Good Lord, Evan Bayh as VP? Rahm Emanuel as Speaker? I really thought this election was going to kill off the DLC forever, but...Please God save us from the "centrists."

Posted at July 17, 2008 9:36 AM in response to Bayh As Veep? But He Co-Chaired Neocon Committee For The Liberation Of Iraq With McCain!

You are talking about two different things here. Payroll tax which is social security and Medicare and Income tax which is the tax that you pay on income. Adding social security into the mix is not honest. Social Security is a type of retirement plan, I know people don't get that but but basically it is. Adding it in would be like saying that contributions to you 401k or 403b are taxes.

Posted at July 2, 2008 10:21 AM in response to Muddy Brooks

This is wrong, the wing-nuts generated the outrage, the mainstream media jumped on the band wagon and that's what distracted, if there was a distraction, from his testimony. This has a twofer bonus effect for the wing-nuts, because it drives a wedge between Democratic leaders and the groups that could be supporting and helping them. It also puts people like Obama in a position where the yfeel, wrongly so in my opinion, that they must reject groups like Move-On to appeal the the Middle.
This is how the Right-Wing neuters left-wing groups. Its very effective because dipshit Democrats think there is some middle of the road voter out there and by distancing themselves from groups that the Right has defined as outside the mainstream, they can get their vote. Dems fall for it every time. Obama isn't any different.

Posted at June 30, 2008 4:08 PM in response to Obama's Patriotism Speech Stresses Life Story, Criticizes MoveOn

Yeah, I saw this on South Park so it must be true.

Posted at June 30, 2008 3:51 PM in response to Obama's Patriotism Speech Stresses Life Story, Criticizes MoveOn

Damn, just another politician. Is it too much to ask that, as a Democrat, we'd get a change to vote for someone we really feel good about rather than someone who dumps the base in search of the elusive and ill-informed "centrist" voter?

Posted at June 30, 2008 3:45 PM in response to Obama Campaign Condemns Wes Clark's Comments About McCain

Oh, and Obama, he's not lookin' so good in this. Funny how fast they change once they've got the nomination. I'd be willing to bet his fund raising drops off after this fiasco.

Posted at June 25, 2008 10:27 PM in response to Obama On FISA: Telecom Immunity Issue Doesn't Override National Security

When I call Qwest to make changes to my phone service they tell me that my information is protected and then ask me several questions to verify my identity. This is protected but if the government asks they will assist in monitoring my comunications? That doesn't make sense. Saying that this is just a Bush admin issue doesn't make sense either.

Using "I did it because the government asked me" does not seem to me to be a very good argument. In fact I think its very similar to what the guards at the Nazi concentration camps used at Nuremburg. Those were my orders I carried them out. Herr Bush asked us to spy, we spied. There are supposed Lawyers here defending this?

Posted at June 25, 2008 10:24 PM in response to Obama On FISA: Telecom Immunity Issue Doesn't Override National Security

All those listed have something in common, I just can't put my finger on it...

Posted at June 24, 2008 2:56 PM in response to WaPo's Richard Cohen: McCain's Flip-Flops Matter Less Than Obama's Because McCain Was POW

There's a lot more to this than meets the eye. How does a 22 year old yahoo like this get that kind of treatment from State? Are they that incompetent? Or was someone pulling strings and if so who and why?

Posted at June 23, 2008 1:39 PM in response to Waxman Says U.S. Embassy in Albania Concealed Info About Arms Shipment

1-Cindy is worth an estimated 100 million dollars. This debt represents 1% of her net worth. Depending on who you ask, the average American spends between 5% to 14% of their net worth on Credit Card repays.

It does not matter what percentage of your wealth debt represents. It matters that you are paying interest, and thus wasting money, for no good reason. (Of course when you marry into or inherit wealth, you don't really understand these petty little things so it is understandable that Johnny and Cindy waste thousands on dept maintenance, the rest of us watch these kinds of things or have no other choice than to carry credit card debt, because we are using plastic to pay for such frivolousness as food and gas to get to work.

Posted at June 13, 2008 12:33 PM in response to Report: McCains Have Over $100,000 In Credit Card Debt