Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments The Supreme Court puts our democracy in the hands of corporations Wiki info is good too: http://www.scotuswiki.com/index.php?title=Citizens_United_v._Federal_Election_Commission » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 21, 2010 @ 8:24 am Majority Opinion: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-205.pdf » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 21, 2010 @ 8:13 am Facts of the case from Cornell Law school: http://topics.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/08-205 » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 21, 2010 @ 8:11 am I have NEVER been a conspiracy theorist, but last night I had a thought: Suppose there really isn’t a president or in fact any truly elected officials, and that the country is instead fully run by corporations? What if it’s all kabuki to keep us distracted? The government knows this, but it would be too dangerous to let us in on that fact– revolution and all. I know– ridiculous, I tell myself. Still… » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 21, 2010 @ 8:07 am I know I swore off politics today, but this is something I’ve been dreading for several months. I sincerely believe this is a major blow to democracy– perhaps a fatal one. Once money was ruled to constitute free speech and that corporations are people about one hundred years ago, the mechanism was put in place to ruin this country. Here’s a link to more about it from FDL: And Jeffery Toobin on Colbert: » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 21, 2010 @ 8:01 am Boomer, do you agree with your company’s code of ethics and the way they enforce it? If so, you should report her. If not, then you are not obligated to do so even though you find this woman reprehensible. But the code aside, I think there is nothing more to do than what you already did– tell her not to discuss politics. Since you need her help occasionally, there is really nothing more you can do. And BTW, the fact that you do need her help is just a fact, not anything you need to feel badly about, in case you do. » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 20, 2010 @ 10:28 am Let’s ALL THANK Huffington Post and Its Proprietor Yes, Huffpo has done a lot of rabble rousing on the Left with its incessant anti-Obama choruses and its demoralizing dirges. No argument here. But let me also point out that the Progressive agenda needs a voice too. Obama himself told us to hold him accountable, to hold his feet to the fire. The question is how to do that while remaining both realistic and without succumbing to negativism. To me, that’s a big issue. I don’t want us to become an Obama hallelujah chorus any more than I want to become its death knell. There is a place for honest and honorable dissent. We need to hold Huffpo’s feet to the fire for becoming an insidious source of defeatism as well as Obama’s for moving too far to the right. we need to strike the right balance. » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 20, 2010 @ 10:22 am I don’t mind, Nellie dear. But now that you’ve done that, I have to leave for a while! Not because if the discussion, but because of an appointment. 🙁 » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 20, 2010 @ 4:46 pm Oh, thanks KQ! Who wrote that? Someone who knows, I hope. » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 20, 2010 @ 4:40 pm Nellie– I literally pray you are right. » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 20, 2010 @ 4:38 pm Nellie- I am sorry, but this is why the Dems are failing. This is why many on the Left are angry– including me. There were other options discussed for the bill to move forward before Brown is seated. Whether they were feasible or not, the message O sent (that he would wait for Brown) is exactly the wrong one. Health care is THE most important piece of legislation of his agenda. He seems not to be fighting to pass it. One of the criticisms I feel is valid is that Bush passed legislation with 51 votes, and we can’t with more than that. » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 20, 2010 @ 4:37 pm I don’t want him to be angry– I want him to fight. They are not the same. He can fight with populism –that’s one thing I want him to do. It’s a sad, bizarre world when Reps can claim the populist mantle! » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 20, 2010 @ 4:28 pm How about the people’s voices in the other 49 states who want health care reform? Why is it about what Republican voters want? » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 20, 2010 @ 4:24 pm KQ, regardless of the facts about the senate, do you see how that statement by Obama (about waiting to seat Brown) is tone deaf? Or easily misinterpreted? » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 20, 2010 @ 4:23 pm Hi Gretel. (First, if i sound angry, please know it’s not at you!) If what you say is true–Obama courting Scott Brown– than I have had it with him. STILL COURTING REPUBLICANS!? Way to lose, O. and Brown has already signaled that he will filibuster any health bill. I certainly hope that’s not what he meant. » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 20, 2010 @ 4:04 pm Yes, Patsy, time for a time out. I am working on an article that has nothing to do with any of this, and I’ll put on blinders and keep my head down for a few days. Very wise advice! » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 20, 2010 @ 3:57 pm Thanks KQ.I really appreciate that. But the only person who can make me feel better is the President. He can say something that makes me feel he gets it. I want him to say that this is his wake up call and that from now on, it’s no more Mr. Nice Guy– from now on he will not listen to those who claim he must be bipartisan. Now it is time to show some fight. I agree with you that he is a long-term strategic thinker, but elections are not won in the long term. Politics sometimes matters more than policy, and by that I mean that you and I can bemoan the whiners and the unrealistic, but that’s politics and Obama better play to the one that brung him. He’s played to the Indies and the Right and it ain’t working in the world of voters. » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 20, 2010 @ 3:55 pm What I meant Q is that Obama made that comparison by referencing HIS campaign after Bush. He is saying that voters are as unhappy with him as they were with Bush. And if what you said above is true, then he should feel pretty terrible. » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 20, 2010 @ 3:34 pm I am fighting every impulse I have to get back in bed, pull up the covers and never pay any attention to politics AT ALL. I am disgusted by Americans and disgusted by the Democrats, who are blowing it big time. And it wouldn’t be so bad if they were blowing it against a plausible Party. But to blow it when the alternative is the Reptilian