupid lies about being hacking. Sorry Joy. Suck it up.
Can we get clear about the LGBT community. How many whites blacks, latinos did you know 15 yrs ago who said homophobic crap. Think Clinton and Obama! They were simply ignorant and many have evolved on the issue. I think Reid is a real smart cookie, yeah she got caught, should apologize and move on. Isn’t the Coons issue more important…is in my book.
Did Hilary ever apologize for calling black men “predators”?
Hillary never said her speech was taken over by hackers, is the point.
If this “smart cookie” wanted to make the argument you made she could have made it.
She decided to tell a Trumpian lie that would embarrass a 2nd grade student.
I really don’t care, you’re right. Other than you’re just as hypothetical as anybody. If a “real smart cookie” you precieve as on your side does it it’s explained away.
If this was Hannity you’d write another semiliterate sceed about how he’s the devil incarnate.
It partisan media garbage.
*hypocritical. Autocorrect.
Today’s main draw for me is something El Som would appreciate.
John Mayall in the Blues tent at 5:30pm…
Hannity is a category unto himself. He was alt right before the term was coined. I am saying “most blacks and whites” were opposed to homosexuality mostly because of their religious beliefs. People do evolve otherwise there would be no freedom to marry who you love in 2018. Fact: we have all evolved on some issue, progress.
Substitute”Interfaith Community Housing exploiting ex-cons” for Republicans in this sentence “Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.” – George Carlin