To Jimnp72:

>Russ Feingold or Dennis K for president.

Assuming you’d like to commit suicide, that would be a just fine.

Feingold got seriously unelected. I like him too but be was far too progressive for the R’s and, by extension, far too progressive also for the D’s.

Kucinich has made a career for himself being a martyr. Actually, it’s far worse than that. He is like that unfortunate man of the cloth in the “Exorcist”—you know, the one who got taken over by the demon. If progressives ever were to renounce the Democratic Party en masse for its litany of sins and betrayals, Dennis Kucinich would be the last to leave. He would still be professing his faith.

His is, in fact, one of the most enabling and invidious ANTI-progressive forces in that his whole stage-persona is to self-consciously push his little bit of rope uphill. It’s nauseatingly histrionic. We’ve turned him into a hero for his rhetoric and redundant display of victim-hood, but again, he has no real wish to change the name of the game.

He is a two-party prostitute, except working girls usually would choose the best pimp in town, if given half a choice. Kucinch is well-steeped in the psychology of triangulation, wherein he works for the worst pimp in town (the DNC and the Democratic Party) while always criticizing them and always trying to save their soul. He’s more of a nun than a senator.

I am personally very tired of his benedictions and complicitous hand-holding. The electorate seem to agree in that it showed that it was a heart beat away from cutting off the head of the vampiric monster known as the Democratic Party.

A wooden stake would help.

ITW:

Hubris, as you said.

Followed, as it has always been, by Nemesis.

You don’t much care for Hedges, but in one of the links I shared with you, he also made this most disquieting point.

The thing is that in our post-modern, highly reasoned way of thinking about things, we see the Velcro being connected only at the most very fractalized levels.

Nemesis, however, is cosmic. It comes from the fact that the universe is, as Jung and the Taoists said, a kind of giant teeter-totter.

The Greek word that points to it is enantiodromia. It’s also self-compensating.

Long ago, that may have taken geological lengths of time to come about. Now, it can happen in a heartbeat.

And then there are there so-called “Furies” of Greek tragedy. Again, we laugh at them in our post-modern way. But even our laughter is, at this fatal juncture for America, starting to seem increasingly brittle, n’est-ce pas?

G.Anderson wrote that, “I am starting to feel
that Obama needs to be impeached. We can’t afford two more years of this.”

Obama is the best thing the R’s have going for them in terms of triangulation. He will never be impeached for that reason.

The Worm endeavors to be reasoned. Sure we need a third party (I myself stated that same point about a jillion times).

For it to happen, however, we need both heavy lifting, as Rico would say, and a singular event—like the progressive caucus walkout.

I think it MAY haqppen, but as I’ve also said repeatedly, the chances of its occurring are in the low single digits.

Americans are far too stupid and they have way too strong a death wish.

Russ Feingold or Dennis K for president.

the pigs had better leave social security alone, especially for the old
and those with disabilities, they depend on this money in order to
live successful lives.

Obama = Republican

We must have an alternative to Obama in 2012.

For the sake of our own integrity, when we face our children, we must be able
to say:

“We voted for the policies we believed would conserve the basic goodness of
this nation. We started a third party. It did not win at first, but eventually
America broke lose from the corporate propaganda machine, exerted its
independence and took over its own government again.

Now, it’s your turn.

Here are somethings we learned:

Never vote on ‘balancing the budget’ (that was Reagan’s mantra - he tripled the
deficit);
Never vote for tax cuts (that was Bush’s mantra - he turned a surplus into the
largest deficit in American history);
Never vote for ‘change you can believe in’ (that was Obama’s mantra and we got
more of the same, only worse).

Vote for reversing the transfer of wealth from the middle class to the
corporations and wealthy;
Vote for closing bases around the world and the practice of perpetual warfare;
Vote for free education to make this nation competitive;
Vote for tax incentives for individual home ownership (one house each person);
Vote for ending loop holes that make people like me pay more taxes than
General Electric (a retired person pays more than a giant corporation? Yes);
Vote for ending the ‘carried interest’ (whereby managers of hedge funds pay
15% on their income and you and I pay 20-30%)
Vote for ending oil and gas tax breaks (which add more profits to oil companies
at your expense).

If you have more ideas, let’s get them rolling for our own “Budget Commission
Report”.

Inherit - heads up.  The ‘cost’ to the budge of not
letting the tax cuts on the 2% lapse would be enough
money to fund Social Security for the next 75 years.

Due to inflation (I remember 28 cents for a gallon of
gas, 20 cents for a pound of butter…) the buying
power of the dollars that workers have put into the
Social Security fund through the years doesn’t
compare with the buying power of the Social Security
check they’re receiving today.  Example: Many people
bought private insurance policy years ago which
coming due in 20 years would pay for their child’s
college education - THEN. And now?  Pay for one
semester’s required text books.

The Peterson Foundation is the same group that has an agreement with the
Washington Post to provide that newspaper with anti-Social Security
propaganda.

That is probably why the Washington Post labeled whistle blowers as “Liberals”.

As if anyone opposed corporations setting US policy was somehow ‘far out’.

But I recall Indpendents, Democrats and Republicans being upset when Cheney
brought in the oil industry to write our energy policy.

Objecting to oil companies penning energy policy seems like a legitimate
complaint: When those with a vested interest are set lose to establish policy
guidelines and set the framework for discussion are setting US policy, people
have a right to be suspicious and to ask for accountability.

