I am here unhealthy drunk on, a bottle of Vitiano 2008, a wine peppery and bawdy, while I watch Netroots on C-span, and really glad to hear Senator Al Franken. He may occupy the seat of smartest, humane senator in the senate. I liked him on Saturday Night Live, but I like him more in the senate.
My progression to progressive so subtle that I didn’t notice. There are still a few good ideas from the right, except no one on the right says them in public. In fact, some folk on the left state them, which proves them more thoughtful than most folk on the right. The right will not accept any ideas expressed on the left even if the original source is on the right.
I grade President Obama low, perhaps a C plus, but must confess that what he got us is better than before. Much better, I confess. Republicans’ grade, F minus. Their grade is that high, and not lower, because of Senators Collins, Snowe, Brown, and Graham. Yes, Lindsey.
I’m drunk so my brain wanders.
“ * This year, children with pre-existing conditions can no longer be denied health insurance coverage. “ * This year, health care plans will allow young people to remain on their parents' insurance policy up until their 26th birthday. “ * This year, insurance companies will be banned from dropping people from coverage when they get sick, and they will be banned from implementing lifetime caps on coverage. “ * This year, adults who are uninsured because of pre-existing conditions will have access to affordable insurance through a temporary subsidized high-risk pool. “ * This year, small businesses that choose to offer coverage will begin to receive tax credits of up to 35 percent of premiums to help make employee coverage more affordable. “ * This year, new private plans will be required to provide free preventive care: no co-payments and no deductibles for preventive services. “ * This year, early retirees will have help in the form of a temporary re-insurance program to help offset the costs of expensive premiums for employers and retirees age 55-64. “ * This year, seniors who fall into the Medicare Part D 'donut hole' coverage gap will receive a $250 rebate to help pay for prescription drugs.“
Now this last is stupid. $250.00 dollars does not really fix the problem; the remedy is to change the law so that the donut hole does not exist.
Alabamans I am drunk but you may be stupid!
I will awake tomorrow with a hangover.
You will not awake from your atavistic stupor, unless you decide to vote for folk who advocate for you, for your self interest.
Your hangover is that you live in the daily stupor that you have lived in for decades, and you will be poorer, your children poorer, and the country declines a little bit more.
Simple honest speech, courteous and kind has not worked. I call you stupid. You vote against your interest.
Go to the links above and read the actual features of the health care bill. Use the intelligence that a long line of hominids evolved, died, extincted themselves, to produce you.
I usually limit myself to one shot of Knob Creek or Booker’s, one glass of wine, one glass of Takara Plum wine, one bottle of Guinness Stout or Pilsner, or one shot of Laphroaig 25 year old. Tonight I get really drunk for the first time in two decades because I am confused by the acts of Alabamans.
Why do you vote against your self interest?
Why do you vote for Alabama Republicans?
If you lived in Maine, I could understand a vote for Senator Collins or Senator Snowe, but you live in Alabama and you vote for Alabama Republicans.
There has been some progress, Alabamans are the second fattest, second to Mississippi.
Total Itemized Contributions † $10,404,293 25 Total to Democrats $3,347,264 27 Percent to Democrats 32.2% 42 Total to Republicans $6,969,362 20 Percent to Republicans 67.0% 10
I am too drunk to go fetch for you the donors to the Democrats and Republicans. I amaze myself that I can still type.
There is some ferment in me besides wine.
Why do you vote for Senator Sessions and Shelby; they vote in the senate to starve and impoverish you.
Why do you vote for Republicans?
I am drunk and my hangover will last an hour or so next morn.
Your hangover will last for decades.
“Qui bibit, dormit; qui dormit, non peccat; qui non peccat, sanctus est; ergo qui bibit sanctus est.” I guess I’m a progressive saint now.
******************************************* Next morn. I’m sober. No hangover, perhaps because I hydrate. I should edit what I wrote last night. Naahhh.
WASHINGTON, DC, April 10, 1865 (FNS)-The Civil War ended yesterday with the surrender of General Lee's Confederate Forces to Ulysses S. Grant, the Union Commander, at Appomattox.
Although most observers are generally happy with the surrender, many of President Obama's most loyal supporters are livid with the Commander-in-Chief because of the concessions he made in order to obtain the future support of the Southern Senators who will rejoin the body when the next Session begins.
