Re:  drbhelthi, September 20 at 6:01 am

As I see it, Bush the Idiot violated the intent of the Constitution through a false
war that was “allowed to happen” under his watch. If any person with a brain
had been reading “My Pet Goat” to a group of kids and had then heard of the
first WTC strike, I would think they would have jumped out of the seat and
excused himself. But that requires gray matter.

Since the activities of the last nine years have all been a facade and the
decisions made by many politicians (all but a few) were deceptions against the
American public, the whole process is in violation of the Constitution ......
period.

“Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea,
Mr. Creedy, ....... and ideas are bulletproof.”

Agreed, BR549.
From my viewpoint, Americans have done as always,
and “trusted” their leaders in U.S. government. Since the end of WWII, the “trust” of Americans has been carefully guided in what they have seen and heard.  Just as plutocracy-owned media continue to control what Americans- and the world- sees and hears “about the U.S.A.” And, for a definitive reason. 

In order to comprehend how we got to where we are, one needs only to review and comprehend two groups of documentation.  The first group is that which describes John D. Rockefeller´s takeover of U.S. medicine in the 1930s.  The second group is the documentation left behind by Adolf Hitler´s last bodyguard, Lieutenant Colonel Otto Skorzeny.  He lived secretively in the U.S.A. until his death in 1999. The hoax that he died in Madrid, 1975, is one of many thousands of CIA hoaxes.

Most of us want to continue to hold to the U.S. Constitution, failing to gain insight into the fact that Junior Bush was a good little son, and did as “poppy instructed,” and annulled the U.S. Constitution via “Executive Order.”  Manipulation of voter rolls and voting machines in Florida, by governor “Jeb” Bush, returned his brother to the White House.  Thus, we have the black-uniformed mercenaries scattered across the U.S.A., harassing Americans who attempt to engage publicly in free speech, thinking that the U.S. Constitution continues to prevail.

And the “magnatron”-type machines developed via findings of Nicola Tesla, stolen by the FBI from his hotel room, after he was murdered, and passed to the CIA.  These magnatron-type devices were found by Russian scientists to damage human DNA, yet they are increasingly mis-used on airline passengers.  Everywhere they show up, evidences the influence of the israeli MOSSAD.  MOSSAD officer, Michael Chertoff, former secretary of Homeland Security, heads the company that markets the devices at a remarkable profit.

We need more former FBI and CIA agents, such as Ted Gunderson and “Chip” Tatum, and insiders such as Sibel Edmunds.  Both indigenous folk and foreigners who have learned to appreciate the value of the U.S. Constitution and homegrown “American Generosity.” Individuals who are not afraid of assassination, who publicly tell it like it is, and reveal the lies and deceit of “NAZI types” who engender evil, who have overtaken the U.S. Government.

REDHORSE, September 19 at 6:35 pm

Our current political situation is a perfect mirror reflection of the personal
integrity in our population.

Integrity means nothing anymore. Look up how many medical colleges have
dumbed down their Hippocratic Oath pledges. It’s deplorable. Those pledges
might as well now read;
“First of all, I shall do no harm to my golf game and my BMW payments .......”

When I went into the service years ago, I remember that day I had taken the
oath. For some reason, it was a day I would always remember. I made a solemn
promise and it stuck with me ever since. I say this in contrast to all those
politicians who have taken that same or similar oaths and who have dismissed
what they swore to as trivial verbiage.

We’ve lost that fabric that had been used to knit our population together. The
TV and the Interstate, and all the short term profit driven decisions made by
our less than august politicians, have eroded the foundation of our house ....
and it is starting to crumble.

If we can’t stand on our word, we have nothing to stand on; personally and
collectively.

Answer to your question Leefella, into a golden Japanese toilet that cleans and pampers their bottoms each time with cybernetic industriousness.

Grym, sorry for the double posts was editing and in the shadow of ignorance, I have made a boo bo!

