GREAT QUOTE from Jane Hamsher - for any progressive who missed it...

[polichick]

In response to the "flushing down the toilet" comment from the WH:

"If their $8 million buys derivatives legislation and limits the damage that the Masters of the Universe can do to the world economy in the future, it's not only a bargain, it also means that a bunch of nurses and janitors have done more to rein in the banks than you and your entire pack of servile, vision-less Wall Street lackeys have done since you took office."

(From Sam Stein's piece "Progressive Kingmakers Take A Hit In Arkansas" - read on my Kindle.)


I know this will get a lot of unrecs but I think it's a great quote that other progressives might appreciate.

[Jack Rabbit]

1. K/R

!!

[The Magistrate]

2. Excellent, Ma'am!

[mzmolly]

3. I don't always agree with Hamshire, but I do on this.

:kick:

[femrap]

4. Kick ass! nt

[orbitalman]

61. Kick Ass #2 nt

[Cant trust em]

5. Good point. Maybe the goal of every primary challenge isn't to win the seat.

If it forces the candidate left, that's a good outcome.

Whether it was worth $8 million in this case remains to be seen.

[Truth2Tell]

74. Trust me, there is no Blue Dog in Congress

who wants to have to fend off a challenge from Labor or the left. Just the threat of the challenge has an effect on behavior.

[mrdmk]

6. Excuse me ma'am, just a little kick an'da rec

Just keeping it in positive land...

[SKKY]

7. Oh SNAP!

There goes Jane Hamsher again. Just making sense all over the place.

[ProSense]

8. So she's saying the challenge forced Lincoln to the left and produced derivatives legislation

that will limit "the damage that the Masters of the Universe can do to the world economy in the future" if it remains in the bill?

If so, cool. There's the admission that the current Senate proposal will in Hamsher's view "rein in the banks."

[JHB]

30. "done more than" isn't quite an "admission" that the current proposal will "reign in the banks"...

...it's merely the viewpoint that it's a better bill than it would have been if Lincoln wasn't pressured from her left flank, provided that provision remains in the bill.

'Better than it might have been' does not equate to 'sufficient to the task.'

[Raineyb]

47. Unfortunately how that Lincoln has won I suspect that those provisions will

disappear into the ether.

[jgraz]

9. EL SIKTA FUKTA UUUDA!!!

Go get'em, Jane!

[stlsaxman]

49. is that the sound bite Cenk sometimes uses? and what does it mean?

oh- and K&R Jane!!!

[jgraz]

55. Yeah, it's a clip from Gladiator (as are most of Cenk's sound effects)

I think it's some sort of barbarian yell.

[stlsaxman]

72. thanks, jgraz

[truebrit71]

10. Ouch! Nice one!

Where on Kindle?..I have one and am always looking for new things to read..

[polichick]

11. Huffington Post - one of the things I subscribe to...

Aren't Kindles awesome?! :)

[truebrit71]

50. They are awesome! (and dangerous)

...it's just soooooooooooooooooo easy to buy a book you fancy....I've had mine for about 6 months and already have over 70 books on it..I love getting the newspapers e-delivered too..

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

69. There is nothing so sweet as ....

the smell of newsprint. Kindles be damned.

Sorry, I'm 58, and just love the smell and the reading of newspapers.
Dinosaur, I know.

The way the book is laid out, the flow, bookmarks, cracking the binding,
without jeopardizing the book integrity, a lost art.

Enjoy your electronic books, reading in any form is great.

But you will never have the smell of a library.

Puts you in the mood,

[polichick]

73. Funny thing - when picking up the newspaper at my hotel door this week...

...my first reaction was "Ick, inky newsprint!" lol

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

75. ahhhhhh..

Wake up, open the front door, smell summer, get the "sea legs" under you.
gaze at how great the basil, zucchini, cukes, tomatoes are doing.
Take my hands briskly rub my bed-head into a form that is not just waking up.
bend low at the waist, forward fold, pick up the paper. Yogic news.
Get my first cup of coffee, sit and read until my ancient eyes are able to focus on
better things, such as my delightful wife.

Well, winter is another story, but just as great, but a little chillier.

[polichick]

77. Oh, I love the veggies and the fresh natural summer smells...

I even love the exercise and rituals - just don't miss that dirty ink. ;)

[TheKentuckian]

12. Awesome quote but I wish more limits on potential damage were set

Now to pray what was bought stays in.

[whathehell]

13. Good on Jane! n/t

[donheld]

14. k & R

[BrklynLiberal]

15. K n R

[Canuckistanian]

16. No unrecs from me

I have no beef with Hamsher. She's made some PR mistakes to be sure, but she's been a staunch progressive ever since the dark days of 2000/2001.

I remember when FDL was fighting the good fight when only a HANDFUL of progressssive sites were in existence.

AND it's a damn good quote.

