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GDC707 commented on the diary post Wisconsin is Stalingrad. Get on the bus. by Rex.
Righteous post.
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GDC707 commented on the diary post ACA makes left & right strange bedfellows by psalongo.
Yep. The only ones who really support this insidious law are committed Obamabots. The right hates it for mainly bad reasons, the left hates if for better ones, but yes, for the moment we are uneasy bedfellows. The media, which only thinks in duopolistic terms of course, never mentions the left’s opposition to the bill. [...]
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GDC707 commented on the blog post Current GOP Field Generates Little Enthusiasm
As usual, the poll only concerns itself with some variant of the 2 party system. Why isn’t there the option: vote for a 3rd party candidate? Because that would be moving beyond the allowed narrative.
I understand that the poll was focused on the motivations and enthusiasm levels of Republicans. But I continue to be depressed how narrow is the window of what is acceptable at all levels of political discourse.
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GDC707 commented on the diary post Why I Cannot Envision Voting for Obama in November by EdwardTeller.
Just keep it simple. The way forward is to exercise the power of “NO.” Vote 3rd Party. You will not be wasting your vote. If you are voting for either of the corrupt legacy parties you are indeed wasting your vote.
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GDC707 commented on the diary post Michael Klare: Why High Gas Prices are Here to Stay by Tom Engelhardt.
*sigh* You hear this stuff every time prices at the pump take a sharp hike. Going back 30 years. Apocalypse Soon. Unmentioned are all the efforts by various governments such as the entire nation of Brazil to convert to alternate fuels such as ethanol and even more importantly super cheap natural gas. This conversion is [...]
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GDC707 commented on the diary post The Mother Of All Bailouts by independentvoternews.
The way you describe the situation is pretty much how I see it as well. I presume you mean via the IMF. It has all the now classically understood methods of shock doctrine including fear, panic and obfuscation.
Thanks for the update.
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GDC707 commented on the diary post Greece Strikes, the People Rise, Global Economy Teeters by Michelle Chen.
Oooo, I dig yer punchy, feisty writing style Michelle. Keep ‘em coming.
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GDC707 commented on the diary post Aldous Tyler: Where Is Obama’s Money Going? by jeffroby.
Good point and great angle of attack.
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GDC707 commented on the blog post Obama’s Job Approval Drops Below 50% with Hispanics
I mean if you call yourself a Progressive and yet still vote for Obama, then you are an Obamabot, but you’re certainly not a Progressive – at least not one who understands the issues.
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GDC707 commented on the blog post Obama’s Job Approval Drops Below 50% with Hispanics
Ha! The real Progressives have no horse in this race. But they are damn sure not to vote for Obama who is the best gift Republicans ever got!
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GDC707 commented on the blog post Obama’s Job Approval Drops Below 50% with Hispanics
Didn’t see it but heard about it. Sounds pretty creepy.
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GDC707 commented on the blog post Why Mitt Romney Needs to Hammer the Electability Argument
Problem is the Tea Baggers have no problem tanking an election if it increases their power.
YES! and that is EXACTLY what we should be willing to do – and take credit/blame for it proudly.
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GDC707 commented on the blog post Why Mitt Romney Needs to Hammer the Electability Argument
Perry’s negatives are so ugly, so numerous and so exploitable that I think even a President as crippled as Obama would be able to defeat him. With Romney or Huntsman it’s a slam dunk win for the R’s. With Paul, I would vote for him over Obama because at least he stands for a handful of issues that I support, something I can’t say for O. I think in the general election it would be a toss-up but one thing Paul has in his favor is a religious devotion among his followers. They would work very hard for him.
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GDC707 commented on the blog post Obama’s Job Approval Drops Below 50% with Hispanics
These polls may be interesting sociologically, but all that really matters is polls taken among likely voters. In that context, any drop among AA support for Obama is catastrophic (and I thought I saw another poll that said his support in this demographic was closer to the mid 70′s.) Recall, that even with everything going for him, Obama didn’t win by all that much. Now with all winds against him he can not afford to lose even a small amount from a solid support group – namely blacks. He’s already lost us real Progs.
At this point the only thing O has going for him is that typical low information voters still like him (hey I hear it all the time) and the prospect that R’s will nominate Perry, who I think is understood by most Americans to be a completely evil whack job and O would probably carve him up in the debates.
By the way wouldn’t Perry look perfect in a Dracula costume?
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GDC707 commented on the diary post National Nurses United opts for feel good activism, ignores lessons of Tea Parties and WI Dems by metamars.
Good post, MM. I work with nurses and they have a LOT of potential and can change the narrative on a subject such as with Schwarzenegger in California. But they do need to refine their operations and target some electoral positions. If they got the hang of it I’ll bet they would be effective. People [...]
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GDC707 commented on the diary post Obama’s Pawlenty problem by Bin Quick.
O has a great smile, a mellifluous voice, and is a great campaigner. He will state with great resolution that it was those recalcitrant Republicans that kept him from vaulting America to runaway prosperity. And Americans will probably buy it. The Repubs are a parade of one ugly cyclops after another. I wouldnt count O [...]
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GDC707 commented on the blog post Local Law Enforcement Says Secure Communities Harms Their Efforts
Finally. An Obama policy I agree with.
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GDC707 commented on the diary post CA Dem Party May Dump Its Progressive Caucus – Can You Guess Why? by David Swanson.
I tell ya. It’s astonishing how thug-like Democratic Party Apparatchiks can be when you dare to challenge their autocratic rule. I won’t retell the story of being kicked out of the local groovy coffeehouse for actually arguing with a local Demo operative over Obama’s heresies. It actually got chesty for a bit there. That’s when [...]
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GDC707 commented on the blog post Postal Service Wants to Eliminate 120,000 Jobs
Well, I wish I had reason to care about this but I really don’t. I don’t remember Postal Unions advocating for the Public Option, or proclaiming against corporate personhood, or any other socially progressive issues for that mattter. I live in a rural area so most of my contact with the postal service has been positive but in the larger cities its another story. Plus, being an emiserata (as Jeff Roby calls us) i long ago decided that things have to get much worse for large numbers of people – and happen quickly – for there to be any chance that things will change in this country. Govt workers are not entitled to be exempt from the pain that so many are suffering. Come on in to the suffer pit mr. postal worker. Let’s hear YOUR fresh ideas for social resistance..
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GDC707 commented on the diary post Drew Westen in NYT: What happened to Obama? by oldionus.
Didn’t have the ability?
Didn’t have the intention or the desire to change the arc of history – not to anything good and helpful to the country as a whole.
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