Democratic senators stay with Reid… so far
Another big step cleared, apparently.
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) appears to have secured the 60 votes needed to move an $848 billion health-care reform bill to the Senate floor for debate.
After days of indecision, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (Ark.) — the final Democratic holdout — announced Saturday afternoon that she has decided to support a procedural motion to break a GOP filibuster. Reid now expects all 60 members of his caucus to vote yes at 8 p.m. Saturday, clearing the way for amendment deliberations to begin after the Thanksgiving recess….
Two other undecided Democrats, Sens. Ben Nelson (Neb.) and Mary Landrieu (La.), also announced their support in the final hours before the Saturday vote.
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RW-(the original)
November 22nd, 2009
9:12 pm
A politician is still a human being
I guess you’re right, Dusty, but my default is to view them first as snake oil salespersons and adjust from there. I nearly always end up adjusting downward.
RW-(the original)
November 22nd, 2009
9:13 pm
How can we have 3 comments on this page with the counter showing 601?
josef nix
November 22nd, 2009
9:17 pm
RW–how? It was waiting on me or you..fooled it, didn’t we…now if we can just do up the moderator…
Dusty…
I guess politicians are still human, but my jury’s out on almost the entire lot…I think we ought to subject them to a DNA test…
Dusty
November 22nd, 2009
9:18 pm
Right, josef.
Newspapers are now singing “Can’t get no respect!” just like Jimi Hendrix
Or worse. “Can’t get no subscribers!”. Wonder how much newspapers are helped by bloggers?
Dusty
November 22nd, 2009
9:21 pm
josef,
Give politicians a DNA test? Yes, but who’s gonna claim the baby???
Common Sense
November 22nd, 2009
9:25 pm
I Report (-: You Whine ):
As I said, prepare to defend yourself !
Dusty
November 22nd, 2009
9:26 pm
Nw now RW,
Let us think positively!! There must be at least one honest politician. Diogenes still hunting??? Probably!!
Angry Black Man
November 22nd, 2009
9:27 pm
If the newspapers became more newsy (is that a word?) and less tabloidesque (another one for webster to figure out) you wouldn’t have to read about Richardson’s timeline for the day he fell apart. Like you Dusty, I think there’s a time when even a public figure should be given their privacy. Somebody’s gotta be the first one to respond to the media with a stern “none of your f*cking business!”
I think people who obsess over other people’s lives are lacking in their own and are simply trying to mask their shortcomings. That’s one reason I’d never subject neither my family nor myself to such scrutiny. I know I’d be the first one to tell a reporter to take that mic or pen and shove it where only their proctologist will ever know what happened to it.
RW-(the original)
November 22nd, 2009
9:28 pm
Andy,
Let’s just hope they’re keeping Robbie’s leg in shape.
Angry Black Man
November 22nd, 2009
9:28 pm
Dusty
I’d be willing to bet you’d find a live dodo bird before you find a honest politician.
RW-(the original)
November 22nd, 2009
9:31 pm
I know I’d be the first one to tell a reporter to take that mic or pen and shove it where only their proctologist will ever know what happened to it.
Close, ABM, but I think I’d shove it there myself knowing I couldn’t trust them to do it.
Angry Black Man
November 22nd, 2009
9:31 pm
RW
Robbie’s gonna help my fantasy team score a victory this week, or at least I hope so. Olsen isn’t being much of a help at this point.
josef nix
November 22nd, 2009
9:32 pm
DUSTY
“Or worse. “Can’t get no subscribers!”. Wonder how much newspapers are helped by bloggers?”
Well, if you leave the same thread up all weekend with this garrolous lot you can claim over 600 hits, easy…
“Give politicians a DNA test? Yes, but who’s gonna claim the baby???”
Koko the gorilla?
Angry Black Man
November 22nd, 2009
9:33 pm
RW
Good point. Pols will screw up almost anything they do.
RW-(the original)
November 22nd, 2009
9:35 pm
ABM,
Remember when the Falcons signed Tim Mazetti out of a Philadelphia bar and he kicked five field goals to win a Monday nighter 15-14? It was pretty much his whole career but it’s the best place kicker story I know.
