John Aravosis of AmericaBlog breaks down DADT’s repeal with Sam.
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11:25 am
Good AM all….
11:27 am
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11:26 am
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11:29 am
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Re: DADT: how does repeal update Leiberman’s resume?
11:30 am
I hear the bombs going off in the Sierra’s…avalanche control…
11:32 am
very cool.
11:31 am
our reward for caving into the tax extension is the DADT repeal?
that is not a very good deal.
11:34 am
I wouldn’t consider them as an exchange. Just try to look for the good in DADT’s potential repeal.
The tax cut deal was a cock-up that will overwhelm just about everything for the foreseeable future. No getting around the Democratic complicity in “starving the beast.”
11:54 am
By that logic, the past 2 years of obstruction of everything by the Right, as well as the Tea Party is our reward for electing a Black president.
I don’t know if it’s that cut and dry but it’s certainly all connected.
The fact is, every step Left or Right evokes a counter movement response. The Right seems to get more outraged, and is more organized, unfortunately.
11:41 am
Mrs. Budd’s Cichen Pot Pie is delicious.
11:41 am
“I drink your milkshake!” – Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day Lewis) – There Will Be Blood
11:42 am
Good mornin’ everyone.
11:52 am
A real victory for the gay community would be equality in the marriage laws. I am not so sure that The Dems that caved in on the continuing of the Bush tax breaks weren’t kidding them themselves ” at least we won some battle with the Republicans”. IF this “success” in the Armed forces can be used to push for marriage equality laws it is a step forward. Since I am pro gay and anti war I have trouble celebrating for too long.
11:53 am
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
~Dante (1625-1321)
11:58 am
likes this
11:57 am
Gov. Christie thinks we should end pensions for teachers and firemen because no one still gets a pension. Well 401(k) plans might work for people who receive stock options and/or year-end bonuses, but teachers, firemen, and police officers don’t receive either so they really need pensions. Aparently Gov. Christie could care less who we recruit to teach our children, put out our fires, or patrol our streets.
12:02 pm
I think the fact he doesn’t care is a given. But how does someone who clearly doesn’t care, and advocates attacks on the middle class, get elected? By the middle class?
11:59 am
Sam is making the point, in a round-about way, for 99.9% of Americans ((non-gay and non-military) DADT is a abstract gain.
Tax cuts for the wealthy is not abstract. Those billions will be used to finance ever more conservative candidates.
12:05 pm
Leiberman’s positions on DADT and the Dream act is no big mystery, guys… More fodder for the Military cannons….
12:08 pm
Joe Lieberman, Civil Rights Hero, ctd.
There’s another part, but I cannot put two links in a comment without being held for moderation, so just go fish.
12:18 pm
Norquistian O-sterity… Learn it. Know It. Live It…
12:57 pm
why did the governments of UK, France and Australia try and return the Vaccine last year? Sam admits he does not really know what he is talking about. The adjuvants other than the thimerisol are very dangerous.
I think Dr Rima Laibow at healthfreedomusa.org has a long history of demystifying the Flu vaccine scam. I for one think Robert Kennedy shows good judgement with his general suspicions of fraud in the Vaccine Industry.
2:29 pm
Re: DADT
A timeline has been established to end DADT?
You can’t establish a *timeline*, it will only embolden our enemies!!!!
4:43 pm
good! the podcast is up!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101217192856.htm
“Early in the morning on December 21 a total lunar eclipse will be visible to sky watchers across North America (for observers in western states the eclipse actually begins late in the evening of December 20), Greenland and Iceland. Viewers in Western Europe will be able to see the beginning stages of the eclipse before moonset, and in western Asia the later stages of the eclipse will be visible after moonrise.”
a traditional time to work magic. wonder if a new balance is pending?
4:58 pm
pretty rare for an eclipse with that link to the equinox.
happens every 300 some years, the “blood moon”.
6:38 pm
Sam of course you are right about about public sector employees getting screwed by having their pensions taken away. However, where were they in the last election? For that matter, where were the unemployed and where were those without health insurance? Americans are too lazy to defend their own interests.
10:13 am
The “shellacking” Obama took during the mid-terms was based in large part, I believe, in how the stimulus was “compromised to death”. The amount was smaller, and yet the targets were made more diffuse by adding tax cuts for “small businesses”. Essentially, the dollars spent on stimulus was “large” by the standards by which most taxpayers live, but the money wasn’t being spent on any way that reached their pockets. “There is all this money being spent, where is mine?” That engendered a lot of rage against government spending, and thus against the so-called big-government liberals.
Add to that the fact that most middle-class families are feeling financially squeezed, and the income taxes and payroll taxes are a convenient target. What too few people are talking about is that people aren’t being taxed too much, they are being paid too little! (I mean, if my take-home was about $10k more a year, I wouldn’t care if my taxes were $2,000 more or $20,000 more! Would you?)
I don’t think “Americans are too lazy to defend their own interests”, I think there is a lot of anger and fear and hopelessness, and confusion about just who should bear the blame. And the corporate media is too busy obfuscating the issue to help the average “non-political” person identify the correct targets.