Commentary By Ron Beasley
The headline reads:
Reid pulls together Senate Dems to take huge step on health reform
Although the Senate’s action was a mere procedural vote, it represented the end of weeks of anxiety for Reid while foreshadowing difficult legislative and political battles ahead. Applause from spectators greeted the final tally announced by [...]
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I have said for years that the best way to end foreign misadventures like Iraq and Afghanistan was to make the millionaire pundits and neocons pay for them. Let's see how enthusiastic Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes are when their wars are being paid for by them. [...]
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Oberammergau, from a Kodachrome slide taken in 1970.
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DaveNoon at Lawyers, Guns and Money is reading Going Rogue so we don't have too. Now I'm not really interested in even reading about the book but I found this amusing.
I realize this is a pedantic complaint, but would it be possible for Sarah Palin to launch [...]
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Here in my State of Oregon it was announced this week that health insurance premiums will be going up 16 percent in 2010. Some employers will increase the amount of the employees share while some small and medium sized businesses will be priced out and have to [...]
Commentary By Ron Beasley
I am old enough to remember the thrill of the moon landings and the national pride that followed. There was little doubt that The United States was the worlds technology leader. Thanks to foolish wars and tax cuts for the wealthiest one percent the mantle of technology [...]
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The wingers are outraged. Why? Because Sen. Patrick Leahy said there was no reason to interrogate Osama bin Laden if he's captured. This was a stupid thing for Leahy to say but the outrage is just as stupid.
The writers of fiction know it, movie makers know' [...]
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No, it's not the dreaded "liberals" who are singing that song to Sarah Palin, it's the Republicans and conservatives who dream of winning again.
First we have Conservative and Evangelical Christian Rod Dreher:
The rap on Palin is that she's too shallow and inexperienced for the presidency — a [...]
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Judging from his campaign rhetoric we might have assumed that Barack Obama would have stood up to the Corporatocracy not join it but as Robert Scheer points out join it is what he did.
What's up with Barack Obama? The candidate for change once promised to take [...]
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Obama has to make a decision of Afghanistan - is he going to make an LBJ decision and be a one term president or.....? Harvey Wasserman explains the wrong decision will make him a one term president.
As the world awaits Barack Obama's decision on Afghanistan, [...]
By Ron Beasley
Daniel Larison has another great Palin post but the quote of the day comes from commenter nomakesense who makes a lot of sense.
The current direction of the Republican party is, quite frankly, horrifying. Policy is being directed by people who are essentially entertainers. I don’t believe that Palin has [...]
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It has become obvious that the Republicans will attack and try to obstruct anything - anything the Democrats and the Obama administration try to do even if it was something they might have agreed with a few days before, In yesterday's New York Times Oregon's Representative Earl [...]
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I covered the dangerous senile rantings of the old fool David Broder here yesterday morning.
It's still getting some play over at memeorandum this morning.
Steve Benen has a great reaction:
I realize there's been a painful decline in the quality of Broder's analysis' [...]
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It's not too surprising but the narcissistic ignorant insensitive wingnuttery are upset because:
Obama has now done it again. Andrew Malcolm asks (and reports): "How low will he go? Obama gives Japan's Emperor Akihito a wow bow."
Obama's breach of protocol is of a piece [...]
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Juan Cole on the Republican Party:
This decision by the Obama administration demonstrates faith in the American way of life, and a conviction that even the worst mass murderers can be dealt justice by democratic institutions.Predictably, Republican critics vowed to fight the decision, since they much prefer to hold people forever without [...]
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David Broder proves beyond all doubt that he is not just a senile old fool but a dangerous one at that. In Enough Afghan debate he channels Dick Cheney and says:
The more President Obama examines our options in Afghanistan, the less he likes the choices he sees. [...]
By Ron Beasley
AP (sorry) fact checks Sarah Palin's book, Going Rogue, and finds it lacking when it comes to facts.
Meanwhile Matthew Continetti asks: can Sarah Palin Make A Comeback? He finds some really lame reasons to answer yes but Daniel Larison says No She Can't and Ann [...]
Commentary By Ron Beasley
As our current health care system collapses people will suffer but so will the health care industry and the insurance companies as fewer and fewer people can afford their services. It's already happening:
A weak economy has reduced the insurer's customer base
Regence BlueCross BlueShield, Oregon's largest [...]
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Revisionist history is nothing new. As they say the winners write history. We saw it with Ronald Reagan. Shortly after he left office the process began to white wash the negatives and invent positives. He is giving credit for ending the cold war and bringing down the [...]
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It looks like Obama may be getting closer to doing the right think in Afghanistan will we see the same thing on the economy. If he does he needs to look at what happened and how we got here. Robert Weissman reminds us that this [...]
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The right wingers are pro life until the baby is born but then it and it's family is on their own when it comes to medical care or proper diet or living conditions that would allow a life worth living - hypocrisy!
The' [...]
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I have have said that a bad health care bill is worse than no bill at all. Dr Marcia Angell agrees:
Conservative rhetoric notwithstanding, the House bill is not a "government takeover." I wish it were. Instead, it enshrines and subsidizes the "takeover" by the investor-owned insurance industry [...]
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This is a follow up to Jay's post below. The corporate media just like the Republicans think that if they say something often enough it will become reality. A case in point is all the recent talk of a Republican come back because the Republicans won two [...]
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Senator Joseph Lieberman, (Zionist), Israel, has decided that the Fort Hood Massacre is a terrorist act.
Sen. Joe Lieberman called the Fort Hood massacre an act of "Islamist extremism" - even as top Army brass warned Sunday against guessing at a motive, fearing [...]
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Thomas Friedman has been taking some reality drugs.
The Israeli-Palestinian peace process has become a bad play. It is obvious that all the parties are just acting out the same old scenes, with the same old tired clichés — and that no one believes any of it anymore. There is [...]
Commentary By Ron Beasley
A few days ago I wrote A Bad Bill Is Worse Than No Bill At All.
I remain convinced that there was never any possibility of a health care reform bill that actually reformed anything. Obama just wants a bill - he really doesn't care what's in it. This [...]
By Ron Beasley
As Steve noted below Obama's National Security Adviser, James L. Jones has some serious doubts about sending additional troops to Afghanistan. As Jones said:
"we can't want this more than the Afghans"
Well increasingly the Afghans want it less.
“What have the Americans done in eight years?” asked' [...]
