dagblog - Comments for "Where Do We Go From Here?"

Seconded.

moat — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 22:59:06 +0000

In reply to Good work. I should have

Seconded.

Good work. I should have

Flavius — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 22:28:45 +0000

In reply to I'm a long way from Wisconsin

Good work. I should have done the same.Can't think why I didn't

DanK, as always, you are

SleepinJeezus — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 23:19:09 +0000

In reply to I don't think Obama is going

DanK, as always, you are right on target.

This ain't no liberal we've got in the White House. He ain't got any ideology whatsoever, it seems to me.

But he does occupy the liberal placeholder in Washington's kabuki theater. Thus, if there is anything happening that ain't batshit crazy conservative, it is left for him to be involved. Thus, HCR is moved forward to appease the base. But not too much HCR, you see. In fact, HCR that is actually "Health Care INDUSTRY Profits Enhancement and Protection" masquerading as HCR is even better!

HCR is only an example. There are numerous others, including banking reform (choke!) and fiscal budgeting and....

Make no mistake. Wall Street and the corporations own it all. Inasmuch as Obama and the Dems are the "liberal faction," they will NEVER be allowed to be more liberal than the owners will allow.

And all the handicapping of the horse race and delving into personalities and strategerizing and analyticalizing and political scientologyizing ain't never going to change that.

In other words, we're fucked until we somehow get a handle on the pay-to-play bullshit. Totally, completely fucked.

Granite, not flint :)

Dan Kervick — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 23:18:17 +0000

In reply to As far as Giethner is

Granite, not flint :)

I'm a long way from Wisconsin

Oxy Mora — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:47:44 +0000

In reply to I have to be frank here but I

I'm a long way from Wisconsin but I've contributed to the Wisconsin recall effort through Pac's. I hope we win this one.

Dick... I'm sitting here

chucktrotter — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:34:13 +0000

In reply to I have to be frank here but I

Dick...

I'm sitting here looking out of my window at the WI bluffs. My wife works with a majority of Wisconsin coworkers. She (a long time ago) decided that political support for Dems was a losing battle amongst her peers. I pray your dreams come true on Tuesday!

As far as Giethner is

Oxy Mora — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:05:04 +0000

In reply to I don't think Obama is going

As far as Giethner is concerned it was just commented on at MSNBC that Geithner is the one standing in the way of the infrastructure bank. And Immelt, well I just gave him my ideas.

I have appreciated your flinty and gritty, New Hampshire let's get to it, get it done attitude. Patience for platitudes is getting in short supply.

I don't think Obama is going

Dan Kervick — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:56:44 +0000

In reply to I think part of the problem

I don't think Obama is going to do any of those things. They all call for a level of fiscal activism that for which the conservative Obama and his conservative advisers Immelt, Daley and Geithner lack both the ideological predisposition and the political stomach.

When Obama says he is going to focus on jobs, what he means mostly is that he is going to try to pass more Latin American free trade pacts and try to get the Chinese to let the value of the yuan float higher.

I have to be frank here but I

Richard Day — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:01:41 +0000

In reply to Where Do We Go From Here?

I have to be frank here but I aint votin for anyone other than my President. No discussion.

I aint votin for any Congress contender except for a dem from my district...a district that has been dem since I was born except for the last election when we elected an idiot.

Amy is not up for election until next year. And Al is good til 2016--thank the good Lord.

The repubs on any level--state, county, municipal--are the bane; the opposite of anything I have ever believed in.

I have to admit that Nixon looks pretty good right now.

I have to admit that Ronny looks pretty good right now!

And George H.W.Bush does not look that bad right now. haahahahaha

George W. Bush was the single worst president I have ever witnessed in my 6 decades plus!

But America voted him to a second term--although the repubs did in fact steal Ohio but who cares at this stage of the game.

I think I am going to do a blog about the accomplishments of the first two years of the Obama Administration.

Many great measures were put into play whether by executive order or otherwise.

Grandma Pelosi accomplished so much and the dems dropped the ball in the Senate to the extent that some 480 pieces of legislation passed by the House were simply never addressed in the Senate.

My buddy Smith would begin a new movement that I called the Peabaggers...But I do not see much future in that.

Oh well...

We shall again celebrate on Tuesday of next week and I ask Genghis to set up some live blog as we watch Wisconsin pricks go down the tubes...

Where was this version of

brewmn — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:53:19 +0000

In reply to The problem is, we lost the

Where was this version of Larry Summers when he was in a position to influence policy? To hell with that fat, greasy, self-promoting piece of shit.