June 27, 2012

I guess THAT is what Obama's foreign policy is "lacking" (according to Condi)

June 27, 2012

What DID they accomplish anyway?

I mean, other than the 3000 Americans whom died in a terrorist attack that they were warned about and did not have enough imagination to believe could happen the way it did, failing to capture of the mastermind of said attack, 4000+ soldiers that died needlessly in Iraq (which did not have WMD after all), billions of dollars spent (off the books) on a needless occupation in Iraq, causing the countless deaths of innocent Iraqis whom had nothing to do with Saddam Hussein's regime other than living under its oppression, completely snubbing and honking off the UN and most of the civilized world from day, ignoring the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Heckuva job there, Condi!

(do I really need it?)

June 26, 2012

I would say

Have they noticed what Repubs have been up to lately? Except, of course, CWA aren't too "concerned" about government getting in between women and their doctors.

June 26, 2012

Well

Money can't vote and Romney isn't a sitting POTUS. President Obama is in the media virtually 24-7-365 and people have gotten to know him for 4 years now. The question is will all the money and all the ads change people's minds about President Obama and/or get people to like Romney more? I think that the conventions and especially the debates will give enough people what they need to decide whether to vote for President Obama or Mitt Romney in November. Making sure that we get our people to turn out and, more importantly, be able to cast a ballot for President Obama will be the deciding factor in November IMHO.

June 25, 2012

An HONEST Republican! The truth (at last) about Voter ID laws

Pennsylvania Republicans have the votes all queued up for Romney, eh?


http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/pennsylvania_gop_leader_voter_id_will_help_romney.php?ref=fpa

June 25, 2012

Romney demands leadership on immigration and...um....fails to lead (TPM headline is more charitable)

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/scotus-case-shines-spotlight-on-romneys-vague-immigration-position.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

June 25, 2012

Yes, sickening

Of course, she and hers have got theirs, so why worry about anybody or anything else, right? It's almost......well.....sociopathic (i.e. taking perverse pleasure in other people's suffering). There was a progressive podcaster by the name of Jack Clark (Blast the Right) a few years ago (he's still around but hasn't done any new podcasts for awhile) who did a 30-minute podcast explaining how Rush Limbaugh (and right-wingers in general) are similar to people like the BTK guy. In some ways, he really has a point: http://podcast.therationalradical.com/2005_08_22_archive.html

Excellent progressive podcast by the way!

June 25, 2012

What is with the wait on the HCR ruling from SCOTUS?

Does it mean anything (or does it mean nothing)? There doesn't seem to be any good reason IMHO for dragging this out. If they're just going to declare it unconstitutional, why don't they just hurry up and do it, so we can get busy to try to fix it.

Edit to add: to the extent that we can with this dysfunctional of a legislative branch, of course.

June 25, 2012

Taxes are the price for civilization

All we hear from right-wingers is how we need to get rid of as many taxes as possible yet there is never any definitive explanation as to where the money for things like protection services, infrastructure, etc is going to come from if not through taxes. A lot of people must believe that these kind of things just magically appear or something.

June 22, 2012

Why throw him under the bus? And so soon?

The Republicans and Fox News will crow endlessly about "getting" somebody major in the Obama Administration and probably embolden them to go after other Administration figures, if not President Obama himself, it will make President Obama look weak for giving up and giving in, particularly since he has now entered the fray by claiming EP on some of the documents Issa wants, there won't be anybody "acceptable" enough for the Republicans in the Senate to confirm as Holder's replacement and, frankly, if they are "acceptable", progressives will hate him/her just as much if not more than Holder, and, perhaps most importantly, while we're sitting around waiting for the Republicans in the Senate to get off their butts and do their job to confirm a replacement, nobody will be aggressively be pursuing voter disenfranchisement in Florida and elsewhere.

Does all THAT sound good to you?

If he's got to go because he's really messed up and/or done something illegal and/or unethical, then yeah, he's got to go but there is no evidence AFAIK that he did anything wrong and/or scandalous, certainly nothing worthy of his immediate removal from office via firing/resignation. So far, his only "crime" is not playing along with Issa's partisan witch hunt. Democrats almost always play along with these witch hunts and end up getting burned time and time again. Did you live through the Clinton years? Do you remember how many investigations Congressional Republicans ran and how many actually yielded any actual wrongdoing? You don't like the policies he's carrying out? Fine. But don't do the Republicans' dirty work to help advocate his removal from office when you know that we won't be getting a replacement for some time and that whomever President Obama nominates to replace him may be equally (or more) unacceptable. The grass isn't always greener on the other side.

There's not even any evidence that this is hurting President Obama, at least so far. How many people (in real life) do you know whom even know what F & F is let alone who actually is the AG of the United States? How many people whom do know care about all this at this point? If President Obama is being harmed by anything so far, it's the weak economy, which is what most people are worried about at this point. Republicans are going to do anything and everything to throw him off his focus on jobs and the economy. Unless some Dems in Congress join in on the gangbang, I don't see F & F getting blown up into anything more than a partisan witch hunt being led by Issa and other Republicans.

So, considering all this, WHY should President Obama run and dump Holder all of the sudden?