Wow...I had no idea Carol McCain's accident was so bad...

Is McCain really gonna make this about character?

Posted at August 29, 2008 12:35 PM in response to How Many Houses Does CAROL McCain Own

Yeah, I can.

Universal recourse, reduced bias towards corporations, and public proceedings.

Your interest in lower-cost goods is overwhelmed by the interests of the people to have fair recourse against the powerful.

Posted at July 31, 2008 3:35 PM in response to Keeping Sham Research from Distorting the Policy Debate

As a proud member of the Blame America When It's America's Fault crowd, I believe that America needs to drastically revamp its overall lifestyle (or we'll have it revamped for us, market shock style).

But I also know that our fair nation of 300 million isn't inflating global population by 39%. What's to be done without draconian "one child" policies or similarly unsettling/ineffective measures? Just wait til food shocks make people starve to death?

(not being flip about this at all)

Posted at July 22, 2008 10:21 AM in response to Destructive Forces of Success (Part #1: The Math)

Without putting too fine a point on it, isn't HRC (yer preferred candidate, unless I'm mistaken) more responsible for a lot of what you're talking about than Barack Obama? Specifically the congressional oversight, HAVA, and DHS pieces?

I don't get how you can support HRC and then throw a shit-fit over BHO's inability to roll back all of these problems in the first hundred days...

Posted at July 21, 2008 2:59 PM in response to President Barack Obama Will Face Unrealistic Expections

I agree with yer post, but ketchup is nutritionally similar to a tomato.

Posted at July 18, 2008 4:00 PM in response to A Child-Centric Politics

Nice post.

Posted at July 18, 2008 3:41 PM in response to Lincoln, Obama and the Dirty Little Business Of Getting Elected

Yeeeah, except our guy gets it and Bush is an asshat who gave his Iraq-obsessed, primacy-asserting cronies the keys to the US war machine.

Might see different results from the two.

And I don't really doubt that RW media will run out the storyline you describe, but I'd hope that surrogates can dispatch the facile comparison with ease.

Posted at July 16, 2008 4:57 PM in response to Obama: It's Time For A Real Offensive Against Terrorism

I'll vote for those folks when they're electorally viable in my area. If they'd ever ask, I'd help them become electorally viable.

Most of them seem content to be non-benchers, though.

Posted at July 2, 2008 3:00 PM in response to Goodbye TPM, Daily Kos, Huffington Post

Bulldog, I can't possibly keep up with you on the ins and outs of recovery policy, but I do have a major problem with your apparent central premise:
the US has a right to (and/or just *will*) keep producing goods and consuming resources at present rates (or higher), and our energy policy needs to be directed toward maintaining those production levels, rather than using our new understanding of the limitations of oil and gas supply to remake the US economy and prudently redirect recovery and energy production efforts with a view to the next hundred years. Why do we we *need* to maintain these oil production levels rather than reducing use to the extent that alt. energy becomes more viable?

Also, I think your analysis of how much some AE solutions cost is skewed because you assume an individual with no tax support or community initiative support will be paying all the costs. Just because that's how it works doesn't mean we can't solve those problems.

Finally, your pegging the problem to "the Democrats" doesn't sit well with me. This is partly because I'm a partisan Dem, but there are lots of people of a lot of minds who work in a lot of industries including politics that influence this sort of thing. I hesitate to blame just Dems for the wide ranging problems you describe, esp. when 68 million acres apparently aren't being ramped up.

Posted at July 2, 2008 2:55 PM in response to They can't be this stupid

You can't govern if you don't win.

Have fun "moving on from Bush" during a McSame presidency. If you're of draft age, you'll probably be moving on to Iran.

You're not paying attention if you think this is co-opting or triangulation - it's what Obama actually believes in.

Also, your apparent atheism doesn't mean that religious programs can't do good.

Posted at July 1, 2008 3:03 PM in response to Election Central Morning Roundup