AP - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday lowered its projection for economic growth this year, citing damage from the double blows of a housing slump and credit crunch. It said it also expects higher unemployment and inflation.

Republican pundit bitch

i like the sound of that

GOP. We are going to crush you in November. Do you hear me Karl Rove.

Bobo, the epitome of irrelevance.

Morning, Redd and all! Last night was awesome!

man, now all we need is paper trail ballots and we’re gold

Has anyone put together this year’s primary turnout numbers in comparison to 2000 and 2004?

“but the crush on McVain apparently lasts for-evah. Are substance and policy issues something to be questioned? Absolutely, for every candidate. Is it being done in an even-handed way? Nope. Not even close. Again.”
How does McCain want to pay for the war without raising taxes? One simple question for Brooks, Modo and Samuelson who thinks he’s an economist.
Then they can go back to gossiping.

The Bobo piece? It is a truly sad op-ed if you click through it. It’s like the nerdy kid from the dregs of the gifted class chess club wanna-be champion but not quite making it there crowd decides to pen a note about the newly elected class president in the 5th grade. It’s that transparently sad. (And I say this having been the nerdy gifted class poster girl, without the bitter aftertaste that Bobo clearly nurses…still.)

Burning hemp oil is a great idea. Its high time we contemplated the renewable energy and other uses of hemp. Hemp is much better environmentally than cotton.

I have dismissed my math class to the computer lab. With the instruction to show me the numbers in one week to back up my assertion, or prove me wrong, that Obama will win. I will join them in the lab in about five minutes. I’m pushing the envelope.

Poor bobo.

Neither hippy nor gun nut.

Just a pussy from the Main Line.

Should Sen. Obama give lousy speeches vs. good ones?

None of the candidates get a chance to prove “substance” until they get into office.

Unless you count the excellent campaign Sen. Clinton has run to this point.

Or the consistency of Sen. BombIran McTorture’s positions on anything.

If you guys were here, you could sample the fresh out of the oven sugar cookies, with frosting and sprinkles that The Peanut and I just made. (Snow day here, momma’s grasping for things to do…)

Brooks can make fun of Hippies all he wants cause he once had a cheeseburger at the BillyGoat in Chicago still as he fills up his gas tank I wonder if he thinks of buying a hybrid car?
Cause the war that he fought so hard to happen at the NY Times is going so bad that oil prices are heading again for $100 a barrel.
That and the Dollar is losing value.

I don’t understand. Can you straighten me out? ;0)

Easy Grader give them a tough problem ask them to prove that we can keep fighting in Iraq without raising taxes:).

I’m expecting a snow day anytime now, and sugar cookies with frosting and sprinkles? yummm.

Look - all ya gotta do is to get downtown Indy and ask anybody - they’ll get ya directions right to my place… *g*

Lucky students kiddo! Wish my high school math teacher had shared your enlightened teaching style. ;~)

Click on that economy link above — inflation and consumer prices rose last month. No wonder Bushie is at 19 percent…

Brooks dutifully presents Republican alternate reality for a paycheck. He’s a prostitute. His job is to influence the way people think. Some people thought that putting two oil men in the White House would get them cheaper gasoline at the pump. Suckers.

Jim, to put some perspective on the turnout, here’s what today’s Hawaii Dem website posted…

Mahalo Hawai’i!!!

Together we made history last night! Over 37,000 citizens turned out at our caucus sites to voice their preference for the Democratic Party nominee for President. We have never before had more than 5,000 participants at our caucuses.

http://www.hawaiidemocrats.org.....038;id=379

Kiddo@3:
A psychological wedgie?

..”the GOP can’t be trusted to competently manage a popcorn stand”..

Thanks for making me laugh! So true.. I wouldn’t trust Cheney with a cash register at McDonalds, and I certainly wouldn’t eat anything cooked from G.W. Bush. One’s stealing from the company, the other is putting boogers in the lettuce.

Weird, I ended up here twice.

Bobo has to realize that we now have to tax his precious rich to pay for the war or at some point America will default on its currency/bonds/loans/all manner of debts etc.
The Middle Class is tapped Bobo cutting government spending is not a good idea when the GOP convention is in Minnesota and the bridges are falling.

Thanks much — I updated above with a link to that! Great news!

TPM:

Real wage growth is tanking.

