ishmael

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Nixon was somewhat of a liberal Republican. He wouldn't fit in very well in today's party, even if they did…
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And the right-wingers say Dem nominees are judicial activists. This is radical.
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Only if there are 60 votes for cloture. You'll still need 51 votes to pass the bill.
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It's $10 billion for the poor. Can't justify that.
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Here's a Bush economist's views on how Dems might try to pass a reform bill through reconciliation. Always nice to…
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/19/obama/ Glenn makes a lot of sense in this piece. I'm coming around to his view of how the administration…
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We don't even know how this will work. Under reconciliation the plan could still be watered down. Also, the parliamentarian…
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Booman: Once we have more details it would be good to know what exactly amounts to a trillion dollars worth…
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I had to join the army to get mine.
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I'm primarily concerned with what this means for health care. Hopefully we'll have a strong bill and the conservative Dems…
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What exactly is the moral high ground here? Let me guess... somewhere in between what he's said and what the…
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To be fair, such incidents are rarely, if ever, reported in the US news. The only reason we payed close…
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http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/sos-from-tehran.html Comma ruined that link.
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I found this post by Sullivan, http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/sos-from-tehran.html, very disturbing. Obviously, we can't do anything to help those students. If Obama…
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Is this some kind of reverse identification thing? I don't mind you taking an opposing view to the "western media…
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I thought it was a good speech. Mentioning the holocaust and the 6 millions Jews killed was probably a bit…
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He has voiced support for single-payer in the past. But not in Congress or on the campaign trail and certainly…
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Times like these I wish we still had some LBJ-style Democrats in Congress. His follies aside, the guy had spine…
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And, of course, all of that is Obama's fault.
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Just sickening. My blood boils when I read and hear what these people have done to our country. I am…
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