Aye of Newt

The Interpretation of Dreams*
Pre and post Freud.(Nietszche/Jung)***
Projection of terms/Slash/Tools.
The difference between ends and means seems lost.

Speaking of lost, find Armey's only regret is "calling for" government shutdown before doing it.(My original source was MSNBC, but haven't located it.)
Well? Close enough and speaking of intent...not exactly.**
But is that Alinsky, or both ends against the middle or "authentically dishonest"?

Footnote: This was originally intended to hold some comments for later research, but worked out in the end, excessive links aside.
Label: Post-Nietzschean-Manichean-Platonics.
[Original footnote:(LABEL aside)I was not aware of earlier uses of Aye of Newt.]
* [the two links inserted later]
** [exactly(Forbes/D'Sousa)]
***[4 links added]
QED?
[progressive/pragmatic verses purity/pragmatic = incremental no slippery slope]
[See Comment.]
[One Nation & The Plan]

Framing Narratives

Don't even Think of an Elephant!

The Last Word

Game Change

The Rachel Maddow Show

The gist of this riff?

The impact of whine and geez!

Walk** Like an Egyptian!*

[3-14-12 asterisks added ]

[ "I feel like I can say anything[!]..." NOT!***]

*It is ironic that Betty Knox went on to be a war correspondent.

** U.S. Autumn

*** an example of spin: former quote actually in latter link.

(Excuse me for the cross threads, no pun on mean [!])

(warning under "anything" (maybe)requires Facebook membership)

[Not to pun on Dead C Scrolls, but I hope there are no cross ups(2) in my links.]

[Oops, see comments, and cartoon.]

[Re: Market Forces]

[Re: Comments ! ]

[Re: never mind N-FRY.]

Under "never mind" I have now read the latter and the former maybe later. The "mind" is a very academic place. The "never" a more pragmatic problem under the umbrella of our creators. Whether I ever get to read the "git mo" piece may be irrelevant. The point germinates from our "Try Angle" and the dilemma of transparency and the dangers of ab-solutions. (pun on absolutes) [I don't think absolute freedom of information is possible, let alone pragmatic. But the emphasis it on "absolute", as well as a careful reading of our architectural documents, which I believe lay the organic groundwork for progress, as opposed to Jeramiahs(^). Critics of the president must realize that he is responsible whether Congress frames the right tools or the Global Village (let alone Supreme Court) goes along. Yet I am still digesting James Fallows take here, where ultimately it is our choice to choose forward or Re-verse. C- Elephant (3)]

(^) 3-16-12 spell check Jeremiah

(Original: synonym for pessimists, not to pun on prophetic hope.)

Slippery Slope

and the Pragmatic Plumber(*), a metarhetorical reply.

(*)not exactly a (cf) or "Ctrl F" but a pun on a part of a navigation tool, the plumb line, not to mention the pendulum C3. Not to Pen Dull Em but thank you Betty** Boop.

** Oops! Becky Boop (under Pragmatic Link)

Go Left Young Man!

The Pre-Midterm Mandate: The Ed Effect!
Pragmatic Pen Dull Em?
Mass a Choose Its!
Randslide!

Just in! To which I have preemptively addressed in the form of a constitutional "Ctrl F" for "freedom" and "commerce" in that the answer is in the first amendment, if one is not a Utopian reader, it concludes with the freedom..."to petition the Government for a redress of grievances". i.e. Commerce is under the legislative article and "A Republic if you can keep it" and if one can preamble.

[Go West Young Man?]

The Club of Association

Or Dis Member* meant, and not just another excuse to MoveOn,
but the last two links in the *** segment,the club of association) refer to some efforts at dealing in a more pragmatic and incremental way. It is still a rhetorical and organizational Heckuva Kitchen counter. Speaking of Moxy.
It is sometimes an awkward counter.

* again violence to the language and rhetoric only, yet definitely Marxist if you check my meaning or scroll over

[Correction and 2nd link added]
[More on the alphabet soup of the Network Theory: ABC, Anti-Billy Club... maybe that poses legal problems, especially for a network. Before I continue with my thinking an in liu of not giving it away, maybe I will develop this legally off line. Till that happens there is no harm in continuing to list the...(careful now) R and D under Research and Development. R's will be the likes of Bills or Wills on the Right(Research) and D's will be the likes of Bills and Wills of the Left. Now just like Republicans may be linked to the Tea Party for better or worse(and that is for whom to say/), the Development side will be more inclusive and may not be as sensitive about labels.]

PARTY POOPER POLL

INDEPENDENT POLL:
(if you are a Democratic Voter go here)

Is President Obama...
A. a wimp B. pragmatic C. not a progressive D. a puppet E. a genius ?

(conservatives vote here)

Bottom Line?

