Does she get it? I hope so. If she does, then maybe she can convince all the other tru-dems (as opposed to blue dog or some others) not to negotiate any help for the humans that live out here in America AND put in more spending on us, infrastructure, health care, child care and on and on and SCREW all the repugs.
Posted by gmknobl at February 4, 2009 06:00 AMWhy is it that the strongest voices coming out of the Democratic Senate are the voices of women. Claire McCaskill now Barbara Boxer take the repugs to task. Where are the voices of the male part of Congress? If the Dems don't come together and silence these denial repugs then they deserve to be thrown from office. All we heard when the repugs were in power from the Dems was they won't work with us. Now when it pretty much doesn't matter if the repugs are part of the process the Dems are still whining. I really don't get it.
Posted by Chris at February 4, 2009 06:39 AMSeriously, what's going on here? The nation elects democrats into the majority because they want a government that is more responsible and more responsive. The nation is in dire fiscal straits, our moral standing with the world is still pretty effing low, and we're losing wars that create and antagonize enemies by the buttload. And the republican response to all this is to drag their feet?
This is not the time for political opportunism. For a herd of nationalists, they sure are hobbling our country.
One love, One struggle,
--Reverend Manny and the Twilight Empire
Boxer is my hero...she's the only one with balls in that place.
Posted by Parallax at February 4, 2009 07:35 AMwouldn't it be funny if the Democrats blocked Gregg's nomination?
Posted by T2 at February 4, 2009 07:51 AMAnd flying completely under the radar is the President signing the expansion of SCHIP this afternoon. Cool!
I also like the limits on executive compensation and golden parachutes in exchange for bailouts.
Admittedly, I want the Dems to smash the shit out of the republi-KKKons, though I can see the advantage of allowing r-KKKons to show they are complete asswipes.
Posted by phidipides at February 4, 2009 08:47 AMBarbara is great, especially compared to her fellow senator. However, this kind of speech needs to be made on all the major media outlets. The Republicans toads are invited to croak their predictable crap by the doughty journalists of cable news. SOMEBODY from the "Democrat" party has to damn well DEMAND face time and point out precisely these obvious facts, expressed by a finally, outraged Senator Boxer.
Cheney was back with his friends and admirers yesterday, blaming Democrats for the BUSH meltdown, and, in advance, ANY attack by any enemy, at any time in the future. Once again, denying every shred of reality and rewriting history, with no push back from the Fourth Estate. Obama was on 5 "news" programs yesterday and all he was able to do was apologize???
The public is ready for a rumble. When will the gelded democrats call a spade a shovel and Cheney a war criminal? I really have to wonder, given the ease with which all these tax peccadillos seem to appear in every Dem candidate, whether the Total Information Awareness surveillance was able to find some dirt on every Dem in and out of Congress.
I can just imagine the DICK lurking in his lair and calling Leader Reid, "Fuck you and Fuck the unions!" "You're going to put my buddy Gregg in Commerce. And DON"T EVEN THINK of replacing him with a Democrat!" "And , Yeah! Put that horses's ass Rockefeller in for HSS" "I KNOW it's stupid! That's why you're going to do it." "And don't forget, I want this wrapped up before the recess, or pictures of you in bed with the live boy AND the dead girl will on Drudge before you can kiss your ass goodbye!" "And tell that fuckin' Rahmbo to call, or his ass is gonna be sore too!"
Does anybody have a better explanation?
Posted by DeminNewJ at February 4, 2009 08:56 AM$1 trillion spend should be analyzed, debated, and approved in a couple of weeks?
Those that "erupt" at those that say it should take a couple of months "get it"?
How is this different than Bush ramrodding what he wants through the congress because it's an "emergency"
Oh yeah "four legs good, two legs bad..."
Posted by Tex at February 4, 2009 09:25 AMyo Tex, Rome is burning, put down your goddamn fiddle and help
Posted by Gay Veteran at February 4, 2009 09:29 AMSo whose side is time on? What, exactly, is the rush? Whose constituency pays for delay?
