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tonnyb Commented on First time I've ever been moderated at TPM and it had to do with the price of gold!!! by JEP07

2010-05-22T08:27:38Z

Someone tell me why this site doesn't post "Sorry, there is a limit of two links per comment. Please remove excess links from your comment. Thank you."

I find it difficult to understand the second class software implementation on this site.

tonnyb Commented on U.S. Attorney Threatens Taitz Over Unpaid $20,000 Fine by Justin Elliott

2010-05-21T16:18:59Z

Why are you denigrating the "tooth fairy?"

tonnyb Commented on Neocon Pundit: What's With All These Muslims Winning Beauty Pageants? by Rachel Slajda

2010-05-17T16:41:40Z

ACORN? Do they still exist?

tonnyb Commented on Neocon Pundit: What's With All These Muslims Winning Beauty Pageants? by Rachel Slajda

2010-05-17T16:40:40Z

I would think Pipes would be happy with the possibility that opportunity (winning pageants) might spur a progressive movement among Arabic/Muslim women.

tonnyb Commented on Obama: GOP Drove The Country Into A Ditch. 'Now They Want The Keys Back' (VIDEO) by Jillian Rayfield

2010-05-15T09:38:46Z

IMO, there hasn't been much earlier focus on this as audiences eventually tire on any message. The issue is timing and try-outs. I think Obama is trying out this metaphor with the intention of using it when it is most likely to have an impact on the 2010 election.

tonnyb Commented on Poll Shows Some Birthers Approve Of Obama's Job Performance by Eric Kleefeld

2010-05-08T11:22:51Z

It's part of the human condition. We exist by committee. There's the lower more primitive parts of the brain, that handle basic survival responses including fight or flight reactions, akin to a reptilian brain. And then there are the higher parts where reason, logic have potential. The higher parts can to some extent override the lower parts, but that takes training, education, forethought, discipline etc ... Without that, the lower reptilian brain rides roughshod over the higher parts and reason goes out the window.

tonnyb recommended Mary Landreau's Oil Company Bailout by tonnyb

2010-05-07T13:18:17Z

tonnyb Commented on The Republican Duo Behind The Demise Of The Financial Reform Filibuster by Brian Beutler

2010-04-30T09:11:54Z

Frank Luntz.

tonnyb Commented on Here Come The Dems: Obama, DNC Rolling Out 2010 Plan (VIDEO) by Evan McMorris-Santoro

2010-04-26T18:13:26Z

Now you're lying. Show we me where I said anything different?

tonnyb Commented on Here Come The Dems: Obama, DNC Rolling Out 2010 Plan (VIDEO) by Evan McMorris-Santoro

2010-04-26T18:01:16Z

I'm not a right wing troll. Look through my diary entries and you'll see that's not true. But in fact, I'm an Obama voting democrat who is on the fence waiting to see what happens between now and nov. I suspect that too many Obama voters are having the same ambivalence. Do you see the problem?

You miss my point. I'm not trying to bring attention to wellstone or Moore. I'm trying to underscore that, although mostly misguided, a Buckley conservative is far more desireable than the brand we have now. The brand we have now lies, distorts, conflates, obfucates etc... I miss the Buckley style of conservative.

tonnyb Commented on Here Come The Dems: Obama, DNC Rolling Out 2010 Plan (VIDEO) by Evan McMorris-Santoro

2010-04-26T15:44:23Z

The kind who appreciates honesty. I rarely agree with anything he said. But I did agree with his willingness to tell you how he truly felt, and his attempt to argue with other conservatives and liberals in a civil and useful manner. I prefer him over the current brand of conservatism. Now we have lots of dishonest discussion coming from the right. It also bullshit arguments meant to hide, distort and stifle honest discussion.

tonnyb Commented on Here Come The Dems: Obama, DNC Rolling Out 2010 Plan (VIDEO) by Evan McMorris-Santoro

2010-04-26T15:18:39Z

Get some sleep!

tonnyb Commented on Here Come The Dems: Obama, DNC Rolling Out 2010 Plan (VIDEO) by Evan McMorris-Santoro

2010-04-26T15:17:28Z

Barack Obama.

tonnyb Commented on Here Come The Dems: Obama, DNC Rolling Out 2010 Plan (VIDEO) by Evan McMorris-Santoro

2010-04-26T15:15:32Z

The policies that took us to the brink still remain. The banks have gotten larger and the current discussion on fin. reg. looks like it will leave the banks intact and able to find another way to screw the public.

I am uninspired. That is a fact. Many other Obama voters feel the same. The middle has moved away from Obama because of job losses, their lack of focus on jobs, his administration's perceived relationship to wall street and his unwillingness to push for a public option, which by the way had the support of the majority of the public.

I video on hope and change doesn't cut it for me. I'm just not feeling that hope-ful.

In looks like in order to prevent the "1995-98 freakshow of endless investigations of nothing, impeachment, obstruction, government shutdowns, and truly atrocious legislation ..." you speak of, the administration is going to have to prove that it is more on the side of main street voters then it has so far.

tonnyb Commented on Here Come The Dems: Obama, DNC Rolling Out 2010 Plan (VIDEO) by Evan McMorris-Santoro

2010-04-26T13:22:15Z

I'm sorry but I who maxed out on my contributions in 2008, and spent days making calls, am uninspired this time around. Am I the only one? I don't think so. With largely toothless financial regs. that keep TBTF banks intact, incentivize more bank mergers (bigger banks) and the accumulation of so much wealth in too few hands ... I think Barack has some splainin' to do.

tonnyb Commented on Conrad Asks House To Remove North Dakota Deal by Rachel Slajda

2010-03-19T12:54:49Z

Glenn? Where's Glenn? Glen the Beck? North Dakota is really a commie state, a cancer that we need to fight against before it spreads southward through our red states of South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. No doubt, the cause of this cancer is the result of our porous borders. Not Mexico but the Communist Republic of Canada ...

tonnyb Commented on Appeals Court Upholds $20,000 Fine Against Orly Taitz by Justin Elliott

2010-03-16T18:01:51Z

Lets not forget that this a ruling against a primary tenet of tea party.

tonnyb Commented on Stupak: Pelosi And Hoyer Haven't Talked To Me (VIDEO) by Eric Kleefeld

2010-03-16T17:23:14Z

Where's his primary challenge? We need to support that person.

tonnyb Commented on Pro-Life Dems Start Breaking In Pelosi's Direction by Brian Beutler

2010-03-15T21:49:37Z

You need a Presidential signature to make a repeal, law. Obama won't be signing a repeal.

tonnyb Commented on Nixon Opposes Dan Senor Candidacy by M.J. Rosenberg

2010-03-13T01:17:50Z

He also married to Campbell Brown. How will CNN handle it if he runs?

tonnyb recommended DEMOCRATIC MESSAGING: KEEP and DELETE CAMPAIGN by tonnyb

2010-02-26T20:59:50Z

tonnyb Commented on Won't Get Fooled Again: Dems Aim To Get Health Care Messaging Straight by Christina Bellantoni

2010-02-24T21:36:48Z

Some days Obama seems like a republican.

tonnyb Commented on CPAC Shocker? 2% Of Conservatives Approve Of Obama, Straw Poll Finds by Evan McMorris-Santoro

2010-02-21T19:24:06Z

You must mean millions in Massachusetts!