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willf commented on the diary post Dear Left, Enjoy Your Pot and Gay Marriage Because That’s All You’re Getting by Kurt Sperry.
Don’t minimize the legalization (or even just decriminalization) of the green. Arrests for possession in the U.S. disproportionately hit darker skinned people the hardest. Blacks are being arrested for holding a tiny amount that would get most of your white college kids a talking to, but no more. In this country, the drug war is the race [...]
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willf commented on the blog post Larry Summers’ Shocking Ignorance About Health Care Economics
Sinclair was speaking of iirc meat packers and other industrial food production workers who were finding it hard to strike for better conditions when their jobs were on the line. It’s a little different in Summers case, since he is trying to obfuscate here, and is not worried about the stability of his income.
If we were to update Upton for Summers, the line reads:
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when [he spends his whole life slavering after a cushy job where] his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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willf commented on the diary post “A HUGE DAY” Rep. Keith Ellison, on reintroduction of the Inclusive Prosperity Act, H.R. 1579 by nationalnursesmovement.
Now if this bill actually made it through the house and senate, and was signed by Obama, that would be a huge day.
This is a regular day.
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willf commented on the blog post Actually Charlie Cook, Young People Want to Protect Social Security
economic analysis has even found it would save/generate in revenue almost as much as Obama’s proposed cut to Social Security would reduce the deficit.
John, it would probably save even more, since Social Security doesn’t add anything to the deficit.
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willf commented on the blog post Sequester Still in the Kabuki Theater Phase
I apologize but I must protest this connotative drift in the term “kabuki theatre” as it applies to the current state of governance in the US.
“Kabuki theatre” originally referred to political posturing by either or both of the two main parties wherein the final outcome of said posturing was known well ahead of time. As actual Kabuki plays are well known traditional forms of drama where the audience knows the plot ahead of the performance. Examples of this can be found in past “bargaining” by both sides during the run up to the debt ceiling fiasco, and just about every subsequent time Obama has had to negotiate since then.
I think the term Jon Walker is looking for here is just plain “theatre”.
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willf commented on the blog post Harkin’s Retirement Creates Senate Opening for the GOP
Yep, that’s Tom Vil alright. No “sack” in sight.
Google Shirley Sherrod, in case you’ve already forgotten. These are the kind of people you support, subsumed by fear and corruption into making stupid plays that make them look even weaker.
And if I’m “pushing for purity”, you must by default be “pushing for corruption”. How’s that working for you?
As for Tom Vil, he still has no sack.
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willf commented on the blog post Harkin’s Retirement Creates Senate Opening for the GOP
You mean Tom “Vil” don’t you?
Because after the way he treated Shirley Sherrod, it’s plain that there no “sack” there.
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willf commented on the blog post Harkin’s Retirement Creates Senate Opening for the GOP
Thanks for all your help pushing Obama’s Save Health Insurance Today Act on us, Harkin!
Obama couldn’t have made the liberals stand for it without your valuable aid. Some “starter home” you have left us.
Don;t let the door hit your ass on the way out.
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willf commented on the diary post The Reports of Unions’ Death Are Greatly Exaggerated by ThirdandState.
“Rentier wannabe”? That is the silliest thing I’ve heard all week. How does not being deluded about the state of unions in America make me a “rentier wannabe”? I think you just heard the term “rentier” and you’ve been itching to use it on someone you dislike. But let’s consider the term: Well, no, I [...]
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willf commented on the diary post Tahir Square in every American city! by Antipanglossian.
No worries. I understand the impulse believe me.
I actually have a diary in mind that calls for a bit of keyboard (and phone) activism. THe kind at which FDLers excel. It’s probably OT to talk about it here. I’ll write it up tonight & post it this weekend.
Oh, and recc’d.
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willf commented on the diary post Tahir Square in every American city! by Antipanglossian.
OK, Diary says: “A Tah[r}ir Square In every American City! Tarheel writes: "Just the cities?" Then I comment: "You want a Tahrir square in somewhere beside a city, go ahead, no one is stopping you." Then YOU write: "Explain yourself please." Which I find a bit demanding in tone, but OK, whatever. So I do. [...]
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willf commented on the diary post The Reports of Unions’ Death Are Greatly Exaggerated by ThirdandState.
Wow.
Unions: Still on Life Support!
One silver lining in the new numbers is the great variation that exists across states. Unions are growing in some places. Another silver lining is that the weaker unions get, the more evidence we get that this is a bad thing.
Ummm, huzzah?
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willf commented on the diary post Tahir Square in every American city! by Antipanglossian.
You wanna act somewhere else? Nobody is stopping you.
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willf commented on the diary post A Letter I Wish Progressive Groups Would Send to Their Members by Norman Solomon.
Solomon is repeating the obvious. Unless he has a suggestion about what to do to hold Obama and the Democrats accountable, he’s just flapping his gums.
Get back to us when you have an idea of what to do about it, Solomon, until then, maybe your time would be better spent elsewhere than writing.
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willf commented on the diary post Help! Too Dumb for FDL! (or… What Makes FDL Different!) by firebagger.
There doesn’t seem to be some mainstream flow of opinion that you can settle into comfortably like a warm bath, all steamy and bubbly
Try TBogg.
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willf commented on the diary post “The Drum Major Instinct”: The MLK Jr. Speech The Media Don’t Mention by Phoenix Woman.
The thing I loved best about King was his unswerving devotion to nominally liberal elected politicians, (or moderates, as they were then known) and his idea that no progress could be made except by going through established political channels.
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willf commented on the blog post Obama Really Wants to Play Debt Ceiling Chicken
Please provide an example of hyperbole in the above post.
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willf commented on the diary post I Want to be Hedda Bolgar When I Grow Up by Phoenix Woman.
She’s a nice role model to have. I admire people who have the guts to criticize their own national leaders. Most people never even get that far.
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willf commented on the diary post New Era for Progressives and Obama by Norman Solomon.
I thought that “both sides do it” could stand in for any false equivalence, like that here attributed by Solomon to both Obamas critics and supporters. Therefore a “both sides do it” trope is applicable. As to Solomon’s diary: Now we can pressure Obama? Now, when he no longer faces reelection? Does Solomon have any suggestions how [...]
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willf commented on the diary post Rebecca Solnit: 2013 as Year Zero for Us — and Our Planet by Tom Engelhardt.
O rancid sector of the far left, please stop your grousing! Compared to you, Eeyore sounds like a Teletubby. If I gave you a pony, you would not only be furious that not everyone has a pony, but you would pick on the pony for not being radical enough until it wept big, sad, hot pony [...]
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