Preemptive Reading

The National Debt and Cultural Figures.

My earlier post which might be reaching is that Obama and his approach is more than about numbers and x's and o's, either in terms of a playbook or hugs and kisses. Both the domestic (Health Reform) and international fronts(Military/Financial) are multi-tiered and are not just a matter of vote or run or get out of the way.

[See comment here and update there]

[Back to the Future Links": Yet to be read or go nuclear as in the next gravy train.

To Be Clear...

this is not Real Clear unless clearly Political.

Climategate is no trickledown* and no Climatequiddick unless it is about what trickles or goes off the bridge. (or Climatequidick) An actual hysterical historical divergence.
[Accountablity is hard work, so I reiterate: Climate quid ick? ]

* actually they are metaphorically related in their errors
[stay tuned for the not so fair e tale.

Vy Not? I'll Tell You Vy!

Climate quid ick? Ironic context? Not to mention historic misread. The real issue and the foe. These are just some core samples for later processing. But for now, I think that critics from all sides should consider that Obama's Tuesday speech is really a change. Just because he has "x" numbers of "troops" does not mean there is the same mission and that chain of command is not respected. (By the way this is quite a 4A here as in anachronistic and a bit anecdotal.)

Now That's What I'm Talking About

State Dinner
and Separation of Church and State.
Obama Highjacks Thanksgiving and Snubs Republicans.
Actually Republicans were the snubbers *** of State Dinner and marriage.
But really, Obama will "get 'er done" with mission statement.

*** see that link's asterisks and the comment there
[Happy WholeEdays]

[Or rather fair and balanced google.]

Regulating Wall Street

Sen. Maria Cantwell: Takes on the Bubble.

Welcome To Seattle

NorMan GoldMan
It's not about Right and Left, it's about Right and Wrong.
Not Exactly...TheLiaisonReport.com* but it is about Justice.
[Post Dated: 11-26-09 What we have to be thankful for.]

* see comment here

Digging Up and Digging In.

Or Digging Out...

As I paused to reflect on the appropriateness of the connections above, the third popped into place. But it is a grave matter, this journalism*.

The field of meta4; one, two, three, strikes yer out. The Metaphysical Meta-for.

[Further digs to read or Dickens of a future, past and present. ]
[And one more shovel or scoop of apathy.**

*Health Care
** intended link
*** (future link: see comment) Nuance of polls and evolution of the word
[Update: the word]

The Bermuda Triangle

or whatever their shorts.
(Scroll Over) It is surpising that there is not a charge of Death Panel in this wild shot by the media, but there does seem to be a lot of hot air about a task force that has been around awhile.
[Odd segue? Consider the populist problem of Geitner (shorts) and whether the right replacement would even be approved by the Right, over the question (their) of the task force even being related to health reform let alone (whatever) the administration. (see Paradigms/Huff Po/Yale]

[UPDATE: 11-21-09 Point...man? Laying it on thick, Geitner is not the pointman...He has been commended but there are the Sec. of Labor and Commerce that should also weigh in. Geitner might just be the forward or center.]

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)]

All Politics is Local

Between the League,
and the Base ***
the ivy and the grass roots.[**]
Not to mention* between Lincoln, FDR and two Teddys.

* One should wonder if Lincoln could be elected as a Repulican, let alone how to carry a schtick.

[Puget Sound Liberals]
[Northwest Progress Institute]
[**] 11-13-09 Not to be con descending by noting the links, but I was speaking to the Base and the League in reading into it the problems that I try to work out in this blog. So please, speak up to power, and let's get down to business. An aside: Russ Baker needs a look, uppity or not.

*** this link is a hit

Political Capital

If I heard it right, I hazzard a guess that Obama's decision on Afgahnistan will shoot him up about 10% in the polls. I must find the appropriate link, but this is hopefully not it. I may have heard it wrong or others have.

[Maybe this? And my "original" source. Or this.]

[Not to mention death panel intelligence.]

Three Strikes You're Out.

Chris Matthews Pops up with Surprise, Forest, Strategy on Hardball, which he will have to think about it.

First he asks if the abortion issue was surprise, and proceeds to make several points, fouling off with a Balloonhead comment, then mistreats the lumber by swinging the wrong branch at the metaphor of the forest and then proceeds to splinter off the bat of strategy and wonders if his guest is upset.
[The Bull Pen, The Closer.*]
[The swing or the diamond.(see "four corners of the law")]

* OBAMA: You know, I laid out a very simple principle, which is this is a health care bill, not an abortion bill. And we're not looking to change what is the principle that has been in place for a very long time, which is federal dollars are not used to subsidize abortions. (My point is that the law is the language and Matthews is not reading the signals.)

Thank You Veterans

And All Who Serve.