/Assuming it really happened….it was a long time ago.
josef nix
November 22nd, 2009
9:36 pm
ABM–
You mean politicians aren’t dodos? Coulda fooled me…
Angry Black Man
November 22nd, 2009
9:36 pm
josef
I’ve always thought that Bookman has the most secure job of all the opinion writers. This one topic probably has as many posts on it as Wooten, Barr, or Wingfield has in their combined posts for the entire week.
RW-(the original)
November 22nd, 2009
9:39 pm
ABM,
We gave Bookman 20 some odd pages of comments when all he posted was a picture of a fish. Even as nutty as newspaper execs might be they’ll catch on sooner or later that our beloved host has nearly nothing to do with the response here.
josef nix
November 22nd, 2009
9:39 pm
ABM–
And just think, he owes it all to the little folks like you and me!
Angry Black Man
November 22nd, 2009
9:39 pm
RW
I actually saw a scroll during the Pats game looking for kickers. They were asking for people to show up tomorrow at Clark Atlanta between 1-3pm with the possibility of the Falcons being contacted.
Angry Black Man
November 22nd, 2009
9:42 pm
josef, RW
I’ve always wanted to compare the blog entries of the opinion writers, but there’d be no comparison. Granted, about 15-20% of the posts here are on topic, but the clicks gotta do something for the AJC’s revenue stream.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 22nd, 2009
9:42 pm
My leg is in shape from kicking the furniture.
RW-(the original)
November 22nd, 2009
9:43 pm
Andy,
Head down to Clark Atlanta tomorrow. The way Elam is going you’ve a great shot at the job.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 22nd, 2009
9:43 pm
Lovie is gutless, just like Obozo.
RW-(the original)
November 22nd, 2009
9:45 pm
but the clicks gotta do something for the AJC’s revenue stream.
ABM,
Only if the clicks are on the ads and generate business. It doesn’t take long before advertisers figure out that your hit stats mean jack if nobody is clicking through to them.
Angry Black Man
November 22nd, 2009
9:46 pm
josef
re your 9:36: politicians are jacka$$es. Dodo’s were the honest politicians or “statesmen”, and we know what happened to them
Angry Black Man
November 22nd, 2009
9:48 pm
RW
I’ve hit one or two by accident. Does that count?
hee hee hee
RW-(the original)
November 22nd, 2009
9:48 pm
40 seconds left in the half so the Bears are trying to get the best angle for their next FG. Some teams might actually try to score a TD.
RW-(the original)
November 22nd, 2009
9:49 pm
ABM,
Only if you bought something or at least spent some time perusing the advertisers website.
@@
November 22nd, 2009
9:50 pm
ABM:
Remember this guy?
One of the best responses to the media I’ve ever seen.
josef nix
November 22nd, 2009
9:50 pm
ABM–
@ 9:46
Agreed…
Well, folks…time to check out…already been told to come in ready to work tomorrow…forewarned is forearmed as they say,,,
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 22nd, 2009
9:51 pm
So what’s the over/ under on Gould?
Seeing how no one else is participating.
RW-(the original)
November 22nd, 2009
9:52 pm
Andy,
17
Angry Black Man
November 22nd, 2009
9:59 pm
@@
I’ve met him in person. The brief encounter I had with him made me respect him even more. For a 3-star General, he’s by far the most down to earth officer I’ve met from any of the branches. I made sure to express my gratitude for his straight talk and ensuring things got done. We need more people like him.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 22nd, 2009
10:03 pm
What is this freak Costas talking about, field goals and overtime injustice?
Bloodshot eyed weirdo.
Angry Black Man
November 22nd, 2009
10:06 pm
Time to pack it in. The lil one will be up with the sunrise. See y’all later…
Whiner
I’ve got a few Bears on my fantasy team, so I’m pulling for your guys tonight.
Dusty
November 22nd, 2009
10:08 pm
Goodnight, josef. Take care of those little ones tomorrow. (Koko, huh? Good one!)
Hmm, I get the impression something NOT GOOD happened on the ball field.. Will I hear tomorrow that Andy has joined a team? Hope his leg isn’t too sore from kicking the furniture.
