Burris is not the sharpest knife in the drawer

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Roland Burris has come up with ANOTHER VERSION of his relationship with Rod Blagojevich and Co.

Not good, senator. Not good.

Expert says global warming worse than predicted

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But, hey, don’t sweat THIS STUFF (no pun intended).  Rush Limbaugh, Sen. James Inhofe and several regular commenters here at Applesauce — eminent climatologists all — insist that global warming is just a phony scheme dreamed up by Al Gore.

The Age of Reason

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One senses that British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine (above), author of “The Age of Reason,” would have appreciated Barack Obama.

It would have been perhaps much the same kind of APPRECIATION for Obama that’s been evidenced at this weekend’s annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago.

That Old Sweet Tax Cut Song

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Steven D. and Daniel Gross EXAMINE the shortcomings of tax cuts as an economic cure-all.

Reid, Pelosi and the Dems much more popular than McConnell, Boehner and the GOPs

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THIS is what obstructionism gets you.

President Obama’s weekly YouTube address

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The Religious Right doesn’t want to be called the Religious Right anymore

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Some leaders of the theocratic movement APPARENTLY SENSE that there are widespread negative connotations to the term “Religious Right.”

Gee, I can’t imagine why.

Oh, well, we could always call them the Religious Wrong.

A “sizable number” of GOP senators wanted to vote for the stimulus bill but lacked the courage

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Sen. Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Republican, SAYS “there a lot of people in the Republican caucus who are glad to see this action taken [passage of the stimulus bill] without their fingerprints, without their participation.”

Apparently, these folks were afraid of inviting primary challenges from right-wing ideologues.

A few simple questions for Republican lawmakers who opposed the stimulus bill

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1. If you say you didn’t have time to read the bill, how could you have prepared long LISTS of things in the bill you don’t like (including bugaboo items that aren’t really in the bill)?

2. Are you saying that you invariably read every word of every bill on which you vote?

3. Does not your Republican caucus (or your own office, for that matter) have staffers who pore over proposed legislation and alert you and your fellow GOP members to items of potential concern? Where were these staffers in this instance?

4. How can you claim not to have had time to read the bill when you’ve had plenty of time to run from interview to interview to complain that you haven’t had time to read the bill?

5. Can you say with a straight face that you might have voted for the bill if you had had time to read it?

Well, thanks for your time.  I’m sure you have to run along now to your next interview in which you’ll talk about not having had the time to read a bill you never would have voted for anyway.

Oh, and say hello to Rush for me, will you? Or is it Sean this time?

POSTSCRIPT: One other thing:

Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who attended his  mother’s wake last night, had to fly back to Washington in the dead of night to cast the decisive vote on the stimulus bill and then return home for today’s funeral.

Since Brown’s yes vote was never in doubt, couldn’t one Republican senator — Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, for example — have changed his own vote to yes so that Brown could have stayed with his family during this difficult time?

Just asking.