tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post2312506886396852727..comments2024-03-28T08:12:03.998-04:00Comments on the daily howler: Now they even have Kevin Drum!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-39613069741899178582021-12-25T01:31:25.623-05:002021-12-25T01:31:25.623-05:00moncler coat
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As a matter of policy, then, "Do no harm" requires you to think beyond simply the patient before you at the moment (especially if she just could use a few stitches -- think WWII vets wanting to visit the WWII Memorial, for instance).<br />Boy, that "do no harm" can be misused. mchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-38948958079884412812013-10-05T23:55:16.284-04:002013-10-05T23:55:16.284-04:00Bear in mind it's also only showboating about ...Bear in mind it's also only showboating about the school kids. TDH has never shown any support for any progressive journalism or policy on school kids.Trollmesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-24761634548101104662013-10-05T18:46:03.260-04:002013-10-05T18:46:03.260-04:00"But refusing to fall for the Republicans'..."But refusing to fall for the Republicans' incremental CR ploy is the right thing for them to do, since this is just another hostage-taking ploy[.]"<br /><br />The needle on _your_ speculator is hitting "absolute certainty," but others are more circumspect.<br /><br />Following Jon Haidt, the moral guidepost that liberals and conservatives share is "do no harm." Voting against things that will prevent harm is liable to influence those who aren't blinded by partisan interests.<br /><br />JoshSNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08034864979736555692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-80727005069136661702013-10-05T13:11:19.962-04:002013-10-05T13:11:19.962-04:00You don't fund one item at a time. The Democra...You don't fund one item at a time. The Democrats (believe it or not, finally) are doing the right thing. <br /><br />You want to save kids with cancer? Have a clean CR brought up for a vote on the floor and stop pretending it's appropriate to negotiate with terrorists.SophieCTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-22179580997157430642013-10-05T12:20:44.607-04:002013-10-05T12:20:44.607-04:00JoshSN, "Bob has never cared for the politica...JoshSN, "Bob has never cared for the political aims or aspirations of either party." Really? So Bob's foundational narrative for this blog, that journalists' total lack of professionalism played a decisive role in Al Gore's not being elected president, and that Al Gore would have been a far better president than George Bush, is not to be confused with Bob's caring about the political aims or aspirations of either party?<br /><br />Of course some of what the Democrats are doing is wrong. How could that not be true of any group? But refusing to fall for the Republicans' incremental CR ploy is the right thing for them to do, since this is just another hostage-taking ploy by a small group of Republicans in the House and their so-called "leadership." <br /><br />Pass a clean CR (which, for a limited time, would restore ALL existing programs at levels set out in the last budget) and THEN have proper negotiations about a new budget. This would be the practical thing to do (and it's the way Congress is designed to work when it hasn't passed a new budget by the Oct. 1 deadline), and this is all the Democrats (and many Republicans, if few of them on the public record) are asking for.<br /><br />The Tea Party-types don't want to do this because they don't have the power to stop enactment of the ACA (even whose funding they have few opportunities to affect), and they just cannot accept that they lost that political battle. So, instead of compromising with a Democratic-controlled Senate, a Democratic president, and Democrats in the House to produce a budget, and even though the budget presented them by the Senate has more cuts than Paul Ryan proposed and continues the arbitrary cuts of sequestration, a small group of Republicans in the House has engineered what amounts to a rebellion against governance. Harry Reid and President Obama are right to refuse to negotiate about a clean CR with these rebels. mchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-23338907683973077672013-10-05T12:18:53.392-04:002013-10-05T12:18:53.392-04:00So, you just Godwin'd yourself!
Of course, w...So, you just Godwin'd yourself! <br /><br />Of course, we *know* you're NEVER going to go away lowercasedouchebag!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-35453546057977309622013-10-05T10:15:29.214-04:002013-10-05T10:15:29.214-04:00" It's all about him. "
Yeah, he sh..." It's all about him. "<br /><br />Yeah, he should get his own damn blog!<br /><br />Oh, wait...CeceliaMchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16017255006204800193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-61109916914693343982013-10-05T10:05:06.385-04:002013-10-05T10:05:06.385-04:00heil howler, generally such discrete and isolated ...heil howler, generally such discrete and isolated actions are called "mercy".<br /><br />CeceliaMchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16017255006204800193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-14461649851877570362013-10-05T09:55:03.388-04:002013-10-05T09:55:03.388-04:00KZ, finally an area you know whereof you speak.
