we need to REMOVE person-hood for corporations, if the supreme court refuses then we need a constitutional amendment

I would LOVE to see republicans try to say they like personhood for corporations

(by the way, they do NOT have personhood in any decision)

This statement has been irritating me for some time now, and today it has become the burr under the blanket that needs addressing, EPU’d as it is.

If you had any exposure to contract law, and IANAL, you would know that what the courts found was a corporation was a person in its ability to form, enter into, and enforce a contract, or have a valid contract enforced upon. This is simply what the “personification” of a corporation is, that is what “personhood” is limited to.

You have been raging for the longest time over this issue of “personhood” of corporation and every time you do it really shows your complete lack of knowledge or ignorance. This has become one of your hallmarks, the same hallmark would be readily used by a demagogue to dissemble falsehood and misdirection upon an uneducated or ill-informed audience. Just what is your purpose in endlessly repeating this trash? what is your goal? Is it to endlessly repeat in the hopes that what you propose comes true? In that, good luck. It is sad also, in that so much of what you also say has great value, that value is lost wrapped in this garbage.

It’s the whole NPR/PBS milieu.

As much as I like NPR, it has exhibited a great deal of influence from the nuthuggers such as Tomlinson and all the thuggish true believers he managed to bring on board at CPB. Yesterday morning I heard back to back guest essays from AEI and Cato Inst. Their meme was that Obama can’t possible govern as a liberal and he should wisely lead as a proto-fascistic pseudo-libertarian. There just isn’t the support for him to initiate any new policies that would overturn their gravy train that was delivered by Little Georgie.

Ughh!

This morning I heard an extended piece by Mara Liasson on “managing expectations” which featured another AEI spokesperson. The whole point was that Obama will have to manage peoples expectations that he can’t implement anything of his liberal agenda – the people just won’t stand for it.

Why, oh why, are AEI and Cato Inst given such a prominent soapbox? This election was a refutation of all the policies those yahoos stand for. I want to hear unvarnished truth, not spin-polished bull-poo. Argh!

And, it puts to an end his Speaker aspirations.

And it gets his corporatist DLCC vote out of the House & House Leadership.

Not a bad move by our soon-to-be President Obama.
(It feels so goood to see that)

we need to get new voices out there, I’m sick of Charlie Rose’s wan parlor.

It’s the whole NPR/PBS milieu. They were fresh 30-35 years ago, but they haven’t changed since. Now they are just old and stale, and the very thing they were supposed to be different from.

whazzup with Rahm’s diva dance about COS?

I see that as a good thing.

It means he knows he’s not gonna really get to shape policy, like Bush’s CoS’s did while he was out riding his bike.

And, it puts to an end his Speaker aspirations.

But he also knows it would look bad to not accept an appointment to this historic administration.

What I long to see is that fat, pussy pimple on the rump of the Republican Party, Karl Rove take his hit. I’m gonna enjoy watching that traitor scuttle out of the light of day.

he has been the cause of their problem yet they will believe will be the answer to their prayers

they are that much the fool

I think Meacham is wrong. Our elites including Obama are right or center right but the population is not. Although polls aren’t done on it that often, if you take a list of Americans’ views on major issues from Iraq, the economy, healthcare, etc. they tend to be considerably to the left of their leaders.

meacham is not only wrong, he is dead wrong, he is provably wrong

we are a people of progressives, though republican constituents like to claim a differance between what they want and what we want, for the majority of republicans, that differance is slight.

Hoo-ha!

I think Meacham is wrong. Our elites including Obama are right or center right but the population is not. Although polls aren’t done on it that often, if you take a list of Americans’ views on major issues from Iraq, the economy, healthcare, etc. they tend to be considerably to the left of their leaders.

Meanwhile Nancy Pelosi on NPR today was stressing the need to govern from the “center”. I have also seen numerous stories on the need for patience. Indeed there is Obama’s own victory speech. The point is that while Obama ran on change, the whole elite community, again including Obama, are already backtracking suggesting that change will not be much, that the failed policies of the right will not be cast aside but retuned. That is the real message of Obama, Pelosi, and Meacham, that the new elite is really the old elite reshuffled, and that this is true of Obama’s new policies as well.