Morning Must Reads: Legit

Mitch Daniels will attend CPAC, the conservative confabulation and presidential candidate cattle call.

Apparently there’s a little trouble in Conservatopia:

“The right-wing site World Net Daily and conservative columnist Frank Gaffney came up with a new reason this week to hate the Conservative Political Action Conference, arguing that it has been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood thanks to Grover Norquist, the Republican group Muslims For America, and Ex-Bush staffer Suhail Khan.[...]

As we reported, several social conservative groups have pulled out of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference that will take place this February, because the gay conservative group GOProud will be attending. The Family Research Council and the National Organization for Marriage were among those who backed out. [...]

‘”What’s going on in conservative circles should give everyone real cause for concern,’ Gaffney told World Net Daily. ‘What it bespeaks is an effort to penetrate and influence conservatives, who are the most likely and perhaps only community in America who will stand up to and ultimately help ensure the defeat of this seditious totalitarian political program.’

He also implicated anti-tax conservative activist Grover Norquist in the plot: ‘Grover Norquist is credentialing the perpetrators of this Muslim Brotherood influence operation. This is part of tradecraft, to get people who have standing in a community to give it to people who lack it, so they can do what they’re assigned to do in terms of subversion. We are in a war, and he has been working with the enemy for over a decade.’”

(where’s my popcorn?)

If “independents” are so valuable, how come there are only three (Sanders being the only legit one, IMO) in the Senate and none in the House?
.
The most visible “independent” is the King of New York.
.
Another in a six-month list of “the sky is falling” reports on the “outside” party. Come August you’ll be saying something bad about the GOP and the pendulum will swing once again by ’12. I’ve been around long enough (50) to see how this works.

Gene Sperling, who is expected to be announced as Larry Summers’ replacement on the National Economic Council on Friday.

And why we should have an issue with that:

“The primary issue is not that Sperling got $900,000 from Goldman Sachs for part-time work, although that does look bad. The primary issue is that Sperling thought, and may still think, that the policies that laid the basis for the economic collapse were just fine.

Sperling saw nothing wrong with the stock market bubble that laid the basis for the 2001 recession. The economy did not begin to create jobs again until two and half years after the beginning of this recession and even then it was only due to the growth of the housing bubble. Gene Sperling also saw nothing wrong with the growth of that bubble. Gene Sperling also saw nothing wrong with the financial deregulation of the Clinton years which, by the way, helped make Goldman Sachs lots of money. And, he saw nothing wrong with the over-valued dollar which gave the United States an enormous trade deficit. This trade deficit undermined the bargaining power of manufacturing workers and helped to redistribute income upward.

In short, Sperling has a horrible track record of supporting policies that were bad for the country and good for Wall Street.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703675904576064021086613148.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories
.
Joe Klein and the rest of the Nation builders in Washington, also known as the former War protesters (Democrats) in America shall be happy.

RE pic: Miss Prissy, meet MC Hammer.

C’mon and get your groove on:

–Democratic identification drops to a 22-year low.

.
More like a HISTORIC loss for Democrats and their progressive wing.
.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/morning-fix/morning-fix-31.html

How to stop Wikileaks. How to stop the truth being told to American citizens.
.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40916433/ns/us_news-wikileaks_in_security
.
Yes We Can!! Hope and Change!! Yes We Can!!

“Sanders being the only legit one, IMO”
.
He is a Socialist who caucuses with the extreme left wing of the Democratic party- hardly qualifies as independent

–Today’s weekly unemployment report appears to foreshadow sunnier numbers for December due out tomorrow.

.
When in fact just the opposite is true. Isn’t that right?
.

— More Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, but not enough to reverse a downward trend that suggests employers will accelerate hiring in the coming months.

.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40943614/ns/business-eye_on_the_economy/

Sanders didn’t have to make an end-run after losing a primary, either.
.
He caucuses with Dems to be sure, but he wishes they could do MORE, not acquiesce ($2!) to lobbyists. And could he, possibly, be doing what his constituents want in a representative democracy?

