Over the weekend, the NYT had an article featuring Rep. Earl Blumenauer, the Portland congressman they hold up as a spokesman for the “Frustrated Left.”
Instead of forging ahead, Mr. Blumenauer, 61, finds himself fighting to retain one of the touchstones for liberals this year, a public insurance option in the health care overhaul, and is watching his hopes of curbing global warming grow cold in the Senate. Mr. Blumenauer, a seven-term congressman, is bracing for a tough vote on sending more troops to Afghanistan while he frets about the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay remaining open.
“It has been a hard landing for a lot of the people that I represent,” Mr. Blumenauer, referring to his largely liberal constituency, said as he assessed the first months of the Obama administration.
While Blumenauer is fairly diplomatic towards the administration, blaming circumstances rather than the president, it’s kind of hard to avoid coming to the obvious conclusion: this president is likely looking at one term only, and it ain’t because he’s “Jimmy Carter,” it’s because he’s Herbert Hoover. America didn’t elect a president of Goldmann Sachs, but that’s what we got. And when the next foreclosure crisis hits, and it’s coming, all hell is going to break lose.
The batshit insane right demands purity of their officials, who scramble over each other to genuflect in the directon of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck on a daily basis. It doesn’t matter how insane their base gets, they at least get that the base needs attention.
OTOH, we demand little to nothing of Democrats, being all pragmatic and stuff, and nothing is what we get, over and over and over and over. This administration thinks nothing of screwing over key constituent groups, it’s ready to expand a land war in Asia, and it just generally has its head up its ass. I guess tearing off people’s heads and shitting down their necks only works on HBO comedy shows, or when you shit down the necks of your enemies. What we didn’t grok is that in Rahm-world, we are the enemy.
Fuck, the administration should actually hire Jeremy Piven, at least he’s funny.
I guess I don’t know how to spell this out more clearly for the Democratic Party: stop fucking the regular people over, or you’re done. And don’t tell us you “don’t have the votes;” you had the votes for all sorts of dumb-ass shit like condemning Move On and declaring a brain dead woman alive, so I’m not buying it any more.
If you’re looking in the mirror and thinking about your next contributions from the financial “services” industry and the “health care” industry, I’m talking to you. Fight the stupid Blue Dogs and show the people you have a spine for once, on health care, on gay rights, on Afghanistan, on everything.
Or. You. Will. Lose. Big. And you can blame “liberal purists,” all you want, but the people who will be voting you out will be all the regular Americans who are fed up with weak-willed, sell-out shitheads who send their kids off to die and steal their tax money to give it banksters, health insurance executives and defense contractors.
Here is something to be frustrated with too:
Monday, October 19, 2009
The 2010 Elections ought to be interesting.
Too bad Conservatives don’t have a real Party either…just like Progressives.
PS–
I’m baaaaaaaaaaaaaack and I really missed you KLOWNS….not.
Why don’t you relocate your sorry ass to Cuba, Goldy? The fucking whining, pissing and moaning is not only accepted there, but highly encouraged. You wouldn’t have a clue what the fuck the founding father’s envisioned for this country. YOu don’t want freedom, you want a fucking security blanket to suck your thumb through life with.
Sad sack.
#2 Yeah…bring back the founding fathers “freedom”! It’s time we get back to the basics. I agree Empty Suit! Tell the blacks to shut the F**K up and get back to the fields, like our founding fathers taught and expected. Tell Sarah Palin to shut the F**K up! You’re a woman! Our founding fathers didn’t WANT a woman to vote or ever be President. So Ms. Palin, back to the kitchen, make some more babies and keep out of men’s business you trouble maker. And if you live in an apartment, ALSO shut the F**K up because only land owners get to vote. And stop trying to elect Republican Senators for our state, Senators are appointed not elected. And for all you ‘founding fathers’ folks who are kiss ass to the military? STOP IT! The founding fathers did NOT want a standing permanent military. Unless Congress declares a war, the military should be disbanded.
Thanks for reminding us about the freedom our founding fathers gave us and their intentions and how the Constitution and reality should and do never change. Nothing like belief in a static universe! It’s comforting isn’t it? The idea that nothing ever changes, we never make mistakes (humans ARE perfect after all) and nothing ever needs to be fixed or updated. It’s comforting. Crazy, insane, non-sense, anti-reality…but comforting.
If only the “good old days” were really that. People have been pining for the “good old days” for thousands of years. It’s not a real solution, just a whining human trait of not wanting the world to change, and for the past thousands of years of our civilization (and for the next couple billion) it will continue to change. Sorry for the reality check.
Jon,
Perhaps the Left needs their own version of the Club for Growth. You know an organization that recruits more ideologically “pure” candidates to run against moderates (or RINOs and DINOs if you prefer) and then helps fund their campaigns and runs IE advertising for them (or against their opponents).
It has worked remarkably well to drive most of the Republican moderates who represented safe districts and states out of Congress. More importantly sitting Republican members of the House and Senate do their best not to attract the ire of the Club for Growth lest they face a well funded primary challenge during the next election.
I really wish the Democrats had something similar.
I (heart) Jon DeVore.
@2: What alki said.
And I note that you intended to puke your bile at Goldy’s but ended up puking on Jon’s shoes instead.
Go home and sober up, fucktard. You might consider stopping at Klynical’s for a reach around, it’ll keep him from waving his dick around, you’ll hardly feel the ass-pounding since he’s a pencil dick, and it’ll help you sleep.
Make sure he laps up the mess afterwards, though.
This is pretty much how I feel about the state democrats. Might as well have voted for Rossi.
Look in the Mirror
Jon’s post would be wonderful except for one thing … it is easy to kvetch but a lot harder to do something.
