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GDC707 commented on the diary post Kos: I can’t imagine President Barack Obama actually wants to cut Social Security by Synoia.
Actually 29 was supposed to be for you OFG
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GDC707 commented on the diary post Kos: I can’t imagine President Barack Obama actually wants to cut Social Security by Synoia.
Through the Looking Glass. One Flew Over the Cucoo’s Nest. It’s like when you are in an argument w/ some one and suddenly they realize their own words are about to hang them. Classic response? Just . . . . float . . . . away . . . I believe in the Constitution and [...]
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GDC707 commented on the diary post Kos: I can’t imagine President Barack Obama actually wants to cut Social Security by Synoia.
Oh, of course. How could I have missed that one. Cuhhhh-lassic Dem boilerplate.
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GDC707 commented on the diary post Kos: I can’t imagine President Barack Obama actually wants to cut Social Security by Synoia.
Hey FireDoggies, Here is a FB post I got from what may be THE most committed O’bot (well, with the possible exception of T-Borg) acquaintance of mine who lives down in South America. When he posts stuff like this I can always tell that The Party is getting nervous that the frozen-eyed O’Zombies are getting [...]
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GDC707 commented on the blog post What Is Even the Point of Trying to Make Pelosi Speaker?
Any assertion that the filibuster was not changed due to lack of Dem votes is secondary to the MAIN reason. The reason they may not have the votes is that that the filibuster benefits both parties. It facilitates intransigence. It provides the ever-ready excuse for doing nothing for the people (but never stands in the way of legislation that benefits the 1%.)
Not long ago, I did some research on my family and found myself poring over much newspaper copy from the 30′s. Exact same situation going on with the Senate 70+ years ago. The issues most often filibustered then were labor and civil rights related but the mechanism was precisely the same. Dems saying they would like to help out on these things but the mean Republicans kept using the filibuster to stop them. Oh well, better luck next time! Be sure to vote for us again and let’s all hope for better results in the future. Yes, there is indeed a hallowed Senate tradition: it’s called obstructionism. -
GDC707 commented on the blog post Obama Is the Driving Force Behind Cutting Your Social Security
Many have been predicting O’s betrayal on this from Bill Black to Nader and many others, including me. But Greenwald did the best job of outlining, step by step, exactly HOW Obama would do it. This prediction is SPOT on.:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/07/obama-progressives-left-entitlements
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GDC707 commented on the blog post KY Sen: Rep. Yarmuth Believes Ashley Judd Will Likely Run
Who would the average, sensible Kentuckian rather look at for the next 6 years? The Turtle or Ashley?
Should be an easy call.
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GDC707 commented on the blog post Euthanasia of the Rentier
Bookmarked and recommended. Thanks,Massacio
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GDC707 commented on the diary post Three States Pushing ALEC Bill To Require Teaching Climate Change Denial In Schools by Steve Horn.
So they’re following the anti-evolutionist’s playbook. Stir up a controversy, then mandate the teaching of nonsense in the name of “scientific balance.”
At least with the climate issue, the position of the deniers is demonstrated more ridiculous with each passing day.
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GDC707 commented on the diary post Hurricane Sandy – Now Comes the Back Wash! by seaglass.
SG please keep us informed on this and I am going to start monitoring the situation in my little seaside community on the central coast of California. I am usually working on the road so I am not there as much nowadays, but my place is situated about a 1/2 mile inland with an elevation [...]
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GDC707 commented on the diary post When It’s True Like Ice, Like Fire by Isaiah 88.
Good quote from Binh.
In the aftermath of this filibuster fiasco I kept wondering. Where was Elizabeth Warren? She made a big deal out of filibuster reform. Where has Al Franken been?
The Democratic Party has been the Party where good ideas go to die and good people get subsumed.
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GDC707 commented on the diary post When It’s True Like Ice, Like Fire by Isaiah 88.
Actually, I am rather impressed with how palpably disgusted Maddow is in this video. I stopped watching her a few years back when she devolved into little more than a Dem Party cheerleader. Of course, she didn’t stray into the forbidden territory of explaining that this is how a 2 party dictatorship works – each [...]
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GDC707 commented on the diary post When It’s True Like Ice, Like Fire by Isaiah 88.
Nice piece. Reminds me a little of ‘Rusty1776′, who I miss. Unfortunately, I have been hearing about this impending ‘Storm’ for 50 years. I work out among the day to day folks of this country. In an area that is pretty well educated, somewhat informed – as Americans go. My observation? Still, for the most [...]
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GDC707 commented on the diary post HURRICANE SANDY – NOW COMES THE BACK WASH !! by seaglass.
Mind-boggling, SG. How far inland does this new flood designated zone go? I am presuming that property owners in these coastal areas are fairly well off (though I don’t know, I’m a West Coaster.) In another age, people with some means could band together, hire attorneys and turn all this back, at least to a [...]
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GDC707 commented on the diary post The Most Patient Man In The World by Eli.
Now of course if you talk to Obots they will point to the tepid, ineffective reform was instituted and claim it as GREAT progress. Even if you are able to drive home the point that nothing has, in reality, changed they will claim that change doesn’t happen in a day and mutter something about “baby [...]
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GDC707 commented on the diary post The Most Patient Man In The World by Eli.
The Democratic Party serves as a great pillow or cushion. When popular political opinion swings to the Left, The Dems are there to catch that pendulum, absorb the energy and smother it. The filibuster is too effective a tool for smothering good legislation to ever get rid of it. It’s a sad thing to realize [...]
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GDC707 commented on the blog post Late Night: Booby Prizes
Years ago Bill Moyers did a piece on characteristics of Republicans and as I recall his observations boiled down to R’s cared mightily about family and very close friends. Everybody else, including and especially the society at large, can just go to hell.
What few sane people I know who are still Republicans pretty much fit this description.
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GDC707 commented on the diary post The Originalist Argument for Abortion Rights: Compulsory Childbearing During Antebellum Slavery and Its Relevance Today by RH Reality Check.
Interesting. Thanks.
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GDC707 commented on the diary post Obama’s Second Inaugural Address by masaccio.
Kapock, you get it. Thank you for saving me a lot of typing, It is no wonder that the Congressional Progressive Caucus gets so easily rolled when I read some of the smiling, hopeful comments here. All it takes is ANOTHER pretty speech and chronic Democrats sit on their hind legs and start slobbering. And [...]
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GDC707 commented on the blog post A Surprisingly Liberal Inaugural Address
You’d swear they were a bunch of teenage school girls with crushes rather than people dedicated to policy positions that actually advance the country’s wellbeing.
That is exactly how I characterize Obots – Oh the things we forgive when we fall in love . . .
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