Op-Ed Roundup: What Does It Take To Wake Them Up?
The opinion columnists aren't very happy with the president or Congress lately. Bob Herbert, who is perhaps the only major columnist we have covering the economic reality of the working class, the poor and the recently-impoverished middle class, sounds as despairing as most liberal bloggers:
Job losses, stagnant or reduced wages over the past decade, and the loss of home equity when the housing bubble burst have combined to take a horrendous toll on families who thought they had done all the right things and were living the dream. A great deal of that bleeding is in the suburbs. The study, compiled by the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, said, “Suburbs gained more than 2.5 million poor individuals, accounting for almost half of the total increase in the nation’s poor population since 2000.”
Democrats in search of clues as to why voters are unhappy may want to take a look at the report. In 2008, a startling 91.6 million people — more than 30 percent of the entire U.S. population — fell below 200 percent of the federal poverty line, which is a meager $21,834 for a family of four.
The question for Democrats is whether there is anything that will wake them up to their obligation to extend a powerful hand to ordinary Americans and help them take the government, including the Supreme Court, back from the big banks, the giant corporations and the myriad other predatory interests that put the value of a dollar high above the value of human beings.
Frank Rich doesn't sound any happier, does he?
The smartest thing said as the Massachusetts returns came in Tuesday night was by Howard Fineman on MSNBC: “Obama took all his winnings and turned them over to Max Baucus.”
Worse, the master communicator in the White House has still not delivered a coherent message on his signature policy. He not only refused to signal his health care imperatives early on but even now he, like Congressional Democrats, has failed to explain clearly why and how reform relates to economic recovery — or, for that matter, what he wants the final bill to contain. Sure, a president needs political wiggle room as legislative sausage is made, but Scott Brown could and did drive his truck through the wide, wobbly parameters set by Obama.
Ask yourself this: All these months later, do you yet know what the health care plan means for your family’s bottom line, your taxes, your insurance? It’s this nebulousness, magnified by endless Senate versus House squabbling, that has allowed reform to be caricatured by its foes as an impenetrable Rube Goldberg monstrosity, a parody of deficit-ridden big government. Since most voters are understandably confused about what the bills contain, the opponents have been able to attribute any evil they want to Obamacare, from death panels to the death of Medicare, without fear of contradiction.
Yep. That's why health care reform is polling so low in some surveys - it's not that people don't want it, it's that they know the current incarnation is a confusing mess that will only add to their too-heavy financial burdens.
Tom Friedman warns Obama that Americans don't like angry politicians, we like "inspirational, hopeful" ones. As usual, he's largely oblivious -- although he has figured out people are angry. He just hasn't seemed to notice we've sort of soured on the "hopeful" meme just lately.
Longtime Villager George Will also warns Obama not to get too rowdy:
If Obama can now resist the temptation of faux populism, if he does not rage, like Lear on the heath, against banks, he can be what Americans, eager for adult supervision, elected him to be: a prudent grown-up. For this elegant and intelligent man to suddenly discover his inner William Jennings Bryan ("You shall not crucify America upon a cross of credit-default swaps") would be akin to Fred Astaire donning coveralls and clodhoppers.
Now, George. I'm sure you didn't mean to tie the African-American president of the United States to a tapdancer, did you? (Do you also call him "Bojangles"?)
The Broder thinks John Cornyn is "low key." (Maybe he should switch to club soda.)
And Ruth Marcus is stunned over the SCOTUS decision this week (go read the rest, it's good):
In opening the floodgates for corporate money in election campaigns, the Supreme Court did not simply engage in a brazen power grab. It did so in an opinion stunning in its intellectual dishonesty.
I wonder what Heathcliff is up to today?
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The Poverty Line is...
The New Middle Class !
Actually William Jenning's Bryant was an elegant and intelligent man, but he had an explosive style of public speaking common at the time.
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The odd thing was Frederick March was almost a dead-ringer in appearance of the latter Bryant.
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Ya mean like when he said of the Haitian elite:
continue to tell ourselves and our children all the myths, memories, and nostalgia that make us feel all so warm, fuzzy, and cozy inside.
Blue dogs are corrupt scum.