Sounds like Christine Odonnels victory must be one of the greatest things to have happened in some minds which seem to have a large degree of smallness about them ....well at least since the unwrapping of George Bush and Sahara Palin?  Stupid and stupider is real…..., just those who are never seem to known it.
Tea Baggers smugly rooting their team on,  with a religious blind fanaticism, but in this case it is really the constant illusion of politics.  Wonder why this is considered a victory?  It is well known special interests are the sponsors of the Tea Bags self appointed wealthy elite as manipulators of status quo.From here one sees the poorly scripted political dance using ignorance as always, against ignorances own best interests! 
Ah!...  Politics saunters on it merry quest to quell the masses, one may ask ....... does the plutocracy shit in the ivory tower?

Sounds like Christine Odonnels victory must be one of the greatest things to have happened in some minds which seem to have a large degree of smallness about them ....well at least since the unwrapping of George Bush and Sahara Palin?  Stupid and stupider is real…..., saddly those who never seem to known it, but of course that is the idea.

Tea Baggers smugly rooting their team on,  with a religious blind fanaticism, but instead it is really the constant illusions of politics. 

Why is this considered a victory?  It is well known special interests are the sponsors of the Tea Bags?  Self appointed wealthy elite as manipulators of status quo. As one sees the poorly scripted political dance using ignorance, against ignorances own best interests, seems nothing new.

Ah!...  As the merry quest continues to manipulate the masses, one may ask ....... Do plutocracies shit in the ivory towers?

On another thread, a poster contrasted the apparent rampant corruption of current political American leadership, against the responsibility of VOTERS, and wondered if each wasn’t a legitimate reflection of the other. My opinion assumed, that intentional manipulation, and the consequential damage of financial and social attack, by a nefarious fascist political machine, has intentionally, so psychologically and emotionally damaged and crippled Americans, that it amounts to actual “mental/spiritual/financial/ illness”, and an inability to perceive ones own reality. Now you guys re-adjust the light source, and I thank you.

    Your observations, about what defines “community”, and the destructive effect and affect of small town disintegration on American social morals and consciousness, begs definition of the anamalous reality of American society that allows the moral vacuum in D.C. to exist. As the poster I mentioned above implied, does the one produce the other?

    I’m told, by those who claim to know, that interpersonal/familial communal relationships work well to about one thousand people. Knowledge of events and people can remain pretty close to “first hand” to that point. It’d seem that trusted electronic communication should make it possible for us to extend that reality, but as lamented frequently by TRUTHDIG posters, our MSM borders criminality. There is no question, that the subtle “incoming” ill effects of the manufactured propagandist corporate lie machine, wreaks havoc on our personal lives and social/financial/communal reality. Our communal landscape is now wires, charged air and (we hope) intellectual and moral human reason. Yet, even though we can often discern the truth, it cannot be spoken and even when it is, not allowed to be heard.

    The journalist Jim Hightower has remarked that “We the people—” represent a huge active network of socially conscious community oriented groups and individuals who vision a positive humanist American future. Their actions are just not allowed coverage and access. In my opinion, it’s the mob that killed Christ. The same greedy mindless @#cks that imprisoned Galileo and murdered women at Salem. It’s an open war on consciousness.

      Local environmental groups here are full on fighting destructionist policies. There are growers markets everywhere you go. Green tech is available for inquiry. On weekends our parks are full of adults who volunteer time to support kids sports. Still, the damage and chaos continues. The manufactured lie that springs from the lips of tyranny is offered as truth.

      You guys are correct about much. I’m just feelin’ that we need some illumination, definition and inner constellation of a new American reality and a restart connection with those ideals of freedom, human dignity and community which we struggle to atain. D.C., Palin, Boehner (Oh gee,what political Frankencreature have the baboons and MSM created this time?) and the like are dinosaurs. Let’em go!! They’re already imploding.

      We are Americans blood and bone. We possess both magnificent light and terrible darkness. We’ve paid and continue to pay horrendous dues. Remember US!!

      Anybody wanna dance?

Eugene Robinson, - “But at least the party is full of passion, energy and resolve—which can’t be said of the Democrats, at least not with a straight face.”

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ROFLMAO…..You have done your best to marginalize and demonize the Tea Party crowed for over a year.  They are nothing, you said.  They are small and leaderless, you said.  They are unelectable, you said.

