Displaying 511 To 540 Of 9,743 Comments LIVE BLOG: GOP Debate in Arizona on CNN – 2-22-2012 Sounds like the Paul and Romney bromance continued last night. Riiiight remember Paul is suppose to be the only GOP candidate with integrity and conviction. Yet he continues to enable the phoniest politician on the planet. I have allot of things against Paul’s politics but his efforts to help Romney show the worst of the worst, he’s just a pol who doesn’t give a shyte about his own supporters who would be the last people to vote for the sham that is Romney. To attack every candidate but Romney from the right is true political cowardliness. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 23, 2012 @ 11:13 am Seven lies told during the GOP debate in AZ. Of course Mittens led the way with four of them. http://www.politicususa.com/en/republican-debate-fact-check » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 22, 2012 @ 8:07 pm IDK that was a weird poll. It was the first poll to have Romney in positive favorable rating territory in a while too. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 22, 2012 @ 8:03 pm When he tries to be like KO he’s absolutely horrible. Like when he attacked the ACA last week he told lie after lie just to fit his premise. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 22, 2012 @ 8:01 pm Sounds like Santorum’s time in the sun is over. It’s the same MO. Every time Romney is challenged the whole debate sounds like questions from all of Romney’s campaign ads. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 22, 2012 @ 7:51 pm Like usual Romney had the whopper of the night when he lied about Romneycare making Catholic hospitals pay for the morning after pill with their HC programs. I was wondering how he was going to address that. I guess a flat out lie was better than defending the truth. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 22, 2012 @ 7:14 pm It’s amazing how so many people are persuaded by Romney’s Brooks Bros audience. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 22, 2012 @ 7:09 pm Brokaw is the Republican establishment. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 22, 2012 @ 7:07 pm You do the only thing you can do use UN sanctions and contain the threat. Right now the US knows where Pakistan’s nukes are as much as Pakistan. NK is so isolated they can’t develop near the number of nukes they want. It’s truly an economic war of attrition. I think Obama will do the smart thing if reelected and even help Iran with their civil nuclear program. But if Iran is seriously on the way to developing dozens of deliverable nukes and does not change it’s posture anything is on the table. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 22, 2012 @ 6:50 pm Sounds like Romney paid for another audience again. It looks like his money will buy the GOP nod in the end no matter what the base thinks about him. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 22, 2012 @ 6:43 pm The GOP uses ever tactic of denialism in the book, ignore facts, revise history, construct invalid straw man arguments, reductio ad Hitlerum, etc… Every argument they make is addressed to the reptilian fear center of their bases brains. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 22, 2012 @ 6:41 pm I think that’s a terrible argument that I keep on hearing liberals/progressives make. Nuclear proliferation is not good no matter how you cut it. I think now the whole threat from Iran is overstated but if they get a decent number of nukes they would be a serious threat. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 22, 2012 @ 6:34 pm So from the GOP POV who is winning the debate? » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 22, 2012 @ 6:27 pm AdLib see how Romney is going to the left again. The guy is like a slalom skier on crack the way he shifts left and right. Now he’s even using OWS language in his new tax plan. I don’t know why the media gives him another huge pass. This tax plan while still BS is just another huge flip flop from his previous plan. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 22, 2012 @ 6:20 pm Kalima believe it or not the GOP is attacking Britain claiming the little surtax on the rich is halting the recovery there. Friggin’ amazing we all know it’s the austerity nonsense that Cameron and the Tories pushed through that is killing there economy. The surtax was a tiny bit of the package and spending cuts were over 3-1 versus tax increases. It’s just amazing how the GOP tries to deny the truth. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 22, 2012 @ 5:56 pm Santorum already believes that so I would not be surprised K. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 22, 2012 @ 5:52 pm I got tied up is Obama winning again? » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 22, 2012 @ 5:49 pm It’s probably a blip but and they always under poll women. We just can’t be complacent. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 21, 2012 @ 12:27 pm IDK the trumped up “war on religion” must be working for the GOP. Obama is starting to soften in polls again. 🙄 » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 21, 2012 @ 12:35 am This is how the oil market works. Oil pumps out of wells at a constant rate or actually a slight increase. Demand is down in the biggest user of oil in the US. The press builds pumps up the possibility Israel will attack Iran. Wall Street speculators pump $11 billion in oil futures. Meanwhile NOBODY but last minute small buyers actually pays the spectator’s price for a barrel of order. Because you see all the big contracts for oil are at least 2 years long with little wiggle room in the cost structure and for much much less than people know. The big oil refineries bump up the selling price of final products like gasoline based on the trumped up market cost of oil and make record profits. The self fulfilling prophecy is complete. Oh and why do oil prices always go highest in election years? Because Wall Street and Big Oil want to help the drill baby drill party as much as they can. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 21, 2012 @ 12:33 am Weekend Music Thread – Wish You Were Here The Police – Can’t Stand Losing You
» Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 18, 2012 @ 7:45 pm Absolutely first thing that came to my mind as well Cher. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 18, 2012 @ 7:43 pm For one I don’t assume it’s the wife that stays at home and I expect the spouse to pursue their careers at some point. My younger brother was the house husband for over a year during the Bush years when his son was preschool. It’s even a good time for a spouse to get more education in college or in a trade. Bottom line I think the paradigms are shifting from families concentrating on making as much money as possible to families reexamining all their priorities including focusing on child care. Obviously all families don’t have that luxury but I also know families tend to live up to or down to their means. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 17, 2012 @ 2:07 pm I agree refocusing on families. I know allot of people attacking the slow recovery point to the fact that people are dropping out of the work place. But allot of those people are a spouse staying home to for the benefit of their kids. If you really think about it adding a job making less than about $30K to the household is almost a wash especially if you need day care. That’s one way people are approaching the new normal which could be a benefit in the end. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 17, 2012 @ 1:02 pm Of course younger workers have felt the brunt of the recession. There are some fundamental factors for this. Less youths are coming out now with even HS diplomas and employers have access to more experienced workers who would take less now are a couple. But instead of blaming the business they should blame the Repub policies that reinforce these trends. Young women especially should factor in issues like the GOP wants to take away their BC and choice. That would force more woman to be single mothers searching for jobs. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 17, 2012 @ 11:35 am I did see that and the whole thing was terrible uncomfortable and just plain weird. Romney always looks like he’s an alien trying to act human in public settings when he tries to get personal with a group of people. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 17, 2012 @ 11:26 am Unfortunately unmarried women are one of those groups of low turnout votes, especially the younger they are. Hopefully this time they will realize what is at state. Ya gotta love Romney. I swear he has a target on his own foot. He decries the auto bailouts to save an essential industry. He simply cannot understand that the private sector was not coming to the rescue and GM and Chrysler would have to liquidate and lose hundreds and hundreds of thousands of jobs. The government was truly the loaner of last resort. But I digress. Romney would have not bailed out the auto industry but he had no problem with government bailing out the Winter Olympics in Utah. In fact he begged them for money. The funnies part was that crony capitalism including illegal bribes to Olympic officials was the reason the Olympics where in trouble in the first place. Great video slamming Romney’s hypocrisy on bailouts.
» Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 17, 2012 @ 10:51 am Religion in Politics – Praying While Preying on the People Good article AdLib I just take one small exception (with a big explanation). It’s more a pet peeve of mine so I just want to clarify a meme I always hear from folks. please don’t be bothered much. In most other democracies such as those in Europe, the idea that someone running for the top leadership position in a nation would bring their religion in as a reason to support them, would be offensive. It really depends on the country because that has happened in Europe. The left and right continue to characterize Europe incorrectly given the shift in their governments. Europe is no longer a paragon of liberalism, even regarding religious politics since the Berlin Wall fell. There are big influence from Christian Democratic parties especially in the old Soviet block countries but in all of Europe. The US would never have a major party at least call itself a ‘Christian’ party because of our Constitution and origins. Right now Turkey has a strongly religious government that would never happen in the US and other European governments have big ruling Christian Democratic parties. Coalition governments in Germany, France, Lithuania, Poland, Austria, Romania, are headed by center right to far right coalitions with major Christian Democrat party influences. Not as extreme as the GOP but they could in the future especially if more countries go down the path of continued nationalism and xenophobia. A few very eastern European governments are worse authoritarian governments than the Bush government by far. The Netherlands, the UK, Armenia, Denmark, Spain, Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, Estonia, all have center right to right wing coalition governments with some parties have Christian Democrat roots like Spain. The biggest party in Switzerland are right wing populists but they have large center right and center left Christian Democrat parties and even a growing evangelical party. Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina are more center left coalitions. Norway, Belgium, Check Repubic, Sweden, Portugal have more socialist leadership coalitions. Belarus is similar to Russia but much more authoritarian. Ukraine has a pro-Russia authoritarian government. Italy and Greece are in flux with several governments in a short time. Turkey is run by a Islamic religious right party. Now we know center right parties in Europe are not as far right as the GOP. But like Kalima writes every day in MB parties like the Tories are moving right and some in a big way like the ruling party in Switzerland. While a couple Eastern European governments are flat out dictatorships. There are concrete examples too of religious intolerance like all the anti-Islamic laws that Sarkozy passed in France, like not allowing burkas. The anti-immigration laws are getting more and more severe in Europe as well. I know allot of work for a pet peeve but I guess I just want to make the point that the way the left and right view Europe in this country is simplistic and very inaccurate based on the fact that over two thirds of Europe has moved right. It’s a little hypocritical of me to point it out as well because my analysis is overly simplistic too. If you want to sum up Europe it’s moving right and away from liberalism in many cases. To solve our problems we must make the GOP a marginal party until they change. Frankly I would rather have our problems even with the draconian GOP than have the problems they have in Europe with their zillions of political parties moving right and the resulting malaise on the left. Obviously this has been bothering me but the only reason I pick on your good article AdLib is because I know you won’t take it personal. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 16, 2012 @ 10:34 pm We have such a reactionary MSM right now we won’t hear from them until after the law is signed and sealed. Then it should blow up then. But yes I’m still astonished this did not get more play yet. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 16, 2012 @ 7:00 pm Just one last thing to rant about. Cher you might want to check on MB. Sullivan is finally rethinking austerity in the UK. I hope he realizes that pushing Bowles Simpson austerity in the US would have negative unintended consequences as well. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 16, 2012 @ 10:30 amComments Posted By KQµårk 死神
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