Motley Moose – Archive

It’s my first time.

This mental space is for rent; so gentlemen (and ladies), start your engines!

With the advent of online forums has come the concept of internet trolls. If you are reading this, you know what they are. In fact, anyone that has spent any amount of measurable time on an internet discussion board has experienced them first-hand.

The phenomena of trolling has been discussed, thoughtfully, both online and offline.

This tweet is just fucking stunning! If he is still  writing for anyone other than his own damn blog after this I am going to be a tad pissed.

And if he thinks a oops I am sorry is going to cover his ass he is sadly mistaken!

Largely unnoticed outside of progressive blogs there was a fairly tempting opportunity to assail the Bush tax cuts last year on the basis of national public opinion polling.  But the Obama administration and Congress let it pass.  Why?

Perhaps they understand the Republican coalition better than Republicans do.  This is a cohort which can not only hold two opposing thoughts but remain oblivious to the contradiction.  Congressional Republicans walked straight into a minefield with their deficit reducing “entitlements” roll-back:

The problem was underscored last week when Republicans bowed to political realities on their signature issue of entitlement reform, acknowledging that a plan to overhaul and eventually privatize Medicare would not advance anytime soon, and would not be part of a deal with the White House to raise the government’s borrowing limit.

Democrats have attacked the Medicare proposal, and polls have shown formidable public disapproval of it. Many Republican lawmakers ran into a wall of voter opposition during a congressional spring recess.

Kathleen Hennessey and Lisa Mascaro – GOP finding it hard to make progress LAT 7 May 11

That was an unforced political error of significant proportions.  We understand their constituency; when they complain about “entitlements” they are complaining about other people receiving them; seems they are something like a VA benefit for patriotic, God-fearing Republicans.  Who knew?

Note:  This was originally posted at Daily Kos very early this morning after drinking a few beers.  I apologize for the long hiatus.

-Stipes

I haven’t been posting much here recently.  Probably because I’ve been trying to crank out that novel that I’ve been planning to inflict on the world for the last 20 years.

Either way, I’ve found that my participation here has been somewhat pointless.  It doesn’t make any difference in the real world and has mostly been a waste of my time as a long time Democrat.  The oxygen in this space gets sucked up by those who have the time and energy to advocate for their beliefs, which oddly enough, don’t seem to resonate with my particular circumstances.

So why did I decide to post a diary now after such a long hiatus?

Probably because I’ve had a few beers and wanted to share my thoughts on something topical.

Dear Mr. Herman Cain, in regards to your recent interview, please find enclosed comments we feel will better prepare you for your next job opportunity.

I don’t know whether many people (especially on the left) had the stomach to watch this 90 minute exercise in silliness and futility, but I personally am a bit of a masochist. I sat through the full thing, knowing all the while that it was over an hour of my life I could never get back. For the most part, little of interest was said, though I must confess to a few points of agreement on my part with a couple of the candidates (95% disagreement of course). There were even some laughs scattered throughout, so I can hardly call it a complete waste, can I?

Let’s have a look at what was on the table tonight.

The evolution of events that has led up to the past few days has been hard to put into perspective. More than the events of the weekend, large parts of the population are swinging inside their own heads in their view of Barack Obama in the context of their entire time with him. For many it may be hard not to  experience it similar to the moment when you realize that your quiet card partner hasn’t been just sitting there but has actually lined things up to win the game. He laid his trump out for all to see, and when someone has them all there isn’t anything anyone can say about it.

Other thread was getting a bit crowded.

Carry on.

By: Inoljt, http://mypolitikal.com/

On November 4, 2008 Senator Barack Obama was elected president, winning a substantial margin over Republican candidate John McCain. In the popular vote, Mr. Obama won 52.9% of the electorate to Mr. McCain’s 45.7%; he thus took a 7.2% margin.

Mr. Obama, however, did not do so well with white, non-Hispanic voters. According to exit polls, the newly elected president lost whites by double-digits; taking 43% of the white vote to Mr. McCain’s 55% support.

This is not anything new; for decades now, the Democratic Party has been losing the white vote. Indeed, the last time a Democratic presidential candidate actually won whites was in 1964, when Texan Lyndon Johnson delivered a landslide pummeling to Senator Barry Goldwater.

Ever since then Democrats have been in a bad way with whites:

More below.