Well, Deval Patrick’s already said, thanks but no thanks. “As soon as I know what my next job is, I will tell you, I promise. But it will be in the private sector,” he said.”
Paul Waldman, at the Washington Post, on “Why the fight over Eric Holder’s successor is going to be very ugly“:
… Holder has already served longer than all but a few attorneys general in history, so this announcement shouldn’t be a surprise. But with an election coming up in a little over a month, we could see a spectacularly angry confirmation process. So here’s a prediction: no matter who the White House picks to be the next attorney general, the Republicans will wage a relentless effort against him/her, and almost all of it will be, in one way or another, about race…
…[F]rom the very beginning of his tenure, Holder has been frank in his public discussion about issues of race where Obama has been reticent. Indeed, it has sometimes appeared that Obama has let Holder say the things about race that he wishes he could say but can’t…
Steve Benen ticked off some of the things Holder has done to cheer liberals and anger conservatives… Many of those issues, like voting rights, are directly about race, while others, like Stand Your Ground, are implicitly but inevitably about race. Now place that in a context where many conservatives believe that Barack Obama’s entire presidency is about exacting vengeance upon white people for the sins of age-old racism. While they attach this argument to almost anything (the number of time right-wing radio hosts have told their audiences that the Affordable Care Act was intended as “reparations,” punishing whites for slavery, is beyond counting), when it comes to Holder, the line is a much more direct one…
When Republicans get a chance to question the person nominated to replace him, each and every one of those issues is going to come up. The nominee is going to be asked to repudiate everything Eric Holder did. And when that doesn’t happen, Republicans in Congress will turn on the nominee with everything they can muster, in a demonstration to their base that they feel their anger.
Maybe it’s just my Celtic/Viking berserker genes, but my impulse would be: Bring it on, Repubs. Nominate someone Monday morning, President Obama (give your enemies the weekend to make themselves ever more foolish in public), and demand Congress come back into session to approve your nominee no later than October 6. Remind the low-info voters why it’s never a good idea to sit out the midterms.
Even the hardcore grifter/27%er GOP is smart enough to have started dragging their feet already:
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today issued the following statement regarding Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation:
“It is good news that Eric Holder has announced his resignation. Sadly, he has proven to be the most partisan attorney general in our history, repeatedly defying and refusing to enforce the law….
“To ensure that justice is served and that the Attorney General is not simply replaced with another extreme partisan who will likewise disregard the law, the Senate should wait until the new Congress is sworn in before confirming the next Attorney General. Allowing Democratic senators, many of whom will likely have just been defeated at the polls, to confirm Holder’s successor would be an abuse of power that should not be countenanced.”
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
Christ, I had a mouthful of liquid when I read that. I choked and damn near died.
beth
“Fuck you and your fake patriotism.”
Sometimes I just love Jon Stewart.
Mike J
I said it earlier and I’ll repeat it: if Obummer doesn’t nominate the ghost of Eugene Debs it will only prove what a sell out he is.
jharp
Game on.
I am very grateful to have Barack Obama as our President.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Mike J: Obviously.
Tree With Water
The GOP is the party of rule or ruin, and has been for decades.
And democratic party officials that consider it an honorable opposition are the mortal enemies of the democratic party rank and file.
Jerzy Russian
That Canadian Ted Cruz is a very large asshole.
Botsplainer
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
I don’t know how people in the Senate overcome the urge to punch him in the face repeatedly, until it stops crunching and turns into a sickeningly sloppy “thud”.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@efgoldman: “If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve.”
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@efgoldman: Nope. No interest at all. Solicitor general – chief appellate litigator for the US? Yeah, that would be cool.
kc
Anybody watch that bit about the DC team football fans?
Mike J
@kc: United is in 1st place in the eastern conference. They ought to be happy.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@efgoldman: We each have our own pictures of ourselves.
Wag
What I’d like to see is for Obama to nominate a White Male Southerner who when asked about racial issues, fully backs Holder’s views as being completely mainstream.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Wag: Holder’s views are completely mainstream.
kc
@Mike J:
Sorry, I meant the 4 football fans who went on The Daily Show to defend the “Redskins” name. There was a story in the WaPo about it & Cole posted about it a few days ago. The but aired tonight.
