Using the massacre of children at Sandy Hook as a diversionary tactic....
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Submitted by lambert on Thu, 12/20/2012 - 1:24pm
.. to gut Social Security and kill old people is about as disgusting and vile... Well, as disgusting and vile as I expect Obama's rump faction of the PFKD* to be. I mean, Jeebus, why not put Joe Biden in charge of special super-duper cat food cat food prevention programs, too.
Funny how fast the career "progressives" jumped on that bandwagon, isn't it? Never let a crisis go to waste!
UPDATE Since Obama had been steadily expanding "rights" for gun nuts until recently, we can leave morality and justice and public purpose and notions like that out of the equation, as always with Obama (see under Occam's razor). Ditto tearz ("He took his shirt off!") I think this is a straight forward political calculation: White middle class parents with kids for 2014 and after. That's it. That's all it is. Answering Glenn Greenwald's question.
UPDATE Adding, It's Obama's very special genius to take a minimal good and turn it to a larger bad purpose. Hence, "Look! Over here!" on an assault weapons ban, while the New Deal is gutted (ultimately killing a lot more people (but not in Obama's base, and probably not now, so f*ck 'em if they can't take a joke)). Just to pre-empt Obama fans yammering about "What about the childrenz?!"
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tweet of the day
https://twitter.com/kendall/status/281832881783980032
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how do I get it to show the full tweet?
Re: tweet of the day--Light tan color of words difficult to read
So I copied and pasted the URL (which didn't come out as being active), and read it.
Then I realized I could highlight, which made it more legible.
Re: tweet of the day--Light tan color of words difficult to read
That color is what twitter sends me. I have no control over it that I know of.
Re: Using the massacre of children at Sandy Hook as a...
It's an easy way to pump up the base of the Democrats, and costs nothing. Even if Obama doesn't have the votes to pass an AWB this time around, it will become a powerful issue for midterm elections.
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Right now on Sirius Left Radio on The Mark Thompson Show, Markos is mad at the president and Dems on one side of his mouth and then defending them because what else can they do? It's a long process don't you know. And ....drumroll ...we have to keep electing better Democrats. Just look at the awesome new dems like Tammy Baldwin.
On the positive side, he got a couple really irate callers who called out the Dems as Vichy collaborators and phoney liberals.