DavidVincent: Comrade Frum.
Red Diaper baby,Neo Conservative,Redistributionist.

unperson! unperson! unperson!

soy_bomb: CBS/NY Times Poll, Romney in the lead.

A dead heat poll within the margin of error and you're going to claim the Democrats are outliers? I'll say it again, LOLWUT.

Also: what do you think about Eisenhower's farewell address and how should it inform our public debate today?

DavidVincent: Comrade Frum.
Red Diaper baby,Neo Conservative,Redistributionist.

David Frum?

Dwight_Yeast: Nadie_AZ: bdub77: a crumbling infrastructure

I'm still waiting for this to be fully addressed.

In the PA/NJ/NY area, the stimulus money is going a long way towards fixing the worst problems. PennDot is rebuilding a number of bridges here in Philly, they're completely rebuilding the NJ and parts of the PA Turnpikes, and there's a lot of work going on in NYC as well.

But...but socialism!

Weaver95: Because it doesen't fit the narrative. Today's GOP is about one thing - Getting rid of Obama. that's their only goal right now. Everything else is secondary. i'm not even sure the Republicans know HOW to fix our problems...they just know that Obama is wrong, and he has to be stopped.

A lot of Republicans refuse to acknowledge the problems or agree on the reality of them. From the past week:
Obama has shut down coal and oil production across the country (expect Texas!)
The economy is losing jobs at record rates.
The stock market has been in a continuous down spin since he's been in office.
He's just ruined the country period.
He's planning to outlaw medical care.
He's planning to outlaw medical care for whites and give it all to blacks and hispanics.
He's killed the US' reputation abroad
All he cares about is his international reputation and he's willing to sellout the country for it.

Dwight_Yeast: In the PA/NJ/NY area, the stimulus money is going a long way towards fixing the worst problems. PennDot is rebuilding a number of bridges here in Philly, they're completely rebuilding the NJ and parts of the PA Turnpikes, and there's a lot of work going on in NYC as well.

Quite a few bridges, overpasses, intersections and highways were rebuilt and repaved with stimulus funds over the last two years around here. I drive over many of them regularly, and I'm pretty satisfied I got my money's worth. You can say what you want about the state government, but MASSDOT didn't fark around getting boots and shovels to work quickly.

Dwight_Yeast: Satanic_Hamster: The stock market has been in a continuous down spin since he's been in office.

The news media is feeding that one: they've taken to reporting on the stock markets only when they go down, but not when they go up. Even my (Republican) mother noticed that recently; the DOW's over 13K but they're behaving like we're on the brink of collapse.

fear is good for ratings.

WhyteRaven74: Snarfangel: If we vote the idiots out of Congress, we'll be down to two Sergeants-at-Arms and a janitor.

And Bernie Sanders.

Bernie Sanders, two Sergeants-at-Arms and a janitor would form a much better (and more truly representative) House than currently exists.

Jim_Tressel's_O-Face: Look at the details in the poll. They're saying Rmoney is leading Obama by two points among women. That tells you everything you need to know about its validity right there. Horse race uber alles!

Really, the details don't matter when then whole point of the original post was that there was no statistical difference between the two and yet Romney was automatically president and the Democrats had to go paint Mr. Rushmore red with two-inch detailing brushes.

cig-mkr: Nothing is ever going to get resolved until all the greedy bastards in congress and wall street are held accountable for their actions.

Some of us are working on it, but the media says we're all violent communist hippies who eat puppies and play Skrillex covers in drum circles before going out to push old ladies in front of trains and people believe them instead of their own lying eyes. Nothing, I am afraid, is ever going to get resolved until things get bad enough that reality penetrates the bubble of corporate noise.

A Dark Evil Omen: Nothing, I am afraid, is ever going to get resolved until things get bad enough that reality penetrates the bubble of corporate noise.

Of course, by that point we're in Tyler Durden territory but hey, at least it'll make life interesting.

