Comments on: Afternoon Open Thread

By: Lilytiger

Lilytiger — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:44:39 +0000

You are completely right..and I have no fault with Obama. He's had to play it this way BECAUSE of the congress and their political aspirations and job keeping mentality.

It is the stupid “progressives” who cannot see this. Not all progressives, but the ones who haven't been onboard to even give him a chance. That doesn't mean anyone who doesn't like how things are now but those who never will like anything Obama does and never would have.

By: caribgirl

caribgirl — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:18:46 +0000

Remember early in the process when Obama was all about talking up the public option, where were all these Senators lending him support on the issue? You could only find the same few talking about it. Then a public option in the Senate was deemed a non-starter. It was about coops.

Since congress has come back for the fall, Obama has taken a different approach, he's for it but not pushing aggressively for it which makes progressives see him as a sell-out and have turned their focus to the Senate. The results is that there are now more Senators vocal in their support for a public option and are working to find a compromise that can get 60 votes or at least block a fillibuster. When is the last time you heard about coops? It's now about what type of PO to include. It's not where the house is but considering where we were a few months ago, the prospects for a bill with a final bill with a PO seem to get better each day.

By: Admiral_Komack

Admiral_Komack — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:44:50 +0000

I think you're risking alcohol poisoning.

Be careful.

By: Lilytiger

Lilytiger — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:38:24 +0000

I think I will do shots everytime she doesn't speak in a complete sentence…I'll be well drunk..

By: Lilytiger

Lilytiger — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:35:38 +0000

And tweety refers to his brethren as “regular guys”…and I don't hate him…what is wrong with me?

By: Lilytiger

Lilytiger — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:34:02 +0000

And in the rest of the nation 92% think the republicans don't love this country…

By: Lilytiger

Lilytiger — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:32:53 +0000

Really! This is utter bull by the progressives..ay,almost as bad as the righties.

By: pjamma

pjamma — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:40:07 +0000

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By: Admiral_Komack

Admiral_Komack — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:31:25 +0000

Think of all of the adverbs Palin will butcher.

By: Lilytiger

Lilytiger — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:44:39 +0000

You are completely right..and I have no fault with Obama. He's had to play it this way BECAUSE of the congress and their political aspirations and job keeping mentality.

By: caribgirl

caribgirl — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:18:46 +0000

By: Admiral_Komack

Admiral_Komack — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:44:50 +0000

I think you're risking alcohol poisoning.

Be careful.

By: Lilytiger

Lilytiger — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:38:24 +0000

I think I will do shots everytime she doesn't speak in a complete sentence…I'll be well drunk..

By: Lilytiger

Lilytiger — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:35:38 +0000

And tweety refers to his brethren as “regular guys”…and I don't hate him…what is wrong with me?

By: Lilytiger

Lilytiger — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:34:02 +0000

And in the rest of the nation 92% think the republicans don't love this country…

By: Lilytiger

Lilytiger — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:32:53 +0000

Really! This is utter bull by the progressives..ay,almost as bad as the righties.

By: pjamma

pjamma — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:40:07 +0000

By: Admiral_Komack

Admiral_Komack — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:31:25 +0000

Think of all of the adverbs Palin will butcher.

By: morphus

morphus — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:26:18 +0000

Its a story to be watched over the next few days, mainly because its sourced by the Washington Times and its viral within freeperville.

By: morphus

morphus — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:24:02 +0000

Well now color me confused. I thought FOX News was Fair and Balanced? But today we learn from Media Matters that in fact FOX has been peddling a "quote" from White House communications director Anita Dunn, supposing claiming that she turns to Mao and Mother Teresa "the most" in her life, and in fact, that's not what she said at all.

Dunn said that she turns to them most "to basically deliver a simple point, which is, you're going to make choices." The difference isn't insignificant. The FOX quote says that Dunn turns to Mao the most in her life, on any and every issue - that there is no one in the world (other than Mother Teresa) who Dunn looks to for guidance on everything in her life than Mao. What Dunn actually said is that, on the singular lesson of "having to make choices" in life, her favorite quotes are from Mao and Mother Teresa. A rather huge difference, especially since FOX News is now claiming that Dunn is a Maoist who endorsed the murders of countless Chinese during the Cultural Revolution.

It's really rather sick what FOX is doing. And, ironically, FOX has now proven Dunn's point she made last week, that FOX is nothing more than a political operation of the Republican party.

FOX also needs to answer the question of whether their own "news" host Chris Wallace was the secret "concerned parent" they had on Glenn Beck's show yesterday to, again, slur Anita Dunn. Newsweek's Richard Wolffe was on Olbermann last night asking what ties Chris Wallace may have had to this entire smear. If Wallace was truly involved, then any lingering questions about his status as a GOP activist, rather than a real journalist, will be resolved.

FOX News caught cropping Dunn quote to falsely claim she said Mao was "the man she turns to most"