17 thoughts on “Wednesday Open Thread”

1. Today is Elephant Appreciation Day

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   1. But what if your elephant doesn't like butterscotch pudding, Dave?

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      1. You feed them chocolate pudding.

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         1. But that would infuriate the butterscotch pudding trust that you flacked Monday.  You'd be in a heap of trouble!

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            1. Today is Wednesday. Even for you.

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               1. And you are just two days away from the utter shame of scarfing butterscotch pudding in communion of your Church of the Inane.

                  Eww!

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   2. Elephants > humans

       

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      1. Spaceman, that concept may be a hard sell to a #MAGAt like DJTJ (or as Mary Trump describes him, “the dumbest Trump”).  Didn’t white baby Jesus put Merikans on Earth to dominate and exploit nature?

          

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         1. The dumbest trump is a fierce competition.  The vilest is even fiercer.  Stink Jr. wins both.

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            1. Stink Jr. did come out against the proposed Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska. About the only issue he was right on during Daddy's four year term.

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2. Congratulations to the original MeatIn movement: Yuma County Cattlewomen celebrated their 50th anniversary in Wray this past weekend. My mom was their first president and at that time they were known as the Yuma County Cowbelles. 

   

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3. 

   McConnell’s 32 career votes to raise the debt limit increased it by $20.7 trillion

   Despite leading three efforts to increase the debt limit under the Trump administration and voting 32 times to increase the debt limit by over $20 trillion himself over the course of his career, Senator Mitch McConnell (R, KY) is threatening to oppose and filibuster an effort to address the looming debt limit deadline that will come due in October. 

    

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   1. Do you think they learned nothing these past five years from the King of Debt and his multiple bankruptcies….

      They're probably expecting Janet Yellen and Merrick Garland to be filling out the Chapter 7 petition as we speak.

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4. Refreshing…..a pragmatic progressive……

   Opinion | New York’s Superstar Progressive Isn’t A.O.C. – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

    

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5. It’s Not Really a ‘$3.5 Trillion’ Bill

   The $3.5 trillion spending plan from President Biden is at risk in Congress partly because $3.5 trillion strikes people as a lot of money. Which, of course, it is. But the net cost of the plan, after taking into account offsetting tax increases and spending cuts, is only one-quarter as big.

   Sharon Parrott, president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a left-of-center think tank, is urging people to stop focusing on the $3.5 trillion label.

   In an Aug. 31 commentary, she wrote that if Donald Trump’s signature legislative achievement, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, had been measured the same way as Biden’s plan is being calculated, it would have been called a $5.5 trillion package. It never was — it was described appropriately as a $1.5 trillion piece of legislation (later revised by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office to $1.9 trillion) — because Republicans and Democrats alike took into account that the Trump bill contained offsetting tax increases and spending cuts.

   Parrott argued that the number associated with the Biden spending bill should likewise reflect offsetting tax increases and spending cuts. “When considering the cost of legislation, the net effect, not just the investment or tax cut side of the ledger, matters most,” she wrote.

   https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/opinion/biden-spending-bill.html

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   1. ^^^this^^^ x1000

      Reframe the narrative. 

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      1. Agreed.

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