inorbit's Comments (87)

“FDR had much better support from Congress and even though he had many haters he had no right-wing nutcase media outlets like Faux News fighting him every step of he way.”

“Healthcare is a big part of our economic problem. We cannot compete with the rest of the world economically because of the high cost of our healthcare and we have the additional moral imperative to make sure that the people of the wealthiest and most powerful nation the world has ever seen don't go without access to some of the best healthcare in the world has ever seen. We can't wait on global warming because if it continues it will destroy life as we know it on this planet. We can't ignore the two wars Bush started because of all of the terrorists involved and the huge amount of money we've already poured into two doomed efforts.

I know all of this is very complicated for you, but the President has to pay attention to more than one thing at a time.”

“You are exactly right. Passing this healthcare bill will be a huge victory for Obama and the Rethugs know it. That's why they are going frothing at the mouth crazy right now.”

“Most of the Obama criticism is childish whining. He is trying to do as little as possible to aggravate the fundamentalist nutcases until the health care legislation is passed. Then he'll repeal don't ask-don't tell, etc. No one can solve all of the problems he inherited overnight and especially when his own party is not united behind him. The so-called moderate Democrats are really old-style Republicans - and they are very different than your typical liberal Democrat. The Republican Party has been overtaken by the far-right, which has powerful media forces behind it in the shape of Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, O'Reilly and others. They would hate any Democratic president with a passion, but they hate this one especially because he is black and has a funny Muslim-sounding name.

Fasten your seatbelts, fellow liberals, this is going to be a long, bumpy ride.”

“Wow....you did an excellent job on your story. I felt like I was there.

We all wonder what we would do in that type of situation. We all face the possibility, however small, of annihilation by terrorist on a plane these days. We all like to think we'd show the courage that people sitting next to the terrorist showed - and I think we would. This and the shoe bomber case prove it. Also, the flight crew performed magnificently. They had to go from a the normal banality of a long flight to instant action and quick thinking in a life and death emergency - and they did it. They must be still be shaking. I hope they get a few weeks off!

The best defense is a good offense and that is what happened in this incident and Richard Reid case. It sounds like the passenger screening was excellent in Amsterdam, but there is no substitute for quick thinking and courageous action in these cases. We can't anticipate every crazy thing these guys concoct!”

“Yeah, right.

And how far did Clinton get with a health care bill?

We will pass one in 2010. It will not be the bill that progressives wanted, but it will include major health care reforms and it has the Republicans quaking in their boots.”

“londagel - thanks for being a voice of reason.

It is disturbing that now progressives are becoming as delusional as the right-wing Christian nutcases.

All contact with rational thought is now being abandoned by the left-wing.

So now we'll have two extreme wings of the party opposing Obama with all of their might.

Oh, that's the way to get things done!”

“You people are nutz!

If Obama had demanded that the Health Care Bill be exactly to his specifications or he would not sign it - then there would be no Health Care bill at all - for eight solid years!

With what is happening now there will be a Health Care bill passed by Congress next year. It will not be exactly the bill we want, but it will be progress!

And progress is better than NOTHING!”

“Obama must be doing something right if the Cubans are making these accusations.”

“I think you're dreaming. There was a lot more going on in Copenhagen than that - like the demands of the third-world countries which has now gotten to be this - "We are not negotiating on anything. Give us what we want or we will walk out!"”

“Would you people quit whining???

Did you think this was going to be a walk in the park?

Did you really think all Obama had to do was wave his magic wand and all the things you wanted would magically happen?????

GROW UP!

Like it or not - this is how it works in this country. I've dealt with massive disappointment for 40 years on the social front in this country. I think what's going is a huge step forward.

Please snap out of your unicorns and lollipops dreamworld. You're really making yourselves look like spoiled, whiny children.”

“Of course you fire people who are scamming the system.

A better idea is to give PTO time that people use without giving excuses. It can be used for anything - sick leave, sick relative, vacation, funeral, anything. Then you pay them for days they don't use at the end of the year - and not until they have worked for a full year. After that you can pro-rate if they leave before a year ends.”

“Who was she going to call on Christmas Eve?”

“They treated you like garbage because mostly garbage shops there.

Stay out of the place and you won't have that happen to you.”

“I am so glad I don't know you. You are a poor excuse for a human being.”

“Well, that is all well and good, but we are still deprived of the company of the loved one until we too enter that other place.

Wherever that is.

Or at least I hope we are re-united in the end.

I had a dream about that shortly after my mom died. She and my dad were sitting at a picnic table outside on a sunny day laughing and having a good time - and very happy to see me. Surrounding them were all my ancestors, including the grandmother I had never met and only seen in photographs. In the dream I immediately ran to her and hugged her. It was a very emotional moment, as you can imagine. I do hope it was a preview of something that will really happen to me one day.”

“This is obscene and must be stopped.

How do we do stop it?”

“If Obama is doing nothing then why is the Right running scared??”

“He kept the economy from collapsing.

Now they are going to legislate reforms and re-regulate the financial industry.

It will take time to do that as they are very powerful and very good at getting ordinary citizens (aka Republicans) to vote against their own best interests. They know how to do that as they've been doing it for years now.”

“Good grief - he's been in office less than a year.

Give the guy a chance!”

“I wouldn't call this video "mindblowing" but, it is a good one.

By the way - in the US the cops would probably shoot the kids.”

“We made ourselves the "climate gods" when we started, unknowingly, spewing climate changing gasses into the atmosphere at the beginning of the industrial revolution.”

“That whole Balloon Boy thing was so ridiculous. In the pre-24 hour news cycle days the story would have been relegated to tiny column in the back of Section A of any newspaper.”

“I am referring to the Repugs who oppose family planning aid to countries that might promote abortion as one of the options. This an example of a country in which a safe, legal abortion might be an option for a woman like Dima. But, if it were offered ( and I know it isn't in Ethiopia) the Repugs would be opposed to it. Because after all, a fetus is more important to them than the life and health of a woman.”

“Oh, yeah - but remember abortion is NOT an option!

All pregnancies must come to term no matter what the cost is to the mother.

Well, at least that is what you believe if you are a Republican.”