Funny, Raven.
I was out this morning, running a few errands and I saw a car with the words “Bitch” printed on the rear window. Pink and flowery print, and I wondered what was up with that.
I was reading it as a noun, but, it coulda been a verb, like YOU said.
But, nah….I don’t THINK so.
Still, I have no idea what the car’s owner was thinking.
You made me Think, tho, and that’s a good thing.

Lord what I wouldn’t give to spend just one hour with my little girl, my daughter, (so many years ago) in the kitchen. She had a thing for food coloring. So… she and I made green, blue, red, yellow and sometimes purple (we mixed colors) bread. And not with a bread machine either. We did the real thing. Kneading and rising and waiting and all that.

I so did not need the W picking his nose mental image. Bleeeeergh. *g*

Christy-fine again. I think the local Port ‘O San driver, on one of the construction sites I work on could write a better Op Ed, even do a better job on the economy, when you are without a lot of money, creativity is a tool of survival…laughing darkly…glad to be here and not there.

Have you made chili yet today?
You’re a good momma.
Reading and cooking.
My crazy Lesbian friends call it Feed ‘em and *F* ‘em.
Not talking about the Pnut, of course.
I see it as a euphemism for taking care of those we love.
No disrespect. Just aspects of what we all want.

Jared Bernstein has a post on inflation also.

Bet Helicopter Ben still lowers the fed funds rate!

You made a metaphor for what they’ve done - if America were McDonalds. Bush/Republican policy allowed the tainted beef to get into our schools to poison our children, b/c they pretend to believe that industry is benevolent, the market is self-correcting and it will regulate itself. In the meantime, the bastards are polluting our air, our food and water for maximum profit.

We have been coloring and making things out of construction paper, scissors, and glue sticks all morning. And we’ve watched Beauty and the Beast…twice…because it’s her new very favorite movie ever. (this week) Now we’ve baked cookies, and momma needs a nap.

(When egregious was out for a visit, she brought a big stack of paper for The Peanut and she has been having mucho fun with that and a stash of crayons that ccmask sent ages ago…we have the best readers, I swear. SO thanks to both of you for keeping things humming at Casa Snowed In Smiths.)

Her Snipiness isn’t far behind, mainlining the usual slagging of Hillary,

wow - just read the column. I’ve never been a Hillary fan, but fair is fair, and that’s a long way from being either fair or objective.

Bobo, otoh, I mean - whaddya expect?

My crazy Lesbian friends call it Feed ‘em and *F* ‘em.

I am in stitches of howling laughter

*** First-day early primary voting shatters records for turnout in Texas.

Who s Helicopter Ben kidding if he doesn’t drop rates the market will tank before a Presidential Election?
We Dems will walk into a majority then.
But of course if he drops rates now the Dollar will tank right around November. Which means again that we walk into a majority. months is the general rule for any change in the economy to be felt by the public in general.

I’d bet at least another quarter point, but I’m a crap prognosticator on that sort of thing. More of a CYA gut feeling on their part…

Chant for McCain: “no third term! no third term!”

The Robert Samuelson piece was dishonest journalism. This guy advertizes himself as an economist and a policy analyst? My cat and dog can produce more informed and coherent analysis -and I have neither cat nor dog. There was no analysis at all in that piece. Robert(no relation to Paul) Sameuelson produced several hundred words of the purest columnist boilerplate, that puts any Obama (or Democratic) boilerplate to shame.

Just one item in my case: Samuelson continues to conflate social security and Medicare financing problems. That would earn an… well, an F in an undergruate economics class. Yet, he speaks with corporate media authority. He is ether pure hack or pure incompetent.

But note one thing: When Obama first discussed social security, he produced bad analysis in an attempt to earn brownie points with the bogus social security financial crisis crowd (the ‘very serious people’). Since then Obama has backtracked and produced more sound analysis, speechifying and policy proposals. But Obama’s initial pandering to the ‘very serious’ confused public debate. And further, look what brownie points it earned with the fraudulently serious corporate media policy analysts: a big fat zero. These tendentious dishonest hacks have one policy agenda: to protect the corporate status quo: no matter what you say or do, they will spread their propaganda. They are focused and do not depart from their pre-written talking points.

Also note, that Obama has been fleshing out serious policy proposals. He is no longer providing empty promises. it is that very fact that allows people like Ian Welsh, Krugman, and even humble commenters like me, to note that on substance Obama is more centrist and moderate than either HRC or Edwards. Yet what does that earn him? Noting. Recently, months after the charge of lack of substance died, we get media hacks complaining about his lack of substance. Or simply ignoring what he says in order to copy and paste pre-written talking points.

