I think over the past couple of months I’ve been more out of the loop on politics than I’ve been since I was like 12. But I’m getting caught up, particularly in the GOP primary race, which really is kind of fascinating if disturbing to watch.
Obama is now making an issue of the GOP debate audiences, which have generated bizarre cheers over the past three debates.
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Rick Santorum is all over current-but-sliding frontrunner Rick Perry for being soft on marijuana (and gay marriage). Perry does hold the position that the 10th Amendment should enable states to legalize marijuana.
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With Perry’s campaign imploding, a new hope for the Republicans has arisen. But is he the anti-Perry or the anti-Romney?
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The Democrats managed to hold their ground for the first time in a couple of years. FEMA money will be replenished for the moment, without sinking grants for development of hybrid vehicle technology to “offset” the additional spending. It’s a small thing by comparison to some of the losses over the past year, and there will probably be a round 2. But it’s something.
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In case you didn’t know, it is against the law to shine laser pointers into aircraft cockpits. At least, without a license.
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There will be rallies to save the post office today, with accusations of GOP sabotage.
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Another rich guy wants to be taxed at higher rates.
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Lastly, if you didn’t hear it yesterday, find Democracy Now’s archives (actually, I think you can find it at KMUD) and listen to the press conferences and interviews of Josh Fattal, Sarah Shourd, and Shane Bauer and their families. They are remarkable young people, if maybe just a bit injudicious. Here’s a summary of their story.
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September 27, 2011 at 6:07 am
Bolithio
bizarre cheers over the past three debates
The cheers you are referring too make me think that they have shills in the audience specifically to say uncomfortable things so others don’t have too… Perhaps many of those people werent booing at gay people – in their heads – but im sure many of them had a positive emotional response when they heard the cheer.
Im always blown away by the cheering at politics in general. What is so bloody exciting about all of this? Do they put drugs in the punch at these rallies?
September 27, 2011 at 7:23 am
Joe Blow
Injudicious? Truth always appears “injudicious” to people like you.
September 27, 2011 at 7:29 am
Dave Kirby
I would be inclined to call the millions in bail on these three dingbats stupid tax.
September 27, 2011 at 8:13 am
tra
Of the three incidents of odd cheering or booing from the audiences at the GOP debates (cheering for the Texas executions and the idea of letting an uninsured man die, and the booing at the gay soldier) it seems to me that the only one where the cheering was really widespread, and can therefore fairly be protrayed as the overall sentiment of the audience, is the first one — the cheering of the Texas executions. In the other two cases it sounded to me like a pretty small number of audience members, and not necessarily reflective of the feelings of the crowd as a whole.
In those two cases, what I find more disturbing than the behavior of the audience members was the silence on the part of the candidates — not one of whom used their position onstage to condemn the extremist sentiments that were expressed, loudly, by those audience members.
September 27, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Eric Kirk
Jon Stewart in top form last night, where he compared the GOP primary to American Idol except that each week they add a loser rather than subtract one.
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/jon-stewart-to-gop-voters-take-a-long-hard-look-in-the-mirror-video.php?ref=fpb