I was in Florida on Election Night 2008. Obama won the election an hour and a half before he won Florida. So with or without Florida, it’s winnable. Stick with reality, it’s more exciting. And (big advantage) it’s real.

can we just finish the corporate takeover, spell ‘fascist’ with a ‘PH’ and leave the GOP logo of an elephat stomping on a little guy in place?

Grand Old Phascists.

While day-to-day inflation is relatively flat, the three biggest capital investments a person makes are going through the roof: housing prices (a little flat right now,) medical costs and education. (Also Defense Dept expenses, but that strikes inflation in a different way.) So the .1% have made sure to get themselves into those revenue streams, and it’ll take an act of God to improve the situation for the average citizen…because the legislatures are being paid by that .1%

Re: Romney and “I don’t really have much to say about it, I’m more worried about what politicians do in 2012 than 1965″…insensitivity and cruelty towards those at ‘lower’ status (assault on a younger classmate, and causing physical accidents of the visually-impaired teacher) add context to a life-long adherence to being “not worried about the poor.”

Ann Romney putting the hammer down on this crap may be the only reason Willard’s not in prison.

I have an old button, but I think it still applies:
“No Iran Until You Finish Your Iraq”

…and that includes military contractors out of Iraq.

R.oberts
A.lito
T.homas
S.calia

No, it’s that if those new laws are implemented, he’ll lose in 2012. That’s the whole point to the push of those Koch-funded, ALEC-written voter suppression bills nationwide.

The real loss in 2010 wasn’t at the federal level, it was in the statehouses on a census cycle.

WeBeFukd’n'stuf.

LACMA as Charlie Brown at Halloween: “I got a rock…”

See, we wait until we actually hear the hate-speech that is three days of flatulence from El Rushbo. I’m willing to bet you’ve not seen the movie ‘Game Change’ but rather rely on what your conservative masters tell you to do and think.

This is the common thread of all conservatives these days: Follow the hard right line or we will run you out of the party. And a conservative without a party is sooooo lonely, left outside among people who think. Which is why you must NEVER watch anything but FOXNews, and why there is Crush Limpbal is on 24-7-365 on AM across America.

Like the Most Conservative man in the World says: “Stay scared, my friend.”
Your fear is what the GOP feeds on….and your wallet, of course.

“Bravely ran Sir Robin…” I love a good Monty Python reference.

Shall we say that Rep Jeff Flake is, (paraphrasing) “…the Chicken of the Capitol, who had personally wet himself at the Battle of Contraception on the Hill!”

Another example of piling on: once again, I am changing jobs. Once again, I am closing a 401(k) to rollver into my IRA. NEW NEW NEW! Transamerica Retirement is charging me $50 to exit that 401(k) and have the rollover check cut. I’m sure they won’t be the only one to discover this ‘service fee.’

“I would advise people that a 43 year-old man left a wife and kids behind today”, and a shitload of money, to, which they will inherit at almost no tax load, while the kids collect Survivor benefits from Social Security until they’re 18. Woulda been 21 if Reagan hadn’t reduced that benefit ‘to save Social Security.’

PS: What pimp takes over putting James O’Keefe on the street now?

Wasn’t there once a requirement to ‘demonstrate the ability to take delivery’ in commodity speculation? I remember seeing a piece on this ages ago, and the before-and-after price curves, demonstrating the huge increase in price volatility that followed its repeal.

Catholic Bishops say:
“We HATE Single Women,
But We LOVE Little Boys.”

Used to be, if you wanted to play in the commodities game, you had to be able to take delivery. Where’s the Carlyle Group, or Blackstone or Goldman-Sachs gonna stash a quarter-million barrels of oil if they can’t turn around and sell it immediately? That’s how the commodities market changed, and pretty recently (last 20 years?) too.

“exorbitantly large bonuses in the finance sector” of London means about $1.5M.
Meanwhile, our ‘Masters’ not only take bonuses, but they take bonuses that show the size of their contribution to the collapse of the international financial system (sans Obama to the rescue): Blankfein’s at GosmanSucks will be ONLY $7M this year, less than last year’s $12.6M
(http://abcnews.go.com/Business/goldman-sachs-top-bonuses-tumble/story?id=15523891)

Isn’t it nice to see HRC greenwashing Blankfein, so no one will have the balls to mention the outrageous bonus?
(http://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-ceo-speaks-up-for-same-sex-marriage-2012-2)

If the other guy cheats, you win better by winning honest.
But if the rules change, you’re a fool to play by the old ones when your opponent’s using the new ones:
Example:
“The other team is now wearing hard helmets, rigid shoulder and thigh pads, and taking steroids”, (ie., playing by SCROTUS’ “Citizen United” rules.)
“That’s OK, we’re good with leather helmets and a stiff drink on the sidelines. Thanks anyway.”

Yea.
Right.

At the grassroots level, does this mean local PACs will have their efforts for Obama’12 accepted, or will we be blown off like we were in 2008?

Most Democratic Clubs in California are required to organize as PACs, and file FEC and FPPC rpts regularly. As such, we were told to pound sand by O’08, when the big O said he wouldn’t accept PAC money or in-kinds.

Kind of a sore point. Can’t you tell?

I want to be sure I’ve got this: The FHA will write a loan for the the current balance owed on the existing mortgage, but at a significantly lower rate, based exclusively on the homeowners’ loan payment performance?
Because it’s that peek at the rest of the homeowners’ credit situation that may be causing the banks to hold off. And if the FHA is going to skip that, then they’re playing the game a little different.