ExpatDane's Comments (60)

“You know what? We just got to the red zone and there are too many progressives ready to spike the ball and walk away.

Ahem.

Football analogies aside, it's our JOB as progressives to MAKE the president do what we want. Aside from the conspiratorial tone of the article, what makes me queasy is the thought that progressives are too easily discouraged.

Can anyone tell me how big 2010 losses serve the cause? Anyone?”

“Honey, my cup is empty, which is why, like you, I'm an ex-pat.

If you really want to look long, look at the CBO's estimates of what our economy is going to look like without drastic, fundamental health care reform.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/opinion/04krugman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

If you really want to look long, take an hour to listen to Elizabeth Warren's lecture at UC Berkeley describing the destruction of the middle class in the U.S.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A&NR=1

Looking long, where do you see the U.S.'s position in Afghanistan? Iraq? With regards to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict?

And since multi-national companies have fled the United States in their "race to the bottom" search for the cheapest labor, what exactly is going to pull the U.S. out of its present crisis? Consumerism? With more debt? Again, listen to Elizabeth Warren and then tell me your long-term hopes.

The house is on fire and this administration seems to content to use equal parts water and gasoline to extinguish it. Moderates be damned. The times call for far more drastic action than this administration or Congress is willing or able to take.”

“You are deluing yourself if you think Kucinich was going to make any change all by himself. You see, there are these two governing bodies called the Senate anf the House...”

“It seems real change will always get laughed out of the race. It starts with depiction in the Big Media, which always presents potential change agents as weirdoes or unpatriotic "socialists." The DC cocktail people, who love the status quo, are not going to advocate for a person who wants to change the status quo. They didn't get behind Obama until it was clear he was one of them.”

“That is a truly terrible conclusion you have reached. It means you think the President is weak, that he must be pushed into taking the kinds of actions he promoted on the campaign trail, that You are the one who is responsible.

I've seen bad husbands tell their wives that they are the ones who make them drink, or make them failures in one way or another, or who cause the abuse. I've seen parents make their children think they are the reasons things go wrong at home.

No. "Make me do it" is a terrible thing to say, no matter if you are a parent, a spouse, or a President. It is the way of the irrresponsible, the lazy, the manipulator.”

“Agree 100%!”

“Like Vinny I think statements like that should have some evidence included, or examples, or facts, or something, anything really. It's great you see monumental change and I don't. So, like, what's the change. Help me here.”

“It takes three elections to change Washington
and we won't win if we focus on what has not
yet come. People!, work hard to win the trifecta.”

“you see monumental change based on... the tip of the iceberg?”

“Here in Arizona, I get what other people vote for.”

“As we get older, why don't we all move to Denmark or other European countries and let them pay for our pensions and health care? Such a deal!”

“I'm jealous, for family reasons it's too hard for me to leave at this point, but I think about it regularly.”

“So have you enrolled at the local mosque to become one of Allah's acolytes? Talk about stupidity. Europe soon will return to the dark ages of burqas, genital mutilation, stonings, etc. as the European liberal democracies are forced to acknowledge the presence of Allah's minions in their parliaments. Is the imposition of sharia imminent in Europe? How will these bright European socio-democrats pay for their health care and other social programs when they have less than 1/2 worker per pensioner? Doesn't sound like Europeans have much to criticize America about.”

“Oh, I WISH I could afford to leave! Where did you move to? How much did it cost?

I'm a screenwriter, and my wife is a lawyer, so both of us are kind of set way back, in terms of earning power, if transplanted to foreign soil... or we'd already be making solid plans.”

“Same problem everywhere in Europe.”

“Most Muslims just want to be left alone to live their live; like most of us.

But there's two problems; the ones who want to impose their will on infidels, and the hypersensitivity of the vast majority of Muslims.

Although a minority, there are enough fanatics to be a problem for most of the world. Do I need to catalog events around the world for the last 30 years?

Hypersensitivity you know all too well in Denmark. How has freedom of the press there suffered since the cartoon of Mohammed? This hypersensitivity promotes lingering resentments for perceived injustices of other Muslims wherever they are. That's why you'll see celebrations from Palestine to Pakistan when we were attacked on 9/11.”

“equality doesn't mean sameness. who's demanding sameness? besides, we'll restyle it in our own way so well that straights will copy us.”

“No excuses. Bush rarely compromised, but I guess facts don't matter.”

“Not true. As a leader (and a highly intelligent and charismatic one), he should be driving the debate and explaining to people why a particular policy makes sense. Make a sales pitch hard enough and long enough, people start buying your product (see Cheney's rising approval ratings...he hasn't said anything new just more of it and people seem to agree more).”