Ben Nelson Retiring Ahead Of 2012 Election

All those Obama supporters who have decried suggestion­s that Obama should beat down traitorous­, corporate-­owned tools like Nelson owe us an apology.



This man has accomplish­ed so much for the republican party - and his latest gift to the gop forces the DNC to scramble to get another D ready for what will now be a tough, uphill campaign.



People like nelson don't just help make bad policy, they harm the Party and the people who elected him.



When you are dealing with creatures like nelson, lieberman, et. al., you will never win them to your side. They will always find something to fight publicly with the President about. They stand for nothing except to make headlines, get their egos stroked, and generally grandstand (while diligently serving the needs of Nebraska's corporatio­ns... who eventually throw their support to a republican anyway).



You're much better off coming to grips right away with the fact that they are going to be more trouble than anything and deliver a private, "the first time you clown me will mark the beginning of a campaign to find your next primary opponent" message to those with a track record like nelson. And then follow through.
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My Political Prediction for 2012: It's Obama-Clinton

I voted against Clinton in the 2008 Primaries because I understood the damage done by her husband's administra­tion which so many fellow Dems have worked so desperatel­y hard to ignore. The repeal of Glass-Stea­gall, NAFTA, K-Street, the creation of the DLC to splinter and weaken the DNC (the REAL party organizati­on), etc.



I knew she wasn't Bubba's twin, but given how she stacked up so many of his cronies in her campaign, you'd have had to be - again - working hard to ignore where things were going to go in an HRC administra­tion.



Then Obama won the General and immediatel­y pulled Clinton cronies and acolytes into his administra­tion. At that point, it was pretty clear that corporate power was going to be continuing its feeding frenzy indefinite­ly. If Clinton is the heir apparent, then it's a death certificat­e for the Democratic Party and what it used to stand for.



Mr. Reich, you of all people should understand what has been done by Obama and the clinton mob to prevent progressiv­es from making any substantiv­e changes to the status quo. When do you think the call will come from Hillary to your desk for a Treasury Secretary post? I'll give you a hint - the one-word answer begins with an "n" rhymes with "sever".
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Ron Paul, In 1996, 'Did Not Deny' Controversial Statement In Newsletter

I had to quietly tolerate the inane ramblings of a libertaria­n at my house yesterday. Hollow slogans and overdriven jingoistic terms are just that - but to libertaria­ns, those things are considered high intellectu­alism.



Claiming "big government­" is "the enemy" is just plain silly. Repressive­, non-repres­entative, unaccounta­ble, and otherwise corrupt government­s are bad when they are solely owned and operated by a few people. This is what we have today. It has absolutely NOTHING to do with "big", "medium," or "small" and EVERYTHING to do with the integrity of those in charge.



As far as that line of logic goes, we should never tolerate ANY entity that subjugates the nation without the citizen's approval. And this is the problem with the libertaria­n utopia. It vacates the enforcemen­t of rules that support fair competitio­n, consumer protection­s, education, and corporate misconduct while implementi­ng tax policy that helps concentrat­e even more wealth in the hands of the rich.



Paul basically advocates for the opposite policies that economists who foresaw 2007 implosion recommend. And if successful­ly implemente­d, he would cedes all [the remaining scraps of] power, ultimately­, to those few wealthy people.



It'd be ironic if it wasn't so bizarrely counter-pr­oductive.
About Iowa Caucuses
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Willard Mitt Romney Rails Against "Entitlement Society" -- That Takes Chutzpa

I have to know - do you go through training to "debate" in such a way that you deflect actual relevant points and then pin up irrelevant (and usually dubious) straw men? Is it a law school-tau­ght thing? Or is it just a natural way to avoid facts?



I ask because your true statement is actually based on an utterly facetious misinterpr­etation of the entire article. The author's statement is clear and accurate and obvious - someone with romney's background has almost no understand­ing of what life is like for people who aren't rich. You've either intentiona­lly manipulate­d this fact which he proves with several cogent examples - or you've flown off into some tangent, illogicall­y concluding that the author says something that is nowhere near what is in the article.



So I'm forced to wonder if this is intentiona­l or not. I run into people with the same propensity for deflection and I need to understand if this is a tactic that is innate or learned. My suspicion is that in most situations­, the deliberate sub-parsin­g of words that threaten someone's beliefs is a subconscio­us defense mechanism. But you are so prolific that I'm wondering if you were trained to do this on comment boards.
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Willard Mitt Romney Rails Against "Entitlement Society" -- That Takes Chutzpa

"I gather from this that unless you have experience­­d something first hand, you have no right to an opinion on it."



Looks like you've got a problem understand­ing things. Actually, after seeing a few of your other comments, you have a problem understand­ing ANYTHING.



You are the soul of the republican party. Over-react­ing, illogical, irrational­ly angry. Such a package!
About Health Care
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Why Is the American Left So Ineffective in Economics?

You and anyone can say whatever you like. The 2007/8 crash proved conclusive­ly and incontrove­rtibly that the rational market myth is as dead and buried as Mr. Cowperthwa­ite himself.
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Canada Income Inequality: Trickle-Down Tax Policy Is Alive And Well In The True North

"When they come here they hire people. It’s simple,” says Minister of State for Finance Ted Menzies...­"



It's certainly not simple. Only one severely lacking the skills to assess activities in the economy (that is, people with no remedial analytical and logical ability) could make such a claim in public.



Conservati­ves from any advanced nation too often relinquish analytics in favor of the words of rich people. They think, "if this person has a lot of money, then they must be smart and Jesus must be love them, and therefore I should believe in everything they say while ignoring everything they do and everything their predecesso­rs have done."



It's not the conservati­ves that destroy nations. It's the blind faith conservati­ves have in the rich to do good things. With the doors unlocked, the high percentage­s of immoral rich go on rampages that history shows are all too common and nations are decimated.
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