Disgusting. In the first place, Obama needn’t have set this whole shibai bullshit process up. The “caver in chief” just scored a big hit again on the American people. When and how will we ever get enough of this “rape” of the populace by politicians? Disgusting!

Politics cannot survive on incrementalists alone. It cannot survive with only an inside game, and a political science conception of the art of the possible. Ultimately it needs people on the outside who look at what the incrementalists have produced, and say “No.” It doesn’t make those people juvenile, it doesn’t make them unrealistic. It makes them an integral part of the democratic process.

tell the man ….

his bark has been worse than his bite.

no shit!

You know, seabirds that nest on the ocean, nest at night in a big circle. The sharks and other predators know of this phenomena and are careful to feed from the outside in, taking their victims as quickly as possible from the perimeter of the circle. The birds seem less aware of their fellows beng snatched from the edges, but will squawk and raise up into the air if the sharks feed from the center of the circle.

At 68, I’m at the edge of the circle, my SSI is in jeopardy, already health insurance started to rise in October and many docs will not take medicare patients at all. I shout from the fucking blog rooftops but it seems to do no good.

Oh, maybe that will change now we got a Hawaii born president! Not!

Tim Geitner needs to hit the road IMO. He is part of the problem, but really not part of the solution. He is the poster-boy for inside the beltway incest.

Hey, don’t worry it will work out great just like Clinton’s did starting the whole globalization process with NAFTA. Clinton Jr. I guess he could do worse? “Bush-lite?” Obama seems to be playing a planetary chess game that I don’t know. I’m unfamiliar with the rules and powerless in the outcome. He has his own agenda. Slipslidn Away.

Thank you for saying this so well for me:

I’m hurt because this man inspired me to believe. He gave me hope for myself and my children. Now I hear his administration pressured the Spanish to abandon their torture investigation. He’s going to give away the farm with permanent extensions of the Bush tax cuts. He’s going to cut food stamps – a big part of what fed my children during the first year and a half of his administration. He’s planning to send more of our jobs overseas. His Fed bought up 13.7 TRILLION in junk bonds. He has escalated the war in Afghanistan. He’s found a way to convince the public that keeping 50,000 troops in Iraq is tantamount to withdrawal (Has anyone hung a “Mission Accomplished” banner on the WH gates yet?) He is, almost single-handedly, destroying America.

How anyone can be still drinking the Obama administration’s Kool Aid any longer is beyond this old geezer. I’m fuckin gob-smacked with the audacity of fucking over the American people that is taking place as we speak! It truly is change I can’t fuckin believe in!

It is time someone started an actual political news “network” on the web. Perhaps Keith could kick it off with an online real time news broadcast. Think about it. How many viewers would MSNBC lose if Olberman and folks took to the internet?

Scalia is not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.

Oops. Damm those fuckin bloggers, always coming up with the nasty ol’ facts that piss on our parade. Well done Blue Texan. No arguement here.

1.) I used to drink with Obama’s dad back in the day and I must say, in the end (strangely enough because of the little time he spent with his father)the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
Barack was brilliant and articulate but not a serious contender in the end. He had his own issues of arrogance and cultural preconceptions hardened to social memes that made it hard for him to see and feel the point of view of other people. He was always right.

2.) The people he chose to advise him were all wrong because of their complicity in the mess they created and it tainted his image and served him poorly in the end game, yet he has always been in control from the jumpside.

3. ) Now when things are going badly he cannot seem to take control and go nutz. He needs to go nutz. In psychotherapy one often observes that a way of dealing that has been successful, say a habit of control, emotional and intellectual absolute control in the face of a hostile world; now if that method has worked so well in the past, it will take a great effort to break the habit of control that others see as timidity. He needs to let his inner rage take over. There is nothing to lose now and an unsuccessful methodology needs to be abandoned when it demonstrably doesn’t work. Read the preceding 100 or more comments to verify what I am saying.
Go Nutz Barack. Go for broke!