Unlovely indeed.

...which is bit different that what Darren cherry picked.

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I'll give you some specifics on his side: liberal social experimentation has severely damaged the public school system. Evidence: all around you, but let's focus on two particular incidents. First, the white kid who was beat up on a school bus for daring to try to sit down. Second, the black honor student who was murdered for simply going to school. If you are interested in a real and honest debate, I can show you liberals how these things are connected.

There you have it: the brilliance of the Right wing mind. First, accuse someone you don't agree with of cherry picking their facts. Then make a vast generalization based on two cherry-picked events.

This can go on and on. Should I now cherry-pick a couple of lynchings from the thousands that occurred before the civil rights movement largely put an end to them?

Nor does it have anything to do with race. The problem is a class problem. We are losing our country. Just who "we" are is what Pat has wrong. We--blacks, hispanics, whites, etc.--are all losing it to the top 1% of our population, the elite of elites who run the financial and corporate sectors, who give themselves ludicrous pay and bonuses, who own Congress, and who as a result of this own more wealth than the bottom 95% combined. This has nothing to do with affirmative action or the "other." We are being buried by the wealthy, whom Pat will never fail to protect. As Jay Billington Bulworth (Warren Beatty) put it:

Rich people have always stayed on top by dividing white people from colored people/ but white people got more in common with colored people then they do with rich people

--Bulworth, 1998

Also note how Buchanan refers to our little overseas adventures:

They see a government in Washington that cannot ... win our wars

No mention on whether we should even be fighting these wars, or their obscene cost. That is the test of a demagogue: if he's really concerned about how our money is being spent, why leave the biggest spender out of the picture?

Cheney & Halliburton? Oh, nothing to see here, move on! Military Analysts for TV networks who have commercial interests in the defense industry? What's wrong with that?

But a dude who was peripherally associated with Obama in a previous life has a "massive conflict of interest"? How?????????? How is Obama involved at all with the NFL? What, exactly, is Smith's "gross" conflict? Is he a treasury secretary who bailed out his former firm? Is he an EPA head who turns a blind eye to the pollution caused by his former and/or future employers?

No. The guy has no conflict here. He has only one interest, and that is the NFLPA. And the NFLPA doesn't want Limbaugh.

The dishonesty of these people is just staggering.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33281090/ns/world_news-europe/ (or click sig)

Like Glenn said. I'm sure there was no one more competent and experienced available. In Storch's case perhaps we're running out of Goldman execs to appoint?

What we're seeing is a new aristocracy being established on our backs, and they're not even bothering to hide it.

'Cause that didn't make any sense.

Nobody has a problem with well known conservatives owning NFL teams. (In fact the Packers are the only team that I can say for sure is not owned by a conservative). The problem with Rush is that he's a well known racist and hate-monger (not necessarily the same as 'conservative').

Further, your jibe about all Obama critics being called racist is a total strawman. One may legitimately critique any politician. The problem is when that critique takes irrational forms: the incessant comparison to Hitler; the talk about "I want my country back". Just what does that mean exactly? Take it back from whom? Just because it's innuendo and not overt doesn't make it any less racist. As for overt, don't those Obamacare posters of Obama as a black witch doctor strike you as racist?

Nudge nudge wink wink won't work. Everyone can see for themselves what the Right is doing. It's ugly, it's hateful, and folks like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are leading the hate. We don't have to like it. Clearly, the NFL doesn't.

This is about money. NFL Owner Rush Limbaugh would be bad for business, so the NFL marketplace reacted accordingly.

Isn't that how it's supposed to work? Why does the Right hate America so?

A clingy polka-dotted swing dress highlighting those "10 pounds of pudge" sounds quite sexy. And if I find she's wearing Spanx? Why I would consider myself duty-bound to liberate her from such dreadful constriction! After all I wouldn't have gotten that far with a woman if I didn't like her.

I don't know what the Prez is talking about. I think this bill is perfect. A perfect sellout to industry.

Profit is not the whole story with the insurance cos. There are other built in inefficiencies, including corporate perks (jets and so forth), executive compensation--which even for the so-called non-profits is obscene, lobbyists, etc. Wendell Potter, the ex-Cygna executive turned whistle-blower, has put the overhead at about 20%. Insurance companies also may use some of the remaining 80% of your premium to drive out competitors. For example, a company may over-compensate providers to keep them out of the competition's network.

The bottom line is that this model doesn't work, whereas others, used all over the industrialized world, do. Keeping the insurance companies around will only delay the inevitable and suck wealth away from citizens and businesses with no tangible return.