Comments on: The Liberal Supermajority

By: Neurotic Dem

Neurotic Dem — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:41:09 +0000

I should note that when Rush says things like he said yesterday — “It’s amazing, the similarities in the Minnesota electoral system and that in Iran” — he’s really undermining his own cause.
Which he has every right to do.
-ND

By: Neurotic Dem

Neurotic Dem — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:09:47 +0000

For the record, Michael, I’m with you. I was being tongue-in-cheek about eliminating conservative talk radio. I think it would be wrong for Obama to target his political opponents by trying to silence them — and, not only that, it would likely backfire, politically. Thanks for that quote from Ben LaBolt — I take him at his word.
The point I was trying to make, though, was a broader one — about the extremes of the rhetoric (Obama will institute socialism! He will take your guns! He will eliminate conservative talk radio!). That rhetoric has a real impact, in inflaming some section of public sentiment against him.
Having said that, I will say that when I lived in D.C., there was a strong, vocal, committed citizenry determined to get statehood for the District — or at least some form of true representation. I used to love the license plate tag for D.C.: “Taxation Without Representation.” (I remember, George Bush refused to have that license plate, on his DC registered limo.) I wonder, as an aside, if all those conservatives who held “Tea Parties” on tax day to protest Obama’s fiscal policies would go to bat for District residents, who, in fact, face daily the injustice that spawned the original Boston Tea party.
And Larry — for me, Obama’s election did just that; it energized my faith in our system.
Thanks, all, for posting.
-ND

By: Michael Conley

Michael Conley — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:26:30 +0000

By: Michael Conley

Michael Conley — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:25:44 +0000

The American people did vote for change, but I’m certain that those same people (the vast majority being moderates) will not stand for our government deciding what we can and can’t listen too.

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:55:53 +0000

Well, this super majority in the Senate is after all, a result of the vote of the people. I noticed that Obama won by a hearty majority of electoral as well as popular votes. People were ready for a change. That was what they demanded. And it shows up in the House and Senate elections, too.

Have confidence in the people to correct anything that needs correcting.

By: Loyal

Loyal — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:31:59 +0000

I believe the fairness doctrine should be re-instated — just one of many parts of the Reagan Retrogression that need to be undone, and that the only (small d) democratic option is for DC to have statehood.

Just my .02.

Loyal

By: Michael Conley

Michael Conley — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:42:21 +0000

If Mr. Obama sticks to his word, the Fairness Doctrine will never be reinstated.

“As the president stated during the campaign, he does not believe the Fairness Doctrine should be reinstated,” White House spokesman Ben LaBolt told FOXNews.com.

I have confidence that Obama will hold true to his campaign promise and veto any such legislation.