The democrats are corporations' allies, in spite of 30 years of history showing the republicans play this role. The public option will run down quality and raise prices, in spite of 40 years of medicare doing just the opposite.

Actually, the dem base should be doing more than rallying every weekend. We should call boycotts of Montana and Arkansas and Nebraska. Montana makes a ton of money sending grain to Canada; and maybe our freinds their would stop buying it if we asked. We should also get our reps to stop medicare payments to those States. C'mon people. Get serious please.

They have just enough civic responsibility to punch a voter card every two years. If that took fifteen minutes longer, they probably wouldn't bother, and we'd really be in the soup.

Even now, there are a ton of actions we could take. Boycott Montana, Nebraska, and Arkansas. Push to cut off their medicare and social security. Rally every weekend for single payer.

But no. There's a quartet playing Latvian folk songs at the mall. It'll be so self improving, and we can't miss that.

and distraction. By talking about the decent values of liberal, do nothing America, he distracts attention from the rip offs and a-s kickings by business and fundamentalism.

He's another example that commercial media only hire dingbats and spin doctors. Obviously, he's one of the latter.

Still, my people were from Superior WI. I was so brought up in the culture he describes. And I've listened with pleasure to him for thirty years. I also know that such folk are serious bigots, which he carefully leaves out of his stories, again, so that no one will confront society's bullies.

A final note. Young people are dingbats too. It's not their fault. But they haven't had time to learn much, and they got no conversation.

spending time with that psychopath. Lord help us if he takes them hunting.

distancing himself from Clinton. But hindsight is 20 20. It was obvious that the court would vote for Bush. Remember, they were Republicans. When has any Republican shown a scrap of integrity.

Bottom line: it was the Nader voters that gave the court the wiggle room in the first place. The far left rank and file, and the editors of every far left journal, from The Nation onward. None has apologized or even admitted the treachery. Now finks like Vanden Wuvel and Michael Moore have cushy jobs in liberal publishing, and no one bats an eye. For myself, I'll never forget and never forgive.

is that it wasn't the media that hated Clinton, not Russert and the rest. It was their bosses. The pundits are just stenographers who write what they're told to write. The evidence for that is that they all say the same thing, and all at the same time. A decision is obviously being made behind the scenes, orders are issued, and the pundits fall over one another to scream the party line.

The pattern has repeated itself over and over for so many years, it's funny that no one sees it.

is really a pleasure to read. There are few of your kind around here, and you make reading this blog a pleasure.

being one of the smartest talkers out there. That's not saying much, of course, given the herd of dingbats in commercial media.

I only have two qualifications. First, subsidy tax cuts should continue only for things that help US industry or improve the infrastructure, like cash for clunkers and corporate breaks for clean transit and energy. Also, we need to pay down the debt, and the best way to do that is to tap into massive capital reserves in the corporate sector. The only way to do that, unfortunately, is for the public to get serious about fiscal responsibility and force government to raise corporate rates. But the public are lazy and selfish hicks who don't have time for civic responsibility.

Hold anti Joe rallies every weekend in all Connecticut cities. Send cash to a democratic primary challenger. Kick his a-s out of the party.

Please review it to see if you patronize any of them.

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Lieberman.

But there are actions that can be taken. Call a boycott of Connecticut, Arkansas, and Montana. Finance primary challengers in these States. Write your congress people to cut off their medicare and social security. Get out there every weekend and rally for single payer. These are just off the top of my head.

But I forgot, liberals are hopelessly lazy and self satisfied. So nothing will be done besides blaming a few predictably corrupt Senators.

earnestly, and hear the dingbat manifestos they release every ten minutes. I'm sorry. It doesn't get any better.

people dumber than actors are models. Witness Susan Sarandon and her boyfreind stumping for Nader in 2000, or Mel Gibson's charming commentary. Now Harrelson wants to us to believe that the US Governmnet is somehow independent of the public. Please. The government's savage policies are what a selfish and heartless public demand. Period. If the feds turned down they heat for three seconds, they'd be voted out of office faster than Rosanne wolfs down a side of beef.

Having been so comfortable with the film industry, he really doesn't have much room to complain about anyone. Let him use a smidge of his cash on something useful like homeless shelters, or try cleaning up the lying and stealing in Hollywood. Then he can whine about capitalism.

I've often said, commercial media hires only spin doctors and dingbats. Crowley is one of the latter. She only gives the most shallow, obvious take on everything. It's like listening to Lady Gaga explain rocket science. 'Big sky jet go zoom! Oooh, pretty!'