ThinkFast: June 22, 2009
ThinkFast: June 22, 2009
Iran’s Guardian Council, which is charged with certifying the election, admitted that “the number of votes cast in 50 cities exceeded the actual number of voters.” “The discrepancies, the most sweeping acknowledged so far by the authorities, could affect some three million ballots of what the government says was an 85 percent turnout numbering 40 million voters.”
Politico reports that Republican senators are disappointed that Judge Sonia Sotomayor “isn’t serving as the political lightning rod some in their party had hoped she would be.” Sen. John Thune (R-SD) said, “She doesn’t have the punch out there in terms of fundraising and recruiting, I think — at least so far.”
According to the latest NYT/CBS poll, 72 percent of Americans support creating a public health insurance option, and 57 percent are willing to pay higher taxes to cover all Americans. “Half of those questioned said they thought government would be better at providing medical coverage than private insurers, up from 30 percent in polls conducted in 2007.”
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the new U.S. commander in Afghanistan, said over the weekend that “he would sharply restrict the use of air strikes…in an effort to reduce the civilian deaths that he said were undermining the American-led mission.” McChrystal said he would only allow their use in firefights with the Taliban to “prevent American and other coalition troops from being overrun.”
Welfare rolls “are climbing across the country for the first time since President Bill Clinton signed” reform legislation. According to a WSJ/National Conference of State Legislatures survey, 23 of the 30 largest states, “which account for more than 88% of the nation’s total population, see welfare caseloads above year-ago levels.” The biggest increases are in states with some of the worst jobless rates.
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-MN) — who denies that climate change will impact agriculture — wants House Democrats to “soften” the Waxman-Markey clean energy legislation’s impact on “coal-burning power plants,” “scale back existing regulation of ethanol,” and make other changes that could “steer huge sums of money to farmers.”
Since admitting to an extramarital affair with a former aide, Sen. John Ensign’s (R-NV) approval ratings have plummeted to 39 percent, “a drop of 14 percentage points from a month ago.” Additionally, the percentage “who regarded Ensign unfavorably, 37 percent, was up 19 points from a month ago, when just 18 percent viewed him negatively.”
In an interview with CBS, President Obama defended his administration’s proposal to give the Fed new powers to oversee systemic risks to the economy. Obama said he wants an overseer that “is accountable and clear when it comes to these large systemic firms that could potentially bring down the entire financial system. The Fed has the expertise and the credibility I think to do it.”
California lawmakers are focused on closing a $24 billion gap in the state budget. “While Democrats struggle to preserve programs for the state’s neediest residents,” Republicans are trying to “force large cuts that will have an effect on policies like health care for children in poor families and the early release of thousands of prisoners.”
And finally: The White House tennis court is currently being refashioned into a basketball court for President Obama, who plans to take advantage of the new facilities to “summon the Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James and possibly other NBA stars to the White House to shoot some hoops.” When asked by Bloomberg News whether he would be joining the game, Obama replied, “Of course. It’s my court.”
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Wow…number #1 looks like they are supporters of the DemocRATic party here in the US. I wonder if all the dead people came back from the dead…to vote…like Al Frankenberry had them do?
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:05 amWelfare is up, homelessness, working without a living wage… and the fat cats are worried about the 155th F-22 for millions of dollars or whatever number. Or the next pro-coal ad campaign, etc.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:06 amPolitico reports that Republican senators are disappointed that Judge Sonia Sotomayor “isn’t serving as the political lightning rod some in their party had hoped she would be.”
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So sorry, ladies and gentlemen of the GOP, that Sonia Sotomayor has turned out to be a qualified jurist and a decent human being.
How may we oblige you in your efforts to smear her for your fundraising objectives? Have her withhold paying her taxes? Have her hire undocumented workers as domestics in her home? Have her star in a porn film? Have her knock off a liquor store? What?
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:08 amRealityCheck Says
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:05 am
Wow…number #1 looks like they are supporters of the DemocRATic party here in the US. I wonder if all the dead people came back from the dead…to vote…like Al Frankenberry had them do?
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Is this just a troll-turd to greet us on a Monday morning, or do you actually have some backup for your accusation? And by “backup”, we mean from a legitimate source we find credible — not just some raving wingnut site.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:09 amI imagine President B.O. is going to pay for all the work done on the White House tennis court…so he can get in his Mid-Night Basketball play with his buddies from the hood? Yea…right…tough times at the WH again. $100 per pound steak served with a side dish of caviar.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:09 amThere are probably hundreds of side-cost benefits to a single-payer heathcare system that most people never think of and go unreported (like no longer needing to cover medical costs in your car insurance premiums, or businesses not having to buy insurance to cover workplace injury”).