Well, good night to all. The moderator just put my last comment to bed so I will follow the lead.. Ho hmmmmmmm…and sleep tight…
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 22nd, 2009
10:10 pm
Yep, a one yard run up the middle, a screen pass for a three yard loss and set the Eagles up for a perfect 15 yard sack loss, is my coach a tard or what?
RW-(the original)
November 22nd, 2009
10:12 pm
Andy,
I turn away from pregame and halftime on NBC since the Olberfreak is always subject to show up, but if Costas was talking NFL sudden death OT rules I agree with him. College rules are much better, but in the pros I might start them 10 yards further back.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 22nd, 2009
10:12 pm
In Chicago we’ve heard about the quick slant but it remains a mystery to us, like the Loch Ness monster, and to think, Bill Cowher is unemployed.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 22nd, 2009
10:14 pm
Win the game or suffer the evil coin toss, RW, man up.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 22nd, 2009
10:17 pm
A forward pass, how about that? It even got a first down, wow.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 22nd, 2009
10:20 pm
Maybe Gould’s leg will get strong enough to kick 95 yard field goals and we can just forego the offensive suffering we endure?
RW-(the original)
November 22nd, 2009
10:22 pm
Andy,
Did you guys do something horrible to force the league to make you take this Cutler fellow?
/The referee dropped the coin and it landed on tails but he said “oops” and re-flipped where it landed on heads.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 22nd, 2009
10:31 pm
It’s our tradition, RW, to take a prolific high scoring Pro Bowler and turn them into a psychotic.
Perhaps we should make Cutler a “wide receiver” too?
RW-(the original)
November 22nd, 2009
10:35 pm
Holy crap!!! Now we need Robbie to kick two more.
RW-(the original)
November 22nd, 2009
10:38 pm
Thanks to Johnny Knoxville we’re back in the Go”u”ld zone.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 22nd, 2009
10:40 pm
So what happened?
This is mental.
RW-(the original)
November 22nd, 2009
10:41 pm
OK now they’re just keeping Robbie down….
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 22nd, 2009
10:46 pm
Whenever you see the Chicago linebackers run away from the line of scrimmage, stick another fork in your Lovie Smith voodoo doll.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 22nd, 2009
10:56 pm
Come on!
RW-(the original)
November 22nd, 2009
11:00 pm
Geez….now Robbie can’t even get a kick over the line.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 22nd, 2009
11:12 pm
75 yards to go for psychoffense.
RW-(the original)
November 22nd, 2009
11:18 pm
Sorry, but Cutler sucks. That was the easiest 6 ever for a real QB.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 22nd, 2009
11:31 pm
Yes he does.
Rightwing Troll
November 23rd, 2009
5:46 am
Wow, play by play blogging… sad really… as I suspected ALL FREAKIN DAY with the nut sacks here.
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Normal
November 23rd, 2009
7:11 am
FOUR MORE DEAD IN AFGHANISTAN! MR. PRESIDENT, BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!
I Report :-) You Whine :-( mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 23rd, 2009
7:16 am
abnormal- No whining from about 5:46?
And by the way, if Lord Help Us spews from it’s position at the Waffle House grill into an empty blog, can anyone hear it
stands for decibels
November 23rd, 2009
7:19 am
Mornin’.
What Normal’s on about.
Three died on Sunday in southern Afghanistan in two separate incidents. One was killed in a small arms attack by insurgents and the other two when a roadside bomb exploded. A fourth service member died in eastern Afghanistan Monday in a roadside bomb attack. American soldiers are primarily fighting in southern and eastern Afghanistan.
[...]
Reuters reported on Monday that two Afghan ministers suspected of embezzlement have been summoned for investigation, according to Deputy Attorney General Fazel Ahmad Faqiryar, and other officials were also being targeted by the inquiry.
It was not clear when the Obama administration would announce its response to the request for more American troops.
Apart from American forces, other NATO countries have around 35,000 troops in Afghanistan. Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain has said he will urge other NATO countries to increase that number by 5,000, but there has been a reluctance among the allies to commit reinforcements.
[...]
According to icasualties.org, a Web site that tracks casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, American forces lost 59 service personnel killed in October, the deadliest month in the war that began with the overthrow of the Taliban regime in late 2001. The latest deaths brought to 16 the number of Americans killed so far this month.
Normal
November 23rd, 2009
7:24 am
Whiner, I’m not sure what the 5:46 is about. BTW, how did the Bears do?
