Here’s what the law should say.

No one who has worked in Congress or for any cabinet level department can lobby any part of the federal government for two years. Anyone found doing so will be banned from lobbying legally in perpetuity. Any organization found hiring a banned lobbyist will be termed “ethically challenged” and any Congressperson, Senator or President meeting with them will face sanctions, any staff member will face immediate dismissal for cause.

And from this day forth no lobbyist can meet with any elected official, member of their staff or cabinet department official more then once a month in or out of the office. Marriage or co-habitation between any of these persons and a lobbyist shall not be tolerated. In the case of an elected official, the lobbyist will lose their legal designation, for staff the choice will be left to them who leaves the job.

Continuing to vote for the lesser of two evils has gotten me a DLC cancer ridden Democratic Party where they chose to have their Convention in a right to work state, deride unions for supporting primary candidates that support them rather then an anti-union blue dog corporate hack. And end up with a president to the right of Richard Nixon about most things.

Eventually you have to realize that it DOES NOT WORK.

Let’s see the Progressive Caucus lecturing Feingold on his pointing out that Pelosi was essentially either lying or selling out Medicare and Social Security with her SimpsonBowles support crap rather then doing the same. Voting for Health Reform without both the Public Option and real premium oversight. Should I go on? I think we need to make the progressives realize that certain things are not negotiable for us and should never be negotiable for them as well. This should be done along with making sure progressives make it on the ballot, including for President.

There is only one thing really important about a supermoon. What is the effect of a supermoon on bassets. And?

Imagine being a heterosexual man and feeling that you weren’t supposed to be attracted to a woman who reminds you of your mother.

Imagine being the heterosexual son of Ann Althouse and being told you are supposed to be attracted to a woman just like her. If any of her sons had brains, morals, and sanity, the last thing they would want is a woman just like dear old mom.

And time to remember that Dems held Congress for the first two years of Obama’s administration. Some of the crisis could have been avoided if the President had recess appointed every friggin’ nominee he had after six months. . If the Senate couldn’t do its job and actually vote on the nominees, the President would have to do so, so from now on he would do this every six months. And then say if the Senate updated their rules like ridding themselves of the nameless holds maybe they could get their job done. But that wouldn’t have been bipartisan even though he would have been beating up on a Democratic Senate – and it would have meant that some of his for show nominees actually got the job for awhile.

Damn Streisand would kill for lighting like that. Bassett in Sun with Blanket.

Not really. While there would be less opportunity to mock Ted Kennedy for being a pompous idiot, many Democrats many progressives said he was wrong. And wrong as he was Kennedy was from the area, this is essentially a carpet bagger trying to derail a project because it will mean he has to charge X rather then 2X for a business interest in a business that has a negative environmental impact.

The public gallery burst into laughter.

Proving their public is smarter then far too many of our public.

Sadly Ms. Cupp is probably a little too old to be a first wife of a hardworking church going man. And I doubt that the Millionaire Matchmaker will take her (not enough model there). Perhaps Ms. Cupp should work harder to meet Ron Perelman. He usually lasts about eighteen months into a marriage with a baby momma, so should be coming into a nasty divorce any day now. Mind you getting him to the altar without being pregnant usually means a longer ride on the entitlement train. Limbaugh and Trump are probably out of the marriage running for a decade (although Trump will certainly consider something on the side). While I could continue estimating her chances with the world’s wealthiest marrying men, why bother. The thing is that apparently not only is Ms. Cupp advocating a situation that is unavailable for over 90% of women, she is cheering on Ann Romney for doing what she could never manage either. And this tells us not only that Ms. Cupp is a fantasist, but that she is almost as lazy at it as she is at her day job. And without lots of workouts and developing her whore in the bedroom ways, she should probably start going Go, Hillary! and Yeah, Lily Ledbetter! to secure her future.

Ummm. Has Friedman been paying attention to the situation in NYC for the last few years. More homeless on the street, more potholes, closing hospitals, sure a couple of stations in the subway are better and they are finally building the 2nd Avenue subway, but frankly the trains are running less frequently and there was a huge battle about how much it costs. And frankly Penn Station is nasty. But hey, Bloomie can solve the nation’s problems when its biggest problem is that people like him and his wife and his friends never met a war they didn’t love and a tax they didn’t hate.

Yup, that is the big “problem” with Social Security – now that it is no longer something that hides how much the tax cuts for the “job creators” are costing the American public and the treasuries that are the IOUs that Congress has parked in the fund must actually be paid, we can’t afford Social Security. My answer to that is that the day you default on paying China or Saudi Arabia for their ‘investment’ in the US is the day you can default on the working people of America. Fuck Pete Peterson and the various financial wizard assholes who think that that they shouldn’t contribute a great deal of their unearned income to the running of this country. When their essential tax rate is actually lower then their secretaries they not only aren’t paying enough, they aren’t paying enough by a vast margin. As for corporations, well they need to be treated the same as they are in Germany – and they pay taxes there – including on income earned in other countries. Think of it this way, for once we really need to have people act like work is important, small businesses are important. That means that our tax system is upside down. And everything the right wing hacks support are the lies meant to keep the status quo – Exxon and Goldman pay little or nothing, but the locally owned hardware store on the corner pays through the nose and working people pay more in taxes and fees then the hedge fund managers and vulture capitalists shipping jobs to indonesia and siphoning cash from pension funds. And the things that should be a given for the public in this country are too expensive…

Well, supposedly of all the mega church grifters Warren actually does donate most of what he makes. I do not know what he donates to, the report I saw wasn’t that specific (and frankly it wouldn’t surprise me if it wasn’t to anything all that charitable.) That this man is supposedly a man of Christ only proves how much of a grift that usually is. Look I agree with him about the jobs, and I would add education. The thing is I don’t see him excoriating those job creators because the jobs they create do not pay enough to support a family. I don’t see him demanding that those who work should be treated with respect and honor for that work – whether it be as a vice president or as the company janitor. I do not see him condemning those who would still the pensions of their workers so that they have more money. I do not see him demanding that the American people get what they have paid towards their entire working life so that they do not end their lives in poverty after that hard work. IOW, he may talk about work, but he does not demand that work provide the means for the workers to live with honor and comfort and not poverty and fear.

If the military leaders had any integrity, their response would have been that Congressman Ryan is projecting as he formulated his budget and passed it without input from the actual military. His mistake was not in what he spoke but in what he thought. That he knew what the military needed and did not want to believe the generals who under oath told him the current budget was appropriate and his was not.

Whatever problems I have with the President (and I have many), there really is only one answer to this:

Hope is what he promised. Hate is what he’s delivering.

No, sir, hate is what you are delivering. Racism has long been a problem in this country, as has misogyny and homophobia. The election of a mixed race President, has however apparently so enraged the racists in this country that now they do not even seek to disguise their rage, deflect and project it’s origins certainly, but not the rage itself. You and your ilk are rotten excuses for human beings and seek only to make the world over in your twisted fashion. And the further we get from that, the meaner and nastier you get. May your hate consume and destroy you quickly for everyone’s sake.