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February 14, 2012 04:34 PM UTC
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…so let’s help him out, shall we? A plethora of wonderful headlines about the Republican’t Party’s discovery that middle class people vote!
Is the GOP caving on the payroll tax cut?
House Republicans Yield on Extending Payroll Tax Cut
GOP Payroll Tax Cut Switch
Why The GOP’s Payroll Tax Cut Cave Is An Even Bigger Deal Than You Think
GOP Leaders Blink In Payroll Tax Cut Standoff
Republicans retreat on tax cut
But my favorite:
In surprise move, GOP leaders admit defeat in payroll tax battle
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/P…
There has to be one somewhere.
So right now it’s all just talk.
Second, R’s want to sever this issue from unemployment and the Medicare “doc fix.” That way, they can turn it into a us-vs-them issue. It’s so much more acceptable to screw the poor than to screw everyone.
is that they divorced the Doc fix and extended unemployment benefits from the payroll tax cut bill.
They can vote against extended unemployment and the doc fix without voting against a tax cut.
Why would any Republican want to sever the doc fix from this cave on the payroll tax?
Republicans are always going on about Democrats not passing the doc fix (because it’s always attached to some obnoxious Republican hate-on-the-citizens bill) – and now they don’t want it put in a bill that would easily pass?
Republicans don’t want the doc fix to help Medicare patients or doctors; they want it as a political football.
But remember, the other piece that was severed is extended unemployment, which they DON’T want.
We don’t know in what form these other pieces will come back.
Lots of good stuff. Would love to see more diversity of opinions.
Why aren’t Nancy’s diaries being front paged? Anyone care to weigh in?
Because, as was explained to her last week, they are of limited interest.
Case in point. The Cory Booker diary, which contains an embedded video. Nancy says:
How many people are going to watch a 37-minute video? I’d rather watch re-runs of “Pawn Stars.”
Or get a root canal.
some kind of discrimination . . . (in the sense of exercising good judgement.)
’cause I don’t think a 1500 work rant about CSAP with uncredited/unrequired blockquotes is “good stuff” — really, just how diverse is the opinion that the CSAP requirement or standardized testing has proven somewhat detrimental to education?
Ohwilleke’s interesting diary about the Colorado officials who attended the treason convention in Las Vegas was rightly FP’d.
I tend to hesitate unless I feel it has general interest. Even the Guvs post things from time to time that don’t receive much of a response.
I’ll try to be more attentive to the diaries in the future.
PITA
I don’t have firm rules, but in general I do promote:
* Original news reporting
* Diaries that are the first Pols take (as in, beat the Guvs to it or the Guvs ignored it) on a general-interest story about national or Colorado politics — one that has relevance to the majority of the Pols audience.
* At least marginally viable candidates and/or elected officials diarying in person.
* Interviews, if with a person of general interest to the community.
* Well-researched and readable op-eds on a topic currently in the news. These I’m picky about. I prefer that they cite sources or include original reporting.
In general, I don’t promote:
* Stories that are only relevant to a small fraction of the audience
* Op-eds that are more like rants/letters to the editor
* Walls of text, unless they’re really good and the poster has an email where I can offer to clean up the formatting in order to promote
* Additional personal takes on a story/topic that’s already been on the front page recently; in other words, diaries that are more like really long comments
I’m not always GOOD at this, but that’s what I try to go by.
Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool
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It’s even worse than you think.
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