About those AIG bonuses
My father is not an employee of AIG or any other company that got bailed out. He is however a good example of the type of middle to upper-middle management whose salary is part bonus. He's the type...
View ArticleNo Ed, the Senate is not broken.
I'm listening to Ed Schultz on MSNBC say the house has some 200 bills that have simply been shelved by the Senate, some of them quite important. From this Ed concludes that the Senate is broken....
View ArticleWho is the leader of the Democratic party?
It is not Barack Obama. He may be the party's head but he is the leader of the nation as a whole. He's got the full spectrum of ideologies to deal with, not just the progressive agenda. Besides, by...
View ArticleThoughts on racial profiling
This is the type of post that gets me labeled a troll, but please bear with me. I did not come here to do malice.I have mixed feelings on the concept of racial profiling. I think the term gets used...
View ArticleBP: Shocked that you're shocked
I must say I'm shocked that so many other people seemed to be shocked at just how awful BP has acted since the spill. Corporations and large entities have had a clear and obvious pattern in these...
View ArticleI can't keep doing this
I was going to write a diary on taxing the rich when I thought, why bother? The liberal blogosphere has been writing the same exact post for two years now and here we are. If insanity is doing the...
View ArticleObama the Reconciler
Every time I log onto sites like HuffingtonPost and Salon I see numerous posts "what Obama and the left should do next." But there's nothing new in these posts. It's the same stuff we've been writing...
View ArticleLet's Make a Deal
In thinking about Obama's compromises it occurs to me that republicans aren't the only people he needs to compromise with. He must also compromise with his base if he wants his support. Obama extends...
View ArticleWhat's it going to take?
What's it going to take to stop this President from screwing over everything the left holds dear? What is it going to take to get him to lash out at someone other than his own party for once? What's...
View ArticleFarewell, Obama
Michael Brenner said a lot of the things I've been thinking about Obama's endless capitulations, sell-outs and broken promises here: Let's make one thing perfectly clear. These actions were not imposed...
View ArticleDear MSM
Dear MSM,You may not have noticed, but the crisis with Japan's nuclear reactors is actually one small part of what's going on in Japan, one small part of the disaster as a whole. If you look beyond...
View ArticleUpdated - Can someone please start at the beginning???
And don't give me just a link I've read half a dozen diaries and I'm still trying to figure this out. Can someone summarize this please for those of us who don't yet know what the hell's going...
View ArticleAbout those AIG bonuses
My father is not an employee of AIG or any other company that got bailed out. He is however a good example of the type of middle to upper-middle management whose salary is part bonus. He's the type...
View ArticleNo Ed, the Senate is not broken.
I'm listening to Ed Schultz on MSNBC say the house has some 200 bills that have simply been shelved by the Senate, some of them quite important. From this Ed concludes that the Senate is broken....
View ArticleWho is the leader of the Democratic party?
It is not Barack Obama. He may be the party's head but he is the leader of the nation as a whole. He's got the full spectrum of ideologies to deal with, not just the progressive agenda. Besides, by...
View ArticleThoughts on racial profiling
This is the type of post that gets me labeled a troll, but please bear with me. I did not come here to do malice.I have mixed feelings on the concept of racial profiling. I think the term gets used...
View ArticleBP: Shocked that you're shocked
I must say I'm shocked that so many other people seemed to be shocked at just how awful BP has acted since the spill. Corporations and large entities have had a clear and obvious pattern in these...
View ArticleI can't keep doing this
I was going to write a diary on taxing the rich when I thought, why bother? The liberal blogosphere has been writing the same exact post for two years now and here we are. If insanity is doing the...
View ArticleObama the Reconciler
Every time I log onto sites like HuffingtonPost and Salon I see numerous posts "what Obama and the left should do next." But there's nothing new in these posts. It's the same stuff we've been writing...
View ArticleLet's Make a Deal
In thinking about Obama's compromises it occurs to me that republicans aren't the only people he needs to compromise with. He must also compromise with his base if he wants his support. Obama extends...
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