tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62834225087787161452009-10-09T09:27:07.419-05:00The View From Left FieldDorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00644704464203319924noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-78990525960005612112009-09-28T13:09:00.001-05:002009-09-28T13:10:56.672-05:00Why Hugo Chavez Hates AmericaEveryday there is more poverty in the United States, everyday there is more uncared for people who don't have medicine, doctors, or even education. This country is eating itself from the inside. What's happening to the American, how do you say it, Dream [in English]. I believe in the American Dream, but the dream of Martin Luther King Jr., not the dream of consumerism, unbridled capitalism or Neill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-19363198052312043352009-08-19T10:07:00.002-05:002009-08-19T10:21:17.762-05:00i sure love me some barney...thanks to steve benen -- hardest working blogger in the 8-5 edt slot...Neill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-413318177205163562009-08-14T09:48:00.001-05:002009-08-14T09:49:30.190-05:00John Cole Should Just Shoot MeI still contend health care reform is over. The GOP and the fringe right will just move on to something else they find “objectionable” like this absurd accusation that voluntary counselling amounted to a panel of experts determining who should and should not live, the senior citizens seem overwhelmingly content to suckle at the public teat in regards to medicare while giving everyone else the Neill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-59105759251827697632009-08-04T20:44:00.001-05:002009-08-04T20:46:37.278-05:00The Distinguished Washington Post (Sucks)Neill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-30012603727817174682009-08-03T09:45:00.001-05:002009-08-03T09:46:54.298-05:00The sheer brilliance of depressing insight of atriosNo, Democrats aren't going for a government takeover of health care and I'm cautiously optimistic that whatever finally gets passed will be a nontrivial improvement over the status quo. Still, I don't think it's crazy for people to be concerned that whatever comes out of the sausage factory might be worse. Whatever it is will be a rube goldberg plan which preserves health insurance profits, keepsNeill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-44987494005291853012009-07-28T11:16:00.001-05:002009-07-28T11:17:32.904-05:00the sheer brilliance of genius in cornflake tonalitythx again john coleNeill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-86652785437887099342009-07-25T11:28:00.001-05:002009-07-25T11:30:05.745-05:00Quote O' the WeekendI’ve always thought that if Palin were just a touch less ignorant and frightening, the national media might have loved her. -- Doug JNeill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-56900405388654861652009-07-22T08:42:00.003-05:002009-07-22T08:46:29.600-05:00Healthcare for Americans is just a game (of profit)"Approximately 114 million Americans are expected to leave private health insurance. Why? Their employers will drop the insurance because the taxpayer-subsidized plan will be 30 to 40 percent cheaper. This action will collapse the private health insurance market, and then the Federal Government will own the health provider game."Neill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-91981256904498528332009-07-21T12:40:00.004-05:002009-07-21T12:45:02.542-05:00"Gatesville" -- I like the ring of that for the city in Massachusetts formerly known as CambridgeProfessor Gates was driven to his home by a driver for a local car company. Professor Gates attempted to enter his front door, but the door was damaged. Professor Gates then entered his rear door with his key, turned off his alarm, and again attempted to open the front door. With the help of his driver they were able to force the front door open, and then the driver carried Professor Gates’ Neill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-87354355032582833002009-07-21T09:19:00.002-05:002009-07-21T09:23:51.539-05:00Goldman Sachs Are Scumthx/K of MintaNeill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-11830630225902888572009-07-20T08:52:00.001-05:002009-07-20T08:54:16.341-05:00The Quote of the First Half of Obama's First YearObama really needs to start listening to people who have a clue. -Atrios (20 July)Neill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-66692682684234335422009-07-17T22:42:00.000-05:002009-07-17T22:43:24.949-05:00the most trusted man in america is deadNeill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-70821684817001760782009-07-10T10:46:00.001-05:002009-07-10T10:47:53.846-05:00K*U*C*I*N*I*C*H BABY!!!Watch our man Dennis turn a young arrogant rightwing prick into a nice lookin' heap a'stinkin' garbage...Neill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-57782409242485646702009-07-10T08:04:00.001-05:002009-07-10T08:05:39.530-05:00so let me