Comparfe “us” with “them.”
We talk about the Dems as if the Dem Party were some company we have hired. Then we complain about them.
They act as if they are the Reprican party and if the party does not do what they want, they will take it over!
As long as progressivces tolerate show boats like McDerm or non-leaders like Gregoire, we are going to lose.
If you want to kill the corporatist state, you have to bust the monopolistically large corporations up.
How do you do it? Start with Pecora-like hearings so you can point the teabaggers in the right direction.
Wouldn’t it be wicked fun to turn the Republican base on their masters?
You mean Bernie Madoff, Allen Stanford, Johnny Chung, Norman Hsu and Raj Rajaratnam didn’t qualify as your Club for Growth? All that payola into the Donkey coffers? What about George Soros? Hmmm…?
You didn’t hire them. Goldman Sachs did! Remember little Timmy Geithner?
The problem is where to send your protest vote when the progressive challenger you support dies out in the primary.
If it comes down to the compromised Democrat and the uncompromising Republican, I tend to hope for the best and vote Democratic.
@4 Chris …
Bahhh … what we NEED is an organization like the one Goldy and others put together for Darcy … except we need one that does not poof between elections.
Goldy gets pissed at me for dissing Demo politics and supporting nin partisan elections. Fair enough, BUT … riddloe me this:
In the non partisan race for KC executive, which party has its act together?
Hey SeattleJew, we have common ground. Butt it’s funny how you all are now “Frustrated”?
McDimWitt is a continual mental loser yet he gets his jackbooted vote from the HA Libtardo progressives. For what?
You and your “peers” drank Queen Chrissie’s kook-aid and now you are paying The Piper for it.
Oops Puddy forgot to add Charlie Trie to the Club for Growth list.
10 Puddy or whoever is posing as Puddy
Nahhhh …
We need a few GD patriots who care more about this country than about playing games.
Palin, Quail, Madoff, Rostenkowski, ,,,, these are all fo a kind. Self interested, self serving, … trolls.
Riddle me this …
What earthly reason would any patriotic citizen of KC support an airhead like Hutchinson?
How did the rad right manage to turn Mike McGavick, a rational moderate, into a right wing clown … and why?
Who has the responsibility to send Brad Owen to greener pastures?
Is McDermitt a source of amausement or an effective legislator?
++++++++++++++++++++++++++
As a true non-partisan, I see crap on both sides,
The “right” has beocme a collection of clowns. Sort of a 24/7 version of Monty Python.
The “left” seems to think iot can hire folks to do its good work and then snipe at them.
Or folks can enjoy the games, Roman style, while the Republic melts down.
@13 Puddy … BS
No. I voted against Gregoire in her first election because she ran a racist campaign and because her record as AG was horrid.
As for McDermitt, I KEEP saying that a RESPONSIBLE Republican candidate could take that seat. Trouble is, finding anyone who can wear that label these days may be impossible.
Put the stupid party label aside and … support the good things Obama is trying to do. Or .. if you have some REAL and RATIONAL alternatives to his plans … find someone willing to be a serious cadidate under the Republican flag.
How to get there … put aside the Republican loyalty oath …
creationism, global warming denial, my gun is my penis, my God not yours, …. not a very good starting point.
BTW .. congrats on your award.
Frustration?
SeattleJew,
This is standard progressive talk. If you don’t think like MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, because I’m a good proegressive, you are an airhead supporter. Maybe people are tired of the same shit every day from your local party SeattleJew? Maybe they see the same shit every election and it’s getting worse? Putting the same peeps in office year after year isn’t effective anymore? Take this argument of the tunnel, bridge or surface streets for WA99. Each “progressive” side has their group of interested hands out parties. If you disagree with them you are a diaper wearing idiot. What a clusterF that is.
How can you lump Palin with Rostenkowski? Quayle with Madoff? Palin and Quayle never did anything like Madoff and Rostenkowski. When you are a Democratic you seem to think you are above the law. You can milk the system for personal gain.
Why haven’t you put two and two together yet. Why is it called Crook County Illinois?
Mel Reynolds – Chicago
Dan Rostenkowski – Chicago
Barack Hussein Obama Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm – Chicago
Rod Blagojevich – Chicago
Roland Burris – Chicago
Alderwoman Arenda Troutman – Chicago
City Clerk James Laski – Chicago
Bit players
Dr Jeremiah Wright – Chicago
Gangs of Chicago
William Ayers – Chicago
Tony Rezko – Chicago
Jesse Jackson – Chicago
Father Michael Pfleger – Chicago
Why didn’t Ted Strickland, Democrat Ohio governor, not immediately fire Helen Jones-Kelley, Ohio Jobs and Family Security head when she illegally rifled through Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher personal records?
It’s because your side isn’t really Frustrated over corruption in your party.
@ 1
Gallup has the Presidential approval rating at 53%, its what he got elected with.
Here’s real Frustration… Since you HA Libtardos scream about Rasmussen lets talk about Harris. So Mike Jones @18 see this…
The Harris Poll – Remember Harris? They were accused of being the furthest leftist leaning polling group?
OUCH: Harris Poll has Barack Obama at 45% Approval Rating (-20 Favorability Gap Among Independents)
“The bad polling news continues to come in for President Barack Obama. It appears that Obama’s recent Nobel peace Prize has done little for his approval ratings in the United States. A recent Harris Interactive Poll (full pdf results) has Barack Obama at 45% approval rating. In May 2009 Obama had a 59% – 41% approval ratings. That has all but reversed itself and then some as in four months Obama’s approval ratings are a -14. “
Great post. You have captured how many progressives feel.
The lack of fundamental changes in how Wall Street puts public money at risk is really depressing. Obama is only going to have himself to blame if / when there’s another big blow up.
