Today’s employment numbers visualized.
Let me ask this of the Republicans: Where are the jobs? Oh, right there. Imagine what it would be like without obstruction…..
Mitt Romney: the essence of insincerity →
1. He’s such a little snot.
2. “This is not the time to be doubting people’s words, or questioning their integrity.” WHEN IS? AFTER you’ve been given the power you seek?
3. “I’m not questioned on character or integrity very often.” WELL YOU SHOULD BE.
Budgeting priorities
This passionate (for a nerdy congressman) speech is the type of thing for which Change the Debate was created. Completely off the radar of the news media, discussions of the actual facts hidden within the partisan policy clashes are what American citizens need in order to vote in an informed manner. Instead what we get are personality-driven coverage which give rise to figures like Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin and even Donald Trump.
I remain convinced, and it is the focus of this nascent organization Change the Debate, that a significant proportion of the electorate would respond to facts-driven policy discussions. And I believe that the only way to elevate the debate to that level is to raise money to place paid political ads throughout the media landscape which advance not one particular candidate but the well-being of the American democratic experiment.
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(via Crooks and Liars’ Top 50 videos of the year)
Nevertheless a Princeton douche (I can say that, it's my alma mater) tells OWS marchers to "Get a Job!" →
The 99ers Push Back: Will Democrats Step Up? | Crooks and Liars
Mike Lux contrasts the various progressive electoral successes of Tuesday with the mediocre performance of Democratic candidates on the same day. There are many hardcore progressives who disdain the Democratic Party for the very reason that Democratic politicians too often disappoint… then others say, “What’s the alternative?”
Has no one ever articulated an accurate state of American politics? Democrats have concern for the well-being of “the 99%” but fear going too far out on the populist limb because “the 1%” has so much money to give that the airwaves will be blanketed with messages against them (many of them outright lies with no credible media to rebuke) which will lead to Republican victories — meaning people voting against their economic interests.
I guess no one ever has expressed that point like that — for one thing it’s a long-ass run-on sentence! And I still didn’t encapsulate all I wanted to say!
It just seems to me that there ought to be a way to communicate the message: “I will do as much for you as I can, but due to fundamental flaws in our system of government (exacerbated by the Roberts Court’s Citizen’s United decision) I cannot stand up for you as forcefully as I would like. I need to divert some funding away from my opponent. I wish it were not the case but it is. There is a dire need for many reforms and radical changes. But even minor changes scare many people to the point of lunacy. Help me help you!”
