Wouldn't it be great if the president we elected now actually showed up?Wouldn't it be great if the president who promised "change we can believe in" now actually started believing in it himself?
Wouldn't it be great if the lessons of Massachusetts did indeed put a stop to that awful Insurance Entitlement Act that the Senate passed and which our president has clearly preferred over the much better House bill?
Wouldn't it be great if our president stopped trying to cuddle up with Wall Street and Big Pharma and all the other bigs and started leading for the people, to take our government back from the Cleptocracy?
Wouldn't it be great if Barack Obama fired Rahm Emanuel? And the entire Treasury Department?
Whatever lessons they're learning this a.m. in Mugstomp-on-the-Potomac, we very seriously doubt that any of the above is included.
This is President Obama's fault.
Well Jerry I agree with you but all politics is local and there are apparently issues there that are not really related to Washington's screwups.
ReplyDeleteBrotherdoc,
ReplyDeleteBeen watching Maddow, Olbermann and Matthews all night?
FYI, they are lying to you.
Much as I hate losing the Senate, I'm not even that upset. Coakley was an idiot. The Republican was the smarter guy. And I think Mass. is right. Maybe it'll send a message to Washington, "Can you hear us now????"
ReplyDeleteThis is President Obama's fault.* Piss off JW
ReplyDeleteSome of it, but let's face it! He was just another slick Corporate lacky following orders just like the Corporate Dude that got elected last night......
Thirty years of incremental movement toward the right have resulted in the severe imbalance we are now in. No balance-you fall.
ReplyDeletePresident Obama, his administration and the leadership of the Democratic Party have not been willing to do what needs to be done. We need a President that confronts those in the way of transformational change. The President cannot serve two masters. The working class is loosing out to the corporate $. The voters know this.
Bob,
ReplyDelete<span>"The working class is loosing out to the corporate $."</span>
I'm afraid I don't quite follow you. Doesn't "loosing" mean "setting free" or "releasing"? What is the working class setting free?
Mr D,
ReplyDeleteYes I should have spelled it with one o.
Eternally grateful.
Read this and weep: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/01/relieved.php
ReplyDeleteShirley you can't be serious? ;)
ReplyDeleteThe letter you linked was delicious, laughable, self-deception.
I wonder how many of the energetic far left still cling to this explanation that lack of aggressive, progressive action is what caused this shocking election result?
The longer you live in denial, the worse the beating is going to be in 2010. What will be your explanation when both houses of Congress are gone?
What can be done for the people? Our only option is to vote or not to vote. Evidently, the voters stayed away, they couldn't hold their nose and vote at the same time. Disheartened am I, yet, this may awaken Dems to the pitfalls of not acting when told to do so.
ReplyDeleteOlevet,
ReplyDeleteThe voters stayed away, and what? Only insurance company executives voted, right? ;)
The excuses keep rolling in.
" What will be your explanation when both houses of Congress are gone?" - Mike D.
ReplyDeleteWhy, we've simply become the Republican Party of 2008. ;)
"All politics is local." - Tip O'Neill
Note to Mike D:
ReplyDeleteNice reference to "Airplane," the movie. :-D
do we need more proof that liberal states are more free-thinking than conservative states? Imagine SC voters choosing a Democrat to replace Strom! or even impeaching a republican governor for infidelity.
ReplyDeletehealthcare reform is not a possibility now, but MA voters have the benefit of Democratic leadership so all of them are covered and pay...which allowed him to campaign against healthcare recipients, but if his record is all republican for the next 2 years and there is a SERIOUS Democratic challenger next, he will have an asterisk next to his name in the history books. plus Reid and Pelosi are incompetent and bull-headed.
Good observation, Dingo. But I think Brown has NO OTHER choice but to follow the Repub corporate line. He can't afford to piss off the party if he wants the money for his re-election.
ReplyDeleteBikerBard,
ReplyDeleteRest assured that regardless of the path he chooses, WataugaWatch will claim that he is following the Republican party line.
<span>"do we need more proof that liberal states are more free-thinking than conservative states?"</span>
ReplyDeleteGreat observation, Dingo. I agree. It is highly symbolic that it was a liberal state that decided Obama's administration needed to be restrained before they do too much permanent damage to our country. If Texas had voted in a Republican, it wouldn't mean anything... but Massachussetts? That is something now, isn't it?!?
NO! they voted for a republican b/c they did not want to be taken for granted, by a Democratic candidate who did just that in her campaign. flip the situation, and republicans accept being tools for the status quo. must I repeat that the Obama healthcare plan (Clinton plan before the general election)of insuring all americans is ALREADY in effect in MA, so when scott brown says he will vote against it...MA voters dont give a fuck, b/c they are ALL already covered; or have the plan right now = no change.
