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Job Losses Outweigh Administration’s Successes - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com

Job Losses Outweigh Administration’s Successes - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com

"I am just amazed, it took 4-6 years of the Bush administrations lack of enforcing regulations, unpaid for tax cuts for the wealthiest of the wealthy, two wars paid for on the credit card and the list could go on to get our nation in the mess it is in and now somehow how Obama is blamed for the mess we are in and which somehow he could magically have cured it all in less than two years. We seem to be a country of very short term memories and have the ability to accept opinion and misinformation as fact. I can hardly wait to see what a Republican controlled House with do to improve the economic mess we are in. However, we will certainly blame a Republican House for not getting anything done for the next two years." { background-color:blue; }

What Happened to Change We Can Believe In? - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com

What Happened to Change We Can Believe In? - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com
"What rational person votes in a worse leader than the one they voted in before?"



Unfortunately we are seeing a lot of immaturity. Too many don't want to face up to their own failings.

The folks who voted for President Bush are unwilling to accept that he and his administration badly failed this country on many levels, from the atrocious deceptions perpetrated to allow him to order Invasion of Iraq, to the lack of real planning for anything after the invasion which has resulted in unprecedented use of mostly civilian armed forces reservists forced to do 4 or 5 tours, coming back to no jobs, no real medical coverage and as we just learned the situation in Iraq after the invasion was and is much worse than we feared. Then add in the severely failed economic policies of the Bush Administration on top of high financial cost of waging two ground wars coupled with nation building and Bush voters shut down totally, moving radically even further right to vote for people like Angle, or O'Donnell or Miller -- who are even less experienced and more incapable than the Bush folks. What rational person votes in a worse leader than the one they voted in before?

Congress also does not want to accept their responsibility in allowing the Bush Administration to act so long unchecked. They provided no oversight whatsoever - not over the White House, not over Wall Street, not over the Pentagon, not over the Office Attorney General, not over the SEC ... they have severely let this nation down. A majority-republican Congress gave President Bush everything they asked for, but not many Democrats spoke out loudly against Bush's policies either, being frightened by the 'if you're not with us, you must be with the terrorists' fear-mongering by Bush Administration and neocons.

And then there are the journalists - who no longer appear to do any investigative reporting at all unless it's about how Lindsey and Paris survived their jail time. Plenty of books come out after the fact, dissecting what happened, nothing beforehand questioning if the banking practices were out of control or if the Bush Administration was being fully honest as they geared the world up to 'save' America from 'mushroom clouds' coming our way from Saddam's nuclear weapons or their fear-mongering which caused massive sale of plastic sheeting and duct tape. { background-color:blue; }

What Happened to Change We Can Believe In? - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com

What Happened to Change We Can Believe In? - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com

If the Democrats are losing, it is because they have not yet learned to lie. As a "reality-based" party that puts public interest ahead of power, they cannot compete with the Republicans cynical disinformation machine. The fact remains that, in 2010 America, most people are not that educated, and many people are not that smart. Advertising and marketing rely on such deficiencies to market their useless and, in some cases, harmful products, and the Republicans rely on advertising and marketing techniques to influence public opinion and, essentially, buy elections.
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What Happened to Change We Can Believe In? - NYTimes.com

What Happened to Change We Can Believe In? - NYTimes.com: "Even as the G.O.P. benefits from unlimited corporate campaign money, it’s pulling off the remarkable feat of persuading a large swath of anxious voters that it will lead a populist charge against the rulers of our economic pyramid — the banks, energy companies, insurance giants and other special interests underwriting its own candidates. Should those forces prevail, an America that still hasn’t remotely recovered from the worst hard times in 70 years will end up handing over even more power to those who greased the skids."

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Hello America! We're back to pound you in the ass! (Again! (And again! (and again and again and again.........)))

G.O.P. Is Poised to Seize the House, if Not the Senate - NYTimes.com


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Frank Rich - The Rage Won’t End on Election Day - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Columnist - The Rage Won’t End on Election Day - NYTimes.com: "The rage was easier to parse at the Tea Party’s birth, when, a month after Obama’s inauguration, its founding father, CNBC’s Rick Santelli, directed his rant at the ordinary American “losers” (as he called them) defaulting on their mortgages, and at those in Washington who proposed bailing the losers out. (Funny how the Bush-initiated bank bailouts went unmentioned.) Soon enough, the anger tilted toward Washington in general and the new president in particular. And it kept getting hotter. In June 2009, still just six months into the Obama presidency, the Fox News anchor Shepard Smith broke with his own network’s party line to lament a rise in “amped up” Americans “taking the extra step and getting the gun out.” He viewed the killing of a guard by a neo-Nazi Obama hater at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington as the apotheosis of the “more and more frightening” post-election e-mail surging into Fox."
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Summing Up The Midterms 2010

Awful, Awfuler, Awfulest - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com: "Who would have thought two years ago that the election of the first African-American President would result in the resurrection of the extreme right wing cranks, the spiritual descendents of the John Birch Society? Historians will look back on our era as a time of temporary insanity brought on by a financial meltdown of epic proportions combined with the depressing human habit of placing blame where it does not belong exacerbated by a news network blaring right wing propaganda with all the subtlety of a Munich beer hall putsch." { background-color:blue; }

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/opinion/04krugman.html
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Crap That Won't Surprise Anyone Who Has Not Been In A Coma For 30 Years

Op-Ed Columnist - The Very Useful Idiocy of Christine O’Donnell - NYTimes.com: "O’Donnell is particularly needed now because most of the other Republican Tea Party standard-bearers lack genuine antigovernment or proletarian cred. Joe Miller and Ken Buck, the Senate candidates in Alaska and Colorado, actually are graduates of elite universities like those O’Donnell lied about attending. Rick Scott, the populist running for governor in Florida, was chief executive of a health care corporation that scooped up so many Medicare and Medicaid payments it had to settle charges for defrauding taxpayers. Rand Paul, the scion of a congressman, is an ophthalmologist whose calls for spending restraint don’t extend to his own Medicare income. Carl Paladino, the truculent man of the people in New York, grew his fortune as a developer with government handouts and favors. His California bookend, Carly Fiorina, received a golden parachute worth as much as $42 million from Hewlett-Packard, where she liquidated some 20,000 jobs."

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The Gods Must Be Sleeping

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Never Let Facts Get In The Way Of A Good Myth

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/opinion/30collins.html

In fact, a study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes found that only 17 percent did a better job than the comparable local public school, while more than a third did “significantly worse.” 

I’m still haunted by a debate I stumbled across in the Texas Legislature a decade ago in which conservatives repelled any attempt to impose accountability standards on the state’s charter schools, even after only 37 percent of the charter students passed state academic achievement tests, compared with 80 percent of the public schoolchildren. There’s something about an unfettered school that lifts the hearts of the Born Free crowd. 

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Sarah Palin: The Sound and the Fury | Politics | Vanity Fair

Sarah Palin: The Sound and the Fury | Politics | Vanity Fair: "Sarah Palin: The Sound and the Fury
Even as Sarah Palin’s public voice grows louder, she has become increasingly secretive, walling herself off from old friends and associates, and attempting to enforce silence from those around her. Following the former Alaska governor’s road show, the author delves into the surreal new world Palin now inhabits—a place of fear, anger, and illusion, which has swallowed up the engaging, small-town hockey mom and her family—and the sadness she has left in her wake."

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