Senate Democrats unveil their filibuster reform package.

Please, please, please get the reporting on this more correct than the WSJ…

“…a shockingly bad report from Wall Street Journal news reporter Corey Boles…[is] not just wrong, it’s a complete inversion of the truth.

The filibuster used to require endless debate. Under the current rules, though, the minority can block even the beginning of a debate. Filibuster proponents point to Jimmy Stewart and the history of the filibuster to paint their position as a defense of unlimited debate when they’re really just defending a supermajority requirement. Because current rules allow the minority to block the start of a debate, Stewart-style filibusters with actual speeches don’t happen.

What the Democrats propose to do is not to limit debate, or even to curtail the supermajority requirement. It’s merely to force the minority party to actually debate. The minority would not be able to block a bill from being debated on the floor. If they wanted to require a supermajority to pass it, they would have to actually debate it.

In other words, Boles (and the Republicans) claim that Mr. Smith Goes To Washington-style filibusters currently exist and the reforms would stop them. In reality, such filibusters do not currently exist and the reform bill would create them.”

Angry whites against Government. Must be the Tea Party? No just extreme left wing nut jobs in a honest moment blaming the productive members of society for the failure of liberalism

This is an ideological war. I say it on camera tonight here on MSNBC. I will fight these bastards every night at 6 o’clock because I know what they’re up against. I know what they want to do. They want to take down American workers. They want to outsource jobs. They want to destroy the American dream. Concentrate the wealth to the top, and control minorities. That’s what they’re about.

Ed Schultz
.
liberal comedian Roseanne Barr tagged Sarah Palin a “loon” and a “traitor to this country” and, although she apologized later, called Palin’s followers the “dumbest people on Earth,” and described them as being “on the government dole.”

Barr blamed the wealthy for the financial problems of the poor, called the Tea Party a “big fat con,” and somehow managed to bring up former Vice President Cheney, claiming he had “never worked an honest day in his life”:

freeinpa,
.
You shouldn’t make fun of foggy. Sanders is a major hero of his.
.
LOL

You know you’re quoting A-MessNBC – your buddy Textee’s least favorite – to make your “point,” right?

Just like the rising Phoenix, Dems are predicting the re-birth of Nancy Pelosi.
.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/136309-dem-campaign-chief-goal-is-making-pelosi-speaker-again
.

“Rep. Steve Israel (N.Y.), the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), set his goal as nothing short of winning back control of the House in the 2012 elections.
.
“We’re all trying to win it back,” Israel said on MSNBC when asked if it was Democrats’ goal of winning back enough seats to make Pelosi, the former Speaker and new minority leader, the next Speaker.
.
Democrats lost 63 seats in the 2010 congressional elections, which delivered Republicans control of the House. Democrats would need to win 25 seats now held by Republicans to flip control of the House back in their favor.”

.
Hope they don’t get too disappointed in 2012. I wouldn’t want to see a mass suicide by progressives and Democrats in 2013.

And where is the Teabagger outrage? I guess tribal identification trumps intellectual consistency, right?

“After calling for bills to go through a regular committee process, the bill that would repeal the health care law will not go through a single committee. Despite promising a more open amendment process for bills, amendments for the health care repeal will be all but shut down. After calling for a strict committee attendance list to be posted online, Republicans backpedaled and ditched that from the rules. They promised constitutional citations for every bill but have yet to add that language to early bills.

Republicans say there are subtle reasons for these moves and that they certainly will follow their own rules throughout the 112th Congress. But the hedging on some promises shows just how hard it will be to always match the sharp rhetoric of the campaign with the ugly and complex work of running the House.

The promise of full debate in committees, for example, was inspired by Republican complaints that Democrats abused their power in bypassing regular debate. Republicans such as Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia and Rules Chairman David Dreier of California all have complained that Democrats in the last Congress didn’t bring a single bill under a process called the open rule — a mechanism that allows for nearly unlimited amendments and debate. None of the bills that will be brought to the floor this week will be brought under open rules. When asked directly whether he would bring the repeal bill to the floor under an open rule, Cantor dodged the question.”

