Actually, its too bad that President Obama didn’t ask for an up-or-down vote in Congress on Bowles-Simpson.

It would have forced Pelosi onto the record, as well the GOP. No more posturing or grandstanding…everyone with a recorded vote. No voting “present” either!

I wonder…with debt commissioners Tom Coburn and Dick Durbin (talk about an odd couple) on record as “yes” votes…

What would the final vote have looked like?

I’m a veteran, Blue Texan, so I went to the Pew Research link you provided.

Here’s what I read:

“Veterans who served on active duty during the post-9/11 era consider themselves more patriotic than oher Americans, and most see the military as an efficient and meritocratic institution.”

Hmmm.

And;

“Veterans who have served since Vietnam, including post-9/11 veterans, are more likely than the general public and older veterans to approve of the the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.”

Thanks for the link.

Those protesters look like a bunch of white liberal electoral racists to me.

lol

So do most of the folks at FDL.

Just ask Melissa Harris-Perry.

She won’t let you hide anymore.

Obama/Biden 2012.

I wonder…

Will the host of ANY MSNBC evening or prime-time show discuss the comments of their pal, MSNBC guest, contributor (and, even HOST) Professor Melissa Harris-Perry in her piece in The Nation last week?

Chris Matthews? Larry O’Donnell? Rachel Maddow, maybe?

Because, when she speaks of “liberal electoral racism”…

She’s talking about the people here at FDL who routinely criticize President Obama.

Not only can’t conservative racists criticize the President…you racists can’t either.

One thing’s certain…

As far as Professor Harris-Perry is concerned…whatever your ideology…if you criticize the President…your motives are “suspect”.

Was the poll taken before or after DADT?

And, President Obama’s new, “combative” attitude?

The base should now be “fired up, ready to go!”.

$1 billion for the upcoming campaign should be no problem.

Small contributions, of course.

Barack Obama’s job approval number in NY-9 is 37%.

Democrat Weprin beat that by 9 points.

But, he still lost to the Republican by eight points…in the same area where voters sent Geraldine Ferraro and Chuck Schumer to Congress.

Can you imagine how pissed voters in NY-9 must have been to do this?

Sorry, Margaret.

I thought we were having a conversation.

I wasn’t trying to piss you off.

But Margaret, the federal government IS “looking back” in suing these banking institutions for marketing worthless mortgage-backed securities to Fannie and Freddie.

It simply strikes me as odd that there’s no accountability on the Fannie and Freddie or government side of the equation…not for the folks at Fannie and Freddie responsible for verifying the value of assets purchased; not by officials of the Bush Administration; and certainly not for the elected officials of EITHER party tasked with oversight for Fannie and Freddie, but who prevented that oversight at every opportunity.

How can the banks be responsible for SELLING this worthless crap, but no one responsible for BUYING it, and thus putting U.S. taxpayers on the hook for it?

After all…if Fannie and Freddie had simply said “This worthless crap…we aren’t buying it.”, we aren’t here…are we?

Assuming that’s correct, Margaret, why haven’t we seen Fannie and Freddie executives, relevant Bush Administration officials, and folks like the aforementioned Barney Frank, or Maxine Waters, or Greg Meeks…none of whom (for whatever reason) appeared to want the band to stop playing on the deck of the Titanic…sitting in a witness dock with right hands raised, being compelled to answer questions under oath about their behavior?

Because, all of them are culpable, all are responsible, and all should be held accountable for what occurred at Fannie and Freddie.

All of them.

I’m curious.

Why, exactly, did Fannie and Freddie purchase this worthless crap?

Did no one at either agency verify, or even care about the true value of these “assets”?

Clearly, the officials at these agencies were either incompetent imbeciles or something much, much worse.

By what mechanism did these agencies transfer liabilities in the form of the worthless subprime mortgage-backed securities of private banking institutions to U.S. taxpayers?

What was that smug know-it-all, Barney Frank, doing at the time? Besides assuring Wall Street investors and the U.S. public that Fannie and Freddie were sound agencies, with sound business practices?

When are we going to see some accountability from those responsible for oversight with regard to Fannie and Freddie?

Actually, the reporting I’ve seen simply suggests that there will be an up or down vote.

If it passes, it would then move to the states.

It’s being reported by the AP and the National Journal that the tentative agreement on the raising of the debt ceiling provides that there will be a vote in Congress on a balanced budget amendment.

Now THAT’S going to be fun.

Grijalva’s “People’s Budget” has absolutely no prayer of ever getting out of the House. Even if a vote on it were allowed (it will never happen), no House GOP member would vote for it, and heaven knows how many Democrats would even vote for it…many won’t, especially Blue Dogs. Grijalva wouldn’t even stand firm on the “public option” when he was part of a large House majority. Grijalva and his caucus is marginalized and pretty much irrelevant with Obama in the White House. I don’t know why anyone would pay attention to what he has to say. Obama certainly doesn’t.

At Friday’s press conference, NBC News’ Chuck Todd asked President Obama whether he regrets not backing the debt commission proposal to address the debt situation. The President replied that he was concerned with the debt commission’s cuts to defense spending. Really? Cuts to defense spending?

David Plouffe prefers choice over referendum in the matter of President Obama’s reelection.

Why, I wonder?

Viewed in either way, the President has real problems.

I can’t believe it.

With all the Libya stuff, Rachel Maddow has opened her show with a discussion of deep-sea oil rig blow-out preventers!

Secretary Clinton was just on the air talking about handing off the Libyan thing to NATO…but so far, nothing from Maddow.

What is it with MSNBC?

If you can’t say anything good about President Obama…don’t say anything at all?

I’m shocked…completely stunned.

Just like with the Bush tax cuts.

Who knew?

After losing 63 seats in the midterms just past, the DCCC calling, and then yelling at voters doesn’t strike me as particularly productive.

Although…I’m sure that last November’s historic defeat left them a little irritated, to say the least.