The Frustration as seen from Harris Directly…
President Obama may have won the Nobel Peace Prize, but unfortunately, he is not winning accolades from the American public as his job approval rating continues its downward slide. In September, U.S. adults were split almost evenly on the job the President has been doing – 49% gave him positive ratings and 51% gave him negative ratings. This month, the number giving him positive ratings drops to 45% while over half of Americans (55%) give him negative ratings.
The White House should also be concerned about weakness in some of President Obama’s strongest supporters. During the election, Echo Boomers (those aged 18-32) were the strongest age group supporting the president. Now they are of mixed minds on his performance as just over half (51%) give the president positive ratings and 49% give him negative ratings. The oldest generation, Matures (those aged 64 and older) are even more negative with just 39% giving President Obama positive marks and 61% giving him negative marks.
Because he votes on the right side of the issues idiot. And he occasionally says things that makes moronic wingnuts like you tear their hair out.
That’s worth sending him back to Congress every 2 years in itself.
It’s ironic that Reichert keeps his job because he’s everything that McDermott is not – inarticulate, dim-witted and vain. Reichert gets re-elected on the “I resent Seattle” sentiment but guess what right wing asswipes – Reichert has to tack left from time to time because every two years he has to fight just a little too hard to keep his job. Witness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX7GZbkcs80
Imagine that – Reichert dissing Limbaugh and Beck.
17. Puddybud Remembers spews:
Frustration?
You never answer the question. I do not care if Ms. H is a Democrat or a Communist. What I do care about is that she has no reorcd of competence and has yet to make ANY real proposals. If you can not see the resemblance between her Dan Quayle you are drunk.
As for the others on my list, the message ought to be clear. Only a traitor puts party and partisan loyalty above country.
Which party os that tovarish? Try finding someone you support?
SeattleJew,
The response from ylb arschloch for Jim McDimWitt is a classic for all time. Post#23 – Another reason he’s a dumb brick.
re 17: How would putting airhead Republican mouthpieces for entrenched business interests help — except to give the voters a new benchmark for self-interested greed and mendacity?
@23 IDHA
What the hell does opposing one turkey ahve to do with another?
Yeh, if the Repricans have any sense left they will find somke qualified person to run for Reichert’s seat before it becomes a stable seat for some rational dem.
Same issue for Dimicans here in Seattle. HA already provides more amusement than JM does. He is a wobbly target., waiting for some moderate Republican to eat and KEEP the position.
Or maybe you are a closet Republican?
re 25: “The response from ylb arschloch for Jim McDimWitt is a classic for all time. Post#23 – Another reason he’s a dumb brick.”
Name-calling and labeling. Very persuasive — if you are 9 years old.
I feel your pain, Jon, but I think your frustration is getting the best of you.
First of all, you’re forgetting what the alternative is — the choices right now are between Democrat-lite or batshit-crazy Hard Right. You don’t really want another Bush (or worse), do you?
Second, whatever Obama is, he’s no Hoover. If Hoover was managing this crisis there would be no bank bailout, no automaker bailout, no mortgage reworking — Hoover would let the “free market” take us all the way to the bottom, wherever that is, just as he did in 1930. Go ahead, hold your nose, but economists are in almost universal agreement that the combination of bank bailouts and federal stimuls was absolutely necessary to prevent a deflationary spiral and a much deeper collapse in the general economy. Starting the train of bailouts was one of the very few things Bush did right, and by continuing and expanding what Bush started, Obama literally saved the world.
Third, Rome wasn’t built in a day. Merely 2 1/2 years ago, we had a Hard Right president, congress, and supreme court. It was the election of Blue Dogs, generally by conservative voters in conservative-leaning districts, who flipped the House in 2006. That effectively killed Bush’s legislative agenda for the rest of his presidency and, among other things, made Social Security safe for senior citizens again just when it was looking like an endangered species. Obama isn’t against the public option; to the contrary, he clearly supports it. His pandering to powerful players in the health industry is distasteful, but by getting those interests on board, he’s making something possible whereas by butting heads with them the Clintons got nothing for health care consumers. Something is always better than nothing. Also, don’t underestimate the value of patience; you don’t get rich in the stock market overnight, it takes a while, and Obama’s legislation will get a foot in the door — always the hardest step. There will be opportunities to build on it and improve it in the future as voters grow more comfortable with it. Let the noisy opponents of health reform expend themselves, get tired, become muted, and go away. If we can’t get completely wholesome reform now, then we’ll finish the job later. But finish it we will, if we’re patient and go about it in a smart way. Obama is being smart.
There are new regulations on credit card companies in the hopper to protect consumers. In some fashion or other, the shadow banking system will be brought under government scrutiny and regulation, at least more than has existed until now, which is none. Even if you feel what’s done isn’t enough, remember, something is always more than nothing. Also, don’t forget that in politics, perfect is often the enemy of good. Taking what you can get while the getting’s good and biding your time and coming back for more later if/when the getting gets better is a good stock market strategy and it’s a good political strategy, too. Ya gotta think long-term, and often you’ve got to think incrementally.
Finally, the Obama administration did something to unshit on their liberal supporters today: It ended federal prosecution of medical marijuana users and suppliers.
“Pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers should not be targeted for federal prosecution in states that allow medical marijuana, prosecutors were told Monday in a new policy memo issued by the Justice Department. Under the policy spelled out in a three-page legal memo, federal prosecutors are being told it is not a good use of their time to arrest people who use or provide medical marijuana in strict compliance with state law.”
(Source: Associated Press)
http://news.aol.com/article/ne.....icy/445182
Idiot hatched from a rock @ 25
I’ve proudly voted for Sunny Jim every two years as long as I’ve lived in Seattle and I’ll keep voting for him as long as he wants to serve.
