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Gratitude

Dec 13, 2008

maha

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Obama Administration, blogging, conservatism

Thank you, John Cole.

Update: John’s on a ~~role~~ roll today.

US Senators are openly colluding with foreign auto companies to drive down the wages of American workers. Something to think about the next time you hear “You’re either with us or against us.”

Amen. I also like this quote:

“I don’t know what Sen. Vitter has against GM or the United Auto Workers or the entire domestic auto industry; whatever it is, whatever he thinks we’ve done, it’s time for him to forgive us, just like Sen. Vitter has asked the citizens of Louisiana to forgive him, ” said Johnson, president of Local 2166. Otherwise, Johnson said of Vitter, it would appear, “He’d rather pay a prostitute than pay auto workers.”

LOL! Shows you what Vitter values, doesn’t it?

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9 Comments

dannie • Dec 13, 2008 @1:51 pm

Maha, i just wanted to let you know that i think that you have one of the most fantastic blogs on the net. There are only a few that i read daily and yours is the first. jack and jill politics, ta-nehisi coates and the field negro are the others. your posts are always intelligent and informative.You are measured in your tone and thinking, not just raging against the machine like some other “lefty” bloggers.I wish that you had a television or radio show. I would love to hear more. There are precious few outlets for citizens to truly hear reasoned thought, ideas and voices and i am very grateful that i found your blog.
dannie • Dec 13, 2008 @1:54 pm

Maha, i just wanted to let you know that i think that you have one of the most fantastic blogs on the net. There are only a few that i read daily and yours is the first. jack and jill politics, ta-nehisi coates and the field negro are the others. your posts are always intelligent and informative.You are measured in your tone and thinking, not just raging against the machine like some other “lefty” bloggers.I wish that you had a television or radio show. I would love to hear more. There are precious few outlets for citizens to truly hear reasoned thought, ideas and voices and i am very grateful that i found your blog. Also, your commenters are some of the most intelligent and apparently well-read that i have ever noticed at a blog. other commenters at other blogs like to pat themselves on the back and say things like”we’re the smart ones” meaning liberal, but if they only knew. Thank you and thank your regular commenters like felicity and joanr16. much appreciated.
Adrian • Dec 13, 2008 @2:11 pm

Broken link
DN • Dec 13, 2008 @2:13 pm

Probably correct URL here (if it’ll let me put one in)

http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=14650
maha • Dec 13, 2008 @2:42 pm

Link fixed. Thanks for letting me know.
maha • Dec 13, 2008 @2:43 pm

I wish that you had a television or radio show.

Me, too.
c u n d gulag • Dec 13, 2008 @3:36 pm

maha,
Why not start a video show on your blog? Like the “Young Turk’s” did. It could lead to other things.
BTW – Johnson’s quote is the quote of the year – and it’s been a memorable year.
Sarik • Dec 13, 2008 @7:21 pm

um. that would be “on a roll.”

(as in “roll of the dice”…not as in bagel. Your “role” is a part in a play.)
btchakir • Dec 14, 2008 @6:56 am

It all began with Reagan… but it ends with us.

Thom Hartmann made an interesting statement on Olbermann’s show Friday:

We have gone, when Reagan came into office we were the largest exporter of manufactured goods and the largest importer of raw materials on the planet. And the largest creditor. More people owed us money than anybody else in the world. Now just twenty eight years later we’re the largest importer of finished goods, manufactured goods, exporter of raw materials which is kind of the definition of a third world nation and we’re the most in debt of any country in the world. This is the absolute consequence of Reaganomics.

So here we are facing 2009 and it doesn’t look like things will change anytime soon.

The Republicans have kicked the UAW in the face by not supporting the Big 3 auto makers. Now, unless the TARP is hit for support of the auto industry by Bush’s Treasury Department, we will see at least GM and Chrysler go bankrupt (Ford is apparently in a little better shape… but not much) and unemployment in the industry, including suppliers and dealers and even the waitresses in the restaurants where employees get lunch, will grow quickly.

Obama’s election may signal change, but such change will not upset 28 years of deconstruction with any immediacy. And, remember, we still have people like Mitch McConnell in the Senate who will work very hard to get us into the Depression that the Republicans seem to be aiming at something they have not been able to pull off since Herbert Hoover.

It seems to me that it is necessary now to start planning to remove more Republicans in the 2010 elections… even though we know that mid-Presidency elections often swing to the opposing party. Keeping America focused on its real needs is a very hard job, but it will offer progressive blogs a deep and important subject to which we may commit our ongoing work.

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