… Result: Social Security "reform" dies a bipartisan death, Bush and the GOP Congress look like the miserable failures they are and the Dems are free to beat on the Republicans like a bass drum in next year’s election for leading the country into such an ill-conceived fiasco.
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June 8, 2005
The Straight Shooter
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Apres the Bartender….will there be anyone/thing left to deluge?
Sheesh.
Did somebody dig up one of HST’s hermetically sealed stimstash’s hidden beneath the east grandstand of Kezar Stadium and send it to Billmon or what?
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Not that I’m complaining – but 4 posts with updates, starting at 4:30am – that’s bordering on pre-Jordan bad craziness.
It’s a slow time at work. So this is a case of making hay while the sun is shining. It won’t last long.
Posted by: Billmon | Jun 9 2005 3:36 utc | 2
The other day the execs at United Airlines looked in the other United employees’ pension fund and discovered about 3 billion dollars. With the blessing of the courts they grabbed it and turned their 10 billion dollar pension liability over to us taxpayers.
United is not the last company that is going to pull off this legal larceny, it’s at the beginning of a long line.
Unlike the manufactured Social Security fund “crisis” of 2050 this crisis is unfolding right here, right now, before our very eyes.
This is the kind of thing an opposition party would be up in arms about, trying to get a handle on, trying to protect us from.
But we don’t have an opposition party. We have the Demoplicans.
Posted by: John Francis Lee | Jun 9 2005 4:07 utc | 4
“We have the Demoplicans”
Exactly. I prefer Depublicans, because I don’t see much difference, if any. They aren’t an opposition, they’re co-dependants and their monkeys are benefitting just as nicely as those of the Republicans. Why would they want to oppose policies that are filling their bank accounts? Haven’t they all worked for many of the same corporations? Aren’t they all lobbied/funded by all these same corporations that they are also heavily invested in? Wasn’t the “opposition” in 2004 talking about increasing the military presence in Iraq? On many issues before the house, do they not pay lip service to opposing them and then vote for them?
A facade.
Posted by: gmac | Jun 9 2005 10:20 utc | 5
As eloquent as Billmon is, I respectfully disagree. I think Howard Dean is doing exactly what he was chosen to do; speak forcefully and directly about what the Republicans are doing. And if it pisses off the big-money folk in the party, then they need to learn the power of the small donor/grassroots.
Depublicans, doh! Last time I post something that early in the morning. I should have caught it considering Dad was from the capital of Ireland – Liverpool. 🙂
Posted by: gmac | Jun 9 2005 21:06 utc | 9