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You waste our time by writing

mcc — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:44:19 +0000

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You waste our time by writing this diary, and THEN tell us not to waste our time talking to you?

Couldn't you warned us earlier?

Like I said, I've been a lot

AnswerFrog — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:11:05 +0000

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Like I said, I've been a lot longer than you.

Yes, you are correct. NO GOP

AnswerFrog — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:09:11 +0000

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Yes, you are correct. NO GOP WILL VOTE FOR ANY HCR. It's a fact.

Here's my first blog:A Blank

AJM — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:44:46 +0000

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Here's my first blog:A Blank Slate
March 26, 2008, 3:39PM

"Part of the reason I think it's always difficult for public figures to talk about this is that the nature of politics is that you want to have everybody like you and project the best possible traits onto you," he says. "Oftentimes, that's by being as vague as possible, or appealing to the lowest common denominators. The more specific and detailed you are on issues as personal and fundamental as your faith, the more potentially dangerous it is. "

Obama talking to the Chicago Sun-Times in 2004

I know I was making comments for quite some time before that but can't track them. I did discover TPM around the time of the primary campaigns. When did you?

Obama's top legislative

new10 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:23:26 +0000

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Obama's top legislative priority should have been public financing of Federal elections. All other progressive legislative goals greatly depend on that.

Does anyone doubt that no

new10 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:21:07 +0000

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Does anyone doubt that no Republican senator will vote for the bill with or without the public-option? Seeing as that will likely be the case, the only reason to give up a public-option would be to satisfy certain Democratic senators.

Make that "biscuit"...

kfreed — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:24:07 +0000

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Make that "biscuit"...

Apparently, our role is to

kfreed — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:21:22 +0000

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Apparently, our role is to attempt to appear above it all.

But then a member of the press starts waiving a doggie buscuit and the first tails to start wagging are ours.

We can muster outrage for every reason under the sun and then waste it fighting each other.

I imagine the opposition laughing wildly while perusing these enlightened critiques over champagne and scones.

Divide and conquer... it wouldn't be the first time Republicans succeeded with that particular maneuver.

Thank you, frog. Obama

kfreed — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:00:45 +0000

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Thank you, frog. Obama doesn't need more critics -he's rather in need of supporters though.

"Those who control the

acanuck — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:36:37 +0000

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"Those who control the process."
Yes, Don, at some point -- regardless of how health care reform turns out -- the American voter is going to have to address the underlying problem.
Which is that their government, in all its branches, serves other interests than theirs.
Candidate Obama recognized that reality when he talked of rooting out the power of corporate lobbyists.
President Obama seems to be acknowledging what a small cog he is in the military-industrial-financial-congressional-media complex that holds real, though unconstitutional, power.
He harnessed the sentiment of revolt against it long enough to get elected, but the consortium runs by its own rules, and they do not include bowing to electoral defeat.
But you were saying about health care ...