The Strategy Going Forward

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Saturday November 06, 2010 · 10:17 AM PDT

2010/11/06 · 10:17

How hard can it be to filter every Republican comment through the lens of:

"How is that going to create jobs?"

That is all you need to ask.

Marco Rubio's response to Obama's Weekly Address is the typical rhetorical pablum.

"Enough is Enough" he says. What does that mean Mr. Rubio? And how is that going to create jobs?

Why is Obama spending gadzillions abroad? He isn't. He is trying to encourage exports abroad which will create
jobs.

America's Economic Security is Priority Number One

Please help our country by promoting the good liberal ideas that will help provide job security and living wages for Americans, as has been the history of liberalism in this country.

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Sunday October 31, 2010 · 11:22 AM PDT

2010/10/31 · 11:22

Give Obama and Democrats Break

Nicholas Kristoff who has been very critical of President Obama now has a change of heart. Too little too late? Democrats did this exact same thing to Al Gore in 2000 nit picking him to death, creating cynicism and turning voters against him.

Let us remember that when Obama came into office the economy was broke and we didn't even have a cash register. What a way to start a Presidency!

Bill Clinton put it very succinctly at a campaign rally in Washington.

“I’d like to see any of you get behind a locomotive going straight downhill at 200 miles an hour and stop it in 10 seconds,” Mr. Clinton told a crowd in Washington State

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Friday January 22, 2010 · 11:05 AM PST

2010/01/22 · 11:05

Just in case you missed the import of Citizens United Supreme Court ruling and that nagging sense of impending doom.

It is now or never on Health Care.

With all the flaws that have been repeatedly pointed out by impatient liberals, there are so many good things about this bill that were never focused on for the sake of the progressive mantra about the public option. It basically reprioritizes the focus of the insurance industry on Health. That obscured the fact that this bill will extend the life of medicare!

Do you really think that corporations will lighten up with their spending to kill health care after yesterday's court decision?

The end goal for Republicans is not only to Kill this Bill but to

Kill Social Security
Kill Medicare.

They don't mind if it takes another decade or two. They stay organized. We don't.

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Saturday September 29, 2007 · 8:08 AM PDT

2007/09/29 · 08:08

The Iraqi Refugee Crises

One of the consequences of War in Iraq is the millions of well educated middle class Iraqi's that are fleeing their home country. The first time such a dynamic has played out, where refugees are not starving, but waiting out an end to a war, living on their savings. They have been swelling the ranks of Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.

The poets, the technocrats, doctors, professors, the educated class, that graduated from Iraq's many Universities, speak English well that have fled the war zone, hoping to 'wait out' the war, earnestly waiting for the now broken promise from the US, of a new and stable Iraq. At the moment these once well to do Iraqi's are not so much concerned about food, but about their children who are not attending school, because there aren't any schools to go to.

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Saturday September 15, 2007 · 7:33 AM PDT

2007/09/15 · 07:33

It is the economy stupid

Is the coming 'tightening' of the credit markets, or shortage of liquidity a direct consequence of Alan Greenspans encounter with Ayn Rand? The free markes equal free people advocates that believe free markets are the fulcrum that will bring balance to the world are often heard touting the glory of how unregulated markets are the answer to communism, and despotic tyranny. This ideology is behind Reagonics, Freidmanomics and the surge in privatization.

When Bush Jr. came into office Greenspan indulged in a bit of fantasy, thinking that it was the ideal time to implement his libertarian Republican policies of free markets with fiscal restraint, that would showcase the ideals that have driven his economic policy.

Though Mr. Greenspan does not admit he made a mistake, he shows remorse about how Republicans jumped on his endorsement of the 2001 tax cuts to push through unconditional cuts without any safeguards against surprises. He recounts how Mr. Rubin and Senator Kent Conrad, Democrat of North Dakota, begged him to hold off on an endorsement because of how it would be perceived.

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Sunday May 20, 2007 · 7:45 AM PDT

2007/05/20 · 07:45

China the Model of Wealth Without Liberty by James Mann

My opinion, this article is a must read.

While the US has vested all of its attention to the Middle East, while the Free Marketeers proclaim the beauty of unregulated capitalism to bring democracy to the world, while we were bringing bullets and bullying to Baghdad and our ex-allies, while folks here in the US, can't say support the troops enough times as the focus of all things patriotic, China has emerged as the fire breathing dragon in the closet, a force to be reckoned with, and the keepers of the US economic stability.

Our financial security rests on China, the country of one party rule. The values of liberty are not inherently tied to economic success, and China and its one party rule has shown us the way. You buy off the elite with special priveleges, and you stifle organized opposition and you control the flow of information.

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Saturday March 24, 2007 · 8:27 AM PDT

2007/03/24 · 08:27

Can we stop cowering in the corner and once again become the home of the Brave

I write this dairy mostly to highlight Zbigniew Brezezinski's wonderful article today in the Washington Post.

