On Dec 9, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Max Sawicky wrote:
The package stinks, we could do better, but there is nobody
in power who wants/is able to do better. So you take what
you can get and hope to fight another day.
This is charity for the moderately well off, not politics. It stinks,
but that's what Obama and Biden *really* want (nobody has a right to
say that they are unable to do better, because all that it takes to do
better--pass unemployment insurance and temporary middle-class tax
cuts--is for Biden to swing his gavel, rule that a majority vote is
all that it constitutionally takes to call a bill up for Senate
debate, have his ruling upheld by his Senate majority, and force the
Repugs to filibuster 24/7 into the new year on behalf of their
millionaire income/estate tax giveaways). Since the stinking package
is what Obama and Biden really want (having gone months to pretend
that it is being forced on them) it, like votes for the stinking
Greek, Irish, Portuguese etc. bailout-qualifying austerity budgets, is
not a lesser-evil vote but a vote of confidence in the government.
Those who now vote confidence in Obama will have little standing when
it comes time for all-out opposition in 2012.
Shane Mage
The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each
according to his need.
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each
according to his greed.
Joe Stack (1956-2010)
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