Friday News Roundup - Domestic
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President Barack Obama travels to promote the agenda for his second term. American Airlines and US Airways merge. And a Senate showdown begins over the nomination of Chuck Hagel as defense secretary. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top domestic news stories.
Guests
Susan Page
Washington bureau chief for USA Today.
Karen Tumulty
national political reporter at The Washington Post.
David Leonhardt
Washington bureau chief for The New York Times and author of the e-book: “Here’s the Deal: How Washington Can Solve the Deficit and Spur Growth”.
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President Barack Obama proposed raising the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour during the first State of the Union of his second term. Washington Post reporter Karen Tumulty said the change is unlikely to take effect under the current economic climate. She described a focus group of lower middle class women who responded negatively to the proposal. "This is not going to be an easy sell," Tumulty said.
USA Today bureau chief Susan Page said the president used his address to set a vision for the country rather than a laundry list of legislative goals. "What struck me about the president's State of the Union address was how aspirational it was because he talked not only about the things he thinks can get done, like an immigration bill. He talked about a series of things that he knows are very unlikely to get done," Page said.
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Anna Nimmity: I see the same dangerous perversion you describe. It may be that our crippled critics are just ignorant or mentally ill, but
I have found indications that covert government agencies are behind much of the intimidation of informed and generously active American citizens. It could be that the fascist-talking dimwits here are employed to troll. It would not seem strange when you understand how the FBI and DIA, even large corporations, encourage right wing militia activity as a means of intimidation to deter people from organizing and becoming involved in issues.. There are militia groups where I live and my family has had to call law enforcement to keep them off our nature conservancy acreage.
And then there were threats and vandalism. The language here in criticism of your posts is reminiscent of hate rhetoric used by Klan and Nazi and Identity cults. Let's hope they're all talk and quit answering their posts. They do not merit that effort.
I think that's why I like it so much here, you really have direct contact with radical left. The radical left places the name tags of what they are on the people that they hate, that's pretty obvious and unfortunately a human weakness of the mentally limited and unbalanced .
I did not want to bring up the coward thing, but felt I had to respond to a hit and run punk.
Notice that the comment responding to my accusation of threats between 1:08 and 1:11 pm has been deftly deleted.
I think they have that IP address on record though.
Comments went missing yesterday also. I flag NO ONE. Maybe D.R. is mopping up? who knows. I do know you beg for banning people, what is that? a little hypocritical don't you think?
Dan D. wrote:
"I think that's why I like it so much here, you really have direct contact with radical left. The radical left places the name tags of what they are on the people that they hate"
Absoluetly true - it's projection with a fascinating twist. I fault myself for treating any of them; Pancake, McChaun, now this anna person with any seriousness.
PS. Anna Nimwitty I think is surely an alias for someone else - much too comfortable here to be a newbie, and frankly could be an alias for Pancake Rankin himself. I've seen weirder on mbs.
It's Clifford!
As long as the current congress remains in office, this country will continue to circle the toilet. The worst part is that this country still remains this racist in 2013 that they are willing to waste 8 years doing anything opposing the President because they are supposedly ideologically opposed to his policies. Wake up America. As long as they have us worrying about right or left, we all miss the point. Do you really think republicans don't like big government and spending money. Of course they do, they just spend their money on a different percentage of Americans. Let us not forget how much of the deficit was on the books prior to President Obama taking office. Which is not to point the finger at former President Bush, but to state simply that our government has and always will spend itself crazy. Why do you think there are people whose sole purpose is to lobby congress, because congress spends money and all those special interests want their cut. Stop pretending this has to do with left and right and realize our government has been bought and paid for. The only solution at this point is to dismantle it and break the cycle of greed and corruption. I'll say it again folks, wake up! I'm even more ashamed of the media which insists on aiding in the distraction by reporting on the nonsense and then changing the subject when someone brings up the hard questions.
I don't give a hoot what Senator Mark Rubio 's plans are for 2016... America needs action now, why would I vote for someone who's doing nothing right now but standing in the way. I'm more worried about whether our warfighters overseas will get paid at the end of March, and Congress will continue to make sure they keep theirs. 2016, wtf is wrong with this country? On second thought, republicans keep doing what you do... it works. You've handily lost two Presidential elections in a row by alienating yourselves and focusing on your party instead of this Country.
"gkrisher wrote:
Ever see the movie about Rawanda? I see right wing radio as "Rawandan radio".
February 15, 2013 - 10:48 am"
Yeah, and when the caller claimed that several of the recent Mass Murderers admitted to being influenced by Right Wing Radio, didn't Diane smooth it over quite nicely??
65 Million new guns since Obama took Office, every one in the hands of a Racist, Right Wing, All But Swastika Nazi, Reagan/Bush/CIA/Mossad/FBI/NeoCon/GOP/Jew Media/Military/Hoover Institution/NPR/Bloomberg News/MI5-MI6/ NRA Militia/ Banker/ Kabal Follower, raging against Obama with their lunatic notions that he has somehow acquired VAST DICTATORIAL POWERS!!!