K&R

[peace frog]

38. None here as well

Jane Hamsher fights the good fight for progressive causes, and I stand with her.
Thanks for posting this.

[WillyT]

17. K & R !!!

:kick:

[Bryn]

18. K&R

:kick:

[Jakes Progress]

19. K&R

[lordsummerisle]

20. k&r n/t

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[colsohlibgal]

22. Way To Go Girl!

I almost love this unknown cretin corporate lackey WH staffer for bringing the problem to the forefront.

[Greyhound]

23. My, what a pointed observation. K&R

[Bozita]

24. Bullseye! ... K&R

[laughingliberal]

25. K & R nt

[krkaufman]

26. splendid comment from Jane. thx. n/t

[krkaufman]

27. link to HP article...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/10/bill-halters-arkansas-sen_n_607563.html

[ProSense]

28. From the link

The progressive infrastructure may still need to prove its electoral abilities, but the primary challenge itself pushed Lincoln to write a tough derivatives regulation provision that has Wall Street even more frightened.

That's the admission.

[Sherman A1]

29. K&R Well Said

[SusanaMontana41]

31. Zing!

Love love love it! :bounce: :yourock:

[democrank]

32. K & R

Right on the money!

[The Wizard]

33. It's always about money(NT)

[cate94]

34. K & R

[swilton]

35. Thanks Polichick - I'm Progressive and I missed it!

Priceless comment!

[MissDeeds]

36. Spot on

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, polichick. I missed it.

Big K&R

:bounce:

[freddie mertz]

37. K & R. This is a perfect response to that idiotic statement.

We have not yet begun to fight.

OH, and looky at all the recs!

:patriot:

[GinaMaria]

39. Look at the number of recs ----> 205!

Now look in GDP at some of the posts from the usual suspects.... pretty low rec numbers. Though they like to scream that progressives are not the base, me thinks they protest a bit too much and a bit too loudly :-)

[spiritual_gunfighter]

51. You said it Gina n/t

[aquart]

54. Hallelujah. Seems there Is a difference between progressives and idolators.

Me, I'm a liberal but I did wonder.

[uponit7771]

40. Whoa!!!....

[Oceansaway]

41. K&R...n/t

[DeSwiss]

42. Their fucking arrogance.....

...and mistreatment of other Democrats who won't tow their Republican-Lite bullshit line, will be their undoing.

K&R

[valerief]

43. I love me some Jane! nt

[FailureToCommunicate]

44. K&R "...serVILE, vision-less WS lackeys" Ouch.

[JamesA1102]

45. I wonder if Grover Norquist helped her write it. NT

[Raineyb]

46. Did he help you?

What part of what Jane said is wrong?

[defendandprotect]

48. KnR

[Richardo]

52. Hell, I'll rec that

:kick:

Nicely put! :patriot:

[mix]

53. k&r nt

[DMNinFL]

56. Jane Hamsher is a very smart person

I've been pissed ever since the "White House Source" comment. This quote from Jane makes me feel a whole lot better. This Administration really needs to wake up. Better to wake up now, or in retirement in 2013.

[The Backlash Cometh]

57. Well said.

:applause:

[daleanime]

58. 258 and climbing!

Guess we do have a few progressives here after all!O8)

[Eyerish]

59. K&R

[krispos42]

60. Ouch! n/t

[Kermitt Gribble]

62. K&R!!

"your entire pack of servile, vision-less Wall Street lackeys" --> well stated... except that they do have a vision: to line their crony's pockets with as much tax payer money as they can.

[ihavenobias]

63. K & R n/t

[ooglymoogly]

64. KR When a longshot comes along and nearly creams Blanch,

with our corporate government pulling out all the stops including vote suppression....Yeah I'd call that a victory. They are wounded. Corporate politicians will be running a little scareder from now on; And that's a win for progressives....Lest we forget, Arkansas is a stealth red state easily controlled by corporate propaganda; Even though it often elects blue dogs, Dino's and changeling's.

[burnsei sensei]

65. The workers are more important

than the White House, and every other governing body.
They are the majority of the people.
If we had a government that was truly representative, the interests of laborers would indeed come first.

[emilyg]

67. When I approached voting

age my Pop told me - vote D, they care about workers. Not so true now.

[madrchsod]

66. if the republicans would have fixed garland county ....

the democrats would be crying foul.


if i wanted to vote for a republican i would have. i guess i did anyway.

[patrice]

68. YYyyyeeeeeee!!! HHHhhhhhhaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shireen]

70. yeah! good words indeed!

[HCE SuiGeneris]

71. Wow! Thank you, Representative Hamsher!

:applause: :applause: :applause:

OK - not a Rep yet... but I sure would like to see her as one.

[yurbud]

76. maybe someday she will meet Rahm and have a chance to kick him in the balls on all our behalf