This article pretty well sums up what BHO has become. The man simply has no fight in him.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/opinion/03krugman.html?ref=global

great work, Jane, I don’t think any of the MSM is on to this wave building in opposition to KORUS FTA.

It would have been nice for the president to have some discussion about the benefits of NAFTA, or lack thereof, before launching headlong into another free trade deal. He can’t blame this one on the Congress.

Doesn’t the Senate have to ratify trade treaties too? I confess an unforgivable ignorance. If so, we have nothing to worry about. Republicans will reflexively block it just because Obama wants it.

Good for Michaud. Now – who is next? If he is left to stand all alone on this, this stance will not have much impact.

I had hoped for more from this White House, which campaigned on a need to change the way we negotiate trade agreements so that they truly benefit American workers and businesses.

There’s Representative Michaud’s problem in a nutshell: he had an expectation based on a clear campaign promise. In this case, Obama made the issue a cornerstone of his campaign. Breaking his word, we all now know, is far from unique to this one case.

Had Michaud taken the time to hear out Jane Hamsher and a few others over the last two years, he would have been less trusting of this White House and had followed up to make sure his concerns were addressed.

Moving forward, he has to trust Obama far less.

Once again the dirty fucking hippies are right. They should just stfu and listen to what we tell them.

They should just stfu and listen to what we tell them.

Copy that.

It’s becoming increasing clear to me that the people’s representatives in the House have been sidelined and the only people Obama wants to work with are in the Senate; republicans and blue dogs.
It’s really the collapse of our government.
Add to that the unbelievable assault on Wiki leaks and free speech in general and I think it’s pretty clear what Obama is doing, and it’s NOT because he’s “weak” it’s because he’s Bush III.
the only question is when NSPD 51 will be utilized to disband congress entirely

Any bill that gets 60% of the vote or more in the House should automatically go before the Senate for an up-or-down vote. The 111th Congress is proof that the people’s representatives have been sidelined, and it’s time for the people to take their power back.

First the “dirty fucking hippies” will need to be eliminated.

im telling you, asia is where its at,,,,vietnam is the new china,,korea is all about hyundai,,shipping, autos and fish….everything else is fliler….just sit and watch a train go buy and lok at the box cars on that train,,what do they say?????

But but but, the Trojan condom Horse President never breaks his word!

Collateral damage video

A must, must watch for those who have not yet seen it.

~~modnote: GRAPHIC FOOTAGE.~~

Ya should have added a Graphic Footage warning. Some folks don’t want to see that kinda stuff.

It is great he opposes it but the system is rigged and he will just be a voice drowned out by the corrupt majority who work for the elite and not us. the system is rigged, both sides are in on it, and the sooner we wake up and realize our vote is worthless the better

Watched the other Harvey piece. Excellent.

Harvey got my attention when I first heard of him. Definitely not an ideologue or stuck in some dogmatic fantasyland.

Morning Dragon. How’s it Bro?

I’ve always been unhappy with most economists’ glib dismissal of Marx’s ideas.

It’s all good, bro. Writing Caturday.

Rightly so. I believe the truth of his postulations is being borne out by current events. Capitalism has already demonstrated that it is unable to stand on its own w/o massive intervention using unwilling participants funds-those who gain nothing from the spoils, only suffer from the transgressions of the MOTU. We know how Karl said that ends up.

Heh Marx is the only one who got all this crisis crap right. He didn’t have computer models doing his thinking for him, he had to use his brain.

One point that Harvey hits upon time and again is the topic of growth rate and the impossibility of a perpetual global economic growth rate of 3%.

…and I think it’s pretty clear what Obama is doing, and it’s NOT because he’s “weak” it’s because he’s Bush III

Slight quibble with this statement; Bush at least had no problem telling it like it was, he thinks it’s ok to torture and he tells you so, he knows the filthy richest 0.01% of Americans are his base and he tells you so.

Obama, because he only masquerades as a Democrat, still has to lie and obfuscate about his true intentions. Like his Democratic predecessor.

In short Obama isn’t Bush III; Obama is in fact Clinton III, a DLC puke who is just a Republican in Democratic clothing, out to enrich his “true base”, also the filthy richest 0.01% of Americans, at the expense of the rest of us lowly proles and out to destroy what is left of a once great party. With the help, I might add, of a very, very deep bench of veal pen members, Bob King of course being the goto guy on this particular issue.

Thanks and keep up the good fight Jane…..

it’s pretty clear what Obama is doing, and it’s NOT because he’s “weak” it’s because he’s Bush III.

Actually, it’s looking like he’s more like CHENEY.

Now would that be Cheney I, Cheney II or Cheney III?

Hence why all cities have to be forced into the JTTF. You know … like PDX.

Here’s hoping house progressives and house teapartiers vote this thing down.