I would LOVE to see TP do a full report/investigation listing these oft overlooked savings from Single-Payer National Healthcare.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:09 amWow.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:10 amTP over the weekend kind of goes to hell in a hand basket, doesn’t it?
Politico reports that Republican senators are disappointed that Judge Sonia Sotomayor “isn’t serving as the political lightning rod some in their party had hoped she would be.” Sen. John Thune (R-SD) said, “She doesn’t have the punch out there in terms of fundraising and recruiting, I think — at least so far.”
At leasrt they’re honest about their tactics and intentions….
Cheers,
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:11 amWell they’ll just keep Dawn Johnsen as a lightning rod.
Collin Peterson is my former rep.. pretty much an Ag executive, VP of Legislation Networking or something. Grr… and there are drought situations just about every year in the area, with just enough rain to have crops produce what they should. Gee let’s increase temperatures and erratic weather…
And the Fed… great now they can oversee more and hire the appropriate compromised ex-execs.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:12 amAccording to the latest NYT/CBS poll, 72 percent of Americans support creating a public health insurance option, and 57 percent are willing to pay higher taxes to cover all Americans.
When presented this fact to Ms Lindsay Graham on Sunday, she promptly replied, ‘the Senate will never approve a public option’.
OK, Ms Graham. Speaking for the American voter, ‘Ms Graham will never retain her Senate seat in 2010.
Works for me, Senator. Thanks for nothing…
Nothing but Party rhetoric, unabashed greed, placing Party over Country & protecting monopolistic health care insurers.
Everything you do comes back to you. We can’t wait for you to get what’s coming to you, Lindsay.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:13 amGosh, it’s hard to believe the Republican party keeps losing elections with guys like this on their side!
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:14 amRealityCheck Says
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:09 am
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Once again, this troll is proving (in record time, which is somewhat impressive) he has nothing intelligent to contribute to the discourse and is here solely to disrupt.
Time for OFnF.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:14 amRemeber when the Clinton’s tried to provide “universal Health Care”?
The GOP held the majority in the House from 1994 to 2000.
With public support for public health in the 70’s now, even though the Dems have a House majority (Senate ‘majority is only technical) we STILL don;t look like we’re going to get a public option.
That’s tells you something about the rabid obstructionism of the GOP, AND the the stupidity and/or self-serving corruption of the Blue Dog Democrats.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:14 amAre RealityCheck and “Mr. Bouncy-Bouncy” Limbaugh one and the same?
There’s a joke in there somewhere, but it is Monday morning, after all.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:16 amDRxJ Says: Wow. TP over the weekend kind of goes to hell in a hand basket, doesn’t it?
Not usually, but this weekend definitely. A lot of frustration. I put in two cents at one point but stayed the hell out of it the rest of the time.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:19 amHonestly, I don’t know what these Democrats are trying to achieve. Yes, some of the balking senators receive large campaign contributions from the medical-industrial complex — but who in politics doesn’t? If I had to guess, I’d say that what’s really going on is that relatively conservative Democrats still cling to the old dream of becoming kingmakers, of recreating the bipartisan center that used to run America.
-Paul Krugman / NYT / 6-22-09
We need to turn up the heat on Dems in Congress. They’re trying to build strawmen for the insurers…’you don’t want the government between you & your Dr. / we can’t afford this / the insurers would fail / it’s socialized medicine’, ad nauseum.
Rescind ALL health coverage for Congress until we get public options!
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:21 amGood Morning DRxJ, 5th Estate and miss molly…Oops forgot PLC..Just another Monday fun in flagging the pesty little wackos…Kind of like the gnats flying around, no purpose, no thought’s of value, just sick limpdick quote’s…Hope they get paid well..It would be a shame to selll one’s soul for the price of a post from their oxydrug boss……LOL..Happy posting, if possible…..P, B & J
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:27 am“Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the new U.S. commander in Afghanistan, said over the weekend that “he would sharply restrict the use of air strikes…in an effort to reduce the civilian deaths that he said were undermining the American-led mission.”
