I was going for something different, to emphasize that he has, in fact, been bragging about this. But it’s probably unclear, so I’ll add a “not”

Me! I’m trying to start a meme. Some people have picked it up, and others came up with it simultaneously.

I know that self-censorship out of fatalism is a sure way for breaking up the banks to NOT happen. As for getting it to happen, it’ll probably take another crisis, frankly. But the solution must be well-known before that.

The history of the blogosphere is filled with people who emerged as commenters. Off the top of my head, Digby and Bmaz.

It was really more on small union, the Teacher’s Assistants at Madison, that started it. The big unions didn’t get involved until later.

It was Waukesha County, and the woman administering that election actually recused herself from the recall.

I think this, and the strong ties between community and church in Spain, work hand in hand.

I said Hollande “may not” have room to maneuver. And that is precisely how it went down with Berlusconi.

Again, I don’t have a problem with it, but policymakers straining to criticize DeMarco aren’t owning up to the implications of their rhetoric. And if nobody will say it out loud, it won’t happen.

we’re talking about two different jobs reports. You (and Zero Hedge) are talking about the weekly first-time jobless rate. That is subject to substantial revisions as the data are so noisy. The monthly jobs report is usually a bit more stolid, but by and large is revises up a good deal of the time (today we saw one revision up and one down). The data are noisy here too, and it’s probably best to look at three-month increments.

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This is a somewhat different situation. The straw candidates are there specifically to disrupt the timing of the elections. In the absence of multiple candidates in each party’s primary, the general election would take place more immediately. So it’s a particularly bizarre circumstance unique to Wisconsin recalls.

If it’s NPV+, the argument would go, then it’s not a taking. But for the record, Morgenson’s article yesterday said that DeMarco does in fact want specific Congressional authorization.

If all that matters in budgeting is the current fiscal year – you’d have to change Congressional rules to get that to fly on an official budget in Congress, but there’s a lot of support for the idea that CBO forecasts are flawed – then this budget should please you, as the $2.4 trillion in mostly up-front investments would surely increase the deficit over the fiscal year 2013. Ending the wars immediately and tax reform would not cover that cost.

Disagree. Daisey fucked up. He should not have put himself in that position. And he lied to fact-checkers. The moment he did that he set back reporting on labor conditions a decade. This is only the by-product.

I read the comments!

well, the settlement does have to be blessed by a federal court, that’s where these docs were filed. I hear that the Association of Mortgage Investors will challenge it, more on that later.

It’s this stupid box the political people put themselves in around not taxing anyone making under $250,000. When faced with the choice of having taxes go up $50 or losing food stamp or Medicaid eligibility, I think the working poor would choose the former.

There was a teabag challenge, and it completely fizzled. Snowe wasn’t going to lose.

I did one show at All Jokes Aside, I think around 1997. It was a benefit of some kind. I think Craig Robinson was on the show too. I didn’t have anything thrown at me so I considered it a success.

This is pretty much always how Berlusconi manages to slip away.