Tree With Water
@efgoldman: To this day, the greatest political gut punch of my life was hearing Tom Brokaw announce that Ronald Reagan had been elected POTUS. I was prepared, I thought. I knew it was coming, really. Shortly after getting home from work– with the polls still open for another two hours in PST– it was a done deal.
Hunter Thompson wrote that the shit train first began to roll on November 22nd, 1963, and that might well be. If so, however, it didn’t pick up speed until that terrible first Tuesday in November 1980. And now it’s a runaway train.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@efgoldman: Alberto Gonzales
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Tree With Water:
That’s a bunch of crap. With all due respect. Aging* people have been decrying the decline of society since we crawled out of ponds.
*And I am not exactly youthful, but I hope like hell that I never fall into that thought pattern.
ETA: I also think that you may have missed the point of the original exchange.
max
Maybe it’s just my Celtic/Viking berserker genes, but my impulse would be: Bring it on, Repubs. Nominate someone Monday morning, President Obama (give your enemies the weekend to make themselves ever more foolish in public), and demand Congress come back into session to approve your nominee no later than October 6. Remind the low-info voters why it’s never a good idea to sit out the midterms.
Quite concur. Because…
Even the hardcore grifter/27%er GOP is smart enough to have started dragging their feet already:
…then can get blisters and sores from the foot-dragging.
max
[‘Base rallying session initiated.’]
mclaren
Eric Holder is the Attorney General who for almost all of his tenure has been fighting hard to increase penalties for marijuana possession — in order to “send a message to the Mexican cartels.”
Eric Holder is the Attorney General who stated in public that firing a hellfire missile at a U.S. citizen from a drone at 30,000 feet constitutes “due process” according to the fifth amendment.
Eric Holder is the Attorney General who signed off on and enthusiastically agreed with President Obama’s order to murder at least four U.S. citizens (and maybe more, we don’t know because the “kill list” is classified) without trial and without charges.
Eric Holder is a disgrace. Holder needs to be impeached and thrown out of the legal profession. After being disbarred, Eric Holder should be indicted on charges of obstruction of justice, conspiracy to commit murder, murder under special circumstances, terrorism, assault, conspiracy to commit assault, vindictive prosecution, and perjury under oath.
A message needs to be sent to the lickspittle attorneys who cower and cringe before our presidents — a message that when the president gives an unconstitutional order, the Attorney General needs to refuse to carry out that illegal and unconstitutional order and, if necessary, resign under protest, the way Elliot Richardson refused Richard Nixon’s illegal and unconstitutional order to fire special prosecutor Cox.
Let’s run down a list of the illegal and unconstitutional orders president Obama has given:
[1] Orders to murder at least four (4) U.S. citizens without trial and without charges. This is a direct violation of amendments 5, 6, 8 and 14 of the constitution of the united states. (Amendment 5 requires due process, amendment 6 requires a trial by jury before the government can imprison or kill a U.S. citizen, amendment 8 prohibits “cruel and unusual punishment,” and amendment 14 prohibits violatoin of the civil rights of a U.S. citizen.)
[2] Orders to wiretap without a warrant the entire U.S. population. (This is a direct violation of amendment 4, which prohibits excessive search and seizure, and any kind of search or seizure without a proper warrant.)
[3] Orders to murder rescue workers trying to help victims injured by drone attacks. (This is a crime that the United States itself has defined as ‘terrorism’ when committed by others.)
[4] Orders to arrest the legally licensed proprietors and patrons of state marijuana dispensaries in states when marijuana use has been legalized.
[5] Signing the NDAA, an illegal andunconstituional piece of legislation that purports to give the president the tyurannical power to kidnap any U.S. citizen without a warrant and without criminal charges and hurl him into a dungeon forever without access to a lawyer.
[6] Authorizing the sale of military weapons to various local police departments for use on non-violent demonstrators, including authorizing the sale of military LRAD sound cannons for use on the G20 demonstrators in Pittsburgh.
[7] Authorizing the continued use of sensory deprivation and sleep deprivation techniques identical to the torture methods used by the Gestapo, by Pol Pot, and by the NKVD in torture chambers in the Lefortovo prison in the former Soviet Union.
[8] Obstruction of justice in systematically refusing to prosecute major banks and Wall Street crime lords for massive deliberate systemic fraud, including mass falsification of documents and mass perjury, in the subprime mortgage financial collapse.
