There's a few variants floating about, I was watching a Peter Sellars movie yesterday afternoon that had it as "Blow you, I'm alright Jack". I don't think that "Blow you" is being in quite the same way as it might be today ...

The version I used came from Spike Milligan's war memoirs where he was discussing the indifference of a group of English soldiers to the impoverished state of the Italian civilians around them.

But I do appreciate the backup from Mr. Floyd. By the way, which one's Pink?

This is being done in the state's legislature by the people's elected representatives, who will need to face the electorate again in 2010. Isn't this where the GOP always whines that decisions should be made when they lose a court decision? Or would you rather it was a decision made by the the Commonwealth's Judicial Court rather than the General Court?

You're welcome. I hope you enjoy living in it as much as we enjoyed bringing it to you.

Well I hear Jim Bunning's not running for re-election, so I guess we need someone to fill the "crazy former pitcher" slot. I'd just rather it was Roger Clemens, so he'd fill up an already wasted slot.

Besides, as a Red Sox fan, I'd find Clemens a lot easier to disdain than Curt, who made us all very happy in '04.

Was Nazi Germany a worse regime than Soviet Russia?

Was Adolf Hitler worse than Stalin?

I'm pretty sure that the consensus would be that they were both unspeakable abominations that were the flip sides of the same coin. And the value of this discussion would be?

Here's one for you. Which is worse, or starting a war because you feel like it and killing tens of thousands of innocent people, or setting up secret prisons and torturing people to death? Take your time.

Yes, Hitler did indeed make peace overtures to the British after the fall of France. He considered the English (as distinct from the British) a fellow Germanic, hence Aryan, people and who knows, he may even have meant it. But I suspect that it was, at best, a tactical peace to buy time.

My own interpretation is that he was making peace overtures to secure his western flank in preparation for his attack on what he considered his real enemy, the Soviet Union. Given the nearness of his defeat in the east, his inability to get a truce with the UK with the concomitant tying down of many divisions and large sections of the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine, in combination with Mussolini's bumbling in the Balkens, was a deciding factor in his failure in the east and therefore his losing the war.

It obviously wasn't the sole factor, in a modern war of attrition, Germany was bringing a knife to a gun fight. It could have worked if the Blitzkrieg hadn't stalled at the Channel and on the steppes and he hadn't backed Japan's play against the US. But all of those things happened and once the war started to grind, Germany just didn't have the resources needed to play.

But that's just my ignorant opinion, mind you.

To quote reader JF over at Josh Marshall's TPM:

How long did it take the right to go from: "if you criticize the President you are a traitor" to "School children should not trust the President."

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I nominate Michele Bachman to make the response, I also suggest that she be the one to write the response. Should she be unavailable, Sarah Palin would be a good second choice, she would also be required to write her response.

I believe that that way we would get the best picture of the true feelings of the Republican party.

Well, I don't know where it leaves "Progressives", but it leaves me feeling sold out. It's not just health care reform, that was just the final straw. It was the myriad of small betrayals, things he could have done, but didn't, Bush-era policies that he could of ended, but strengthened instead. Those who say "Wait until Wednesday" are refusing to look at the established pattern. Obama just doesn't want the Republicans to be mad at him and would rather be bipartisan than right.

In 1936 Franklin Roosevelt said:

Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me and I welcome their hatred.

Boy, what a difference seventy some-odd years makes.

When I voted for Obama in November, it was the triumph of hope over experience. I had backed Kucinich at the caucus and was told that I was being a "romantic", an "idealist" and that he wouldn't be able to get anything accomplished. Well, at least he would have gone down swinging instead of whimpering.

BTW - anyone who thinks that after spending four years compromising his principles away that Obama will pop into a phone booth in 2012 and come out as SuperPrez all new and squeaky clean, ready for battle is delusional. Backing down is a hard habit to beak.

To those who say "We won't be able to get that through the Senate", how the hell do you know? Try it, if it doesn't work try it again, and again. Serve it up to them until they can't stand the taste. Let the people know what they could have had, but didn't get so the the "haves" could become the "have-mores". Don't let the Republicans win by default an don't worry about being polite.