get this straight, mister anon bush dude...it is classified, held secret from Congress, and no big deal... "This characterization of something that began in 2001 and continued uninterrupted for eight years is just wrong. Honest men would question that characterization. It was more off and on," said a former top Bush administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the classified nature of the issue.The official Neill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-37907345664447889172009-07-09T08:02:00.002-05:002009-07-09T08:06:24.551-05:00The Kid's All RightMy strong sense is that contrarianness reached its apogee in the 1990s when a general sense took over that politics was basically silly and that punditry should be seen as basically akin to the college debate circuit wherein the idea is to construct the most clever possible argument rather than to actually hit on the truth. When this general spirit of the times merged with the elite press’ Neill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-90327469735646627072009-07-05T09:48:00.004-05:002009-07-05T10:00:42.386-05:00EVERYBODY MISREAD YER ASS, JOE...i'm with atrios -- this shit about "everybody" misreading the economy back when he and obama gave the repugnants every opportunity to ruin the stimulus -- while progressives-with-voice -- krugman, stiglitz et al. -- were "uh-oh-ing" all over the friggin' place that this stimulus was too small even before "obama and them" cut its heart out for the republicans... who then didn't cast one vote fer Neill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-25987418909164002642009-06-28T12:32:00.000-05:002009-06-28T12:33:06.227-05:00Leave Dana Milbank -- the prick -- aaallllooooooonnnneeeeeeeeeetx/atriosNeill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-87089780314291432512009-06-26T11:37:00.002-05:002009-06-26T11:40:13.044-05:00White House WatchedJust go read...and god damn the shit-filled entity that is WaPo... but thanks, Dan, for trying.Neill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-41199916105802813122009-06-26T09:24:00.001-05:002009-06-26T09:26:07.817-05:00why caint we all just get along... indeedtx/juanNeill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-89130453023902716252009-06-26T09:06:00.002-05:002009-06-26T09:09:07.291-05:00Dip Thunk #6as far as this country is concerned -- and in particular, its lawmakers -- regarding the global climate deterioration: these "leaders" are teething babies on pablum, and have absolutely no clue what the human species is up against. and many of them don't want to know. we're seriously doomed because these pricks are such cowardly, greedy idiots...(this so-called "big day for the environment" -- ohNeill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-18580419469091369272009-06-25T22:36:00.001-05:002009-06-25T22:36:47.547-05:00One for the road... one of the best...Neill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-40453756458862942362009-06-25T21:58:00.004-05:002009-06-25T22:10:10.699-05:00Bartender, I'll have what he's drinkin' ...On Thursday, Rockefeller admitted he expects little bipartisan support."There is a very small chance any Republicans will vote for this health-care plan. They were against Medicare and Medicaid [created in the 1960s]. They voted against children's health insurance."We have a moral choice. This is a classic case of the good guys versus the bad guys. I know it is not political for me to say that," Neill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-39732993204754996862009-06-19T12:21:00.002-05:002009-06-19T12:25:48.696-05:00"Behold, I am the sun" -- American version-#3,673"Well, that election was, what, almost 60 years ago now. The world has changed dramatically since then. And I dare say that you go up to any of those people in Tehran who are protesting in the streets and say, 'Hey, what about the United States meddling in your election in the `50s,' they would shake their heads, like, 'What in the world are you talking about?'" -- Saxby Chamblisstx/crooks & Neill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-25646031843484126842009-06-17T12:17:00.002-05:002009-06-17T12:21:48.922-05:00one of the littler reasons i love john cole"One of the most irritating things about the current Iranian uprising is that I’ve seen a spate of WWRD (What Would Ronnie Do?) posts all over the place. I’m not on my normal computer, so I don’t have my browser history to help me, but I know there was one or two at Hot Air, I know I’ve seen them at the NRO, and I’m pretty sure there was one at Commentary magazine. At any rate, you know what Neill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-8018028975899899432009-06-16T10:30:00.001-05:002009-06-16T10:32:03.247-05:00Question of the DayIf you were forced to live under the sway of a "Supreme Leader," who would you choose, Khamenei or Scalia?Or, would it make any difference?Neill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0