This is not my father's America
I sure as Hell wasn't. I expected this decision. I would have been truly shocked if it was decided otherwise!
What makes me laugh (cry, is more like it), is when the very people who decry "activist" judges, nominate 'activist' judges, and cheer them when they're 'activist' for their goals, and then praise them for their 'nuetral' judicial temperment. It's too bad conservatives don't get irony. They'd really appreciate what they're able to do were they capable of "getting it."
Roberts, and the other four coroners of our nation, did what they were expected to do. Had they decided not to do what they did, they would have been pilloried as "ACTIVIST!" judges, and burned in effigy at every Chamber of Commerce meeting around the country.
I guess you get what you pay for - unless, or course, you're a real live person, not a corporation.
And the corporations who now have a legal right to bribe Congress will indubitably use it to fashion laws like the bailouts we had last year that all the teabaggers are supposedly so upset about.
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and none of it will have to be returned. And it will all be for the Good of America.
Maybe if the good people of Massachusetts vote for a Republican that will wake up the White House. Probably not. It is pretty funny that people think that Republicans will fight for them against the corporations.
I wonder how much they adjusted for the suburbs being inundated in some areas with people moving from poorer sections of town with section 8 vouchers?
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As always I distinguish class by the power that one has to determine the nature of one's own work.
It is not determined by income, although there is an obvious but not absolute corollary. The wealthiest have the greatest tools to decrease their apparent income. They have these tools because the Congress writes the tax laws in their favor. The wealthy pay for this service.
The working class has no power to determine the nature of its own work, except through agreements most likely achieved through collective bargaining. In other words with a union.
They are upwards of 80% of the US population, upwards of 240 million.
The middle class has some power to determine the nature of its own work, through professional specialty: Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers what have you. Or as middle managers through personal service agreements. They are perhaps 20%, do the arithmetic of the other two classes for the number, some 60 million
The upper class who has more or less complete power over the nature of their own work. The top 1% by wealth, but the poorest of whom have ten million in personal wealth. When their work to increase their wealth comes via that wealth, they are capitalists. 3 million with wealth greater than $10 million per.
I don't begrudge them their ten million (it can vastly more than that) as much as I object to their thinking it isn't enough. They become sociopaths in their quest for acquisition.
Calling everyone middle class who is not obviously wealthy or woefully poor plays right into the hands of the ruling class who want everyone else to forget about class structure, even while they, the wealthiest remember it perfectly well.
Many if not most of the working class have no wealth. If they do it is in their homes which are now devalued. Many of the poor are working, maybe 2 or even 3 jobs. If you work cheap enough you will have a job. Look at the day laborers. They are still working class. Federal minimum wage (for the legals) has gotten to $7.25, it should be $10 or maybe $20.
When the American Sweatshop globalist ruling class have equalized US wages with the Clinton Sweatshop pay in Haiti of 38¢ an hour they will be at their destination.
The working class wages over the last THIRTY YEARS have been stagnant. The middle class has gained modestly and the Ruling Class wealth has grown by leaps and bounds.
What has grown for the working class is DEBT. The bursting of the housing bubble knocked $8 trillion from property valuation. The debt is still there which is why after 1 million foreclosures per year in '07 and '08, in 2009 there were 2.9 million foreclosures. In 2010 there may be 3 million.
The property values are down, the jobs are lost, the unemployment is and will continue to rise but the debt is still there.
And the banks get bailed out when the debts to them go unpaid. The Fat Cats get fatter.
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Real value of minimum wage peaked in 1968.
In 1968 minimum wage was $1.60, equivalent to $9.50 in 2007 dollars.
Minimum Wage History
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Supervisor.
We'd all be sitting around the break room and I'd hear the nurses whining and complaining that none of them had gotten a "raise" in three years.
I'd explain to them, "It's worse than that. In the course of that three years, your rents/mortgages have increased, food bills have gone up, clothing expenses, gasoline have all gone up in price. Do you know what all this REALLY means?? That we've all actually taken A CUT IN PAY."
You could have cut the silence in that room with a knife.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
if I were part of that 1%, wouldn't I be terrified of the rest of you?