I have been writing for a year that it’s a MONUMENTAL mistake to call these protesters every awful thing your myopic imagination could devise.  In the name of your favorite television personality, Keith Olbermann, you’re an “IDIOT”!  ROFLMAO…........

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I’m sorry.  If ever there was a time to be snarky, now is it!  LOL….....

This must be the change Obama was talking about?

It is reported Christine O’Donnell dabbles in different things like witchcraft back in 1999. Dabbling is kind of neat, it sort of fits with tea bags. Lets face it, most Republicans never dabble in anything, sort of like most Republicans never think of anything.  So dabbling may be a refreshing cup of tea!

(1) “Palin EFFECT”.  sduford beat me to it but he (or she) is correct.  People who purport to be professional wordsmiths need to understand the basics of their craft or risk being ...refuted. 

(2) @gerryhiles:  A thousand bucks says Beck/Palin is a failed strategy.  They certainly may run, but they can’t run far.
If I am wrong I shall join one of the political parties and refuse to pay you in the name of austerity.

Re:  diamond, September 18 at 6:53 pm

“Because aacme88 the very fact that Sarah Palin is circling the white house like
some harpy on a broom makes Americans realize that politics is no game ...”

It’s not much different than the Roman games; to the elites, it’s merely a
“sporting event” like high stakes croquet, yet to the poor slobs getting their
heads chopped off, it certainly wasn’t a game.

So while Nancy Pelosi, Sheldon Whitehouse, and the rest of those arrogant
dysfunctional, holier-than-thou, misanthropes are laughingly pondering what
the poor people are doing over foie gras and Chateau Mouton-Rothschild, the
people have been busy making guillotines in town squares across the country;
sharp enough even for Palin’s broom handle.

Because aacme88 the very fact that Sarah Palin is circling the white house like some harpy on a broom makes Americans realize that politics is no game - or at least not a game they can afford to lose. The idea that the Tea Party or Sarah Palin could get anywhere near the nuclear button is a terrifying prospect. The problem I see is that most voters don’t yet realize that handing the Republicans a majority by lodging a protest vote is like handing them government. They would then be able to play the role of wrecker and spoiler: push to attack Iran, try to gut social security and undo the fragile health care reform (imperfect as it is) that has been put in place and a whole bunch of other Really Good Things that no normal person could even bear to contemplate. I expect there will be long queues again when elections are held because the same 70% that wants health care reform and didn’t want to invade Iraq will turn out to vote. Sarah Palin is a powerful symbol of everything that’s wrong with the Republican Party and its move to the outermost reaches of the far right. I’m sure if she had the power she would attack Iran and take America back to the Cold War with Russia. Fortunately she doesn’t and I don’t believe she ever will but every single progressive voter will need to turn out to assert the will of the people over and above the will of the military/industrial complex and the reactionaries who want to undo the entire 20th century. It’s a choice between going back to the fifties or moving into the 21st century. And Ralph Nader or any third party can’t fix what’s wrong because they can’t form government.
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Diamond, you and I are usually at each other’s throats but there’s not one word here I can’t support and applaud!

I said it in another thread: Voting 3rd party is like refusing to use a fire hose when your house is burning down because the water is polluted.

These are strange, hard, dismal, weird, exciting, turbulent times. I wish it would stop and settle down. Because these kinds of times are perfect for psychopaths who love this uncertainty. Also any one else who takes advantage of bad times. And these are bad for most and getting worse.

Earthling, Gore & Kerry won in 2000 & 2004 respectively, so both elections were stolen. Remember that. Understand that first before you go off half cocked spouting nonsense. However you analysis should have substituted “poorly informed” for “stupid” though that point is relevant.

If we get a Civil War II it will be one sided with the Christian fascists all ready to fight and the rest of us given a choice. Go with them or die. With our surplus population they can afford to kill those who would have a gumption to fight them. The rest will want their TV’s, houses,food, jobs etc that looks much like the life they had with a Bill of Rights & ACLU, instead of Leviticus as the law of the land. Long in the planning by the richest among us who decided their differences were secondary to the rest of us who they all hate and fear. (Whatever differences they will hash out later, after they bring down the Republic.)

