Chicago Tribune — Yes, really.
Last spring, President Barack Obama said “there will still be, you know, glitches and bumps” in the rollout of the new system. But what we’re seeing now is no glitch or bump. There is a growing mountain of evidence that Obamacare has fundamental problems in design and implementation.
The Community Organizer says Shut up …
And now that the government is reopened and this threat to our economy is removed, all of us need to stop focusing on the lobbyists and the bloggers and the talking heads on radio and the professional activists who profit from conflict and focus what the majority of Americans sent us here to do and that’s grow this economy, create good jobs, strengthen the middle class, educate our kids, lay the foundation for broad-based prosperity and get our fiscal house in order for the long haul.
Pesky thing, that First Amendment. But after Obama’s gutting of Article I Section 7 of the Constitution, why not just ignore the whole thing?
“professional activists who profit from conflict” thats so very nice and rich coming from a guy who spent most of his “working” life as a community organizer.
he’s kind of a dumbfuck huh
the failshit fascist US Government remains far and away the biggest threat to our economy
also our freedoms
Sort of OT, I have a deep and abiding respect for the intellects of Jeff and many of those who comment here. Just curious, has anybody read this essay (Paul Valéry’s Blood Meridian, Or How the Reader became a Writer) before or have any thoughts on it, especially as it devolves into fictive politics at the end?
Here’s a paragraph near the end to whet your appetite:
Anti-intentionalism is the technology that provides the new means of warfare. As a material thing, a word can be deployed by and against the public will. On this account, Valéry’s literary and political ontologies are identical. This identity clearly emerged in his 1933 remarks on “Literature and Politics.” “Nothing is more remarkable,” he observed, than “to see that ideas, separated from the intellect that conceived them, isolated from the conditions of their birth,” can “become political agents…weapons” (275). When words no longer mean what we intend them to mean, then political agency is no longer tied to political practice. In their place there are bodies doing battle with a new kind of weapon: “Language is good, it does its job when used…like a tool—pliers or a drill—or a kind of currency—or a weapon.”
Valéry seems enamored of his cleverness in arriving at a rather pedestrian realization. Anything, in the hands of someone willing and able to use it so, is a weapon.
Good point, Dave J.
Isn’t “professional activists who profit from conflict” pretty much the textbook definition of community organizers?
after Obama’s gutting of Article I Section 7 of the Constitution
Also Article I, Section 5 (recess appointments), Article I, Section 8 (going to war without Congressional approval), Article I, Section 9 (failing the requirement of publishing a budget regularly), Article II, Section 1 (violation of oath to “faithfully execute the laws” ), Article II, Section 2 (appointment of policy Czars), Article II, Section 3 (failure to faithfully execute the laws of the US), Article IV, Section 1 (failure to offer Full Faith and Credit to public laws of the States), and various of the Amendments, especially the Bill of Rights (1st, 2nd, 4th, and 6th are the first examples to pop to mind).
…all of us need to stop focusing on the lobbyists and the bloggers and the talking heads on radio and the professional activists who profit from conflict…
Or else what, Jugears? You gonna send your drones after WordPress and the Blaze?
Maybe what we’re seeing here is Ezra Klein being prodded on the cattle car to the gulag.
He questioned Dear Leader’s perfect healthcare system the other day.
I hope Ezra got his fill of taxpayer-financed hors d’oeuvres at his little tête-à-têtes with the Bumbler in Chief, ’cause that particular perq has come to an end.
Ezra’s last words: “No! Do it to Julia!”
Hitler Learns About the Obamacare Exchanges
…[focus] what the majority of Americans sent us here to do and that’s grow this economy, create good jobs, strengthen the middle class, educate our kids, lay the foundation for broad-based prosperity and get our fiscal house in order for the long haul.
– Of course the fact that this gestoppo administration and its cult leader have never done anything approaching any of that, nor do they ever intend to, is a feature not a bug for the willfully ignorant lemmings that fawn at this bastards feet.
OK, I did that. And it turns out that you’re a fucking monumental failure at all of the above. Kinda like the bloggers and talking heads on the radio have been saying.
That man must be wearing asbestos mom-jeans.