http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/01/14/obama-we-are-not-a-deadbeat-nation Comments On: Obama: 'We are not a deadbeat nation' by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Sun, 19 May 2013 05:15:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
And the Dems are out for the Dems.

Republicans and Democrats are exactly the same, human. Expect all that entails.
Posted by Gylippus]]> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:49:16 -0600 Arkansas Times
The irony, DBI, is that more people aren't starving because of one of the New Deal's greatest achievements---Social Security.

There were no food stamps during the depression. There was no unemployment insurance, no medical insurance. It was Charles Dickens redux in America.

Precisely the things that prevent starvation allow the old folks to saddle up their Hoverounds, put on a tri-corner hat, strap on their guns and attend rallies against the socialist, Kenyan usurper.

I do think there are lots of scared people out there, but they are scared of the wrong things.

And this talk of martial law and WoahII from you and Norma makes me uneasy. When that Yeager fellow, or Alex Jones, or Ted Nugent go on a rant and talk of spilling blood, it feels like it's my blood they are talking about.

I've grown very fond of my blood over these many years and don't want to see it splattered anywhere.
Posted by the outlier]]> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:21:27 -0600 Arkansas Times
It would appear that not enough Americans are starving and scared today or they wouldn't keep voting Tom Cottons & Tim Griffins into office. But don't worry, unless The One is able to bull his way over them FDR-Style, we'll have many more millions who are starving and scared. But by then it may just be too damn late.

Of course Civil War 2 over guns will accelerate the starving and scared and a whole lot worse...so what....me worry? I was working on a disguise to wear when the AR15s are unleashed on the innocent but after a bunch of Googling I didn't find anyone, old or young or black or white or rich or poor or tall or short who hasn't been blown to bits by a LONER GONE WILD armed with an assault weapon. Invisible isn't a disguise I can manage. Flat! I'll work on being flat!
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:01:17 -0600 Arkansas Times
Irrationally, they refuse (most of them; there have been a few apostates like Newt Gingrich, but who listens to him anymore?) to admit they're a dying party unless they change drastically.

The problem with "changing drastically?" Nobody would believe them.

"We didn't really mean all those things we've said for decades."

"The Tea Party is NOT the GOP."

"We're the NEW GOP."

The GOP has long since cornered itself with their base of rich old (and dying) white male dinosaur racist bigots, misogynists, homophobes, war-and-weapons mongers and religionists--and their Biblically subservient women and dependent children (even grown up ones like Franklin Graham and anybody named Bush).

The operative words are "cornered" and "dying."

All they have left is the desperate hope that they can foment armed insurrections (ostensibly over taxes, spending, gays, the Second Amendment, secession, God or SOMETHING)--another Civil War--and impose martial law.

Who knows? Maybe they can.

It's no solution to ANYTHING, but it's all they've got.

Because change, science, evolution and admission of failure is nowhere in the GOP platform.

They're a party of Trolls.

ARMED Trolls.
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:00:44 -0600 Arkansas Times
As one of my favorite Beltway insiders told me last fall well before the election and my adventures in Tampa: "They are horrible people."

"As the fiscal cliff fight seemed to make clear, the majority of the House Republican Conference is actually (and quietly) a lot like Boehner – members who are ideologically conservative but who recognize how destructive Tea Party orthodoxy has become, both from a governing standpoint and in terms of the party’s overall image. But, like Boehner, they’re still scared of defying it, of being branded traitors to the cause, and of losing their jobs to Tea Party-backed primary challenges. This led to the January 1 spectacle, when the vast majority of House Republicans voted against the fiscal cliff deal – even as Boehner was assuring the public that most of them wanted it to pass.

"It raises a question as the debt ceiling battle takes shape: Even if most House Republicans understand the necessity of raising the borrowing limit, how many of them will actually be willing to go on the record doing so if it means encouraging a primary challenge?"

http://www.salon.com/2013/01/14/john_boehn…
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:43:06 -0600 Arkansas Times
Moody's credit rating downgrade specifically cited Republican obstinance in refusing to compromise.

Then Ryan specifically blamed Obama for the downgrade. (Republicans love to live in a non-reality based universe)

Also Gyl

Above the blalme was to Congress for voting to authorize the 2 unfunded wars and voting to do the unfunded tax cuts. NO one above seems to have blamed your "BOOSH".

Maybe if someone points out stuff that happened while BOOSH was president, it might be you that takes that as blaming BOOSH. Sure it was his idea but Congress voted for it.
Posted by Citizen1]]> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:35:43 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:27:29 -0600 Arkansas Times
No one else's.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/13/krug…
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:11:50 -0600 Arkansas Times
If only there were some political office that wielded ultimate control over the armed forces and could veto shit.

Oh, wait. There is.

It's been four years. Eventually you are going to have to stop blaming BOOSH!!!
Posted by Gylippus]]> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:06:29 -0600 Arkansas Times
Do y'all think we as a nation should remain forever beholden to criminals with impossible ponzi/mafioso payment schemes? Obviously both the Obama and Cotton do agree we should. The very framing by Obama of placing responsibility in the Cotton party hands.... says that is exactly what he wants/likes. That Obama is bereft of any idea/ intent/alternative to change the criminal/debt status quo. One guy waterboards the nation, the other starves them to death. Reject both or expect continued decline of empire at best.

It's not about us, except for the looting.
Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:01:42 -0600 Arkansas Times
Now if you are in line behind bondholders, you may want to worry.
Posted by Gylippus]]> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:50:53 -0600 Arkansas Times
If Congress is so gung-ho to cut spending, then they should not have voted to invade two countries without any idea of how they were going to pay for it, or voted to cut taxes on billionaires without any idea of how they were going to pay for it, or voted for the billions in corporate welfare they pass out willy-nilly to their corporate campaign contributors.

We all know they did those things in order to bankrupt the country so as to destroy social security and medicare. And when the people said "No, you can't take the money we've paid in," Congress said "Well, we'll just bankrupt the country."
Posted by I_AM_THE_NRA]]> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:49:24 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Sound Policy]]> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:39:58 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by HolyGuano]]> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:21:30 -0600 Arkansas Times