Again, so frustrating! I want action, the nation wants action and what we have is the most ineffectual and betraying administration of all time. You simply cannot tell me that they have done anything remotely connected to their charge. The belief that the system is totally corrupted grows deeper and deeper.

Very frustrating. It seems we have to fight both parties to get anything done. I sent some money for the recall.

‎”I think if Catholics had a little more Zen they’d be a lot less ridiculous than they are.” Thomas Merton (Catholic hierarchy? If the shoe fits………..)

“All obama can run is his mouth.”

Exactly.

I think as everyone else here on FDL does it doesn’t matter more than 5% whether Obama or Romney gets in. The way Obama has moved the country to the right, without any regard (except for some rhetoric) for anything but trying to split the difference with the GOP. I am not giving up on the country, but nothing good will now come from any of the three branches of government for the foreseeable future. It’s us or nobody and it’s all local.

I am very pleased to read this article. It gives real, not phony, hope.

A ridiculous man with a ridiculous message. I would like to think that we would not have to listen to that message anymore, but I am now resigned to having to deal with it for the rest of my life.

See this is what’s percolating in our brains. Our expectations are being betrayed, not just now and again, but on a routine basis. Although it is true that someone with a great deal of information is in a better position to make a sound decision, it is also the responsibility of the decision maker to explain, simply and accurately. The fact that few of these people in authority do this leads to the inevitable suspicion and now firm belief, that none of this will be corrected, in the short or long term. What does America stand for anymore? We are being deluged by unlawfulness and no accountability for it.

I know of very few progressives who were hoping for nationalized health care or even partially nationalized health care to be happy with the act as enacted. It may or may not be found to be constitutional, in whole or part. The point is that the court is intended to be one interpreting the law, not promoting their own brand of policy. This was not the way they came off.

We haven’t read their opinion so we don’t know if it will be scholarly or not. However, their oral performance in front of the world did not promote respect for the office.

A deal which is now looking too clever by half.

I think you are absolutely spot on there. I personally think, in his way, he did think he was addressing a problem, but his method is to try to achieve in so that nothing too much is disturbed. What we have discovered is that all of us, right and left, feel completely manipulated.

Puppethead, I think you underestimate yourself.

I agree with you but with the thought that is now implanted by most readers of this blog: the Democratic party is part of the suppression. You have noticed how completely impervious they are to the goals of their base. This has to mean that who is getting them elected calls the tune. Change, if it is even in the cards, will not come out of the activities and participants of the two parties. This is not the time to be discouraged. Wherever I go I mean people who totally get it, who are motivated, who are actually well, well informed. They may be too old to sleep outside in occupations, they may be too young with young children to watch to be spending huge amounts of time in demonstrations, etc… But they are there and they are not fooled. We are in for some challenging times. All I am saying is that the whole R v D is a waste of psychic energy.

I am in the group that puts more trust in what I get from David than just about anywhere else, and on a consistent basis. Wherever we turn we realize we are getting patted on the head, fed baby food and generally patronized. You are right—let’s see what takes place. When I was growing up the nuns would say: Actions, not words. So ACTIONS! From what we’ve seen so far there has been a whole lot of slop. Maybe the meat and potatoes, fresh fruits and vegetables—chocolate even!—are still to come. I’m going to work on my running, the legal work on my desk and establishing another garden while this is happening just in case it takes awhile. I’m patient, though, and I am eager to see these ACTIONS!

I can hardly read any more of this stuff. It is insane, first, last and completely. Once you look at any of what is going on you realize that every day it is some new atrocity and then the Obama apologists say: well, gee, you’re a downer. You don’t ever congratulate Obama when he does something good. I want to yell, he is not a four year old boy and we are not his parents: Oh Good Job Barry! But even so, for every reasonable thing he has done, there has been a pile of other more serious things he has done which will impact us grievously. As for the attorney generals who let this debacle take place, you are an embarrassment to me as a lawyer. I will do my best to continue the fight but I know who is on our side and who is not.

I see NO justification for this at all.