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brighton commented on the blog post Obama Backs Moving Up State Health Care Waiver to 2014
With the waiver moved up Vermont can institute single payer and show the rest of the country how to really save money by owning the system. Then maybe we can nationalize banks and insurance companies. Democratic socialism is the only sustainable path to overall prosperity.
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brighton commented on the blog post “One Moment in the World’s Salvation”
Eliminate politicians, eliminate the wealthy – Egyptians are creating the first iDemocracy
Why do we have an electoral college, why do we have centralized government, why do we have bureaucrats when we have an Internet?? Go Egypt! -
brighton commented on the blog post Clinton Asks Mubarak’s VP to Investigate Mubarak’s Thugs
Hillary failed in Honduras and Haiti – let’s hope she does better in Egypt. The new Egypt will be leftist and secular, and if we crush it to keep Israel happy, we completely suck. My 2 cents here.
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brighton commented on the blog post History in the (Re)Making
This worship of authority is keeping our workers in their place despite 25% unemployment. It’s unreal.
Take a good look at the USSR – they had enormous problems, but so do we. They also had 100% literacy, full employment and no banks, insurance companies or wall street. We can do even better without sacrificing civil liberites – but we would have to sacrifice cuttroat capitalism. My 2 cents here -
brighton commented on the blog post One Republican World
Holbrooke’s last words and Bernie Sanders’s speech maybe haven’t accomplished anything, but it’s important to take a stand, however small. My two cents here.
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brighton commented on the blog post Why Does Obama Keep Blaming Liberals for His Health Care Bill’s Unpopularity?
This country, sir, was NOT founded on compromise. my two cents here.
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brighton commented on the blog post Tax Cut Deal is Public Option Debate All Over Again: All Lies, No Fight
This country was NOT founded on compromise. Was it compromise when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
srsly,
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brighton commented on the blog post The Economics of the Bush Tax Cuts
Letting the middle class tax cuts expire won’t hurt unemployed and poor people that bad, as they don’t pay a lot in taxes as it is. The Simson-Bowles catfood plan would really hurt poor people and the unemployed.
If we need to cut the deficit, let’s let the tax cuts expire and balance the budget on the backs of the employed rather than break the backs of the poor and unemployed. -
brighton commented on the blog post Operation One-Term: Obama Reaches Bipartisan Agreement To Serve Only Four Years
My holiday letter to the Tea Party, from a Liberal. (humor)
(Keep your gun, just help me save social security. Then go fuck yourselves.)
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brighton commented on the blog post Early Morning Swim
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brighton commented on the blog post Terrorists Don’t Hate Us for Our Air Travel: Security Theater Gets Another Bad Review
I just read Jeffrey Rosen’s WaPo piece on the scanners. He’s wring. They’re constitutional- read here.
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brighton commented on the diary post Compromise on Social Security and Medicare? Why My Center-Left Friends are Wrong by Dean Baker.
Excellent post. I’ve been plugging Dean’s book “the Conservative Nanny State” all day and in my Monday blog post. Required reading along with Robert Reich’s “Aftershock”
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brighton commented on the blog post The President on the Filibuster
The Senate was designed to be a check on an overly-populist house of representatives. The veto is a further check on the congress as a whole. The rules to override a veto form another check.
The regular use of the filibuster makes a mockery of majority rule – a carefully drawn lawsuit could have it stricken as unconstitutional. However, unless campaign finance rules change to prohibit private money and until gerrymandering is eliminated, it doesn’t matter. Working class people don’t have representation for the most part. Which is why change will someday come from the outside in.
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brighton commented on the diary post The Fierce Urgency of What, Now? Obama Gives Time to Stewart, Five Bloggers, Days Before Midterm Vote by Gregg Levine.
Our stagnant political system is making it easier for developing countries to leapfrog us, not only technologically, but economically. Obama is right about India, Brazil, Russia and China moving forward. They have state-run economies. We have a delusional free-for-all.
Who will stand with us when China takes over? Here: http://brighton-towne.blogspot.com/2010/10/whos-gonna-stand-with-us-when-china.html -
brighton commented on the blog post Obama on HAMP and the Housing Market
The flaw, admitted to by Alan Greenspan, was that we suffer from periodic delusions of fake value. This is endemic to capitalism. Everybody just did their job throughout the recent crisis. The problem was the system.
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brighton commented on the blog post “Promote a Spoiler” Strategy Will Continue Until We Adopt a Better Election System
4 reasons not to vote this November. http://brighton-towne.blogspot.com/2010/10/4-reasons-not-to-vote-in-november-2010.html
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brighton commented on the blog post Elizabeth Warren Wants to Turn CFPB Into a Crowd-Sourced Wiki
You go girl! Let’s change the image of government regulation from inefficient drag on the economy to net-based instant fraud detection. Obama is beginning to surround himself with the future of the democratic party – Liz Warren, Austan Goolsbee, Hilda Solis. Plus Elena Kagan dissented in a death penalty case today.
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brighton commented on the blog post Do You Get the Feeling We’re the Adversaries Deputy Defense Secretary Lynn Is Talking About?
Julian Assange and Wikileaks are not guilty under federal espionage or treason law.
If the military doesn’t want embarrassing leaks, it should stop doing embarrassing things. -
brighton commented on the blog post Prop 19 Trailing by Two in New SUSA Poll
Prop 19 is constitutional and it should pass. I think there will be a reverse Bradley effect.
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brighton commented on the diary post Petraeus’ Absolutely Relentless Killing Machine Fails Despite Claims of Success by Jim White.
The military literally loses billions in cash in the middle east. Meanwhile, single moms can’t afford to feed their kids. Here: http://brighton-towne.blogspot.com/2010/09/i-support-single-moms-not-troops.html
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