Obama needs a good smackdown from the left, er the teapartiers, or labor or whatever it is that opposes the agreement. Whoever it is, I’m for them.

I keep hearing all this shit about “auto workers”…. My understanding was that that we relly got more phones and electronics from Korea than anything else. There is no American phone industry what so ever and the US auto industry was done for long before this bill. So unless someone is secretly building factories to make chips and phones and copiers, I really dont see what all the Hoopla is about.

Obama needs a good smackdown from the left, er the teapartiers, or labor or whatever it is that opposes the agreement. Whoever it is, I’m for them.

Obama needs a good smackdown from politicians who represent the people, left, right, or whatever.

Does this mean that the Democrats will start treating Obama as the enemy?

Obama’s just the latest in the line of puppets as the American presidency has existed since Reagan. The only difference is that the masters of the universe are getting better at pulling the strings.

Puppet V

The party will split into factions. That’s a good thing given Obama’s failures to be real change.

Some reporter’s recent insider book on the White House (I can’t remember the names) suggested – indirectly – that Obama is disinterested in and disengaged from economic concerns. My belief is that very early on in his presidency, Obama ceded his beliefs and plans to help the middle class to those of supply side, trick down, financial industry insider Tim Geithner, and that he is doing exactly what Geithner wants him to do. (No matter to Obama that Geithner, as head of the NY fed, helped our most recent economic disaster along.)

Nothing will change unless Geithner goes. (And judging from the comment-in-passing dropped by David Axlerod that Obama and Geithner have a “man-crush” on each other, this isn’t going to happen.)

Your name is certainly correct, we make plenty of chips for phones right here in Austin. Ever hear of a Snapdragon Processor?

We all heard the same talking points when NAFTA was passed. Ross Perot argued against it and is now proven right. Now we have the luxury we did not have then which is Proof of time.

Study after study showed it devastated American Heartland and destroyed Mexican small families and their way of life.

Paradoxically it will be Ford Motors which will lose in this deal. American consumer will buy Cheap Hyundai to relatively costly Fords since it is a fact that the American consumer does not have much disposable income left after Banks (Frivolous Penalties, tricks and traps), AHIP, Pharma (Premiums increasing whether good economy or bad economy which must have shocked Adam Smith and TR to no small deal) have finished taking their cuts from their paycheck.

I feel really sorry for the Korean traditional farmers who will be devastated if the bill goes through.Their aeons old way of life and livelihood will be destroyed in no time once Agro conglomerates and GMO seed monopoly have their way on their food plates.

I always used to read North Korea doing intermittent shelling across the border as a way to keep their own population in check. This shelling is not something new or out of ordinary. I think the recent shelling is used as a pretext to shape the public opinion in South Korea i.e. pick perceived saviors over your aeons old way of life.

Expect traditional Korean way of life destroyed and more American heartland destruction if the bill goes through which history has proven beyond doubt.

Computer models are best described by what is endogenous vs. what is exogenous. The fact is that most models assume as given (assumed) those factors that were of most interest to Marx.

I’m guessing that Michaud is part of the typical Dem strategy of trotting out a few high profile (high profile as in pushed to the MSM) protestations against the latest WH right-wing policy position.

The goal is to try and maintain a shred of liberal/progressive credibility with those not paying close attention.

Looks that way. Kabuki bs. Sadly, it seems to work even with some who do pay close attention.

Let’s see;


1. Glass/Steagall is off the table

2. Single payer is off the table

3. Public Option is off the table (on the down-low)

4. Medicare can neg. cheap drugs is off the table

5. Importation of cheap drugs is off the table

6. Currently putting SocSec/Medicare on the table
7. Waffling and squirming on DADT

8. Loaded guns all around in the NPs

9. No retroactive penalties in the Credit Card Reform Act

10. Fairness Doctrine reinstatement off the table



He negotiates with himself even when he doesn’t have to.


Further:


”Whatever is going on inside the White House, from the outside it looks like moral collapse — a complete failure of purpose and loss of direction.”

(P Krugman)



http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/opinion/03krugman.html?ref=global


The horror,,,,the horror (Col. Kurtz)

Don’t forget:

- Letting the previous admin and the financial sector off the hook with the “Look forward, not back!” policy.

- Out-Bushing Bush on abuse of executive powers, including the most heinous power to assassinate people at will.

- Going back on commitment to net neutrality.

- Being a whore for BP.

- Shoveling even more money to private contractors.

The list goes on…

The list goes on…

copy dat

I don’t know. I’m beginning to think maybe Obama will just start passing Republican legislation since it’s the only thing he can get bipartisanship on. Truly pathetic.

Don’t forget the doosy that set the stage for all of the above “impeachment” is off the table.

BHO just endorsed the death of SSec/MedCare; He wants a 2% payroll tax holiday. This will defund the system post haste and quick time.

We are screwed. This has been a Republican dream for decades.