Right now the most extreme are making themselves known on a national stage. Many such have been busy for years but mostly unknown to most of us. I was familiar with O’Donnel from her days against women and homosexuals being in the US military in the 1990’s. [DADT was ideal for weeding out otherwise excellent soldiers, better than what was had before & signed by a Democrat.]

gerryhiles, I don’t see anything at this time to support your idea of Beck running much less winning presidential office. Even in these gruesome times they would have to manipulate the e-votes and stop real voters from either casting their ballots or making sure thousands of them aren’t counted or discarded. [However in the past it has so anything could theoretically happen. Just don’t jump the gun, maybe in late 2011 you can posit such a scenario & make it stick.]

You will find that certain elements of Plato have been adapted by many of the Dominionists (Christian Reconstructionists) like the dividing of people into insect-like social labor groups for those who work, fight, rule etc.) They show that with the structured curricula and testing to put people in their place, not real learning to train young minds to think for themselves. (A hold over from the eugenics days they loved so much.)

Because aacme88 the very fact that Sarah Palin is circling the white house like some harpy on a broom makes Americans realize that politics is no game - or at least not a game they can afford to lose. The idea that the Tea Party or Sarah Palin could get anywhere near the nuclear button is a terrifying prospect. The problem I see is that most voters don’t yet realize that handing the Republicans a majority by lodging a protest vote is like handing them government. They would then be able to play the role of wrecker and spoiler: push to attack Iran, try to gut social security and undo the fragile health care reform (imperfect as it is) that has been put in place and a whole bunch of other Really Good Things that no normal person could even bear to contemplate. I expect there will be long queues again when elections are held because the same 70% that wants health care reform and didn’t want to invade Iraq will turn out to vote. Sarah Palin is a powerful symbol of everything that’s wrong with the Republican Party and its move to the outermost reaches of the far right. I’m sure if she had the power she would attack Iran and take America back to the Cold War with Russia. Fortunately she doesn’t and I don’t believe she ever will but every single progressive voter will need to turn out to assert the will of the people over and above the will of the military/industrial complex and the reactionaries who want to undo the entire 20th century. It’s a choice between going back to the fifties or moving into the 21st century. And Ralph Nader or any third party can’t fix what’s wrong because they can’t form government.

Regarding O’Donnell’s financial troubles, etc, it may be worth noting that a great many American voters can identify with her plight.  I do, and although I vote progressive, I am offended that so many liberal pundits count her financial woes as signs of incompetence, per se.  She probably is incompetent, but that’s not why.

aacme88, September 18 at 10:06 am

The Democrat politicians are near cookie-cutter versions of the very Republicans
they condemn. Just looking at the Democrats’ voting record on the Patriot Act and
the wars, why would we think that the Democrats were somehow above pulling
the same shenanigans?

Diamond.
What makes you think a Palin election wouldn’t be rigged? Or any other Republican for that matter. They don’t seem to like losing. If it’s close enough, they’ve demonstrated they’ll steal it.

The vast majority of Americans think Sarah Palin is a joke. They know she’s a moron and they don’t respect her. This is death for anyone who aspires to high political office, which is why George W. Bush couldn’t win in an election that wasn’t rigged. So Sarah can peddle her ghost written books until the cows come home, and give her hate ridden speeches until her vocal cords explode, because in the final analysis you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

@ sduford…..I seriously doubt that such an egregious misuse of a word would get past the editors.  I believe that Eugene is using “affect” as a NOUN, as in describing the mentality of these individuals…..ex: Sarah Palin and her ilk have a loony AFFECT.

There is something to be said for having a couple of Buds in a hammock, especially when one has a front row seat to the american apocolypse.

Bird48

For years I have had a magnet on my ‘fridge that has that has most american of mantras “never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups”.

It is absolutely true that the average American voter does not vote for anyone based on research and thought. When Dubya was running one thing many pointed out as a qualification for President was that he would be “the kind of guy you wanted to have a beer with”. He had voters convinced that Kerry was some Eastern “elitist” and played the cowboy role so well many had no idea that he wasn’t from some Texas hill country burg when he himself was the Eastern elitist.