I don't know how we could utilize that fear, but fear seems to work pretty well for their side. At any rate, these people should know that the most dangerous people in the world are those who feel they have nothing more to lose. They might also remember, there once was a nation born of revolution.
The 1% remember the revolution, they started it.
The poor farmers were not that interested in revolution. It was the mercantile class that wanted to throw England out.
Then after the Declaration with its language of equality the poor farmers thought that they should share in the wealth.
The 1% then decided they needed a strong central government to protect them from the hoi polloi which is when they came up with the constitution.
The real history is not the history we are taught in school. That is propaganda.
The 1% would be terrified if we ever organized.
It happened more than ever before in the Great Depression. The 1% is bound and determined not to allow such organization again.
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Have supreme court judges ever been audited by the IRS?
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Many complain that during Gore vs. Bush that Clarence Thomas and Scalia should have recused themselves from the case:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3505131
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
The Obama/Fred Astaire/tap-dancer reference is, maybe, one of the stupidest things I have ever read on this site. And I am a progressive through and through. Don't distract from real problems with chicken-sh&t political correctness taken to an idiotic extreme.
The quote was from George Will.
Read more carefully.
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George Will made the Obama/Astaire reference.
Ms Madrak added the tap-dancer/BoJangles reference.
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One starts the other observes.
I don't want to get side tracked in a cultural discussion of european-american (how does that hyphenated americanism sit) derivation of their culture after the african-american, although it is an important topic.
Just observing the correct sequence of events.
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Go back and take a good look at the post, paying particular attention to the level of indentation.
Ms Madrak said: "Now, George. I'm sure you didn't mean to tie the African-American president of the United States to a tapdancer, did you? (Do you also call him "Bojangles"?)"
You're just wrong on this Alice.
Not to detract from your outstanding contributions, for which we are all indebted.
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Indentation reproduced exactly:
(Madrak:)
(Will:)
(Madrak:)
Which is exactly what I said.
She quotes George Will and then comments on it.
She assumes this is a racial slight. SeekTheTruth commented, I tried to set the order straight.
Will may have been making a racial slight, I am not certain. I am certain he is making a class slight. He is being really quite clever.
Let me analyze even further because Madrak is missing the larger boat.
William Jennings Bryant was a populist politican who unfortunately for his place in history is remembered as a Christian adversary of Darwinism.
He was much more. He was three times the Democratic candidate for President. His speech at the 1896 Democratic Convention, the Cross of Gold speech is quite famous.
He was an anti imperialist which may have gotten this country off in quite a different direction than the for the Imperialist Teddy Roosevelt and the arch villain Woodrow Wilson.
History is complicated.
My favorite quote from the 1896 speech:
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Precisely.
Madrak brought the Bojangles/tapdancing/racial reference into the conversation.
Now let's move on ..
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No, Alice, YOU read more carefully. Susie wrote this:
"Now, George. I'm sure you didn't mean to tie the African-American president of the United States to a tapdancer, did you? (Do you also call him "Bojangles"?)"
My point is that her accusation against Will is crap. He was drawing a parallel between Obama's style and Astaire's style. And there was no racism.
You needed to clarify your writing. See my other comment.
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Fred Astaire epitomized coolness in his day, and had quite a following, much like a rock star.
That's what george will's was presumably referring to. If not, it's no less speculative than the Bojangles inference.
Would it have been any worse if he referred to Gregory Hines?
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Suzie, they are already wide awake. They know exactly what they're doing. The legalized system of bribery we pretend is "democracy" has been an on-going farce we've lived with for years. They're well aware of that and are acting accordingly. What the Supreme Court did this week was simply to make it all official. Now we can all stop pretending and face up to it like adults. The reason they keep "failing" is because their "failures" are exactly what they really wanted in the first place. It's what they were paid to do.
The real question always has been, and continues to be, when will WE wake up and stop waiting for Democrats or Republicans do things they aren't paid to do in this tribute system. We look like fools to them because we still don't get this and they deal with us accordingly because of it. "Tell the hoople-heads something stupid they'll believe so they'll shut up for a few days and move on." "Just tell them how noble and special they are of all the people in the world. That usually works!"
