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YEAH! And it is an

Richard Day — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:35:28 +0000

In reply to Whatever our past performance

YEAH!

And it is an interesting contest to be sure. Is Barry a real chess player?

It may sound quaint, but these are interesting times to be sure.

And millions of people, the health and welfare of tens of millions of people will be effected by the outcome.

I get too involved in the consequences. I get mad!

We shall see.

Whatever our past performance

Flavius — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:05:09 +0000

In reply to I beat dead horses all the

Whatever our past performance the question is how we play our cards this time.

This will seem like a digression but humor me.

At one point I was working for Bob the comptroller of a large organization. Well over 50,000 employees.

His continual opponent was Gene, the head of Industrial Relations. Who would get involved in issues which properly we should have handled. Finally one of us asked Bob why he let Gene do this. .Bob put his two hands in front of him , right hand ahead of the left. Then made a motion of continually moving the right hand a few inches out in front, then bringing it back to the left hand and then doing the same thing again.

" Just playing out the rope" he said.

It would be encouraging to think that Obama and Harry Reid have been 'playing out the rope'.

We'll see.

I beat dead horses all the

Richard Day — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:39:45 +0000

In reply to I pretty much agree. But

I beat dead horses all the time.

I did see an interesting comment from Martin Bashir.

He was making the point that we dems always, always given in for the greater good.

What greater good?

Boehner lied but Martin pushes the scenerio where Cantor is Iago!

I really got into that.

Cantor tells Boehner one thing but tells the teabaggers something else.

Then Cantor smiles and does his passive aggressive crap on cable.

As a matter of fact I would take it further and make Cantor Richard III.

We have a chance this time, to hold our ground and see the end to the teabaggers lust for power.

We shall see!

I pretty much agree. But

Flavius — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:05:08 +0000

In reply to We Dems need a break and I

I pretty much agree. But worry we're vulnerable to the charge that we're letting millions of people suffer because Harry Reid isn'tt willing to interrupt the Senate's vacation.

Thanks

Flavius — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:58:43 +0000

In reply to Here's the TPM link.

Thanks

We Dems need a break and I

Richard Day — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:56:24 +0000

In reply to The House votes today on the payroll tax cut etc

We Dems need a break and I thing we got one...or two or three.

The House repubs are clearly angry with their leaders. Otherwise, how could they nix a deal Boehner made with McConnell?

The Senate repubs are clearly angry with Boehner.

The Senate repubs are clearly angry with House repubs, period.

Cantor and Boehner look like idiots or liars or both.

The repub party on the whole looks and smells awful.

And I think the entire mess can be laid at the door step of the 80 or so Tea baggers in the House.

On the other hand the entire mess might be laid at the door step of the 2010 voters.

And those voters have further injured the middle class and the poor.

Here's the TPM link.

Donal — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:49:53 +0000

In reply to The House votes today on the payroll tax cut etc

Here's the TPM link.