Who gets it?
The line in question is in the last link or post:
"subset of sovereignty or tangle"
But I wonder if Michael Hudson really gets it? Post G-20?
We all know it is about who gets it(materially), but some realize there is a question of values(spiritually) but where we mix things up regards the democracy and economics and a devaluing of politics, and the powers that be.(the people and their relationships) In this regard, I mix the allegory of the egg(Humpty) versus the wall(Dumpty) and working on lowering both rather than breaking or knocking both down. Keeping in mind, the pragmatic and incremental, and the cooperative and the competitive dynamics of the whole process. Given that there is more of a bubble problem than the wall problem when it comes to numbers and the creative derivative situation, it seems that a leak is in order, and that might be in the form of tax reform. AKA: Entitlement reform. (not really AKA, more like biofeedback* wise)
*simply a very complex dynamics
[To sum it up, there is a very interesting exchange on Face the Nation where a new congressman (Rep.-Elect Mike Kelly) presents an interesting "reality": "running" the country in the black (sounds like the country is in business **) vis a vis a gory alley.(a flip-flopped allegory) In an aside it is truly more than about left and right, Democrat and Republican, for it seems the Democrats have been acknowledged to be split in their approach including Obama in terms of being accused of being for or against business(it is not that simple) but the representatives in this exchange are "running" from their party in regards to responsibility,(Michelle Bachmann & Kelly) as they may not have voted along the lines of what their party has, in fact, neither did the Democrats in regard to the compromise on the Bush tax cut extensions. In this case being on the same side, does not make both right or wrong, but only both being there for different reasons.]

** link added 1-24-11

PIT Schtick

No lip service.







Pragmatic.
Incremental.
Transparent.





Talk about ditches !

King County Executive

It is hard to have any wise cracks other than the one that got me flagged by my provider. May Day! It was maybe too much on the light and the dark side of the plumbing of politics with my source dump. But we do have a problem. Tuesday night's forum moderated by NPI's Andrew Villeneuve brought the four Democratic candidates together. It might be a reminder to all that participated who we are.
An off hand report? If my comments are minimal, it is hard being a cross between Obama and Dean,(pragmatic and fair and balanced: Eyaah!)but we have a big tent and more at the table.

Between I Rock and a Hard Place

I don't know which is which but at least there is a fight.(or vice verse us)
There has been much silliness out there, but the message from Massachusetts seems to be about the lack of change.

Obama aside(I think he will get it and in fact has a message), people are not as incremental and pragmatic or nuanced, and independents and moderates, not to mention the Democratic base feel left behind.

Rather than blogOn, I will leave this as framed.

[On the other hand or rock or hard place...or nuanced might be the proper place to mirror*: a fair and balanced fight, and no faux crack.(TPM:Obama/Hardball:Dean/The Nation:Greider)(See labels and comment).]

*oops- see "framed" for hard place.

Try Pod

Two legs of Obama's three leg stand are pragmatic and incremental. The third is comprehensive, not always comprehensible *. And the pinnacle of the Try Pod is co-operation.

* See Spinners or unspin.
[pre- and post-fishing, and deeper lines.]
[P's in a pod(trickle down) or P's in a tetrahedron.]

Legislative District Townhall Meeting

[A conversation of sorts in questions raised and answered by the participants.]

On the issue of horse trading*, I guess my point was the question: is the sacrifice worth it with a side that will not even stand behind their own word? [In particular the school funding majority issue]. It may be a pragmatic approach to differing views, but from the view of either side or the middle how should not standing behind ones principles let alone ones own horse trading get viewed? And if the public does not know what is being traded, let alone that they are not stood behind, then it may be just them that is sacrificed.

But this may be no better than the perspective of the guy who wanted to get hate and divisiveness out of politics ** but was not really clear what it had to do with the 2004 election, except that maybe he had the answer or yet at least did not say where he laid the blame.

But back to my question/comments and my segue to the guy who recommended that you as state representatives, tell the county and city level what his views are, (Sports Arenas) and while he was not connected to the facts on state dollars and getting returns on "our" money, (there will be no state money as far as you are concerned) I wished to endorse the reverse concept that you carry our concerns up the ladder rather than down, where I inquired on the SJM 8016 (impeachment) and 8003 (escalation) and as you informed us on the SJM 8012 regarding the National Guard. Thank you.

Lastly in comments on the side: the expression that the Building Industry provides 1/3 of the budget is awkward or seems to need a tweak of perspective or economics. I understand the comment but it seems divorced from the concept of who actually pays or what the budget is for. Like the transportation issue with 122 different plans or sports arenas and their several localities/municipalities and 3 levels of government funding or influence, with the BI there are a multitude of economic transactions filling needs and customers paying. They are no less interwoven, or in need to be penciled in, but bottom line, is not the cost and needs relationship revolving around the people? I think that your understanding of it and it’s complexities are much greater that you can express but I hope I have tweaked something.