[9] Obstruction of justice in systematically refusing to break up gigantic corrupt monopolies like Comcast, Time-Warner, McDonnell Douglass, Goldman Sachs, and countless others.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Sweet christ, can we get “hide comment” buttons, or better mannered cranks.
ETA: The paranoia is already ginned up to eight or nine, we’ll hit eleven by this time next week.
Al Sharpton Wants to Pick Holder Replacement
Rush: Obama Will Put Holder On Supreme Court
Steeplejack
I think I’m going to pack it in early tonight. Dr. Strangelove is on TCM at 1:15 a.m. EDT, for anyone’s who interested. Followed by Petulia (1968), a quirky comedy/drama with George C. Scott and the always luminous Julie Christie.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Steeplejack: Hindenburg isn’t doing it for you?
Tree With Water
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Let me ask you. Do you believe the Bush administration, with malice aforethought, stampeded the nation into unleashing the 2003 Iraq War? Because I do.
That was the second worst political gut punch of my life. That the democratic party collaborated in what I deem a great treason. Most especially because it was a generation of democratic representatives that had a collective, living memory of our War in Vietnam.
Let that serve as but one cause– just one– of my pessimism, as opposed to your onward and upward point of view.
I’m curious. Do you consider Bush and Cheney to be honorable men, leaders of an honorable political party? I certainly don’t.
Mnemosyne
@Steeplejack:
Aigh! I forgot to put my DVR alerts for tomorrow on the blog!
I’ll run and do them now, but brief version (all times Eastern time): A Free Soul (3:00 am), Ladies They Talk About (6:30 am), Heroes for Sale (10:30 am), The Public Enemy (3:30 pm), Scarface (5:00 pm), Little Caesar (6:45 pm), Three on a Match (10:00 pm).
People who didn’t like Norma Shearer in The Divorcee may like her better in A Free Soul as a wild society girl who likes the rough sex she gets from her gangster lover (Clark Gable) but refuses to marry him.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Tree With Water: Because bad things happened at the end of a rightward swing, its all over? Fuck that. The pendulum has started moving the other way.
ribber
I hope Obama nominates someone on Monday. Ted Cruz’s argument for waiting for the new Senate to confirm seems to be: “Holder is horrible. So please keep him in the position another half year.”
kc
@kc:
“The but.” I meant the bit, gotdamnit.
Anyway, guess no one saw it.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
Oof, no. Haven’t seen it in years, but I don’t remember it as being interesting enough for a second look. A bland slab of Hollywooden moviemaking. Please let me know if I’m wrong.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Steeplejack: No. it is what you remember.
Steeplejack
@Mnemosyne:
Looking forward to my fantasy-league horn dog Warren William in Employees’ Entrance at 2:30 p.m., although I shrink at the thought of him salivating over Loretta Young. Early Loretta Young looks so beautiful and vulnerable that you just want to make sure she’s safe and repel any man who gets within 20 feet of her. And the studio weasels knew that and always put her in dire situations. Loose Ankles (10:45 a.m.)?! ’Nuff said.
Tree With Water
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Ah, but are Bush and Cheney honorable people? In your eyes. And is the republican party an honorable opposition? How about it, Pollyanna?
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Tree With Water: No, they are not. And fuck you for implying that I think they might be. I never said rhat and have never implied anything of the kind.
jl
No time to read comments. I heard on news that Kamala Harris also said thanks but not thanks, confirming a commenter’s report earlier today. Good. I think she has better things to do with her time, as probably does Patrick and other qualified people who are thinking about future political careers.
Two years left, not much they can do to make a mark at the position. Get a solid professional person who will follow Obama’s priorities, preferably one that will make the inevitable GOP fuss look ridiculous.Get one or two more lined up, since the first may not be confirmed for ridiculous reasons.
mclaren
Source: “Reefer Madness in Washington D.C.,” Doug Sandow, Copley News Service.
Source: “Eric Holder in the Hot Seat on Pot, Fired Up to Defend DOJ Enforcement,” Rollcall magazine online, 2013.
Source: “Obama’s War On Pot,” Rolling Stone, 2012.
Source: “Contrary to Obama’s promises, the U.S. military still permits torture,” The Guardian, 25 January 2014.
