Clearly Yglesias is right that a party which is currently enjoying an energized base thanks to an ever-more-violent, and self-created, storm of nativist bigotry and religious hatred would never stoop so low as to play games with the economy for electoral advantage. Unthinkable! What a totally unfair accusation!

How could anyone say a party which routinely uses bogus "culture war" issues to keep the rabble roused and turning out during elections would ever take advantage of the tendency for people to vote against the President's party during times of economic downturn ?

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For a long time now, I've been thinking that a lot of new bands sound like Coldplay: Middle Distance Runner, Frightened Rabbit, Kings Of Leon, We Were Promised Jetpacks, etc.. I was wrong. As it turns out, 50% of all new bands sound like Arcade Fire.

That's what I get for waiting so long to actually listen to Arcade Fire.

Carry on.

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The Obama administration, via the EPA, would like people to comment on its plan to ban lead in ammunition.

Will Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson make a back door move to ban lead bullets the day before the November 2 elections?

Several environmentalist groups led by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) are petitioning the EPA to ban lead bullets and shot (as well as lead sinkers for fishing) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Although EPA is barred by statute from controlling ammunition, CBD is seeking to work farther back along the manufacturing chain and have EPA ban the use of lead in bullets and shot because non-lead alternatives are available.

But here's the catch: the alternatives to lead bullets are more expensive. A ban on the sale of lead ammunition would force hunters and sport shooters to buy non-lead ammunition that is often double the cost of traditional lead ammunition. A box of deer hunting bullets in a popular caliber could be upwards of $55.

Although the EPA could have dismissed the request due to a lack of jurisdiction, it is obliging CBD. The EPA has asked for public comment on banning lead in ammunition, and an EPA notice was published seeking public comment that closes on October 31.

Piss off gun owners right before the election? Give the NRA a real reason to attack you so it doesn't have to rely on the unfounded scare tactics it has had to make do with up to now? Good thinking!

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