Well that’s a step in the right direction. Now he has to rethink the mission and figure out what it will take to accomplish it–not having Iraq keeping resources away from Afghanistan will provide some options, but I don’t see there’s much that can be productively done until we substantially withdraw from Iraq.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:28 amG’morning Witch1, and B L T on whole-wheat to you too :D
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:29 amRealityCheck Says:
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Wow…number #1 looks like they are supporters of the DemocRATic party here in the US. I wonder if all the dead people came back from the dead…to vote…like Al Frankenberry had them do?
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RealityCheck – - Wow! Al Franken must have major magical powers to get dead people out of their graves to the polls to vote for him. I voted for Al and didn’t see a single decomposed body at my polling place.
Jeffboste Says:
Is health care reform dead again?
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:26 am Recommend (0) | Report Abuse
Is Jeffbusted trying to overstupid the Fox News questions?
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:31 amSound’s good, 5th Estate,….Would that be Blessings, Love and tolerance.? I’m a little slow on the last one concerning the trolls..LOL….Blessings
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:35 amAccording to the latest NYT/CBS poll, 72 percent of Americans support creating a public health insurance option, and 57 percent are willing to pay higher taxes to cover all Americans. “Half of those questioned said they thought government would be better at providing medical coverage than private insurers, up from 30 percent in polls conducted in 2007.”
As if health insurance premiums were non existent…
Paying the money in taxes has the advantage that then, you can be protected from fraud or bankruptcy from your employer or health care insurer.
Most republicans would say “But then, the money would be in jeopardy, no one must trust the government handling all that richess!”. Well, I’m pretty sure many of these Republicans have a stock of USA bonds and they think of them as “solid values”, even or specially in time of crisis.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:36 am“Time for OFnF.”
Already on it, Miss Molly!
Good Morning, everyone (except RC, who apparently was waiting up all night to jump in first and leave that turd for us to step in.)
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:39 amHouse Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-MN) — who denies that climate change will impact agriculture
Let’s see, I guess the Agriculture Committee Chariman also denies that a sudden frost–micro climate change—can kill crops, or that a drought–micro climate change–can kill crops, or unseasonably warm weather can create untimely insect blooms that can infest crops.
Allrighty then. How about we put someone who doesn;t believe in gravity in charge of NASA as well?
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:41 amHere’s a second for OFnF on BouncedCheck and JeffSpamoste
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:41 am“I voted for Al and didn’t see a single decomposed body at my polling place.”
Tawdry, not even Republic zombies searching for brains? ;)
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:41 amYep! done deal Jane & Miss Molly…I had the honor of flagging #1 right after the dumbass posted….LOL……Blessings
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:41 amTawdry Says:
I voted for Al and didn’t see a single decomposed body at my polling place.
But you probably smelled RC and it’s ilk.
:-)
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:42 amWitch1—BL & T, yeah that’ll do nicely!.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:42 amIf Lebron loses, will he shake hands afterwards?
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:44 amWhen more Americans realize that what they pay in premiums, co-pays and deductibles to insurance companies, who can and do interfere with health care, they will see that any tax they may have to pay will actually be less than the out of pocket they pay right now — and their care won’t be denied.
Insurance agents are working for a company profit — it behooves them to deny coverage while collecting high premiums.
Think of repugs who have blue-ribbon health care and would deny basic care to their neighbors – like the representative we heard of yesterday who would deny poor children a free meal – it’s always all about them and their miserly, selfish ways. They try to elevate themselves by stepping on the necks of others.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:52 amHigh wage earners with golden benefits and insurance should have to pay a tax on their value.
Rich people should pay FICA tax on all their income – that will save Social Security.
Social Security benefits should have a maximum monthly benefit for wealthy recipients.
Social Security benefits should have a maximum monthly benefit for wealthy recipients.
And teachers who work summers should receive their full social security and teacher’s retirement. They don’t right now, even though they pay into both systems.
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:06 amMarie, excellent points. And if we can repeal the law about not negotiating prices with the pharmaceutical companies, it’ll cost even less.
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:07 am“And teachers who work summers should receive their full social security and teacher’s retirement. They don’t right now, even though they pay into both systems.”
Briseadh, I wasn’t aware of that. Jebus, could the U.S. possibly undervalue teachers any more than we already do?