Don’t you just love the spokespersons for the Democrats and the Progressives?
.
Jon Stewart, Joy Behar, Rosey O’Donnell, and the fat queen herself, Rosanne Barr.
.
Let’s pack their bags and send them to Siberia for a few years. Bet that would change their tune.

Now the MSM is getting a head start on denigrating any Republican who they disagree. It is the standard playbook, when you don’t win the day with fact and reason start to name call and denigrate your opponent. I wonder if the PartisanBlogger felt the same about the idealogical reign of terror of John Dingell or the lilliputian Waxman. Let the excuses begin!

ssa proposes to use his new post as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate six major topics, ranging from corruption in Afghanistan to the misdeeds of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. They’re all worthy subjects, but with each you can see the twist of a partisan knife.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2011/01/is_darrell_issa_the_new_joe_mc.html

Thanks for the article.
Additional troops on the way to Afghanistan. “(A) deployment could double U.S. combat capabilities in and around Kandahar”. Perhaps another increase “April or May”…
.
What I found most interesting was this:
.
” “As much as we are hammering them in the south and east, their numbers aren’t dwindling. They have so many young men who are disenfranchised, who have nothing better to do,” (a) senior U.S. official said.”
.
Did this official just admit that our military campaigns lead to conditions that inspire more insurgents (and terrorists) to join the fight?

Headlines less than 24 hours after Republicans were sworn in:

Bloomberg.com: “House Republicans Scale Back U.S. Budget Cut Promise; Bend Spending Bills

Reuters.com: “GOP Takes Over House; Dilutes cuts”

Politico: “GOP Bends Its Own House Rules” The Daily Beast has a variation of this as well

NYT Gail Collins: “Dig Old Golden Rule Days”

Washington Post makes reference to Republican hypocrisy as well

“Senator Lisa Murkowski hands Vice President Joe Biden one of her campaign t-shirts after the ceremonial re-enactment of her swearing-in in the Old Senate Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, January 5, 2011.”

I liked the other side of the t-shirt better.
“F**k Joe Miller”

“America’s union-bashing backlash”

“What is perverse about this trend is just how vastly it misunderstands what went wrong with the American economy. No one is denying that this is a time for belt-tightening. Or that some unions have problems. Or that some union contracts look over-generous in austerity America. But the fundamental truth remains: powerful and reckless unions did not cause the Great Recession by rampant speculation. Nor did an out-of-control labour movement cause or burst the housing bubble. It was not union bosses who packaged up complex derivatives to sell in their millions and thus wrecked the economy and put millions out of work. Nor was it union bosses who awarded (and continue to award) themselves salaries worth hundreds of millions of dollars for doing nothing of social value. Neither was it the union movement that was bailed out by the taxpayer and then refused to change its habits.

All that was the work of the finance industry.

Yet, as America continues to search for solutions to its economic problems, it is the labour movement, and not the banking sector, that is getting it in the neck. This is despite the fact that many unions, especially in such cases as the bailout of Detroit’s automakers, have proved themselves highly flexible in sacrificing wages and long-held workers’ rights in order to preserve jobs. Meanwhile, the finance industry…[is] flush with cash and generous tax breaks and back to most of their old habits (like grotesque bonus payouts, refusing to loan money and offshoring jobs and profits). But in the political world, it is the good union jobs that are suddenly an evil thing, when, in fact, a job that allows someone to afford their house and have good healthcare is a boon to the economy. Certainly, more of a boon than a multimillion dollar bonus to a financier who is already rich. A decent union job is a mini-stimulus package at a time when jobs are scarce and in a country where real wages are all too often stagnant or declining.

Not that the politicians care. Demonising labour has a long and dirty history in America, despite its historical weakness and low rates of union membership. Now, in times of trouble, American politicians have fallen back on the oldest stereotype they know: the evil union. Yet never has demonising the labour movement and the hardworking Americans it represents seemed more out of place.”