In the meantime, we ask for their permission to protest them and, if they grant it, we walk a carefully planned route they approve for us, flanked on either side by riot police who beat us at their option, we hold up signs they've decided they'll tolerate and shout slogans they can live with -- lest we be arrested for "terrorist actions".
We're a joke. They laugh at us, cash their corporate bribe checks, fly off to junkets and cavort with their pre-paid hookers while their wives get cushy corner office jobs and their kids get scholarships, all in exchange for legislation that enslaves us all just one little increment more. We move slowly but surely, incrementally, inevitably towards a neo-feudalism. But at least we have a Wii.
When will WE wake up?
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That would probably work today, but seems unlikely right now.
Short of that, I'm not sure what it would take to radicalize liberals these days.
Tax on lattes?
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"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
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"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
John Cornyn told Chris Wallace this morning that he thinks the impact of the SCOTUS decision is "overstated".
According to Cornyn, as long as we are aware of who is contributing, all will be fine. /snark
The best message to Obama that I heard today came from Cornel West. I hope Obama listens because I believe Professor West expresses how many progressive Americans are feeling today.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
a horse's head in the white house bed?
Cher slapping him and telling him to snap out of it?
Rachel tried!
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He wants everyone, EVERYONE, to like him.
That may work in Congress, but definetly does not work as POTUS.
I keep going back to this, but it is just so right on the mark. Jon Stewart said that if Obama made it rain cookies, GOP headlines would be WHERE'S THE MILK. That is the nature of our politics today and one man is not going to change that.
to mind if his base doesn't like him.
He seems to wear that as a badge.
Just not as much as we would like.
While the health care debate was going on, Rahm would say something that pissed off the base, the internets expressed their rage, and Obama would come out within a day or two and say "No, no, that was wrong.
I do think the Brown race has let him know he needs his base and needs to get way more populist. We'll see if he can pull it off.
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That's exactly right. Only conservatives are to be accommodated. Only they are to negotiated with. If a liberal has a beef he is told explicitly to STFU.... by DEMOCRATS!
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comprises the lower-middle class, the working poor, people of many colors (other than white), the union folk, the real 'democrats', etc.
It may be true that these groups of Americans went to the polls and voted for Obama in large numbers, but for the sake of argument, I'd have to say that his real 'base' is the moneyed elite who supported him through the primaries and made it tenable for him to even be elevated to the 'possibility' of running for President. We may think we're his 'base' - but his actions seem to indicate that may be incorrect.
I also have the notion that he might have some level of fear about doing things that would anger this 'real' base that I speak of....this is a violent nation, still.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
From George Stephanopoulos' Exclusive Interview with President Obama right after the Mass Senatorial Special Election:
Either Obama is being completely disingenuous and his attempts to bring Republicans along is simply a cover for not wanting to succeed, or wanting only health care reform that heavily favors the corporations, OR Obama is singularly naive in thinking that he can sway ANY Republicans, but more importantly, in thinking that swaying Republicans is the way to "unify the country."
If he wants to "unify the country" then he should have been out in front, leading the POPULIST charge, forcing the Republicans (and more importantly the Blue Dog Dems) to face the angry populace demanding health reform.
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"more than 30 percent of the entire U.S. population — fell below 200 percent of the federal poverty line, which is a meager $21,834 for a family of four." - Does this mean that 30 percent of us made less than $43,668? Depending on where you live, that may not be a very bad income.
I realize that wealth is becoming more concentrated in the hands of a few, but that kind of statement, using words like "200 percent of the federal poverty line" doesn't help clarify what's happening. It's confusing and a poor choice of words. How many people were making $43,000 and how many were making $12,000? That's a big difference. And if you're a single guy making $40,000 in Dallas, that's quite a bit different than being a single mom with two kids making $40,000 in New York City. I just think it's important that we be clear when we explain what's happening.
this yesterday.
http://wallstreetexaminer.com/forums/uploads/...
That's much easier to understand.
That graph makes what's happening with income disparity very clear - much more than Bob Herbert's writing. Thanks for posting it.
When I read "Fred Astaire donning coveralls and clodhoppers," my first visual image was Grandpa Jones and/or String Bean, not Bill Robinson, and it was followed by an image of Mr. Green Jeans, whether he ever danced on the Captain's show or not. Not everything has racial over/undertones, unless you go out of your way to look for them.
