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Unhinged vagina-shackler on Komen’s volte face:Cancer is Cancer! Aboration is Aboration!
(0 comments)Since it’s Mitt Romney week everywhere, I figured I’d post this op-ed by an ex-Mormon, which is a pretty interesting take at the institutional culture of the LDS church. Not much to say about it, but it’s definitely worth 5 or so minutes of your time. (0 comments)Why Bipartisanship Is Impossible, In One Sentence
When one party climbs back to power by promising action on the economy, does nothing on it, and instead spends literally all its time trying to hurt the other party. (0 comments)New From The Gingrich-Cain Front
Newt rants about cable movies he doesn’t like, and flips out when Herman tries to seize control. Catch all the fun here. And the main site is here, as always. (0 comments)Headline of the Week: Making Rapeanade
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(0 comments)Rick Santorum Suggests That When Life Gives You Rape, You Should Make Rapeanade Back when I was in junior high and the Clinton Impeachment was going on, I could hardly have imagined that Clinton would be used as an excuse for wrongdoing by Republican leaders. But that’s where we are. Interesting, isn’t it? (0 comments)Catch up with the official Gingrich-Cain “Great Statesmen” series over at @GingrichCain12. (0 comments)Only 65% of White Americans Have a Favorable Opinion of MLK Jr
…with a whimper. Drum is worth reading on this. I think he’s just got to be the most overhyped and overcovered guy who never managed better than third place since…Joe Lieberman? (0 comments)Mitt Romney's Overwhelming Inauthenticity
It’s amazing to me that Mitt Romney brings up France as a scary comparison point to himself so often when he spent years there and speaks the language. It’s such a minor point, but telling. Of all the people running for president, Mitt Romney has to be the most aware that the rightwing caricature of ... (0 comments)Mother Teresa Doesn't Deserve Sainthood
Case in point. It’s amazing how all the famous/respected Catholic figures from the 1990s have turned out to be incredibly corrupt, isn’t it? I’m sure they’re somehow connected. Of course, as I’m a Protestant I know little about such things. (1 comments)I Fixed It! Ban Sitting Politicians From Running For Another Office
Wonkette reminded me of one of the provisions that I want to write into my fantasy Constitution:No person who holds any elected office shall be permitted to seek election to any other office until he shall have permanently vacated his current post.
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Unintentionally hilarious: “Bachmann, 55, told a small group of supporters Tuesday night that she was staying in the presidential race…”What other kind of group of Bachmann supporters could there be?(0 comments)Santorum Finishes #2, Sliding Down In The Final Minutes To Lose To Romney
I was really hoping that Santorum would win the Iowa caucuses. The disgustingly puerile humor would have lasted for WEEKS! (0 comments)Good stuff: The National Labor Relations Board announced on Wednesday that it had adopted new rules that would speed up unionization elections, its last major policy decision before it drops to two members and can no longer make new decisions. It approved the rules in a 2-to-1 vote. The labor board said the new rules, which have ... (0 comments)A Dinosaur Infringed On A Patent For Rocks...
Reading this lead-in to an article today made me think of cavemen and dinosaurs:“The long-running antitrust suit Novell filed regarding Microsoft’s alleged tactics to prevent WordPerfect from running properly in Windows 95 seemed to be on the verge of conclusion…”
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I don't know if I agree with this. What bothers me most about Obama (aside from the fact that Dick Cheney is still not behind bars) is that he is not making it clear to the progressive community that he's even trying. On health care, to pick one example, he didn't even try for the single payer approach that makes far more sense than any of the other options. If this was because he didn't think the votes would be there, then explain that to us. Instead, he ends up making himself look a few steps right of center.
While I do not follow blind hero worship I would like to defend the president a bit. There is no way that the insurance companies would have allowed the single payer plan to pass, And yes they have enough money and clout to have tied up the debate for decades. Politics is the art of compromise, so that we do not actually have a series of civil wars and juntas as other counties do. This is the best we can do for right now. Now we must work at removing the Blue Dogs and the Bought and payed for insurance companies representative in congress, like Joe Lieberman. Then we can amend the laws to get what we need. This had to be done with social security and medicare. I really doubt that you will see Cheney behind US jail bars. However it is almost as good to see all the military reports that disagreed with his methods to continually point out that he is almost as big of an idiot as Rumstead.
i'm still ambivalent on this analysis so far. the proof will be in the pudding with what gets accomplished in his first term. i generally agree that anyone that thought he was a radical liberal with a yearning to get in there with a jackhammer and bodily tear down the walls of corruption and incompetence in washington was either a rightwing or leftwing kool aid drinker.
however, his agenda is decidedly progressive and has left himself a lot of wiggleroom in the margins as to how stuff gets implemented. the fact is that washington is really broken right now, with its ugly, antiquated, procedural landscape being laid bare for us over the last many months. the republican minority's unprecedented use of the filibuster is going to make passing anything important that much worse because dipshits like lincoln and lieberman must be appeased to get over an undemocratic supermajority hurdle not present in other western democracies.
so, we'll see the goods he delivers and how good they are. i am hopeful but less so than i was last year.
Until the people can overcome the vested interests that continue to elect dipshits like lincoln and lieberman it will be a uphill battle. If the Democrats can manage to win more seats than they lose and give the wingnuts another black eye more progress can be made. This can only be done by continual voter registration and vote drives.