Panel: Massive oil spill could happen again
.
“Decisions intended to save time and money created an unreasonable amount of risk that triggered the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, a disaster that could happen again without significant reforms by industry and government, the presidential panel investigating the BP blowout concluded Wednesday.
.
The commission findings — the result of a probe requested by President Barack Obama after the April 20 rig explosion — described systemic problems within the offshore energy industry and government regulators who oversee it.
.
Poor decisions led to technical problems that the commission, and inquires by BP and Congress, have identified as contributing to the accident that killed 11 people and led to more than 200 million gallons of oil spewing from BP’s well a mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico.
.
BP, Halliburton and Transocean, the three key companies involved with the well and the rig that exploded, each made individual decisions that increased risks of a blowout but saved significant time or money.”

So let me get this right. One of the bills you and the rest of the Democrat libtards object to is not having the ability to DEBATE in committee or hold hearings on is the repeal of ObamaCare.
.
How many months was this debated before the overbearing and backroom Demorats went ahead and passed it?
.
This is an UP or DOWN vote on what has already been debated to death. A 2 sentence bill which says basically, GET RID OF OBAMACARE ObamaCare has been debated to death. It just needs to simply go away.
.
You people amaze me.

Morbidly speaking…were any remains found?

Of course the stimulus worked. It saved and created jobs- trust us. This seems to have been as believable to the IG as it was to the public

(CNSNews.com) – The Small Business Administration, which received $730 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to increase the availability of credit to small businesses, is making claims about the number of “jobs saved” that are “unclear” and “misleading” and which cannot be verified, according to a report issued by the agency’s inspector general.

“The lack of a definition for ‘jobs retained’ and the discrepancy in the forms used to collect job statistics from 7(a) borrowers and lenders has resulted in a performance metric with questionable clarity and transparency,” the inspector general said.

Is she announcing a sexual conquest or encouraging others to have sexual relations with him?

Quick ones:

“How the Tea Party’s fetish for the Constitution as written may get it in trouble.”

“The problem with the Tea Party’s new Constitution fetish is that it’s hopelessly selective…This document no more commands the specific policies they espouse than it commands the specific policies their opponents support.”

The circus may be coming to your town.

“Fresh off winning reelection and proving she can raise massive amounts of campaign cash, Rep. Michele Bachmann is beginning to consider a presidential run, according to close congressional aides.”

Somebody please find that skateboard. Little Klein like many posters here have all the answers while never actually having done anything but attend school. No wonder the answers come so easy, he doesn’t have any experience that may impact any brain fart he decides to turn into supposed sage advice

On the last point Dr. Hanson gives the example of “the Washington Post’s 26-year-old Ezra Klein[.]” He notes that Klein “recently scoffed to his readers [actually, MSNBC viewers} that a bothersome U.S. Constitution was '100 years old' and had 'no binding power on anything.'" (Klein actually asserted that "the issue with the Constitution is that the text is confusing because it was written more than a hundred years ago.")

Dr. Hanson argues those who credit the new sophists "equat[e] wisdom with a certificate of graduation from a prestigious school.” Inherently absurd arguments take their authority “in the title or the credentials — but not the logic — of the writer.”

Ezra Klein is a difficult case. His credentials are not in fact impressive. He is a graduate of UCLA who started blogging as an undergraduate. He continued on his merry way in one venue or another until he was taken in by the Washington Post, or until he took the Post in.

Before his analysis of the Constitution, Klein had distinguished himself for his insight into Senator Lieberman’s opposition to one variation of Obamacare that Klein supported. Klein opined on the Washington Post site: “Lieberman seems primarily motivated by torturing liberals. That is to say, he seems willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in order to settle an old electoral score.” It was this kind of deep stuff for which the Post brought him on board.

