Now seriously, when did the 4th amendment become your be all and end all?

It's one issue and Obama has in fact addressed it in the commendable ways we've learned about in the last two weeks. Great! It's under control. Now can we get back to say, passing a budget? Syria? Voting rights? Election strategy? There's a world beyond the NSA and I don't remember the 4th amendment troubling any one here over much until a certain Snowman took the stage two weeks ago.

I got over it in 2010 I guess.

I more or less tuned out after the election at least in any serious way because it was too disappointing but by the midterms I realized Obama was in fact keeping his promises though not in a very visible way. His PR basically stinks and always has. Even at the 2012 convention, he didn't sing his own praises, and neither did Big Dog in his big speech. Bill got up and talked about Bill.

So basically you have to either study the NYT print edition, which I don't, or look it up now and again. But it's impressive. Big moments: pulling out of Iraq, ACA, not bombing Iran. TARP believe it or not also seems to have succeeded.


p.s. how I got over the FISA vote: eventually I figured that a) some things a candidate can't say no to if he wants win the White House, but more importantly, b) if the first African-American president is comfortable with that level of security, or feels it will make him safer, I can live with it. It's not like he installed it or can really do much about it anyway.

Remember when Howard Hughes bought RKO in the 50s?

I don't either, but as the story goes, Hughes was a bigtime coldwar anti-commie wingnut and the first thing he did was fire all the writers who weren't on the same page. Then he hired a bunch of RW hacks to rewrite scripts in production and basically flip the p.o.v. from lefty-socialist to hard right fear and loathing. When they ran out of production scripts they started rewriting old ones.

Sometimes I get the feeling the Kochs or maybe the Carlyle group quietly bought up the entire indy/alt media sector and started dusting off articles from the Bush-Cheney era and replacing Bush with Obama before re-releasing them. And like Howard Hughes' crappy RKO movies, they mostly stink.

You believe that Ron Paul "an honest man, sincerely dedicated to his beliefs"?

Did you know that Ron Paul's honest beliefs include opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act?

In May 2011, Paul told MSNBC that he would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended Jim Crow. He questioned the act because it took authority away from property owners.

Righteous rant.

Very.

psst it's a meme, go with it

President Obama takes a call on the Red Telephone

How I learned to stop worrying and love the totalitarianism,

in 3 easy steps:

1- The first step is to admit that leftist pundits so reliable we can set our watches by them if we still wore watches are as full of baloney as Rush, Billo and Glenn. Glenn B that is.


2 - The next step is to realize that the only way to know what's actually going on after reading or hearing the news is to come here and check ProSense's threads. Well there are other ways I suppose but that's a good short cut.


3 - The last step is to figure out how to stop worrying and love DU without getting pissed off by certain other prominent threads and that one I'm still working on but I think we're all making progress so life is good.

Ryan-Rand, the Dumb and Dumber ticket, groan

So dumb it just might win . . .

But it would be worth it to hear Medea say "Progressives 'Stand with Stupid!'"

Then we could watch Rand push President Ronny off the cliff

and take over: