Please, please, please why am I not hearing about simply holding two votes — one on tax rates for income up to $250,000 and one for rates over that number. No one can have any legitimate complaint about that.
We brought you another part of Rep. Steve King’s (R-IA) floor speech on the black farmer settlement, claiming it amounted to back-door slavery reparations. But we’d totally missed a crazily worse part of it where King speculates about what the settlement really amounts to with a fantasy example of a shiftless son of a black farmer who refuses to farm and heads to the big city to become a crackhead and now wants his farmer pay-off from the feds. It’s amazing. Watch.
Christian minister claims that Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), who is Muslim, supports the “homosexual agenda” as part of his devious plan to impose Sharia law in the United States. Makes perfect sense. Next, Ellison will start recruiting pork farmers.
Those two House Ethics Committee staff lawyers who have been placed on administrative leave apparently ran afoul of committee members by “pushing too hard” to continue and expand the investigation of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA).
A right-wing push managed — within a matter of hours — to get the National Portrait Gallery in Washington (one of the Smithsonian museums) to yank a piece of video art from one of its exhibits.
Bad, right? But not surprising considering the attitude of the museum’s director toward the new Republican majority in the House:
It’s really a very tough call to make. Obviously the Portrait Gallery is a part of the Smithsonian. It’s just one of many, many players in this new discussion or debate that’s going on in Congress about federal spending, the proper federal role in culture and the arts, and so forth. We don’t think it’s in the interest, not only of the Smithsonian but of other federally supported cultural organizations, to pick fights.
Sad.
Kentucky’s Democratic governor is pushing hard to bring a creationist theme park to his state — using state tax incentives.
Thanks to all the readers who responded to my “Mystery Man” post this morning. With your help, we think we’ve identified the captain of industry who was the fourth highest compensated American in 1941. We’ll have the details for you tomorrow.
Democrats botched the big food safety bill that passed the Senate yesterday. Under the Constitution, the bill should have originated in the House because it’s a revenue bill. So it’s a dead letter now and will have to be redone — with Republicans prepared to slow roll it.
How did Sen. Joe Lieberman get Amazon to turn off the Wikileaks website?
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