Everything Southern Humboldt and more
Kos often annoys me, but he makes an excellent case for Obama to choose this moment to energize the base and maybe make a difference.
Addendum: Found this clip of Warren grilling Tim Geitner, who at the time was apparently for some sort of end to the “too big to fail” policies, though he slithers through the question to leave plenty of ambiguity.
Second addendum: Dodd is fighting the Warren narrative. Obviously he doesn’t like her.
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July 26, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Joel Mielke
This would be good, but I think it would take about a thousand volts to “energize the base.” Clinton always punished friends and rewarded enemies, and Obama is looking a lot like Clinton.
July 26, 2010 at 8:35 pm
Joel Mielke
By the way, thanks for the clip. Elizabeth Warren would be as good a head of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection as we could hope for.
July 26, 2010 at 9:55 pm
the reasonable anonymous
O, so now Obama is “looking a lot like Clinton.” Yesterday he was “bent on serving Bush’s third term. Well, that’s progress!
July 27, 2010 at 7:50 am
Joel Mielke
He’s a sad fuck of a President, but he’s the perfect leader for the Democrats. He stands for nothing and takes orders from Wall Street and the Pentagon.
July 27, 2010 at 12:01 pm
the reasonable anonymous
I’ll certainly agree that Obama and the Dem-controlled Congress have been a disappointment in many regards, such as failing to prosecute torture by the previous administration, continuing the policy of “extraordinary renditioning,” failing to close Gitmo, failing to get a better health care reform passed (one that at least had a strong public option), supporting expansion of offshore oil drilling (at least until the BP spill), pushing for new nuclear plants, and many other shameful acts of omission and comission. I’ll also agree that his approach is fairly similar to Bill Clinton.
What I don’t agree with is that he’s “just as bad as Bush,” or “bent on serving Bush’s third term.” As bad as things are under the Obama/Biden regime with a Democrat-majority Congress, I am confident in stating that things would be much, much worse under a McCain/Palin regime with a Republican-majority Congress.
July 27, 2010 at 12:06 pm
Tom T. Truth
this chick has become an idiot filter within political discussions. If her name comes up and somebody starts talking about her with any degree of seriousness, especially regarding anything she says, that person fails.
July 27, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Jim Buoy
Even before the ’08 election it should have been apparent that 8 years of Bush and the neo-cons were the equivalent of a direct hit by hurricane Andrew on our crappy Florida house built with substandard material and on our local bank where all our important valuables were kept in a cigar box. Where and how would anyone begin to repair the damage? What room do you try to fix first? And where will all the money come from, especially, since what you thought you had in the bank is now scattered to the wind?
On top of that, your well heeled neighbor’s house escaped the storm, but the son of a bitch won’t let you or your family stay there, or even let you use the bathroom.” Get off my lawn! ” is all you get from him.
Joel, and a few other “progressives” are like having a nagging wife, who stands over you, not besides you, and yells in your ear that you don’t appreciate her enough or you’d fix this house up right now. Furthermore, there will be no sex tonight or any night until you do. She may actually be looking around for another man with a house she can move into, but hasn’t found one yet and the neighbor man probably ain’t interested.
This is the situation Obama has found himself in, not surprisingly, and the only ones around who can get the house back up, unfortunately, are the shyster contractors who built it and the financiers who opted for cigars instead of steel. This rebuilding process is going to take time, but at least he got us a port-a-potty, a few FEMA tarps, some cans of beans, some lemons and it’s still summer. Make the most of it.
July 27, 2010 at 1:45 pm
the reasonable anonymous
Yup, that’s about the size of it.
July 27, 2010 at 3:51 pm
anonymous
Even given the sexist nagging wife analogy, Jim Buoy is pretty close dead on!
July 27, 2010 at 3:53 pm
anonymous
Should have said: In spite of the sexist nagging wife analogy….
July 27, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Joel Mielke
“this chick…”?
Grow up.
“Joel, and a few other ‘progressives’ are like having a nagging wife…”
Thanks for the cheap shot, Jim. Should I reply that “liberals” like you are like philandering husbands who can’t be trusted to stand for anything?
July 27, 2010 at 6:04 pm
the reasonable anonymous
“Should I relpy that…”
I think you just did.
July 27, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Jim Buoy
OMG! I’ve been called the most despicable thing of all – a liberal! May God have mercy on my soul.
You know, Joel, if Obama is such a revolting disappointment for you then, by all means, join the Teaparty, vote Republican and hope for impeachment. Though I really don’t see how Biden will appease you any better. There’s always Palin/ Romney/ Bush45/ Bachman, take your pick, in 2012. Maybe Ralphie will run again.
Sorry about the nagging wife analogy since we all know there really is no such thing. Only obsessive progressives.
July 27, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Joel Mielke
Get a grip, Jim. I’m sorry that you’re a sexist (that’s your problem, don’t snivel to me), but I never said that Obama is a “revolting disappointment.” I had low expectations from the beginning. He never promised to be more than a centrist Democrat.
“There’s always Palin … take your pick, in 2012. Maybe Ralphie will run again.”
With that sort of appeal, don’t be surprised if progressives can’t get excited about your candidate in 2012.