Backlit

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  • So, is it official US Justice Department, as well as individual state Justice Departments, official policy that fraud and forgery are a-ok?

    I have few business ideas rumbling around in my head.

  • Thank the teabaggers.

    If anyone deserves credit for this, it’s House Republicans. Had they allowed the process to proceed as planned, it most assuredly, would have been approved.

  • Backlit commented on the blog post White House Supports Republican Cherry-Pick of Its Ideas

    2011-10-26 09:29:22View | Delete

    Who the hell does he think is going to vote for him? It’s certainly not the beneficiaries of this shit.

    Poll after poll proves that independents–the mythical, magical center–want the same things as liberals. The only group that’s out of touch with the mainstream is the self identified republican group.

  • Backlit commented on the blog post White House Supports Republican Cherry-Pick of Its Ideas

    2011-10-26 09:00:29View | Delete

    This is why people are marching in the streets.

  • Well I’m certainly not going to risk a trip to Alabama. I look like I could be from any number of foreign countries. And I’m not about to travel domestically with either my birth certificate or passport. Not in the age of identity theft, anyway.

  • Backlit commented on the blog post Early Morning Swim

    2011-09-27 06:32:57View | Delete

    Someone’s always taking their guns away.

    I thought their psychosis was based around fluoridation.

    It has nothing to do with hunting or protection. It’s just a very well organized group of weirdos who think that the entirety of the constitution is embodied in one half of one poorly formed sentence.

  • Backlit commented on the blog post FBI Agents Raid Home of Top Staffer to Scott Walker

    2011-09-16 06:48:17View | Delete

    The link above doesn’t work. A google search for “ryan’s video concerns” will provide a better one.

  • Backlit commented on the blog post FBI Agents Raid Home of Top Staffer to Scott Walker

    2011-09-16 06:39:29View | Delete

    The cops that were on duty while the 100,000+ people were there were pretty much just milling around with the crowd. There was really no need at all for a big police presence until some teabagger went and threw a punch.

    Even farther off-topic is more news out of Wisconsin. Paul Ryan’s constituents video taped a listening session with a photo of Mr. Ryan, since he doesn’t want to personally hear from us.

  • Backlit commented on the diary post CEOs to Obama: Get Out Of The Way? by TobyWollin.

    2011-09-09 07:31:46View | Delete

    Was anyone there talking about actual existent consumer demand?

    Think of how much economic activity would be generated by eliminating government regulations on the sale and consumption of alcohol.

    Then we can deregulate the production, sale, and consumption of marijuana.

    Then let’s move on to eliminating all government regulations around abortion.

    See, deregulation is fun!

  • Backlit commented on the blog post For A Better Model on Jobs, Look to Argentina, Not Europe

    2011-09-02 12:25:34View | Delete

    So monetary intervention to reduce currency values, taxation and transfer to public works spending, and a strengthening of the social safety net. And it has worked! Who knew?

    To which our elected representatives respond:

    lalalalalalalalashutupshutupshutup!

    With fingers in ears and eyes closed, of course.

  • Backlit commented on the blog post Obama Shelves EPA’s Ozone Restrictions

    2011-09-02 12:03:26View | Delete

    He and his administration are certainly doing everything they can to secure the teabagger vote.

    What the hell do they think the middle is when 71% of the country wants the same thing that liberals want.

  • Backlit commented on the blog post Califorinia Group Looking to Put Public Option on the Ballot

    2011-08-25 12:34:42View | Delete

    This could also solve California’s housing crisis. I would seriously consider buying an overpriced house in CA if this happens. I think many more people would too.

  • Backlit commented on the blog post Russ Feingold Won’t Run Next Year

    2011-08-19 08:35:46View | Delete

    Agreed, I was looking forward to a run for Governor. This was not the news with which I wanted to wake up to this morning. Particularly the news that he’s getting behind President Obamas’s re-election. Obama is diametrically opposed to everything Progressives United stands for.

  • Backlit commented on the blog post In Wisconsin, Where Have the Public Employees Gone?

    2011-08-04 11:22:03View | Delete

    The ads are being played to their intended audience–the undecideds. Public employees made up their minds months ago.

    And, as paz3 said, there is a lot of activity outside of the spotlight.

  • This Wisconsinite will make it to the poll to support Bob Wirch (one of the three Democrats targeted).

    I’ll also make it to the poll early next year to recall Walker (hopefully I’ll get to vote for Russ Feingold in that one)

    I don’t see much point in supporting Democrats at the federal level though.

  • If there aren’t 24 repubs in the house that can see the Reid plan as a complete gop victory we may as well just put a fork in our little experiment with democracy.

    The dems may as well just go hide under their beds and suck their thumbs.

  • So the teabaggers don’t like it because it doesn’t force enough senior citizens into abject poverty?

  • Backlit commented on the blog post Calling Obama’s Bluff

    2011-07-14 09:40:03View | Delete

    How can they say with any credibility that they need more time to negotiate. They’ve already proven beyond any doubt that they’re simply not willing to negotiate at all.

  • It didn’t work very well. They lost the House and almost lost the Senate.

    If they’re going to continue to punt on first down every time they get the ball in great field position, more and more people will just stop going to the game.

  • Backlit commented on the blog post Judge Strikes Down Anti-Union Law in Wisconsin

    2011-05-26 11:02:51View | Delete

    Our streets are well maintained, our water is clean, our cities are safe, our school system is in the top 5 in the nation, our air is clean (until you get too close to Illinois, that is). I’d say our public employees are doing a fine job.

    The only problem with the budget is that Republicans keep giving away the treasury to their wealthy friends.

    Perhaps you should sit down and have a long hard think about non-productive public employees the next time you want to flush your toilet.

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