Nobody wants to pay more taxes???
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Dennis Kucinich did a guest shot on the Maher show tonight. One day after letting down lefties and securing his portrait’s place in dictionaries to illustrate the word “liar” for the foreseeable future, the reputation rebuilding has already begun. Yucking it up on the heels of selling out his constituency was bad enough, but...
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Bring me your coconuts/Bring me your sweet mangos too/Bring me your papayas/I’ll tell you what I brought for you/Syphilis and religion… -Graham Parker So I’m driving along today in central Ohio, doing a little station surfing, and I find something called the American Family Radio Network. I’ve landed on it before, and have usually run...
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[Note: I've edited this post a little in hopes that now, even an idiot can understand it. Apparently some mistook the quoted matter in the post as Iacocca's actual words. THEY ARE NOT. Which anyone with basic Internet and reading skills might have understood from the original post -  had they bothered to actually read it. C'mon,...
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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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“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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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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No more, nohow. Love just goes so far No more Woke up this morning and found I didn’t care for you no more Nohow Never felt so good before You’re down to my size It’s over and done So honey, step down from your throne That look in your eyes Don’t bother me none...
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