gah. 23 August 2010
Posted by marisacat in 2010 Mid Terms, 2012 Re Election, DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Italy.trackback
Birds under a roof in Solda, Italy [Giuseppe Cacace/AFP/Getty Images]
People thrash back and forth about what Obby “should do”, “must do”, “has to do”. Get over it! He’s doing what he’s doing.
Which is pretty much The Plan…
However wretched the execution. Not that it matters if we agree, disagree or dislike the roll out.
Dean Baker in The Arena at Politico:
There are very few people interested in ideology. However, President Obama does have to lay out a path forward and when it comes to the economy, it is very difficult to see what it is. The economy is essentially dead in the water. It is creating few, if any jobs, and the unemployment rate is almost certain to drift upward through the rest of the 2010. And, there is no obvious reason to expect things to look much better in 2011. (Two really bad unemployment reports in the next two months are not going to help the Dems’ prospects in November.)
President Obama has to have a story about how his policies will make things better for ordinary workers. He doesn’t have a plausible one at the moment. Everyone knows that he supported the rescue of Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and the rest of the Wall Street gang in their hour of need. If he expects to regain his popularity he has to be prepared to stick his neck out for the rest of the country. There may not be a workable program that can get through a Senate filibuster, but at the moment, he is not even publicly pushing one.
Don’t make me laught too hard. He’s not pushing one privately either.
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If y’ask me, he already has laid out a path forward — on a track leading straight over a cliff, like Wile E. Coyote trying to catch the Road Runner on his homemade rocket sled.
Seems that way!!
Do you recognize the aria the middle peepster is belting out hon?
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a trill!
BIG OIL’S GUSHER OF SUBSIDIES
oh, do make this so:
Could a Legal Technicality Prevent Banks from Having the Right to Foreclose on 62 Million Homes?
just catchin g up (got this out of Mod drawer!)
My electricity was off for an hour and half, but I am back now!
welcome back.
our local version of NY1 is reporting ti was a mylar balloon that hit a PG&E line…. phew! we were lucky! almost everybody is back, apparently less than 200 of the original 6,500 affected are still out…
I am between hospitals and near a couple of big nuclear medicine installations… obviously they have back up but all the corrollary businesses, we usually do get fast response to problems… for which I am thankful, honestly.
That was a trick used on “Burn Notice” a few weeks ago when the characters were trying to get past a security system.
when the characters were trying to get past a security system.
oh I had not heard that… but it makes sense, of course.
I discovered that my batteries for the radio don’t attach, I fished around and found the 9 volt batteries, but then they would not snap on to the connections… gah.
Think it is time to order a new little plug in radio…. with battery back up…
Eton Microlink Radio
Have you thought about getting something like this for emergencies.
they went out again…. this time for 2 hours….
As my neighbor said, THIS time they can’t use the mylar balloon story.
Gah. I am a wet noodle…. Will look at that, I had been at Amazon and … a second site, just starting to look at things, when it went down again, a few mins after 6 pm here.
Thanks for the link, will look at it…
that would be some sort of JUSTICE, at least.
I thought it was very interesting, fleshed out the whole issue more than usual.
Thanks for that!
From a well meaning chap on DK
Could you imagine gettin either of these kids in the car?
You know for vacation, church, school, Makin it to the polls,
driveby child molestation, what have you.
Oh’ c’mon , it’s a joke, the election reference.. and all…
the problem with Krugman is he thinks there are workable solutions that Obby Snobby Knobby and the really fucked up nasty mean and stupid boys like Rahm and Axelrod, Summers, Geithner would even consider.
I think we are scrwerwerewedddd 60 ways to Sunday.
ugh I try not to get too depressed, but I am worried what is coming next… frankly.
Yeh, at this point, if my slow ex Dem ass can grok it, how does anyone get from systemic corruption to Hope/ Change? Seem to me it’s only through levitating Ob – and cadre-
as “other”.
Now what other than Ob’s politics and his Rubinite minders could mark him as other? A guy who went through Columbia, Harvard, the Chi machine, the Illinois State House the Senate etc..
But hey, it’s cool to dig Mr. and Mrs International Black People –
great line by the way , yours that is ,not the ruse.
It’s so very Progressive of Krug et al. And latent.
It is depressing. As the only route through ruse after ruse and ruin…
is collapse.
This is it, Obby is OK Enough for a lot of people. No sense of democracy, no sense of fairness, common good, any sort of future at all.
If people cannot see that the ptb just ratchet us back and forth beetween the two parties, then they are BLIND.
I think Ob and Snob want to start their Mr and Mrs International Black People lives sooner than later, with the likes of Will Smith and Jada (who have dragged along with Mr and Mrs IBP to Copenhagen, Oslo and so on… snicker). The Fentys, etc. BTW, I saw Fenty is down in the polls. I don’t even know who is runnign against him, whoever it is, fine… LOL will be just as bad.
hmm well it is the [fucked] faith section at the Wapo but it, and the author, the Grand Mufti of Egypt are far too comfy with this not very subtle push that Daisy and her Imam put on Sharia law and the US.
Etc.
You know, so we can all conveniently meet there
on the staging pod for THE RAPTURE.
interfaith is just cya bullsit, imo
so, a divine IUD?
Does anyone know why Alan Grayson is so popular on all of these “progressive” sites? I can’t stand him.
I have forgotten what ti was now, but he did some showy show-off grandstanding “thing” a few months ago (someone else here might remember) and then they all wuvved him to death. And fundraised for him, iirc.
