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The latest links to the information you need to counter right-wing spin...

How Conservative Blogs Change Facts

The Answer Before the Question

NBC Nightly News' Chuck Todd getting it wrong - - again

As a consequence of global warming, Antarctic ice shelf on the brink of breaking up.

Right-wing’s false claims that Obama will take away guns ‘has helped fuel the panic buying of firearms.’

Conservatives Holding Up Increasing Number Of Key Obama Nominees

Iowa Court Eviscerates Right-Wing Talking Points

Interviewing Coleman, Fox & Friends repeatedly misinforms on Coleman-Franken race

Fox News falsely claimed Obama budget "4x bigger than Bush's costliest plan"

Republicans for Environmental Protection calls GOP’s cap-and-trade myth ‘a disservice’ to Americans.

Wash. Post reported GOP criticism of reconciliation, but not that GOP repeatedly used process

Fox's Henneberg uncritically quoted dubious claims that estate tax would harm family farms and small businesses

"The Obama Recession"

Misstating Rove column, Kilmeade baselessly claimed 66 percent oppose "the stimulus bill"

Media fail to challenge Republicans on past acts of massive debt creation

Angle, Kudlow allow Ryan to advance falsehood about stimulus spending timeframe

Resources

Links you can use...

My Blogging Pet Peeves

How To Get Noticed In The Blogosphere

Gary Hamel’s Management 2.0

Strategy or Tool? On the Metaphysics of Twitter

New York Congressional Campaign Used Rare Google Ad Tactic

A First Look at the New FinancialStability.gov

A Look Back at Gov 2.0 Camp

Broadband is Life-Changing: Burlington VT's Telecare for Rural Health Project

What's Going On: U.S. Senate Race

The Spencerian: Connie's Out -- Predictive Redemption Rests with Senator Charlie Crist

Pushing Rope: Interview With Dan Gelber

Pushing Rope: Quinnell Is Wrong About Senate Race

Blue in Miami: NRSC Goes after Meek

Progressive Pensacola: Meek to qualify by petition

Pushing Rope: Mack Is Charlie's Pen Pal

The Campaign Manager: Crist Clearing the Field

Blast Off!: Gov. Crist: you win some, you lose some

Progressive Pensacola: U.S. Senate update, 04.02.09

Blue in Miami: Meek stands up for public education

National Politics Round-up

What are Florida bloggers saying about national politics...

1. Pushing Rope: Cantor Argues For Do Nothing Government

3. Pushing Rope: Anwar Richardson School of Economics Award: Rush Limbaugh

2. Blast Off!: All bigots on deck!

4. The Spencerian: Could Someone Just Tell Me What It Is They Do?

5. Miami-Dade Dems: The summit, a day later. And the fly in the ointment.

U.S. Senate Race Is Simple

A lot of attention around the blogosphere is being focused on the U.S. Senate race in Florida to replace Mel Martinez, and rightly so. Some are acting like it's a complicated thing when, in reality, it's quite simple.

1. If Charlie Crist runs, he wins. This race then falls to second place in terms of importance in Florida, behind the probable Alex Sink-Bill McCollum match-up for governor.

2. Kendrick Meek is the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, but Dan Gelber has a chance to win. Money talks. Meek raised a lot. Gelber did decent. But how much of Meek's money was front-loaded and won't re-occur? It's likely this is a peak number for Meek. Gelber will likely gain on him quite a bit once the session is over and he's allowed to actually actively raise money again.

3. If Crist doesn't run, the Democrat wins. No other Republican has much of a shot against Meek or Gelber, particularly now that they have a fund-raising head start and the Republican party is consistently playing the anti-progress fool on the national stage.

Now I'm not saying that any of these things is 100%, but they are close enough to be worth wagering on if you're the betting type.

Grayson Under Attack By Republican Thugs

Which means he must be doing his job...

Washington Examiner:

Rep. Alan Grayson, the Florida Democrat who wrote the bill, told me its basic message is "you should not get rich off public money, and you should not get rich off of abject failure." Grayson expects the bill to pass the House, and as we talked, he framed the issue in a way to suggest that virtuous lawmakers will vote for it, while corrupt lawmakers will vote against it.

"This bill will show which Republicans are so much on the take from the financial services industry that they're willing to actually bless compensation that has no bearing on performance and is excessive and unreasonable," Grayson said. "We'll find out who are the people who understand that the public's money needs to be protected, and who are the people who simply want to suck up to their patrons on Wall Street."

firedoglake:

John Culberson of Texas is on the floor of the House, attacking Alan Grayson by saying that his bill to limit bonuses to TARP recipients is bad because the House rushed the Stimulus bill. Barney Frank is responding with shock -- Grayson's bill takes away the language that Culberson says "should not have been" in the stimulus bill.

These people are incoherent. They are going to vote against a bill limiting bonuses? Really?

Bracket of Evil: The Frightful Four

Time to vote again in the best bracket challenge out there.