Eugene Robinson Obviously Hates You

Amen brother.

All I heard this morning on the ole *cnbc* money movers was how commodities are on the UP due to *production* and….*jobs increases*.And while i assume there will be a big october crash on the DOW, per usual for mid-terms, it seems putting $$ into commodities and bonds yielding higher due to jobs reports…would not be a bad thing in neocon-investor-land, they said on cnbc.But, RW tweet machine, dont let that interfere with your meme-theme of the qtr.

“Had Democrats pushed for a bigger stimulus or been successful in getting more legislation passed that would get the economy going, the president’s approval rating and that generic ballot would look very different.”When you have bullshit rules like “cloture” and enough of the party of no in the Senate to stop anything from happening, how are you supposed to pass any kind of legislation? The only way to pass anything would have been more of the same, and we have seen where all that has led us.

The results of democratic governance…Yeah, like the Stimulus creating or saving 3 million jobs giving us a 9.6% unemployment rate instead of 11.6%.Starting this month children can no longer be denied for pre-existing conditions.Private banks have been cut out of the interest-gounging, penalty laden student loan business.Iraq is over.Yes, the results of Democratic governance indeed. Way to reinforce Robinson’s point mister Adam Serwer.And obviously the solution to fixing things is to vote for the party which got us here in the first place. This admininstration is clearly a failure for not overturning the last 30 or 40 years in 2 years.I cant even say that with a straight face.Very smart.

Spoiled, impatient, knee-jerk and self-destructive…Listen, Bob…I don’t know where you get your fucked up ideas, but I want what I want AND I want it NOW. My desires are the result of unverified information obtained within the span of my short term…OH LOOK! SOMETHING SHINY!!! I don’t care if YOU think it’s a bad idea, I’m gonna do it anyway.I reject your facile analysis.

Exactly! I’d been keeping an eye on Serwer’s posts while Greg is away and I hadn’t read this one yet It sounds off to me. Even in the face of all of these polls, you’d have to be an idiot to vote for Republicans. Not only have we seen what they can do, we’re living the consequences of their handy work right now. And yes, suggesting that the Stimulus could have been bigger is a pipe dream with this crop of nut jobs in that party. They either prevent votes from coming to the floor or they water legislation down so badly in the process that the policy is ineffective. They’ve blocked and stalled on every piece of legislation while offering their standard talking points and stale policies that have proven disastrous. I know that many idiots will vote for them. I’m just hoping that there are enough of us who are sane to vote for Democrats. They may lack courage and spine but, they’re not nearly as crazy as the Republicans and their teabagger wingnuts. And as history has taught us, the Dems are better at acutal policy than Republicans. It’s a fact!

Cousinavi is doing his best AlenFrederick impression.I give it an 8 out of 10. You didn’t use Bob’s full name enough times.

Dog, I thought it was a little pitchy!

What we are seeing here is a result of the age of instant information, tweeting, texting, and the loss of American ability to have any prolonged conversation about anything.Our children are being taught to communicate with acronyms and are losing their ability to write in complete sentences. What do you expect from a society of channel changing, reality TV watching, homeshopping club channel robots.I think that we are wrong in assuming that a majority of people even know what the fuck is going on just because some of us really do care.

@Willpen I disagree with you about the cause and how long this kind of short-term thinking has been going on.I think it’s the direct result of a consumption based economy that has grown out of Industrialization. As Elvis is always asking….how long can a consumption based economy last, really? The answer is until 1) the country finally accepts that short-term thinking and getting the next ‘shiny’ thing in front of us isn’t good for us or 2) the country is destroyed by focusing on the next ‘shiny’ thing.The only question now is….which will it be? Will we wake up or be destroyed? I’m betting on getting destroyed and not over night, just a long slow crawl into oblivion.Happy Friday!!!!

I’m just tired of the false cheerleading by our ignorant media. Stop giving me poll numbers about how great the GOP will do in November if you’re not at least going to poll how many of the idiots who will vote Republican are aware of just what that would mean. For instance, their poll questions should be as follows:Do you plan to vote for a Republican or Democrat in November.If they answer Republican, they should then be informed that Republicans have traditionally ruined the economy while Dems do better. They should then be asked again, if they still plan to vote Republican and those results should be made public too.This would at least give you a pretty good idea of just who the pollsters are actually polling.

