Simply amazing. And they wonder why people don’t trust their institutions anymore. On the one hand we have frackers bent on profiting, the hell with those they poison along the way. On the other, people who would simply like to be able to preserve their communities and drink their water. So, faster than you can say “enthusiasm gap”, this Administration comes up with one of their patented heads-I-win-tails-you-loose “compromises” that pleases their corporate masters and satisfies their hard-core apologists. Truly contemptible stuff.

Absolutely. And haven’t we heard this “we’re opposed to certain aspects of this bill” before, only to have the President sign the entire bill? Where is the robust “This legislation will never see the light of day as long as I’m President”? Oh, yea. Hollywood wouldn’t approve.

It’s tempting to think “Mariano Rajoi, what an idiot. What were the Spanish people thinking?” But that lets Europe’s Left parties off the hook. Spaniards, like people everywhere in the West, have no real choices. They can pull different levers all they want, but the result is always the same. It’s time for the Left to abandon their “third way” crap. Until they do, we will continue to see the same movie over and over again, immersed in our very own Groundhog Day purgatory.

Gregory is a doofus. It is the same side saying both things. So now, in the never-ending quest to evenhandedly equate both sides, the views of one side are split evenly over both sides? I’m so confuzzled.

Obama and his administration simply don’t care about the pain of real people. That much is clear from their actions to date. To them, it’s all about the Great Game of getting reelected. They think that with their Wall Street patron’s money (they get that by listening to those people) and the laughable state of the GOP they can win without addressing the pain of real people. They may be right. But that doesn’t make it right.

Dan Pfieffer was dispatched…to let them know that if they don’t get in line, they’ll be responsible for putting a Republican in office.

Someone should tell the clueless jerks in the White House that the “we’re better than the alternative” argument only works if you actually are better than the alternative!

If deficits were so gawd awfully important, then why the “compromise” to extend Bush Tax Cuts? Did Geithner snap when this “compromise” was brought up? Inquiring minds want to know…

I thought Obama was supposed to be so smart. He’s an idiot. Same thing over and over and over. Before the “fight” even begins, concessions. Then, no fight worthy of the name. Whatever Clinton’s faults, at least he had balls. This guy only has the balls to claim that a total disaster is a “victory.”

But hey, they’ll say: vote for us! We’re not as bad as the other guys! Sorry. Done with that.

Ok, Republicans. So here’s the deal. Can people carry weapons into the Arizona Legislature? ‘Cause if not you’re hypocrites.

Well Jon, maybe, but it’s a wonderful idea for a bumper-sticker attack on Ryan’s plan:

“Obamacare for Seniors!”

Who needs to explain anything?

Most police officers didn’t believe a restrictive collective-bargaining bill would affect them even though Kasich had been captured in a You Tube video talking about it, said Ohio FOP President Jay McDonald.

We still are confronting many problems on our side of this fight. First and foremost unions must show solidarity, as they did in Wisconsin. Too many times unions like the FOP have gotten theirs and so voted accordingly, as they did in Ohio. If it isn’t good for you, it isn’t good for teachers!

Second, and just as important, Democrats at the national level are worthless, perhaps even worse than worthless. The action of the Wisconsin 14 was especially conspicuous by its contrast with the totally supine nature of National Democrats who have bargained away one union right after another on behalf of their benefactor class. So unions and progressives are simply going to have to come up with a strategy to deal with National Democrats. We simply cannot afford more Obamas, Manchins, Reids, etc.

Oh, I imagine they do. It’s just that so much media answers to the same moneybags that fund this astroturf.

I recently took a stroll through Scientific American. It is shockingly and unapologetically re-purposed[...]

I’ve noticed this for quite a while now. I used to love Scientific American but I’m to the point of allowing my subscription to expire.

I couldn’t agree more. This is the inevitable result of war, which is why I find it so shocking that we engage in them so readily. Of course if we had a real press (most such stories are broken by the foreign press) maybe we wouldn’t be so gung-ho about war.

Colombia’s murderous stance toward trade unionists makes such a deal distasteful

Not to Republicans. No doubt they admire the Colombian stance towards trade unions.

Oh, how very clever they think they are. The biggest problem with being a non-believer is that I know they won’t roast in hell. But they should. What pricks.