"Trust no one, Mr. Mulder." - Well-Manicured Man
doing again what most pundits and consultants and dem politicians and the left in general in this country do- completely ignore the real stinking pile under the rug- 1000 coordinated radio stations blasting away at progressive candidates and causes 24/7/365. the same radio monopoly that was critical for getting thomas alito and roberts on the court and was running on empty will now start getting major corporate money to do even better as the loudest soapbox in the country, determining what is and what isn't acceptable in media and politics.
They STALLED progress on Health Care Reform until Christmas and then they went for holiday, wasted a month, came back and CHANGED THE SUBJECT.
Now that everyone is watching Haiti (what a wet dream game changer... straight out of H*ll)
Nobody remembers what we were TRYING to get DONE in 2009.
Can we get back to the subject and apply some pressure PLEASE?
PLEASE?
Tell the SOB's we will NOT CHANGE THE SUBJECT.
You don't seriously want the despotic corporate healthcare reform legislation that is on the table right now in the House and Senate to become law, do you??
If we do a quick "checklist" of corporate control of the United States right now consider:
The Supreme Court? Check.
The White House? Check.
The Congress? Check.
The Media? Check. Check. Check.
The Military? (Blackwater/Xe/Triple Canopy etc.) Check.
Intelligence? (Ditto above) Check.
The Banking System? (Private banks/The Federal Reserve Bank) Check.
The Voting System? (ESS) Check.
The Healthcare System? ALMOST A CHECK!!!
It was only with the shocking upset by that little pischer from Massachusetts that the apple cart got upset on that one. The "plan" was for Coakley to breeeeezzzeeee on in with a victory and cast that magic 60th vote and have a giant celebration for The Kennedy Legacy....blah, blah, blah....
Believe me, up until about two weeks ago the champagne was on ice at the AHIP boardroom and in the backrooms of Congress.
Now, with the election of Brown, a monkey wrench has been thrown into the works. Sure, it may be just a little hiccup, but still, that corporate nail has yet to be nailed into our collective coffin.
Here's a quote from Herbert's article:
"No one in his or her right mind could have believed that a workable, efficient, cost-effective system could come out of the monstrously ugly plan that finally emerged from the Senate after long months of shady alliances, disgraceful back-room deals, outlandish payoffs and abject capitulation to the insurance companies and giant pharmaceutical outfits."
Careful what you wish for, Yellowbird.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Herbert says "they still don't get it" but who is they? The GOP has done a terrific job of laying the blame for these dire economic times on Obama, and seem to be enclosed in Teflon regarding the previous administrations culpability in a relentless downward trajectory of the American sub upper class. If the talking heads of the right were merely spinning off in Obama tourettes it would be an exercise in comedy, but unfortunately many people buy into their blame game without realizing that the GOP doesn't even have a thought bubble for doing something about this and really doesn't care. I think Obama has been naive in thinking that he could work with these people and get some sort of compromises. Hillary Clinton could have advised him well on that notion. Obama needs to pick his fights more carefully and then go all in. If you think this is bad, imiagine what it would be like if Bush had made himself president for life.
It's the guy who holds the shovel who has to clean it up.
"Trust no one, Mr. Mulder." - Well-Manicured Man
And by embracing bipartisanship _instead_ of getting ahead of the game with his own vision, Obama has embraced the taint of the Bush regime, let the GOP define him because of that cooperation, and is playing defense because of it. Not exactly great chess.
Sure, it doesn't make sense if one has even a small perspective for the last decade. Obviously, Bush got us here so the Republicans are going to be our buddies in '12? But how many Americans are deep thinkers? You know what I mean -- even _that_ deep. So in another sense, it makes perfect sense because Obama is in the seat now and he's "working within the system" instead of changing the system.
Herbert is one of the few intelligent and articulate writers we have left in mainstream high places. If he starts doing restaurant reviews, we'll know life is a cabaret, old chum, and it's time for each of us to figure out our role in the Reich.
with corporate dominance of every freakin' thing in our lives, who says Bush DIDN'T make himself President for life??