The more batshit insane idiots like you spew hate at him, the more convinced all his supporters should be that they’ve made the right call.
@1 Cynical, why don’t you play Potash (POT) and let us know how it works out? I was gonna do it but my broker scared me off. It’s up almost 9 bucks in the last 2 trading days and could be headed for $150 a share. You might make a 50% capital gain in 10 weeks. Historically, I’ve passed on lots of things that I would have made money on, due to an abundance of caution on my part. My gut tells me this one will work, but my head (the rational part of me) would rather risk your money than mine on it. If you decide to run with this tip, I want 15% of what you make as a finder’s fee.
Obama’s downward slide is because he is not progressive enough, not because he is TOO progressive.
So far, the only thing all of our politicians in DC seem to agree on is that there should be stiff fines for people who are too poor to afford insurance in the first place.
Does anyone remember in the 70’s when auto insurers claimed that the reason auto insurance was so expensive was because of people who did not have insurance. So, like the suckers that we are, we mandated auto insurance — after which the insurers cynically raised the price of insurance anyway.
The new American symbol should be a tick with a dollar sign over it.
@2 “Why don’t you relocate your sorry ass to Cuba, Goldy?”
Goldy didn’t write this thread, Little Rickie Dumbass.
SeattleJew,
Again Puddy doesn’t answer the question “to your standards”.
Many new office holders appear in office with little or no record of political competence or any real proposals. They make them happen later. When Hillary Clinton ran for senate what were her qualifications? When Patty Murray ran for senate what were her qualifications? When Maria Cantwell ran for senate what were her qualifications?
Based on your arguments Hillary, Patty and Maria are similar to Dan Quayle. But Dan was a senator when he was nominated for VP. None of those women had any skillz. Oops Puddy picking on the Donkey womins now.
Hmmm…
Ya know being hatched from a rock easily breaks those progressive “glass houses”; so Puddy will keep that name.
@3 I think our conservative friends who pine for the good old days should buy a copy of “Quest For Fire” from Amazon, watch it a few dozen times, then divest themselves of their modern impediments and try to emulate that lifestyle in Alaska or some other remote place where it’s still possible to live as a caveman.
yes ylb arschloch, keep voting for the idiot. While you are at it he needs funds to retire his law suit debt. Steal some from your wife’s wallet and send Sunny Jim since your pocketbook has butterflies in it.
headless, got an early start@28. No classes this period?
Note, most people think that movie is about the Cro-Magnon protaganist’s learning the secret to making fire, but it’s not, it’s about his learning what a blowjob is.
@4 There is no political middle in America anymore. You’re either for Democrats or against America.
@9 “Wouldn’t it be wicked fun to turn the Republican base on their masters?”
Ab-so-LUTE-ly!
This must frustrate the progressive libtardos on HA.
When Stan Greenberg and fellow Democratic researchers launched a study of the conservative Republican world’s reaction to President Obama, he figured they’d find ample evidence of racism.
They didn’t. Not at all.
“Race just wasn’t brought up,” said a surprised Greenberg on a conference call with reporters Friday. He said that the focus groups were given as much time to talk about race as they could possibly need.
Oh no… this frustrates the dumb bricks and stupid cinder blocks on HA. It was all race related.
Uhhhhhhhh… Nope you Dopes!
ylb arschloch, it’s from the HuffPo ya fool!
Hey rujax get over it… Hell, he’ll be frustrated all this week with this news.
“Instead of focusing on these intense ideological divisions, the press and elites continue to look for a racial element that drives these voters’ beliefs — but they need to get over it,” the authors write.”
Carville and Greenburg say get over calling anyone who faults Barack Hussein Obama Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm policies a racist. Will HA Libtardos stop? Puddy says Nope you Dope!
@16 “Put the stupid party label aside and … support the good things Obama is trying to do.”
That’s something he and his wingnut ilk will never do. Wingnuttia would sacrifice America on the altar of ideological purity. In fact, they already have.
@17 “Why didn’t Ted Strickland, Democrat Ohio governor, not immediately fire Helen Jones-Kelley, Ohio Jobs and Family Security head when she illegally rifled through Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher personal records?”
I don’t think it was illegal. The guy’s a fugitive from Arizona justice hiding out in Ohio under an alias (his name isn’t “Joe”) and they were performing a law enforcement function. Plus, doing plumbing work without a license is a crime in Ohio.
Mr. Pudpacker, why do Republican icons like Sam always turn out to be liars and criminals? And why do wingnut idiots like you support them anyway? If you were a good citizen, you would pick up the phone and tell the U.S. Marshal’s Service where he is.
@19 Uh, pudpacker, the only poll that counts is the one last Nov. 4 and would you like me to remind you how that one turned out for ya?
Obama’s Hoover because he’s doing nothing about fixing the big hole in the middle of the economy. NO JOBS. During the 8 years of Bush2 job creation didn’t keep pace with workers entering the work force. Since last year 2+ million jobs have been lost. Over the last 30 years wages have fallen and stagnated to replace that cheap credit and home equity loans were used to create the consumer demand that fuels the economy. All that’s gone now. All of the trillions of dollars of the Bush/Obama bailouts have gone to the super rich and they’ve used it to give themselves bigger bonuses and make the too big to fail banks bigger.
What’s terrifying is that with no real left anymore the alternative to Obama is some sort of racist hate mongering fascist with some easy to understand sound bites.
Hatched from a rock @34: “Many new office holders appear in office with little or no record of political competence or any real proposals.”
Yeah, and look how it always works out. But blockheads like you keep voting for them anyway, and inflicting them on the rest of us. Now you’re poised to do it again.
