Antonin Scalia Blasts Health Care Reform Decision, Says Supreme Court Is Not 'Political' (VIDEO)

you've a lot more faith in the people than I, for if it's not OJ or some other salacious pop BS, the short attention span of Americans only serve the interest of the elite.

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It's not faith; it's just knowledge of a few truths about the American people.  All westerners, really, all people who live in industrialized capitalist nations.  It's knowledge that you probably know, as do the establishment elites and politicians:  The American people hate losers.  The American people will forgive almost anything and anyone, except those who don't fight back.  

I think that's the real reason that Jimmy Carter lost his bid for reelection.   

And it's why Al Gore lost in 2000.  

Both let others get the upper hand, dictate the terms of the campaigns and the elections, and in Al Gore's case, the terms of the outcome.  Gore trusted that the rule of law would be the order of the day.  

I don't think Gore anticipated or believed that what happened outside of the legal process mattered or would affect the outcome.  He picked the wrong man (Warren Christopher) to face off with Jim Baker.  While Gore, Christopher and Democrats were playing baseball, Bush, Baker and Republicans were playing football.  
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Antonin Scalia Blasts Health Care Reform Decision, Says Supreme Court Is Not 'Political' (VIDEO)

Talk of Democratic politicians having no spines are greatly exaggerated, just like Obama's timidity is myth:  He's plenty tough when it comes to standing up to the Democratic base. 

Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats want what they want. The DLC-controlled DemocraticParty gives lip service to all populist issues (like jobs, civil rights protections, restoring habeas corpus, ending the wars, public healthcare, WallStreet reform, environmental and energy issues, etc.). 

If the Bush years taught us anything, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid and relentless in your sales pitch and tactics. It's not that Bush and Rove were geniuses and knew something that nobody else knew; Bush and Rove were just more ruthless in doing what politicians and the parties had gone to great lengths to hide from Americans -- If you keep at it, escalate your attacks,  don't take 'no' for an answer, never back away, you'll wear the opposition down.

Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish Clinton's machine (to get the nomination) and the oldest, most experienced politicians in US history (including the RoveMachine) by not having mastered these skills. Nor do Democratic politicians (more incumbents than ever, in office longer) not know how to do it. How do you think Democrats managed to keep impeaching BushCheney off the table, have us still reelecting them, not marching on Washington with torches and pitchforks?

Obama and Democrats know how to do it -- They don't want to do it. 

The trick for them has been to keep the many different populist groups believing that they really do support our issues, but they're merely inept. And to get us to keep voting for them despite their failure to achieve our alleged shared objectives.

Getting Democratic voters (and Obama's 'most ardent supporters') to understand that Democratic politicians have been taking us all for suckers and patsies is the most immediate problem and the challenge.
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Kate Middleton Preps For Olympics With Prince William & Prince Harry (PHOTOS)

Whatever the Queen and Charles have, it's an entail.  The last entail, too; they live off the greatest expense account ever created.  Whatever personal money they have (and the Queen's personal worth has been estimated around $500 million), it's not like she (or Charles) made it on her own, from scratch.  Wouldn't we all like a deal where just by being born into the Royal family, you get an income for life, all expenses paid, get to live in any number of palaces, wear the crown jewels, have people waiting on you hand and foot and serving you the finest food and wines and organizing your day/life/closets, all paid for by the taxpayer.  

Whatever William inherits from Diana's estate, where do you think Diana's money came from?  (Hint: The Royal family)  Same with Charles' money - It's inherited income, from the Duchy established in the 1300s, to fund the life of the heir to the throne.  

The British are paying an awful lot of money to watch other people enjoy the best that life has to offer (if you have all the money in the world).  
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Kate Middleton Preps For Olympics With Prince William & Prince Harry (PHOTOS)

If you knew any migrant workers, you'd know that like fishermen, they get paid by the volume or weight of what they're harvesting.  And like fishermen who don't get paid hourly and don't get paid for the time they've spent setting lines/nets/traps, repairing the nets, icing the hull, etc., migrants don't get paid for the time they spend tending the crop.  And harvests are gambles, particularly in the unsettling weather patterns of the past years.  

Out of whatever money they get for harvesting the crop, they get charged by their 'wranglers' for expenses (room, board, transportation, etc.).

Whatever they earn is an annual salary (or bi-annual, if they can land winter crops, and transportation costs), and must be stretched to support them from one harvest to the next harvest.  

But as a law-abiding and patriotic American, if you knew any of these diseased, criminal migrants, you'd turn them in, right?

/sarcasm off
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Antonin Scalia Blasts Health Care Reform Decision, Says Supreme Court Is Not 'Political' (VIDEO)

I did it again.  

That should have read, "and she joined the conservatives on the MEDICAID portion of ACA (that states may opt out) a couple of weeks ago."
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Richard Muller: 'Humans Are Almost Entirely The Cause' Of Climate Change

Thank you for replying.  I respect your doing that.

May I ask you just what it is that you're not buying?  What, specifically, do you believe is a scam?
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Antonin Scalia Blasts Health Care Reform Decision, Says Supreme Court Is Not 'Political' (VIDEO)

ElenaKagan is the GoldmanSacks seat, not to mention that she was the 5th vote in rolling back Miranda a few weeks ago, and she joined the conservatives on the Medicare portion of ACA (that states may opt out) a couple of weeks ago.

Obama's spin when trying to get both Kagan and Sotomayor (a lackluster intellect if ever there was one) confirmed was that they'd be effective at countering the conservati­ves arguments when it came to trying to pull Kennedy over.  It hasn't happened; Roberts, Alito, and Scalia wield far greater political warfare skills.  And it was Kennedy who worked on Roberts for weeks, to bring Roberts over to the conservative side on ACA??

In claims against big business, Sotomayor (herself a former corporate lawyer) wrote the dissent in a 2-1 decision that ultimately favored victims' families.  This was concerning the 1996 crash of TWA flight 800 off of LongIsland.  Sotomayor wrote, "The crash hadn't occurred in US territorial waters, therefore victims' families shouldn't have had the right to sue for extra damages."  She wrote that the judges who disagreed with her were ignoring legislative history and earlier case law," saying "their decision was a legislative policy choice which shouldn't be made by the courts".  

That's conservative talk.

In 2002, on the issue of abortion, Sotomayor upheld Bush's 'Global Gag Rule' (the policy of withholding funds for international groups that offer family planning information and services, including abortion).  

On the issue of discrimination, she frequently rules against plaintiffs.  For example, in 2004, she ruled against African-American corrections' officers who said they were retaliated against for filing discrimination complaints.

Sotomayor certainly doesn't look at the law through the prism of how it serves the interests of the People.

And Sotomayor was with the Scalia-Thomas-Alito faction that boycotted the SOTU - Sotomayor was in Guam, addressing a group of students and swearing in new members of the Guam Bar Association, a first for a US Supreme Court Justice (are you kidding, Sonia, missing the most public showing of US democracy and the 3 branches of government by leaving the US for a 5 day trip to Guam?).

We need more Earl Warrens.  What we don't need are politicians looking to avoid a fight, and want to work "in a bipartisan manner".  Republicans declared war on Democrats years and years ago, while Democrats keep trying to "make nice".  Democratic politicians have gotten fat and lazy, feathering their own nests while Republicans have made long inroads into furthering corporate interests.  

Whether Democrats are inept or corrupt, the result is the same: They have failed to protect the interests of the 99%.  And all that they're putting out this campaign season is warmed-over Republican-like policies when drastic populist steps need to be taken.
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