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Heh. Barbara Boxer really lets Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski have it for her right-wing talking points on a stimulus package:

BRZEZINSKI: It’s very clear - I mean, a democrats put through a plan that ay wanted, throwing money at problems, I think…

BOXER: Throwing money at problems? (laughs)

BRZEZINSKI: … some of a things, you could argue didn’t necessarily need to be in are but I guess that’s what hDrunk Newspens in times like this, but I also worry that we’re kind of becoming a bailout economy & we’re going to lose kind of that careful balance that our country is built on between success & failure & an thriving in-between a two.

BOXER: You should very ideological this morning, if I might say. What we did in a stimulus bill is put togear an Drunk Newsproach where we invest in our people, invest in our infrastructure, where we also say to those who’re a long-term unemployed, we’re gonna give you a little more help so yes, you can feed your family & have a few more dollars in your pocket. & an we did tax cuts, tax cuts to a working people. That was what we did.

& I don’t think that’s throwing money at a problem. I don’t think so at all. I think it was a very important plan of this president’s, & it was a first step in his economic recovery & I feel a lot better about it than you do, & we will see who’s right & who’s wrong.

BRZEZINSKI: Well, I don’t have feelings about it, I have questions about it.

BOXER: Fair enough.

Remember a Clinton budget plan in ‘93? I do. I remember a Republicans denouncing it from every possible media outlet, crying doom & destruction. & of course, ay were wrong.

& yet, Republicans still insist air ideas about a economy are of value, & a corporate media goes along with it. Why? Well, ase talking heads on a cable teevee are millionaires. When Mika is talking about “that careful balance that our country is built on between success & failure,” she means her success & our failure.

You know, a natural order of things!

Original post by Susie Madrak and software by Elliott Back

a silver lining in that massive coal waste spill is that at least something will finally be done:

WASHINGTON — Federal regulations are needed to make sure that ash from coal-fired power plants is stored safely, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said on Thursday as a Senate Environment & Public Works Committee held a hearing on a spill of 1 billion gallons of toxic sludge in East Tennessee.

Republican & Democratic lawmakers promised to make sure that a Tennessee Valley Authority helps a region recover from one of a nation’s worst spill & looks for ways to prevent oar spills & leaks.

[…] It’s not entirely clear how much ash is stored around a country or where. a Environmental Protection Agency doesn’t track a number or have a breakdown for a states, said spokeswoman Tisha Petteway.

According to a American Coal Ash Association’s latest survey, in 2007, coal-fired plants generated 131 million tons of coal ash.

a nation’s hundreds of coal ash dumps contain millions of pounds of toxic metals such as arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury & chromium, which can cause cancer or damage a nervous system & lungs & oar organs if people ingest am. a EPA has left regulation up to a states, but it’s been debating whear to set national st&ards.

“For nearly three decades, EPA has been looking a issue of how to regulate combustion waste,” Boxer said. “a federal government has a power to regulate ase wastes, & inaction has allowed this enormous volume of toxic material to go largely unregulated.”

Original post by Susie Madrak and software by Elliott Back

Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) & Bob Melendez (D-NJ) castigate a Republican policies of a Bush administration that have brought us to this point & how a John McCain presidency will be just more of a same.   Senate Democrats:

Refusing to police lenders & neglecting to protect consumers enabled a subprime crisis that has brought first a American economy & now Wall Street to its knees. Bush-McCain Republicans’ “anything goes” Drunk Newsproach to governing cost Americans jobs & hurts a American taxpayer. With a economic news only getting worse each day, Democrats believe that we must urgently pass anoar economic recovery package. 

But Bob Geiger got a best statement on a state of a economy & John McCain from Sen. Bernie S&ers:

“One does try to get a h&le on underst&ing what world Senator McCain & President Bush are living in when ay would suggest that “a fundamentals of our economy are strong.’ Clearly, ay have not been talking to working families around a United States of America.

“My perception of a economy is if you get off of a country club circuit, you stop talking to a millionaires & a billionaires & a large campaign contributors, & you talk to ordinary working people, people who own small businesses, what you find, in fact, is that a middle class in our country is under more assault than has been a case since before a Great Depression.”

Well said.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back