@34 (continued) What a sorry ass excuse for electing incompetents to public offices.
Hfar @35 “Puddy will keep that name”
You’re gonna keep it, all right, whether you want to or not. We’ll make sure of it.
@47 Employment always lags other leading indicators in an economic recovery. The only way Obama could boost employment would be with a massive public works program similar to the CCC. But that would employ only people with construction skills or able to do physical labor, at relatively low wages, and at the cost of deepening deficits that would ignite inflation and set the stage for another deep recession later.
The fact is, we depend on private business — and primarily small businesses — for the bulk of employment in this country; and Obama can’t order businesses to hire. They’ll hire in their own good time, when they’re ready.
I feel fairly confident that employment eventually will surge. Businesses boosted their bottom lines — and the stock market — this year by cutting expenses. Many went too far in cutting inventory and production, and those who did will be forced to beef up staffing soon. In addition, cost-cutting isn’t a sustainable way to increase profits, so earnings-driven managements have no choice but to grow their sales and production, which means rehiring workers.
From an unemployed worker’s point of view, the best long-term strategy is to break your dependence on employers. After all, employers aren’t dependable — they’ve spent the last 30 years doing everything possible to prove they see workers as expendable commodities to be thrown away at the employer’s convenience, not valuable human resources to be nurtured, sustained, and retained through the hard times because they’ll be needed when good times return. No employer can be trusted anymore. So, workers have to learn to take care of themselves without employers.
In any case, the concept of making a living by going to a job is an illusion. There’s no respect or reward in working. In our capitalist system, you take care of yourself by owning income-producing assets, not by working your ass off to make your boss prosperous. Most jobs today are so lousy that losing a job isn’t much of a loss anymore. The fundamental rule is OWN NOT OWE — don’t forget that, ever. Live below your means, eschew expensive status symbols, pay off debt, stay out of debt, and use your money to build a capital base … a portfolio of assets that will take care of you when your boss won’t. All the tax advantages of our system go to those who own, not those who owe, and to those who tell others to work, not those who do the work.
Me, I don’t work! Why should I? I don’t have to. I never had to, and would have been just as well off, and probably much better off, if I had never worked. Because working doesn’t pay in this country. Not working pays! Not working gets the tax breaks! Working is punished by the system. Only fools work. I wish I had learned this when I was much younger, but better late than never.
In the future, all workers will have to be entrepreneurs, whether they want to or not, and regardless of whether they feel competent or comfortable in that role. That’s because we’re headed for an economy in which most companies exist for only a few years before they disappear, all jobs are temporary, and all employees are short-term temps. With the disappearance of employer-paid benefits like pensions and health insurance, everyone will become responsible for providing those things himself.
I think all American workers should convert themselves into small businesses. Instead of selling their labor for a few dollars an hour, they should sell a package of business services to other businesses at commercial rates. Everything should be B2B. Instead of waitresses taking minimum-wage jobs in restaurants, they should become Hospitality Consultants and sell a package of expertise and service to the restaurant industry at, say, $50 an hour. There’s a very reasonable price considering most car repair shop rates are $100 an hour or more, and you can’t get a home repairman or remodeler for less than $50 to $100 an hour. The last time I had a serviceman come to my burrow the effective shop rate was around $600 an hour ($150 for a refrigerator part replacement that took 15 minutes to perform).
You should do the same thing: Go into business for yourself (you’ll have to anyway) and charge the rates other businesses charge and get the tax credits and deductions they get. You can deduct your vehicle mileage, work clothes, tools, and computer if you’re in business for yourself. You can’t deduct squat if you’re an employee. Even newspaper reporters will become independent contractors in the future as traditional news organizations fade from the scene.
In short, work for yourself, not your boss, and get business tax breaks and put your profits to work by buying stocks and other income-producing assets. Then your ex-bosses will be working for you, not the other way around, and that’s the way it should be.
moron hatched from a rock @ 42
Nice try idiot. The article also said this:
Obama’s excellent communication and organizational skills transcends the old divisions of race like that old fool of yours PacMan liked to opine about. Therefore your peeps can’t confront Obama on race – shit, he won lily white Iowa! They can only name call him in a completely paranoid way as a socialist, using that guilt by association crap with Ayers or other useless tactics.
However, the RACISM is still there!
Your peeps hate the brown-skinned fool while at the same time, the richer wingnuts use them to line their pockets probably hating them just the same.
What a bunch of useless racist tools! May they stay wandering the wilderness forever!
@34
Puddy, an executive position is a bit different than a legislative one.
Hillary had a track record both as an attorney, in the non-profit world and as First Lady. Granted she didn’t have any prior elected experience, but she’s hardly the first person elected to the Senate without having held elected office previously.
Patty Murray before being elected to the Senate had been a state senator, a member of the Shoreline School Board, and a teacher. Murray had a long history of civic involvement prior to running for office.
Maria Cantwell before being elected to the Senate had been a Vice President of Marketing at Real Networks, a Congressional Representative, and a state legislator. She also has a history of civic involvement prior to her first run for office.
Frankly it is rather insulting to compare Susan Hutchison to any of these women.
You know things are getting frustrated for the obama when heleb=n thomas is telling you to stand down with his fights with fox news.
Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas on Monday advised the Obama administration to stand down and avoid further fighting with Fox News and its correspondents.
In an interview with MSNBC, the columnist — who is promoting her new book on presidents and their campaigns — also stressed the White House ought to “stay out of these fights.”
It’s nice that she’s taking a stand on principle.
Forget the principled stance, she was giving tactical advice.
Oh man! How I love it when they eat each other.
Stupes, here’s your old pal, the man who won’t quit until he doinks Sarah Palin, John Ziegler:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....25663.html
Called an “asshole” and a “scumbag” by another right winger. Nice heroes you have there Stupes.
