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Included with every edition of C&J we post is an award-winning poll question that increases blood flow through your neural pathways by an average of 21%. (Source: New England Journal of Medical Articles the New England Journal of Medicine Refuses to Publish, Vol. 54, pp 334-9,976.) Every now and then we post the results of some of them to give you a snapshot of Daily Kos’s collective brain power which, if we could bottle it, would probably violate several federal, state and local bottling laws. These are some results from last October through January:
» 50 percent of you support a bill proposed by Democrats to limit a Supreme Court justice's term to18 years. 25 percent think it should be shorter than that. Only six percent think they should enjoy lifetime appointments.
» Among PA, AZ, GA, MI, NV and WI, 43% were happiest about Biden’s Pennsylvania win...37% were happiest about the Wisconsin win...and 8% were happiest about the Michigan win.
» 97 percent of you were not surprised that Lindsey Graham tried to tamper with the Georgia election results by getting legal ballots tossed willy-nilly.
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Note about today’s poll: The amounts mentioned are annual, not monthly. C&J regrets the error.
» Sen. Tammy Duckworth proposed a bill that would ban federal law enforcement from wearing military-style camo uniforms that make them look like U.S. military troops. 99 percent of you support that bill.
» Astoundingly, only 5 percent of you thought that Trump's closing arguments to women—"I improved dishwasher pressure" and "I won’t listen to the scientists"—would win back their vote.
All C&J polling data is backed up on the finest computers available. This zippy little thing can store two questions on a single floppy disc and also play “Mary Had A Little Lamb.”
» After the election, 34 percent of you said you were most eager to see who President-elect Biden would choose as Education Secretary, while 23 percent said Secretary of State and 19 percent said Secretary of Health and Human Services.
» 59 percent rate Joe Biden's economic team "excellent," while 30% rate it "good." And 97 percent support Joe’s decision to make Dr. Anthony Fauci his chief medical adviser.
» 89 percent believe the period between election day and inauguration day should be shortened. Only 8 percent believe it shouldn't.
» And one more: 13 percent of Daily Kogs say they had "Louie Gohmert sues Mike Pence in court demanding he overturn the electoral college results to keep Trump in power" on their 2020 Bingo card.
As always, thanks for participating in our C&J polls. If you’re on Weight Watchers, remember that voting counts as 16 cardiovascular workout points.
And now, our feature presentation...
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Cheers and Jeers forWednesday, February 10, 2021
Note: With all the advertising they did, I just don't understand why Frank Peezaschitt's Used Cars folded so quickly. I mean, who wouldn't want a shiny Peezaschitt in their garage?
Percent of Democrats polled by AP-NORC before the election and this month, respectively, who believed the country is on the right track: 10%, 75%
Annual growth in GDP over the last century under Democratic and Republican presidents, respectively, according to a New York Times analysis: 4.6%, 2.4%
Amount Exxon Mobil lost in 2020: $22 billion
Percent of Americans who believe climate change is either a "problem" or a "crisis": 76%
Amount Kroger is paying its employees to get the Covid-19 vaccine: $100
Percent chance that FDR's is the largest of several portraits President Biden has hanging on the wall in the Oval Office: 100%
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Mid-weekRapture Index: 178 (including 4 incidents of global turmoil and 1 Mark of the Pillow Crackhead Beast). Soul Protection Factor 24 lotion is recommended if you’ll be walking amongst the heathen today.
CHEERS to gavels at dawn. (Or, to be more precise: after lunch.) The impeachment trial—the preliminary round, anyway—got going yesterday. If you’re just joining us after a long winter’s nap, former President Donald Trump was impeached by the House last month for “inciting insurrection” at the Capitol building on January 6th, and now we’re at the part where Senate Republicans play Angry Birds on their smartphones until it’s time to vote in favor of a Republican president’s right to send a mob to trash the Capitol and try to destroy our republic. Yesterday’s action was to determine if it was even constitutional to put a former president on trial. House impeachment manager Jamie Raskin (D-MD) provided the highlight, and after he said this they could’ve adjourned for the day:
The vote was 56-44 to proceed. The trial continues today with the presentation of evidence. We’ll see it all: glass smashed, chairs thrown, threats shouted, and desks ransacked. But then Lindsey Graham will be sedated and they can start the presentation of evidence.
CHEERS to Anatomy 101. Wikipedia tells me that the spine is "the defining characteristic of a vertebrate in which the notochord (a flexible rod of uniform composition) found in all chordates has been replaced by a segmented series of bone." And when it comes to pandemic relief and economic stimulus, Democrats have apparently found theirs, at long last:
[I]nstead of entertaining talks to shrink the president's $1.9 trillion proposal, [Democrats] are determined to go big. […]
They’re done playin’ smallball.
Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., the chair of the Ways and Means Committee and a key figure in crafting the bill, wants to add monthly cash payments totaling $3,600 per year for every child under age 6, or $3,000 for children from 6 to 17. […] For Democrats, the aggressive approach is a sea change after decades of echoing Republicans about the risks of a rising national debt.
Biden's $1.9 trillion package [also] includes $1,400 direct payments and $400-a-week jobless aid, plus vaccine funds, health care subsidies and money for rent, food stamps and public transit. His advisers have circulated surveys showing broad public support, including a recent Quinnipiac poll that showed 68 percent ofU.S.adults favor it.
Word of advice: don’t hurt your spine before you've had a chance to even use it. $1.9 trillion is a lot of fiscal weight. Lift with the legs.
