(Proudly cross-posted at C4O Democrats)
Really. President Obama needs to make a choice, and we need to push him to make the right choice. I’ve had enough of the “bipartisan” BS and the corporate media idiots chattering on about how success will be mesaured by whether or not John McCain likes the bill. Shouldn’t we mesaure success on how many people are saved from financial catastrophe?
Pete Sessions, a Republican from Tennessee, has said that the Congressional Republicans are using a an extreme Islamic terrorist group, the Taliban, as their model for how to behave. In an interview with Hotline, Sessions said the Republicans are following the Taliban’s strategy:
“Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban . . . . I’m saying an example of how you go about [sic] is to change a person from their messaging to their operations to their frontline message. And we need to understand that insurgency may be required when the other side, the House leadership, does not follow the same commands, which we entered the game with.”
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I knew this would happen. The excitement of the primaries and the GE and the inauguration have succumbed to the swamp in our nations capital. I had hoped that President Obama would be more prepared for this.
Sometimes it just makes me want to watch Tila Tequila.
Or Jerry Springer. Is he still around or has he been elected to something?
Hot on the heels of two excellent Flashbackgate diaries by Sricki on the Primary Wars, I thought that, in the spirit of sustainability, I would ask you to try to recall the best putdowns, comebacks and flames of those tumultuous times.
Why in the spirit of sustainability? Given the anger and insults that seem to dominate most of the liberal blogosphere in the last two weeks, a lot of these can and have been recycled. Especially the Kool Aid quips. So join in. Recycle some old flames. Come up with something better. All manner of logical fallacies and advanced banter over the flip…
Nothing to see here, folks.
Absolutely nothing.
This is it.
Well, “nothing” is not allowed, so let me add a little content, so I don’t get banned.
First off, I’d like to thank all of you for joining me. As you can see from the diary title, I couldn’t think of a damn thing to write about today.
Pretty lame…you can follow me after the fold, if you’re that bored.
First, I’d like to thank all of you for joining me today. As you can see from the diary title, I couldn’t think of a damn thing to write about.
Absolutely nothing.
This is it.
Pretty lame…oh,well you can follow me after the fold, if you’re that bored.
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Wikileaks just notified people that they are releasing over $1 billion dollars’ worth of reports gathered by the Congressional Research Services (CRS). These reports are provided to members of the US Congress and are legally in the public domain. However, they are only released to the public with the permission of Congress in a complex system of permissions and protocols and ass-covering politicians. Needless to say, attempts to free this information from the ‘red tape’ that keeps it from actually being released to the public have been met with resistance.Well, leave it to Wikileaks to strike a blow for transparency.
Cross-posted at The National Gadfly
Forbes Magazine recently described being Liberal as, in part, having “a certain queasiness about the war on terror”. This coalesced a train of thought that has been circling around in my head for about seven and a half years.
I hate the “War on Terror”.
As the Forbes article demonstrates, it is obvious that many of my fellow citizens – particularly those on the right – equate hating the War on Terror with “sympathizing with terrorists”. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, supporting the War on Terror is in many ways aligning yourself with the goals of the particular terrorists that the War on Terror is supposed to be opposing.