Nothing Is Free
November 23rd, 2009
7:32 am
Normal
Bring the troops home? Don’t be silly. Thoughts like that could hurt his golf game.
86 days since the request to send more troops. Support our troops or bring them home, if you can find the time between your speeches, your world travels and your golf game. People are dying you incompetent, spineless POS.
I said for the year before he was installed by the media that he was an empty suit.
Convinced yet?
Normal
November 23rd, 2009
7:34 am
Never mind Whiner, I just saw how the Bears did…sorry.
Normal
November 23rd, 2009
7:37 am
NIF, I am leaning that way. I have said here many times that the only reason I voted for him was his promise to bring the troops home…But I believed Nixon, too…I guess I’m just gullible.
stands for decibels
November 23rd, 2009
7:39 am
the only reason I voted for him was his promise to bring the troops home
When did candidate Barack Obama promise to withdraw troops from Afghanistan?
stands for decibels
November 23rd, 2009
7:44 am
I really didn’t intend my post 7.39 as a “gotcha,” but a quick perusing of politifact’s truth-o-meter reveals, in case it had been forgotten, that in fact Obama he had promised something quite the opposite. And he kept that promise.
TnGelding
November 23rd, 2009
7:53 am
Normal
November 23rd, 2009
7:37 am
You’re in good company!
TnGelding
November 23rd, 2009
7:57 am
“Pakistan to US: Don’t surge in Afghanistan, talk to Taliban”
“Islamabad, Pakistan – The Pakistani government has some advice the Obama administration may not want to hear as it contemplates sending additional US troops to neighboring Afghanistan: Negotiate with Taliban leaders and restrain India.”
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1122/p06s01-wosc.html
Normal
November 23rd, 2009
7:58 am
You are right, of course, he was talking about Iraq. But though he said that Afghanistan was the “right” war, he knew that Osama Bin Laden was no longer there. But, bottom line, they need to come home. Their mission is worn out, their equipment is worn out, and they are worn out and used up. They need to come home.
Nothing Is Free
November 23rd, 2009
8:00 am
db
Do you think that he might just make a friggin’ decision? About anything besides which speech to make and which club to use? 86 days to make a decision. Could he just do something? ANYTHING?
He is already the absolute worst we have ever had in the White House.
TnGelding
November 23rd, 2009
8:00 am
Normal
November 23rd, 2009
7:58 am
Many of them don’t have a “home” to come home to. What an unnecessary tragedy.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 23rd, 2009
8:01 am
abnormal- If had called anyone a “nutsack” at 5:46 in the morning, the comments for the next several hours would be devoted to you liberals and mike whining about what an extremist I am.
You know, like yesterday.
I’m just kinda of curious as to why the usual blubberers saw no reason to blubber.
Nothing Is Free
November 23rd, 2009
8:04 am
TnGelding
Talk to the Taliban?
Sure
Why not.
Maybe they can hit a few rounds. Have them over for a beer summit. If there’s one thing he can do is talk. So far, that has accomplished NOTHING, but sure. Let’s talk.
I’m sure that the people who had Saturday Night women torture rodeos will be more than willing to give up their beliefs for the betterment of America. Why didn’t Bush think of that?
TnGelding
November 23rd, 2009
8:06 am
Nothing Is Free
November 23rd, 2009
8:00 am
Is it your hatred of Obama or your denial of Bush’s miserable failures that cause your irrationality?
Normal
November 23rd, 2009
8:09 am
I’m sorry Whiner, I had other things on my mind this morning. You are correct though.
TnGelding
November 23rd, 2009
8:09 am
Nothing Is Free
November 23rd, 2009
8:04 am
I’ve never had no quarrel with no Taliban. They’re the Afghans problem. Let them deal with it. Bush was talking with them before 09/11, and should have continued to afterward.
Nothing Is Free
November 23rd, 2009
8:10 am
TnGelding
I don’t hate Obama. He is what he is: a lying Chicago elitist politician. I hate the ignorance and the denial of the clueless people that still support the incompetent SOB.
Oh yes. Bush was wanting to wiretap our enemies. Aren’t we glad we got rid of him. Now we can bring them to New York and give the 9-11 planners all the rights that American Citizens have.
