Peter the Bubblehead: Aside from the ongoing mystery of why ANYONE would select “the bubblehead”, let’s chat about some facts. Adolf, a true hater of communists, started WWII; over 37 million people died as a result. Add up some of the small timers in Chile, Brazil, Spain under Franco etc and you have a total that I suspect exceeds the “lefty” total. Yes? No?
A thinking Person: ignoring Pelto’s faux swagger (“never go to a gunfight…” from the man who has never even been in a foodfight, and lists being a “jumpmaster” as among his premiere life acomplishments), I see as usual you have real stuff to talk about: I don’t know how I cna prod Pelto into outrageous statements if I have to deal with your insistence that we be productive, but here goes:
I don’t want to shock you, but I agree O and Pelosi are veering toward that oh so very comfortable “they don’t need to know/I am doing it for their own good/let’s rush this through since real debate will kill it/I know better beause the media tells me I am smarter than eveyone else” approach and that is not good; ….(2) the obsequious media build up focusing all on Obama –a lot of it justified and some of it misplaced worship of a politician of whom they ought to be more skeptical–has not receded much, but the news of the spending is giving a lot of people second thoughts: that is good since legislation isn’t supposed to be a cram down on the American people; Pelosi is using it to cram down legislation that no one–no one has read. That is offensive no matter who does it. (OK I told you you’d be shocked)…..(3) I think your foreign policy slams are unfair: O’s upped the strength in Afghanistan as promised and as needed; there is not much to do with Iran and NoKorea right now–I mean Bush did nothing either and there is a big gap between sanctions and doing somehting serious. I mean really, short of sending Chuck Pelto to deal with Iran, what can be done that won’t inflame things there and undermine the people there who seem evry irritated at their head guy whose name I can’t spell.
Having said all that: we need a change in health insurance and people are tired of waiting–we know it won’t come from the GOP–they had 1994-2006 to do someting and failed: evryone knows if it isn’t done now it’ll be another 20 years. So I think that feeling–it has to happen now–is driving a lot. And the GOP’s inaction on the issue makes a lt of people willing to go with the rushed plan and its cost. After all, if we don’t spend it here, we’ll spend it somewhere else.
