Lawrence Lessig Calls Glenn Greenwald's Critique Of Elena Kagan 'Absurd'

Remember that this was a time when the dumbing down of Americans began in earnest, with the creation of USA Today and abridged news. Americans were getting less information and liking it more. News divisions of the television networks were being absorbed into the entertainment divisions.



Unwilling to challenge the assault on liberalism (and wanting to rise into power), conservative Democrats created the DLC. If they had any honesty or integrity to them, they would have become Republicans, but Republicans already had their leadership so there could be no easy rise within the party to power.



It looks like you swallowed the Kool-Aid, and have no idea what liberal policies are or why and how they built this great nation and kept the US at the forefront (up until conservatives wrecked it all).
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Lawrence Lessig Calls Glenn Greenwald's Critique Of Elena Kagan 'Absurd'

Conservatives, however, brooded over what they believed was an unfair rap on their champion Nixon. They schemed, plotted, and went into government. The Federalist Society was created, and out of it came the methods employed by Bush and Cheney this past decade for getting around Congress to achieve a unitary executive. Also, how they could replenish their voting base (enter Ralph Reed and the Christian Coalition, Oral Roberts, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Bob Jones, creating universities that churn out lawyers and teachers and missionaries to enter government service and put their own unique spin on their jobs).



But until that got up and running, they had to get a charismatic candidate who transcended party affiliation, who would appeal to working Democrats.



Straight out of Central Casting (and GE), they got Ronald Reagan.



Reagan (and Lee Atwater), using crude marketing tactics (the sophisticated techniques came later), turned the very word 'liberal' into something to run from. Democratic politicians at that time thought it so abzurd, that Reagan's tax and deregulation policies were so bad for the People (regular folk, union members, like those in your own family), that they didn't even bother to address the attacks -- Surely no one would believe it. But they didn't take the power and persuasiveness of celebrity into account. The media stopped reporting critically about Reagan because they got angry hate mail, "Stop attacking our President!"
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Lawrence Lessig Calls Glenn Greenwald's Critique Of Elena Kagan 'Absurd'

The republicans moved in because the left became so entrenched that they stopped listening to people who were on their side but also had ideas they wanted implemented.

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The sixties was a time where different populist minority groups came into their own all around the world, beginning with student protests at universities. Do you remember the free speech movement and Mario Savio, and the women's rights groups, blacks and hispanics, hippies, yippies, etc.? The Vietnam War was a rallying issue, but all these groups were kicked off by JFK's assassination, followed by MLK's and RFK's.



The unrest of those days was exhausting, and by the time the Vietnam War ended and Nixon resigned, the left thought their work was done. With Nixon gone and Republicans disgraced, with the Church Commission exposing their abuses and instituting changes to prevent government abuses again, it was time to get back to 'real life', i.e., college, work, making families, and so on.
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Elena Kagan Tapped For Supreme Court

Obama hasn't let you down yet by doing what, precisely?



What has he done to clean up after Bush? Specifically.
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Fishing Closed By Oil Spill: Feds Ban Commercial And Recreational Fishing From Louisiana To Florida

All any president would had to have done to satisfy your statement was to change the light bulbs in the White House residence.



When did 0bamabots (who I'm becoming more and more convinced are paid political operatives) come to believe that comparing Obama's performance to Bush is an adequate defense?



Bush was a disaster -- Most people with a mind know that. But Obama is continuing just about all of Bush's policies. There's no excuse and there's not defense for that.
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Fishing Closed By Oil Spill: Feds Ban Commercial And Recreational Fishing From Louisiana To Florida

Blocking a Manhattan-style project for getting Americans clean and cheap energy is not something either party wants to be seen doing. Neither before this latest disaster or now after it's happened.



Let's remember that Obama paid a lot of lip service to green energy before he got into the White House, and afterwards he's been actively promoting coal, nuclear and oil. Both parties = Corporate Governing



Call Congress and the White House and demand action on clean alternatives now.
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Fishing Closed By Oil Spill: Feds Ban Commercial And Recreational Fishing From Louisiana To Florida

Whatever happened to Obama's proposed Manhattan-style project for green energy?
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