Greenwald, Atrios and Digby are corret, the corporate media discourse that dominates our politics is completely broken and dishonest.

If the country were a McDonalds, they would have spit in our burgers.

I’m relieved.
After I pushed submit, I had misgivings, second thoughts.
But, indeed, that’s the quote.
And, indeed, isn’t it what we want.
That, and crayons and scizzors and glue.
Just my take on the big picture.

Do click through the Brad DeLong link about Samuelson…it’s a classic.

What about cutting pictures out of magazines and using them to construct a story book?

Plenty of snowbound desperate mom days in Boston, my sympathy!

Made a big pot of gumbo yesterday, does that count? *g* (Not talking about the other thing…*whistles*)

And it won’t make a damn bit of difference. It’s not a liquidity problem, it’s a confidence problem - no confidence in the worth of the banks’ own paper.

The beltway bunch is on its way to full tizzy mode because it’s becoming increasingly apparent that unless Sen. Obama is found “wide stancing” in a men’s room somewhere, he could well be on his way to becoming president, and it is precious little they can do about it.

Fortunately for them, unlike when the “trickle-down” bunch is in power, their lifestyles won’t change dramatically. Oh sure, it will take awhile to get back on the A-list for cocktail parties, but paying $80 - $100 to fill up their SUV’s still won’t be a chore.

When Republicans are in power it’s time to batten down the hatches, because you can count on the lower and middle class taking an economic beating.

Because they’ve got much stealing to do, favors to repay, and friends to set up with cushy well paying jobs and no-bid contracts. And someone has to pay for that. (All the while talking about the evils of “Big Government”)

Might as well be you and I.

Your heart is where it should be! All good

This is in response to egregious’s comment, but to Christy/..
Be glad we do not have Star Trek “transporters”, or there would be a bunch of us on your front porch, with supplies, and we would make a Big Mess.
But, we would help clean up too.
(Have fun, you.)

Mr. Brooks intones: After the magic fades and reality sets in, they still know something about his soul, and he knows something about theirs.

For a guy who couldn’t be bothered to check out some advice he was giving to Obama just a couple of days ago, he sure is smug.

If I ever need to find my way back to reality, I’m not picking David Brooks to be my spirit guide.

Bwahahaha! looks like the GOP will get blown out in Texas, I guess the Dixie Chicks were right:). What do yo want to bet that Bush will be out of the country that day?

Will do, thanks.

Also note that the recent tripe about Obama being the most predictably and doctrinaire liberal is also either ignorant nonsense or a damned lie. Pure propaganda to gull the low information voter -at least when it concerns his policy proposals. It has nothing to do with facts. They are focus group tested talking points aimed at population level social engineering cooked up by GOP and corporate/political PR flacks, nothing less, nothing more.

But the lesson of this for the Dems is, in the words of TRex: attack attack attack. Do not take anything people like Brooks or Samuelson say at face value.

How about setting the peanut in front of the computer and let her e-trade for awhile?

But if any clowns come knocking on your front door, don’t let ‘em in.

At the Democratic caucus here in sunny Belfast, Maine, 350+ people showed up, vs 150 four years ago.
So many wanted to register as Democrats that they ran out of forms.
And the start of the caucus was delayed while we all moved from the school cafeteria to the gym - the atmosphere was happily electric.

GW Clusterfuck in the kitchen slavin over a hot stove—”Hey Ma- ah just whipped up a batcha STAFLATION- want some with yer ribs?”

Christy,
Love those baking smells and the fleeting time with the kid, priceless.
I’m shocked the oily slime in the white house can’t do anything but take us for a ride and don’t leave tanker condi out among the oil goons.
Want to get america moving, crash course in solar: Solar panels, solar hot water, downsize houses and cars. Insulation armies retro fit windows and doors and how can we pay for it? A 90% tax on the oil companies and the top one percent, can do, is possible and save 3.3 million gallons a day burnt up in Iraq by bringing the troops home asp.
Just a thought.

They don’t understand that the word “liberal” doesn’t scare people any more. They are at the bottom of the barrel for talking points and will soon run dry of anything that is remotely truthful.

Excellent. I’ve been hearing stories like that from just about every single state that has had a primary or a caucus this year. Especially about the new registrations. Boo yah!