At a media event this morning, Press Secretary Dick Timoneous expressed the President's hope that the formerly Confederate Members of Congress are looking forward to changing the political culture and steering the Nation in a better direction:
"It's time for the opposition to realize that what really matters is putting America first. The President is certain that by offering some concessions now, Southern Senators will look beyond their own parochial interests and do their part to move this process forward."
Hereis what's the matter with Alabama: we overwhelmingly tend to vote based on social issues that we can never change, where the political goods will never be delivered or received. The result is that Alabama remains incredibly poor and injustice is everywhere. The reason for our poverty is that we continue to vote ourselves poor by voting Republican.
As Thomas Frank wrote in his book What's the Matter with Kansas, "Vote to stop abortion; receive a rollback in capital gains taxes . . . Vote to screw those politically correct college professors, receive electricity deregulation."
Its safe to say that the main reason why so many Alabamians vote Republican or vote "conservative" is because of the abortion issue. They feel the way they do on abortion because of their religious beliefs. But, why cannot they not see the obvious?
Being an abortocentrist or basing your vote on the abortion issue is a complete and utter waste of time and your vote. For decades, the Republicans told us -- just vote Republican, and Roe v. Wade will be overturned. Well, almost four decades and seven Republican U.S. Supreme Court justices and five Republican presidents later, the abortion laws have not changed. The Supreme Court will never overturn Roe, so the only avenue left is a constitutional amendment. But, the nation is so closely divided on this issue, and because supermajorities are needed in a supermajority of states to change the constitution, abortion law will never be changed that way, either.
Brighton, Colorado (FNS)-Attorneys from the Republican Study Group (RSG) descended upon the 17th Judicial District courtroom of Judge John T Bryan today to present an amicus brief and associated oral arguments in order to prevent a settlement in a lawsuit related to an automobile accident in this Colorado city.
The intervening attorneys claim the settlement reached between the two parties to the accident is a "shakedown" because the plaintiff had not yet exhausted all possible legal remedies when the agreement was finalized, and because the agreement was executed in the presence of the plaintiff's brother, a well-known local attorney.
They hope Judge Bryan will decline to approve the settlement in today's hearing, and that he will order the parties to move forward to trial.
"What we have is government transferring property from one party, an admittedly unattractive one, to others, not based on preexisting laws but on decisions by one man, a car czar", said Crush Mimbaugh, attorney for the RSG, "and we are here today to protect all Americans from this legally sanctioned rape of an innocent driver."
I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The views expressed below are my own.
Uh oh, looks like you are starting to have an effect on the war. Congress is freaking out, calling hearings, holding up so-called emergency funding, and demanding to know why it is that the longest war in US history has to go on even longer. All of this has led some to question the President's leadership altogether. Is he an effective, or even competent, Commander-in-Chief? Serious concerns about Obama's escalation policy are being raised, and it's likely to severely damage his presidency. Well, rather than using this opportunity to their advantage, the opposition party has opted instead to say something stupid:
Senate Republicans on Wednesday attacked President Obama’s plan to begin withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan in July of next year, saying that the United States was sending a self-defeating message to its allies in the region. [...]
“Right now, we’re sounding an uncertain trumpet,” [Republican John] McCain said. “Our allies in the region are convinced that we’re leaving.” [...]
Ah yes, the old "exit strategy = defeat" meme. This is one of those annoying war myths that just won't go away, no matter how stupid it looks in the face of facts. Weirdly enough, it's often the argument made by people who claim to be "strong" on national security, when in reality it should call into question their grasp of even the mild complexities of war. This argument isn't just wrong, it's plainly stupid, and you only to have pay a little bit of attention to see why.
I miss them good old days when white folk at least said, nigra. I’m sentimental for them good old days. Maybe I will go out and buy a banjo today.
One noticeable tack of some Republican argument in the election is to oppose that nigger in the White House. They substitute liberal and socialist for the image that soils their lily brains, nigger.
I almost wish that they could just say it aloud. It’s allowed, protected constitutionally.
I won’t even cut them with my switchblade or burn down my own neighborhood.
Who do I fool? I live in an tame integrated neighborhood with enough white folk to gentle the dark ones.
