Morning in America: Butthurt Achieved

[Bort]

What was muddled about the script of "Chinatown"?  Or was that a racist comment?

Nothing. Cohen is dumber than a roomful of Farnsworths.

WERNSTROM!

Validated.

[CT III]

What was muddled about the script of "Chinatown"?  Or was that a racist comment?

Nothing. Cohen is dumber than a roomful of Farnsworths.

WERNSTROM!

Validated.

I too would like to validate this.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

The Children's Fund: Money for People

[Tony]

The Children's Fund: Money for People

Damn Festivus decorations go up earlier and earlier every year.

[R-V]

Hiroshima Harry destroys America once and for all:

A majority of Democrats voted on Thursday to modify the Senate's rules on filibusters for the first time since 1975. From now on, judicial nominees to federal courts can be confirmed by a simple majority vote. So can the president's executive-branch nominations.

It's not a complete repeal of the filibuster: Supreme Court nominees can still be blocked by 41 senators, as can all legislation. But even this smaller rule change — a move known as the "nuclear option" — is a big break with precedent.

[Quality Start Machine]

Hiroshima Harry destroys America once and for all:

A majority of Democrats voted on Thursday to modify the Senate's rules on filibusters for the first time since 1975. From now on, judicial nominees to federal courts can be confirmed by a simple majority vote. So can the president's executive-branch nominations.

It's not a complete repeal of the filibuster: Supreme Court nominees can still be blocked by 41 senators, as can all legislation. But even this smaller rule change — a move known as the "nuclear option" — is a big break with precedent.

This was a bad idea when the GOP proposed it, and it's still a bad idea.

Easiest way to reform filibustering is to force people to go all "Mr. Smith". Nobody in the Senate wants to work that hard for anything*

*Except Ted Cruz, who worked that hard for nothing.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Wheezer to the white courtesy telephone...

Rep. Mike Simpson is a 15-year veteran of Congress and a close ally of Speaker John Boehner. But as the Idaho Republican fends off a stiff tea-party challenge in 2014, the fact that he's a dentist may prove to be just as important.

The influential dental lobby is expected to go all out this year to protect Simpson, one of only two dentists on Capitol Hill. His primary is still five months away, but the dentists' independent campaign arm has already dropped $22,000 in mailers and spent another $20,000 last week dialing up Idaho voters to gauge the dynamics on the ground.

...

When the other lone dentist in Congress, Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., first won his seat in 2010, nearly 600 dentists contributed a total of $265,000 to his campaign. Dentists accounted for more than 40 percent of Gosar's total haul and more than half his donors.

"People actually in my first primary said, 'You get a lot of your money from dentists,' " Gosar said. "And I said, 'I'm not running from it. I'm proud to be a dentist.' "

Then, when Gosar faced a tea-party challenger in 2012 backed by the Club for Growth, the independent-expenditure arm of the dental lobby sprung into action, pouring $150,000 into his race. Dentists nationwide injected another $210,000 directly into his coffers. All told, dentists from 47 states and the District of Columbia have invested in Gosar in the past four years.

"I'm one of the dentists' dentists. I came up being involved in grassroots dentistry," said Gosar, who also served on the ADA's government-affairs council. "Mike might have a little harder time with [raising dental money] because he just didn't do all the steps that I did."

...

Barney Keller, a spokesman for the Club for Growth, said his organization is ready to take on the chamber, the dentists, and anyone else. The club spent nearly $600,000 in its unsuccessful bid to oust Gosar in 2012—almost as much as Gosar himself raised.

"I think that once you drill down on Mike Simpson's atrocious liberal record, you'll find lots of morsels, such as his votes for TARP, for repeated tax increases, and to increase the size and scope of government," Keller said. "We're sure that special-interest groups that favor big government will fight tooth and nail to keep Mike Simpson, but they should brace for impact, as you can expect us to be forceful."

[CBStew]

Wheezer to the white courtesy telephone...

Rep. Mike Simpson is a 15-year veteran of Congress and a close ally of Speaker John Boehner. But as the Idaho Republican fends off a stiff tea-party challenge in 2014, the fact that he's a dentist may prove to be just as important.

The influential dental lobby is expected to go all out this year to protect Simpson, one of only two dentists on Capitol Hill. His primary is still five months away, but the dentists' independent campaign arm has already dropped $22,000 in mailers and spent another $20,000 last week dialing up Idaho voters to gauge the dynamics on the ground.

...

When the other lone dentist in Congress, Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., first won his seat in 2010, nearly 600 dentists contributed a total of $265,000 to his campaign. Dentists accounted for more than 40 percent of Gosar's total haul and more than half his donors.

"People actually in my first primary said, 'You get a lot of your money from dentists,' " Gosar said. "And I said, 'I'm not running from it. I'm proud to be a dentist.' "

Then, when Gosar faced a tea-party challenger in 2012 backed by the Club for Growth, the independent-expenditure arm of the dental lobby sprung into action, pouring $150,000 into his race. Dentists nationwide injected another $210,000 directly into his coffers. All told, dentists from 47 states and the District of Columbia have invested in Gosar in the past four years.

"I'm one of the dentists' dentists. I came up being involved in grassroots dentistry," said Gosar, who also served on the ADA's government-affairs council. "Mike might have a little harder time with [raising dental money] because he just didn't do all the steps that I did."

...

Barney Keller, a spokesman for the Club for Growth, said his organization is ready to take on the chamber, the dentists, and anyone else. The club spent nearly $600,000 in its unsuccessful bid to oust Gosar in 2012—almost as much as Gosar himself raised.

"I think that once you drill down on Mike Simpson's atrocious liberal record, you'll find lots of morsels, such as his votes for TARP, for repeated tax increases, and to increase the size and scope of government," Keller said. "We're sure that special-interest groups that favor big government will fight tooth and nail to keep Mike Simpson, but they should brace for impact, as you can expect us to be forceful."

Do dentists have lobbyists or waiting roomists?

[CT III]

"Grassroots dentistry"?

[Bort]

"Grassroots dentistry"?

Oh sure. Be a tool of the Military-Dental Complex, sherson.

[InternetApex]

"Grassroots dentistry"?

Like Tom Hanks in Cast Away?

[R-V]

I bet Gil could drone on for hours and hours about this nerd union.

http://deadspin.com/northwestern-football-players-are-trying-to-unionize-1510639551

[CBStew]

I bet Gil could drone on for hours and hours about this nerd union.

http://deadspin.com/northwestern-football-players-are-trying-to-unionize-1510639551

It will never work.  Even if Northwestern and other "private" college teams organize, the public universities would not be considered to be "employers" and are excluded from the National Labor Relations Act.  The employers would insist that they could only bargain with the players on a concerted basis and since the NLRB would have no jurisdiction over Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, etc. the players union would not be able to be certified as the exclusive representative.  I, too, could drone on for hours on this one.

[R-V]

More unfair persecution of our job creators

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/02/i-crashed-a-wall-street-secret-society.html

[Chuck to Chuck]

Mel Reynolds won the jackpot!

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/melvin-jay-reynolds-zimbabwe-porn-models