Yea ‘n some them rocky mountain oysters, Texas style.

you are not going to believe this, this is just too friggin depraved, we MUST get corporate media to address this no matter WHAT it takes;

“I said to him that if we come up short and there are some acquittals in our cases, it will at least validate the process,” Davis continued. “At which point, [Haynes’s] eyes got wide and he said, ‘Wait a minute, we can’t have acquittals. If we’ve been holding these guys for so long, how can we explain letting them get off? We can’t have acquittals, we’ve got to have convictions.’”

that’s from a top gitmo lawyer

are they out of their friggin minds?

he LITERALLY told this lawyer, they will NOT tolerate an acquittal!

HOLY FRIGGIN CRAP

I know there are lawyers that read this blog, this must go viral, it must

True face of today’s GOP:
In face of gigantic fiscal crisis in CA, tax breaks for yachts and luxury capital goods still survive. Yessiree -already riffed a whole crop of new math and scinece teachers in CA schools, cut CA Medicaid payemnts to docs by 10%, but tax breaks for yachts remain.

CA GOP pissed all over poor old sad-sack lost and lonely old aimless and adrift Gubernator Arnold again. The justifificaton by CA GOP greed heads? None. They won’t return calls to press inquiring about their blocking eliminating tax breaks for yachts and their rich toy bretheren.

Note that aimless Arnold, with backing of GOP, did try to raise taxes on small CA farmers. It was simple, those poor fools were not big money players so their tax rate was officially declared a ‘loophole.’

This is the message we need to get out about the current depraved poweres behind today’s GOP: You are nest. Your race, creed, ethicicity, social class, usefulness to society, hard work, whatever, makes NO difference. You are either a Big Money Player or you are not. If you are not, your turn will come to be pushed out of their lifeboat. And you turn will come, sooner or later.

Now, Maddy, what made you think of Oysters?
Ha!

meant to type
cut *California* Medicaid payemnts to docs by 10%, but tax breaks for yachts remain.

As long as the DEC refuses to give up its stranglehold on the disproven concept that hemp is the same as pot, I doubt that we’ll see any commercial hemp grown in this country.

Isn’t that in Alice in Wonderland, the Red Queen says something like, “Sentence first, then the trial.” - ?

If she wins Texas and Ohio, she’ll be the nominee.

If she doesn’t I don’t think she can be. It’s in your hands.

Words…Bill Clinton to Beaumont TX audience.

Christy - forget the cookies - time to teach the Peanut to make bread dough - that way, she can learn how to make pizza, cinnamon bums, etc. etc. You can keep her busy for hours with that.

“instead, Obama pledges not to raise the retirement age and to “protect Social Security benefits for current and future beneficiaries.” This isn’t “change”; it’s sanctification of the status quo. He would also exempt all retirees making less than $50,000 annually from income tax. By his math, that would provide average tax relief of $1,400 to 7 million retirees — shifting more of the tax burden onto younger workers. Obama’s main proposal for Social Security is to raise the payroll tax beyond the present $102,000 ceiling.”
But Obama plans to stop the war so how much money would we save then Samuelson? Funny no mention of how McCain would pay for the war or his social security plans?

hmmm. Didn’t get the italics on both lines:

If she wins Texas and Ohio, she’ll be the nominee.

If she doesn’t I don’t think she can be. It’s in your hands.

Bill Clinton.

Looked it up - it was “Sentence first, verdict afterwards.”

Bad carbs!

Second time you have coaxed a laugh-good on ya 707

Article up on MSNBC website about McBush and his problems. Biggest is that as he struggles to get the right wing- he’s losing the indies to Obama. This is probably the most important thing to watch in the months ahead. Dem registration is up- gooper registration down- but the winner come November will be whoever attracts the most indies.

McBush needs to appear moderate- but if he does that- he won’t get the money and support from the wingnuts…what to do?

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair.

No further comment needed about BoBo

Might have been “execution first and then the trial”.

Running Mate: Attila the Huckabee

Dubya convinced enough voters (to get close enuff to steal both elections) in 2000 and 2004 that words were shit and a strong vocabulary is fer eggheads. Is Bill Clinton now working that angle?

Ahem, Raven, I mis-spoke..that’s whole wheat pizza and whole wheat cinnamon bums…with nuts.

