I'm not gonna ask... but the original Week Ahead was MUCH better! ;0)

Nothing else to say, since my first comment will now forever floating in cyber-limbo! lol

Have a Great Weekend Everyone...

Let's head on over to the Dew Drop Inn... and toast another good week for the progressives!

Salute'

Michele Bachmann clip...pretty funny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvBPTg_o99o

Hey, what happened? An excellent week on First Read, thanks to our hosts for a place to come and air our differences. What did we learn this week? Chamber of Commerce seems determined to sell this country out to the highest bidder, fine with them I suppose if they can make money, but bad for Joe and Joan America. NPR looks silly with the firing of Williams, DeMint and Cantor looks even sillier by trying to use it as an excuse to cut funding. While you are at it DeMint and Cantor, could you also work on ending the tax exempt status to churches that try to dictate how their members vote? Turn about WOULD be fair play. Got the furnace checked, fireplace too, the hay has been in the barn for sometime, I'm ready for winter, even though it is a gorgeous day out. Hope it is nice where all of you are. Headed for the Dew Drop Inn, Feisty, would love some pizza and a good red wine, I.R. Hope the jukebox is warmed up! See you there!

Thank you First Read for all you do for us. Good weekend to one and all.

Crazy week. I, for one, am glad the polls are tightening. The last thing the republicans need is a sense of complacency-we need our voters to get out there and vote!

I will be in and out next week. Lots of doors to knock on. Bad news, folks.

My candidates have a secret weapon.

I will have the most beautiful girl in the world with me. One look at that zillion watt smile, and you'd vote for Attila the Hun!

Is it fair? Well, after all, it is her future at stake. So, yes, it is fair.

is COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERSTEIN A JOKE NOW.. I THINK IT IS..

Would rather listen too stalin than your thurber frickin nonsense.
The author is a joke of the first order.. and doesnt even belong
on the 5 cent paperback section..

Get a life oberstein.. you and your socialist labor party ( union ) hacks..

Without an employer their is no employ!!

Know that you swine!!

Tombealiberatarian

COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERSTEIN A JOKE NOW

Get a life oberstein.. you and your socialist labor party ( union ) hacks.

All that you said is really funny. No one is forcing you to watch Keith. Usually, righties have difficulty in intellectual pursuits.

The top cuckoo on TV is Glenn Beck which is more appropriate to a TEA BAGGER'S DELIGHT and kindergarden IQ.

Have a nice weekend.

Let's hope Angle doesn't win in Las Vegas already the Asian and Latino reservations are being cancelled as i speak ...She is bad for business in Las Vegas !

We thrive on tourists and this psychopath insults them ...

WE welcome the Asian and Latino visitors with open arms in Las Vegas .

Don't vote for the Dems, they are being led by Oblaba , the 5th Horseman of the

Collapsed American Economy who is riding his horse and waving his Shovel.

Most recognize that political reform is a real need and that to have any success it is necessary to get money out of politics. The problem is that the politicians and the money people won’t ever just give up the control and the advantages afforded them with the present system ... so it really is up to the voters.

Last night’s (10/21/2010) news announced that Karl Rove, with several ‘fat cats’ and ‘big money’ individuals, were now pouring money, $1M individual donations as well as $250M totals, into shadow groups who would flood the air waves with advertisements favoring Republican and Tea Party candidates who will pursue their interests. They really don’t want representatives who are concerned about the people, they just want ‘puppets’ who will do as directed. The problem doesn’t get any worse then that and, as we saw in 2000 and 2004, those efforts produce results that are not in the best interests of the people (who they consider only ‘pawns’ to be manipulated). The supreme court’s recent ruling has facilitated these efforts and no standing politician has ever given political reform more than lip service as the problem continues unabated. The abusers become more arrogant and even ‘cocky’ as they feel they can have what they want by just spending whatever they need to, to con and to manipulate public opinion and to just insultingly take the public for granted.

If the voters want to prompt and initiate a reform mentality, they can do so by having the huge amounts of money being spent be wasted, by having the manipulative efforts fail, by knocking the ‘cockiness’ out of the abusers and by refusing to be taken for granted. The Tea Party has the right idea but just the wrong cause as is proven by who created the movement, who strongly supports it, providing the vast amounts of money and as is evidenced in the ‘puppet’ candidates chosen. The problem with the Tea Party Movement is that they are really being conned, manipulated and used more than anyone else. No, the voters need to recognize the con being perpetrated, the money being spent and where it is coming from, the arrogance and offensive ‘cockiness’ of those boldly taking the people for granted and then be insulted and refuse to be duped, refuse to be used and to be given only deceptive rhetoric.

The Democrats need to improve and to listen to all of the people but the people need to recognize that currently they are the better opportunity with the Republicans totally focused on their political ambitions and only on the select few who ‘pull their strings’. It is obvious that the Republicans want to return to more of the same (Bush-Cheney style) which cost us so much and totally concentrated on benefit for only Special Interests and the select few (the money), while giving the majority nothing but apathy, the costs and an abundance of subterfuge. Who believes that if the Republicans (regular and Tea Party alike) are successful that after repealing the changes made, they then would honestly work at making the changes needed - it would obviously be against everything they have done to date and definitely not what their ‘puppet masters’ want. What the people need to do is to pressure the Democrats to do better and to firmly reject the Republicans (including the Tea Party (camouflaged) Republicans). Possibly then the politicians will see that the voters have real control and can’t just be manipulated and used and in 2012 they all would be focused on the people’s best interests and give us real choice.