Before his disquisition on the Constituion Klein was perhaps most famous as the proprietor of the late JournoList discussion group, where liberal journalists coordinated their approach to people and politics. Members of JournoList included, among others: Jeffrey Toobin, Eric Alterman, Paul Krugman, Joe Klein (no relation to Ezra Klein), Matthew Yglesias, and Jonathan Chait. Mickey Kaus, who first disclosed the existence of JournoList, called it “the Klein Klub.”

Don’t count your chickens….

“The New Financial Elite, Rubinites and the Democratic Party”

“A larger problem than whether or not Rubin himself is associated with any Democratic insider is that the mentality of the new financial elite could take over policy and ideological thinking within the party that is supposed to represent the interests of working people.”

“Climate changes underway in Iowa, commission report says”

“‘Climate change is already affecting the way Iowans live and work,’ the report says. ‘Without action to mitigate these effects, our future responses will become more complex and costly.’”

Sexual conquest. Joe is Lisa’s b!tch now. She may pass him around at partys and fundraisers, but he’s hers.

It is the standard playbook, when you don’t win the day with fact and reason start to name call and denigrate your opponent. I wonder if the PartisanBlogger felt the same about the idealogical reign of terror of John Dingell or the lilliputian Waxman.

If you could have just worked in references to hypocrisy and lack of self awareness, those two sentences could have represented your own perfection of the art of oblivious commentary. Please keep up the effort!

And a double-scoop for dessert.

Fun with page layout.

(that darn liberal media)

Works of art, re-interpreted.

(the first image blows me away)

Yes all the intellect of the left usually represented by those who have contributed so much to society – hack actors.

Favorite bumper sticker:

Guns kill people like spoons made Rosie O’;Donnell fat.

“but he wishes they could do MORE, not acquiesce ($2!) to lobbyists”
.
No he would acquiesce to unions while re-distributing all wealth and have the government meddle in all aspects of our lives. That is working so well in Europe now.

“Spokespeople?” Akin to “black leaders”?
.
Man, you’re just full of insults today.

“Rep. Michele Bachmann is beginning to consider a presidential run, according to close congressional aides.”
.
This is the stuff dreams are made of. Can you imagine a debate panel with both Palin and Bachmann? The first time one of them says “With all due respect…”, I’m going to be on the floor and laughing.

I think he admitted that since the surge, they have killed many of their leaders. Stating, “Some officials have voiced concerns about the military’s ability to maintain control of areas cleared of Taliban, citing the group’s ability to replace leaders killed or captured in U.S. Special Operations raids.”
.
It is not clear, but it sounds and reads like, we have killed their leaders. The young men who fought under them are not sure what to do now that they no longer have leadership.
.
However, I also believe if they are not successful in getting something else for them to do, that they will quickly find another leader to step up and the fighting resumes.
.
That is the problem with this war. We are simply targeting the leadership of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. We think if we cut of the head of the snake that it will just die. But in this case, when you cut the head off (leadership), yes at first there will be a vacuum, but soon someone else will step forward and lead.
.
Let’s hope in their Nation building they have lots of good paying jobs for all of these idle people. Otherwise, they are simply spending billions and billions and chasing their tails.

or “my friend”

or “my esteemed colleague”

I am surprised Daly is not on your list of the “New Financial Elite”. As the incoming Chief of Staff for Obama, and his massive wealth he’s made on Wall Street. Wouldn’t he be considered?
.
Has Obama finally ditched the socialist dreams of his Father for the more lofty ideals of Capitalism, Daly-style?
.
YES WE CAN!!

http://michelepac.com/
.
Here you go, I donated $100 dollars to her yesterday.

“Spokespeople?” Akin to “black leaders”?
.
Man, you’re just full of insults today.

.
You type like someone that talks with marbles in their mouth. You simply do not make any sense what-so-ever.

The Palin Bachman square off will be a interesting debate. Popcorn worthy. Bachmans open eye crazy stare, Sarahs winking. Body language experts will have a field day.