Despite the frequency of death sentences, it would appear few people are actually beheaded. The King of Hearts quietly pardons many of his subjects when the Queen is not looking (although this did not seem to be the case with The Duchess), and her soldiers humor her but do not carry out her orders. Nevertheless, all creatures in Wonderland fear the Queen. In the final chapters, the Queen sentences Alice again (for defending the Knave of Hearts) and she offers an interesting approach towards justice: sentence before verdict.

Clinton’s angle: If Hillary loses, it’s your fault.

:) :) :)

Ba dum bump.
Laughter is the bestest medicine.
(How do you think I’ve survived?)
I musta been a stand up in a previous life.

Along with the record turnout, the thing that makes me very hopeful for the fall is that the Obama campaign has been phenomenal at taking advantage of the massive local and Internet volunteer response they’ve been getting. I loved the Dean campaign, and the fact that they relinquished more control than any other national campaign probably ever will, but mass organizing was such a new thing that they didn’t know how to use it effectively. I loved Edwards, but although his campaign was friendly to online activists, they were pretty centralized and didn’t use us effectively.

The Obama campaign in Virginia was completely volunteer run until a week before the primary. There was useful coordination from the national campaign, but not a lot of help and no staff. Staff arrived after Super Tuesday and integrated pretty seamlessly into the ongoing effort. They respected the work the volunteers had done, and their local knowledge. There was plenty of unavoidable chaos, but it was more effective in making use of anyone who wanted to help than any campaign I’ve ever seen.

And honestly, this is the big thing wrong with the Clinton campaign — they’re running a 1992 campaign. They have their “big state” organization and their party officials, and assumed there was no comparable force that can get people out to the polls. They were wrong.

This year is going to rewrite the book on political campaigns, and chapter one is going to be that the things we did in 2004 and 2006 were not a fluke, they’re the new rules. And while I might have preferred Edwards’ fight and some of Edwards or Clinton’s policy positions, I think this result is going to do more for the progressive project in the long run than any policy differences.

If Hillary loses, she and Bill lose. The country will be fine with Obama, maybe better with Obama than Hillary.

What is the population of Hawaii, because 37,000 turned out to vote and to me that sounds like a ton of people! Wow. Good for Democrats across this country. Not much is stopping us from going to vote either…rain, sleet, freezing rain, snow, blizzard like conditions..you name it. The GOP? It has to be pristine conditions or they’ll stay home. Wimps!

This Phone number is the number for Barack Oboama’s campaign. You will not get a live human being but that is not my point, I give it to you as an example of how well organized they are, and the things they do to help people with practical voter related issues, like finding polling places. It is Illuminating. I have to say in fairness that I have not called Hillary’s site, so I cannot say what she is doing in a similar vein.
866 675 2008

‘xactly.

Just heard extended comments by Michelle Obama on MSNBC to “explain herself.”

Still waitin’ to hear MSNBC explain itself.

another way to illustrate your point - yesterday on a BBC radio program there was an interview with an American media person on the subject of campaign songs. She made the point that the “Yes We Can” youTube that’s getting a gazillion hits was supporter-generated, not even a part of the official Obama campaign.

By contrast, HRC’s theme song (Celine Dion? puhhleeeaze..) was top-down centralized and sanctioned - despite a token consultation of the public.

my bad spelling Obama..edit grrrrrrrrrrrrr

Hawaii’s population about 1.2 million at last census.

Early Voting in Texas

Select your county from this link

http://www.sos.state.tx.us/ele.....unty.shtml

Once there, call the phone number given. You’ll get a menu of options and eventually, a HUMAN! Give them your zip code and they’ll tell you where to vote.

While you’re waiting you can watch this video! ; )LOL

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmDTSQtK20c

Obama in 2008!

I thought it was funny how Obama kept reminding his new young energetic voters that they had to remember to come back in November and vote again to make him President. Like they did’nt know how a general election works since many were voting for the first time in their lives and may have skipped civics class.

Thanks. So 37,000 is a high number then. ;-)

OT, interested in getting girls into engineering?

Hell, I had to do that with older adult voters when I canvassed for the Kerry campaign in 2004 on when to vote in the general and why their primary vote wasn’t the last word. I kid you not. It was a serious eye opener in how little a whole host of people in this country know about how things operate.

One of the many, many reasons I started blogging. Because we have got to do a better job making sure people know just how much power they can really weild if they do the work.

He is wise beyond his years.

Show trials nothing more.

ABC News has 2 unflattering (photshopped) pictures of HRC and BO on their front page. Really, do they have to be so obvious?

