Month: April 2011

Virtually Speaking

~ susie

Live – and archived – on BlogTalkRadio: Tuesday May 1 thru Friday May 6

• Scott Tribe joins host Kevin Wood on Virtually Speaking Sundays, the Maple Syrup Edition. The topic is election watch, Canada; from a Liberal Party POV.  Scott is the current site admin for Progressive Bloggers, the centre-left blogging aggregate in Canada. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada, he blogs here.  Sunday May 1. Listen here beginning 5pm pacific|8pm eastern. Archived herebeginning midnight.

• Digby and Joan McCarter (DailyKos’s mcjoan) together on Virtually Speaking Sundays. What did the Sunday morning talking heads cover, distort or ignore? Consider us a counterpoint. Listen here beginning 6pm pacific|9pm eastern, Sunday, May 1.

• David Swanson – antiwar activist, blogger and the author of War Is A Lie – recently returned from a trip to Afghanistan – on Virtually Speaking Susie with Susie Madrak. Listen here beginning 6pm pacific|9pm eastern, Tuesday, May 3.

• Stuart Zechman, Jay Ackroyd on VS A-Z: This week in liberalism the topic is … tba. | Listen here Thursday May 5 @ 5pm pacific | 8pm eastern. Beginning 8pm eastern,  Listen here Beginning midnight May6, archived here.

• Olivier Knox on Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd. Conflicts in the Republican caucus; international concern – or it’s lack – regarding US debt service. Listen here beginning Thursday, May 5 @ 9pm eastern/6pm pacific.

Awesome

~ susie ~ 1 Comment

Think Progress:

One attendee asked when the country was going to start trying to “trickle up” instead of following failed “trickle down” policies. Later, a frustrated constituent stood up and told Huizenga that his party has been completely captured by the richest Americans, to applause from the audience:

CONSTITUENT: You [by endorsing the Ryan plan] have done something that I have been unable to do trying to explain to my friends, and all my neighbors, and my relatives, that your party has become of the rich by the rich and for the rich! (applause)

Do you believe in magic?

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Krugman is upset that so many people in the media are praising Paul Ryan’s plan – which, as he points out, has no chance of working as proposed:

Once again, let us wonder at the way this plan has been treated by the commentariat. A guy says, “I care deeply about the deficit!” And then he releases a plan that depends on finding $3 trillion over the next decade from some unspecified source — oh, and he comes from a party that has a 30-year track record of promising to reduce the budget deficit but actually increasing it.

And everyone takes him seriously!