Maybe Obama's just a "place holder".
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
He needs to can everyone and start all over. Dems need to kick Pelosi, Boxer, and Frank out of any leadership positions. Put global warming on the back burner for a while and focus on the economy kind of like a "war on banks/Al Qaeda" thingy. Unleash Eliot Spitzer on the banks but order him to keep his pants on. Fork the Fed and put Volcker in charge as a double pincher movement on the banks Spitzer-Volcker Democratic one two combo. Pinch the banks until they bleed. Put Max Keiser as the press officer. Sick Howard Dean on the China unfair trade practice and get America working again. He will need to recruit a Democratic bible-thumper to capture some moral high ground with the rednecks. Maybe recruit Jimmy Carter. And no presidency would be complete without an Al Qaeda fighter guy. Maybe recruit Colin Powell to head up the Al Qaeda hunt. He might fall for it.
You're right, his administration needs some pitbulls - mean but under control - to drive some stakes into the ground and then expose the egregious lies from the right that are stated as fact. Nice just doesn't work. Lay the truth on the line for the American people to see and they may realize this is more than infotainment. Why has Joe Biden been so silent, there is a tradition of Vice-Presidents getting down and dirty in the trenches and we hear nothing from him. The man can speak with passion and should be turned loose. If Alan Grayson loses his reelection bid he should get a voice in this adminstration. The time for being reasonable and nice is over - the people in power will say and do anything to keep their power, and many more people go along because they want to be on the side with the power.
The time for being reasonable and nice was over a year and a coupla days ago - the day Obama took office.
Negotiating with Republicans OR Blue Dogs is a waste of time.
Obama needed to be the "pit bull" out in front leading the attack.
And I mean ATTACK.
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and Plouffe is preparing his strategy to razzle and dazzle the masses with "look, it's a bird, it's a plane!"
occupy both sides of the aisle in both houses of Congress, and were just confirmed by the SCOTUS.....
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
I just got a breaking news alert from The Washington Post that Osama bin Laden has sent a "video" claiming responsibility for the Christmas underwear bomber and that "more terrorism" events are coming:
http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/O914NF...
(Cough..."bullshit").
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
The Easter garterbelt bombing?
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Oops gotta go...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e8c9It3szo
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Obummer is loser he loves him his disasters doubled down in the Graveyard of Empires. Choker went on vacation and couldn't be bothered to run. Yeah they are the answer to America's prayers. Yeah give lot's more money to the same idiots that lost trillions already. People will believe in your stupidity and obliviousness not how much you are there to lead them. A stimulus plan that went to the same idiots that brought this country to it's knees. It going to get worser not better. And don't get me started on the Health-care debacle.
Comment to NY times in response to Frank Rich that they didn't publish for some reason I guess they thought my nicknames abusive or something...
That and I've read your comment three times, and it makes no sense.
How many sentence fragments and run-ons did you use?
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Well we all can't be rocket scientists or plumbers either. I suggest though that you slow down and try to comprehend it's not that hard.
It doesn't take a genius to use the grammar checker either.
Although admittedly they tend toward a rigidity and aridity of style.
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I'm just a poor boy with a garbage picked computer and a bad attitude. Thank god for the spellchecker built into firefox or you'd really be scratching your head.
Nearly broke my sisters computer with the thing getting in my face. Finally decided whatever came out would have to do.
You know it doesn't bother me that corporations get to throw bribe money around. The part that bothers me is that I don't get half of their take for letting them exist. And then I've got to listen to idiots tell me they shouldn't pay taxes at all because I'm a dumbass. It a messed up world with messed up people in it. I'm still waiting for a corporation to be put down for their crimes too. America where the rich get to get their cake and eat it too, then thumb their nose at you.
This was an unnecessary race card play in an otherwise excellent piece. Hope you didn't strain your back with that reach! He picked someone who epitomized elegance, a dancer, and
[shrill ]
because he was of a different race, he was suddenly referring to Obama as a minstrel tap dancer!
[ /shrill]
You should have left that out.
An excellent piece ruined by an absolutely senseless and unwarranted accusation of racism. Hard to take the rest of the post seriously after that.
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