Win for losing.
Just a few short shots today. Hopefully one of them will approach some acceptable level of accuracy.
Out of work / luck. The House failed to reach the 2/3 majority it needed this week to approve extending unemployment benefits to the millions out of work for an exceedingly long period of time - about 9.6 percent of us, if you count every part-time burger flipper as "employed" (and don't even count those unemployed but no longer looking for work). Once again, our great lawmakers are playing ducks and drakes with people's lives, blaming the victim, punishing those who have paid for their bad decisions. Got the number of your congressman/woman? Get on the phone to them and tell them to vote
for this sucker, even if it adds to the freaking deficit. This is a question of survival for millions of American families - what's more important than that?
Gitmo conviction. Justice Department prosecutors have won the case against a Gitmo detainee Ahmed Ghailani, but are losing the propaganda war with respect to civilian trials for terror defendants. I heard ex-governor Pataki on television this week joining the chorus of ersatz conservatives who think evidence obtained under torture is somehow legitimate. Oh, how they value our traditions!
Non-starter. John McCain's Arizona colleague appears intent on blocking an arms control treaty that any Republican would have been proud of two decades ago. So our agreement with the Russians is dangling by a thread. What sense does this make? Don't know. What sense does it make to have NATO members sign on enthusiastically to a new "missile defense" regime - i.e., one that the Russians are not intimidated by? I suppose we should follow the money. Missile defense is as close as this or any administration will come to an industrial policy. Military Keynesianism still rocks down in D.C.
That's all I've got, folks.
luv u,
jp
Out of work / luck. The House failed to reach the 2/3 majority it needed this week to approve extending unemployment benefits to the millions out of work for an exceedingly long period of time - about 9.6 percent of us, if you count every part-time burger flipper as "employed" (and don't even count those unemployed but no longer looking for work). Once again, our great lawmakers are playing ducks and drakes with people's lives, blaming the victim, punishing those who have paid for their bad decisions. Got the number of your congressman/woman? Get on the phone to them and tell them to vote
for this sucker, even if it adds to the freaking deficit. This is a question of survival for millions of American families - what's more important than that?Gitmo conviction. Justice Department prosecutors have won the case against a Gitmo detainee Ahmed Ghailani, but are losing the propaganda war with respect to civilian trials for terror defendants. I heard ex-governor Pataki on television this week joining the chorus of ersatz conservatives who think evidence obtained under torture is somehow legitimate. Oh, how they value our traditions!
Non-starter. John McCain's Arizona colleague appears intent on blocking an arms control treaty that any Republican would have been proud of two decades ago. So our agreement with the Russians is dangling by a thread. What sense does this make? Don't know. What sense does it make to have NATO members sign on enthusiastically to a new "missile defense" regime - i.e., one that the Russians are not intimidated by? I suppose we should follow the money. Missile defense is as close as this or any administration will come to an industrial policy. Military Keynesianism still rocks down in D.C.
That's all I've got, folks.
luv u,
jp
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