So why is he beating on the base? Wants to make the election closer than it already is? Doesn’t want teachers to be excited about voting this fall?

Funny, I have a liberal friend who is a teacher who teaches in a very Dem city. They’re in a union. She says some of her co-workers are NOT going to vote for Obama. They’re so disgusted they’ll vote for Romney.

So good job O-man. Keep on shitting on your base.

And could Stephanie Cutter respond to this: Why is Obama so consistent in shitting on his base? Teachers? Civil rights? Blacks? People who think torture, government wiretaps are illegal.

These people voted for you, remember?

Great stuff.

How’s that getting rid of italics on block quotes to improve readability project going?

By virtue of the double indent you are already saying it’s a block quote so why bother with the Itals? It just makes it harder to read. I realize I’ve pointed this out before.

http://webstyleguide.com/wsg3/8-typography/5-typographic-emphasis.html

Italics

Italicized text attracts the eye because it contrasts in shape from body text. Use italics for convention—for example, when listing book or magazine titles—or within text for stressed or foreign words and phrases. Avoid setting large blocks of text in italics because the readability of italicized text, particularly at screen resolutions, is much lower than in comparably sized roman (“plain”) text.

If we had a president with either: 1) balls or 2) was not in the pocket of Wall St. and the Big Banks reinstating Glass Steagall would be a no brainer.
But nobody’s even talking about it.

This is all bullshit and nonsense. The CIA and Saudi Intelligence was probably on both sides of this deal. They invented the new, more sophisticated bomb, gave it to Saudi Intelligence then provided it to their CIA agent. All kept in house. Then, “leak” it to the press so their manufactured “success” could keep scaring the sheeple in the U.S.

Obama showing balls? I wonder what that would even look like?

I’m sure it won’t happen however. Hasn’t yet. Why should he start now?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/23/us-motorists-gasoline-mexico-outbid-refinery_n_1297527.html

What about fact that they’re exporting US fuel to Mexico and other countries who will pay more than we will? Why no mention of that? That’s a HUGE driver of prices at the pump.

Greg Palast said it best: It’s about protecting the freedom of employees to be free from the religious opinions of their employers. That’s religious freedom. It’s not freedom for the employer to be free to impose it’s religious beliefs on its employees.

http://www.gregpalast.com/queen-of-angels-condoms/#more-5702

Joining the shriek-fest against the president’s decision, the sanctimonious little ex-senator prattled on about big bad government crushing religious freedom.

That’s just arse-backwards.

Obama’s decision is a defense of religious freedom. Religious freedom is a right of people, not their bosses.

The Queen of Angels hospital, church-owned though it may be, has no right to tell its Jewish doctors and employees to wear crucifixes. Nor should the Church’s managers be allowed to tell their employees that the health care they receive by law should be dictated by the religious views of their employer.

A question for you, Mr. Santorum: should Catholic reporters working at the Christian Science Monitor be told they can’t have blood transfusions because the Church-owner doesn’t sanction surgery?

It makes me furious that the Obama Administration does not defend itself and the religious rights of workers. No damn employer should be allowed to tell an employee what medicine may be prescribed by their doctor based on the business owner’s beliefs.

What’s Santorum worried about? I guess he believes that, without the force of law to restrain them, the nuns at Queen of Angels will dash off to get prescriptions for birth control pills.

If a religious organization abjures condoms or The Pill or blood transfusions, that’s their right. It should not be their management’s right, even if the managers wear vestments, to impose those religions’ strictures on the bodies of their workers.

It’s about freedom of the worker from the religious dictates of her employer.

I’ll say it even if, for some reason, Obama can’t.

What a moronic example — Clarence Thomas “misunderstood” a form requiring disclosure.

All the reporter had to do was say Clarence says he “misunderstood” however ignorance of the law is not a defense.

Someone remind me again why we voted for this Schmuck? Why vote for Democrats when they give you Republican policies?

Healthcare bill == Republican Health Care proposal from Heritage Foundation in 1991 to oppose Clinton’s bill.

Seems like whoevers in the White House we get Republican policies.

This is another one of those non fillibuster fillibusters, right?

Why don’t the Dems just demand that the Repubs ACTUALLY fillibuster instead of just threatening? Make them give speeches for 24 hours a day in opposition to some obscure judge.