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:10 amOne benefit to single payer that I look forward to is getting my employer out from having to deal with ever-escalating health care costs. I’m so tired of the annual meeting where they put on the happy face and say, “now, instead of full coverage, you’ve got a ‘cafeteria plan’ and choice! Aren’t you HAPPY?” or “your deductable is doubling, but your monthly premium is only going up by 10%! Aren’t you HAPPY?”.
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:11 am“Welfare rolls “are climbing across the country for the first time since President Bill Clinton signed” reform legislation. According to a WSJ/National Conference of State Legislatures survey, 23 of the 30 largest states, “which account for more than 88% of the nation’s total population, see welfare caseloads above year-ago levels.” The biggest increases are in states with some of the worst jobless rates.”
Let’s not forget all that corporate welfare that we have handed out without strings.
Republicans love CEO welfare, hate food stamps for starving children.
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:18 amIn an interview with CBS, President Obama defended his administration’s proposal to give the Fed new powers to oversee systemic risks to the economy. Obama said he wants an overseer that “is accountable and clear when it comes to these large systemic firms that could potentially bring down the entire financial system. The Fed has the expertise and the credibility I think to do it.”
ACCOUNTABLE?!?!?!!?? Is he kidding. How is fed accountable? It’s not a government agency, they hide behind corporate privacy rights when it comes to congressional investigations and oversight.
I hate to say it Mr. President (because I love me some hope)but between your lack of law enforcement (torture), your disregard for equal protection (gay rights), and your inability to impose fundamental change and oversight to our financial system (Corporate raping of America), I’m hoping you face a good primary challenger in 2012 so that you can be held to account. You may still get my vote, but the hope you promised is nearly gone. And I’m sad about that.
I feel for you if you don’t at least get a public option for health care done. Then all bets are off. So many in your party will be so disillusioned that I doubt you’d see the passion necessary to win in 2012.
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:28 amCareful, watchpuppy; you’ll pull a muscle stretching that far without warming up.
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:31 amWatchdog, please keep your own ThoughtFree(tm) points to yourself. No one cares about any of your idiotic crap.
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:31 amWatchdog and World Net Daily crack me up. Frickin’ lunatics have now “established” that Obama joined the SDS before puberty.
Thanks for the laugh, moron.
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:38 amWait wait wait – Obama attended a CHRISTIAN Sunday School at age 11?
I thought that’s when he was a Muslim!
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:41 amwatchdog Says:
Obama tied to Ayers at age 11
While Obama’s membership as an adult in the controversial Chicago church has received attention, almost nothing has been reported about his Sunday school attendance in Hawaii
First Unitarian, a member of the Unitarian Universalist denomination, served as a sanctuary for draft dodgers and was strongly tied to the Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, during the time Weatherman radical Bill Ayers was a leader in that organization. The Weathermen was an offshoot of the SDS.
Wow…what a surprise…who would have thought?
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:41 amI imagine President B.O. is going to pay for all the work done on the White House tennis court…so he can get in his Mid-Night Basketball play with his buddies from the hood? Yea…right…tough times at the WH again. $100 per pound steak served with a side dish of caviar.
Had no answer for this one…did ya!
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:42 amgummitch, I didn’t go to his links – they were from WND? Jebus!
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:43 amDoes RealityCheck actually think any of us care about whatever he’s talking about?
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:44 amOne must be really sad, and lonely, to post such drivel.
Not only is a horrible crime committed, but it has to be blamed on an entertainer, and then the entertainer’s political affiliation?
Quite a stretch, no?
And then, to fall back on the ol’ standby, but adding a new twist. A prepubescent Obama had links to Ayers?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Seriously, you can’t make $hit like this up.
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:44 amThis is parody on par with The Onion.
Damn, there’s that trollshit stink again!
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:45 amI see one particular poster is getting restless from being ignored.
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:46 amKind of like it’s life.
Sad.
“Does RealityCheck actually think”
Ya coulda stopped right there, toasterhead. RC is just muttering to himself, I’m flagging and moving on.
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:47 amwatchpuppy and his irrelevant spam links
too funny
sad that he thinks he matters
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:49 amAccording to the latest NYT/CBS poll, 72 percent of Americans support creating a public health insurance option, and 57 percent are willing to pay higher taxes to cover all Americans. “Half of those questioned said they thought government would be better at providing medical coverage than private insurers, up from 30 percent in polls conducted in 2007.”