The tea party as it is now is nothing more than a bunch of pissed off people who have no idea what or whom they are are pissed off at—they just hate anybody in office. To discount their candidates as too looney or too fringe is to forget the power of stupid when it all votes together.

Big B,

Please remember to uppercase that “L” in lunatic.

Yes, I’ve had to chew on that issue since I’d written about it in college in the
mid ‘70s. No one seemed to understand. I was, in their minds, just being a
curmudgeon; a bearer of bad news.

Well, how can anyone ever work toward a viable solution to anything if they
continue stuff their head up their butt and wonder why the lights went out.
(Sorry, that moment of insight just hit me and I just ran with it.)

You explained the situation more eloquently than I but I think the real
challenge is to bring it out on the table so that other people can wrestle with it
when attempting to deal with other social issues. There are so many dots to
connect, and unfortunately, as we dig deeper and deeper, we find that
politicians and people in charge have been playing a huge chess game with our
lives, while we’ve been sucking down Buds in the back yard hammock.

BR549

I am glad that I am not the only lunatic that thought the interstate highway system was the begining of the end of the american experiment. I read once that before the Civil War, the average american had never been more than 20 miles from their home. After WWII, nearly 80 years later, not much had changed, as then the average had gone up to near 50 miles. But with the advent of our new mobile society in the 50’s and 60’s, people had a new ability and incentive to move around, and thus creating a the modern american. An american that can pursue the american dream anywhere they want. But the consequences were damning to our long term future as a generation moved far away from home in search of the riches promised to us by unbridled capitalism. We were however, creating a nation of individuals, with literally no ties or loyalties to communities and unions and all those other things that made us not just a nation of individuals, but a nation of small towns and organizations that not only provided us support, but also gave us a sense of belonging to something bigger than ourselves. Once that sense was taken away and replaced by individualism, our nation began to swirl down the commode.

I live in a small town that used to run right along old national road 40. But by 1965, Rt 70 had by-passed us and many other small towns from Maryland, to PA, to the Ohio valley, and we all sat back for the next 20 years and watched as our towns became de-populated, and our communities died.

It’s why I think that these days are the swan song of america. It will be difficult, if not impossible, to rally a nation of over 300 million individuals who have become accustomed to not playing well with others, to organizing themselves against the powerful corporate Fascists.

”Civil war empowers the most extreme elements, and over time, more people gravitate to the extremists on their side. The alternative is the extremists on the other side. Advocating moderation becomes dangerous as it equates to treason of one’s own community.” –Peter W. Galbraith

You dems are going to be crying sooner than you think for misunderestimating the fact that America is in the beginning stages of a civil war. It’s a civil war that works for the ruling elite because it keeps the people divided and fighting each other while the leadership and those that own them laugh their fat asses off at YOU!

There’s isn’t an iota of “ideological” difference between the democrats and republicans in the U.S. government. They all serve the same masters and the struggle between them is for first place in line because those who are first in line receive a little higher gratuity and the prestige that comes with being your corporate masters’ favorite bitch.

BR549, Felicity: 

Anomie. Durkheim 1897
Analysis, synthesis, prognosis—and then ...
One hundred years plus without counteraction.
And counteraction would be ... getting together?
How? When? Where? Why?
The secret of the Teabaggers is ..?
What might the Democrats/Liberals/Progressives be doing if they could free themselves from their computerized thrall?

It seems to me the ‘rampant apathy and disconnection’ are the inevitable results of capitalism, liberalism and individualism and have little to do with policy or any other aspect of practical day-to-day politics.  When enough disconnection has taken place, we are confronted with the fact that society, socializing, community, has its uses, indeed, is necessary.  Not government, not corporations, actual community. 

Then we have to figure out what to use to replace what we’ve destroyed.

There is actually a lot going on, but it’s not going on in areas dominated by the established order.  The Tea Party represents the oncoming dissolution of the Republican Party.  Proggies are a lot less aggressive than Tea Partiers, but they’ve been rebuked and scorned to the point where a lot of them are going to walk off, too.

