Weekend time! The thread celebrates what felt like a fast week. To the links!
- The Pennsylvania GOP is pushing a measure that would change the way Pennsylvania allocates its electoral votes from winner-take-all to one electoral vote per district. While this goes to show just how cut-throat the GOP is in terms of trying seek maximum political advantage from its gains, some Republicans are actually advocating against it, as it would change Democratic strategy in the state from driving up turnout in Philadelphia to competing district-by-district, which makes some GOP Congresscritters nervous.
- Guess who has been the highest-spending lobbyist in Michigan during 2011? Anti-union destroyer of public education Michelle Rhee. Hari Sevugan must be so proud to be associating himself with such elite company as Gov. Rick Snyder.
- David Axelrod: we're actually not all that bad, and they're way worse.
- Supermarket chains Ralphs and Albertsons says that hundreds of Southern California stores could close in case UFCW workers go on strike. Regardless of whether they close or not, I'm not crossing the picket line anyway, so I guess that means I'm going across the street to Trader Joes. How ever will I survive?
- Eric Cantor: world's worst hypocrite.
- Flying while brown on the tenth anniversary of 9/11.
- The Kinde Durkee scandal in California goes from bad to worse.
- David Atkins writes at digby's place at the manufactured Solyndra controversy:
This sort of thing is probably where the media fails most to do its job: asking follow-up questions based on the implications of certain assumptions and talking-point-based attacks. Asking probing questions is part of my job description as a focus group moderator. It comes fairly naturally. Attorneys are even better than researchers at identifying logical contradictions or reductio ad absurdum implications of certain statements. But whatever they teach in journalism school these days, it isn't how to how hold people accountable for the sum total of their political worldview.
You can't talk about the Solyndra story while ignoring the epic scale of the Halliburton story that dwarfs it both financially and especially morally. You can't talk about the Solyndra loan without asking why the government is forced to invest in risky private companies to do the jobs that need doing in the first place. And you can't talk about the Solyndra loan without asking how and in what ways it fundamentally differs from government investments in risky industries that conservatives do support.
- Two unfortunate passings in the Democratic family today. Kara Kennedy, daughter of the late Sen. Kennedy, passed away, as did Eleanor Mondale, daughter of former Vice-President Walter Mondale.
Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/6m1Zkkq2mzQ/-Midday-open-thread
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