believeable.

what the Clinton administration did to activists who were pushing for more just reforms with welfare reform. Many really thought that their voices were heard, in particular their concerns about protections for victims of domestic violence, the ability of unskilled single parents to earn enough to survive and the fact that welfare reform was not dealing with poverty and suffering among poor children but worsening it.

I was part of that debate at the time and considered too hard and cynical because I didn't believe any promises or rhetoric but wanted us to take a hard and aggressive stance for real tangible progress.

The left is laying themselves out for the same again. Activism is exhaustive and difficult. I think its easy for people to say, "Ok, they said we're good, lets all go home now and get a rest."

Unfortunately, Clinton threw poor women under the bus in order to score cheap political points and in an effort to bargain with the wingnuts. He won some points but we'll never know if he could have done that without sacrificing the weakest in our country; the poor.

Its happening again. The poorest are the ones who really need a public option/single payer more than anyone else and they are the easiest to ignore. Often activists are not members of the stakeholders of the causes the represent and thus they are more likely to run out of steam faster than if the real stakeholders (the poor) were educated, groomed to participate and put out there to give a route for their anger, which is a huge source of power that is never utilized by most left activists.

Of course, it doesn't help that the democrats stood idly by while ACORN was effectively disposed of, which was one very effective organization of poor people who could have advocated and organized for single payer.

The left has got to 1) stop misjuding where their power lies and ignoring the actual poor they say they represent and 2) stop thinking that somehow rubbing shoulders with the wealthy and powerful will give us power.

It doesn't give us power, it just opens us up to be used, deceived and then cast aside or worse, gagged, when we are no longer useful for them.

That was on my list of the pieces to bring but I am turning in early these days. I'm glad you found it.

That is precisely the way the duopoly works.

It is mostly about creating a myth that we actually have a functioning democracy.

outburst was strange and wildly inappropriate. Inappropriate in the sense that it seemed that the man's emotions and mental health are all out of whack.

.............that were true!!!! It'd be a great trade! Iran-Contra had no justice at all, just a pat on the back to that rotten ZIONISTWHORE creature Kissenger. Have you read the Kissenger Report???? He comes right out and plans to 'dispose' of half the population of the world!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trO1RY3KC44

Thanks for cheering me up a bit. But as long as Arnie's still in office for a year, we'll continue to be screwed. Plus, as long as we don't actually produce shit, and as long as investors just take their money elsewhere when they finally make it, we're still on unstable ground.

Failure is appreciated, not stigmatized,

Except when you kicked Gray out, because you fuckers didn't want to pay a fucking DMV fee...

Schwarzenegger thinks California gets slagged nationwide for the same reason the U.S. gets slagged worldwide: it's natural to resent the big kahuna. (He should know; his approval rating has dipped below 30%.) In a poolside interview after hosting a global climate summit in Century City, he suggested that outsiders envy California's immense resources — beaches, mountains and redwoods; Hollywood, Napa and Disneyland; the best in stem-cell research, fruits and vegetables, entertainment and fashion. (He was sporting a suit with a zebra-print lining.)

We get slagged, because we're behind the rest of the fucking country in terms of viable infrastructure and 'cus we've got more bums than good jobs.

So do its public schools and other public services, which have been deteriorating for years — in part because older white voters have been reluctant to subsidize younger minorities.

At least they finally told it like it is somewhere in the mainstream media.

Oh, wait.

The collapse of the Golden State provides an irresistible parable for hippie-lefty vegan politics, the failure of a quasi-Scandinavian progressive experiment symbolized by MoveOn.org, Daily Kos and the Sierra Club; yoga, crystals and medical marijuana; "Hollywood values" and "San Francisco values."

They forgot to mention the NIMBY values of Three Strikes, the funding of SUVs and malls at the expense of infrastructure and manufacturing, and white flight into mountains full of loose and flammable vegetation.

Yes he was even chosen to lead the 911 Coverup Investigation until they replaced him with another liar.

if he jumps in. He's already got the money and the advertising propaganda all wrapped up.