Crossposted from Show Me Progress

I covered the NAACP National Convention in Kansas City. The national reaction to the teabagger motion was instructive. (Our NAACP coverage)

Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) said:

....And, what I hope you will get out of this is that no matter how much the pundits say we are in post racial era, no matter how much that you believe that everything is fine, it's not. [applause] We need the NAACP now as much as ever [applause, cheers]. I hope you get out of it that you are needed. [applause] We have seventeen members of the United States Senate voting "no" for unemployment benefits. We need the NAACP [inaudible] right now! [applause, cheers] We need it! We need it! Don't you forget it! [applause, cheers]

Back to the bumper stickers. This kind of brazenness is new to me for Missouri - I've lived here for twenty years. The annonymity isn't a surprise, though.

We saw similar behavior at Hillsboro a year ago.

They're aware of what happened in Warrensburg last night.

I was interviewed by the Kansas City, Missouri NBC television affiliate. At the time of the interview they didn't know about the radio transcript (they do now) and it wasn't part of the interview. The station only ran a few seconds of the 20 plus minute interview. I recorded the interview on my digital audio recorder and ran a transcript at Show Me Progress: "A Gentleman's Agreement"? - a conversation with KSHB-TV

Previous coverage at Show Me Progress:

Three steps behind, and to the right

Three steps behind, and to the right, part 2 - a microcosm of our universe

...at Show Me Progress.

This was striking:

"...And one of the things that I know the blogs are best at is debunking myths that can slip through a lot of the traditional media outlets and a lot of the conventional wisdom..."

It's a sad thing when our lowly blogs which are held together with spit, baling wire, and duct tape receive a vote of confidence like that over the old media from the President of the United States.

...yesterday afternoon two different vehicles (one northbound, one southbound) pulled off the side of the highway for double takes.

Senator Claire McCaskill: helping keep the "Overton Window" to the right

Senator Claire McCaskill: that "Overton Window" keeps getting pulled right

Claire McCaskill (D): "Kitchen Table Talk" in Kansas City

Claire McCaskill (D): "Kitchen Table Talk" in Kansas City, part 2

Claire McCaskill (D): "Kitchen Table Talk" in Kansas City, part 3

Claire McCaskill (D): "Kitchen Table Talk" in Kansas City, part 4

Claire McCaskill's Kitchen Table Talk in St. Louis: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Holding Bush and Cheney accountable for torture

...In the Soviet Union, of course people disbelieved what they read in Pravda...

"The News is not the Truth, the Truth is not the News."

Heh. Pravda on the Hudson and Izvestia on the Potomac.

Senator Ben Nelson (D - Nebraska) has some "concerns"...

...Okay, here's a new rule for Democrats - you can't participate in an exercise which allows someone to go on the air at the propaganda arm of the rnc (the Faux News Channel) and trash a Democratic president's economic stimulus plan when you voted for a republican president's bailout of their Wall Street buddies. ...

...Uh, you do know that Ike Skelton (D - MO4) voted for the House version, right?...

And elsewhere on the same subject:

"...In an interview with the Huffington Post, however, McCaskill didn't just take on corporate CEOs. She criticized some of the spending in the House stimulus package, saying that her fellow Democrats had been 'over-anxious'..."

Ike Skelton is not the "anxious" type.

IOKIYAR

Apparently the senator has two different standards for asserting her perception of senatorial privilege:

Dianne Feinstein (D) on the confirmation of Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

As for torture, maybe she's sweating a bit:

Prosecution...

(it's okay if you're a republican)

...is going to explode.

Heh.

...but a seemingly unending succession of moments.

The Missouri Political Year in Pictures

...last month:

The Kansas City Star: getting rid of even more content

Oh, wait, it works.

...particularly.