Today, I was joined by Jamie Henn – Communications and Development Director of 350.org and TarsandsAction.org about yesterday’s massive march and rally at the White House.
Alan Rosenblatt was my guest to talk about the “Faux 15” – the 15 so-called “jobs bills” that have passed the Boehner House and are now “stuck in the Senate”… Here’s the list on Canter’s site, and here’s how Nancy Pelosi’s site explains them.
This is how @drdigipol tweeted them out (posted newest to oldest:
drdigipol Alan Rosenblatt
There r the faux 15 #jobs bills passed by House. They kill jobs, kill people, & put air, land, & water at risk. #fail#p2#ows#eaparty
Faux #Jobs Bill #15-16: HR2021-HR1938-more oil drilling, less oversight, more spills. R they investing in oil cleanup? #p2#ows#teaparty
Faux #Jobs Bill #14: Oil Cleanup Jobs Act (HR1231)-Opens drilling on Atlantic & Pacific coasts. They need Cleanup Jobs 2! #p2#ows#teaparty
Faux #Jobs Bill #13: #BigOiL Drill More Act (HR1229) rushes process that caused BP #OilSpill. #p2#ows#teaparty
Faux #Jobs Bill #12: Big Oil Drilling (HR1230) allows more drilling in Gulf w/ less oversight creating OIL CLEANUP jobs. #p2#ows#teaparty
Faux #Jobs Bill #11: Coal Ash Protection Act (HR2273) helps coal industry keep polluting. Doesn’t create jobs. #p2#ows#teaparty
Faux #Jobs Bill #10: Even More Dirty Air Act (HR2250)-20K more sent 2 early graves from mercury pollution. Yay… more jobs. #ows#teaparty
Faux #Jobs Bill #9: More Dirty Air Act (HR2681)… wld send 10,000 ppl 2 an early grave. Guess that opens up some jobs. #p2#ows#teaparty
Faux #Jobs Bill #8: Dirty Air Act (HR2401)… if pollution was jobs, this bill would create lots of them. #p2#ows#teaparty
Faux #Jobs Bill #7: Outsourcer’s Bill of Rights (HR2587) creates more jobs… IN OTHER COUNTRIES. #p2#ows#teaparty
Faux #Jobs Bill #6: Bank Protection Act (HR1315 undermines consumer protection & protects finance industry bad practices. #p2#ows#teaparty
Faux #Jobs Bill #5: More Dirty Water Act (HR872) allows pesticides 2 feed into our water. Where r the jobs in that? #p2#ows#teaparty
Faux #Jobs Bill #4: Dirty Water Act (HR2018) kill tourism jobs, fishing industry, rec jobs while polluting our H2O. #p2#ows#teaparty
Faux #Jobs Bill #3: Tollbooths on the Internet (HJRes37) destroys open internet, which created 3million jobs so far. #ows#teaparty
Faux #Jobs Bill #2 Increasing Child Asthma Act (HR910) doesn’t create #jobs. It pollutes our air & hurts our kids. #p2#ows#teaparty
drdigipol Alan Rosenblatt
Faux #Jobs Bill #1 The Budget Bill that ENDS MEDICARE. What a joke that 1 is. It wld kill 1.7million jobs. #ows#teaparty
Victoria Jones checked in with the news from the Talk Radio News Service.
And it’s Monday, so Nicole Belle of Crooks and Liars joined in for “Fools on the Hill”:
Let’s play the latest Sunday morning edition of “You just don’t get it”, shall we?
Condoleezza Rice wins the “I’ve learned nothing in the past ten years award” for going on This Week for the softest of softball interviews by Christiane Amanpour and using the interview as an opportunity to advocate for war with Iran.
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour inexplicably defended Herman Cain by likening these pesky women and their pesky allegation of sexual harassment to another time a fine black conservative rose to prominence and was unfairly subjected to scrutiny: Clarence Thomas and his “high tech lynching”. Of course, as former NM Governor Bill Richardson points out later in the video, Haley Barbour’s understanding of women is somewhat suspect given his support of the heinous Mississippi personhood amendment.
Meanwhile, Candy Crowley—whom I think it’s safe to assume probably earns enough at CNN to be considered part of the 1% (over $380,300/year)—asks on lobbyists to discuss the economy and asks the AARP representative if he thought seniors were willing to “put skin in the game” to reduce the deficit.
Jim Pinkerton on Fox News Watch demonstrates his entirely isolated and insular life when he claims that no one could actually be poor and still own a car, house or VCR.
And finally, Speaker of the House John Boehner held off on the tears but still offered this plaintive cry on behalf of the 1%: How much more do you want them to pay?