Puddy
“my standards???” or any standards.
The only reason YOU support Hutchinson is her party. You can not name a single proposal she has made that you would support (other than showing loving care for flood victims).
As for comparing her with Dems, what is your point? I don’t give either party a free pass … I just want patriotic, competentt people leading us.
Hell Puddy, I could do a LOT better job than you in supporting the conservative side .. or I could if there were better right wing candidates. Unfortunately I know some of the folks whl SHOULD be running under the Republican banner. They can nto run. Because trolls dominate the party, anyone with the skills, patriotism and intelligence has to first pass a series of tests that ,,, rival the stupidity of a memedership exam in the Communist Youth League.
Riddle me this …
why did McCain lose? He did not only lose because of Iraq or the economy, he lost because to get the nomination he was forced to take on Palin, to embrace GWB, and to act as if Republican fanatics were not fanatics.
This is hopeful.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....02156.html
But of course, the big banks, still “own the place”, i.e. the U.S. Senate.
They’re wrong, and so are you.
Barack Obama is hated because he’s a black man.
This is the continuing legacy of Lee Atwater and the Republican electoral strategy of dividing the US along racial lines in order to win elections and divert the attention of the electorate from the decimation of the middle class.
And no…I won’t “get over it”. Your ilk is premanently ruining this country. You Puddy are a most foolish and deluded man. You continually support those who are trying to systematically deny your right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Just like a chicken who would vote for Colonel Sanders.
More on Puddy
Wanna bet on who the Remnant Repricans Numinate in 2012?
Huckabee?
Romney?
Palin?
BTW, it is not as if there are not a few Repricans surviving who do have the talent needed to govern .. Powell, Graham, Christ, Whitman, Lingle .. trouble is , none of these folks can pass the primary test of the Reprican party, the Red Credo:
Red Reprican Credo,
I affirm that I am
not Jewish, Muslim, or Mormon.
not gay, atheist, or intellectual.
I affirm that I do not believe in
evolution, global warming, the writings of Karl Marx, or the right of association.
the value of any culture other than White, especially if I am Hispanic or African American.
I affirm that do believe that
this is a Christian country, chosen by God and governed by His (not Her) law.
the native population of the US has benefited form their inclusion in our society,
the US has never made any errors, including Hiroshima, Dresden, slavery and the election of GW Bush or Richard Nixon.
The second amendment is an eleventh commandment, added by by God to recognize the importnace of the gun and to allow Christian, Free Men to protect themselves against tyranny and feminizing women.
a heavenly reward to true believers.
In the name of Jesus and the spirit of his prophet Ronald Reagan, Magnus Duce Americanus, I do affirm that these are my beliefs.
AMEN
…
why did McCain lose? asked SeattleJew…
HE WAS A POOR CANDIDATE like Robert Dole. Very simple answer.
Do you honestly believe if john edwards won and was pushing these very same policies that conservatives would be cheering john and lining up behind him?
I guess that explains why your blog is a compilation of copy/paste from across the internet.
Conservatives believe in the right to association.
Roger The Illegal Law Dodger,
It was and she was forced to resign. She leaked Sam’s personal data to the libtardo MSM and it was deemed illegal. She made Sam a bigger icon than he would have been if she didn’t do it.
Aren’t you working, marvie-poo… doesn’t some cock in some cabana need attention?
The strange fantasies of wingnuts:
With Obama, I’m getting a case of “Yes, that’s great but….”
He is doing great things, but is his inaction and lack of leadership on the economy and jobs, a deal breaker for you?
Does it matter if he loosens pot laws, if America does not change the economy to save the middle class?
Does it matter if he restores our standing in the world community if America is not able to enact effective health care reform?
Does it matter if we get net neutrality if America doesn’t change our relationship NAFTA, GAT and the WTO?
Does it matter if we get domestic partnerships if America cannot get off shoring stopped?
Does it matter if we get Gitmo closed if America doen’t start manufacturing more stuff here?
(When did I start to agree with Pat Buchanan on some Trade issues? http://www.issues2000.org/Cele....._Trade.htm)
It keeps coming back to the phrase “It’s the Economy Stupid!”. Who’s more important? The people of voted for democrats or the corporations who contribute to democrats?
I’m not getting buyers’ remorse. I know clinton and mccain/palin would have been worse or much much worse respectively. He was the best option.
Is his inaction and lack of leadership on the economy and jobs, a deal breaker for you?
The answer, marvin…is no. Not in the same way and not even close.
There is a racist, misogynistic and misanthropic element in the republican party that will never ever ever acccept the idea of a person of color as president of the United States.
Bill Clinton was targeted because of his policies, but the level of vilification never approached the type of abuse directed at Obama.
Now go back to “work”.
Those delusional wingnut fantasies can be found here.
Malkin will be required reading.
In wingnut fantasies, Pam Geller saves us from Muslim brown-skinned people:
They finally ran down the former AG:
At least we were able to take out Rush and Beck:
Does that scenario allow for a stable environment to raise kids and care for the elderly? Or would every waking moment for both parents be spent working or looking for the next job? Who would have time to be an informed electorate? Who would have time to care about art or community or the environment?
In the wingnut alt-universe, Rahm’s still on the loose:
rujax, the great mind and soul of libtardos everywhere; just check his blog, claims
James Carville and Stanley Greenburg, two men who have the pulse of Donkeycrats everywhere, except rujax of course, claim otherwise. Somehow Puddy must have missed the rujax report on CNN. Did anyone see a cinder block talking to a microphone pleading his case? Got a YouTube link?
Butt butt butt, dammit I’m rujax, and you all are wrong.
