PLEASE help make this point: This will NEVER be Obama's depression.
This morning I was watching Morning Joe as a I started getting ready for work. I probably shouldn't write this diary because I really don't have a morning were I can respond; so I apologize in advance....
View ArticleBuffett to Cramer: The Stock Market is not the Economy.
Thanks to Ezra Klein pointing out this fact to us all:Take a good look again at the 44-year table on page 2. In 75% of those years, the S&P stocks recorded a gain. I would guess that roughly...
View ArticleMEMO TO SEN. DEMS: Stop Shanking the President.
Today Politico has an interesting story of "moderate" democrats meeting behind closed doors and declaring that they are willing to work with Republicans to hijack the president’s budget in the name of...
View ArticleTAKE ACTION: Contact ABC about this Drudge-trolling post.
In a post titled "A on Vision, F on Specifics"ABC at it's political punch blog wrote the following:On this 50th day in office, President Obama made broad calls for improvements in education, but did...
View ArticleCitibank & EFCA
This isn't going to be a long diary and I apologize but I wanted to bring over a post that Ezra Klein made that I just saw and it seems to symbolize everything that is wrong with the way Washington is...
View ArticleJohn King Reads Human Events. Just to be VERY clear.
Moving beyond the "Is Barack Obama the worst president in the history of the United States or the worst world leader EVER" aspect of this question; let's note the fact that John King tells Dick Cheney...
View ArticleCONGRESS must act: Give Treasury the power to nationalize.
The AIG bonuses have brought into sharp focus the need we have to gain control of the financial sector as a whole, clean it up, and privatize. When Roosevelt came into the White House he shut down the...
View ArticleDemocratic "moderates" against the president: budget threats.
This just burns me up. I just saw this post at ThinkProgress. Yesterday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that it was "absolutely essential" to pass "substantial health care reform legislation"...
View ArticleTake Action: Targeting Sen. Bayh this Weekend
I think this community needs to start doing something about the gang of 15 standing against the progressive priorities of this adminstration. I propose that this weekend and every weekend following...
View ArticleFollowing the stimulus, gotcha journalism,& a free riding Dem. Senate.
A lot of things hit me reading Political Punch this morning that made me feel very sympathetic to the administration and the House democrats.I appreciate reporters keeping the president honest, but...
View ArticleTIME Reports: Healthcare Co-Ops Don’t Work
Despite no public debateon the issue and scant knowledge about how health cooperatives could be set up — not to mention what they would cost, how many people they could insure and, most importantly,...
View Article54% of Americans Approve of Current Legislation in WashPo Poll.
But of course, the fact is that what matters it that President Obama's approval rating has slipped to 59% and his approval rating on health care has slipped to 49% and they make the case in the lede...
View ArticleBeing FAR to the left on health is all any DEM has for 2010/12.
I just read this at Think Progress.Back in February, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) voted against the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in part because she said the bill "doesn’t actually...
View ArticleNote to Dems : GET ON TV if you want to beat astroturf.
There is a fantastic diary on the rec list about how the teabaggers failed to disrupt an event.What struck me, however, was the note that after posting the information w/MoveOn and OFA the progressives...
View ArticleBecause Howie Kurtz is a tool that won't say it.
Marc Ambinder has an apologetic post up right now about how we shouldn’t take the MSM to task for not believing those dirty fucking hippies who hated Bush when they claimed he was using the threat...
View ArticleThe failure of Gibbs & the WH message team.
Van Jones signing that 9/11 truther petition doomed him. It should doom him. That's how a clean hit happens. Ditto w/Daschle. Ditto w/Geithner. The only reason Geithner stayed was b/c (1) losing a...
View ArticleUNACCEPTABLE: Politico's story on Joe Wilson Repeats lies
Politico has published an accountof the tensions that exist from Rep. Joe Wilson yelling "You lie" to the president. Speaking to reporters the congressman continued to press his argument that the...
View ArticleHow is Barack Obama weak?
That seems to be the meme of the week accordingly found on Politico.Who's afraid of Barack Obama?The new president spent his first months in office coasting on love and popularity. In his health care...
View ArticleWH: Fox News is research arm of the Republican Party
I saw this at HuffPost."The reality of it is that Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party. And it is not ideological... what I think...
View ArticleSick AND Tired of AmericaBlog & Co. @ DailyKos: Re Helen Thomas/Courage flap
So first off, I want to say fuck you Mr. Aravosis.As I've said before, I think having this accusation come from friends on the left does not position Obama to the middle, as some in the White House...
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