Aren’t you proud?
Nothing Is Free
November 23rd, 2009
8:13 am
TnGelding
**I’ve never had no quarrel with no Taliban.**
I would probably feel the same way except those damned Saturday Night women torture rodeos that was covered by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. I don’t know. Something about beating a woman to death in public for reading her brother’s text book just sort of gets to me.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 23rd, 2009
8:15 am
Moonbats-
Papers show earlier Iraqi invasion plan- Leaked British government documents call into question ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair’s public statements on the buildup to the Iraq war and show plans for the U.S.-led 2003 invasion were being made more than a year earlier, a newspaper reported Sunday.-Urinal
Yeah, about the same amount of time it’s taken Obozo to figure out Afghanistan, so you are saying Bush carefully contemplated all of the available options, AJC?
What a bunch of goony mouth breathing hacks you liberals are, Bush spent 8 solid months pursuing UN sanctions and telling everyone that he would invade if those resolutions failed.
Congress voted yes on it 4 months earlier.
What do you libs think, wars begin when someone wakes up in the morning, decides they want to invade and yells “charge?”
little children
Nothing Is Free
November 23rd, 2009
8:16 am
Normal
Have a good day and keep thinking. Remember rational thought is the Democrat’s worst enemy.
I have a business and other people’s jobs to try and save. I won’t be here much this week.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 23rd, 2009
8:20 am
Baghdad Bob is alive and well, and works at the AJC-
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Sunday began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack, state TV reported, as an air force commander boasted the country could deter any military strike by Israel. -Urinal
ew, I’ll bet Israel is just quaking in their boots.
Imagine a mass of ragheads shaking their fists at the sky, blowing themselves up in enraged liberal like fury, while Israeli jets loiter over the assembled lunatics at 50,000 feet, annihilating targets at will.
Anybody who thinks the Iranians will be scrambling their fighters is scrambled in the head.
TnGelding
November 23rd, 2009
8:21 am
Nothing Is Free
November 23rd, 2009
8:10 am
The incompetent SOB’s administration and the Fed ended the recession in
six short months. Give him a little more time, and if you’re objective I think you’ll change your mind. Don’t work too hard today saving the world from the greed, fraud and incompetence. And be extra nice to your clients or customers, even if they are clueless.
Normal
November 23rd, 2009
8:21 am
NIF, this is just the way I see it so forgive me, but we HAVE to try them in The States, and what better place than NYC? They HAVE to be given Due Process because that is the backbone of our Justice system.
We have to show the Middle East in particular, and the rest of the world in gereral, that we stand behind our principles and won’t drag them through a kangaroo court. We have to proceed on the belief that they are innocent until proven guilty.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 23rd, 2009
8:30 am
yosef- The liberals at the AJC hate you and yours:
Seven injured in Israeli air assault- Israeli aircraft attacked two suspected weapons making factories and a smuggling tunnel in the Gaza Strip early Sunday in what the military said was retaliation for Palestinian rocket fire into southern Israel.-Urinal
They long for Iran to blow Israel out of the sky and they purposefully imply that the “seven injured” were civilians, not to mention that they never reported the original Hamas rocket fire, seems a bit biased, doesn’t it?
Nothing Is Free
November 23rd, 2009
8:34 am
TnGelding
1/4th of his administration is gone and he has done nothing. I am a small business owner and I am seeing every single thing he is doing hurting my business and every business that I know of. That’s reality. If you think the recession is over, you are not on this planet.
Normal
So why are the people that blew up the Cole still being tried in military tribunals? Could it be that they WERE Mirandized and actually could be convicted in civilian courts? This is a show trial, pal. It will eventually be a trail about how waterboarding resulted in the release of these people. The Democrats mistakenly think that this will convince the American people that the CIA and Bush is at fault. Obama is campaigning for 2012.
I don’t have time to wait for your answer, but please consider that murderers are set free if their house is searched without a warrant. Please consider how these enemy combatants, captured on a battlefield and given no Maranda rights, detained for 6 years without charges are going to be tried in a civil court and then convicted. I’m not an attorney and I’m pretty sure that I could get them released.