I guess dumb people are sometimes much harder to fool than smart people.  It was the Tea Partiers who first perceived that the game was over, that the great golem was beginning to stagger.

felicity,

That’s it in a nutshell.

I’m not sure if it’s the collapse of a culture’s ability to adequately provide for
itself that leaves it having to question its very philosophical roots or what, but
it sure seems to be happening everywhere. This push for global corporate
dominance continues to strip away the social bonds that tie people together
into the tightly knit communities that people need to identify with.

I know Eisenhower probably thought he was doing a good thing with his
Pattonesque push for a nationwide supply line (the Interstate), but he also
helped to let all the chickens out of the coop before they’d realized it was the
only place for them to roost ...... so to speak. Had some social engineer pointed
out the long term consequences of drawing people out of their hometowns
without first securing their identities with them, we might have been better
able to survive at least some of the rampant apathy and disconnection we are seeing today.

My two cents.

“Religiosity” is the operative word here.  Hasn’t
anyone noticed that there are world-wide religious
wars going on these days?  Muslim vs Christian, Jew
vs Muslim, Hindu vs Muslim, Christian vs Muslim,
Muslim vs Jew…  And then there’s the present
American phenomenon, Christian vs Freedom of Religion
OR Christian vs Liberal (even though Liberal isn’t a
religion, liberals, in the eyes of fundamentalist
Christians, are threatening - go figure.)

When belief systems go to ‘war’ with each other - not
uncommon in history - we’ve left reality so trying to
solve the differences by applying the tools of
reality simply won’t work. Hopefully, there exists
someone who can figure out what will work because at
the rate we’re going the situation is only going to
get worse.

Some of us focus on the alleged weaknesses of a Mrs. Sarah Palin, and tend to overlook the debauchery thrust on us by Republicans, Democrats and a U.S. Congress that is manipulated by AIPAC in Wash. D.C. 

Meanwhile, the second imposter to the U.S. Presidency rules the western world.  His loving old Grandma said he was Kenyan, and hinted that she assisted in his birth.  His wife said on TV that Kenya was his homeland. The former custodian of birth records in Hawaii stated that there was no birth record in Hawaii for Barack Hussein Obama.  He is Kenyan, not American, thus not qualified to even run for the U.S. Presidency.

Kenyan, Mr. B. H. Obama is not responsible for either his parentage, place of birth, or his birth record, if one exists.  He is responsible for “acting” as though he were an American, and continuing to violate the U.S. Constitution.

Wholesale violations of the U.S. Constitution were initiated by George H.W. Bush Sr., continued by William Clinton, accelerated by George H.W. Bush Jr., and magnified by Mr. B. H. Obama.
Perhaps, someday Mr. Obama will realize that he was just another NAZI/CIA “fall guy” misused as thousands of others have been misused, to continue the NAZI goal of world domination.
 
No, Mrs. Sarah Palin is not perfect.  But, she is American, and obviously not a CIA dupe.

Ever since Nixon, the american people have been weary of electing anyone that might be deemed to be smarter than they are. For Nixon was a smart man, and surrounded himself with other smart guys, and look what they did to us! So lets see, if we only elect men with a southern accent, bumbling old fools, drunks, and the like, we never have to worry about another Watergate ever again.

Palin, Bohner, McConnell, Imhoff, the govonater, Demint, Perry. None of these meatheads would be elected dog catcher in a nation that values an educated informed populace.

So yes, all these nimrods, republican and democrat, have a good chance.

I know, i know! If u find some glaring faults of a person [real or unreal] by all means list them, since most people love to hear them.

Just don’t touch the system that allows and wants liars-deceivers to run as candidates for congress.

Eugene calls the new rising stars in and of american governance—run solely by onepercenters—“flakes”.
Of course name calling, oh that ancient artifice, does not explain the situation in which a “flake”—and whatever it may mean?—-can run and eventually even run for presidency!

So, is he seeing also US governance as flaky? Devil fobid he wld even see it let alone see it and state just that; he’d be outa cushy job in a minute. tnx

Gene, Gene, Gene ....... here we go again. All those awards and you’re still gawking at the cheerleaders while the ball is pitched, missing the ball again.

