The “big boy pants” remark tells you everything you need to know about this sicko. It’s all about showing what a man he is, which in his depraved mind you do by torturing someone who is shackled and can’t fight back. He’s obsessed with his own masculinity because he knows in his heart he’s a gutless, spineless coward.

Krugman sez health care reform doesn’t work without the mandate:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/23/naked-blackmail/

Do you know something PK doesn’t? Of course, single payer would be better, but we know that is not going to happen anytime soon. We could add a public option, but that wouldn’t really be an alternative to the mandate, just a another way of complying with it. I don’t know what else you have in mind, could you explain?

I know facts are stupid things, but there is not a shred of evidence in this report that Democratic losses were due to the lack of a public option. The report claims that large numbers of voters perceived votes for the healthcare plan as evidence that their representatives were more liberal then they were, and accordingly voted for their opponents. This effect, to the extent it is real, was obviously due largely to GOP disinformation about what the plan contained. Of course, it may be true that if the public option had been included, more liberals would have turned out to vote for Democrats, thereby minimizing the effect of Republican disinformation. But this report does not address that issue at all–the phrase “public option” occurs nowhere in it. So again, whatever the truth may be, there is no evidence *in this report* that has any bearing on the consequences of the lack of the public option for the 2010 races.

‘Obama, said Carney, felt that, “the kinds of personal attacks that have been directed her way have been inappropriate.”’

Whoa, that’s telling ‘em, Big O!

“Inappropriate” is when you wear brown shoes with a black suit. The proper words for what Limbaugh said are “vile,” “despicable,” “odious,” “loathsome,” “cowardly,” “sub-human,”. . . I could go on but I loaned my Thesaurus to my roommate.

The joke, through the voice of the woman in it, invites the audience to associate interracial sex with bestiality. The woman’s attitude is clearly that although having sex with a black man is not quite as bad as having sex with a dog, it is a step down that road. Rather like Rick Santorum’s statement that if we condone homosexuality, then bestiality isn’t far behind. Very racist indeed in the one case, and very homophobic in the other.

@Ironcomments:

“An arch-conservative who uses populist talk to get elected. . . ”

The point of this exercise was to try to learn to think in more than one dimension. You flunk.

The Democrats’ Rotating Villain routine is here in evidence again (see Greenwald if you are not familiar with this concept). Carl Levin was the designated Democratic villain whose role was to insure the gutting of the fifth and sixth amendments–Wyden was one of only seven senators to vote against that bill. But now some Democrat has to step up and give cover to the 1 per cent’s attempts to gut or at least weaken Medicare, and it seems it’s Wyden’s turn to be the villain.

Maybe we can at least end the War on Terror now, at least if GW Bush was right that we had to fight because they hate us for our freedoms. Now that we’ve surrendered the last of those freedoms, there is no reason for them to hate us anymore.

It would be nice if he would do that. Unfortunatley, however, Obama has now endorsed this piece of crap. TPM is reporting it.

Wow, just think a little harder, BT, and Cheney’s point may become clear to you.

He is claiming that presidentially-ordered assassinations of American citizens without charge or trial is every bit as “extreme” a measure as torture. So Obama is in a pretty poor position to be criticizing Bush and Cheney.

For once in his life, Cheney is perfectly right.

Absolutely right, athena1.