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I think the message here is clear - Blue Dog Bobby Bright voted against every major piece of legislation that President Obama pushed.
Look, this is one district where I don't think that anyone but Bright could win. So to say that we need a push from the left in 2012 is fine. However, I believe that this district could be diced up and sliced up into an even more Republican district that even Bobby Bright can't win in 2012. That being said, we need his vote for speaker of the House. That's all we can expect, but unlike Parker Griffith we can expect that Bobby will vote for Nancy Pelosi.
Nate Silver has an interesting piece titled Obama's Defense of Ground Zero Mosque Less Risky Than It Seems .
Nate looks at public opinion polls on the issue as well as constructing what President Obama carefully said and more importantly refrained from saying.
Essentially, public opinion on this issue is divided into thirds. About a third of the country thinks that not only do the developers have a right to build the mosque, but that it's a perfectly appropriate thing to do. Another third think that while the development is in poor taste, the developers nevertheless have a right to build it. And the final third think that not only is the development inappropriate, but the developers have no right to build it -- perhaps they think that the government should intervene to stop it in some fashion.
Obama's remarks, while asserting that "Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country," and that the "principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country, and will not be treated differently by their government, is essential to who we are," simply reflected the view that the developers had a First Amendment right to proceed with the project -- a view that at least 60 percent of Americans share. True, Obama could have hedged a little bit more, by saying something along the lines of "they have every right to build it, but I hope they will consider another location". On the other hand, it is not as though he said "this is a wonderful thing, and I'm going to make sure to take Sasha and Malia there once it's built." Instead, he acknowledged the sensitivity over the Ground Zero site, calling it "hallowed ground", but couched the controversy in terms of the First Amendment.
If you have ever wondered whether the constant drumbeat from the professional detractors of Barack Obama on the left is something new in history, I urge you to read this fantastic historical perspective by Daily Kos diarist "puakev": Liberal Criticism of Franklin Roosevelt and The New Deal. The parallels in the attacks from the left on Obama and those directed at FDR during his time are striking.
As I noticed the parallels in the critics, I could not help but think about what many Obama critics have essentially ignored in the context of evaluating the President's performance: the unique political challenges that Obama faces that FDR never had to: unprecedented Republican obstructionism, politics of race and violence and the right wing media empire. In other words, what we've been up against.
The moment we have all eagerly been anticipating. Well since the Teen Choice Awards anyways.
Unfortunately polldaddy does not let us publish results to surveys unless we purchase the pro version. Another reason to send us a donation.
The survey sample a little smaller than we had hoped. So consider it a little less than scientific. Some questions were skipped.
Overall I learned that we have less regular readers or at least those that took the survey are less regular.
We are largely Democrats. Most of us read the Daily Kos and The Huffington Post on a regular basis. Other popular sites are The New York TimesMedia Matters, Five Thirty Eight and The Hill. Politico not so much. But a whole bunch of other sites were mentioned under other like Crooks and Liars, Burnt Orange Report and Think Progress.
You mostly learned about the site through a link from another site or you simply cannot recall.
You feel pretty good about Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Alan Grayson and Anthony Weiner. All those Grayson and Weiner seem to have a stronger like as some had no opinion of these. Everyone had an opinion about Pelosi, Obama and Biden.
You really don't like Rush Limbaugh, Michele Bachmann or Sarah Palin. Big surprise there right? You don't like Rand Paul either although the dislike is not as intense. Most of you don't have as strong opinions of Jack Conway or Tarryl Clark as I would have hoped. (kind of hard to read this one in form below)
Job creation and financial reform are the most important issues. Although all issues listed seems to be important.
Half of our readers who responded are 55+ or older. 30% of those who responded are 55-65 followed by 19% older than 65% which is impressive. Not as many between the age of 25-35 responded as I expected. And we had no younger than 18 readers respond. Probably not that surprising.
57% of the readers who responded were female. 43% male.
Fairly even geographical distribution although not surprisingly the southeast, southwest and northeast lead the way. And California also had a number of readers respond.
Oh and most of those who responded did so from a PC opposed to my beloved Mac
This is CLASS WAR. This is it. The super rich and their corporations are more profitable than ever. They have robbed us. Their banks throw us out of our homes. They shipped your jobs overseas. They bankrupted our nation, and they want to lower our standard of living so they can increase their profits. The Corporatists who did this to you and your countrymen call themselves "Conservatives".
And only one man stands in their way. His name is Barack Hussein Obama.
