We have all seen the aftermath of Super-storm Sandy. There are billions of dollars in damage. Neighborhoods, cities, counties will have to be rebuilt. This will require labor. It will require hiring. As horrible as all of this is, a fact remains: there will be an uptick in blue collar employment in the Tri-state area.

Having said that, the junior Senator from Kentucky has decided to take our national tragedy and use it as away to depress wages. He spoke against Davis-Bacon wages for Sandy recovery. Listen:
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Day 8 on the road. I am completely out of touch with what's going on, so here's my lame-O open thread.
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45 comments (Latest Comment: 12/29/2012 13:03:28 by Raine)

Morning all & in the usual place
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Good Morning. It is Christmas Day.

It is also our 4,097th day in Afghanistan.

We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing war, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 2,171
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,072

We find this morning's cost of war passing through:

$ 1, 406, 484, 400,000 .00
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12 comments (Latest Comment: 12/26/2012 01:17:43 by Scoopster)

Poor, poor, John. Poor, pour John, yes, pour him another drink. He wants to go home and sit at his favorite bar. Turn in the large gavel to someone else. Paul Ryan maybe? So far, it doesn't look like anyone really wants the job. It's become the 'hot potato' of Washington.

His own party abandons him on his Plan B. Some of them later admitting they thought they were talking about a form of birth control.
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6 comments (Latest Comment: 12/24/2012 05:26:11 by Raine)