Wow!

Words to the wise from Dave at Open Left:

So don’t discount nut stuff.

democracynow is doing a fascinating report on how military spies have infiltrated peace groups in the U.S. Posse comitatus, anyone? How quaint.

the GOP’s favorability rating has slid noticeably from the spring, from 41 percent in early April to just 36 percent today. At the same time, the party’s unfavorable rating increased from 50 percent to 53 percent. Both of the current numbers represent new lows for the Republican Party in Fox News polling.

I think the Birther story, the Sarah news and Healthcare are killing the GOP.

See if the blogs were infiltrated

Those dangerous americans who are opposed to wars are a threat to national corporate security.

It’s quaint in the sense that there is nothing even remotely new in that.

LOL at the background music. Frigging cowards these repugs.

June 22, 1970 Time Magazine

A year ago, a handsome, tense, slender youth known only as “Tommy the Traveler” appeared at Hobart College in Geneva, N.Y., and began to preach revolution to anyone who would listen. He claimed to be an S.D.S. organizer, and his principal converts were two freshmen, would-be revolutionaries who were fascinated by his violent rhetoric. To them he taught the uses of the Ml carbine and demonstrated the construction of various types of fire bombs.

Last month his efforts seemed to have come to fruition when two of the students were arrested for allegedly fire-bombing the campus ROTC office, located in a dormitory where 120 students were sleeping. The fire was put out without any injuries. That was fortunate because Tommy the Traveler, the zealous revolutionary, was in fact an undercover policeman.

I think the Birther story, the Sarah news and Healthcare are killing the GOP.

Stupid is killing the GOP

Been re-reading “I, Claudius” and “Claudies the God” and I can’t help but come to the conclusion that the U.S. is beyond reform and any real transformation. The “palace” intrigues, corruption, cowardice, self-interest, immorality of the Roman elite are with us today. The U.S. is merely one step closer to fascism.

I vaguely recall Nixon doing the same thing with the CIA. Or was that just a bad dream?

Vangelis, from Chariots of Fire.

Obama is using the “rope a dope” strategy and the American public is the dope.

Samething

Bush was our Nero things can only get better. I don’t see Obama ever being accepted by David Broder and that is good.

So what’s killing the Democratic Party, greed? I always thought that belonged to the Republicans.

From the first link above:

The three Democrats and three Republicans from the Senate Finance Committee were considering a tax of as much as 35 percent on very high-cost insurance policies, part of an attempt to rein in rapid escalation of costs.

I don’t get it. How do you lower cost of something by taxing it?

Yeah, Broder is still waiting for the “Bush Bounce” in the polls.

That’s it. Red card for you for trying to be logical.

Yep. But the CIA is supposed to report to congress and the military doesn’t. Just a way to hide it.

Stupid is killing the GOP

But the GOP aren’t dying. Rahm Emanuel is brining them across the aisle as Blue Dogs, and they’re bring their stupid with them.

Yeah, well, speaking of public option:

MR. GIBBS: I don’t believe that the President has come down one versus the other in terms of denoting co-ops equal to or above public option. I can talk to the health team about that.

Plenty of comedy gold in that transcript:

Q The public option was initially conceived, intellectually, as something that would handle 100 million uninsured people, or people who want to get insurance.

MR. GIBBS: Well, remember, just — let me — I’ll interrupt as we go along. And I think we’ve discussed in here, there would — there’s conceptualized a firewall that would not allow somebody to simply shrug off the insurance that they’re offered as part of their employer-based system in order to simply go into some sort of public option.

“Shrug off their insurance”? What universe do these people live in?

Yeah, we’ve got the crazy party… And the Republicans. Oh well.

The cost is to the National Debt they want health care not to add to the debt. I am in favor of taxing the rich myself.

The angrier he gets the better Obama is really doing. I want to see David screaming!

Tax the rich and stop the wars. A winning combo, imho.

That was part of their learning curve.

During the Bush II years, I’d heard first hand on campus that ROTC-types were spying on other students. The campus had a Gulag-like ambience.

Great idea I think drafting the rich could also help in that regard.

Again, from that first link:

These officials said participants were on track to exclude a requirement many congressional Democrats seek for businesses to offer coverage to their workers. Nor would there be a provision for a government insurance option, despite President Obama’s support for such a plan.

So, the entire nation will be required to individually purchase health insurance from the insurance industry.

Good addition to the plan.

That’s the insurance industry’s version of reform.

If the GOP is dying how is it that their agenda is growing? When things don’t add up (like the 2000 and 2004 elections) something is amiss..who is gettin’ paid to act as a Republican and get elected as a Dem?. As far as the Republicans go the peoples wants are dead to them. We are dead to them.

So who’s going to enforce that? A new division of the IRS?

So rope-a-dope passed from Claudius to Ali to Obama and that convinces you that the Democratic Party, and the U.S. in general are beyond redemption? Maybe you’ll feel better when you get on a different series of novels. Robert Graves is strong meade.

I’d hate to think that we’re going to have to wait until the centrists and center right pols have driven the country totally into the ditch before Americans wake up to the fact that a corporate state is not a good thing.

So who’s going to enforce that? A new division of the IRS?

Wow! Talk about “taxation without representation.” Where’s my teabag?

Yeah. Let’s call it a “tax” when the IRS collects it, and “welfare” when they send it to the corporations. Truth in advertising and all that.

So what’s killing the Democratic Party, greed?

Warm buckets of spit.

It’s already happening. Hoovervilles 2009.

No, those are just the bottom tier workers, mentally ill and physically disabled, the folks with non-existent support systems. Nothing will happen until former retail store owners, white collar workers and executives pitch their tents under a bridge. Health services, financial services and war toys are the winners right now. Eventually they too will be touched. When that happens perhaps we’ll see change we can believe in.

A belief that firm support of business and finance is the cure for all ills.

NBC/Tday has feature on exec’s salary & bonuses…For the good of the country these folks should provide the needed health care for a few years to get the coverage launched. Giving away a couple of houses would pay for a year of care….