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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
The graph could further drive home the point by showing how the Supreme Court was made up of 7 Republican-appointed justices and 2 Democrat-appointed justices during the same time period.
Glenn, I'd be interested in a list of legislation introduced by the Democrats that would have changed our current course. It's easy to blame the Reps, but absent a true alternative the Dems are just as culpable. I don't pretend to be truly informed here, though, so if there really has been legislation that would end the war, stop torture, stop rendition, re-institute habeas for all, etc., I'll feel better about the Dems. Heck, I don't even recall hearings into this stuff.,
The first thing that comes to mind are the timetables for leaving Iraq that were vetoed by the Bush administration.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Troop_Readiness,_Veterans%27_Care,_Katrina_Recovery,_and_Iraq_Accountability_Appropriations_Act,_2007
It was an honest question, Glenn. Thanks for the response and the links, it actually does make me fell better :)
Cheers
I really do, but pop over to the message thread for the Joe Conason article on "The Dumbing Down of the GOP" and prepare to witness the truly headscratching phenomenon of people who are proud of their ignorance and anti-intellectualism. Coupled with the fact that it apparently took eight years for most Americans to decide this country is on the wrong track -- even re-electing George Bush in the process -- and I find my faith in polls shaken.
Watching this election is the worst roller-coaster ride ever because I keep waiting for someone on the Democratic side to make that one mistake -- that one, dumb, Howard Dean-like yell or Al Gore/John Kerry-gaffe -- that will then be repeated ad infinitum on every news channel and in every newspaper until it becomes part of the common accepted narrative.
I've heard people opine that the country gets the President that it deserves; unfortunately, I've also had to live in the same country with all those people who got exactly what they deserved from Bush, and I'm afraid that in the end we may all have to eat their just deserts again.
That said, your writing has been a great balm to my frustration and anger with the direction of our country. Keep up the good work.
Palin's empty chatter, self-conscious folksiness and chronic, seizure-like winking
This is why Mr. Greenwald's professed concern for the common American rings hollow. Her folksiness is not "self-conscious"'; it's quite genuine, and people recognize it for what it is. Maybe Greenwald lives among people who are always putting on airs, and therefore he sees it everywhere, even where it isn't.
And "chronic, seizure-like winking"?! Again, where I come from, a lot of people wink as a sort of shorthand for "you betcha" or the like. Again, Greenwald seems not to understand what millions of Americans do understand, and that's why his writing about "Americans" so misses the point. Sure, there are a lot of people like him, but they're concentrated in certain circles. There are tens of mllions of Americans who have more in common with Palin than with Greenwald.
Really, now, couldn't you hold your condescension in check for even a few minutes?
Oh, and where's your constitutional lawyer's concern for Biden's total mangling of what the Constitution actually says during the debate? Won't hear it from the MSM, and certainly won't hear it from Greenwald, so deep in the tank he is for Obama.
Oh, still waiting for your scathing column on Obama's brownshirt tactics to shut down dissent in Chicago, Missouri, and in W. Va and Pennsylvania.
Phoenix Woman at Firedoglake said something similar.
"We've just had the Biden-Palin debate, and we've just had similar results(success): Biden's relaxed yet professional demeanor trumped Palin's evasions, lies, and Liberace-like winks at the camera and the television audience behind it.
Here's why: People might have been in a mood to put up with cutesy-wootsy stuff back in 2000, when the nation was prosperous thanks to Bill Clinton. They might have willingly taken a flyer on somebody like Jesse Ventura or Arnold Schwarzenegger back then. They aren't going to put up with it now, not with Bush's financial and military quagmires to fix."
Seems that everyone but the Republicans have figured out that this mess will take very serious people to fix it.
McCain loses in so many ways, he can't get nasty without losing votes, his fixes favor the rich, voting for him continues a war that Americans are fed up with. All the winks, blinks, and nods, in the world will not compel people to vote for them.
as always we agree in substance - and just perhaps not in style - or as my grandma likes to say: Today I don't feel like a bloodbath so i will make fun of you - And believe me - there are forceful warriors on the left who might think, that a Jon Stewart could be much more effective than a Glenn Greenwald (oh - i didn't write that - the devil - ah - some Repugs made me) and
you also have to believe me that nothing is much more hurtful for a Repug or a lawyer to be laughed at and if you still don't believe it just ask Glenn - and to get serious -
Ondolette - i still don't get it why a grown-up promotes a 'do nothing plan' because he believes in the fairy tale of a little boy crying wolf - while his friends complain that nothing had been done before and if a 'the sky is falling guy' rants against a 'the sky is falling mentality' because it's not about national security - but about the economy that's... well... definitely 'awesome'!
Why wouldn't they. The Republican party could not exist without them.
Look at there base. Racists, Neo-Cons, Jesus Freaks and Gun Nuts. Who's the genius in this group.
In 2004 over 50 million stupid people voted for Bush. 50 million people could not tell he lied us into war.
The Republican party could not survive with out stupid people.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
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