[update]
[update]
[Update]

Breaking Local News

Former Republican, Current Democratic State Senator Fred Jarrett tapped for Deputy by King County Executive Dow Constantine creating opening. [Update].
[NPI earlier]

[11-21-09 Link below adjusted: was ]

Compromise Aborted

If the Stupack amendment[**] kills Health Reform then there should be a rebirth of the single payer and a striking * of the Hyde amendment. After all, we do not want the government between doctors and patients, or the people and their money.

* I did not want to use the death penalty at least in rhetoric

[**] link inserted 11-11-09 with these too.
[11-21-09 link below added]

What is TheLiaisonReport?

In noting my lack of comment on the Fort Hood tragedy [last Thursday*], a commemoration of the Berlin Wall coming down [today], as well as the upcoming Veteran's Day [this Wednesday], I did not want to just make gratuitous/obligatory commentary or cracks, but must note their passing.

The word *** "animus" tripped me up in a recent essay. Just how does this tie in? Maybe between the geek and the week, or the will and the weak.

[* my thoughts as the news broke: It seemed that the snippets of detail that are still coming out, told a story of failure of process if not un-intentional derilection of duty, in putting together the potential triggers for a disturbed personality. They include: the stress of his duties dealing with stressed soldiers, his being a psychiatrist who did want to be deployed, a recent poor performance rating, not to mention his(I don't want to say "so-called")faith**. ]

** this is not to diminish faith nor emphasize the Islamic connection, but ideology might be a better word or the irony of the word associations.

[Belated links: encyclicals, stress and cracks.]

[11-10-09: update on Fort Hood investigation. There is an interesting loopiness in the lack of connecting the dots, and that is between the talk and the action. It is also reflected in the difficult aspects that determine whether this will be a military or terrorism prosecution. It is more deeply embedded in the insanity of a defense for an offensive act, unjustified if there were not such a loopiness. This is not to justify the act, nor ridicule crazy talk. But I am connecting the act of justifying preemption with violence, over preemption with caution, to a failure to talk about justice preemptively.]

[11-11-09 update Obama at Fort Hood ]

*** 11-11-09 bold added as a hint in this paragraph

Three Reads

Krugman
Friedman
Rich

[Huckabee Serious? ]

Two thinks...

1. explains Lieberman
2. explains "he who shall not be named".

a. Lieberman's constituent.
b. Interviewing a comedian...is seriously not bad.
Except as comedy.
C. the conspiracy

Hint: Lieberman is chair of Homeland Security Committe which chose to investigate the plethora of Czars.

Breaking News!

Health Care ReformHuffington Post
MSNBC
CNN
The Hill
The New Republic

Read the Bill .
[Cheers? It almost seems laughable to call this a bi-partisan bill, with one Republican vote. It is less so, with the bi-partisan opposition, including Dennis Kuccinich*.]

* 11-11-09 link inserted and update

Caricatures

Wanted.
Paul Krugman explains Keynesians for the right, who characterize most thinks in black and white.

[update: 11-6-09 see Paradigm link Yale.]

[11-30-09 see second comment yet to be placed]

Hatching Humpty

Senator Orin Hatch explains reasons for opposing Democrats, in particular Health Reform.

Meanwhile: Democrats are "alive".(or plant sitters)

Through the Looking Glass.

Rush was right. "New York-23, the race is more about the demise of the Republican Party and anger on the right than Obama or his policies."
And Awakening from the Tea Party or Rabbit Hole*.
Also(Wink)...
LOCAL POLITICS
King County Executive Dow Constantine?
I-1033 Eyman's TABOR goes down
R-71 Domestic Partners hang on
Seattle Up in the Air.

*Meanwhile:
Recovering a Paradigm **

[search...bubble
re: humpty
re: wall
(p-re:ply to tea partier's bashing of bailouts, and what not...taxes & government)]

[But back to Wonderland: is Steele taking on FOX?]

[** 11-6-09: Yale (Neo-Keynesian or Krugman?)]

Give 'em Heck Harry

I just heard on the Thom Hartmann show that Senator Lieberman has second thoughts* about a filibuster. I called Senator Reid,(the Majority Leader's office) to commend him for whatever influence he may have had in correcting the matter. I also noted my support for a strong public option, even though I side with the administration's position that it not be a sticking point for progress.

i.e. there are three particulars that sort out the choices which I will not go into great detail: medicare like, exchange like, what Congress has. Not to mention state options, single payers or opt-outs

[*(All links anachronisically inserted**) the reports of second thoughts may have been greatly exaggerated: does that make them third thoughts or just under reported?]

** the proper disorder is TPM, The Hill and National Review. Oh, now I get it.

Deja Voodoo

The Republican Party sues Monty Python for their copyright infringement of their policy. [Anachronyism] C3
[Not to mention "hard work *" ]

*(like not read yet reading of link, but a connection to the spirit of hard work.)