* the act of trading votes or bargaining for bills
** he had his own perspective on the way it should work: somehow magical or without appreciating even his own part in the problem [my words not his]

Classification Warfare

i.e. Tax on Oh me?
A Tea Party Taxonomy. (Newsweek)
(Speaking of classifications, I have been lax on mine.)
[Found within the above article: The Myth of Objectivity
& The New New Newt and found elsewhere (MSNBC) and related leap(political calculus)]

[Further analysis/commentary: guidelines , Christine O'Donnell, cloning].
[Bottom line: Tea Party Express and Freedom Works are both Republican productions.]

[On the other hand...on pragmatic and incremental* ...]
Poor Segue: Bolds fully read con descending into the NFR.
[Team of Rivals: More Machinations.]
* original redundant link replaced with two possibilites(apologies for dupes)

Sum would cheer...

the* death of Keynesian Economics, but a super Congress? Compromise is the art of not making anyone truly happy. Not to mention metaphor happy, or blossom.

[8-1-11: Debt Deal[!]
OurFuture.org , The White House, Paul Krugman, AmericanProgress.org

Winner?
Obama(& Bane Or)
and Compromise & Filibuster
(The Table and Partisanship).

Loser?
The country
and the economy.

Not to mention:
O
'N[!]
Joe.]

[*]pun will lose
[Re: The Table, with Andrea Mitchell, Chuck Todd(paraphrased)...those who oppose the deal will roar in primaries not in the general] that puts the sword of Damocles on the people and in their votes.]

[My sum mary: the sum will cheer...BULLY[!]

[And some will whine. EXTREME RHETORIC ALERT for link one of the previous three. While in all actuality, I can agree that people are dying, and there are forces alligned against the common good to blame, I cannot use the Hitler analogy that LaRouche utilizes, though the results do border on treason, it is for the people to decide not a determination that can be legally formed. Glass-Steagall is probably one solution, and the offensive PDF probably summarizes the deal accurately, and the only good thing that can come from this hyper-rhetoric is if it works, but it should not make too many people happy that it does. There is also something about the table which links what seems to be a common cause of both La Rouche and Tea Party supporters(at least of the more pragmatic and incremental Libertarian strain).]
[Process in context[!]? Right On!]
[Final Notes: Hall and Bashir 2B updated (alter or Bane).]

The Last Try Pod

Well, it was going to be the Last Word[*], but we know how that works.
So the Last Try Pod is more of the Tetrahedron.
A GPS of sorts, with the a try angle of pacs.
[No Relation or relative di-caught-o'me.]

9-2-11 Label added. See comment.

[*] Lawrence O'Donnell(see comment on comment above)

[The real tripod[!] (Articles 1, 2 & 3 of the Constitution)]
[In contrast to the "genius of freedom", our founding principles are pragmatic, incremental, and cooperative, like President Obama. Not to mention nuance from the right.]
[Simon says[**]: Smerconish]
[And We The People say to the White House]

[**] a subtle crack at coverage:
So it had to be in the House of Representatives, which the Republicans control. "But we couldn’t go if they didn’t let us come," the source said. "You can’t hold the speech in the lobby or in the parking lot. And you’re not going to get network coverage if you hold it at George Mason University."
Read more

Tea Party Down Grade

and the Undo- Everything House of Reprehensibles
(Note the counter-linkage or weaving of sources.)

Reading of the Day and relevant fn.

One great thing about Obama's primary victory is now we know that's not true. This is the modern Republican Party. It turns out they were the ones who adopted Malcolm X's slogan, "By any means necessary." As disgusted as I am with S&P's decision to downgrade U.S. debt, the ratings agency took the unusual step of calling out the GOP in its press release, predicting future fiscal peril "because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues," Sen. John Kerry was right to call it the "Tea Party downgrade" on "Meet the Press" Sunday. They have now made clear they'll wreck the economy as long as they can wreck Obama's presidency. And we have no way to know that Clinton's history with right-wing saboteurs would have enabled her to fight more effectively.

Simpson-Bowles and S&P Re: Revenue.

Hennessey’s assessment of Simpson-Bowles is even more puzzling. As I’ve noted before, Simpson-Bowles raised about $2 trillion in new revenues and cut defense spending by about $800 billion. The plan Obama proposed to Boehner raises half as much revenue and, from what I’m told, includes about half as much in defense cuts. It’s hard to see how that qualifies as "to the left" of Simpson-Bowles.

The fn. above discusses a narrative that is lacking in Obama's rhetoric. The actual recalcitrance of the Republican party, the lack of a filibuster proof congress, not to mention the media as we know it(Koch Brothers), argues more balanced narrative than Blame Obama. The Obama Inaugural was our calling.
(NFRY)

Candidate Obama was nuanced and President Obama is pragmatic and incremental, the message is clear.
[Hoist on our own Picard.]
[More Meet the Press.]

