I admit that it's a stretch to say obama has plans to impose compensation limits across the board based solely on the above article. It's not a stretch, however, to suspect it.

So they killed an amendment limiting compensation.. as part of an overall plan to limit compensation?

WTF is it about Obama that inspires the belief in his superhuman powers of Byzantine, bizarrely counterintuitive strategery? Both the pro-Barrys and the anti-Barrys seem to suffer equally from the delusion...

Besides, the article was not about the Dodd amendment

So why did the "Treasury official" bring it up?

Why did Robert Gibbs? Why did Rahm Emanuel?

"Were most GOP leaders in favor of or opposed to executive compensation limits?"

the answer is NO!

Self-pwnage, thy name is tcandew.

Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6MFN8yiVc0

these "differences" don't amount to a hill of beans in the LONG TERM

I basically agree with the unlate, seldom-lamented Nader that there's not a dime's worth of difference between the parties, and I think the events chronicled in this post tend to bear out that conclusion.

Glenn's point, which is also often voiced by Chomsky and others with considerable radical cred, is that even less than a dime counts, especially to the young, and the old, and the poor. Obama may or may not be Superjesus Black Reagan, but I'm not unhappy that a bunch of kids will get money for college from an expanded Americorps, say, or that there's more money for renewable energy research.

I remember thinking that maybe it'd be a good idea to let the right wing run the country for a while, to "heighten the contradictions," as comrade Lenin was fond of saying. Well, that was a stupid fucking idea. And I still think this country needs a convulsion, but I'm far less sanguine abot how truly horrible it will probably be, and who will suffer most of the adverse effects. (Hint: not the people who got bonuses from AIG.)

Electoral politics may be a sucker's game, but it still has consequences. Those of us who like to talk about the game are generally not the ones who will have to deal with those consequences.

Go fuck yourself PDA.

Snappy comeback.

Anyway, you can't see what you won't see. If you think Omar and I have hypnotized hrh or something, go on with your bad self. Some introspection might be warranted, is all I'm saying.

Quit listening to PDA and omooex. I am not in this to make myself look better than everyone else.

If everyone but you sees you're just ego-wanking, is it everybody else's mistake or yours? An honest person would ask himself that question...

But that political view, the organizing, the liasson between the power structure and the people, that is nearly always done by political elites.

I agree with "almost always," but for a signal exception to the rule I'd hold up Bolivia's Movimiento al Socialismo: this was actually a poor, rural, indigenous movement that found a leader to represent it, rather than the other way around.

I can come to places like this and try to tell the truth

Jesus god, adnoto, let go of that thing for a minute at least: you'll rub it raw.

"Adnoto was right all along" is not a vanguard, radical truth that will liberate the masses. It is unabashed ego-stroking and continual threadjacking of every subject to how awesome you are, and you have wasted countless man-hours doing nothing more than that. Christ, you could have built a respectable blog following with a fraction of the effort, if education was your goal.

We get it. You love you. Venceremos.

those who were correct from the beginning

It's just page 5... you bust a nut now and you'll just be frustrated for the rest of the evening.

Golem

Keep Googling. You start talking about Golems, and the hasbara-alarm's gonna go off. We'll be up to our nipples in Zoltans before we hit page 6.

Don't get worked up. This is adnoto's kink. It's impossible for me to read any of his comments along these lines without a mental image of him doing his Jame Gumb dance in front of the mirror, whispering to his reflection "you were right, you were right all along... the fools..."

Whatever tickles your pickle, as Tracy Clark-Flory says.

the Dick and Cover Drill

Voting is now closed.

opposition air-time versus majority air-time

One interesting study of that subject found:

• In both the Clinton and Bush administrations, conservative journalists were far more likely to appear on the Sunday shows than were progressive journalists. In Clinton's second term, 61 percent of the ideologically identifiable journalists were conservative; in Bush's first term, that figure rose to 69 percent.

• In 1997 and 1998, the shows conducted more solo interviews with Democrats/progressives than with Republicans/conservatives. But in every year since, there have been more solo interviews with Republicans/conservatives.

• The most frequent Sunday show guest during this nine-year period is Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who has appeared 124 times. Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) has been the most frequent guest since 2003.

• In every year examined by the study -- 1997 - 2005 -- more panels tilted right (a greater number of Republicans/conservatives than Democrats/progressives) than tilted left. In some years, there were two, three, or even four times as many right-titled panels as left-tilted panels.

• Congressional opponents of the Iraq war were largely absent from the Sunday shows, particularly during the period just before the war began.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200602140002 and at sig

given that gay Americans' civil unions aren't recognized by some American states, I think focusing on the 'rights' of foreign partners of gay Americans is misguided

Why does concern about one issue preclude concern about the other?