CHEERS to the most important day in U.S. history. On February 10, 1945, the Andrews Sisters hit the top of the charts with 'Rum & Coca Cola.' Why we don't get today off as a national holiday remains an infuriating mystery.
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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Beautiful timelapse of Earth rising over the Moon captured by the Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft Kaguya. Credit: JAXA/NHK pic.twitter.com/C8Iiuawweg
CHEERS to dropping in unannounced. Amidst all the excitement over the new Biden-Harris administration, the impeachment trial, and trying to navigate winter without doing a faceplant on an un-shoveled sidewalk, is the imminent landing of the Mars probe Perseverance. The big event happens next Thursday, February 18th, and this time we'll have an even frontier front seat than previous landings:
Innovative cameras and microphones on Perseverance will capture much of its pivotal entry, descent, and landing process. This process, sometimes referred to by space engineers as seven minutes of terror, is considered by many to be the most critical and dangerous part of the mission. […]
A camera mounted on the back shell of the spacecraft is pointed upward. That will record a view of the parachutes deploying as it slows to land. Then, beneath it is a downward-pointing camera on the descent stage, which will film its first touch-contact with the ground on Mars. … Lori Glaze, who heads the Planetary Science Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, told reporters: "We’re going to be able to watch ourselves land for the first time on another planet."
Perseverance will bring an assortment of fine Amway products for Martians to try...and order.
There won’t, however, be a livestream of the footage, as we’re accustomed to with International Space Station events and rocket launches from Earth. The reason for this is due to a lag in data relay from Mars to Earth, which is slower than even old dial-up connections. … NASA TV’s live coverage of the event will begin that day at 2:15 p.m. EST (19:15 UTC); landing at approximately 3:55 p.m. EST (20:55 UTC).
As we're waiting for the glorious landing footage, you can watch my dramatic reenactment at approximately 3:56 p.m. next Thursday when I jump off the porch roof, open an umbrella to slow my descent, and then gently land thanks to the suspenders I've hooked from a tree limb to my pants. I'll be sure to post the footage on YouTube once I'm discharged from the ICU.
"As Lincoln organized the forces arrayed against slavery, he was heard to say this: "Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought to battle through."
That is our purpose here today.
That is why I'm in this race. Not just to hold an office, but to gather with you to transform a nation. I want to win that next battle---for justice and opportunity. I want to win that next battle---for better schools, and better jobs, and better health care for all. I want us to take up the unfinished business of perfecting our union, and building a better America."
And here we are, looking at the improbable two-term Obama presidency in our rear-view mirror. We'll always be frustrated by the unfinished business that was left on the table, but we'll never forget why: petty, lockstep GOP obstruction (aided by Senate Democrats' failure to deal with it sooner despite knowing exactly what was going on), and a conservative movement that took leave of its senses by displaying a willingness to burn the country down before it would ever let that "foreign" and "lawless" black guy succeed. And yet, to the right-wing's tooth-grinding chagrin, big black badass Barack Hussein Obama—with many major accomplishments and zero scandals in his plus column—left America stronger and better, and he’ll end up higher on historians' Best Presidents lists than their patron saint Ronald Reagan or that GOP supervillain Cult 45.That's gonna hurt their delicate snowflake fee-fees. A lot, I hope.
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Ten years ago in C&J: February 10, 2011
JEERS to sugarcoated B.S. Ben Quayle, the son of Dan "Potatoe" Quayle and the guy who ran a political ad saying Barack Obama was the worst president in history, is now a U.S. congressman. And he's hornin' in on the hot Reagan 100th-birthday legacy action:
When I was a child, President Ronald Reagan was the nice man who gave us jelly beans when we visited the White House. I didn't know then, but I know it now: The jelly beans were much more than a sweet treat that he gave out as gifts. They represented the uniqueness and greatness of America—each one different and special in its own way, but collectively they blended in harmony."
Yeah. Whatever. Never mind that Reagan kept jelly beans around because he was an ex-smoker and they helped him stay on the wagon. But Quayle is right, in an accidental way, that we Americans are like jelly beans: we're hard on the outside, soft on the inside and some are so distasteful they make you wanna barf. Hi, Ben! [2/10/21 Update: The junior Quayle only lasted one term before he got the boot, while Obama cruised to reelection for a second term. Jus' sayin'.]
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And just one more…
JEERS to missing an important member of our national peanut gallery. I was reminded this week that beloved Michigan Congressman John Dingell left us two years ago last Saturday after serving from the 84th Congress (1955) to the 113th (2015). As the impeachment trial rages on, this morning we remember some of the classic post-retirement Twitter taunts John rained down on the 45th president to the delight of, well, everyone:
☺ The American people wait with bated breath as their idiot president announces something he could have done 35 days ago to avoid this national disgrace of a shutdown. The Art of the Deal.
☺ Crooks like Trump will steal a hot stove and come back for the smoke.
☺ Big Macs. Small hands. A nation’s embarrassment.
☺ Is this clown going to cry and yell at us again?
Ho ho ho! Look at our president. Too dumb to know he has toilet paper on his shoe and the world is watching. God save America from a man as foolish as this. pic.twitter.com/7CzehSpR5B
☺ We’ve had presidents of almost every stripe, but this one will be remembered as the smallest and most vile. A petty man with no interest in a greater good for us all. All I want for Christmas is January 20th, 2021.
☺ Trump’s entire criminal operation is on the brink of collapsing and honestly there is not enough popcorn in the world.
Brother, you said a mouthful.
Have a happy humpday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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