Why is our country dominated by a culture of fear and alarmism. And has it been used to cynically exploit the masses in the country for political gain.

Well of course the answer is Yes!

Where is American's sense of strength, confidence and hope? Why in the world are we being scared to death, thinking that evil arabs are going to swim the ocean, to come to America to destroy our way of life.

If America's principles are strong this is ludicrous on it's face. Do the leaders of this country think that our moral fabric is so weak? That is what the persistantly and methodlically keep trying to drum into our heads.

Here is the link to ZB's article which I hope some of you take the time to read.

Terrorized by the 'War on Terror

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Wednesday January 24, 2007 · 4:18 PM PST

2007/01/24 · 16:18

Love her or hate her, Hillary has got lots and lots of money. And she doesn't want anyone else to share in that fundraising pie.

I am not against Hillary, or her all consuming ambition to become President, but I am not sure I am for her either. She is smart, knows politics well and would make a decent Head of State.

I just want to throw this out there. Has anyone else noticed the Bush style sweep Hillary is making in campaigning for President. She is using the same tactics that W did in 1999. Acting like she has already won before she has won the primary.

I am not feeling quite comfortable with this seeming monopoly she holds on fundraising from large donors. And behind the scenes some fairly brutal tactics to make sure that no one gets a piece of the pie. Nor do I feel comfortable with this sense of dynastic entitlement that would put President Clinton and President Clinton in the oval office.

I would like to think that Hillary as President is not a foregone conclusion, at that the voters will actually have a choice of candidates, that is not based on who raises the most money from big donors, while excluding others from any chance.

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Monday January 22, 2007 · 9:17 AM PST

2007/01/22 · 09:17

The biggest issue facing our Western Capitalist Society is not terrorism, as is the popular conception, but in fact Climate Change.

Economists realize that unless this issue is addressed immediately there will be seroius economic results.

The End of the West as We Know It

"..... radically destructive climate change, then we must recognize that everything that the West now stands for will be rejected by future generations. The entire democratic capitalist system will be seen to have failed utterly as a model for humanity and as a custodian of essential human interests."

"[What will}.....our descendants make of a political and media culture that devotes little attention to this threat when compared with sports, consumer goods, leisure and a threat from terrorism that is puny by comparison? Will they remember us as great paragons of human progress and freedom? They are more likely to spit on our graves."

says Anatol Lieven, who has won the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing

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Tuesday September 26, 2006 · 7:27 AM PDT

2006/09/26 · 07:27

What do we do on a daily basis. Look at the recommended daires. We are following the headlines around, being led by our noses and the media, and

"justifying" our superiority as progressives, by calling out conservatives as blatant liars, criminals etc.

Okay so we see these truths as facts. But what is the context of those facts.

Are there progressive values reflected in your heated self righteous defense of the truth.

We tend to think that Headlines Can Stand Alone and offer our moral arguments for us. This is not the case.

In the last election facts were on our side, so why did we lose? We don't have a moral leg to stand on, so to speak. Why? In my opinion part of the culture wars in progress is the so called "left" needs to get a simple grip on its core values. And use those values as a integral part of every argument! Read More

The Neocon Strawman

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Monday July 31, 2006 · 7:24 AM PDT

2006/07/31 · 07:24

The ultimate neocon strawman. A tale of absolutism.
We are fighting the forces of evil.

Fighting the forces of evil, who gets makes the sweeping decree.

You can call us who say and reasonably so, that Israel is over reacting, to be evil as well. Who makes that call? And by what moral authority?

That you would denounce Lebanon's soveirgnty as a newly formed democracy is telling.

Hezbollah made a huge mistake in taking the soldiers. and many in Lebanon were angry about it. Israel's over reaction of flattening the newly formed democracy in the country of Lebanon with endless bombing has now changed the dialogue, and instead of the focus being on Hezbollah, they are questioning the actions of Israel and the US. I ask you, is this a good result?

Asking Lebanon to oust the militant element in Hezbollah, is like asking the Democrats to oust the Republican party. It can't be done right NOW. So your calls for the Lebanonese to rid itself of Hezbollah is in and of itself a strawman. Read More

Define Terrorist

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Wednesday July 26, 2006 · 8:55 AM PDT

2006/07/26 · 08:55

What is your definition of a terrorist?

terrorism: the use of violence and intimidation for political aims.

terror: the use of fear to intimidate people; especially for political reasons

The use of this word as a strawman to discredit anyone that opposes the current political climate of war is disturbing.

The McCarthy era was filled with terror. if you were labeled a communist. Your career was over.

Victims of this convenient meme are Joe Wilson, Dan Rather, Israel, Republicans. Read More

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