Link Salad, Groundhog Day Edition

[chris_gerrib]

A year ago today, I spent my afternoon shoveling myself into my house. Now, the sun is trying to burn through the fog and, except for a couple of rapidly-melting piles, the snow is gone. As promised, have another helping of link salad.

A) Not entirely political, but related: A letter from Moonbase Freedom. See, if Newt were actually serious about space, he'd be advocating an X-program to get cheap orbital access. He's not, so we get bullshit instead.

B) A cute video in which the Muppets take on Fox news.

C) Presented without comment or agreement: Liberals don't hate conservatives. They just think they're stupid.
Conservatives hate liberals, because they know that liberals think they're smarter than them.

D) If Congress is really serious about cutting the deficit, they should do nothing. Allowing the tax cuts to expire and the agree-on spending cuts to go through fixes the problem and doesn't hurt Medicare or Social Security.

E) Speaking of Medicare, remember when the Republicans were screaming the cuts in Medicare Advantage would be disastrous? Well, apparently not. Yet another shocking case of a Republican prediction being wrong.

Comments

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

This is gonna sound weird, but anytime someone mentions Newt and SPace in the same sentence, my brain assumes they're talking about Newt from Aliens, not the one from Congress...

[daveon.livejournal.com]

So basically, as many have said, if we go back to things as they were under Clinton (and GOPers tell me, Newt Gingrinch) and the problem self corrects.

I don't see Newt suggesting this on the campaign trial myself.