IIRC his display followed, by a few weeks, the R who called Ob out as “liar” during the SotU speech…
Trained seal for bucks. Both sides. I clicked on one of the links above and saw his face everywhere … my eyes.
that’s why they love him. Ad $$$. And the joke is,
for all the “Netroot”er poodles, who are o-so-concerned about the freedom of the internet, he’s a lawyer turned LBO Communications play guy, walked with boxcars of loot when he sold, great timing too…
And a few of the debossed foreheads – (ouch!) wonder why he is , shall we say, a little tepid on the net neutrality.
He’s a garden variety Licked finger to wind /Say anything to get elected Monied Donk. They love him. Go figure.
Puts on a nice show.
he is very entertaining on TV, and since I expect so little from donks that’s enough for me to want him around. At least he yells back (empty as it may be).
He does yell back but his political days are numbered. I’d bet the farm (if I had a farm) on that.
FWIW, he’ll probably win again in his +R district.
He has, the Molotov Cocktail lobbing act aside, (let’s see him do it on a tight vote), the ruse aside, in addition to his own wealth, he has the absolute support of Rahm, Schumer and Jewish donors. There is a bankrolled spoiler on the R side, while the R locals have been plied with money , chits, and other backdoor assurances for a walk on Dem backenchers elsewhere.
The guy is absolutely dug in to the Party and it’s “little guy” scam.
He’ll get over.
I’m sure he’ll beat the Repug but I see him spontaneously combusting one of these days. (courtesy of my infamous spidey sense…)
Grayson: loud mouth grandstander and Israel’s BFF.
C-Punch
USA today had a miserable article about how they’re “testing the seafood” and it’s all clean. Only about 3/4 of the way in do you learn that they are only testing seafood from areas already reopened to fishing and shrimping and that likely weren’t in the path of the oil as it flowed by. They had a map of what was still closed to fishing and it was pretty much a big square around DWH and covers half the gulf.
I’ve read the seafood is just not selling at all… People are not totally stupid. I would not eat it… and I did nto worry about beef in Europe during Mad Cow craze, I had more faith in the farm – butcher – restaurant system (at least what I knew i would be running into) of self protection.
Look for more businesses to be shutting for good, in the area and in NO…
hmmm When Bush gathered a clutch of “snowflake” children at the WH, I noticed they were all WHITE….
Which is all the loons care about, white children.
Read more: Link
Something I can actually agree with Monsieur L’OrangeTan about:
So, Obama, just how bipartisan are you?
that was what I thought, on Geithner and Summers I agree! Tho of course they are NOT ushering in an era of Socialism, as Boehner says.
What a hoot!
I see Dow is falling falling… now at 10,060
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Here are the famous 15 “Banned by Dkos” badges explaining why Markos sent you down the memory hole.
I didn’t know there was a whole set.
Kind of like the Boy Scouts.
I’ll take a look, I used one of the ones that Alan Smithee developed….
it looks like he recovered the old Smithee ones.
Madman just sent me this, a friend directed him to the very end of the Jane Mayer reporting in The New Yorker on the Koch brothrs…
I don’t know that I have the heart to read the whole thing.
I am sure I don’t, at least not now. It will probably be online for a while tho….
Alan Simpson: Social Security Is ‘A Milk Cow With 310 Million Tits’
He loves us! He really loves us!
And no shit, dig the author’s scheisse on GM
Better than the 50′s and 60′s even…
Yada, yada ..relentless attack..Hitler in the Bunker… YADA
Better than the 50′s and 60′s even…
OK! I am expecting style innovations to match those decades then!
Really all they have given us is 4 wheel drive the Hummer Nation and the topple friendly SUV.
I want FISH TAILS!!
Oh absolutely. LOL.
What I think they need to come out with is a new 2011, say, Smuggler.Something serving several of the said-to-be burgeoning market segments. For instance, take your average arms smuggling sex slaver , who occasionally wants to haul the ole 4- man Colombian coke sub with a crew a’ ‘Qaeda and a warhead in tow to Tahoe…
Gotta be Built Tough, but classy enough to park on a drive court regularly watered with serf sweat to inspire wayward peasant guest drool. So I’m thinkin a big dorsal shark fin in the midddle of the trunk. But subtle. But classy. But still frisky enough to tow that sub and throw the kids in with ‘Qaeda Numbers 2,3, and 4 on the way to soccer. But classy. LOL..
oooo The Smuggler I can see it.
Not a limo, so old hat, but something iwth 6 doors. And a roof mounted 50 mm
Yes. An uncompromising vehicle…that should be able to carry
Dems back into office, too. Back – Better’n’ EVAH™.
{D”OH WHIP SNIP SNAPPEROO}
That would be the XE version — get it?
nyuck nyuck nyuck. i gotta million of them.
HWGA:
AQ in Messopotamia… AQ in Arabian Peninsula, AQ in Africa, AQ in the Magreb, AQ in Yemen….
It all sounds so familiar… ? Domino theory maybe…
Emmanuel A.Q. Goldstein is attacking us from all quarters!
ain’t it the truth…. as we invade… and invade. And invade. And bomb. And subvert….
I was half listening to a discussion of the hijab/Disneyland issue on local talk radio…. and suddenly heard the host refer to “European societies” as “very prejudiced”… UNLIKE US.
Lordy, looked around lately?
AQ in my backyard. AQ in my attic. AQ in my mashed potatoes…
AQ in our Holy Hallowed Ground!
PBR aka “Symbolic Solidarity”
Or drowning your sorrows with cheap, crappy tasting beer…just like them! Ironic solidarity?
After Katrina, New Orleans Cops Were Told They Could Shoot Looters
the assistant DA for NO went on air the Tuesday following landfall and called for shooting looters.
No ti was Thursday, iirc landfall was Sunday into Monday…
We hit 95 here today… gah.
And now, at almost 11:30, is the first real break in the heat in two days. Some of the pressure went out of the heat….
New
LINK
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