Who let this happen? Well, Obama let it happen. It’s his “Commission”, and he is
perfectly happy, as was Dick Cheney, to turn the US government over to the
corporations.

You don’t believe it was Monica’s dress?

Is there any doubt left that Obama is Clinton 2.0?  Policies for the rich and rhetoric for everyone else.

The Nazi’s we’re one of the first societies to pioneer the notion that lies repeated over
and over in public are accepted as truth. The great lie told in this report is that all
segments of society must bear the burden of debt reform. LOL. This will not be the
case. The corporations who destroyed this country and who are mainlining tax dollars
simply don’t want to spend any money watching old people die slowly over the years
spending the money they put into social security. They would rather speed up the
process and shorten the time that the aged have to scrimp and save before they die.
They’ve realized that their original plan of having social security invested in the stock
market is unlikely to get through the senate at this point despite all their best efforts.
Most Americans used to feel like if they mind their own business and work hard that
baring some tragedy they might keep the wolves from their door. this is no longer the
case. The wolves have spent everything they had, and now they want everything you
have, and want you to watch happily while they eat your children. I am starting to feel
that Obama needs to be impeached. We can’t afford two more years of this.

Like the Warren commission, the 9/11 commission, Iran-Contra and the comission on Monicas dress, the truth is never known.

A smoke and mirrors media circus.

And of course instead of rebelling or at least taking to the streets like the French…Americans will bend over and let Obama and his corporate lackies screw them.

Obama’s Commission is one more of the bait and switch jobs by this pathetic
administration.

The Democratic Party must find a challenger for 2012 - we cannot simply let
ourselves be sunk to meaninglessness.

This is Obama in a nutshell. Sell out the middle class.

ON THREE BIG ISSUES, NOT LISTENED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE:

1 The American people wanted a government administered plan like Medicare -
for everyone. (72% - CBS/New York Times poll June 2009)

1A. Democrats gave private sector insurers a windfall: mandated customers,
with a taxpayer-paid overhead rate of 20% for ‘mandated customers’ (20% of
our premium spent on administration, CEO salaries, bonuses, Boards to set
rates and decide who’s covered and ‘profits’).
2 64% of the American people opposed expanding the war in Afghanistan and
wanted to disentangle from Bush-era ‘War on Terror’ and ‘preventive war’
policies.
2B. Democrats gave us an expansion of the war in Afghanistan.

3 The vast majority of Americans opposed the transfer of taxpayer wealth to
cover private company debt – the bailout.
3B. Democrats kept the 6 too-big-to-fail banks – now bigger than ever; kept
deposits at risk by maintaining huge grey areas between commercial and
investment banking; didn’t ‘punish’ the financial industry - now even more
profitable, with bonuses among the biggest ever.
None are so blind as those who will not see, nor deaf as those who will not
hear.

ON DEALING FRANKLY AND TRUTHFULLY WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE:

The day after the election, the White House’s Director of Management and
Budget, Peter Orszag, in a NYTimes OpEd tells the voters this whopper:

“There are four ways to contain health care costs:
by reducing payments to providers and suppliers;
by rationing services;
by having consumers pay a greater share; and
by giving providers incentives to be more efficient.”
This is plainly and simply not true.
A savings of 15% or more can be achieved through a government-administered
plan like Medicare - for everyone. (And by the way, a CBS/New York Times poll
June 2009 showed that 72% of Americans favored this approach.)
The quickest, easiest and sane way to save is move to a single payer system.
Advocates for such a system were blocked from speaking last year by Obama’s
shill, Senator Max Baucus; but the facts are the facts.

ON CHANGE:

Kept Bush advisors in the two key areas where people wanted change - the
Economy and the “War on Terror” - Geithner, Paulson, Summers & Gates,
Patreaus.

ON MAINTAINING REPUBLICAN POLICIES, WHILE BLATHERING ABOUT ‘CHANGE’:

1. Gutted real financial reform (no Glass-Steagle, no ‘too big too fail)
2. Rejected the only health care option that would simultaneously extend
coverage and cut costs (single payer)
3. Supported a stingy stimulus (one-third tax breaks)
4. Doubled-down & accelerated the Bush bailouts
5. Escalated a fruitless war in Afghanistan
6. Not helped people in bankruptcy & needing mortgage remediation
7. Not passed a jobs bill & had trouble extending unemployment compensation
8. Ignored previous Republican profligacy, crimes, misdemeanors
9. Used “Heck of a Job, Timmy” to promote low taxes for the wealthy on capital
gains, dividends and ‘carried interest’
10. Sandbagged his “Budget Commission” with Max Baucus clones to accelerate
the transfer of wealth from the middle class to the wealthy.

All this doesnt explain why people voted for Republicans, but it does explain
why people didnt vote for Obama - people no longer trust Obama. What a sad
commentary on a man who seemed to have such potential as a Change Agent.

The only things that changed were the characters in the White House - All else
stayed the same.

I LOVE IT!

Lower Social Security benefits to seniors who depend on so we don’t have to raise taxes on the richest Americans, who already, on average, pay lower taxes than the people who work for them!

Greek tragedies concentrate on the hubris of the protagonist, which brings them down.  The hubris of the people who lead a nation to milk to poorest to make the richest richer IS bringing us down. 

It has destroyed our industrial base.  It is destroying our educational system. It is destroying our leadership in technology advancements.  It is robbing millions of their homes.

Hubris.