Comments on: A Stand to Protect the Future: Too Few Senators Filibuster Alito

By: Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print » Asked about FISA at Netroots Nation, Nancy Pelosi Beats About the Bush

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:07:41 +0000

[...] Don’t worry, we’ll fix everything later, maybe after the next election. See 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006. If you still believe this line after oh so many broken “just wait till next [...]

By: Patois

Patois — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:35:34 +0000

Well, okay. Here's an instance in which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were both on the right side. Who could have thought it would ever happen?

By: Sarge

Sarge — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 13:23:31 +0000

Sorry, Mike. Just haven’t been myself lately. Being other people didn’t work either, so I’m back. You might find a book about the Philidelphia Aurora (early newspaper run but Benjamin Franklin Beache, Ben Franklin’s grandson) very interresting reading. The syndrome has been around awhile.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:04:46 +0000

Sarge!!!! I would’ve thopught that an old military-type such as yourself would already KNOW “why”! It’s just the same extension of the same old shell-game the “Powers-That-Be” have been running for the past hundred or so years. the art of political fixing, and bullshitting the masses has evolved into a high art in Washington DC. The problem for the politicos seems to be that a larger and larger percentage of the public sees through the flim-flam. The only reason that the public hasn’t resorted to tarring and feathering a few of ‘em (And, oh GAWD,wouldn’t that be FUN??), can be summed up in three words: “Fear”, “Apathy”, and “Conformity”. And, those words will be our downfall, and our epitaph. Sorry, I’m depressed tonight. One of my clients died of a disease that should’ve had the requisite funding from the beginning, but was deliberately under-funded by none other than that Hero of the Republican Right, Ronald Ray-gun….Yeah. he died of AIDS…But he was Gay and an IV drug user, so he was worthless as a human being…wasn’t he? Ronald said so, so it must be true. God, am I pissed off…sorry for venting…

By: Sarge

Sarge — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:41:05 +0000

I kind of get the idea that the fixeroo was in all along, given the givens of the situation. My question is ‘why’?

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:08:21 +0000

Elite-oh is a shoe in. The Democrats are failing miserably at doing anything meaningful to stop the Republinazis “death to America” agenda. Meanwhile the economy has all us common folk running on empty and constantly looking for work (ie. distracted from being very effective in confronting the changes in rights, etc. coming our way almost daily). The media machine of course condones Elite-oh as a wonderful addition to the Supreme Court, not realizing that he’ll be influential in keeping all these scandal ridden Republicans out of jail, including Bush, Cheney and Rove. So once again, notice how broken the government is, how complicit the media is, and how, like sheep, the Amerikan people go along with the program.

By: That’s My Congress » Democratic Base Furious At Senators for Abandoning Filibuster

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:48:41 +0000

[...] Yesterday, senators John Kerry and Edward Kennedy began an effort to filibuster a final vote on the confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. However, they were unable to muster a majority to support the filibuster, as many Senate Democrats broke away and voted against the filibuster. As a result, many in the Democratic progressive base are expressing fury, vowing to withhold support from any Democratic senator who voted to bring the nomination of Samuel Alito to a vote. [...]

By: jahsherrer

jahsherrer — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:21:12 +0000

word. good post. thank you for being one of the few people in the world who seem to fucking care anymore. pardon my language. thank you to all the people who contribute to this site.