Source: "The FBI’s 2010 Mortgage Fraud Report Reveals Why the Banksters Love Holder," Economic Perspectives website, 14 August 2013.
Source: “Hundreds of Wall Street Execs Went to Prison During the Last Fraud-Fueled Bank Crisis,” Moyers & Company website, 17 September, 2013.
Source: “Why Won’t Obama Go After the Criminal Bankers?” Huffington Post, 24 January, 2014.
Source: “NDAA Signed Into Law By Obama Despite Guantanamo Veto Threat, Indefinite Detention Provisions,” Huffington Post, 3 January, 2013.
Source: “When the government can kill you, explained,” Mother Jones magazine, 5 March, 2012.
Source: “Holder: No drone strikes in US, except in ‘extraordinary circumstance’,” NBC News, 5 March, 2013.
Source: “Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will,” The New York Times,, 29 May, 2012.
Tree With Water
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Easy, tiger, easy. Jeezuz, it was just a simple question.
Still, I don’t understand your optimism. At fucking all.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
Okay, you and Mnemosyne have called me back from the arms of Morpheus. I looked at a few minutes of The Hindenburg. Ugh. A classic example of what I call “Hollywooden”: big, slow, criminally lighted dreck that we’re supposed to like because it’s got Big Stars in it.
kuvasz
Kamala D. Harris
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Tree With Water:
Too bad, Some of us don’t accept “the world is going to hell in a handbag because the youth today use brylcreem/ listen to Chuck Berry/ have long hair/ have mohawks/ have saggy pants…..” theory. Sue me.
ETA: If you even imply that I may have supported the Bush admin., you deserve the fuck you.
Anne Laurie
@kuvasz: Like Patrick, Harris has already said thanks-but-no-thanks.
Tree With Water
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): I’ve got it good. I’m a lucky guy. But I’m not blind to the threat of American fascism. I’ve witnessed it gaining strength, year by year, throughout my adult life, and the republican party is its vessel.
And a person’s age has nothing to do with percieving that ugly fact either, Poindexter. 23 skidoo….
But how did you know I dig Chuck Berry?
Helen
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
So to the both of you: We all piss around on blogs and whine and moan. How can we fix this? Practically. I must say that I am not sure it is fixable. Not in my lifetime. I figure I have a few choices. 1. Pretend it isn’t happening and try to live my life as happily as I can. 2. Spend the rest of my life pissing around blogs whining and moaning. 3. Try and make a difference. I must say – I am 52 years old and I am bored to death with being told that soon – really, really soon it’s gonna get better. I am too old to wait for that. For the first time in my life number 1 looks great. Ignorance is bliss.
I have too many people in my life whose kids my many tax dollars educated, whose wars I paid for, whose roads I paid for, whose social security I will fund until they are 90 and who bitch and moan about the ni**ers who are stealing their dollars. They have no clue. I am beyond mad. I am bored.
Radio One
the takes…my god, it’s full of stars…
Mnemosyne
@Steeplejack:
I just hit “publish” and Employees’ Entrance is on my list of recommendations. There are several other Loretta Young movies tomorrow, too — Midnight Mary (at 1:00 pm ET) is considered one of her best Pre-Codes.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Tree With Water: Then we simply see the arc of history differently. I agree with Dr. King. It appears that you do not. Progress may be slow and there may be backward steps but think that progress will happen. I have evidence to support my claims. Do you?
Mnemosyne
Just posted this: tomorrow’s Pre-Code DVR alerts (though I suppose technically it’s “today” for you East Coasters). Enjoy!
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Helen: Do some fucking work. For someone. For something,
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Tree With Water: Are you really that dumb?
Helen
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): I’ve done my work. It has gotten me nowhere. I am thinking about Billy Joel’s’ “Angry Young Man.”
I believe I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage
I found that just surviving was a noble fight
I once believed in causes too
I had my pointless point of view
And life went on no matter who was wrong or right
I am exhausted. The stupid people are winning. And they are doing it with my money. I no longer want my money to go to war. I want it to go to infrastructure and education and social programs. We are going backward in the “exceptional” USA. And I no longer want to fund it. Buy your own fucking tanks.
A Humble Lurker
@mclaren:
There are these things called links.