Allow me to brag on my alma mater for a moment…excellent engineering program for women, if I do say so myself.

“And honestly, this is the big thing wrong with the Clinton campaign — they’re running a 1992 campaign. They have their “big state” organization and their party officials, and assumed there was no comparable force that can get people out to the polls. They were wrong.”

Ding, ding!

I would expect nothing else from you and Smith! My friends daughter graduated from there a couple of years ago and she is amazing.

It would be very interesting if there is a mighty mighty landslide despite the best efforts of the pundits to keep the MIC and the MSM on the dole.

There is definitely a big - throw the bums out - sentiment out there.

Would it be great if we could do the same thing with the MSM. Vote them out.

I have zilcho engineering skills. Thought I’d point that out. LOL I’m always in awe, however, of anyone who has the math skills to build something or to make it work.

I’ve heard that Obama generally votes on the liberal to progressive side of things. But I don’t know if he’s the most liberal member of Congress. But unlike the Blue Dogs or others he was running against he’s rarely gone against the progressive caucus and blocked their efforts by joining with the Blue Dogs. Most surveys that rank votes (and there are different ways of doing this) put him between #6 and #17 on the left-side of the scale.

Then there was this rating that seems to be the one referenced by the right wing as stating Obama is the MOST LIBERAL.

I actually fell for this one myself. But I tried to find out precisely who this Americans for Democratic Reform might be (I thought it was the ADA initially). After Googling I only found reference to …this rating. No other publications, no web site, no mention of membership, or their board of Directors, or affiliations. NADA!

Could this be some fake organization that sent out press releases about their research specifically for the purpose of being used in attacks like this?

And, as Chicago once said, “Only the Beginning”.

You are gonna loooooooove my next post. *g*

ooops, my bad, that’s rock

” • Provide a $1,000 tax cut for most two-earner families ($500 for singles).

• Create a $4,000 refundable tuition tax credit for every year of college.

• Expand the child-care tax credit for people earning less than $50,000 and “double spending on quality after-school programs.”

• Enact an “energy plan” that would invest $150 billion in 10 years to create a “green energy sector.”

Whatever one thinks of these ideas, they’re standard goody-bag politics: something for everyone. They’re so similar to many Clinton proposals that her campaign put out a news release accusing Obama of plagiarizing. With existing budget deficits and the costs of Obama’s “universal health plan,” the odds of enacting his full package are slim. “

Ok Samuelson you hack today the lesson is opportunity costs we have the money now what do we spend it on? If we spend it on one thing like wars we can’t spend the money on daycare.
The next lesson is return on investment. After 7 yrs? what have we gotten in return for all the money we spent on the war?
Debt which is a tax earning interest as Milton Friedman said. We have gotten higher oil prices. We have gotten a dollar which has fallen around 1/3 in value since Bush took office.
In other words Bush/McCain more war means that we are losing money!
Knowing when to sell much less stop buying is something every economist should learn.
Now then if we spend on daycare more moms can enter the workforce which thanks to Bush they have to wether they want to or not. That is if they want to keep their present standard of living.
$4,000 for college hey the more people we educate the better our odds of giving the next Bill Gates or Tesla a chance to get educated. We are a tech nation. We need to educate as many people to find the geniuses spread randomly through the population if we are to keep our lead in this area.
Spending huge amounts of cash to educate the already wealthy limits our odds. Plus it results in hacks like you and Bush getting jobs past your competency level.
Green Energy lowers the price of oil and makes expensive wars for oil uneeded.
Child care and after school programs pay for themselves in lower crime
higher grades etc.
Where did you get your degree a crackerjack box?

I John W. McBush would say: Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.

-G

They’ve already walked that rating back based on faulty methodology. Will see if I can dig up the link on the TNR walk-back…

Good point Hilary is still fighting the last war.

Brag on daughter permitted? OK becoming Physicians Assistant and fine human being.
Thanks for the opening 707

“By contrast, HRC’s theme song (Celine Dion? puhhleeeaze..) was top-down centralized and sanctioned - despite a token consultation of the public.”

This has been my impression for more than a year. I was hoping that once her campaign got going, the live questions she was getting from her audience would have some effect, but apparently not.

A good example of the “token consultation of the public” was a “poll” I received from her offices about a year ago, asking what I thought the most important issues were. Pointedly missing from the list of possibilities: The occupation in Iraq. Not one question about the war! That’s when I concluded that she didn’t really want to listen. I wrote in big red letters on her answer sheet, “THE WAR”, and sent it back without checking anything else. Especially not the “Donation” suggestions.