Harping back to the old Ann Landers column – where she regularly suggested counseling for those in need – my wife and I use the word ‘counseling’ as a euphamism for sexual realations.
.
So, RustFreep, I hope that c-note bought you a good counseling session.

Grape — Please repost the second link. Thx.

I’m sure you don’t get it so here goes: Others (usually neocons) seemingly always try to make prominent people ‘spokespeople’ on subjects or people they really don’t care about. So there you go.

Heavens to mergatroid, is Europe your garbage bin?

Apologies. 2nd link should be to:
.
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/van-goghs-paintings-get

I shouldn’t make fun. I’m switching my party registration so that I can vote in their primary in 2012.

Right the years of over-inflated benefits packages for teachers unions and public unions had no impact on state, city and local governments for now being caught in a budget death spiral. It was not unions who destroyed the steel, airline, and auto industries with outrageous benefit packages and work rules (managements were not blameless), while we now wonder why all manufacturing jobs have left our shores. It is not teachers unions that have sucked taxpayers dry while watching academic performance drop to third world levels. Of course not these are just hard working people looking for an even break just asking the NYC sanitation workers.
.
“Demonising labour has a long and dirty history in America, despite its historical weakness and low rates of union membership.”
.
I live your pure liberal fantasy. The labor unions have been wholly subs of the Democratic party. Ever consider the reason for low membership is that their purpose and activities run counter to the American worker. Merit and fired are 2 words you will never find coming from a union.
.
Demonizing? Those that have been demonized since the early 1900s are companies and executives who have built this country and Obama is certainly a proponent of that philosophy. Wealth re-distribution and equal outcome not equal opportunity is their aim.
.
And we still wait for the now year long delay report on illegal activities of unions. A yearly report demanded by law.

“Don’t you just love the spokespersons for the Democrats and the Progressives?”
.
I see you included Jon Stewart. Why is that? Because he so easily takes apart the philosophical punditry on the right? And by easily I mean like, effortless.
.
BTW, I don’t need or listen to spokespeople. I don’t need pundits to tell me how to feel or think. You keep posting directly from the blaze so it’s pretty clear that you consider Glenn a spokesperson for your own ideology.
.
Not to mention the admiration for someone like Sarah.
.
If I have to pick Rosie on my side and you Glenn, I’m thinking I’m getting the better end of the stick. Not that it’s worth a lot but it sure makes me sleep better at night.

So since you read it and posted about it are your oblivious or just the typical liberal who just derides conservatives because of your own sad life?

Nice, Grapey. But I’m still waiting on the colorized version.

Iowa reports floods caused by heavy rain was caused by global warming which stands in contrast to “settled science”. Seem settled science can’t agree but we should blindly re-distribute wealth on the order of trillions of dollars for we really don’t know what will happen

Global warming is predicted to be the cause of a massive drought that will threaten the lives of millions and take over half the land surface on our planet in the next 100 years, according to Britain’s leading climatologists.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/020649.html#ixzz1AGtSYTU3

As much as I hate to link to HuffPo (found it on Digg this morning)

Glenn Beck calls for “Fundamental transformation” in America

Glenn claims that we cannot survive much longer and likens the situation to the Alamo in that we must “draw a line in the sand.” Unfortunately for Glenn, he seems to lack any actual knowledge of what happened at the Alamo: hint, they all died. (I guess they don’t teach that at Beck U) Of course, it just continues his pattern of doom and gloom fearmongering.

It’s also interesting that he says he has increased his donations to charity; don’t charities generally attempt to practice social justice?

“I see you included Jon Stewart. Why is that? Because he so easily takes apart the philosophical punditry on the right?”
.
No because he is taken as a serious news source by the left. They also seem partial to SNL. But I guess to make things understandable to the left you need cartoons

My life is fine, thanks for the concern, and I don’t believe I have derided anyone, conservative or otherwise. I did point out that your post represented a stunningly efficient example of hypocrisy, but that is not the same thing as personally attacking you.
.
As for the substance of your post, since I have my eyes open I can see that your world view where the main stream media blindly represents liberal interests is a bunch of hooey. The corporate media is chiefly concerned with making a buck, and nothing helps catch eyeballs quite like drama and conflict. Hence, news stories about the Republicans taking over congress are bound to highlight the tension between Republican campaign rhetoric and the reality of Republican governance, just as they did for the Democrats four years ago.

