Microblogging: August 21, 2012
Economist’s View: ‘The Right Seems Unable to Rise above Rabble-Rousing’ http://t.co/teJCujfQ | http://bit.ly/O45NQl
RT @foxjust: Someday all journalistic activity will be devoted to fact-checking Niall Ferguson, rechecking his fact-checkers, and so on | http://bit.ly/Qotzm8
RT @jbarro: The right, much more than the left, has gotten out of touch with reality. Of course that means GOP pols will make false, outlandish claims. | http://bit.ly/O45MMq
Niall Ferguson Does Not Understand That the Federal Government Hires a Huge Number of Temporary Workers to Conduct t… http://t.co/GoEeuZHY | http://bit.ly/NG7ReA
RT @DylanByers: Niall Ferguson ducks, nitpicks, vilifies http://t.co/BALOR9SE via @POLITICO | http://bit.ly/OWsac0
Paul Krugman: Kinds Of Wrong http://t.co/uH444TEa | http://bit.ly/RdN1Hj
RT @daveweigel: RT @feliciasonmez: Ryan is hitting Obama for defense sequester that he voted for in last August’s debt-ceiling deal | http://bit.ly/NF7rFp
RT @peterkohan: @owillis Shorter Brown: “Please - women actually vote AGAINST Republicans in MA over this s***. You’re killing me, here.” | http://bit.ly/RdMZyW
RT @MattZeitlin: Hot brit-on-brit economics action!!! http://t.co/uI5274ih | http://bit.ly/RdN1qN
RT @daveweigel: RT @aaltman82: Super brave of Akin’s Republican colleagues to pile on with outraged press releases now that their opinion is moot. | http://bit.ly/NF7roW
RT @owillis: shorter romney: i can’t have our true position on this issue up front, im running for president for pete’s sake! | http://bit.ly/RdMZir
RT @evanmc_s: FLASHBACK: Akin not endorsing Romney in July: “just going to wait and see, issue by issue, for what he does” http://t.co/tksi6Ngi | http://bit.ly/RdLFwf
RT @brianbeutler: RE Romney’s energy plan, he’s actually like the right’s cartoon version of Pelosi. “You have to elect me to find out what’s in it.” | http://bit.ly/NF5g4D
Daily Kos: The 2012 election: Sex and Medicare
RT @Beyerstein: .@pambelluck and @laurahelmuth unleash their science journalism chops on poor, pitiful Todd Akin: http://t.co/wDFXoa4C Ouch! | http://bit.ly/NF5fOe
RT @ryangrim: Sen. Ron Wyden did not cosponsor Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget, @secupp - They’re in different chambers, first of all | http://bit.ly/RdLFvY
RT @YAppelbaum: It’s great that NYT columnists submit hyperlinked sources for their facts, but why not embed them in the articles? http://t.co/0PHfx5AS | http://bit.ly/QXfZa5
Daily Kos: Shocker! Romney campaign can’t find anyone ‘appropriate’ to talk about lady things http://t.co/8IySajAd | http://bit.ly/OWiXRc
RT @emptywheel: Q: Who put plank comparing undocumented workers to cattle INTO GOP platform, such that it had to be struck? Kobach? @PeterHambyCNN | http://bit.ly/QX9VhH
RT @emptywheel: Every leader of party will have spent an entire 72-hour waiting people trying to hound out primary winner for advocating party platform. | http://bit.ly/RdHlwJ
RT @ryangrim: Okay RT @ericatwiley GOP spokesmen now urging media to go back to Romney tax return issue. | http://bit.ly/RdHlgn
Todd Akin Isn’t The Only Tea Party Senate Candidate Who Thinks Medicare Is Unconstitutional | ThinkProgress http://t.co/4YiFdWNp | http://bit.ly/O1rMUL
Matthew Ingram: Plagiarism, defamation and the power of hyperlinks http://t.co/VwImU8nW via @mathewi | http://bit.ly/PuqOnI
Lindsay Beyerstein: Todd Akin on “Legitimate Rape” http://t.co/AfWSsUmr | http://bit.ly/SimEzH
David Cutler: Hey Republicans! Stop Misusing My Medicare Study! http://t.co/CEJbESf0 | http://bit.ly/O1aTtf
Jonathan Portes: Bad policy is to blame for UK’s lack of growth http://t.co/rR6iRFqy | http://bit.ly/ShW4H3
Vanessa Heggie: The Missouri Republican Party Gets Really, Really Medieval http://t.co/8AGq07uQ | http://bit.ly/TSc7LE
A Current Benefit-Cost Ratio of 0.55 Is Sufficient to Make Increased Federal Purchases a Good Deal Today… http://t.co/4GJeTlyx | http://bit.ly/ShW4qt
RT @pamspaulding: .@DKos: WaPo’s Deputy Editorial Page Ed. @JacksonDiehl calls his readers “idiotic” over @Milbank column http://t.co/ycFd9ooW | | http://bit.ly/O1UHeD
RT @KagroX: Todd Akin wrote HR 4971, to prohibit ACA health care exchanges from offering plans that cover abortion. Original cosponsor: Paul Ryan. | http://bit.ly/O1UJ6o
RT @amaeryllis: It’s almost like the GOP is daring every person under 40 to never vote Republican again. http://t.co/RTqhIkqR | http://bit.ly/OuNPoE
RT @edyong209: Niall Ferguson says his reputation isn’t undermined, which is the sort of made-up shit you’d now expect him to say http://t.co/A2RkdWrd | http://bit.ly/O1UGHv
RT @amaeryllis: Supporting a “Personhood” Amendment but not an Equal Rights Amendment sums up the GOP pretty nicely. | http://bit.ly/O1UGaz
RT @TheStalwart: #ThingsNiallFergusonblamesonObama RT @Reddy: “By 2030, China will have 200 million college graduates — more than the entire U.S. workforce” | http://bit.ly/PCrEhN
