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In Totally Unsurprising News, Obama has Lost Me.
I won’t be voting for him in 2012. These tax cuts for the wealthy are a bridge too far. Fuck him, and fuck the [trojan] horse that fraud rode in on. i hope he’s banking on a lot of support from conservatives, because he is losing the left like an old lady loses her social [...]
Read More..>>Running Away
So the president’s core proposal, to end the Bush tax cuts while extending a cut to the middle class, is generally considered to be another borken promise, another cave-in.
You would figure if he really wanted them, he’d be putting pressure on the Senate. But no: he is running away like the coward he is.
President Obama [...]
Piggies Redux
Most of this post is built from an email i just shared with another blogger, betting him that the Democrats will be unable to pass tax cuts for the middle- and working-classes only:
Hamsher’s line about “it’s christmas for god sakes” really hit me hard.
From 2005-2008, I worked at a human services organization here in [...]
Hamsher Speak, You Listen
You can watch the whole thing here.
and call me a firebagger all you want: jane hamsher has passion and grit that you rarely see anywhere else.
Obama: Maybe Not So Progressive After All, Part Two
I never knew that protecting torturers from their crimes was a progressive value.
In its first months in office, the Obama administration sought to protect Bush administration officials facing criminal investigation overseas for their involvement in establishing policies the that governed interrogations of detained terrorist suspects. A “confidential” April 17, 2009, cable sent from [...]
Obama: Maybe Not So Progressive After All
I love reading things like this:
The simple fact is that the vast majority of progressives, having successfully toiled to elect one of their own president, are invested more in his success than in narrow ideological battles. A small minority of progressives prefer to judge the president’s progressiveness entirely by what he does and not [...]
Captain Caveman Surrenders On Tax Cuts
Cheap Trick, “Surrender”
I think Barack Obama should change his name to Captain Caveman. Not because he’s a wacky cartoon super-hero who solves crimes with attractive underaged girls, with a penchant for smashing his enemies with a giant club, but because the dude does nothing but cave. he’s got all the spine of a jellyfish, [...]
Another Open Letter to Ray LaHood
Dear Secretary LaHood and Mayor Nutter:
A few weeks ago, I wrote to both of you in support of using the $3.38 billion in ARC funds New Jersey Governor Chris Christie declined to fund necessary improvements to Southeastern Pennsylvania’s and Philadelphia’s public transit, including such items as implementing a smart card system, extending the Broad Street [...]
Fire Tim Kaine
tell them democrats to fire Tim Kaine.
And then tell them to re-hire Howard Dean, even if it means giving him a blow-job every day.
A Few Thoughts on Last Night’s Self-Inflicted Disaster
1) This was a self-inflicted defeat, in many ways. Shutting out liberal grassroots organizations was one of many bad ideas. Continuing Bush’s “no strings-attached” bailouts while ordinary Americans continued to lose jobs at record rates made the Administration look like it was on the side of the same people who wrecked the economy. [...]
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