‘Think it’s more like he’s trying to lower his tax liability.

“No because he is taken as a serious news source by the left. They also seem partial to SNL. But I guess to make things understandable to the left you need cartoons”
.
He’s taken as a serious news source? Like Fox?
.
Didn’t know that.

“No he would acquiesce to unions while re-distributing all wealth and have the government meddle in all aspects of our lives.”.
.
Who are unions?
.
A democratic organization of workers who make up for their individual lack of specialization by banning together.
.
Hence, they are the ordinary people, the ultimate anti-elitists.
.
“…re-distributing all wealth…”
.
This is a bizarre paranoia on your part. What Social Democrats advocate is to use government resources to provide opportunities to the people such as the opportunity to be healthy through single payer health care, sufficient student loans for higher education and good public schools even when to do these things taxes must go up.
.
“…have the government meddle in all aspects of our lives.”. Well, Social Democrats do not support the PATRIOT Act or other intrusive means of law enforcement. So, you mean environmental regulation and protections of worker’s safety.
.
“No, he would acquiesce to the ordinary people against the elites, provide opportunities to the people such as the opportunity to be healthy through single payer health care, sufficient student loans for higher education and good public schools and create environmental regulation and protections of worker’s safety”
.
Fixed it for you.
.
Damn good guy, Sanders is.

The never-ending parade of liberal hypocrisy. They continually bash the “wealthy” and here is the Mouthpiece in Chief” quitting the noble profession of public service to EARN MORE MONEY. Seems $172,200 for a taxpayer paid position is modest.

In fact, he earns $172,200 in a nation where the average family income hovers around $55,000, unemployment is high, record foreclosures persist and wages for most folks are at best stagnant.

But implicit in Gibbs’ departure is the desire to slow down, recharge and earn a lot more money, especially after an arduous several years where he’s been on call 24/7. He’s hired an esteemed lawyer-agent, Robert Barnett, and is expected to hit the very lucrative speaking tour universe exploited by Washington insiders, including high-profile journalists.

“Let’s hope in their Nation building they have lots of good paying jobs for all of these idle people.”
.
With the mineral resources found in Afghanistan lately, I suspect a few years after the peace, there will be some good paying jobs in mining.

Far as I can tell, wealth has already been redistributed and resides in the top 1%. Plutocracy won.

Now the CBO only puts out “opinions” according to Boehner:

Boehner: CBO “Entitled to their Opinion”

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20027592-503544.html

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/issa_obama_is_corrupt_in_the_way_a_disc_drive_give.php
.
Issa keeps walking back his statement about Presidential corruption. Now what he meant and the media misuderstood is that the administration is corrupt like a computer.
.
Poor Darryl. He would also like to redefine stupid.
.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/house-reading-amended-slavery-free-constitution.php?ref=fpblg
.
Instead of reading the Constitution in its entirety, House members will read an “amended version” that only includes the sections and amendments that were not changed at a later date. The decision in part will allow members to avoid reading less pleasant sections, like the clause in Article 1, Section 2, which counted black slaves as three-fifths of a person
.
The Constitution contains nine parts that were later changed — including an entire amendment, the 18th, which banned the manufacturing and sale of alcohol — which will be left out of Thursday’s reading. The omitted sections, which do not apply to the 112th Congress, include the so-called “three-fifths clause,” the election of senators by state legislatures and the original process outlined for electing the vice president.
.
We know many on the right are selective about quoting the Bible. I guess the Constitution requires selectivity. Instead of celebrating a living document that encourages review and change, they simply ignore the inconvenient sections.

Still, the Democrats are far above Republicans still! You forgot to mention that.

quitting the noble profession of public service to EARN MORE MONEY. Seems $172,200 for a taxpayer paid position is modest.

