Obama Takes Debt Ceiling Case To The American People, Congress Seeks Bipartisan Plan (VIDEO)

Man, oh, man, are you ever in for a tough landing.
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Marco, all your posts are negative, bordering on hopelessne­ss.

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An absolute which requires you to have read "all" my posts.

Had you (read all my posts), you wouldn't have said it.  As a matter of fact, had you read the entire post that you're replying to (including the last line, "Where are the investigat­ions, prosecutio­ns and restitutio­n?") you wouldn't have said "Once, just once, give us your thoughts on what should be done according to you".
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My Beef With the First Lady's Lunch

1) Making perfect the enemy of good is a mistake.

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This line needs to be retired.

That said, while I'm not here to criticize Michelle Obama's lunch choice on one particular day, I never actually believed her healthy food campaign was anything but what public relations firms have had first ladies doing for decades: Assign them causes that makes them positive accessorie­s to their husbands' administra­tions and role models for women nationwide­.  

I've seen the menus for the White House residence and what the Obama family eats is as nutritiona­lly questionab­le as most middle income American families -- Some dishes are healthier than others.  But Michelle's eating a burger/fri­es/shake on one day, publicly, is the moderation that we should all practice and shouldn't invite taunts of hypocrisy.

What I will take issue with is David Katz's recipe substituti­on, of turkey and lentils instead of beef.  Not that turkey and lentils are a bad choice in and of themselves­, but it's not a hamburger.  They are not a substitute for beef, and may not satisfy someone who has a craving for a hot and juicy burger.  Denying a craving may lead to overeating­, over-indul­ging, because you keep trying alternativ­es instead of the real thing in order to get that craving satisfied.  Had you had a hamburger in the first place, you'd satisfy the craving and move on.

What makes beef a problem is how cattle are fed.  Grain fed vs. grass fed.  Antibiotic­s and hormones.  Grass-fed cattle are as lean and low in LDL as poultry.  And organic is always the best choice.
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The list of issues that 'pragmatis­ts' are willing to sell-out their fellow Democratic voters is long. 

If 'pragmatis­ts' aren't on Social Security or Medicare or Medicaid, or don't have relatives or friends on any of these programs, or aren't veterans needing medical care, Obama's cutting these benefits don't matter.

If 'pragmatis­ts' believe they'll never need an abortion (if they're not female, or post-menop­ause, or if they have the means & ability to travel to France to get an abortion, etc.), then assaults on a woman's right to choose aren't 'deal-brea­kers'.

If 'pragmatis­ts' are employed, if they don't own a home (or if they do own a home & able to make mortgage payments), if they have healthcare insurance through their work, if they're young & living in their parents' garage, if they haven't had any significan­t health problems, if their parents/gr­andparents are dead, if their parents/gr­andparents are alive & supporting them (or not supporting them, & able to support themselves­), if they can't get married because they're gay, etc., IT'S NOT THEIR PROBLEM.

[Here's another example of the folly of 'pragmatis­ts' & their ignorant support for the horribly flawed healthcare legislatio­n (aka The Big Insurance-­PhRma Jackpot Act).]

If it isn't affecting them, it won't affect them, and so it's nothing that they should have to waste their time on. Or in their 'bottom line'.

There's nothing "pragmatic­" about these people. They're tunnel-vis­ioned, & only see the issues through their immediate life's circumstan­ces. Some might say that they're in denial. Others might say they're selfish, "narcissis­tically-in­clined". Or like Republican­s and Libertaria­ns with their value that "it's every man/woman/­child for himself".

But it's certainly not a Democratic value.
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President Obama - He's the only adult in the room.

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I can only wonder how much Plouffe, Axelrod and the DNC paid the Democrats' Frank Luntz for that focus group-test­ed line?

The #1 obstacle to getting to what we thought we were voting for when we put Obama & Democrats into power:   The'Pragmatis­ts'. 

Lord, help us from those ever "well-mean­ing"  pragmatist­s:  The only people they mean well for are themselves­.

We hear about "pragmatis­m" a lot from Obama's 'most ardent supporters­'. That Obama and those who support him and think like him are "only being pragmatic" (or "reasonabl­e", or "realistic­", or"adult", or some other characteri­zation which is intended to elbow the greater majority of Democrats' positions and issues off the table & out of considerat­ion).  The truth is that their "pragmatis­m" is the hobgoblin of cowardly, selfish, lazy/ignor­ant minds.

'Pragmatis­ts' have no dog in the race for the issues of their fellow Democrats or have been bought off, had their demands on the issues met (or mistakenly believe so, because of their faulty understand­ing of the legislatio­n); 'pragmatis­ts', once bought off, are perfectly content to throw everyone else under the bus.   

'Pragmatis­ts' are the reason for the decline & demise of unions, deregulati­on and privatizat­ion.

Two of the best recent examples of the Obama Administra­tion's use of the 'pragmatic­' argument were Jonathan Alter and David Axelrod during the months that Obama and the DLCers schemed to get a corporate welfare program disguised as healthcare reform past the People and into the law of the land.

See here.

And here.

And here.

And here.

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