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A list of the wagers that have been made, their status, and the results.
- Desidiosus: Depends on motivation,
38 min 4 sec ago - BlaiseP: I concur. I don't have a problem with the profanity either.
1 hour 16 min ago - BlaiseP: Of course. I resent any such abrogation of personal freedom.
1 hour 23 min ago - BlaiseP: Cultural norms are under assault everywhere:
1 hour 51 min ago - Jay C: Outrage
2 hours 38 sec ago - Desidiosus: Not to get into the selective outrage,
2 hours 5 min ago - Desidiosus: Sort of.
2 hours 7 min ago - M Scott Eiland: That Would Be Fine
2 hours 12 min ago - mmghosh: While I agree with some of what you say, Iraq
2 hours 37 min ago - BlaiseP: Selective outrage . Reminds me of the PATRIOT Act.
3 hours 11 min ago - Model 62: There's Plenty of Distinction
3 hours 15 min ago - BlaiseP: You can't murder your way to victory. Intimidate? Yes.
3 hours 16 min ago - Bird Dog: First they came for the salt
3 hours 48 min ago - Jordan: That way the only people left are too terrified
3 hours 52 min ago - Harley: Finally A Workable Solution To Passing Health Care Reform. nt
4 hours 10 min ago - BlaiseP: Maybe we can put an end to "makin' sh*t up"
4 hours 15 min ago - Kierkegaard: Thanks for the Amazon review, Vint!
5 hours 4 min ago - kenb: Thanks much
5 hours 38 min ago - Blue Neponset: Why didn't Bush do it then?
6 hours 15 min ago - Jordan: No all I meant was,
7 hours 6 min ago - nyoos junkey: In fact even the Italians claim it wasn't them
7 hours 32 min ago - Desidiosus: I think we should have as many taxes as possible...
12 hours 13 min ago - Desidiosus: Because Obama was for it,
12 hours 15 min ago - Desidiosus: Not just George Washington,
12 hours 16 min ago - stinerman: 1818a is Medicare Part A
14 hours 15 min ago - JKC: Interesting perspective:
15 hours 3 min ago - JKC: Believe it or not
15 hours 31 min ago - M Scott Eiland: I Don't Know
16 hours 31 min ago - kenb: What about Medicare Advantage?
16 hours 36 min ago - M Aurelius: Yup...
16 hours 57 min ago
Politics
Could it be that Glenn Beck has a point?
"In fact, you know, one of the big people that was really outspoken on reconciliation, said it was a really big mistake, especially using it for health care, you can't use the 50-plus-one option and still govern. That person was Barack Obama."
Then Beck played a clip of Obama:
"Success has many fathers while failure is an orphan."
Or something like that. It looks like there is a growing number of parentless Obama White House aides, both current and former. Rahm Emanuel is looking more and more beleaguered, despite Dana Milbank's best efforts to rehabilitate him. The NYT:
John Hawkins has five ugly truths, and they are:
(1) Entitlements must be cut.
(2) Our military is going to weaken.
(3) Taxes are going up.
(4) Economic growth is going to stagnate.
(5) We will have a world where the United States isn't a super power.
I take issue on #5, because I think we'll have a world where the US isn't the only super power. The first four sound about right.
Brooklyn prosecutors on Monday cleared ACORN of criminal wrongdoing after a four-month probe that began when undercover conservative activists filmed workers giving what appeared to be illegal advice on how to hide money.
Not that it matters at this point.
He's sort of like an Obama. But with experience. And he might throw his hat in for a 2012 presidential run.
At 60, Daniels’s résumé is exhaustive: He’s a Princeton-educated former Senate chief of staff-turned political operative-turned think tank chief-turned Fortune 500 executive-turned White House budget director-turned two-term governor.
Governor Paterson of NY has "decided"(like he had any other realistic choice) not to run for reelection.
With him, the last remnants of this disastrous term started by Eliot Spitzer will be gone. This is easily the most failed administration of any executive I have ever voted for. Together, Spit and Pat made Republican George Pataki look like a wise statesman, though in truth he was rather mediocre, on a good day.
Here's the situation. You have a high school that sucks and an economy that sucks, so what do you do when you have to choose the least worst out of four tough choices? If you're a teacher's labor union, you play hardball in negotiations (thus leaving the school district no other option but to fire all of the teachers in the high school), then mount really loud protests about the unfairness of it all. The essence here:
Guess not. Scott Brown was the most famous GOP vote, but there were four others (Snowe, Collins, Voinovich, Bond), allowing the beleaguered Ben Nelson to vote "nay" without consequence. In this environment, it's enough to call it bipartisan. All those Republicans, bad faith in every one of them.
So, Harley asked me to come up with some White House actions and rhetoric which has been unduly harsh on Progressives and unduly praising of right wingers as part of the Health Care Debate.
Stipulated. Republicans have been obstructing Obamacrats from passing their agenda, early and often. But these things don't happen in a vacuum. Congressfolk want to stay in office, which means that if they don't abide by the wishes of a majority of their constituents, they'll likely lose to The Other Guy in the next cycle. This is Politics 101, but it explains why the GOP is obstructing so much, and doing so successfully. Put simply, the people don't want what Obama, Pelosi and Reid are selling. The public mood on Obamacare:
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