I don’t make it hidden that I’m a big fan of Robert Reich, the Secretary of Labor under President Clinton. However, I’ve got to say this. I don’t think the amount of the stimulus, at this point, is the problem with how the stimulus has been utilized so far. I think it’s really the number of federal employees going over various project submissions that has been the problem…there aren’t enough of them.
Generally, the Republican Party (and a couple of gutless Democrats) shelved the Mathew Shepard/James Byrd act for 12 years because, according to them, it would be an “unwarranted expansion of federal power” and an “unconstitutional thought-crimes law”. The reason is that it gives the Federal government the power to intercede in certain cases where the [...]
“So, you kids think you should have something to hope for? THINK AGAIN, PUNKS!”
I think we can agree that Conservatives have shown up to this fight with guns. That’s what they always do. They take shots, personal, political, and oftentimes, downright insane. The progressives, as usual, have shown up with baseball bats. And they don’t even have a good strategy for how to use those bats effectively.
Bill Clinton came out recently in an interview and said there’d be no repeat of 1994 in 2010 as far as the Republicans kicking the Democrats out of power in Congress, because the Republicans are much “weaker” now.
For articles like this one which I found through there. I’m not the type to normally read GQ. Even though the writer is totally historically wrong about Carter on page 6. Those long lines at the pump, unemployment, inflation? Brought to you by the folks who brought you the Vietnam War and those who set [...]
So yeah, most people who know me know I’m prettly liberal/progressive/whatever. I don’t march in lock step, and frequently veer in strange directions (does that make me a drunk liberal? I think it does)…but I’m not above the time honored liberal tradition of kicking other liberals in the shins.
I got an idea, and personally, I like it. You can keep your insurance companies happy and get people who are uninsured in one step (well, okay, maybe you’ll need to slap a little regulation on top, but you won’t need a public option here). But it’s going to scare the pants off righties. Unionize [...]
So, you think government run health care would have a lot of “bureaucratic overhead”? Think it would surpass some of these jokers who have been ripping YOU off? These guys don’t even have the shame to stop dropping people from HEALTH INSURANCE for getting SICK…just so they can do more of the following. Health Insurance [...]
So since the election, I’ve been hearing the same pseudo-racist whine from a lot of people that usually goes along with the tune “it ain’t easy being white”. Or some variation on that. People who say that make me want to slap the shit out of them. “Ain’t easy”? Just because a black guy is [...]