L...KZ, finally an area you know whereof you speak.<br /><br />Lube.CeceliaMchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16017255006204800193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-64922142561569221732013-10-05T09:49:31.535-04:002013-10-05T09:49:31.535-04:00Anon10:44pm, you need to get an argument or get be...Anon10:44pm, you need to get an argument or get better insults.<br /><br />As it stands, you ain't getting it done.CeceliaMchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16017255006204800193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-80881549908987707032013-10-05T09:44:05.086-04:002013-10-05T09:44:05.086-04:00deadrat, I'm not arguing the wisdom of the shu...deadrat, I'm not arguing the wisdom of the shutdown.<br /><br />Any time I have argued for entitlement reform, the other side has waived away all my objections to the status quo with the argument that at bottom their positions met the needs of people and that mine limited that number, or helped them not at all.<br /><br />"Do you want people to go without because you're concerned with so-and-so..." has been the final answer.<br /><br />Yet here, in this matter, that bottom line has disappeared.<br /><br />CeceliaMchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16017255006204800193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-58520300687537020862013-10-05T09:21:36.665-04:002013-10-05T09:21:36.665-04:00Actually Dash's whole interview was obnoxious ...Actually Dash's whole interview was obnoxious and unprofessional and reeked of everything his despised in crap journalism when Tim Russart pulled it on Al Gore. Her comment alone "O.K., so you are calling Boehner a wimp" would have gotten her fired in a sane world. <br /> As Paster Bob used to protest, and how he has shown us in a few rather sordid occasions, "I'm not that liberal." Events sometimes paint him into a bit of a corner, as they did when he told us Romney's 48 per cent comment was not that bad and kind of true, and they have done it this week. All The Paster can do with the truth of what the poor little Tea Party has done is blather about "times of tribal tension." Can we talk? Bob doesn't care much about struggling Americans or people with no heath care. The Paster can only showboat about school kids. Your Church is smelly this week, Pastor Bob. Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288008924419574934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-78826773172503312252013-10-05T09:12:08.310-04:002013-10-05T09:12:08.310-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288008924419574934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-81854978023232638182013-10-05T07:35:48.694-04:002013-10-05T07:35:48.694-04:00Ted Cruz is a member of Congress who is seeking to...Ted Cruz is a member of Congress who is seeking to disrupt the functions of government. Bob is a independent journalist.<br /><br />It is sufficient for an independent journalist to say, like a stern parent "Stop doing that!"<br /><br />Some of what the Democrats are doing is wrong. My sister is a huge Obama supporter, but her initial reaction to learning why the Democrats weren't supporting these mini-funding bills was "Well, I'm not sure how I feel about that, but..."<br /><br />Politically the Democrat's arguments against mini-funding make sense, practically, they don't.<br /><br />Bob has never cared for the political aims or aspirations of either party.JoshSNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08034864979736555692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-76566930114329774062013-10-05T07:29:39.387-04:002013-10-05T07:29:39.387-04:00I just read the Bloomberg article. Strangely, as o...I just read the Bloomberg article. Strangely, as of 5pm last night, Rep. Dennis Ross was still tweeting to the Senate that he wants them to pass the House version of the CR. So, I'm skeptical how deeply rooted is his reversal.<br /><br />https://twitter.com/RepDennisRoss/status/386233796871593984JoshSNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08034864979736555692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-48181936526518375312013-10-05T02:08:39.338-04:002013-10-05T02:08:39.338-04:00i do hereby declare by the power invested in me by...i do hereby declare by the power invested in me by my vaguely scary monicker that any commenter who asks another commenter to go away shall him or herself go away. failure to obey this now hard commenter law shall result in uncontrollable self loathing or the heartbreak of psoriasis or both.heil howler!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-87302595030736476622013-10-05T01:51:15.154-04:002013-10-05T01:51:15.154-04:00mch, yes it is "...all about him". good...mch, yes it is "...all about him". good to bear this in mind whenever reading this thing.heil howler!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-56589261981470607372013-10-05T01:42:08.274-04:002013-10-05T01:42:08.274-04:00Me too. '02 was a good year.Me too. '02 was a good year.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-5391786300586511662013-10-05T01:40:08.205-04:002013-10-05T01:40:08.205-04:00"Journalists can only cover stories when they..."Journalists can only cover stories when they can get them, which involves communication."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-38486962178454106412013-10-05T01:32:42.389-04:002013-10-05T01:32:42.389-04:00CeceliaMc,
No, the argument for the ACA is that i...CeceliaMc,<br /><br />No, the argument for the ACA is that it's important to get most Americans access to health insurance. The previous plan was not sustainable; the current plan may be better. In any case, it's the law. We're not dealing with the opinions of conservatives. No real conservative would consider the current hostage-taking proper legislative conduct. No matter how much teahadists and other Republicans cowed by teahadists may argue about unintended consequences, the fact is that no one knows all the consequences. Mostly because the full provisions of the law haven't taken effect. Taking the position that we must defund the law now because of dire predictions based on ignorance is tantamount to irrationality.<br /><br />If the law has unfortunate unintended consequences, then our representatives can fix those when they happen. If the law has nothing but unfortunate unintended consequences, then our reps can repeal it.deadratnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-22000687249020153102013-10-05T01:27:52.480-04:002013-10-05T01:27:52.480-04:00ceceliamc, regarding making an exception for the f...ceceliamc, regarding making an exception for the funding of the cancer treatments. in germany there is an old adage "ordnung muss sein", there must be order . . . it should not be negotiable.<br /><br />any discrete action which *in isolation* may be socially beneficial, but which weakens good order is on balance negative. [except rarely when the current order is generally deemed detrimental to society overall.] <br /><br />to somewhat alter voltaires “Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien”: the pursuit of the better can become the enemy of the good. heil howler!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-84858254956921357132013-10-05T01:24:00.229-04:002013-10-05T01:24:00.229-04:00OMG. I thought you were the other anonymous.
KZOMG. I thought you were the other anonymous.<br /><br />KZAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-5520241892716374472013-10-05T00:29:22.654-04:002013-10-05T00:29:22.654-04:00First of all, thanks for the explanation because, ...First of all, thanks for the explanation because, as it were, I was puzzling over this assertion that cancer treatment had been cut off for some children. Now, this puts the whole thing into perspective. So, did Bash explain the situation before launching into her loaded query? I am guessing no, she didn't. I think one would be correct to get irritated with such a question. And I am not going to even touch on the irony of the republicans pleading for the socialized medicine to save the children. Ilyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09520998225031485048noreply@blogger.com