Once you disarm rujax from his insipid arguments he’s reduced to these 8-grade sexual comments…
Are you looking for marvin to deliver you a blow job rujax? Wouldn’t marvin need the Hubble on full power with some special tweezers to service your equipment rujax?
Why do you brag here when there is nothing to see?
PUDDY ENDORSES R71
Then I assume you will vote FOR R71!
Just think how much better you could write if you had both hands on the keyboard.
Really????
Hmmm …..
I worked for him in the past, why didn’t I this time?
Could it be McCain offended me by dipping his tool into the suspect genitalia of the far right?
BTW, IF McC had run with Kerry, and Kerry still lost, McC would NOW be the Prez! ooops that would make him a Democrat!
Steve
Wingnuttia fantasy is both amazing and alarming. It is also incredibly unpatriotic.
Carville and Greenberg speak for DINO’s.
Pudddy is a dupe.
That’s the impression I also got. That rujax is almost hitting on me in that passive/aggressive way.
So now I have two women on here wanting me, rujax and x’ad. Hhmm, maybe it’s something about people with an “X” in their name.
no marvie-poo…it’s because you are so fucking stupid.
So it’s not because of the Xs in your names? Okay.
SeattleJew, The right to association is for demonstrations against Barack Hussein Obama Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm.
Butt since you brought up R-71… Have you all been paying attention to what has recently happened in MA courts over classroom teachings? No? Well if you have then you know right thinking people will be against R-71.
@4
Club For Growth for Democrats?
What?
I sure as hell hope not.
The Club For Growth has been a disaster for Republicans. They defeat or weaken moderate Republicans. Conservatives that win because of them tend to go on to lose — to Democrats.
What is $1.42 trillion? It’s more than the total national debt for the first 200 years of the Republic, more than the entire economy of India, almost as much as Canada’s, and more than $4,700 for every man, woman and child in the United States.
That’s Barack Hussein Obama Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm budget deficit for FY2010. Yep he’s screwing you Democratics again.
A trillion seconds (1 terasecond) is 31 688 years.
420 billion seconds is another 13,020 years
So 43,708 years of deficit in one budget!!!!!
So isn’t your little poodle “mavrie” in LA? Or is he at the “Fortress of Pudditude” sevicing the “Man of Steel”? Inquiring minds want to know.
If Obama is a one term president, it will be because of so called “purist” Democrats and progressives that abandon him. What? After not even being in office for 9 fricken months!
Give me a break.
Let’s abandon him like you guys abandoned Carter for Kennedy and Anderson. That worked out well huh? It brought in Reagan and the religious nuts.
Or let’s vote for Nader instead of Gore, right? That turned out well, huh? Sure caused America to move leftwards, right?
Jeez, Sometimes I can’t stand some of the members of my own party.
Let’s all commit political suicide so that more Republicans get elected!
Proud pragmatist
I think it’s amusing that you spend your time fantasizing about my sex life.
It makes your “FUCK YOU Marvin” look more like a offer than an insult.
Sure does
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Here’s a well written article about this very topic:
http://www.truthout.org/1018091
Rujax,
Hmmm… Did you mean Marvie, because you never knowwhat cums out of the mind of rujax… Puddy guesses whipping post rujax doesn’t roll off the tongue to easily.
I’m glad ‘lil ‘ol me can occupy so much of you all’s time…LOLOL.
It’s okay cuz she’s a democratic.
Sotomayor Says White House Even Picked Out Her Clothes
Butt if Palin had her clothes chosen, it’s a national crisis per the Democratics.
Ya know…I’m just a citizen with an opinion, just like the aforementioned asswipe “PuddyBuddy” and everyone else. My opinion is that Carville and Greenberg are corrupted members of the chattering beltway punditocracy and not to be taken seriously as an arbiter of the opinion, feelings and motivations of the Democratic rank and file. They don’t speak for rank and file Democrats and are in fact pathetically out of touch with rank and file Democrats and rank and file Democratic values.
They have “opinions” about the racially charged hatred of President Obama fueled by Fox News and right-wing hate-talk radio and right-wing “Death Pastors” who advocate and actually pray with their congregations for the death of President Obama…but they have more of a vested interest in telling the corporate media what it wsants to hear.
So the “Puddybuddy” is wrong.
As usual.
And as always rujax is right? Hardly you fool.
Your opinion here is as worthless as ylb arschloch’s job hunt. You are a follower not a leader. Shit, Puddy would read what correctnotright has to say over your tripe anytime. You’re worthless, insipid, vacuous, inarticulate, idiotic, and a bottom dwelling buffoon here on HA Libtardos!
Puddy will take what Carville and Greenburg over a rujax fart any day of the week fool.
Whatever, asshole…
…I just quake before the amount of credibility you have here.
So what about those “Death Pastors” you hypocritical christianist FUCK?
Who does your Jesus want you to KILL? What commandment says it’s ok to KILL. Do even nut-job Adventists like you think it’s OK to advocate killing a public figure?
What the fuck IS it with you clowns.
SeattleJew,
I think you miss my point, I’m not for trying to get moderate republicans elected. If I was I’d just support every “business friendly” moderate democrat who ran for office. I’m for electing fire breathing liberals who eat republican entrails with breakfast. I’m talking people like FDR, Adlai Stevenson, Robert Kennedy, Harry Truman, Hubert Humphrey, Frank Church, Paul Wellstone, Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, and Alan Grayson.
The Club for Growth has the power it has not by going after the Jim McDermott’s of the GOP but by going after the Adam Smith’s and Brian Baird’s of the party. Their point is why should you have a Chris Shays representing a seat a Michelle Bachmann can win? Similarly the Democrats have far too long tolerated moderates in seats a full-throated flaming liberal could hold.