(Via Krugman:)
And this article, recommended in the Krugman piece, will give you the heebie-jeebies…
I fully believe, since the torture party will always do the bidding of their corporate owners, the pressure needs unrelenting application on Obama and the “centrist” (right-wing) dems. They are the spike strip that will puncture the potential of this movement (already the indications are troubling).
The corporations are, and have been for some time, determining whether the public gets the public demand or a profit-driven model to bleed more funds from a public at need. The dutiful MSM pushes the “common sense” presentation of the corporate model, virtually committing a news blackout of the options, advantages and worse, the craven behavior and conflict of interest by the corporate healthcare lobby.
As with the fairly successful technique employed by the republicans concerning the “liberal bias” of the news (the MSM responded by putting even more conservatives on teevee to damp down the ad-campaign-noise-machine created perception…) we need to assume the dems will cave and rip them a new one before the fact.
After the fact is too late.
Even a hint that universal healthcare will fail should trigger an immediate backlash. They, congress, should be afraid of a misstep here and be made jittery over the instant response.
Much like training a dog. Scolding a dem after he’s messed up the policy won’t have the same effect as training him to not mess up the house (and Senate) to begin with. And the place will smell better.
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:50 amo looky, the concern troll is back with his repetitive whine
too cute
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:51 amWe should not be surprised about what “information” watchdog laps up as our canine friends do lick at rather unpleasant things quite often.
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:54 amAccording to the latest NYT/CBS poll, 72 percent of Americans support creating a public health insurance option, and 57 percent are willing to pay higher taxes to cover all Americans. “Half of those questioned said they thought government would be better at providing medical coverage than private insurers, up from 30 percent in polls conducted in 2007.”
And with that we have:
It’s doubtful that President Barack Obama can garner enough votes to pass sweeping health care reform through Congress, a leading Senate Democrat says
Yes well, did anyone really expect anything else ?
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:57 amIn case anyone hasn’t noticed, corporate greed has brought this country to it’s knees and it has every intention of putting this county’s head on a stick.
And our elected politicians are completely prepared to help it in that effort.
RealityCheck Says:
I imagine President B.O. is going to pay for all the work done on the White House tennis court…so he can get in his Mid-Night Basketball play with his buddies from the hood? Yea…right…tough times at the WH again. $100 per pound steak served with a side dish of caviar.
Had no answer for this one…did ya!
Let me help, RC. Yes, it’s true that there is a skeery Black Man in the White House. Yes, it’s most likely true that his johnson is much much bigger than yours. And it is definitely true that every woman you’ve ever known would rather be with him than with you. Get over it. Get yourself a nice blow-up doll and go back to sucking your thumb under the covers. It’s time for grown-ups to run things.
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:58 amDRxJ Says
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:44 am
Seriously, you can’t make $hit like this up.
This is parody on par with The Onion.
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If this is the best watchdog can come up with, he’s obviously in his last throes. Maybe somebody threw a bucket of water on him.
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:02 amAgain, from the New Yorker piece:
This is what France’s system gravitated to: Actually encouraging the physicians to profit from having and maintaining healthier patients to begin with, not fixing broken ones at exorbitant fees and pricing.
It’s why they’re #1 and the US is #37…
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:06 amsounds like someone’s brakes are squealing
or is that just the sound of the concern troll whining yet again?
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:09 amThe public plan for medical coverage shows that an overcautious approach is terminal for progressive voters and their support of the Obama adm. 2010 elections will level the Dems w/out a strong public option in place and functioning. We must hold Obama and his cronies accountable or we’ll get the worst of it by voters who will stay home in droves convinced that it is just “more of the s.o.s. from bought off Dems.” Evolution or Revolution is the question in the next 12-15 days of this adm. The status quo has got to go.
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:17 amgummble-bee-itch Says:
RealityCheck Says:
I imagine President B.O. is going to pay for all the work done on the White House tennis court…so he can get in his Mid-Night Basketball play with his buddies from the hood? Yea…right…tough times at the WH again. $100 per pound steak served with a side dish of caviar.
Had no answer for this one…did ya!
Let me help, RC. Yes, it’s true that there is a skeery Black Man in the White House. Yes, it’s most likely true that his johnson is much much bigger than yours. And it is definitely true that every woman you’ve ever known would rather be with him than with you. Get over it. Get yourself a nice blow-up doll and go back to sucking your thumb under the covers. It’s time for grown-ups to run things.
What you really mean is that US people WHO REALLY pay taxes…unlike you leftest…will have to pay for B.O.’s basketball court…instead of him paying for it himself! Kind of thought so…that that would be your best answer to my question!
