Random RecitalsSomething about the fact that I made some contribution to either my country, or those who were less well off. I think back to what Camus wrote about the fact that perhaps this world is a world in which children suffer, but we can lessen the number of suffering children, and if you do not do this, then who will do this? I'd like to feel that I'd done something to lessen that suffering. Lively LinksLinks change randomly each time the cache is refreshed. |
Article by John on March 17th, 2010 at 4:27 pm While I disagree with Senator Pridemore that a bad bill with a couple of good provisions is better than no bill at all, Craig deserves praise for staking out a very clear position on health care reform. The Democrats have to pass legislation that will provide health care at a reasonable cost to both businesses and individuals. It needs to be [...]
Article by John on February 21st, 2010 at 5:01 pm Top Two Primary System is Flawed Citing a desire to not “thin the field of Democrats” in the primary, Deb Wallace withdrew from the 3rd district race to replace Rep. Brian Baird. This is yet another example of why the “top two” primary system is undermining the electoral process. If we did not have political parties, the top two primary would make sense. It would [...]
Article by John on February 2nd, 2010 at 10:30 am Cenk Uygur has a fantastic post today about how bipartisanship is used as a foil to enable the Democrats to sell us out just like the Republicans sell us out to big corporate interests. For those of you out there that thought the Democrats were different, this article goes a long way to explaining why their differences are not manifesting themselves now that they are [...]
Article by John on January 22nd, 2010 at 10:45 am Just read the latest post from Cenk Uyger. He recommends: So, in financial reform Obama shouldn’t ask Republicans to vote with him, he should dare them not to. He should say: “You want to vote with the bankers. Go ahead. I dare you. Every day I’m going to talk about how these bankers took hard-earned taxpayer money and turned it into record bonuses for themselves. I’m going [...]
Article by John on December 17th, 2009 at 11:29 pm Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Obama is in a no-win situation from which he will not recover politically unless he acts boldly and changes course immediately. The President must get [...]
Article by John on November 11th, 2009 at 2:18 pm From the African T-shirt Factory (click image to buy) This comment posted below this article, Public Option is Just Another Private Party – and We’re Not Invited, says it all about what is happening to the health care reform legislation: mujeriego November 6th, 2009 3:53 pm Health reform can never happen in the US until you have campaign finance reform. As long as the insurance industry can throw [...]
Article by John on September 10th, 2009 at 8:20 am The possibility of David Hedrick, spokesman for the angry Town Hall mob locally, running against Brian Baird in the next election cycle is intriguing. Since there are already two other possible Republican contenders, it means there would be 3 R candidates running in the primary. If another Democrat enters the race and challenges Baird, that would mean the republican vote would be chopped into thirds [...]
Article by John on May 8th, 2009 at 7:15 am Actions have consequences… Wouldn’t it be great if Specter had his petuddy(sp) handed to him by a challenger that actually acts like a true Democrat in the primary? We need a massive amount of new blood in Congress. This will be a test if people in Pennsylvania value seniority over Democratic issues. There is no way anyone can argue Arlen is good [...] | |
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