Posted by wilson rivers at February 4, 2009 12:40 PMRepublicans are the enemy. The media is the enemy. Trolls are just morons, bugs to be accidentally squashed on the sidewalk.
The enemy of what or who, you ask?
Of the ideals of America, laid out by people like Thomas Jefferson. Values put into practice by Franklin Roosevelt.
The media doesn't believe in giving President Obama a chance to accomplish anything, or "fix" what the sociopath Bush and the psychopath Cheney did. That's because they don't want to give up their money. They aren't interested in anything but that, profit. That's because the media and the gop are corporate whore fascist scum.
You know what I want? Well, I can't really say, but I'll settle for CLASS WARFARE against the top 1 percent. I want them to lose every penny they've stolen from us, I want them stripped bare and destitute, left to living in a cardboard box in a grimy alley. I want them destroyed, all of them, all these traitors and liars and greedy, bloated, inhuman pricks.
I have to hope that Obama is giving them enough rope to hang themselves, but really, there is no such thing as a good republican, they all suck.
I'm so pissed off right now, I wonder when the media will start recognizing that the republicans have no power? And when is that god damned fucking gutless coward Harry Reid going to make those twice as despised republicans filibuster for real? Not until they're forced to by new ownership, and not until a real Democrat challenges him for his Senate seat.
Posted by Duckman GR at February 4, 2009 11:40 PMThere was a Dem congressman from the East Bay area a couple of years ago who actually did a little push back against the Repubs and was so lauded by us all - not 2 days later he was up on the podium giving a tearful speech of apology for stepping out of his place - I said then he was threatened with something by the Bush admin. I still wonder what it was and would we ever know. There is no other explanation as far as I can see. Would love to know what happened and what the threat was... must have been dire. Does anyone remember who that was?
Posted by dianne at February 5, 2009 02:40 AMIs Panetta the next thrown under the bus? And what about President Obama's the "Sunlight before signing" pledge? That pledge was he would not sign any non-emergency bills without offering the public five days to review and comment on the legislation. Please see the SCHIP signing.
Now there's word out that even with a 58 to 41 advantage in the senate, Democrats don't have the votes for the new "stimulus" bill. That the President is telling people like Rep. Jim Cooper he can and should vote against the bill Speaker Pelosi wrote. Chris Bowers has a diary on this at Openleft wondering, "Which side is Obama on?". It seems there's a "gang of twenty" negotiating down the current version on the bill.
"If President Obama is now negotiating with Ben Nelson and Susan Collins to trim the stimulus plan, if he didn't encourage his most dedicated activists to show their support for the current version of the stimulus, if he is allowing cabinet appointees to not support the current version of the stimulus, if Jim Cooper is being encouraged in his opposition to the stimulus, and if we remember that President Obama indicated he had "no pride of authorship" on the stimulus, isn't it reasonable to conclude that President Obama himself wants to reduce the size of the stimulus package?
This is connected to a point I tried to make last night about the President not asking his supporters to take action on the stimulus: how do we even know what side President Obama is on when it comes to the size of stimulus package? Is he with Collins-Cooper-Nelson ($600-$700 billion stimulus with less spending and the same amount of tax cuts), or is he with the Democratic leadership in Congress (the current plan)? While it is entirely possible the President is simply trying to pass whatever he can based on current political conditions, and thus isn't actually on "a side," his lack of clarity on the matter has clearly handed the initiative to congressional Republicans. House Republicans are dominating the airwaves, and Susan Collins is re-writing the stimulus package as we speak." Chris Bowers
Then there's the current Time article about the Pelosi verses Obama war...
Posted by peter at February 5, 2009 04:14 AMWhat are you doing vet? I guess $1 trillion is a lot of something. Is that all that counts - looking like your doing something. We can't get bogged down in silly ideas like effectiveness or cost/benefit, eh?
Just as long as you look like your taking action who cares what that action is, right? The masses don't care about such details I suppose.
Posted by Tex at February 5, 2009 10:26 AMTex, in case you haven't noticed, the economy is going down the toilet at an accelerating rate
thank god you weren't on the Titanic, it would have sunk even faster
Posted by Gay Veteran at February 5, 2009 11:17 AM