Yeah.Shame on the President and the majority of Democrats who are withholding $2 trillion dollars from the U.S. economy.Depressing wages for decades.Union busting.Outsourcing American jobs for decades in the midst of record salaries and bonuses for CEOs who are laying off hundreds of thousands of workers in the fog of recession!”Had the Democrats done…”This is useless information and not at all focused. It’s almost as if it’s intentionally ignorant.This is what I call talking out of your ass.Democrats are where they are because they haven’t had billionaires and millionaires like the Kochs, or the backing of U.S. Chamber of Commerce and all the Citizens United Rovian/Norquist/Armey wingnut-splinter groups and Teabaggers making a screeching public spectacle out of the aforementioned realities driving home the message that we’re here because of A,B,C,D and we’ve only just begun to turn the ocean-liner around with steps E,F,G,H,– which is still being anchored by GOP babies and cronies who would rather we model the U.S. economy after fucking China.Serwer has some nerve with that half-assed review, or countering Robinson with such malarkey.I’m seeing a social lab experiment in: Just-how-dumb-are-the-American-people-ology introduced and tested by a radical Right Wing that knows no lows.”We want to aboloish Social Security, Medicare, unemployment benefits!”"The Social Contract must perish in order to shore up the economy!”"Still with us America?”"Then we want to retain nearly a Trillion dollars worth of tax cuts for billionaires.”"Still with us America?”"Really?”"Then we want to repeal healthcare reform and replace it with tort reform and re-allow healthcare corporations to deny coverage to children with pre-existing conditions.”"Are you with us?”"Then we want to allow oil and coal companies to do as they please unimpeded by even a minimal standard of oversight?”"We’ll continue to obscure and deny climate change and we’ll continue our steadfast collision with Chinese-style capitalism.”"Abolish the EPA, FDA, Department of Education, Department of Energy!”"Repeal the Civil Rights act!”"To hell with Jackie Robinson!”"Forced Pregnancies for everyone!”"Republicans care about YOU!”"Pelosi and Reid and the Obama Marxist/socialist/communist/Kenyan/terrorist-sympathizing agenda!”"You’ve got to be shitting me? still with us…?”Democrats, and the President for that matter, are where they are because they’ve been pretty busy with some big problems and not very good at confidently spouting shameless bullshit.The American people have been overwhelmed by a well-funded, decades-long campaign of lies and distortions and economic sabotage. Their brains and upward-mobility have been beaten down by low-information predators.If the Democrats have been lacking, at anything, it’s been standing up to liars and bullies and defending their decisions like fighters who give a good goddamn.

I think there’s far too much buy-in to this whole “people are pissed off about not having jobs and blaming Dems” business. If they are, they’re stupid and need re-education. If they’re not, then the media is just playing a narrative they need to get eyeballs.I blame my near-two year unemployment status on fat cats who pout when they don’t get their way in Washington. That doesn’t make me want to vote for Republicans, it just makes me want to boot more of them out.But what frosts me most is the presumption that the ‘base must be fired up’ in order to go out and vote. Bull. The base should vote because if they don’t, they’re stupidly handing off the country to someone they may not support and who won’t act in their best interests.All the tea party angst in the world won’t solve the fact that for people to be hired, small biz needs credit and people need to make enough money to buy stuff. That’s all.

Thye Democrats have done SUCH a great job of getting the story out about their accomplishments.

“…we’re about to make things worse by voting for and electing a Republican Congress for the wrong reasons.”That’s the most depressing truth of all.

Do these people think that anybody else, Kucinich or Nader, perhaps would have gotten Lieberman or Nelson or Lincoln to vote for a works program or a public option?Do they think that if Obama had pushed harder for them, and still did not get them, that he would not have been painted “too radical Marxist, Maoist, Leninist, for even his “ultra Left” Congress, and thus weak???I do wish, though that he WOULD start talking about a Works program….But then, the people wanted a public option, and don’t seem to blame the conservative Democrats and Republicans for not getting that.

First of all, there’s no way of knowing whether a bigger stimulus would have even passed this Congress.

Yeah, we’ll never know because Obama NEVER TRIED! Their behind-the-scenes calculations predicted failure so they never even attempted to make the case for a larger stimulus.Just like Obama never even attempted to explain and support the public option. Or the host of other issues that he has totally played limp dick on. Oh, was that my outside voice????? so sorry!

Carol…vote for zombie Nader in 2012.

“Just like Obama never even attempted to explain and support the public option.”_______________________________________________If you don’t have the votes, you don’t have the votes.I ask again;Do think that anybody else, Kucinich or Nader, would have gotten Lieberman or Nelson or Lincoln to vote for a bigger stimulus or a public option?Are WE doing ANYTHING but whining, and turning the Congress over to the teaparty people?While the conservatives get what they want slowly, over time, we expect to get EVERYTHING, instantly, and when we don’t, form a circular firing squad;Which serves ONLY to empower conservatives;Which does more damage over time, making it harder for the left to repair it;Which causes us to demand GREATER change instantly, then form a circular firing squad;Which serves ONLY to empower conservatives…………I hate to say it, but Maureen Dowd nailed it when she said,”The lefties came to the defense of the centrist Clinton during impeachment. Now that Obama is under attack, however, they are not coming to his defense, even though he has given more to the liberal cause than the scandal-stunted Clinton ultimately achieved.Fox built up a Republican president; MSNBC is trying to make its reputation by tearing down a Democratic one.”So it will be even THAT much harder for us the next time.