On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > Max Sawicky wrote: >> >> I haven't seen anything here to support either, except >> the ritual denunciations of Dems for being Agents of Kapital or without >> backbone. > > Here's a fellow ritualist: > > Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has been battling the banks the last few weeks in > an effort to get 60 votes lined up for bankruptcy reform. He's losing. . . .
By leaving out the antecedent to "either," you evade the point, which was, is there reason to think BHO could have gotten a bigger stimulus with this Senate "owned by banks," as put by the Honorable Senator Durbin. A related question answerable only by mind-reading is whether BHO wanted to do more than he tried to do. (I would guess yes, though perhaps not enough.) >> If it isn't obvious, about ten Democratic Senators are not very >> supportive of social-democratic policies like "buying power in the hands >> of >> working people." > > Well, let's spend the next 10 years trying to elect more responsive > Democrats. That really gets my juices flowing. I can't deny it, the Revolution got me laid. How about you? >> I think it's too soon to pronounce the UAW deceased. I think there are >> two >> interesting threads in what is unfolding. The Prez professes commitment >> to >> a U.S. auto industry, and the UAW is getting some kind of explicit >> ownership >> role. > > It's called holding the bag. This calls for some kind of wager. Not sure how to design it. Maybe we should bet on how many cars will be produced by union labor in the U.S. by some future date. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
