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You are here: Home / Economics / C.R.E.A.M. / I’ve had bad dreams too many times

I’ve had bad dreams too many times

by DougJ|  May 1, 201211:42 am| 39 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Election 2012, Readership Capture

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We need to win the presidency this fall or face the prospect of very serious proconsuls Ryan and Cantor. It’s that simple.

Do what you can.

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  1. 1.

    Surreal American

    May 1, 2012 at 11:48 am

    If Obama wins and the House doesn’t flip over to the Dems, expect impeachment during the next four years.

    It’s the GOP’s Plan B. Always has been.

  2. 2.

    rikyrah

    May 1, 2012 at 11:50 am

    I feel ya

  3. 3.

    General Stuck

    May 1, 2012 at 11:56 am

    We need to win the presidency this fall or face the prospect of very serious proconsuls Ryan and Cantor. It’s that simple.

    Or Conciliaries.

  4. 4.

    amk

    May 1, 2012 at 12:06 pm

    Yup, american voters are like stupid kids. They’ll keep shoving their hands into hot stoves 2010 style.

  5. 5.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    May 1, 2012 at 12:15 pm

    @General Stuck: Consiglieri?

  6. 6.

    mai naem

    May 1, 2012 at 12:19 pm

    Yeah,I know Obama and the House and Senate is important but TAP’s in big financial trouble. If you can afford it send a few bucks there. We are talking closing there doors trouble. TAP’s one of the few liberal organizations that you not only see talking heads from but their talking heads seem to do a pretty decent job.

    https://prospect.org/donate

  7. 7.

    Clime Acts

    May 1, 2012 at 12:19 pm

    We need to win the presidency this fall or face the prospect of very serious proconsuls Ryan and Cantor.

    When did this become the Democratic Party Headquarters web site?

  8. 8.

    DougJ, Head of Infidelity

    May 1, 2012 at 12:23 pm

    @Clime Acts:

    I’m proud to be partisan, not ashamed.

  9. 9.

    Yutsano

    May 1, 2012 at 12:25 pm

    @DougJ, Head of Infidelity: How shrill and uncivil of you DougJ. Now Sally Quinn will never invite you to one of her soirees.

  10. 10.

    Cris (without an H)

    May 1, 2012 at 12:27 pm

    I finally threw a few coins in the hat.

  11. 11.

    amk

    May 1, 2012 at 12:28 pm

    Ah, the birther, deather, racist pig 3-fer chimes in.

  12. 12.

    Clime Acts

    May 1, 2012 at 12:29 pm

    @DougJ, Head of Infidelity:

    Your hyper partisanship, however, clouds the accuracy of anything you report or opine upon, especially on the Dem side. You’re so emotionally invested that you can’t possibly be reasonably critical when it’s called for; you’re a cheerleader.

    I don’t see how that makes your blogging valuable to anyone but the DLC. Are you auditioning?

    If I vote at all this fall, I will vote for Obama. No chance I’ll vote for any republican; I never have. But I like people who call it as it is rather than as they choose to pretend to see it.

  13. 13.

    Clime Acts

    May 1, 2012 at 12:31 pm

    @amk:

    Ah, the birther, deather, racist pig 3-fer chimes in.

    You are a child. And it’s cute that you stalk me and murmur adorable little epithets.

    Here, have some candy…

  14. 14.

    Yutsano

    May 1, 2012 at 12:35 pm

    @Clime Acts: Your concern, as always, is duly noted.

  15. 15.

    BarbCat

    May 1, 2012 at 12:36 pm

    Working in Nevada, from California. Swing states, swing states, swing states.

    A President Romney, with a majority in both houses, can pass the Ryan budget using reconciliation. That’s their favorite move since they did it for the Bush tax cuts. High fives all around in the House Members Gym.

  16. 16.

    Upper West

    May 1, 2012 at 12:36 pm

    Doug — You made my morning with the Eric Kaz/libby Titus/Bonnie Raitt title reference — one of the all time great rip-out-your heart lost love songs. Just the lyrics give me goose bumps

    For you youngsters out there, listen to “Love Has No Pride:” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWOms2MwNX8

  17. 17.

    DougJ, Head of Infidelity

    May 1, 2012 at 12:38 pm

    @Upper West:

    Great, great song, and Bonnie sings it like an angel.

  18. 18.

    ruemara

    May 1, 2012 at 12:40 pm

    I did my bit yesterday direct, but I’m a keep this in mind next month.

  19. 19.

    Clime Acts

    May 1, 2012 at 12:41 pm

    @Yutsano:

    Your concern, as always, is duly noted.

    I understand that you think you are clever with that cliche, but what exactly do YOU think you mean by it?

  20. 20.

    Upper West

    May 1, 2012 at 12:42 pm

    @Upper West: and the same song with Crosby, Stills and Nash: http://youtu.be/-I_X6BwvAEE

  21. 21.

    Upper West

    May 1, 2012 at 12:45 pm

    @DougJ, Head of Infidelity: Bonnie’s songs are the soundtrack of my life — not the content (though sometimes), but the “feel” of the ’70s and ’80s (and again, recently).

  22. 22.

    Yutsano

    May 1, 2012 at 12:47 pm

    @Clime Acts: That you’re obviously too stupid to realize when you’re being mocked.

  23. 23.

    Another Halocene Human

    May 1, 2012 at 12:55 pm

    Doug, with all due respect, what does any of this matter if the Dems can’t get control of the legislature. What in **** is the plan?

