in10se's Comments (60)

“I hope all the Blue Dog supporters want to give him donations and work to get him elected.

I won't donate a dime or 1 phone call.

I think he is a phony.”

“Blue Dogs aren't fiscal conservatives, they're plutocrats.

A fiscal conservative is someone who wants a balanced budget and doesn't want the government to waste taxpayers' money.A plutocrat is someone who twists government into an instrument for market-gaming and profit-taking and transferring wealth from workers into the pockets of the industrial cartels and the ultra-rich who own them. Plutocrats pretend to be fiscal conservatives, but vote for tax cuts for the rich, refuse to raise taxes on the wealthy, create plutocratic graft schemes like Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage to pervert efficient government programs and corrupt them to funnel tax dollars to the cartels.

Plutocrats start unnecessary wars on the basis of lies to increase the profits of the war cartel.
A majority of Americans believe Iraq and Afghanistan are a waste of our resources. We are pouring another $130 billion in tax dollars down the ratholes of the war cartel, and for what?

No one who opposes single payer can claim to be a fiscal conservative.
We pay twice as much per capita as most European countries while denying 50 million of our people health insurance. Why do we have this problem? Because the parasitic private health insurance cartel costs sucks $400 billion a year in plutocratic waste and graft. http://www.pnhp.org Why do Blue Dogs want health care to cost more for ordinary Americans? Why do they want to use taxdollars to pay graft to the cartels?”

“Attending doesn't make you a "member".

She may have attended a meeting but the post said she is a member not an attendee.”

“Who is buying his books? That's easy: the credulous, of course. And there are plenty of those. As H.L. Mencken said: "No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of Americans".”

“Credibility and the bottom line may be linked but not directly as criminal entities do have a lot of profit for much less expenditure. so people may be buying Friedman not because of his credibility but so they can figure out what is the next subterfuge to loot the world?”

“So are the sale numbers of Fabio romance novels and
Brittney Spears. Does that prove they're good
literature or good music, as opposed to pre-fabricated,
corporate-packaged, unoriginal and soul-less rehashes
of contentless cliches? You're confusing popularity
with quality.”

“Well, if you happen to be a corporate brown noser such as Friedman, there's big money in telling fanatical, free-market ideologues what they want to hear. Friedman puts the cherry on top of far right, elitist ideology to make it palatable for mass consumption.”

“You can afford such a lawyer? Do you have him/her on a retainer? Is he/she a business lawyer? What is your profession? I am asking honestly with no pre-determined attitude. Just curious. If you don't respond however, I will just assume you to be a knowledgeable ass.”

“sure and there were WMD in Iraq.....s­upplied by Halliburton while Cheney was raking in the dough as CEO.”

“factual??”

“To do WHAT?

They would have seceded from the Union! What representation would the population have in the federal government!

This is another dumb@ss Tom Delay argument. Only the federal government can kick Texas out.”

“What about poor communities that do not have the property tax base to provide for proper schools? What it leads to is a status gap in public eduation, where rich communities go all out with fancy useless gadgets and the poor kids get shafted.”

“Sounds reasonable. They also need to reform the actual contracting and bidding process, the cost-plus arrangement is simply an invitation to run up expenses.”

“This is only rational. Much the same, President Eisenhower, during the 50s when most of the heavy lifting in defense was being done by the Air Force, cut back on the Army and the Navy/Marines.

More fundamental, Eisenhower never believed that all three branches should get an equal portion which is the wasteful policy we have these days.

Now that the Army and the Navy/Marines are doing the heavy lifting, the Air Force should take huge cuts so we can rebuild the other forces.”

“Here they are:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/28/183738/062/377/690176”

“http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll046.xml”

“They and the GOP peoples with no brain should be sent to Guantanamo.”

“Southerners, no doubt.”

“good question.”

“Yes. The DLC/Lieber­man/Clinto­n/Cuomo faction is alive and well. We will have to be patient and see what President Obama really has in store for them. He has already beaten them -- with a surgeon's skill. And, unlike the sledgehammer the classless David Paterson used against Caroline Kennedy -- the DLC wing should not be fooled by his diplomacy he even extends to Republicans.

David Paterson has chosen the DLC faction. Methinks he (the people around him aka HRC's NYC PR spinners) made the wrong choice. However, hope springs eternal...­for the never say die DLC. They will just morph into Independents w/Joe Lieberman -- until they are so far Right they become Rockefeller Republicans like Ms. Gillebrand from Upstate.

Insecure David Paterson wanted no competition on the horizon, so he chose a Republican-lite, which is the only thing that can make him look good in two years after the tax increases we are going to get. Cuomo has nuked himself by participating in this fiasco. In short, David got the Kennedys and Cuomos to nuke eachother -- and the bad taste will end their political hopes to challenge him.

Unfortunately for David -- this isn't our new President's kind of politics. It would have been perfect circa 1979, however. He could have raised money at Studio 54.”

“Is Clifford being challenged?”

“He can hit the ground running! Keep us safe! And he knows where he stands with O' . I suspect this is the best any one could have done! Yes, Kudos to Obama! smart move!”

“this is stoopidity. not genius.”

“Yeah, slip the criminal in through the back door.”

“you have to cut and paste the link, otherwise you get a huffpo missing page link.”