Carry Your Own Water Socialist SWINE!! I Got a full Bucket by earning it.. and no you cant have any!! I will give you the bucket so you can get your own water and if you need a glass on your journey.. then I will gladly give one.. but dont expect too get anymore!!

As an individual.. you are responsible for your own survival.. for your own success or your own failure..

Too all those blood sucking thieves.. namely Unions.. and lifelong welfare recipients ..

Its your time too get out of the gutter.. as we the Tax Payer will no longer Carry your weight!!

Long live the Republic and the New Age of Personal Responsibility ~!~

The media are just whores also usually for the filthy rich.

Bush, cheney & Rove should be in prison. Bobbie

Being a substantial income tax payer.. If the playing field was fair.. then

I should have a right too choose.. like a woman's right too choose over her body and have an abortion or not.. Its my money .. So I should have the right too say HELL no does my money go too the OBSCENE Union Pensions.. Hell No too 99 Weeks of Welfare and other Entitlements.. I CHOOSE not too fund an Entitlement society!! All you democrats want too give the woman the choice even after the heart starts beating.. fine.. even though a crime of humanity.. But then give us who actually pay income tax.. the right too choose where are money goes..

Thats what I thought.. All you socialist scum want too redistribute the wealth.. from the productive and give too those who deserve nothing..

A Baby with a heart beating deserves better than a hanger too the head.. But you DEM's.. do not think its right too give the choice too the actual income tax payer too choose where their tax dollars go.

Income tax should be personal as abortion... In america Women have the right too choose too do with what they want with their body.. well we 30-40% who actually pay income tax should also have the right too choose what we do with those taxes..

A Socialist Double Standard if I ever heard of one!.

Let's cover what the Tea Party is all about.

They say that they were opposed to the stimulus, but they have Boehner, Bachmann, and McConnell stating that the stimulus indeed worked & they want want money for various projects for their respective states thereby putting people back to work, and they don't want to admit to the fact that it was the Bush Administration that handed out stimulus money back in 2001.

They say that they aren't racist, sexist or homophobic, but their agenda has some of the most intolerant views displayed at their rallies, from re-pealing DADT and Anti-Illegal Immigration to their views on race and religion.

They say that they are for the Constitution and the laws of the land, but most of their candidates don't know the first thing about what the amendments cover; although they will harp about the 2nd and 10th Amendments, and they want to do away with amendments primarily geared toward Civil Rights, Women's Rights, and rights specifically dealing with citizenship, nor can any of them name one SCOTUS Ruling that they find interesting or troubling.

They say that they are against the Big Boys (Oil, coal, insurance, et al) but they want to do away with legislation that keeps them environmentally compliant, and becoming a burden to low and middle class families by bailing them out in the future.

They say that they do not want to pay anymore taxes and that the Bush Tax Cuts should remain at the current level especially for the rich, but fail to acknowledge the fact that 95% percent of Americans and those who make $250,000.00 or less hav received the lowest tax break in over 40 years and haven't paid any new taxes OR have seen their taxes increase, and research after research has proven that the tax cuts for the rich have been detrimental and devastating on this country.

So how do they plan on taking over the nation? It started out when the SCOTUS ruled that corporations could donate untold sums of money in our elections, and with most of those corporations are overseas, foreign interest can funnel money into the U.S Chamber of Commerce, thereby making its way to Tea Party/ GOP Candidates hands. Secondly, they are hoping that PROLIBDEMS will be so frustrated and angry with how things got passed that they will not turn out this election to vote. Third is by using "Swift boating" Tactics, and this is tailor made for the Latino Voters because of their stance on immigration, they realize that if they can either deter them or try to push them to vote Republican, this would be a win for them. And finally, African Americans have voted in numbers that they could not conceive for Democrats(75-90%), so they are going to break out TWO playbooks: First being the "Southern Strategy"(Refer to the 1964 Presidential Election to get an understanding) because if they can get 10-20% of the Black Vote, it would be a victory for them; the second playbook would be the one they used back during the 2000 and 2004 Presidential Elections where they used voter intimidation tactics to deter African American Voters from voting in their respective precincts.

Yes, the Tea Party/ Republican Party have an impressive "rainbow coalition" of candidates to vote for them next week.

Personally, I DON'T INTEND TO SEE THEM SERVE IN ANY OFFICE!!!!!!

To my PROLIBDEM brothers and sisters, I say this to you: I don't blame you for being upset. But you have got to realize that anger and frustration must be tempered by logic. Progress is not without its growing pains and headaches, and we knew what we were in for when we all declared in one voice that we wanted change for the better for this country when we voted for Barack Obama to be the 44th POTUS. Yes, like some of you, I was frustrated and angry that the Democrats went out of their way to get the Republicans to go along with the plans and policies to get this country back on track; yes, they took out a lot of the teeth in their legislations that would've had wide sweeping effects on on the Big Boys; but despite that, I ask you to look at what we've accomplished in less than two short years: HCR passed, Finance Reform passed, DADT is in the process of being re-pealed, two Liberals are sitting on the Supreme Court, the stimulus worked and unemployment is under 10%, the strategy in Afghanistan is working, and finally Iraq has came to an end. And for those bills that have passed, I want you to think about something: If the Democrats REGAIN OR ADD MORE people filling in those seats in the House and Senate, we can take those bills back and have those measures VOTED IN, making them IRONCLAD!!! The absolute worst thing you could do is sit at home and do NOTHING!!!!

8 more days until Independence day 2010 when smart Americans take back our country!