Rightwing Troll
November 23rd, 2009
8:34 am
Do unto others and all that nut sack… Or did you forget that simple tenet of christianity? That would be suprising since you are, as you’ve pointed out here in your Libural blog home many many times before, the most pious one here…
Waaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Rightwing Troll
November 23rd, 2009
8:40 am
NIF, I’m a small busniness owner as well, and my business has been great for the last 60 days… the two years before that however were not so good.
Thus far NOTHING Obama has done has hurt my business or affected my day to day existence.
I’ve asked here on this blog many times for someone to enumerate the actual adversities that Obama has put upon thier daily lives… Many times been answered with crickets…
Please…, since you brought it up, please do tell how anything Obama has done is negatively affecting you small business or daily existence.
Extra Credit: If you do meet the challenge, you gety extra credit for telling us how McCain/Palin would’ve been any better for you…
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 23rd, 2009
8:40 am
Aahhh, yes, it’s break time at the Waffle House.
Normal
November 23rd, 2009
8:40 am
Rightwing Troll, chill please.
————-
NIF, I do see the dangers, but we must keep the moral high ground here.
We have a lot to prove and this will be the best way to do it.
AmVet
November 23rd, 2009
8:40 am
Morning all, my otherwise VERY busy day has been pushed back, so…
NIF when we have time I’d like to discuss this claim that BHO is already worse than his predecessor…
Normal
November 23rd, 2009
8:43 am
Rightwing Troll, my admonishment was for your two earlier posts. Your 08:40 was very good, thank you.
Rightwing Troll
November 23rd, 2009
8:45 am
Normal… “do unto others…”
AmVet, I’m trying… god bless thier little hearts… I’m trying to find out what Obama is doing that is hurting them…
They just can’t seem to tell us where the pain is coming from, just that they know the “pain is there” or “it will be there if Obama does this or that”…
stands for decibels
November 23rd, 2009
8:45 am
Normal @ 7.58, I am not at all far from where you’ve landed on this issue. I would like for us to have the lightest possible footprint in Afghanistan and Pakistan. I don’t, however, see how you do that by withdrawing all of the forces, and it pains me to write this, but I would be shocked if Obama were to assent to your wishes and actually bring all the ground troops home from that part of the world in short order. Or (god, it’s hard to type this) even during his first term.
I just don’t think the world will allow him to do that. Even Presidents get made offers they can’t refuse, and that’s true for every one that’s served since Washington.
Rightwing Troll
November 23rd, 2009
8:49 am
Just to clarify what’s been clarified here many many times before…
I’m am not happy about what Obama has done and is doing, but there simply wasn’t any alternatives for me…
The best thing that could happen for the country would be a return of balance next year by a Republican takeover of the senate or house. That wouldn’t neccessarily be the best thing for this blog however…
AmVet
November 23rd, 2009
8:54 am
RT, unless and until BHO gets five thousand GIs KIA’d, all “justified” via duplicitous BS, he is IMHO not even in the same league as GWB…
norman ravitch
November 23rd, 2009
8:56 am
I have nothing against filibusters but I think those who want to stop legislation should have to appear in person to read the phone book and deprive themselves of sleep, as they used to do when they were opposing the civil rights movement. Put up or shut up. Now it is too easy.
Normal
November 23rd, 2009
8:59 am
stands for decibels
November 23rd, 2009
8:45 am
Stands, if we had a Draft going and we could cycle in fresh troops to replace the ones there, I would agree. But I’m telling you now that we have put our people beyond there endurance. I pridict that one day soon we will have another Fort Hood tradgy and it won’t be an extremist. It will be some poor soldier who cracked. I saw it happen in Nam, when we WERE rotated. My G-d man, unless you’ve lived it, you just don’t understant the strain. They need to come home and we need to do what ever it takes to heal them
david wayne osedach
November 23rd, 2009
9:00 am
I am surprised that they got this far! Congress may even pass a health care bill next year!
Normal
November 23rd, 2009
9:01 am
The best thing that could happen for the country would be a return of balance next year by a Republican takeover of the senate or house.
I tend to agree with that…
Bosch
November 23rd, 2009
9:04 am
Wow – the blogs was busy in the past 24 hours.
Bosch
November 23rd, 2009
9:06 am
Wow. I need some more caffeine.