Thank you. i made a comment just after noon, when most comments were, in a word, sane.

Hours later I return to find the Witless Pom-Pom Squad has, indeed, sullied even this exchange w/their auto-indignifcation response™ (that's trade-marked!) Their incessant indignification is that WE AREN'T indignant, & you were able to put what is wrong w/the premise of the whine so perfectly.

They have no idea what feminism is. None. Never did. Never will. Thank you again wise one.

PS I wish Mommy would give them carrots to peel or something constructive to do.

too bad there isn't a second party with a few ideas. or a third with one idea. 'conservative' bloggers? that's a bit generous. let's just call them 'stupid, vapid, hypocritical, indignant people with too much time on their hands', okay?

1. Max got a spine transplant & showed true fiscal responsibility by pointing out that, for geniuses like Jim DeMint, James Inhofe & dingo Democrats to pop off that POTUS Obama is full of crap that 2/3 of his plan will be funded by cutting waste, is to deny that Barack Obama showed everyone's future predictions (based on past experience) were full of crap, less than a year ago. The same old doesn't remain the same old forever & the efficiency of the Obama campaign should have shown them who can do what they cannot.

And just in case, we can all count one perennial truth - there's lots more waste in government, beyond waste in Medicare, so be forewarned DoT, DoE & ye Senators & Reps.

Max, put in a public option now. The trigger was pulled in 1990 or so.

2. On the heels of passing healthcare reform with 60 votes in the Senate, shove through a follow-up campaign finance reform bill with the same 60 votes, effective immediately, to ban all donations to all candidates by any corporation or group of employees suspected of colluding in their donations. Donations of that type already collected will be confiscated for a general fund to support military families of disabled servicemen and women.

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Follow up suggestions:

-Supersede the SCOTUS decision. I don't think the Constitution says corporations have a fundamental right to influence elections.

-Ban PACs. They're not held to any standard of truth. They make advertisements of their opinions, presenting them as facts.

-Publicize lobbyists - phone calls & visits - who is lobbying who about what legislation.

-Ban all advertisements on TV, radio or by mail. The airwaves are public as is the postal system. Candidates aren't businesses & elections aren't business opportunities. Oh, they are? End that.

-Shorten the election cycle. JFK declared in Jan. 1960 & won 11 months later. Now, Presidential races last 22 months. Make it 5. Give us a break.

-Televise frequent debates for all open seats from July - October. Let candidates campaign for the same period.

-Everyone is 'owned' & they 'owe'. The campaign never ends and they might as well run as the Representative for the Petroleum Industry or the Senator from the great State of Corn Subsidies. We are not served.

Max, do you hear me?

Last September the Obama favorin' Howard Fineman listed 7 mistakes by Obama that endangered his chances in November.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26640489/

Fineman's conclusions seemed plausible & foreboding to Obama supporters, and the right-wing NRO Online pouted that Fineman should have published the list earlier, instead of giving Obama 'a pass', the free-ride he got from all the media. Yes, with the bazillion passes he gets, it's wonder he hasn't sprouted a Sputnik & flown back to Kenya with Fatima.

All the woe by the left at predictions of failure & the right wing bloodlust, "har, har, we got the upstart Hussein now" were, how shall I put it, WRONG. And once a May ago, in a place called Indiana, truckers used tire gauges bought by Obama's opposition, to prove Obama's common sense true. Who won Indiana in November again? That gave me HOPE.

Indeed past experience would lead us to no other conclusion than that Obama is tanking. The past is wherein pundits & most pols operate, save one. President Obama's most invaluable gift is his keen sense of 'durable in memory' & his spot-on timing in a world of 24/7 informationsensations. Thank God someone is an adult without A.D.D. around here.

I, for one, don't approve of polls telling me what I approve of. Poll creators, more often than not, undermine the clarity of their data with skillfully inept cross-queries.