Firedoglake’s Eli has a nice post which begs larger questions for progressives; (1) how pure is too pure? and, (2) what can we do to expedite change? Eli’s point that change is painfully incremental is well taken (or, put another way…), and I think most of us would agree his characterization of that incrementalism as “cautious”...
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Sometimes a little black humor is the first step in changing attitudes - and maybe turning the tide. Think Country Joe & The Fish at Woodstock.      So, as we plumb ever more deeply the extent to which Big Business owns this once-great nation, I thought it might be fun - in a clinically depressed sort of way – to rework...
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While I was traveling with a colleague four weeks ago, he bought a copy of Glenn Beck’s “Arguing With Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government.” Two days ago, he announced that he is pursuing a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Though our belief systems differ, he is the kind of guy I picture...
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“So, we head to the top of the tenth, game seven, Rotunda Park, Health Care World Series, with the Washington Senators and the Middle Americans locked in a nothing-nothing game. And while we were away, Biff, I understand the Sens made some lineup changes?” “That’s right Frank, and wholesale changes they are! The Sens...
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“Saint Peter don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go I owe my soul to the company store…” -Tennessee Ernie Ford Of all the things the Senate’s health care package doesn’t guarantee, there’s one thing it almost surely does: The further shrinking of the middle class, as employers who had stopped offering health insurance...
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http://www.billboard.com/news/stooges-genesis-abba-get-rock-hall-of-fame-1004053618.story#/news/stooges-genesis-abba-get-rock-hall-of-fame-1004053618.story Puh. Leeze. -agn
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Senator Tom Harkin, a dogged supporter of the public option, lowered himself today on the Bill Press Show (Air America) to grudging acceptance of the ravaged remains that now comprise the Senate health care reform bill. After pep-talking what few changes survive, Harkin – who gleefully declared three weeks ago that the Senate had...
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Think today’s cave-in on health insurance reform by Mr. Change We Can Believe In is bad? Just wait. Here’s what happens next: Obama and Senate Dems claim victory. Brace yourself to hear, again and again, the following boat load of bullshit: “This bill offers comprehensive reform, but is just the first step in incremental...
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