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Re: Irony, We Find You in the Most Tragic Places, Like Fort Hood

ajm8127 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:41:39 -0000

Maybe while they are kicking the Muslims out of the military, they can repeal voting rights for blacks too.

Re: Jobless Benefits Extension Stiffs High Unemployment States

ajm8127 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:37:50 -0000

This is why only one in four people approve of Congress.

Re: Statement on Ft. Hood From Arab-American Military Association

ajm8127 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:46:18 -0000

But we have a black president, so we can't be racist. Or did they just tell me that on the news?

Despite what Obama may or may not accomplish, he was on the money with his "More Perfect Union" speech. I venture to say that it was the most profound speech of my lifetime.

Re: Unemployment Tops 10 Percent

ajm8127 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:37:43 -0000

The fact is, under Obama, the number of jobs shed per month has steadily been decreasing. Unemployment is like a freight train, you have to slow it down before you can change its direction.

Re: Four Weeks Later, Senate Unanimously Passes Bill Extending Unemployment Benefits

ajm8127 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:28:34 -0000

So why in the world did the three republican congresspeople object? Obviously the votes were there the entire time. What obstructionist a-holes.

Re: Rockefeller vs. Trigger

ajm8127 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:26:40 -0000

Whats he talking about? The trigger worked great for the credit card companies. It gave them plenty of time to jack up rates before the regulations kicked in. The only party that got screwed was the people, as usual.

Re: Technorati Ranks TWI No. 1 U.S. Politics News Site

ajm8127 — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:37:00 -0000

Not to toot your own horn...

Re: Feinstein: All Health Insurance Should Be Nonprofit

ajm8127 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:06:59 -0000

haha

Re: Another Downside of Insurance Consolidation

ajm8127 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:18:44 -0000

Cable and cellphone companies are the same way. Control a vast majority of the share in a certain market, set your own price. For profit health care insurance providers are a conflict of interest. Its the fourth type of plot line, man vs. company.

Re: GOP Congressman: Snowe Voted to ‘Turn America into France’

ajm8127 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:00:22 -0000

That's awesome because people in france pay less than half as much for health care per person, thier infant mortality rate is 60% of ours, and they pay 69% as much of thie GDP on health care.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_system...)

What's not awesome is that the congressman is to blind to realize the above are all good things.

Re: Senate Finance Panel Grants States Flexibility to Drop Medicaid Patients

ajm8127 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:10:46 -0000

The United States is a joke, and I live here.

Re: Department of Bad Timing

ajm8127 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:31:48 -0000

The tension is escalating. The sides have become more polarized, the constituents nasty. Ever since Tiller's death, I've been kind of nervous about the political climate in America. I told a woman in an airport three years ago that I thought something big was coming. I could just tell by the way people were displeased by Bush, and the way some thought he was almost majestic. That was before the mortgage meltdown and the recent economic turmoil. If we can't find some common ground soon, the picture the facts paint is not warm and fuzzy, and I'm usually optimistic.

Re: Grassley Blocks Obama Nominee

ajm8127 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:56:49 -0000

Retaliation? Really? How old are we?

Re: Christian Right Looks to Debt, Economic Worries for 2010 Election

ajm8127 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:16:47 -0000

I can only speak of what I've seen and remember in my lifetime (Bush Sr. was about the beginning as far as paying attention goes) but I am familiar with the term "Reganomics" and realize what it means. Political landscapes do changes over time like the rolling dunes of sand in a desert, but you want the change to be fueled by progress for the whole of a society, not monetary gain for the old white men's club.

Re: Christian Right Looks to Debt, Economic Worries for 2010 Election

ajm8127 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:25:13 -0000

I don't know if it was rhetoric, if she actually believes it, or, more likely, a little of both, but the woman suggesting that Barack Obama is in any way "far-left" has no idea what she is talking about. I wonder what she would have said of Kucinich, if he had won. It's like the midpoint in the political spectrum has bee shifted to the right, with liberals becoming socialists, moderates become liberals, conservatives becoming moderates, and ultra-conservatives becoming the status quo for the right end. The polarization on both ends is profound however, but seems to be more apparent with the right's refusal to compromise on issues in the legislative chambers, and their assertion that any sort of socialized anything is a bad idea. That seems to be their primary tactic with garnering public support. They invoke fear and uncertainty in people, especially with anything new or different. That's a hallmark of conservatives though, fear of change, or put another way, complacency with the status quo, which will inevitably lead to a lack of progress.

Re: Landrieu: I Probably Won’t Support a Public Option

ajm8127 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:37:16 -0000

Do nothing? What the hell is that?

Re: GOP Senator: I’ll Force More ACORN Votes

ajm8127 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:52:05 -0000

I could have swore I saw a TPM article about the ACORN employee just shining on these two kids who were obviously not a pimp and a hooker.

Re: Introducing TWI’s Senate Public Option Scoreboard

ajm8127 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:59:19 -0000

What a great feature! And I thought the chat during the general election was cool. Good job guys and gals.

Re: GOP Rep: Democrats Set the Precedent for Yelling at Presidents

ajm8127 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:58:02 -0000

Control over America? You mean like domestic wiretapping?

Re: Coal Companies Spend Peanuts to Deliver CCS Technology

ajm8127 — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:50:18 -0000

Why are we still trying to make coal clean? Just rock the current plants for now, and use that money to develop a real clean energy source.

Re: Top Dems Renew Call for Cramdown

ajm8127 — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:21:51 -0000

I definitely don't disagree with you that there was a major failure of oversight of the mortgage markets by the government. The government has been steadily losing power over private markets since the repeal of Glass-Steagall. But if the invisible hand was so wise, it wouldn't have allowed these crappy financial products to hit the market in the first place.

Re: Top Dems Renew Call for Cramdown

ajm8127 — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:13:36 -0000

As this was unfolding, I don't specifically remember any mention of real estate agents contributing to hiking up prices. And I could never say that the banks were solely to blame. Consumers made poor decisions in taking out loans that they could not repay. The banks did make it really easy and incited them to do so, but at the end of the day, they are still responsible for what they signed. Thats the nature of a contract. Still I do believe that the banks made it too easy for them to make these poor decisions. If the banks had long term goals in mind, these contracts would never have been drafted in the first place.

Re: DeMint: ‘Joe Wilson Was Telling the Truth’

ajm8127 — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:17:34 -0000

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bi...

Could you please point out for me where said loophole is?

Re: DeMint Blames Lack of Crowd Diversity on Timing, Media

ajm8127 — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:11:31 -0000

Uh, huh. And thunder is caused by God bowling.

Re: Joe Wilson’s Fundraising

ajm8127 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:58:09 -0000

That's such a good point that many people overlook. When the government wants to bail out banks, and banks stand to make a lot of money, that's fine. However, if government wants to give insurance to every citizen through a public option, and the insurance companies stand to lose money, now its socialism.