They said he "palled around with terrorists"
They called him a "socialist"
They said a black guy beat up a white girl because Obama is black.
And still you voted for Obama instead of McCain. Still you rejected their failed and corrupt ideology despite their attempts to use fear, hate and lies to scare you into voting for the same stupidity that has decimated America since the year 2000.
The fact is, this is CLASS WAR, all out class war, and any Democrat, voter or candidate, who can not admit that has already accepted defeat.
Wow - Terri Sewell, just 48 hours from her AL-07 primary win, seems to be changing her tune from "I'll be a partner with Obama" to "By no means will I just rubber stamp any and all policies of the administration"
Racism? Republican/Teabaggers aren't about racism?
Watch this video from thinkprogress.org, which is a compilation of footage from teaparties where white people are saying blatantly racist shit. And yes, shit is the correct technical term, but hate speech works too.
Need more proof of GOP/Teabagger racism? Go below the fold
How Democrats can impeach President Obama in one easy step
Step #1.Do NOT vote in 2010
That is all it will take!
If you want a Republican majority in Congress, be certain to not vote in the elections this November, because that is what you will be likely to get.
And that Republican majority in Congress will not stop until they have dragged the Presidency of Barack Obama into the dirt. They will not care one bit about the harm it will do to America. A Republican majority in Congress will do nothing but work towards "Obama's Waterloo", and the people who do not vote for Democrats in 2010 will be just as responsible for it as the people who vote for Republicans. That is the reality of it, and the possibility of a GOP majority in Congress is something America can NOT afford.
But you can do something about it before it is too late.
I got an email from Tarryl Clark this afternoon about how they were able to go up on the air last night with their great ad
Thanks to you, Tarryl Clark's ad debuted on the evening news last night. In the last 72 hours, over 750 of you have contributed to make sure that voters in the 6th district would see our ad and know the truth: Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is more worried about BP's bottom line than she is about our bottom line.
However, we are at a critical time - a tipping point. Bachmann's misguided defense of BP, a defense that even FOX News's own Bill O'Reilly found objectionable, could swing the election. We need you to tip the scales in our favor!
BP agreed to set aside $20 million for gulf oil spill victims although some Republicans like Miss Gov. Haley Barbour are not convinced this is a great idea. Well what's your better plan man?
Barbour says BP needs to use its money to drill oil wells and produce revenue.
The Republican governor said he expects BP to pay for all losses, but doesn't know whether having an escrow account helps or hurts the chances that people in Mississippi will be compensated for losses from the disaster.
Guvnah Barbour also thinks that the deepwater drilling ban proposed by President Obama is a bad idea.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, speaking Wednesday to The Delta Summit in Cleveland, Miss., criticized President Barack Obama's moratorium on new deepwater oil drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico, saying it will lead to higher oil and gas prices and harm the U.S. economy.
Barbour, a Republican, said more than 30,000 oil wells had been drilled in the Gulf of Mexico with no problems before the BP disaster in April. He also claimed BP did not follow normal procedures involved in shutting down a deep-sea oil well.
Republican = Big Profits
Haley Barbour = Another Republican Spinning for BP
"But if I was the head of BP, I would let the signal get out there -- 'We're not going to be chumps, and we're not going to be fleeced.' And they shouldn't be. They shouldn't have to be fleeced and make chumps to have to pay for perpetual unemployment and all the rest -- they've got to be legitimate claims.
Jeez because that's what we need to think about right now - BP getting railroaded. At least today she would agree to lifting the liability caps. Heck but in three hours she will say she didn't say that.
Regarding the "grave dangers of rightist reaction" as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt once stated . . .
"If such reaction were to develop, If history were to repeat itself, and we were to return to the "so-called normalcy" of the 1920's, then it is certain that even though we shall have our enemies on the battlefields abroad, we shall yielded to the spirit of fascism here at home."
~snip~
"People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."
~ President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
A dictatorship of Corporations who buy our politicians.
That "so-called normalcy" of the 1920's has returned. The Trusts and Monopolies are back, and bigger than ever. The "rightest reaction" is louder and more insane then ever. History has repeated itself.
Wish I had taken pictures of this myself. It just was almost surreal that someone would waste money on this billboard. I guess I missed the memo about these billboards being constructed throughout the country. Glad I found that picture online.
Then about twenty minutes later I see a Confederate States of America - The South Will Rise Again Billboard. I cannot make this stuff up. I promise.
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