@mittromney: jobs progress!!! #iokiyar

translation: it's okay if you're a republican or mitt romney in 2006, not okay if you're president obama.

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i luv photoshop nerdz!!! or anti-gay marriage FAIL

the national organization for marriage [you know! of one d00d + one d00dette fame] gets caught [mis]using a photo from an Obama campaign rally to attempt to portray large support for the repeal of gay marriage in New Hampshire. polling shows that most New Hampshirites aren't affected by their fellow gay citizens having the right to marry. opponents of gay marriage are outnumbered 2 to 1! anyway, i dig that some fellow nerd from the Good as You blog made the connection & now it's on the national news. TAKE THAT n.o.m. DUMMIES!

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best new thing in national politics: Elizabeth Warren for U.S. senator

@ElizabethForMA on @Maddow
<3'n this:

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check out her official announcement below:

elizabethwarren.com

what a beautiful thing! congrats mr. mintz & mr. feinblatt & way to go mr. bloomberg

this is what the gay marriage vote in NY state means:

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UPDATE!
YESSSSSSS!

oh haaaaayyyyyy! look @ that, a republican w/a realistic viewpoint on tax policy

UPDATE!
thank you mr. bartlett!
thanks lawrence!
i wish we could get more sensible analysis of economic policy.

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i really appreciate lawrence o'donnell's show, the last word's ability to book guests from all political stripes, beat them down w/rational & logical arguments, then convince them to return!
this is in no way a knock on my msnbc crush, rachel maddow. i believe conservative politicians are just afraid to come on her show.
anyway, here's a great exchange between lawrence and former reagan administration domestic policy adviser bruce bartlett on some of the cockamamie tax proposals by republican candidates for president:

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the rachel maddow show w/ @chrislhayes are thankful

i usually catch my hippie/liberal/socialist/commie propaganda the next day, online. so, sorry if you've already seen this. rachel is out on vacation, but chris hayes does a great job fillin' in for her.
i really liked this section about things to be thankful for. things we usually take for granted and are vilified by the right wing.

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@maddow's THE interview: a north carolina abortion provider talks about life w/a price on his head

on monday night, msnbc's the rachel maddow show got to interview the latest abortion provider who has become a target of the infamous "wanted" posters. the posters that the anti-choice movement claims is not their doing and/or should be protected as free speech.
it's a pretty chilling view into the courage it takes to do this job. a life SAVING job. a LEGAL job.
it's scary how the anti-choice movement pushes all this hate/fear-mongering, then when some nut-job murders an abortion provider, they just claim "it wasn't us! we didn't mean for nut-job X to KILL abortion provider Y"
it takes an amazing amount of hubris for these people to just claim there's no blood on their hands in these cold-blooded murderers.



if you can, please donate to your local or national planned parenthood. they need all the help they can get.

councilman joel burns & his husband j.d. angle interviewed on msnbc's the last word

this interview was done last night, during lawrence o'donnell's the last word.
it's a great view of the lead-up to mr. burns' epic speech at the fort worth city council.
something that mr. angle, a political consultant, said really made an impression on me & it's something that politicians should live by:
"when our elected officials and our public servants act with courage and integrity, they're almost always right."
words to represent by.

lean forward: into a really cool ad campaign for msnbc

just caught this @rachel maddow's show blog.
says that their ad was done by spike lee. don't know if they were all directed by him, but they're all pretty damn cool.
it's probably the politiksnerd in me talkin'...
check it out:

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small businesses or how some corporations take advantage of the tax code to weasel out of payin' taxes

anyone out ther... a; ioeht;vsg
oops, sorry, i was rotfl. anyone out there! right!
anyway, i'd really like to know what other tax experts think about this piece.
i'm always skeptical of republicans & their chicken shit rhetoric hiding behind the "small business" fallacy.
countdown does a good job showing what kind of businesses abuse the s-corporation rule to maximize profits in spite of the well-being of the country & government.

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move yo' $$$$

i've been wanting to do this for a while!
let's make a run on these too big to fail giants.
moveyourmoney.info

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dog gamn!!! my political aspirations @ the local/state level may be dashed!

of course good ol' texas had to be one of the 6!

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why i <3 rachel maddow

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nerd crush!