This guy has never held a real job before and he spends Americans money like its going out of style. Between him and Pelosi’s $60 thousand dollar trips home each weekend…you’re party has absolutely no restraint to speak of.
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:27 amlinkwray Says:
Evolution or Revolution is the question in the next 12-15 days of this adm. The status quo has got to go.
Spoken like a true Marxist!
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:29 amThis from an article I’ve posted before on France’s successful formula:
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:30 am
See what happens when you encourage ‘em, gum?
Now who’s gonna clean up that diarrhea on the carpet?
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:34 amralph the wonder locust Says:
Now who’s gonna clean up that diarrhea on the carpet?
Hey…that’s you’re job there Spanky
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:39 amDoes anyone else find it slightly ironic that the same folks who were screaming to bomb Iran 6 months ago are now screaming to intervene there for ‘democracy?’
Here’s Chris Hedges’ view at TruthDig, today:
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:42 am
RealityCheck Says:
linkwray Says:
Evolution or Revolution is the question in the next 12-15 days of this adm. The status quo has got to go.
Spoken like a true Marxist!
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:29 am
You wouldn’t know a “true Marxist” if he was beating you to death with Kapital…
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:46 amOkay, if TP is going to allow dum bass trolls to post their nonsense, can we kindly request the antagonists understand the English language, or perhaps utilize the “preview” button to fix any errors?
You know, so one can differentiate “your” from “you’re”, or spell “leftists” instead of “leftests”.
I know it’s a stretch, but it would make their posts somewhat readable.
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:50 amIf I read them, of course.
I don’t know, Doc; I gat a kick out of it that they think they’re so bright but everyone else can see that they’re not wearing any pants. It’s part of their (admittedly dubious) charm.
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:53 amTypical right-winger; make a mess and then demand that others clean it up for ya.
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:58 amAccording to the latest NYT/CBS poll, 72 percent of Americans support creating a public health insurance option, and 57 percent are willing to pay higher taxes to cover all Americans. “Half of those questioned said they thought government would be better at providing medical coverage than private insurers, up from 30 percent in polls conducted in 2007.”
And yet somehow our politicians (on both sides of the aisle) tell us that a public option is “politically unfeasible.” Translated, that means “I will lose my health insurance campaign contributions if I support it.”
When will they learn that if the goal is votes, then they can skip the “$$=votes” b.s. and go straight to “listening to your constituents=votes”? When we we as voters bring this message to them?
June 22nd, 2009 at 12:09 pmWith 75-80% of the American electorate knowing a public option in health care is necessary to ward off the worst tendencies of the medical corpritocracy and 60% will to pay more than the already most expensive program in the world it is not Marxism vs. Capitalism it is Democracy vs. Fascists.
June 22nd, 2009 at 12:12 pmObama is currently taking the right tact on Iran.
If we care about freedom and democracy, not just for Americans, but for everyone; the Iranian story is today’s ground zero.
Here’s some CNN coverage of the Neda story and Twitter’s involvement:
http://news.aol.com/article/neda-video-iran/536010
It looks more and more that the election was rigged. The Iranian government is attempting to blackout information on the circumstance. And feels more compelled to forcefully end the dissent than they are to openly answer the questions surrounding the election.
Although the President is striking the right balance, the gloves should come off here.
If we are shining the spotlight on where we need progress, focus the beam on the Iranian government – not just U.S. domestic differences on how to respond.
June 22nd, 2009 at 1:55 pmbackup, if you want much more up-to-date info re: Iran, go to Nico Pitney’s live-blogging at huffpost-he just updated it about 10 minutes ago.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/iran-demonstrations-viole_n_215189.html
June 22nd, 2009 at 4:53 pmane. Thanks. What’s exciting for Iran (and the rest of the world) is the impact of the internet and other communication innovations on getting information out. That is what will eventually set people free.
June 22nd, 2009 at 5:20 pmJane. (my bad)
June 22nd, 2009 at 5:21 pmbackup, keep ‘refreshing’ Nico’s coverage, he’s updating fairly often.
June 22nd, 2009 at 5:25 pmJane. (my bad)
No problem, I can’t count how many times I’ve gone to cut-and-paste someone’s comment and cut off the first letter. (And I never think to use the preview screen!)
June 22nd, 2009 at 5:44 pm