Filed at 9:21 pm, Wednesday December 30th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
I think I’ve finally figured out how Republicans think. It’s a little complicated, but bear with me:
1. When a terrorist attack that kills almost 3,000 Americans occurs on the watch of a Republican president, 8 months into his term, it’s an inherited and unavoidable tragedy.
Whereas…
When a terrorist attack which kills no one is foiled on […]
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Filed at 8:48 am, Thursday December 24th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
Especially thank you to the 92 year old Robert Byrd, who has been attending roll calls in a wheelchair (and whose death was seemingly hoped for by a Republican Senator trying to stall the bill).
Now let’s move on, merge the bills, make it better, and pass it already. Supposedly the White House will be “involved” […]
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Filed at 9:46 pm, Tuesday December 22nd 2009
by Arlen Parsa
I typically get one or two spam comments per day, which I promptly delete and auto-report to Akismet, the online spam database which grows smarter at identifying spam with each comment it catches. Every now and then a comment is truly hilarious however, as with this one, left on my 2007 post, “ABC News picks […]
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Filed at 10:10 am, Saturday December 19th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
In light of word that Senate Democrats have reached an agreement that all 60 Senators can vote for, I feel compelled to re-visit what I wrote about health care reform in late July, on the heels of what I perceived as major watering down at the time:
My general feeling about the current status of health […]
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Filed at 7:54 pm, Wednesday December 16th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
Honestly, why in the world is the California Republican Party sending me their press releases now? Have they read my blog? This is almost as weird as when the Venezuelan embassy in Washington DC started sending me their stuff.
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Filed at 8:52 pm, Tuesday December 15th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
With Joe Lieberman seemingly hijacking the Senate health care bill and refusing that even the Medicare expansion be removed (despite having advocated the same thing in the past), the water has muddied considerably.
Up until now, I’ve been steadfast in saying that anything under consideration (strong public option, weak public option, Medicare buy-in, etc) is better […]
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Filed at 8:57 am, Sunday December 13th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
Warm congratulations are in order for Texan Annise Parker (D), the new mayor-elect of Houston who happens to be a lesbian:
Annise Parker made history Saturday as Houston’s first openly gay mayor.
Parker, who served five years as city controller, beat former city attorney Gene Locke with 53.6 percent of the vote in a runoff election.
Both are […]
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Filed at 8:11 am, Thursday December 10th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
That was MoveOn’s assessment of the latest heathcare compromise. They sent out a big email blast about it yesterday starting with the line “How could they?“
Oh brother. The latest compromise is of course, not unacceptable at all to the thousands of people whose lives it would save annually. Does it include a broad-based public option […]
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Filed at 9:55 am, Sunday December 06th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
Pretty good.
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Filed at 7:47 pm, Tuesday December 01st 2009
by Arlen Parsa
The jolly off-to-war music they’re playing him out with seems wildly inappropriate for such a serious and somber speech. I think most every progressive goes into this very warily, and there wasn’t anything Obama could have said to dispel that wariness.
He made some fair points about Afghanistan not being Vietnam:
“Unlike Vietnam, we are joined by […]
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