LiveBlog for Monday, December 6, 2010

The military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy is flawed, it's discriminatory, and it must be repealed -- now.

Fortunately, the Senate may take a vote on repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in the next few days, but with some Republican senators threatening a filibuster, I need you to stand up and speak out, too.

Click here to send an email to your senators today -- and urge them to vote to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" before Congress adjourns this year!

This week, the Pentagon published a report supporting the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" -- giving us even more momentum in this fight.

Wow, Steph's finally had it, bless her heart.

bye all going off to scream into the wind

Steph, it's 700 billion over 10 years...

bye all

Cindy, you are right but he keeps trying because he knows he is failing...it is an endless cycle

Can't wait to hear what Thom Harmann has to say about Krugmans article

Jim is totally right, the Republicans have NO RESPECT for President Obama, and never will.

His increasing craven efforts to earn even minimal respect from them is now alienating his base. Fantastic.

why does her new boyfriend's name sound like "Lorena Bobbit"

siena if that's the case he's failing there too

I'm old enough to remember Bill Clinton getting manhandled by Republicans his first two years, before Republicans retook the House and Bill found his MoJo battling RW lunacy.

History would do well to repeat in this respect.

Assange asks for Obama's resignation

sory he wants to BE liked too much

Cindy...he wants to liked too much

this is more to the point why we are pissed and powerless

Hey Steph read Krugmans article...http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/06/opinion/06krugma...

HEY OBAMA .. YOU go on the OFFENSE!!!

They don't hate him YET

SHUT UP!!! OBAMA

Face it guys there are NO JOKES that can make this feel better.
Even mentioning Palin. the bohner, these will all be reminders of just how screwed we are.
We are screwed and we have no one to turn to.
We need to get another candidate..NOT a cavocrat.

So Steph thinks she may have gay dogs? I KNOW we did; we had a male great dane who would lie on his back and let our male fox terrier lick him on his not-so-private parts. Unnatural, huh?

siena .. it's over

the caller is so right...When Obama caves into the repub on THIS of all things when all he can do is let them expire and expose the republican for who they are!!!!
It is OVER!

Maine Trade Exchange:
http://www.thetradeexchange.com/

"Congress has often passed temporary programs to extend benefits during economic recessions. This was done with the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation (TEUC) program in 2002-2003, which has since expired,"

WAIT, WAIT - who was President then??Hmmmmm, let me think.

George W Bush

And what was the unemployment rate??????

Around 5.7%

"5.7 percent in August. But employers cut 43,000 jobs from payrolls after adding an upwardly revised 107,000 jobs in August.

Economists, on average, expected unemployment of 5.9 percent and employers to add 6,000 jobs,"

Bush started with an unemployment rate of 4.2%.

In what universe does that equate to his tax cuts creating jobs?

138: "Can we get Scalia for creating a hostile work environment?"

it is highly possible that scalia's actual lack of intellect breaks some laws. - research scalia thru any source at all. - the mountain of goofiness is amazing. - the material on clarence thomas is even worse. they fit in better with the wasilla snowbillies than with any sripe of numerate or lierate people.

Tea Party Patriots Suckle At The K-Street Teat. Wow that was quick

people in Portland Maine have started a barter program where they trade services and goods with each other instead of having to pay money, ayuh.

they could have been married HERE, in MA

75 / 82: "That WAS Byron Dorgan, right?"

MOST things are byron dorgan.

Can we get Scalia for creating a hostile work environment?

65: "The Republican position is that the “rich” are “the job creators”, ergo, the richer you are, the bigger your business must be and the more people you must employ."

the most joyful single thing about this conceit is that thom hartmann got to respond to a john shattuck rant (which said unemployed people dont create jobs - like a civic construct is more important than carbs and protein), with his own anecdote (just this past week) of having literally used unemployment income to start a successful business selling teabags.

caller is right - the Thugs lose their "uncertainty" meme too.

Gotta go, meeting time. Have a great day, everyone!

#114 maddiane, Yeah, you're probably right about Hillary -- she would've been just as held back by the golden handcuffs, maybe more. I do think she would at least be seething about, though. But Obama is just detached in his comfortable dreamworld :-(

I AM tired, however of people saying the problem is that we have not gotten Obama's back. We have supported him, but he has not stood up for his own positions and has allowed his Survivalists to throw us Revivalists (the progressive left, not crazy anarchist hippies) under the bus.

#113 SIENA, Too true, although I doubt we would've survived a McCain presidency -- I doubt McCain would've survived a McCain presidency for long, either.

How Mitch McConnell became very rich

63: "With all of the movie remakes of “A Christmas Carol” I’m suprised there’s not one staring Newt."

the rowan atkinson edition covers that ethos.

btw, the bankers that caused the crash in 2008 spent a lot of money on cocaine and prostitutes (see Inside Job) and they're probably still just as coked up. explains a lot.

#108.

While President Obama can't, by himself, repeal DADT, as Commander in Chief, he could have (and should have) declared an *immediate suspension of dismissals for violating DADT* the day he took office.

41: "To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people is a chimerical idea.
- James Madison"

you want us to trust a guy named after a city where they practice satanic rituals ?

Krugman: Let's Not Make A Deal

35: "can=can’t"

so philosophically, proud_secular_progressive is the same as john boehner.

White House nearing deal with Republicans to continue Bush tax policy

Yeah! Finally, make the GOP PROVE IT!

The wealthy DO NOT create jobs

DEMAND creates jobs ... the wealthy do NOT create demand

Want to make a bet Mitch McChinless's wife, who used to be the Secratary of Labor,

has a mole in the department who is f-ing with the numbers.

After reading Paul Krugmans article....I know it sounds self defeating I can not wait for this country to fail and fall apart so we can start over.

We just postponed the inevitable by voting in Obama.
Looks like the republicans are so vile and greedy that they don't care what happens.

Obama is making himself a one term president

@117 If past is prologue...oh, never mind.

I have come to the conclusion that in the legislative relationship between Republicans and Democrats

Republicans are TOPS
which means Democrats are the . . . .

And Republicans demand foot worship from the Dems