tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post1515664618923899328..comments2024-01-02T22:01:12.976+00:00Comments on Avedon's Sideshow: HangoverAvedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-59989310440428281692013-01-26T08:38:50.197+00:002013-01-26T08:38:50.197+00:00Since the end of the "fiscal cliff" bull...Since the end of the "fiscal cliff" bullshit, and the republikan's unexpected caving/delaying on the debt ceiling, and with Obama's suddenly less threatening stance on cutting entitlements, I find myself not on the verge of rage so much lately. But I know we are not any safer this month than last. I think this just means that some sort of deal has been, or will be worked out and they plan to spring it on us really fast. If there is too much build up, there will be too much pressure on the pathetic "progressive" caucus to finally stand up (and mean it) to Obama. If they do it at the last minute, I think there won't be time for them to organize enough opposition. Not that they really want to oppose, they just don't want to be standing there with their dicks in their hands while the rest of us scream at them to *DO* something about that PO(TU)S.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07867213921113050064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-62245167943385275772013-01-25T16:06:44.616+00:002013-01-25T16:06:44.616+00:00Compare Greg Sargent (linked in the post):
But Ob...Compare Greg Sargent (linked in the post):<br /><br /><i>But Obama laid out an expansive philosophical blueprint today that liberals now have the opportunity to hold him to.</i><br /><br />to Glen Ford:<br /><br /><i>Actuality, Obama embraced nothing: he merely peppered the speech with progressive buzzwords and references – just enough notes to get the faithful to fill in the empty spaces with their own internal music.</i><br /><br />Sargent illustrates Ford's point. An expansive philosophical blueprint? That must have been Sargent's internal music because every phrase I read was subject to interpretation, from spreading democracy to reforming schools. It's not enough to say we need collective action without defining what that means. (Great essay on what it means with regard to education policy http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/01/22/wheres-the-collective-action-in-obama-education-policy/ )<br /><br />You can't wage a fight without taking realistic stock of the opposition.<br /><br />On another subject, Janis was lovely, wasn't she?ksixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15406854618914127269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-80904676453188860442013-01-25T05:51:27.596+00:002013-01-25T05:51:27.596+00:00"Yet Obama did, for the most part, make the c..."Yet Obama did, for the most part, make the case for liberalism,"<br /><br />Care to say what that is?<br />Both Liberalism, and the case for it?Bilejoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15426920337506809987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-72400636077353854842013-01-24T21:40:31.473+00:002013-01-24T21:40:31.473+00:00Is "repressive tolerance" out of fashion...Is "repressive tolerance" out of fashion?<br />I avoided the Inauguration too, remembering the total Jekyll to Hyde transformation minutes after the last (brilliantly staged) one. But "Seneca Falls, Selma, Stonewall" don't threaten corporate hegemony. Obama's smarter than the Republicans, not that that's much, and has more emotional clarity. Equal pay for equal work doesn't lift starvation wages, voting rights are useless with nothing to vote for, and who else cares if {sexual bad word}s can visit each other in the hospital?<br />Neil_in_Chicagohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09062490117473145827noreply@blogger.com