Dwight_Yeast: Biden did the NE a favor by making sure that projects that were "shovel-ready" got funding first, as he knew that all the DOTs from Maryland to Maine had laundry lists of "deferred maintenance" projects that they've been begging money for years for.

I should've known. I'm in favor of stimulus packages that focus on infrastructure, but I was quite surprised how quickly the crews got to work. The summer of 2009 I did a lot of traveling around New England and there were "Funded by the Stimulus Package" signs all over VT, NH, CT and MA.

One particular nasty stretch of road near me took out the struts in my suspension during the winter of 2008, I was so happy to see it get ripped up and repaved.

Weaver95: A Dark Evil Omen: Nothing, I am afraid, is ever going to get resolved until things get bad enough that reality penetrates the bubble of corporate noise.

Of course, by that point we're in Tyler Durden territory but hey, at least it'll make life interesting.

It does seem like the aristos are hell-bent on turning every scare-story they can come up with about The Crazies into reality.

A Dark Evil Omen: Weaver95: A Dark Evil Omen: Nothing, I am afraid, is ever going to get resolved until things get bad enough that reality penetrates the bubble of corporate noise.

Of course, by that point we're in Tyler Durden territory but hey, at least it'll make life interesting.

It does seem like the aristos are hell-bent on turning every scare-story they can come up with about The Crazies into reality.

I don't think I could point to any single thing thats driving the GOP insane. its almost like a 'perfect storm' of insanity, ideology and inertia finally shoved the Republicans into a place where they can't move without losing key body parts.

not to mention that the individual factions that make up the GOP are off doing their own thing and not under control anymore: the tea party is bumping off ranking members of congress with primary challengers, the corporate wing is being piggishly greedy in public and the evangelicals are creating a massive backlash by pushing a social agenda that the majority of voters simply will not ever accept.

one day the GOP is going to look up and shout 'save us' and i'll whisper 'no'.

HotWingConspiracy: [img.photobucket.com image 542x698]

Good god, man. That was unnecesary you rotten bastard.

MyRandomName: Medicare/aid is currently growing at nearly triple gdp growth rates. The average recipient spends 3x more than they put in adjusted for inflation. There needs to be reform.

I recommend making the whole population eligible for it for starters. You should be able to cut costs by 20%-40% and lock in with inflation within 10 years.

BuckTurgidson: Yeah, blame America's rich and elderly. Yeah, the elderly. That's it.

America's elderly are in fact the least wise, the most deliberate proudly and obstinately stupid, the least self-aware, the most-spoiled,the least humble, laziest, most selfish, most fearful, and vainest of any elderly generation on our nation's history, there's no denying that.

But American politics didn't reach this disgusting point because of them, you tool. American politics reached this point because of the deliberate, long-term efforts and investments in subversion of honest and fair political process by America's vastly - and ever vastlier - wealthy.

Yup. They're useful idiots, nothing more. Don't think for a moment that when they die off there aren't millions of scum right-wing foot soldiers ready or being readied to step into their place.

Mrtraveler01: mrshowrules: MyRandomName: Medicare/aid is currently growing at nearly triple gdp growth rates. The average recipient spends 3x more than they put in adjusted for inflation. There needs to be reform.

I recommend making the whole population eligible for it for starters. You should be able to cut costs by 20%-40% and lock in with inflation within 10 years.

No, clearly we need to allow "insurance to be sold across state lines":

Which is code for: "deregulate and consolidate all the insurance companies into 3 or 4 big ass companies based out of Deleware"

because larger monopolies will help. If you make it too easy for corporations to rape customers, they will grow tired of it.

Dwight_Yeast: bdub77: But...but socialism!

Like I said, I like Socialism. We're social animals, evolved to rely on and support one another. I know that the right wing in this country wants to pretend it's 1870, the West is still open and we're all rugged individualists settlers, but that's bullshiat and I'm tired of it.

I don't make a whole lot of money, but I'll happily pay more in taxes if it means everyone in this country gets good healthcare and no one is going hungry. My piece of mind is worth a hell of a lot more than money.

Welcome to my favorites list. Well said.