Green Span on Degree of Certainty: the only thing certain is change, and that the Right won't.

I mean Greenspan: "this deficit problem that is out there is a lot larger than we calculated. the actual numbers employed by those calculating the deficits are based on a level of economic activity, which we are not acheiving." Rather than translate IMHO the Greenspan quote, there is FIXING NEWS(as opposed to breaking) as the President addresses the downgrade now. (Remarks by the President: and previous remarks)

Progress is Global

...and incremental, pragmatic, and needs to reflect diverse views and dynamics. It also should put the health care progress in proper perspective, as there are both employment and international consequences to changes, which congress must be in on addressing. Despite the fears of some, this is not a dictatorship or even a one party system but a triumvirate for the tetrahedron of the people.

[Reference Base *...]

[[Setting the tea table? Huffington Post, Ron Paul and Kucinich on Auditing the Federal Reserve. And a placemat for Ed Schultz in Seattle November 15th. ]]

[update: 11-17-09 Just Foreign Policy - Progressive Caucus ]

* link added [update: 11-20-09 The Pacific President (CAP-TP)]

Underwhelmed?

[Updated 6-23-11 on two fronts: below and here.]
Fairly Helmed(text)

Underwhelmed* is the lede some might choose for their take on
President Obama on the Way Forward in Afghanistan(video)

Yet tonight, we take comfort in knowing that the tide of war is receding. Fewer of our sons and daughters are serving in harm’s way. We’ve ended our combat mission in Iraq, with 100,000 American troops already out of that country. And even as there will be dark days ahead in Afghanistan, the light of a secure peace can be seen in the distance. These long wars will come to a responsible end.

As they do, we must learn their lessons. Already this decade of war has caused many to question the nature of America’s engagement around the world. Some would have America retreat from our responsibility as an anchor of global security, and embrace an isolation that ignores the very real threats that we face. Others would have America over-extended, confronting every evil that can be found abroad.

We must chart a more centered course. Like generations before, we must embrace America’s singular role in the course of human events. But we must be as pragmatic as we are passionate; as strategic as we are resolute. When threatened, we must respond with force -- but when that force can be targeted, we need not deploy large armies overseas. When innocents are being slaughtered and global security endangered, we don’t have to choose between standing idly by or acting on our own. Instead, we must rally international action, which we’re doing in Libya, where we do not have a single soldier on the ground, but are supporting allies in protecting the Libyan people and giving them the chance to determine their own destiny.

In all that we do, we must remember that what sets America apart is not solely our power -- it is the principles upon which our union was founded.

* Norman Goldman and Mike Malloy

[6-23-11 Selected quotes from remarks extended.]

America, it is time to focus on nation building here at home.

(...)

That’s a lesson worth remembering -- that we are all a part of one American family. Though we have known disagreement and division, we are bound together by the creed that is written into our founding documents, and a conviction that the United States of America is a country that can achieve whatever it sets out to accomplish. Now, let us finish the work at hand. Let us responsibly end these wars, and reclaim the American Dream that is at the center of our story. With confidence in our cause, with faith in our fellow citizens, and with hope in our hearts, let us go about the work of extending the promise of America -- for this generation, and the next.

May God bless our troops. And may God bless the United States of America.

Bully for Obama, no Bully, no Teddy,more pulpit.

Pragmatic Zealotry

See The Economist*.

(Obama Nation)

* in con / junction

(apples and oranges?)

[See comments 1&2]

Value Posted.

Pro Log:

I must preface, that I caught a lot of the reaction along with snippets of the speech on MSNBC(which was no bed of roses) before I finally listened to the whole speech while writing (interspersed) the second[*] blog post. Somewhere embedded is the video of Mathews with Ron Reagan Jr. where he is bating Karen Finney. So if you run into it, let me know, but I have an index of priority links, the first being the speech[**], which I think is the most important in history. Yet. OK, maybe not so melodramatically but solemnly considered to be in the balance. Meaning: if these pragmatic and incremental tactics are not strategically implemented, there will be a much harder and dangerous, Rube Goldberg, if not broken with a peace busted, Rubic's Cube. Any opposition must address all the concerns of our puzzle, not that some pressure will not be welcomed to tweak the navigator and the crew.]

(the preceding was actual preface in an email)

Who let the dogs out!
Not exactly three part harmony *** on Capitol Hill.

[* reference to an email including ]

[**] {Index of priority links: "Speech", "no vapid" (General Eaton), Pakistan, Maddow (1:15-1:52)}

[Last reference: Center for American Progress ]
[*** actual lyrics are in a different Three Dog Night song, speaking of the Radio, I must find the second hour of the Norman Goldman Show to get Ray McGovern's take on things.]
*** Rubic's Cube in this piece(smashed or missing), but Rubric's Cube in this realm mythication.