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Weekend Open Thread: Sick and Tired

by: Dean Barker

Sat Jul 03, 2010 at 11:31:28 AM EDT
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired of the truly awful media presence in the first district.

It's time to fight back against the false GOP hit jobs against Carol Shea-Porter and the lazy stenographers in print and TeeVee who do their bidding. It's clearly not enough to call them out on the lies after the fact, as we have been doing for four long years.

Stay tuned for a new approach coming next week.

This is an Open Thread.
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Weekend Open Thread: Sick and Tired | 8 comments
That's so unfair. (4.00 / 2)
Our professional scribes are providing full coverage of the most crucial issue facing voters: whether an elected representative can congratulate students on their graduation.

(Jim Cleveland sent a nice note to this constituent when I got married. It never occurred to me that it might be An Outrage!)

A fella can dream. (4.00 / 2)
I'm a Democrat.

My dream is, the Democratic President and the Democratic Congress say, "America needs to put its people to work. That is today's job. Fixing the deficit - as only Democrats have done in the last 50 years - that is tomorrow's job."

Can't wait to hear about this (0.00 / 0)
Stay tuned for a new approach coming next week.

Sounds intriguing!

One more thing: as I was saying over here earlier, who (or what) the hell is John Taft? Anybody know?

Republicans believe government is bad - then they get into office and prove it.

Me too! (0.00 / 0)
Exciting.
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Gov. Lynch (0.00 / 0)
Today is the first anniversary of half term gov. Palin quitting. I just e-mailed Gov. Lynch thanking him for not bailing or quitting on NH. I would hope I would not be the only one to thank him. Looking back on Gov. Benson's record they (Palin) seem to have alot in common- hiring of friends, etc. The paralelism of their administrations is interesting to say the least.  

"THE WELFARE OF EACH OF US IS DEPENDENT FUNDAMENTALLY ON THE WELFARE OF ALL OF US." Teddy Roosevelt
I'm ambivalent about thanking public servants (0.00 / 0)
for serving.  After all, we hire them to do a job and pay them.  
Also, holding office is one of the bundle of obligations that come with adulthood and citizenship.  Other components of the bundle of obligations are:

voting
serving on juries
providing material support
drafting legislation
enforcing the law

Unless these obligations are met, our individual rights can't be respected.  Our conservative friends get around that truth by pretending that holding a public office is a status symbol and deserving of being honored -- like being chosen "Queen for a year or two or four."

Queen Sarah abdicated her position when she realized how onerous it really is.  Being "Queen for a Day" isn't supposed to involve any work.

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Imagine (0.00 / 0)
Imagine what Queen Sarah would do when things got too hot in the White House.  $100 bucks says she'd quit.  I can't even begin to see her handle such things as two wars, an oil crisis in the gulf, and get health care and bank reform legislation passed, while dealing with the worst economy that any president has had to deal with in 70 years.
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I'm with you on the failure to cover the news (4.00 / 1)
It's a serious failure to deliver the information the public needs to make informed decisions. I am eager to see your new approach, Dean.
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