The CalPig demonstrates that her skill at detecting editorial slant is as finely honed as her poetic artistry:
CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-26-10 01:22 PM
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The LA Times is a fairly conservative paper. But...
now and then they get it right...
For instance, today:
The healthcare reform debate over the last year has been more about politics than policy, so it's not surprising that Republicans used the latest round -- the Senate vote on a proposed reconciliation bill -- to tee up talking points instead of trying to improve the newly enacted reforms. Nevertheless, the episode was disappointing in its cynicism. Given an opportunity to shore up weaknesses in the new law, Republicans sought to render it unworkable or force Democrats to cast votes that could be caricatured on the campaign trail.
~snip~
As disappointing as the debate was, it could have been worse. Republicans did not try to bury the bill under an avalanche of amendments. And Democrats did not try to use their majority to overrule the legitimate points of order the GOP raised against two minor student loan provisions. Those changes forced the bill back to the House, which passed the legislation Thursday night. All the same, the whole process seemed like speed dating -- a poor substitute for real policymaking. That's because Republicans are more interested in a law they can campaign against than one we all have a stake in. Emphasis mine.
The rest at the link:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-he...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8025168Yep, The LA Times, whose editorial orientation is somewhere to the left of Chairman Mao, is a "fairly conservative paper" in the CalPig's world. Normally, you would think this is a pathetic atempt to build DUmp cred, but someone who posts:
Shining Darkness
the nipple
shines
as the clothing
peels
away
a flower
budding open
in
spring
and claims it is poetry, is actually DUmb enough to think the LA Times is a "fairly conservative paper".
DUmmy ourbluenation takes a break from the hookah to mumble a comment from his hazy memory:
ourbluenation (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-26-10 02:03 PM
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3. Having grown up there, my memory is that they endorsed dems in elections for the most part. n/t
LA Times will endorse a dem if there's no candidate from the Socialist Workers' Party.