Anita Dunn, the jackbooted goosestepping Mao follower is giving Fox great airtime. Now it’s more important than fixing the economy.
Can you see Wolf Blitzer getting patted on the head by Anita Dunn saying good boy you did well bringing our point of view today? Or how about Keith Olbermann?
Yes Puddy is sure Keith wold love getting patted on the head. Good doggie Keith!
So the dimwit dumbshit christianist cult member who claims to have oodles and oodles of cred on the threads makes a rather fantastic claim:
Ms. Anita Dunn, a veteran Democratic political operative and a holder of some pretty big jobs manages to be…
1) by implication a NAZI (jackbooted, goosestepping)…and
2) a Mao Ze Dung style communist.
A pretty neat trick that only a real dimwit dumbshit christianist cult member could think up…oh wait…that’s a page right out of the wanking wing-nut playbook. If you don’t like somebody just call them any name you can think of. Unfortunately for the dimwit dumbshit christianist cult member…he’s not talkin’ to his dimwit dumbshit christianist cult member teabagger buddies. No sireee!!
Try again jerkoff.
What about the clowns that wanted to kill bush.
You can scroll down and look at the pictures of your fellow left-wingnuts.
Didn’t you see the video that glenn beck found? It clearly shows anita talking about her favorite philosophers and naming mao.
Do you believe anita will turn out to be another person that because of glenn beck the obama will be forced to throw under the bus?
Anita Dunn reminds me a bit of Jude Wanniski.
Remember him?
Who was one of his favorite political philosophers?
Wanniski never served in the Reagan Administration he championed but for years he wrote for one of Stupes’ favorite publications – WSJ Editorial page.
Does Wanniski’s choice of favorite political philosophers soil opinionjournal.com for tools like Stupes and Stamn?
http://web.archive.org/web/200.....se/km1.htm
Hey Stupes,
Jim DeMint, bless his heart, is looking after the nations pennies – “like a jew would”:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....26295.html
Doncha just love right wing Republicans?
marvie-poo the cabana boy needs to suck some more cocks for protein…he’s getting hypoglycemic.
100 Chris ,,, you need a beer fix.
Fir kne thing you have very odd ideas about whio is and is not business friendly.
From oyur list:
Barney, Teddy, Adlai, Harry, Bobby and Ftamkie … these are all folks who are pretty moderate or even conservative on REAL bizness issues.
My Problem with McDim is not that his heart is not in a good place (a bit to the left) but that he is effin ineffective in almost everything he stands for.
Worse, by sitting on his ass and strutting around like a rooster, he endangers his position.
So he makes you feel good? Sarah Palin has that effect on her fans too.
I recommend a beer and a better candidate.
See you morgen abend.
@85 Puddy
thus passes any respect you have for the US Constition. What the hell bizness is it of your who I want to live with????
Mayve we need heresy laws to regulate religions that profane other religions?
Speaking of which … did you evwer respond to my question about the Panther?
@108
SJ, I know what really being business friendly means. However in modern usage “business friendly democrat” generally means someone who is for reducing regulation on business and reducing business taxes. At worst it means someone who will support whatever rent-seeking scheme the lobby for a particular industry wants.
I want a group who takes on these DINOs and sell outs particularly when they happen to have seats in liberal leaning states or districts.
As for McDermott I generally agree about him being ineffective and a poor representative for Seattle. However I disagree a moderate Republican is the way to take him out. A Republican simply cannot get elected in the 7th district and isn’t likely to any time soon. Besides anyone who would willingly caucus with Boehner or Cantor is automatically suspect (not that Pelosi is much better but at least she isn’t crazy).
I’m much more in favor of finding a real fighting liberal for the 7th CD. Unfortunately most of the well known names won’t run against Jim for fear of pissing off the party powers that be. Though that may finally be changing. A lot of insiders seem to think McDermott needs to retire soon and are hoping Obama will appoint him to an ambassador post to get him out of the way. If McDermott runs again in 2012 I fully expect Ed Murray will mount a challenge.
@108
Oh, but you are right about the beer.
Marvin@104,
rujax doesn’t watch Fox. It would explode his cinder block of a head with the Anita Dunn video. That’s why Axelrod and Emanuel went on ABC and CNN to make them cow-tow to the party line and not show Anita’s comments at a June 5th commencement ceremony.
Stay stupid rujax. You make stupid people proud!
SeattleJew
Show me where? And don’t try to conflate marriage with slavery again. This is personal behavior dude. No one has to marry anyone per the constitution.
Black Panthers?
ylb arschloch@106, where was you denouncement of Jesse Jackson when you learned he called NYC Hymietown?
You hypocrite arschloch!
@113
By that logic then blacks and whites don’t “have” to marry.
Are you saying you support anti-miscegenation laws then?
I really just don’t get what the fuck it is to you if a couple of dykes or queens decide to get married. Why does it matter? More importantly why do you care?
Hell if it was up to me I’d ban hetrosexual marriage and gays would be the only ones who could legally marry.
Anita Dunn is right – Faux news is not a real news station – period.
I have already put in the documentation for Faux news…they are biased, they mislabel republican deviants as democrats and they are just plain stupid. Faux news may have a couple of decent newspeople – but on the whole they are republican party cheerleaders. Look at how they reacted to the Olympics and the Nobel prize – anything to get at Obama.
They have no credibility – and the trolls that love Faux News have no credibility either.
Chris Stefan@113,
Projecting again? Marriage is between a man and woman dude. You can call what two dykes do anything else except marriage. God gave marriage to procreate and create heirs. Anything other than a man and woman make that impossible.
See ya!
correctnotright forgot to add.
Anita Dunn is right… Mao was a great man!