And honestly, I’m not sure why this isn’t less outlandish than what happened to Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown. Everyone’s squawking about the armored vehicles in Ferguson but it wasn’t an armored vehicle that started the whole thing so…?
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Helen: Fine. Send a smaller check to the iRS. Don’t call me when you have problems.
mclaren
@Helen:
Back in 2005 I suggested mass demonstrations so omniprsent that they shut down Washington and forced the president to confront the people who were scaling the White House fence and being shot down like dogs by crazed capitol police and secret service goons. This suggestion (which long predated the Occupy demonstrations) provoked lots of people to threaten to “call the Secret Service” on me (I’m still waiting, by the way, for the Secret Service to show up and interview me) because I was “dangerous” and many many people asking if I owned a gun. (I don’t. Violence is the last resort of the losers in any political struggle. If your political/social opponents start using violence, it’s a sign you’re winning.) Eventually John Cole deleted the entire thread…the only time he’s ever had to do that.
But since 2005, the NSA and associated domestic stasi goons have gotten so invasive with panopticon surveilloance that in 2008, the DHS and other federal agencies raided liberal deomnstrators before those demonstrators even had a chance to take to the streets in a non-violent protest against the Bush maladministration at the Minnesota Republican National Convention.
See the story “Eight RNC protesters accused of ‘furthering terrorism’ thanks to statute,” Minneapolis City News, 12 November, 2008.
Of course those terrorism charges were eventually dropped. Almost all the charges were dropped. Only one person plead guilty to a felony, and then only a minor one, conspiracy, in order to avoid spending millions in legal bills, in a plea deal that yielded mostly probation and suspended sentences.
But notice what happened back in 2008…
The federal government crushed a non-violent political deomnstration before it could even get started. They used terrorism laws to destroy the lives of the protesters and bankrupt them with legal bills.
So that’s where we are now. I’d suggest something like Ghandi’s Salt March, with non-violent women and children scaling the White House fence and sitting down in the halls of congress and blocking congressional streets until all of Washington shuts down and national Guard troops get deployed to gun down women like dogs and spray kerosene on children and light them on fire and machine-gun old wmen and people in wheelchairs until the belt-fed weapons run out of bullets… That sort of thing worked to force change in a pre-surveillance pre-NSA world.
But today, all those people would be quietly swept up by black ops teams and spirited away to secret ‘black site” prisons with bags over their heads and dumped into sendep chambers and subjected to sleep deprivation until their brains turned to porridge and they confessed to everything including assassinating JFK and quietly disappeared forever into the U.S. prison/police/surveillance/torture complex.
So even mass non-violent sit-down demonstrations are no longer practical because of universal panopticon surveillance.
That leaves only one option left for resistance to the growth of an increasingly totalitarian system in today’s 2014 late late late Weimar America…work to rule.
Do your job, but only exactly and precisely what the rules require. Work to rule. This bogs the system down and ultimately makes it collapse. That’s what the Russian population wound up doing in the old Soviet Union. And it worked.
This is now our only option for resistance. Do only precisely what the literal rules require in your job. Gum up the works. Follow every picayune bureaucratic rule to the letter until the whole American system falls apart and breaks down.
That’s ultimately what destroyed the former USSR. And it’s the only way I can see that the state of undeclared martial law under universal panopticon surveillance will be successfully destroyed in America.
America fought the Soviet Union for 50 years until we finally turned into the USSR. And America will end the same way the Soviet Union did..not with a revolution, but with a collapse, because the system becomes to oppressive and so totalitarian and so obsessed with paranoia and total surveillance and control and the perpetuation of an out-of-touch superwealthy elite that it becomes unsustainable and collapses.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Helen: You and mclaren can give up. The rest of us will soldier on.
Helen
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): The problem is not “smaller.” I am more than willing to pay more than my fair share. In fact, for the 28 years I have been paying taxes I have paid well over $1,000,000 in just federal income taxes alone. And I live In NYC I also pay 8.5% in State and close to 6% in city income taxes. Not to mention more than 8% in sales taxes. I AM OK WITH MY THE AMOUNT. What I am not OK with is where it is going.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Helen:Yeah. The pendulum never swings. Everything always goes rightward. Jesus., it is starting to go our way. Accept it.
The Dangerman
@kuvasz:
Michelle Obama.