    In my state it looks to me like the Republicans are playing the long game. The AFL-CIO spent millions getting an anti-gerrymandering law passed, but the GOP threatened to break up the judiciary and roll back every reform from the 1970’s (the brief period when we actually HAD fair districts, lol!!!) and now they are kindly refusing to do much about the GOPs smoke-filled-room district plans in court. The only good news is that lobbying works, the bad news is that our governor is a cray-cray thief with a line-item veto.

    We’ve got US House districts with no Dems running… I will, depending on the district lines, be switching parties to vote in a primary. We’ve got other districts with four Dems running but the district is in play so this could end in a Dem loss. OFA is everywhere but you know lots of voters won’t vote a straight Dem ticket and what if they actually can’t? Many important races will be decided at August primary. Organizing is really important. These young kids at Occupy, I know some of them have done some PR, actions, lobbying on a local level, but they are very naive vis a vis national politics. When Obama wins, OFA will pack up and everyone will go home. How stupid. You don’t get your agenda passed by sitting back and whinging about the old days of comity. I don’t just mean Big O but the entire Dem machine. Obama made a big mistake in not continuing to campaign in 2009.

  24. 24.

    Clime Acts

    May 1, 2012 at 12:59 pm

    @Yutsano:

    That you’re obviously too stupid to realize when you’re being mocked.

    You might consider that I simply don’t care when you or any other mindless bot mocks me. It has no impact, else I would have stopped commenting here long ago.

    Which is the BJ bot strategy in a nutshell: To bully all progressive thinkers into the Obama camp or out the door.

    But unlike you,I don’t comment on this blog in search of emotional affirmation, so I’m good, thanks.

  25. 25.

    xian

    May 1, 2012 at 1:14 pm

    aka “help I’m being bullied into reading a blog and endlessly preening my purer-than-thou politically illiterate version of both sides do it.”

  26. 26.

    Clime Acts

    May 1, 2012 at 1:25 pm

    @xian:

    No, little xian, it’s rather quite the opposite: Bots attempt to bully me and many other OUT of reading this blog, but their efforts are for naught, at least in my case.

    Both sides do a lot of shitty stuff. I want to hear about it all. If the Pukes do a lot MORE and worse shitty stuff, as I believe to be the case, that will be self evident.

    What are you really afraid of? That you’ll lose a place to be safely, childishly tribal?

    It’s fine that you’re not politically/intellectually curious though

  27. 27.

    Cris (without an H)

    May 1, 2012 at 1:35 pm

    It’s weird to see Clime Acts arguing with DougJ because I always assumed they were the same person

  28. 28.

    xian

    May 1, 2012 at 1:41 pm

    i’m just waiting for another rectum-oriented outburst from our resident concern troll.

  29. 29.

    Clime Acts

    May 1, 2012 at 1:44 pm

    @Cris (without an H):

    This indicates that your powers of perception really suck.

  30. 30.

    Clime Acts

    May 1, 2012 at 1:45 pm

    @xian:

    i’m just waiting for another rectum-oriented outburst from our resident concern troll.

    You into scat? I try not to judge, but ew.

  31. 31.

    Cris (without an H)

    May 1, 2012 at 1:54 pm

    @Clime Acts: Good point, DougJ’s spoofs are far more entertaining than you

  32. 32.

    gbear

    May 1, 2012 at 2:03 pm

    Clime Act has no pride
    As we scroll past his name.
    Clime Act has no pride
    As he gives everyone else the blame.
    And we’d give anything
    To never see him again.

  33. 33.

    Clime Acts

    May 1, 2012 at 2:13 pm

    @gbear:

    Clime Act has no pride
    As we scroll past his name.
    Clime Act has no pride
    As he gives everyone else the blame.
    And we’d give anything
    To never see him again

    Thank you!

    I mean, that is really, really, BAD…but at the same time I feel bound to acknowledge your tribute.

  34. 34.

    xian

    May 1, 2012 at 2:35 pm

    Now we see the violence inherent in the system.

  35. 35.

    General Stuck

    May 1, 2012 at 2:50 pm

    @Xecky Gilchrist:

    yes

  36. 36.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    May 1, 2012 at 3:42 pm

    and in the mean time, Romney campaign signs on to Gays Have Cooties agenda

    Richard Grenell, Mitt Romney’s newly appointed spokesperson on national security and foreign policy, has resigned, reports the Washington Post. In a statement obtained by the Post, Grenell thanks Romney for “his clear message to me that being openly gay was a non-issue for him and his team.”
    Conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin concludes that the resignation occurred because of pressure from anti-gay right-wing groups that resulted in Grenell being sidelined just as the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death and otherforeign policy issues are dominating the news.

  37. 37.

    RalfW

    May 1, 2012 at 3:43 pm

    @Clime Acts:

    You might consider that I simply don’t care when you or any other mindless bot mocks me.

    Utter bullshit.

    You come here all the time so it’s blatantly obvious you crave the mocking.

    I suppose your dominatrix makes you do it.

  38. 38.

    RalfW

    May 1, 2012 at 3:46 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    “his clear message to me that being openly gay was a non-issue for him and his team.”

    Wow, what a toady.

    Is the clear message Romney giving a few bills (cash, untraceable) to Log Closet Republicans and suggesting Grenell sashay over there to find them?

  39. 39.

    Clime Acts

    May 1, 2012 at 4:46 pm

    @RalfW:

    Idiot.

    I enjoy Cole, and two other front pagers.

    I have enjoyed Cole’s evolution and his writing, and now his masterful trolling of his own blog.

    You ever notice HE’S not in comments insulting me or banning me? I think maybe he mocks YOU. :D

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