party, is pretty effing close to unforgivable. » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 20, 2010 @ 3:30 pm Nellie, apparantly he does not understand, if he can make a statement like he did about Brown– the one you cited. Or if he can agree with Reid to table health care until Brown is sworn in. » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 20, 2010 @ 3:24 pm So Obama thinks that the people of MA think he is as bad as Bush? That the Dems are worse than Reps? That’s anti-incumbancy, right? Yeah, Coakley was bad, but so was Brown. he didn’t run a great campaign either. So I still don’t get Obama’s comment. » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 20, 2010 @ 3:16 pm I just don’t understand. And Robert Gibb just said that Obama agrees with Reid that health care should be postponed until Brown is sworn in. I am just shaking my head in wonder. » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 20, 2010 @ 3:13 pm Nellie– that’s how I feel too. Regardless of any and all the missteps by the Dems, how voters can vote for any Reptilian makes me despair for us all. WTF? But that said, I still hold on to a bit of hope that this election can serve as a HUGE alarm clock for the Democratic Party. I only pray they don’t misinterpret it as meaning they should move Right!! » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 20, 2010 @ 8:19 am HELL YES, Adlib!!! These are exactly my thoughts! We spoke briefly about this during Vox Pop, but I believe that of the several issues Progressives have with Obama, the single most important is bipartisanship. Of course, it is not a policy issue, and if you polled voters hardly anyone would respond that bipartisanship is something that they want changed. But from it stems many of the problems with all the legislation. To my mind, bipartisanship is what really galled many progs, Dems and independents who expected change. Again, it’s even more about mood than substance. It made Obama appear weak or even worse, as if he had any points of agreement with he Reptilians– as if their ideas had merit. And as if their motives were “country first.” We watched that spectacle and wanted to scream at him. I am sure all the pundits will be saying that the American people WANT bipartisanship. Well, maybe in the abstract. But not with these Reptilians! This is not the time for truth and reconciliation, especially not without the truth part. People see that the Reptilians are obstructionist and have concluded (unfairly, IMO) that Obama must not really want progress if he puts bipartisanship before policy. How many comments have we read that Obama is the new boss, same as the old boss? He most definitely is not, but by kissing their asses– and needlessly– he has contributed to that meme. And Harry Reid. Harry needs extreme guidance from the President, and he didn’t get it. Left to his own inclinations, he will always capitulate. He needs to be told what to do. » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 20, 2010 @ 8:10 am Hiya, God! Guess what? You ARE God. So am I. Good to see you! Tat Tvam Asi! Thou art that! Ehyeh asher ehyeh (I-shall-be that I-shall-be) I bow to the Buddha in you. » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 18, 2010 @ 12:30 pm Which comes first? The chicken or the egg? Wow– that was weird! I honestly am not so insistent that I replied twice! 😳 » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 17, 2010 @ 12:22 pm I beg to differ KQ. The base of a party is always the most extreme. Don’t you believe that the tea baggers are the base of the Reps? Weren’t the Christian Evangelicals Bush’s base in 2000? Neither of those are vanilla Republicans any more than Obama’s base– the Left of the democratic Party– represents the majority of Dems. I think you are mistaking moderate Dems as the mainstay of Obama’s base. (Of course, we might be getting onto semantics here). They may be a part of it, but they are not the one’s who worked tirelessly and fervidly during the campaign, IMO. Now, don’t think I agree with their assessment entirely. I am appalled at their immaturity. But I am not so sanguine as to write them off as irrelevant. Also, I have my own issues with some of Obama’s methods and even policies. If we are being realists here, we need to acknowledge that they are important. Look at the 2009 midyears– no base. We may not agree with them or want them to be game changers but that won’t change the fact that they are. The center votes and they are the mainstay of dem voteres. But the center doesn’t supply the enthusiasm. » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 17, 2010 @ 12:17 pm I beg to differ KQ. The base of a party is always the most extreme. Don’t you believe that the tea baggers are the base of the Reps? Weren’t the Christian Evangelicals Bush’s base in 2000? Neither of those are vanilla Republicans any more than Obama’s base– the Left of the democratic Party– represents the majority of Dems. I think you are mistaking moderate Dems as the mainstay of Obama’s base. (Of course, we might be getting onto semantics here). They may be a part of it, but they are not the one’s who worked tirelessly and fervidly during the campaign, IMO. Now, don’t think I agree with their assessment entirely. I am appalled at their immaturity. But I am not so sanguine as to write them off as irrelevant. Also, I have my own issues with some of Obama’s methods and even policies. If we are being realists here, we need to acknowledge that they are important. Look at the 2009 midyears– no base. We may not agree with them or want them to be game changers but that won’t change the fact that they are. The center votes and they are the mainstay of dem voters. But the center doesn’t supply the enthusiasm. » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 17, 2010 @ 12:13 pm Boomer– now that’s funny! OMG! As an aside– the acting in that is unintentionally hilarious. Why did anyone ever think Burton could act? He reminds me of Jon Lovitz as the Master Thespian on SNL! » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 17, 2010 @ 12:00 pm Yes, E’cat– oh the irony! But here’s the thing: The Right is reprehensible. I think Obama has realized this by now. I think he was not naive as much as, well, Hopeful. He hadn’t written them off at first, but I think now he pretty much has. I for one, do not want any more bipartisanship unless the Reptilians change their tune. I want them marginalized and seen as the extremists they are. Obama has proven that he was more than willing to work with them; that he wanted to include them. Now, he must move on and, to use Rarest’s analogy, get out of the abusive relationship. He has spent political capital on that, but he can now show that he gets it– the Party of Rush deserves nothing. » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 17, 2010 @ 11:43 amComments Posted By Chernynkaya
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