I’m the only rough neck here, my thuggery intellectual or bombastic, and subliminally seductive.
I expect Republican party to harbor evil ships of fools. I expect them to believe that one uppity nigger, or one renegade white nigger lover will bring down Anglo Saxon civilization.
I don’t expect that from Democrats, but got that almost (almost) the other day when one accused me of jeopardizing the whole Democrat agenda because I mentioned one minor MINOR reason I supported a candidate. Lil old me has the power to crash the hopes of the Democratic party.
I’m not a Democrat yet, save in my brain. I haven’t been to a meeting yet. I haven’t signed the pledge to thwart the attempts of the gentle Angles and Saxons to take back their country. Take it back from that, that...in the White House.
Perhaps the Cats will forgive my use of it since to too many Republicans (and a few Democrats) I’m just another nigger too, one who writes once pristine western civilization to degradation.
I add that phrase, “Take back our country,” to the list of phrases that compel me to load my flintlock, leave it by the door. It competes with “the good old days” for number one on my list of phrases that warn me of danger.
I have to take back my country one day from the one in which Tomtom Jefferson beat out such lofty ideals that he couldn’t live by: back to the country that existed before the big bang when niggers behaved.
It's official. Despite his best pandering, bizarre, living-room rant, James was only able to climb from distant third to nearly-second, but still third. From the Times Daily, we learn James is down 167 votes. And of course he wants a recount:
James announced at his Montgomery campaign headquarters that he wants a recount. He said the people of Alabama must know the truth.
But we already know the truth, Tim, and the truth hurts.
"The enemy is in Washington, D.C., because they want to change our country to what it was - I take that back - to what it is, to something we have not known in this country before," Phillip said during a recent debate at the University of North Alabama. "You can call it socialism, you can call it Marxism, you can call it what you like."
This ad
has started showing up all over Huffington Post lately. Click it and you'll visit Ron Paul's Campaign For Liberty, otherwise known as C4L, where a set of Frank Luntz and Paulite talking points contains the following call to action:
Call Senator Shelby at (202) 224-5744 and insist he support Ron Paul's Audit the Fed Bill and demand he oppose empowering the Fed.
You would think there was little daylight between Paul and Shelby, but you'd be wrong. Paul, you see, would do away with the Fed altogether; Shelby only wants to strip the Federal Reserve of oversight authority:
Now, he said he was the best friend
that a black man from Alabama ever had
And I have to admit, compared to Fob James
George Wallace don't seem that bad
Tim James, a Greenville businessman, son of a two-term governor and Republican gubernatorial candidate, visited the Shoals for the second time during his campaign and talked more about U.S. history and broad federal issues than the nuts and bolts that the next governor will face.
James said he is a family-values, anti-federal government candidate who believes that governors need to band together to direct the government toward less spending and more fiscal belt tightening.
"We are in the worst recession since the Depression," James said.
As a matter of fact, Tim James reminds me of another Republican nominee: Roy Moore, whose previous candidacy was designed to win a nomination contest with the ACLU instead of Bob Riley.
This is what comes of building a political movement based on paranoid anti-federal propaganda. You wind up with local candidates who don't seem to understand that all of politics is local.
It seems that many of those who are regular guests of this space are committed to a worldview based on some degree of reason and rationality.
That’s a handy thing if the “Covert Alarm Locator Apparatus” in your Isaac Daniel® Compass Global 1000 GPS sneakers should happen to fail and you need to find your way back to where the rest of us are; sadly, not all voters are equipped with such a helpful worldview.
Luckily for them, there are lots of conservative “mouth organs” ready to fill the “information gap”.
They send out lots of emails every day, spreading their Word, and as a public service I receive several of them; this to help keep track of just what’s out there, exactly.
If you ever wondered why otherwise normal people believe some of the craziest things about “Obama’s Secret Death Care And National Virgin Sacrifice Program”, have a look at some of the things I get every single day, and it might all make a bit more sense.
LANGUAGE WARNING: Today’s story is uncharacteristically blunt, and from this moment forward we will be using lots of inappropriate language in making our points.
It is by now fairly well known that Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s White House Chief of Staff, had a bit of a blow-up with liberals who were ready to start running ads against “blue dog” Democrats who were working very hard to shut down the health care reform effort.
