Who's gonna pay? ...

Such a question:

Here's what this all comes down to, dogma or no dogma: who is going to pay for a) the Bush tax cuts b) the bank bailouts and c) the Iraq and Afghanistan wars? If you want to get there by making janitors and pipe-fitters wait until they're 69 to retire, raise your hand. If you want to get there by making Jamie Dimon rent out his 900-foot rooftop terrace in Chicago two nights a year, raise your hand. [via The Left Coaster]

Guess, as if it's not absolutely clear, who Obama wants to carry the load. The 'good' Christian that he is he even calls it a sacrifice. Yours, not his, of course.

Right, after all they only had two years ...

Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Repeal Could Become Victim of Senate Calendar

If they had four years do you think they would have done any better? I don't.

I, personally, don't think Obama ever intended to fight for anything that would show actual belief in even a few principles or would require sustained effort, determination and possibly some courage.

Two years seems long enough to 'hope' for something other than Obama's usual ineptitude and/or deceit.

All the authoritarians are piddling in their pants about WikiLeads ...

If any one event epitomizes what an ugly gangster-like bully the US has become it is the concerted and lawless threats to and actions taken against WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.

Some of the cowardly and shameful behaviour by those acting in the name of and for the US is listed the Glenn Greenwalds post: The lawless Wild West attacks WikiLeaks