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I think it's a referendum on the senseless wars in which we are engaged.
Spending is upwards of two billion dollars a day.
It is the source of the suppression of our civil liberties.
It is the drain on our resources - economic and human.
The Scott Brown victory was indeed a referendum on the Obama Admin's policies that bailed out Wall Street with no strings attached whatsoever, resulting in them using the capital to bolster their balance sheets, but not to actually lend.
President Obama are you listening?
But not worry - your interpretation is the one the media is pushing. Indeed the crowing by the media is all about how 2 things PROVE that the left is rejected - the Brown result - and the Air America bankruptcy
As to Air America, the bankruptcy's land station effect on left wing radio - what little there is of it - always on the weaker signal stations because they are 15 years late to the party relative to the right - is limited to Air America's Ron Reagan Jr. who was carried by most. Most of the other shows that fill the airtime on land stations and on XM's America left are not via Air America hosts -- Bill Press and Stephanie Miller and Thom Hartmann and Randi Rhodes are distributed by other companies.
I swear our media is determined to believe only GOP PR handouts. And some Dems are willing to accept a welfare check to the corporations - the subsidy and mandates of $600 billion to the insurance companies with no cost control via public competition or via regulatory price controls - as change they can believe in.
"If the financial system had gone down, it would have taken the entire economy and millions more families and businesses with it".
(Gasp) .. Any possibility of that being true? What if we had done nothing and the entire economic system had collapsed, making the Great Depression look like a day on Tiger's yacht.
Could it be that Obama is NOT in bed with the big banks and Wall Street as the critics say he is?
Hind-sight's 20/15 these days it seems like every armchair quarterback and his dog has a pair of 20/10 spectacles.
Despite a five minute conversation between these two talking heads, there was not one second of their conversation dedicated to the real reason that the Independents rallied and threw down the gauntlet:
HEALTHCARE,..........STUPIDS................HEALTHCARE!!
The American people have come to realize that it is totally unfair to expect hard working taxpayers to support a small segment of society (roughly 10%) and have to pay for THEIR healthcare as WELL AS THE REMAINING UNINSURED. After all, the sick, poor and elderly are already covered through Medicare and Medicaid (and neither of those programs, despite MASSIVE funding are going to survive long term). The 30 million or so that are left uninsured( after you deduct approximately 16 million people that just choose to buy other things with their insurance premiums, like cars, clothes, jewelry or cell phones and electronic devices and make those decisions consciously and without pre existing conditions.)Of those remaining 30 million about 15 million are kids in the 18-24 year age range, and will probably not need insurance , barring a major event or illness, both of which will be covered through various charities and/or hospitals.
Uninsured with no job? Let's open up the VA hospitals. Catholic hospitals that don't turn anyone away. Health care clinics are already available in almost all communities. Why remake the great system we already have? Simply improve what is already working.
Olbermann: "snake oil" - do you mean like when a guy runs on transparency and broadcasting bill debates/deals on C-Span but delivers neither?
Obama could have delivered on the above but chose to live in the white house instead of work there
Running negative political advertising during the NFL Playoffs is not campaigning.
fyi... I didn't vote for Brown, I voted for myself.
The woman shot herself in the foot by showing contempt for the electorate in her snobbish snubbing of them. You can't be anti-social and run for public office...you'll lose every time. So, Coakley's defeat was more a rejection of her than a message to the Democratic party.