Now we’re not gonna get in the middle of that argument today; instead, since we’re finally getting a chance to talk, I figured me and Rahm could get a few other things out of the way that have been on everyone’s mind for the past year or so.
The political and societal 'what ifs' are some of the most interesting things that occur in modern times. What I'm talking about are the things in conventional wisdom or in scholarly thought are the things assumed not likely to occur. However, some of these things have been defeated due to circumstance or sheer luck, but it happened. Case and point, the Commonwealth of Virginia elected it first black governor with L. Douglas Wilder back in 1989 although just 7 years prior California failed doing the same with the candidacy of Tom Bradley thus we have the political theory known as the Bradley effect. Nevertheless, a Southern state was the first to actually elect self-identified black governor to its office.
Republican senators are somehow surprised by negative publicity over their vote endorsing Halliburton's gang rape cover-up. Both of my senators have attempted damage control. In response to my email, Senator Jeff Sessions has sent a letter that is a scandal in its own right.
Thank you for contacting me regarding Senator Franken's amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, H.R. 3326.
Unfortunately, a number of media personalities have portrayed the amendment in a misleading manner. The truth is the amendment prohibits basic contract rights between all defense contractors and their employees. This is one of the reasons President Obama's administration strongly opposed it.
Senator Sessions is the one misleading. Here is what White House spokesman Tommy Vietor actually said: "We support the intent of the amendment, and we're working with the conferees to make sure that it is enforceable." Hardly the words of strong opposition. The Department of Defense was against the amendment; but then again, DoD always supports its contractors.
Arguing against the amendment in the Senate, Sessions claimed that it "would impose the will of Congress on private individuals and companies in a retroactive fashion, invalidating employment contracts without due process of law." But the amendment isn't retroactive, applying to the fiscal year 2010 defense bill and after. Perhaps that naked untruth is why Sessions has changed his story:
David Cao(R. Louisiana) tells Micheal Steel to Bring it On! Now that's what I'm talking about. A real republican who stands up for his people and doesn't back down. Cao is the kind of representative I wish I had instead of the representative I have.
Cao told CNN that Steele retains "the right to come after those members who do not conform to party lines, but I would hope that he would work with us in order to adjust to the needs of the district and to hold a seat that the Republican party would need." He represents the second congressional district of Louisiana, a solidly Democratic district that includes New Orleans. Cao said earlier today that he put the needs of his district over what was popular with his own party.
I'm happy the health care reform act passed but I'm dissappointed too. I'm disaapointed the entire Alabama delegation didn't vote in favor of the health care reform bill, but voted in favor of keeping poor women from having a safe and legal abortion. I'm dissappointed there are those who are attempting to defend the indefensable. *Sigh*
I'm disappointed in so many things, more than I can enumerate here. Someday I hope some of those things that I've listed above will no longer exist and my disappointments will be fewer. Then again, I have always been an idealist and a dreamer.
The easiest way for Democrtas to LOSE elections is to not use the power given to them by their voters to enact policies that they run on. Let every Democrat in Congress beware on Stupak-Pitts, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
The choice is yours. Give us a reason to vote for you, or we sit home. And you aren't going to make up the margins with conservative voters. They already know exactly who they're voting for, and it ain't you.
Republicans Robert F. McDonnell who is now Governor Elect, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and state Sen. Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, who is now Attorney General, Elect. As the washington post noted, "by some accounts, the three represent the most conservative Republican ticket to run in Virginia in many years."
The Rude Pundit breaks it all down as only The Rude Pundit can in The Rude Pundit Style. Warning, raw.
Forget what the assholes on TV are saying about the various elections and initiatives from last night. Who gives a shit what Michael Steele is crowing about?
Across the country, Democrats still hold 60 legislative chambers and control 55 percent of the nation's partisan legislative seats. Our current position remains a solid one heading into the final election before the Census and the next round of Congressional and legislative redistricting.
We've heard about selective prosecutions and political prosecutions under the George W. Bush Department of Justice. But the Alex Latifi case in Alabama can best be described as a "racial prosecution." And that makes it one of the ugliest Bush fiascoes of all.
T.H.E. Social Work Agency Adoption home studies & care management services in the North Alabama area.
Licensed, certified, caring social workers. blog advertising is good for you
