Monday Open Thread [12.29.14]
The Atlantic: “If a few things break Barack Obama’s way, history may well judge his presidency quite successful. As presidencies recede, we tend to focus on a few big achievements or failures, and Obama might eventually be seen to have staved off a depression; to have established a national health-care safety net; to have patiently set relations with China and Iran on a sounder footing. Yet there’s one area where Obama has clearly failed so far: he’s done next to nothing to build confidence in government itself. His lack of obvious interest in doing so has been baffling.”
I am not sure how you do that except have the government do good things and do them competently. And of course, that took a big hit when the Healthcare.gov website failed at the rollout last year, and is now only recovering due to the success of the Exchanges.
“The mayor is not in any way to be treated with people turning their backs. It doesn’t matter whether you like the mayor or you don’t like the mayor, you have to respect the mayor’s position.” — Rudy Giuliani, turning back from his fanning the flames over the last week. But according to his and the Police’s logic, he is criticizing the Police negatively, and thus he must condemned and destroyed immediately. Remember, we are a police state where the police are always, always right, and all criticism of them is always, always treasonous.
NATIONAL–PRESIDENT–REPUBLICAN PRIMARY–CNN/ORC: Bush 23, Christie 13, Carson 7, Huckabee 6, Paul 6, Rubio 5, Cruz, 4, Jindal 4, Perry 4, Walker 4, Kasich 3, Santorum 2
NATIONAL–PRESIDENT–DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY–CNN/ORC: Clinton 66, Warren 9, Biden 8, Sanders 3, Cuomo 1, O’Malley 1, Webb 1
NATIONAL–PRESIDENT–CNN/ORC: Clinton 54, Bush 41
Clinton 56, Christie 39
Clinton 60, Cruz 35
Clinton 59, Huckabee 38
Clinton 58, Paul 38
Clinton 56, Carson 35
Clinton 56, Ryan 41
Those numbers are total devastation for the GOP.
EARTH–MOST ADMIRED WOMAN–Gallup: Hillary Clinton 12, Oprah Winfrey 8, Malala Yousafrzai 5
EARTH–MOST ADMIRED MAN–Gallup: Barack Obama 19, Pope Francis 6, Bill Clinton 3
I fear for my daughter’s generation for the lack of people in this nation with intelligence and good will
how come when bills like Cromnibus pass, you never hear of a line snuck in at the last minute by a progressive like Lizzy Warren or that beacon of socialism Bernie sanders that says we will spend dollar for dollar on education or infrastructure on what is spent for bombs?
I’m so sick of this bullshit that stuff like the bailout for big banks was some big accident that no one knew about and was “slipped in at the last minute”
that is all
The quote you have above – “The mayor is not in any way to be treated with people turning their backs. It doesn’t matter whether you like the mayor or you don’t like the mayor, you have to respect the mayor’s position.” – appears no where in the article that is hyperlinked as if attributed to Rudy Giuliani.
Where did that quote come from ?
New York Cops are ass holes
He said it on Face The Nation Nancy.