tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post7085293112768077070..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-27953725201633129352014-08-01T20:02:18.468-04:002014-08-01T20:02:18.468-04:00So you've got one group of people who despite ...<i>So you've got one group of people who despite Obama for allegedly being a dictator and you've got another group of people who are dissatisfied because he's not a dictator.</i><br /><br />And then there are the ones <a href="http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/07/gop-tells-obama-to-ignore-congress-a-day-after-suing-him-for-ignoring-congress/375418/" rel="nofollow">on both sides</a>, right?Yastreblyanskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08335868257729063363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-15495895155842401822014-08-01T08:28:57.234-04:002014-08-01T08:28:57.234-04:00"The rest of the public needs some civics edu..."The rest of the public needs some civics education. In the absence of that, yes, American politics is broken."<br /><br />And that's why a lot of High Schools have cut back Civics classes - conservatives want to keep people ignorant.<br /><br />And our "Fourth Estate" hasn't exactly done a bang-up job of telling people how batshit insane the Republican Party has become.<br /><br /> Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-75862160335475058632014-08-01T08:24:31.977-04:002014-08-01T08:24:31.977-04:00Philo,,
Methinks you don't understand how char...Philo,,<br />Methinks you don't understand how charts work, and what they're trying to show.<br /><br />Take another look at that first chart again, and submit another paper.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-49788784551858868922014-08-01T06:16:45.868-04:002014-08-01T06:16:45.868-04:00"But most of the rest of America, as Drum say..."But most of the rest of America, as Drum says, would like Obama to take the law into his own hands. These people don't know how government works. They just expect the president to, well, lead somehow, all by himself, in utter disregard of how our government works."<br /><br />Democrats, especially liberals.Philo Vaihingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17150326435392881297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-23989822424873277732014-07-31T16:18:16.477-04:002014-07-31T16:18:16.477-04:00Moreover, how much of that remaining 15 percent un...Moreover, how much of that remaining 15 percent understand the <i>extent</i> of the roadblocks (judicial, corporate, legislative, infrastructural)? How many of them have enough fight left in them to really do what they can re: personal activism? <br /><br />All it would take is a Republican who could dazzle just enough people with a shiny new market-friendly stance -- Christie's "salt of the earth" Ralph Kramden-like bombast had and maybe still has possibilities -- and all the data damning recent Republican governance (or lack thereof) would be largely ignored. A scary and vulnerable place for America to be, even if the current crop of charmless Repubs seem to be doing their damndest to squander their presidential opportunities.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10944458838509326421noreply@blogger.com