Bob in HI

Isn’t it amazing that Clinton, McCrazy, and the rest of the long-termers-in-government can’t see what the rest of Americans HAVE SEEN over the past eight years? It’s frightening. Are they this blind with DC Heroin that they’ve lost the ability to see reality? I’m starting to think so.

We are tired of the same ole/same ole. I think 9/11 had a greater impact on American’s psyche than originally thought.

Could this be some fake organization that sent out press releases about their research specifically for the purpose of being used in attacks like this?

Gee, ya think?

Viewing alert–bring the brain bleach–Matalin guesting on the SitRoom. “He hasn’t been vetted, he hasn’t been vetted….” ‘least they’re keepin’ it in the family, eh?

Senator Mctorture stands with President 19%:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/.....ture-veto/

Here’s the Media Matters critique on the methodology, and reports on how the media didn’t bother to correct themselves after the walkback.

Ha, ha Christy, civics class was always my favorite because we got to talk a lot about politics. When I was a junior in high school I had a civics teacher that was an admitted member of the John Birch Society. This old coot would go on and on preaching about Bircher philosophy. This was around 1969. We had some lively discussion in that class with everything that was going on in the world during that time.

I think America is coming out of a fear induced stupor.

-G

That’s quite a visual.

punaisette (9th grade) does very well in math and science but doesn’t seem much interested in science or tech careers.

Yeah, 9/11 changed everything.

Just not in the way they think it did.

I love all your posts. I really do but I am waiting for the next one.

We have a new president coming. The signature is President Obama.

Holy crap — it is pouring the snow down outside. As in, I can’t see the trees across the street very well pouring snow. Oh man, I already used cookie baking today. Am going to have to deploy magazine picture collages tomorrow if it keeps this up and they call school off again…

my gammy had degree in engineering from Rochester Polytechnic. but back then she was pretty much limited to Domestic Engineering.

It wasn’t 9/11 that had the great impact.

It was the hackneyed, incompetent, unconstitutional, cronyistic, fascist reactions of an empty-suited sock puppet who had the hand of an “evil step-dad” up his butt.

Whomever it may be, let’s be sure it isn’t McCain, shall we?

SanderO, your post awaits upstairs…

9/11 had a negative impact, paving the way for Bush’s abuses and for cynical enabling by politicians like Clinton who responded to the gust of support for war by waving like a flag and handing Bush the bullets. What we are seeing now is a wide spectrum backlash against corruption and cynical exploitation of largely phony ideological differences as a substitute for real achievement.

We’ve finally shaken off 9/11 and we’re starting to come to grips with a post-manufacturing economy that looks bleak and a government bereft of vision where politicians from both sides cut deals with special interests. That’s why Obama is attracting support from capital-L liberals, small-c conservatives, and independents. We’re sick and tired of America being sick and tired.

With my Valentine’s Day grandson, I have yet another reason to believe ‘we can’ take our country back to move it forward. Past the pundits. Past the pessimists. Past the pompous princes of poupon. Past the plunder and blunder and blasphemy thunder.

Since my endorsed and favored candidates left the arena, I’ve resisted endorsing anyone, but, despite demographics, I’ve seen upsets in IA, CT, ME, CO, WA, MO, MN, WI and nearly in NM, places where the demographics clearly favored the longtime frontrunner.

The conventional wisdom won’t last to the convention and it’s time to state the obvious: let the King of Kona meet the Overlord of Arizona! The Rumble will humble the tumbleweed and narrow the marrow of Old Saguaro.

I think you’re right and they’re heading to the pols in droves! :-)

Yeah, that too. LOL

Has Maureen Dowd ever written a column which was close to unreservedly admiring someone in political life? Almost all the other columnists, either liberal or conservative, have their particular heroes about whom they write glowingly or to whom they compare less worthy persons. But who does Maureen Dowd hold up as a living example for those whom she criticizes? If a columnist never praises anyone at length, what does that say about the columnist?

Hey BigR,

I think, for what its worth, that you have hit the nail on the head.

Cut Social Security, Medicare, Pensions, Wages for Servicemen, cut, cut cut, for all except the Military Industrial Complex, including Blackwater…and outsource congressional expenses to KKK street…

Thank you for noticing. Engineers create wealth. So do teachers. So does Motherhood. Few other professions create wealth.