This is only a primary. O’Donnell’s win only infers that those who were willing to get out in the primary were sick of your buddy’s constant lying to the American people. This is just the REPUBLICAN response. Wait till the real election, and you clowns find out exactly how much confidence has been lost in your own sacrosanct party.  You can minimize O’Donnell all you want, and I’m not saying she’s the brightest bulb on the tree, but people are SICK of the GD lying in Congress AND IN THE WHITE HOUSE and “Y O U R” favorite buddy Obama is on the population’s shit list at the moment.

You found every way you could to minimize the public’s dissatisfaction with government, as usual, almost as if you are so used to being porked by politicians, you don’t think anything at all about dropping your shorts one more time. Instead of actually wrestling with the more difficult topic of public dissatisfaction with government and WHY O’Donnell even got to where she did, you’re sitting back in your cushy little chair, smug with the notion that your party is invincible and that O’Donnell’s win is just some passing fancy.

Oh, NOW they’re looking to “generate some real enthusiasm among the base,” are they, Eugene? After calling the base f***ing r***rds who “have nowhere else to go” and need to be drug-tested, the Democrats want some enthusiasm? Ha! Funny how they need their base, after all.
Stick it in your ear, Democrats. More and more people are voting for third party candidates and if there’s no one running, they’re writing in a name or an issue, like “Medicare for All.” So, you see? Your drug-addled, f***ing R*****ed base did have somewhere else to go, after all.

Amen to earhling

mdgr, September 17 at 4:55 am clearly gets it:

“...because Obama has alienated just just about everybody. He did more to polarize the country than anyone else in my lifetime, and he did it by lying out of both sides of his mouth”

And the sycophantic high school cheerleaders couldn’t begin to understand this, it’s all like a big football (foolball) game to them.

They expect those of us who actually believed some of the crap this tool spouted to just roll over because the other side is worse.

Well this year it’s different.

Americans have been sold out, betrayed and made fools of by professional lying thieving soulless bastards. They’ve looted our treasury, helped to sell out our manufacturing base, and now they’re after whatever isn’t nailed down. We’re not going to take this treatment from our representatives any more.

We’re hurting from joblessness, searching for someone, anyone to work for the people and Robinson above writes: “...Not to spoil the fun…”

What an elitist. Just wait till November, Eugene. Lots of us have a little present for people like you.

These are crazy times and the Democrats are making a mistake if they
underestimate the passion of those supporting Palin and her followers.
O’Donnell looks like Palin2. She lacks any serious qualifications for membership
in the Senate, but the voters are weary of being taken for granted by the elite,
who haven’t been particularly effective in creating a narrative that can
challenge the Palin and Tea Party story.

I am beginning to understand Palin’s success. She is in many ways a flawed
candidate, but her followers seem to be energized by any criticism of her. Her
flaws are not different than those of many of us, and when she is ridiculed,
belittled, or just criticized, many people take that personally and feel a
vicarious pain. Their normal defense is to defend themselves by defending her.

A similar dynamic can be seen in the O’Donnell situation and she has a good
chance to win in November because the passion and energy of her supporters is
not matched by her opponents.

hank_moon, September 17 at 5:15 am Link to this comment

I like that O’Donnell has a plan to improve the economy.
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A masturbation tax?

Heads or tails, it doesn’t matter.  It is still the
same coin.

Yes,mgdr is right.It’s not the “Palin affect” that gets things going, therefore. There’s a word for the affect people are feeling. See if you can guess it.

I like that O’Donnell has a plan to improve the economy.

The reason why the Dems will probably do far more poorly than even the polls suggest is because Obama has alienated just just about everybody. He did more to polarize the country than anyone else in my lifetime, and he did it by lying out of both sides of his mouth.

It’s not the “Palin affect” that gets things going, therefore. There’s a word for the affect people are feeling. See if you can guess it.

The factor that renders the November elections genuinely unpredictable is the unfathomable stupidity of the American voter. How can we understand, for example, an electorate that chooses Reagan over Carter, Bush over Gore? The simple truth is that Americans are “out of touch” with the rest of the world.