ReplyDeleteyou want a referendum on comprehensive healthcare paid by all citizens? ...let me know when MA has a republican governor, republican reps, and a repub state legistlature!!!!!
I am still waiting on a MS, SC, GA, TX,LA, or AL electorate to be that intelligent, but that will never happen when they are so content to be barefoot, illiterate, and toothless!!!
NO! they voted for a republican b/c they did not want to be taken for granted, by a Democratic candidate who did just that in her campaign. flip the situation, and republicans accept being tools for the status quo. must I repeat that the Obama healthcare plan (Clinton plan before the general election)of insuring all americans is ALREADY in effect in MA, so when scott brown says he will vote against it...MA voters dont give a fuck, b/c they are ALL already covered; or have the plan right now = no change.
ReplyDeleteyou want a referendum on comprehensive healthcare paid by all citizens? ...let me know when MA has a republican governor, republican reps, and a repub state legistlature!!!!!
I am still waiting on a MS, SC, GA, TX,LA, or AL electorate to be that intelligent, but that will never happen when they are so content to be barefoot, illiterate, and toothless!!!
NO! they voted for a republican b/c they did not want to be taken for granted, by a Democratic candidate who did just that in her campaign. flip the situation, and republicans accept being tools for the status quo. must I repeat that the Obama healthcare plan (Clinton plan before the general election)of insuring all americans is ALREADY in effect in MA, so when scott brown says he will vote against it...MA voters dont give a fuck, b/c they are ALL already covered; or have the plan right now = no change.
ReplyDeleteyou want a referendum on comprehensive healthcare paid by all citizens? ...let me know when MA has a republican governor, republican reps, and a repub state legistlature!!!!!
I am still waiting on a MS, SC, GA, TX,LA, or AL electorate to be that intelligent, but that will never happen when they are so content to be barefoot, illiterate, and toothless!!!
Dingo,
ReplyDeleteClearly, those with whom you disagree are "<span> barefoot, illiterate, and toothless", obviously inferior to you and your fancy shoes, books and teeth.</span>
However, those sad, inferior country people you are so apt to insult, many of them would die to protect your freedom, while you would not sacrifice a bead of sweat for them.
Truly, sir, you are fit to be a king.
Mike D:
ReplyDeleteYou HAVE to give Dingo at least one of those states to fit the bill.
How about giving him Alabama?
Not a chance, BikerBard.
ReplyDeleteEvery human is product of his or her life experience. I place no greater or lesser value on the knowledge of the educated professor who has lived behind the safe, ivy covered halls of academia than I do on the wisdom of the farmer, the bus driver or the waitress.
Dingo, through all his or her sophistication and learning has not mastered the simple concept of humility, and as such, feels comfortable ridiculing those who are different, inferior in his or her eyes.
Dingo:
ReplyDeleteI'm giving you Texas. I have no use for that staten or the people in it.
Mike, it depends on what kind of knowlege you are talking about. Remember those professors put in many many hours of research in their fields to get the label of expert in whatever they teach. If you want to find out will be the effect on the watershed of clear-cutting a mountainside , you prolly want to ask the geology prof rather than the waitress.
ReplyDeleteBridle,
ReplyDeleteI speak of the collective value of an individual, not expertise in a particular field.
Dingo was demonstrating his or her elitism and prejudice by ridiculing a group of human beings as inferior, people who have done nothing wrong or illegal other than be alive and vote.
Dingo wasn't referring to whether a seismologist or a waitress should be chosen to determine the likelihood of a 9.0 earthquake in San Francisco.
He or she was condemning the participation of part of the American electorate in our democratic process because he or she stereotypes those individuals, based on region, as unintelligent, barefoot, illiterate, and toothless.
Would it still be acceptable to you if he was stereotyping black people? What if he said this juicy little excerpt from Che Guevara's personal diary: "The Negro is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized, and intelligent."
Dingo is saying the same thing, really, as the racist Che Guevara. Perhaps Dingo has a bright future as a t-shirt icon.
Sorry, that was me, Mike D. who posted last.
ReplyDeleteGeez, I don't like posting without a review option to check my work. I used 'me' instead of 'I', 'was' rather than 'were', and some really awkward sentence structure.
ReplyDeleteSorry about that.
That's reasonable, but you did say "<span> I place no greater or lesser value on the knowledge of the educated professor..than I do on the wisdom of the farmer, the bus driver or the waitress. ".</span>
ReplyDeleteI believe education gives people an advantage in making wise decisions. For instance, if most people had a better understanding of history and how disease and epidemics have destroyed entire societies in the not-too-far distant past, they might consider an overhaul of our health care system a more urgent priority.
Uneducated people are easier to manipulate. The first people to get taken down by despots are the university people and the educated classes. Maybe that's why Virginia Foxx wants to further impoverish our educational system.