So now you have a problem with Gibbs utilizing America’s free-market capitalist system to make more money? Why do you hate America?
..
Perhaps you just enjoy your constant tirades and faux outrage. Seems more like it.

Boehner: An idiot not entitled to his own facts.

New anti-net neutrality legislation introduced in House, aims to wield “garlic against FCC vampires.”

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) has introduced legislation aimed at prohibiting the FCC from “regulating” the internet. At the same, time, she (and other GOP’ers) display a profound lack of understanding of net neutrality, as usual.

Also worth noting: three of her top 5 contributors are ATT, Verizon, and the National Cable & Telecommunications Assn, all very well-known opponents of net neutrality.

@free: Don’t you “get it”? States and cities are struggling financially, not because of salaries, benefits and pensions paid to state and local workers. Revenue is down, which makes it difficult for states to pay their bills. Put more people to work making decent wages and revenue will go up. The increased revenue from taxes paid by people returning to work will help to close the fiscal divide in state and local budgets. And the pension problem is solely the fault of Wall Street. Where do you think all the pension money was invested? Wall Streeters gambled with pension funds and it was lost. Now states and local governments have to make up for the losses because this money was promised to workers.
.
But I forgot, in your world, workers are nothing more slaves, deserving of whatever leftovers are available after the rich take what they want.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/06/thomas-james-dunn-dies-sa_n_805284.html
.
“A teacher at a school for children with autism died a hero in Bourbonnais, Illinois on Monday, pushing one of his students out of the way of an oncoming bus.’
.
Teaching is often a noble profession.

“Concentrate the wealth to the top, and control minorities.”
.
Obviously he means the minority, not ethnic minorities.
.
I do love how people I either never heard of or never heard from get marked by conservatives as “liberal spokes person” for liberals.
.
Bernie Sanders.
.
Anthony Weiner.
.
Al Franken are, more often than not, people who say what I agree with.
.
How about conservative spokesman Patricia Heath or, better yet Mel Gibson?
.
They are actors. They are conservative. So, if Mel Gibson hates Jews, beats up his woman and gets drunk all of the time, then, that should mean that Freak in pa and Rusty hate Jews, get drunk all of the time and beat up their women.

“You people amaze me.”
.
Calling out Republican hypocrisy is not amazing.
.
You make it easy and fun.
.
Thank you.

I thought it was clever of Freeinpa to in a small post manage to cram in 4 ‘evil’ words. Unions, wealth distribution, totalitarism and Europe. Not bad. In ideologue scrabble that’s like 3000 points at least

“Here you go, I donated $100 dollars to her yesterday.”
.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
.
Come on down to the city and I can sell you the Manhattan, The Williamsberg and the Brooklyn Bridge.

“…like many posters here have all the answers while never actually having done anything but attend school….”
.
The average age of the posters on Swampland is about 45 to 50 years old (making me feel young) with 20 to 40 years work experience.
.
Because we use the facts by academics confuses Freak in Pa into believing that we are in school right now.

Who could have guessed that the person wanting to kill the idea of net neutrality is taking money from the telecom industry.
.
What a sad bunch of people; people like this politician and the people who voted for her.
.
But I digress – evil liberals want to control the internet. Wouldn’t it be just ironic internet users going to Fox had their bandwith downgraded because their ISP is comcast?
.
I’m sure there’s a liberal to blame for it.

Freak,
.
Climate change is causing chaotic weather.
.
As a general rule, the dry get drier, the hot get hotter, the cold gets colder and the rainy areas get flooded.
.
It causes weather chaos.
.
Then you ask people to predict chaos.
.
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb

Ask RDW 56, he is sure he knows EXACTLY what Net Neutrality is.
.
LOL

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/06/two-house-republicans-vot_n_805423.html
.
2 republicans miss swearing in for fund raiser. Thought they could be sworn in remotely. Maybe I was wrong. They do need to review the Constitution.