Helen
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): I agree that we are now going leftward. But we are so far right that it is going to take us too many years to get to where I want to be. I no longer have the time or the patience to wait. I will be dead when that happens. So my task is to figure out what I can do to make the next 30 (FSM willing) years of my life happy.
BillinGlendaleCA
@The Dangerman: You’re a funny guy.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Helen: I’m a few years older than you, I’m much more optimistic. Also, you don’t get to choose what happens to your tax dollars other than through the political process. Our ‘friends” on the right take a different view.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Helen: Have fun with it. i can’t really hold your hand. We have to start with the world in which we live.
Helen
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Absolutely. And therein lies my dilemma. In America, 30 people a day are shot. In Ireland 38 people a year are shot. The taxes there are high, close to 40%, but I am paying that now anyway. There my taxes will go to what I want them to go to. And my money will not pay for war. A part of my heart is breaking, planning on leaving here. My mother came here to get away from political strife and war. It’s ironic that I may reverse her steps for exactly the same reason.
Villago Delenda Est
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Really.
Unmitigated bullshit.
Cruz is utterly unfit to be a United States Senator, unlike say utter asswipe Jayuf Sayshuns.
Betty Cracker
@Helen: Sometimes I find the derp and evil overwhelming and disheartening too, and I have to step back and focus on things that don’t make me miserable. You don’t have to select from the three choices you outlined above forever; you can cycle through them, recharging for a time so you can return to the fray with more energy and commitment.
Another Holocene Human
“Eric Holder refuses to enforce the law,” is one of those air horn dog whistles. In this context, “the law” is a dogwhistle.
Naked racism. Your GOP, ladies and germs.
Another Holocene Human
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Ashcroft and Gonzales – first as tragedy, then as farce
Another Holocene Human
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Sure, since there was written language the young people today have been occupying lawns they need to get right the fuck off of, but it’s also objectively true that in terms of Gini index the US is a very different country now than it was in 1980 on the cusp of the Reagan disaster.
Botsplainer
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
Good God, man – can’t you fantasize about retirement money easy-work cases like most lawyers?
You probably enjoy researching and writing briefs while measuring margins and fonts on opposing briefs for potential limit violations.
Botsplainer
@Wag:
Morris Dees would be an outstanding choice…
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Helen: Ireland has issues too. And I read recently that Ireland’s employment issues aren’t being “solved” by improvements in the economy, but by young people (again) leaving.
The world is a big place with lots of good and bad things. We, individually, can’t make the bad things stop. But we do control, to a great degree, our own reactions to it. Find something to do where you can make a difference that’s important to you.
And recognize that we’re a big, rich, country. We can enhance life and liberty here while we bomb ISIL – it’s not an either-or choice. Changes to the Pentagon happen slowly, but they do happen with good leaders. If you think about things as being either-or, you’ll continue to risk despair.
It only takes a few people losing their seats in the House, the Supreme Court, and in state legislatures / governor’s mansions for things to turn around. Yes, it won’t be easy, but do what you can to help that happen sooner rather than later.
HTH a little. Hang in there.
Cheers,
Scott.
chopper
@mclaren:
So you made a suggestion on the internet. And you wonder why what you wanted to see happen didn’t just up and spring forth fully formed as if from the brow of Zeus.
I’ve been a part of mass demonstrations, the sort that shut down large swaths of Washington, D.C. (and other cities) in fact. Riot police, tear gas, the whole nine yards. They didn’t just happen; we joined groups that met, and planned. We planned a lot in fact. It involves a good deal more work than merely making a quip in a blog.
What did you actively do to make your fantasy come to fruition?
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
@mclaren:
Get on it. You’re wasting time here. WASTING PRECIOUS TIME!
Aurona
Sorry I’m late to the party: Jenny Durkin. She is retiring from Seattle (area) and has a good rep, a good dem.
Snarki, child of Loki
Ben Gazi
burnspbesq
Sen. Rafael is strong evidence that even Ivy League admissions offices make mistakes.
He don’t know his history vewwy well, do he?
burnspbesq
@mclaren:
Seriously? Fuck you, you stupid, miserable piece of shit. You have no fucking idea what you’re talking about.
Eric Holder is the best AG of your miserable fucking life. It’s a damn shame that you’re too damn ignorant to realize that.