LiveBlog for Wednesday, April 1, 2009

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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to discuss her recent battle with breast cancer.

greenwald2• Filmmaker Robert Greenwald (Brave New Films) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about his recent trip to Afghanistan.

sharongless• Actress Sharon Gless calls in at 7:48am Pacific to discuss the possibility of a “Cagney & Lacey” reunion on The Stephanie Miller Show.

wesleyclarkGen. Wesley Clark calls in at 8:05am Pacific to talk about President Obama’s defense plan, specifically related to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq.

• President Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown met for more than two hours in London today, the day before the G-20 summit begins. Both say the G-20 must agree to tough new rules for the banking system to help lift the world out of recession.

• In a late afternoon ruling yesterday, a three-judge panel in Minnesota delivered a severe blow to GOPer Norm Coleman’s attempts to return to the Senate in the ongoing recount there. The panel ruled that less than 400 absentee ballots should be opened and recounted. Coleman said there would be an appeal to the full Minnesota Supreme Court.

• Kathleen Sebelius, Obama’s nominee to become Health and Human Services secretary, revealed to senators yesterday that she made “unintentional errors” on her taxes and has corrected her returns from three different years.

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War on Terror? How about a war on Hail Marys or Blitz's or Outflanking! Those are bad too, you know. Unless, like terror, "we" do it.

Is Ingraham really doing that "War on Christianity" nonsense?

Hi, Guys .... & Gals,

I'm still here. How's everyone? Just been completing moving to a new place, getting new wi-fi, which takes forever, etc., etc.

O how I wish Stephie was still on the radio here in D.C.! Laura Ingraham keeps flogging the War-On-Christianity and Chris Plante is just a fast talking fearmonger!

See you on the internets!

Peace out cub scouts! Check ou my blog if you get bored...just click on my name!

Great show!

Have a great rest of the day. Don't. Be. Fooled.

An uneducated public is the most powerful tool of the republicans. This is the same goal for all fanatical religious based quasi governments world wide. Keep us stupid and you keep us down.

Hasta manana, amigas y amigos!

Don't you guys ever change.

If O'Reilly is unhappy with Obama, it's a very good indicator that Obama is righteous..

The Faux News Question: Listening, is it gay?

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What is sad is that the Repugs not in the upper class, the ones who don't have a pot to piss in, all fear this "socialism" which endeavors to save their financial butts.

"Obama is going to guarantee your muffler."

Why can't conservatives ever debate what we liberals really believe?

They always PERVERT AND TWIST our beliefs and then debate THAT.

Particularly with autos.. face it, the damned Republican thugs only wish to bust unions.

NO asshat it's not owned by Obama it's US

Why do RWer hate "government"? Cheezus!! Move to Somalia if you like zero government. It's a GREAT place.

Come on, Republicans! Be HONEST (for a change) and ADMIT that all you really care about is union busting. You'd happily screw the entire country to put the UAW out of business.

Miserable bastards.

He who pays the piper CALLS the tune

I drive a Hyundai! It rocks!

Did I do it? If so, I'm sorry. I just slipped off to do the Sudokos and when I return it seems that live blog has almost died. Que pasa, gentes?

With apologies to some Oklahomans who are dear friends, the state does seem to have more than its share of right wing political kooks.

I will endeavor to rule as befitting a king..

We Oregonians DESPISE Tom Coburn from Oklahoma.

Our Senators worked hard to get bi-partisan support for a wilderness project and "Dr No" Coburn SINGLE-HANDEDLY blocked it, claiming the government couldn't afford it.

This is from a senator of a state, Oklahoma, that SUCKS federal dollars big-time. Oregon GIVES more federal taxes than it receives.

Furthermore, green recreation is an important part of Oregon's economy (duh!) but that jackass Coburn blocked it.

Well alrighty then!

Ivan gets the "busted" Sparta! *bows*

Maybe the internet is busted or something?

I ask if you are on Kiva because here is our lending group
http://www.kiva.org/team/stephanie_miller_listener...

I missed it? What happened to the Bloggonists?

We still have 15 minutes..

Amigos! Que pasa? Where's the scramble for Sparta?

SPARTA!! And should I fail to win I will demand a recount!!

Can you imagine how the Repubs would be squealing bloody murder if the situation were reversed with Coleman/Franken?

Coleman = Sore Loser

Lather, rinse, repeat!

Imagine being such a pathetic little right wing turd that Sean Hannity is your hero and mentor..

If Obama is such a socialist then why is he helping backs stay solvent and private? Hannity is a douche and smells just as bad as what it is used to clean.

Ha .. envy of the world ... my friends in Canada couldn't be paid to live here

The Washington Independent was even more condemning of the GOP Budget:
http://washingtonindependent.com/36204/after-the-l...

Excerpt:
While reporters hooted at the comically simplistic charts and lack of details in the House Republican leadership’s budget plan, the green eyeshade types at Citizen’s for Tax Justice crunched the numbers (PDF). They conclude that a quarter of all households, most of them poor, would pay more taxes under the GOP plan, while the richest one percent would pay $100,000 less.

Why is it I feel an urge to crush Sean Hannity's gonads every time I hear his voice?

OMG 1008 loans ... I've never seen so many loans available

Of course it has graphics. How else to you make "cut taxes" 19 pages long?

shaf - Kiva http://www.kiva.org

a kivac someone on kiva

McCain said that republicans used reconciliation for budgets so any republican who says it is wrong can easily be dismissed by saying if it was okay for Bush to do it, way is it wrong now?

Then stick the knife in. Tell them "you lost. Deal with it."

I'm going to be kind of sad with the final ER. The show's been on forever, but there were still reasons to watch.

Amy these two books are written by a friend of mine

Wed, Apr 1, 2009 8:07am ET

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The Hill ignored GOP's use of reconciliation process in forwarding claim it "was never intended to ram through major legislation"

Summary: The Hill reported that "GOP critics of the reconciliation process have said that it was never intended to ram through major legislation," but did not mention that Republicans used the budget reconciliation process to pass several major Bush initiatives.

In a March 31 article on Democrats' potential implementation of the budget reconciliation process, which would allow Congress to pass "policy changes in mandatory spending (entitlements) or revenue programs (tax laws)" by a simple majority in both Houses, The Hill reported: "GOP critics of the reconciliation process have said that it was never intended to ram through major legislation." However, The Hill did not mention that Republicans used the budget reconciliation process to pass several major Bush initiatives, as The New York Times and the blog Think Progress have noted. These initiatives include the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003, the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200904010002

#272 I guess if you're raised in a village where none of the women are educated and everyone's been ravaged by war, you don't know what you're missing and so you don't feel bad about your situation.
Like if you've never had indoor plumbing and you move to a different house without it, you won't miss it.

#274 Since I have no friggin' clue what a "Kivac" is, I must not be one.

In vajeen?!! In her baby Chimney?!!! Holy s@#t! That was hilarious!