When, in reality, the President is held in a kind of Babylonian Captivity, incapable of applying even the slightest bit of brake to our headlong rush over the cliff.
Monte Haun mchaun@hotmail.com
@ Pancake Rankin comments to anna nimmity: " It could be that the fascist-talking dimwits here are employed to troll. It would not seem strange when you understand how the FBI and DIA, even large corporations, encourage right wing militia activity as a means of intimidation to deter people from organizing and becoming involved in issues.. "
First off... most of the fascist-talking dimwits I have seen on posts here today were pointed directly at the right... initiated and first launched by those on the left.... So who exactly are you talking about... yourselves?
And, Pancake... your premise here is that trolls are paid to comment on the D.R. venue? Gee.... I wonder...was that program implemented as a covert op (like F&F) or by executive order???? How hysterical.... and paranoid. Get out the concertina wire and claymore mines Pancake!!!
climatewiz1 wrote:
"And, Pancake... your premise here is that trolls are paid to comment on the D.R. venue? Gee.... I wonder...was that program implemented as a covert op (like F&F) or by executive order???? How hysterical.... and paranoid."
Pancake also said,
"I have found indications that covert government agencies are behind much of the intimidation of informed and generously active American citizens".
"Found indications"? What does that mean?! What indications? What, dare I say it, evidence?!
But then, he also said, "Lockheed Martin knows the size and color, the type and brand of those you wear, and the kind you really want but can't afford", which is, of course, patently false and just made up by him.
Simply not a lot of credibility there and more than a little paranoia, yes.
And we're the fascist nihilists!
"ecgberht2 wrote:
climatewiz1 wrote:
"And, Pancake... your premise here is that trolls are paid to comment on the D.R. venue? Gee.... I wonder...was that program implemented as a covert op (like F&F) or by executive order???? How hysterical.... and paranoid."
Pancake also said,
"I have found indications that covert government agencies are behind much of the intimidation of informed and generously active American citizens".
"Found indications"? What does that mean?! What indications? What, dare I say it, evidence?!
But then, he also said, "Lockheed Martin knows the size and color, the type and brand of those you wear, and the kind you really want but can't afford", which is, of course, patently false and just made up by him.
Simply not a lot of credibility there and more than a little paranoia, yes.
And we're the fascist nihilists!
February 15, 2013 - 4:57 pm"
Oh, God!!! Please eggie, you're breaking my heart!!!
You, the Master Polemicist, who taught me everything I know about IRONY have bitten twice on Pancake's little Mot.
Say it ain't so.
Monte Haun mchaun@hotmail.com
"ecgberht2 wrote:
Interesting points. Mis-impressions do matter. Take President Obama for example. He is, technically, the first "African American" President. His heritage is Kenyan - and I am not a "birther" so don't even go there. But American Blacks, particularly their patronizing leadership, fawn at the prospect of his being the great hope for their people (though Black Americans as a people are far worse off in the last four years in terms of income and unemployement). But I would submit that most people when they conceptualize the African American experience in this country, visualize slaves, by the thousands being forced here in slave ships to a life of servitude, fighting for their own freedom in the Revolutionary and Civil wars, fighting racism and segregation to rise to be a force in American life. Perhaps many of those 90+% who voted for Mr. Obama, not once, but twice visualize his ancestors in that picture. It isn't true, of course, there is not one individual in his father's history that had any relational ties to slaves, but I have never ONCE heard that point clarified from any media source. Mis-impressions matter - but if they serve your purpose, why confuse people with the facts."
eggie gently explains to our worthy but stupid Black Friends and Neighbors how pathetic their support of Obama is.
Monte Haun mchaun@hotmail.com
February 13, 2013 - 12:32 pm
mchaun wrote:"eggie gently explains to our worthy but stupid Black Friends and Neighbors how pathetic their support of Obama is."
I'm glad you reposted that, that was an excellent observation that I missed. I'm sorry to say that it is true that black folks do vote in overwhelming numbers to keep themselves chained to the democrat party and by extension the government, both of which have only made things worse for them. The stats on this are equally overwhelming.
"mchaun wrote:"eggie gently explains to our worthy but stupid Black Friends and Neighbors how pathetic their support of Obama is"
mchaun, I am sorry you think our Black Friends and Neighbors are stupid. I don't know how you make such an assignation to an entire race of people.
The more successful they are in deflecting the blame of bringing on the sequester, the less culpable they are for potentially sabotaging an already fragile recovery. Some Republicans (see Lindsey Graham), in discussing this, have been hardly able to contain their glee about the prospect of hampering Obama's last chance at achieving a strong recovery in his second term, making an already disenchanted electorate that much more eager for a Republican approach in 2016.
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