luckynewman13's Comments (200)

“No, the article, I, was saying the Left needs to get more aggressive in local politics, work on community outreach--whether that be townhall meetings, promoting progressive speakers at local community colleges and universities or letter writing to neighbors. Outreach is key because we have to change the electorate so we can change Congress--we need more Progressive senators and representatives who will support a progressive agenda.”

“I agree. It's like the author is saying, "Well, you can try as hard as you like to push progressivism, but in the end the same folks who just love the results of liberal legislation (Social Security, Medicare, etc) will fight to the death to keep you from instituting it."
The electorate is fickle--they don't know their collectives a$$es for a hole in the ground.”

“Ugh... 9 months into the Obama Presidency and he's already finished for 2010 and 2012... Chris Matthews and Mike Elk already have Sarah Palin winning the White House in four years. And just how on Earth are we supposed to negotiate our opinions with the Marsha Blackburns of the world until she stops seeing them as tyrannical socialism and embraces them as biblically literal teachings of Christ? Should we waste the remaining 3 years trying or maybe try fighting it out on the surface? The right has spent 35 years demonizing us ... and those that bought their lies have a very positive view of the kind of cut throat capitalism that comes with severe boom and bust cycles. All of the things government can do to alleviate these effects are denounced as socialism and every pipe fitter and non-plumbing plumber is convinced he is about to become a millionaire when he buys that plumbing business he is not about to buy. Also... how can President Obama allay the fears of working class whites who fear that blacks are going to take their jobs BUT who are pleased to see illegal immigrants who are willing to undermine blacks and union workers but don't want their medical care paid for even as it hurts hospitals. It's like a spaghetti tangle of positions.. and WE'RE supposed to work it out?”

“If you're responding to me, luckynewman, no, I have no interest in investing my time in doing that. My point is that I think its big mistake to underestimate her. And I think it's an extremely big mistake to rabidly attack her as stupid and incompetent. She didn't become the governor of a state by being stupid. I think attacks from the left, like that, alienate average women out there in America. And last I checked, women were a pretty important voting bloc for the Dems. I think people ought to start attacking her policies, and cease with the "stupid" and "incompetent" insults. I really don't think it's gaining anyone anything. And I really don't have too much trouble seeing women putting her over the top, come election day some year down the road.”

“Whaever one thinks of nixon...the only comparison with Palin cuts against her political success..

Nixon was usually the smartest and best informed person in the room. and was ALWAYS the one with with the deepest HISTORICAL understanding of any given issue .
Unfortunately for him and us, he was also usually the most aggressive and unscrupulous, and the one with the most PERSONAL axes to grind.......... much life Ms. Palin.

tm”

“>>>Sarah Palin, I'm sorry, is no Richard Nixon.>>>>

I wouldn't be too terribly sure about that. If you want to take a good hard look at the polls, those Tea Party "crazies" aren't hurting the Republican party. But the Democratic party, on the other hand, IS getting hurt. It's a bad idea to mistake your own loathing of Sarah Palin as a sentiment the entire rest of the country shares, because that really is not so. And I don't think efforts to tear her down by her by calling her stupid and incompetent, etc., is helping liberals/Democrats. I think it's infuriating a lot of women, frankly. And women are a pretty important voting bloc for the Democratic party.”

“Corporate tax changes, excise tax for the poor, middle class and rich. I have included a couple of links you can peruse.

http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:r2u_m41IrdMJ:www.lanepowell.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/tax_081409.pdf+hr+3200+tax+provisions&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjGuj7dIyRvVxh7ZnjnXzI_g9gahnpEwuu04V_1NzPSdPC-M2XomNCX3zMQGgU39-vYtjT0S48vPH52TORM2aaEFceXGV3OsYpLJFRkwzhrz6g9EDFH8iGadrSHu1k2xQVaY8oE&sig=AFQjCNFuu807hhIqX1F1EyxnJzgHeU5nSw

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27384.html

Also from the New York Post.. I dont have the link
The changes approved by the House Ways and Means Committee that Rangel chairs would strip away legal defenses and pile higher penalties on corporate and individual taxpayers facing IRS proceedings for what they claim are unintentional mistakes, experts said.

Rangel’s bill would:

* Punish those who fail to alert the IRS to potentially questionable tax exemptions.

* Bar the IRS from waiving penalties against taxpayers who clearly erred in good faith.

* Double fines in certain circumstances.

‘The bill raises penalties and eliminates many of the reasonable defenses that taxpayers have always been able to use when honest mistakes are uncovered,’ one lawyer told The Post.

In fact, the bill increases fines ‘in some cases even for honest mistakes,’ the expert added.””

“Democrats voted for Bush in both elections. Do you think condescension really proves anything substantive?”

“Read the whole page before trying to decry any statements or claims in it. Information written there is pulled from multiple sources, some of them considered to be liberal leaning. Also, dont take comments about him spending like a drunken sailor to mean he is a bad person. I think he has good intentions in general, but his methods I disagree with.

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/bush-deficit-vs-obama-deficit-in-pictures/”

“SINGLE-PAYER HEALTHCARE REFORM IS THE ONLY ETHICAL AND FINANCIAL SOLUTION:

A recent study shows SINGLE-PAYER WOULD BE MAJOR STIMULUS FOR THE US ECONOMY:

** 2.6 Million New Jobs,
** $317 Billion in Business Revenue,
** $100 Billion in Wages, and
** $44 Billion New Tax Revenues

Here’s the study: http://www.calnurses.org/research/pdfs/ihsp_sp_economic_study_2009.pdf

How to pay for single payer reform: HR676 - public financing and private delivery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxi7DnCH3zk

Congress and the public need to see accurate numbers. The Single Payer plans currently before Congress must be scored by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Then we'll all know the truth.”

“not arbitrary, but pointless. pardon me.”

“Please, no conspiracy theories.”

“"This country is full of fat people and for the most part I agree that we need to take responsibility for our health but there are plenty of things destroying our health that are beyond our control...­especially to low income Americans"

Hence the people that cite "life span" as something directly related our health care system never made sense to me . . . life style is what shortens our life span in 99% of cases.

"The worthless additives that are packed into our foods to keep the farm lobby happy is an issue that gets very little air time"

While I agree with you, I don't want the Government to decide what I eat either.”