RT @dylanmatt: Following up a lie-riddled cover story with a fun roundup of people pointed out you lied takes some serious chutzpah: http://t.co/DVO8EBxX | http://bit.ly/OuKard
RT @jayrosen_nyu: The Rubicon that Newsweek is crossing without realizing it. http://t.co/JcboFKeL | http://bit.ly/PCrEy5
RT @CitizenCohn: Reminder from @HaroldPollack - Ryan/Romney plans for Medicaid scarier than those for Medicare http://t.co/mIMMOevv | http://bit.ly/OuKar1
RT @jbarro: The biggest problem with Niall Ferguson’s worldview is that he treats the rise of the Chinese populace out of poverty like it’s a bad thing. | http://bit.ly/PCrBCt
RT @JustinWolfers: Wait, so is Niall Ferguson running for the Missouri senate seat now? | RT @jbplainblog: CotD to @mattyglesias on Obama and monetary policy. Yup, it’s bizarre. http://t.co/KqDoWbX2 | http://bit.ly/NDi147 RT @haroldpollack: Economist Hank Aaron is a go-to source on public policy—older Americans’ stake in the current Medicare fight. http://t.co/NxzCfcbB | http://bit.ly/NEl4om RT @foxjust: “we really do need a significant fiscal stimulus …” Glenn Hubbard on Nightly Business Report, Jan. 19, 2009 | http://bit.ly/PSpc8u RT @foxjust: ” … and to work in the next 12 to 18 months it will have to involve both spending increases and tax cuts.” Hubbard, contd. | http://bit.ly/OMbzSI RT @Susane: MT @Atrios: what the fuck did the @BarackObama administration think public sector “belt tightening” meant if not firing teachers? | http://bit.ly/PSpbRY RT @ThePlumLineGS: .@stevebenen: Romney’s historic levels of mendacity are a test for our political system: http://t.co/OGx3cmIl | http://bit.ly/OMbBtC RT @normative: Inside Intellectual Ventures, the most hated company in tech http://t.co/IazVoHl8 | http://bit.ly/OMbz50 RT @DylanByers: Ferguson: “I don’t think you can claim this undermines my academic reputation.” …Dude, you EDITED THE CBO REPORT to CHANGE ITS MEANING. | http://bit.ly/OV4xka RT @gideonrachman: @Sathnam @gideonrachman @Pawelmorski @delong @EdwardGLuce Thats’s only a matter of time for him. | http://bit.ly/QWhkhl RT @Pawelmorski: @EdwardGLuce @delong we.did. You never see him on BBC these days… | http://bit.ly/OV4uoF Jed Lewison: Republican platform draft endorses Todd Akin’s abortion stance. And Paul Ryan’s. And Mitt Romney’s. http://t.co/L08N2sDH | http://bit.ly/QWhmWu Dave Weigel: What a Silly Little Fraud Niall Ferguson Is http://t.co/6neQDZvN | http://bit.ly/OV4wN3 RT @memeorandum: In Missouri: 54% Call For Akin to Quit Bid for U.S. Senate; 76% Do Not Share His Views on Rape… RT @AmandaMarcotte: The entire discourse has embedded in it the notion that women are a criminal class begging for mercy for their vagina crimes. | http://bit.ly/QWhjtJ RT @mark_dow: Bonobo genius makes stone tools like early humans did #HeAlsoTradesCurrencies http://t.co/kkQpUgk8 | http://bit.ly/OV4wg9 RT @siracusa: Someone needs to start a single-page website showing a countdown clock to an affordable 1TB SSD. Seems like I’ve been waiting forever… | http://bit.ly/QlY7F6 RT @flounder_MA: @TheStalwart @delong As far as I can tell, @davidfrum is suggesting we bomb China back into the stone age so they can’t buy stuff. | http://bit.ly/NekemK Greg Sargent Explains Why Nobody Has Any Business Supporting Ryan-Romney http://t.co/XZyBpo6p | http://bit.ly/TRPmHy “This is a Fed full of Obama appointees pursuing a disastrous policy that’s creating all kinds of problems for Obama” http://t.co/ZOuuW1Hi | http://bit.ly/PC9UD9 “John Cassidy says that reappointing Ben Bernanke looks to have been the Obama administration’s biggest mistake” http://t.co/ZOuuW1Hi | http://bit.ly/TRPkiX “Garcia noted that the Federal Reserve looks like it is considering joining team balance sheet” http://t.co/13yeZd36 | http://bit.ly/TRPmqV RT @irincarmon: “There have always been people in Republican politics who thought rape victims had it too easy…they have taken over.” — @maddow | http://bit.ly/TRPk2r RT @tinyrevolution: WPost explains (1) US doesn’t care at all about Assange & (2) now that Ecuador’s given him asylum WE WILL CRUSH THEM http://t.co/igDG0qmu | http://bit.ly/PC9Ov7 Eric Loomis: Nat Turner’s slave rebellion http://t.co/UByAQgT8 | http://bit.ly/SiTu52 The secret history of shipping pallets - Boing Boing http://t.co/GzovEj4s | http://bit.ly/SNjfGI Losing One’s Head: A Frustrating Search for the ‘Truth’ about Decapitation « The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice http://t.co/rNQxgCcp | http://bit.ly/SiTwtF Department of “Huh?!”: That Stretch Down South Will Never Stand the Strain Department… http://t.co/7KDlMGy3 | http://bit.ly/O1b5w0 “Uncertainty” Is Nothing More Than Wall Street Whining | Stan Collender’s Capital Gains and Games http://t.co/quQEWc1G | http://bit.ly/OLziCr
