dagblog - Comments for "The Road Ahead or Barth Wants to Ruin Family Get Togethers" http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/road-ahead-or-barth-wants-ruin-family-get-togethers-7897 Comments for "The Road Ahead or Barth Wants to Ruin Family Get Togethers" en Thanks Barth, really http://dagblog.com/comment/98860#comment-98860 <a id="comment-98860"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/road-ahead-or-barth-wants-ruin-family-get-togethers-7897">The Road Ahead or Barth Wants to Ruin Family Get Togethers</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Thanks Barth, really excellent points.</p></div></div></div> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:05:20 +0000 tmccarthy0 comment 98860 at http://dagblog.com She is (I quite agree) a http://dagblog.com/comment/98821#comment-98821 <a id="comment-98821"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/98814#comment-98814">She is (I quite agree) a</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><blockquote><p>She is (I quite agree) a great Speaker and will, I hope, return to that position in 2013.</p></blockquote><p>Amen, brother Barth.  That's my hope as well.  *raises wine glass*  To Madam Speaker, may she soon return.</p><p> </p></div></div></div> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:04:06 +0000 LisB comment 98821 at http://dagblog.com She is (I quite agree) a http://dagblog.com/comment/98814#comment-98814 <a id="comment-98814"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/98622#comment-98622">Wow. Well said.I attempt to</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>She is (I quite agree) a great Speaker and will, I hope, return to that position in 2013.  The Senate is, as Rachel says, broken.  The fault does not lie with Senator Reid, but with the the entire GOP conference:  top to bottom.</p><p>As great as DADT repeal was, it only showed what a real Senate could do, and did only because of the pressure put upon them.</p><p> </p></div></div></div> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 02:31:54 +0000 Barth comment 98814 at http://dagblog.com Wow. Well said.I attempt to http://dagblog.com/comment/98622#comment-98622 <a id="comment-98622"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/road-ahead-or-barth-wants-ruin-family-get-togethers-7897">The Road Ahead or Barth Wants to Ruin Family Get Togethers</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Wow. Well said.</p><p>I attempt to bring up one of your points at least a couple times a month.</p><p>SPEAKER PELOSI DID HER JOB. I feel the Speaker was the single most important member of Congress over the last decade.</p><p>And everytime someone attempts to tell me that the repubs and the dems are the same, I point to her as well as her team.</p><p>The House of Representatives did its job.</p><p>The Senate did not.</p></div></div></div> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:29:46 +0000 Richard Day comment 98622 at http://dagblog.com Bravo Mr. Barth. To the http://dagblog.com/comment/98615#comment-98615 <a id="comment-98615"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/road-ahead-or-barth-wants-ruin-family-get-togethers-7897">The Road Ahead or Barth Wants to Ruin Family Get Togethers</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Bravo Mr. Barth. To the extent that we can use this as one of our starting points from which to begin our political discourse about how do we go forward, the better off we will be.  Thanks for articulating so well some of the insane Senate "reality" that has where we are today.</p></div></div></div> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:01:51 +0000 Elusive Trope comment 98615 at http://dagblog.com