A new poll contradicts the widely held belief that the the tea party movement is opposed to government action to help the economy. It shows that self-described Tea Party supporters are very much in favor of government action to revitalize America's manufacturing base.
Seventy-four percent of self-described Tea Party Supporters would support a "national manufacturing strategy to make sure that economic, tax, labor, and trade policies in this country work together to help support manufacturing in the United States," according to the poll, put out by the Mellman Group and the Alliance for American Manufacturing. Likewise, 56 percent of self-described Tea Party Supporters "favor a tariff on products imported from other countries that are cheaper because they came from a country that does not have to comply with any climate change regulations in the country where the products were made."
Actually, this might prove very interesting - as TP notes, it will fascinating to see if the astroturf organizations responsible for whipping the Tea Partiers into their current frenzy would pull their money if the "grassroots" stand by these actual populist and pro-labor numbers.
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The General: Naked Sisters Stealing Cars.
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Code Name: Macondo Prospect.
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The Total Failure of Bipartisanship.
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Seed of Destruction: Nuclear 'Pits'.
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There's just one facility in the world where scientists and emergency responders can run full-scale oil spill response tests and research. It's housed at US Naval Weapons Station Earle in Leonardo, New Jersey. But when Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) tried to arrange a visit to the facility earlier this week, he learned that the facility is presently inoperable. Why? The tank researchers use to simulate spills has sprung a leak.Oy...
Palin's entire appearance was controversial. Raising money for California State University-Stanislaus, she reportedly charged a $75,000 speaker's fee and asked for another $18,000 or so in expenses, including first class plane travel for her entourage and luxury accommodations. Although CSU is a public university, its leaders didn't disclose Palin's demands -- saying a private foundation was raising the funds, and was thus exempt from public disclosure laws - and we only know about them because intrepid student journalists found the contract in a dumpster.In her speech Friday night, the vengeful Palin trashed the students as "dumpster divers" with her trademark meanness: "Students who spent their valuable, precious time diving through dumpsters before this event in order to silence someone ... what a wasted resource," she told the crowd. "A suggestion for those Dumpster divers: Instead of trying to tell people to sit down and shut up ... spend some time telling people like our president to finally stand up."
Of course, it is easy to taunt intrepid student journalists who got the story and in so doing embarrassed you when you can have them barred from covering the event, which is exactly what Sister Sarah did. Classy. Open live mic remarks here.
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The Failed States of America
How do you define national failure? An economic crisis that lacks only political will to solve? A major political party deliberating sabotaging the nation to get back into power? Wasting trillions of dollars on losing wars that endanger national security? A media that deliberately traffics in lies? A corporate plutocracy murdering people and destroying whole ocean ecosystems with impunity?
If you did, America would fair fare even worse on the Failed State Index than it already does. Keep reading: http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2010/06/failed-states.html
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We can't even get Japan to stop whaling, and now we're going to have to try to get them to give up Maguro sushi?
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Bushbama embraces killer drones with communication problems.
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