tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post2005616735034813556..comments2024-03-28T10:49:14.510-05:00Comments on Horizons: Don't sweat the small stuff (updated)Nancy LeTourneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-45951851420833863712013-04-27T08:45:24.670-05:002013-04-27T08:45:24.670-05:00Welcome JohnnyBuck!Welcome JohnnyBuck!Nancy LeTourneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-19891577615109221582013-04-27T08:41:33.912-05:002013-04-27T08:41:33.912-05:00Well the brave soul waved me over here and I appre...Well the brave soul waved me over here and I appreciate it very much. Somewhere between eleventy-dimensional chess and "He sold us out" lies the path forward, and if the past is any indication that's where we'll be in 5 months. Which is to say Reflexive caterwauling about betrayal is rather tiresome. It's refreshing to read analysis that puts things in perspective. Think I'll drop by more often.JohnnyBuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07199729173421747502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-45104957776546714462013-04-27T08:32:05.375-05:002013-04-27T08:32:05.375-05:00Mornin Blackman!
I was just wondering where you&#...Mornin Blackman!<br /><br />I was just wondering where you'd gotten off to lately. So its great to hear that you're still out there doing your thing.<br /><br />Hope the upcoming nuptials are blessed.<br /><br />You know I mostly appreciate and respect "brotha Boo's" analysis. But he seems to be a bit off his game lately. <br /><br />I think this particular hair-on-fire incident will pass shortly. There's so much on the table right now folks will have forgotten about it soon.Nancy LeTourneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-14890650156881325452013-04-27T07:53:42.809-05:002013-04-27T07:53:42.809-05:00Mo'nin, Ms. Pants
It's been nutz. Daught...Mo'nin, Ms. Pants<br /><br />It's been nutz. Daughter's gettin' married, a number of other things. But, I'm still around and will have you know that, just very recently, was able to educate some right wing friends of mine due to the recent report of "Congress miiiiight opting out of the ACA" as reported by "Tiger Beat On The Potomac" (LOVE that. Charles Pierce, donchaknow) and your timely analysis and brotha Boo and his crew are just having mass vapors over what you are explaining here. A brave soul leaped into the fray and directly linked you and this very piece. It soothed one mind, but the wailing and gnashing of teeth continued anyway.<br /><br />Hearding Libs is like hearding damn cats at any point. Therein.....<br /><br />THANK YOU, as ALWAYS for what you do.<br /><br />Your need continues.Blackmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-46120394593993447092013-04-26T17:17:31.754-05:002013-04-26T17:17:31.754-05:00I agree. The moral argument is a good one, but doe...I agree. The moral argument is a good one, but does anyone honestly think that Obama would score political points if he were to veto this bill because it didn't also save Head Start?<br /><br />I'm reminded of the following exchange from "The American President":<br />-----<br /> <b>A.J.</b>: Excuse me, Mr. President, I just got off the phone with the federal mediator in St. Louis. Management just walked away from the table; the baggage handlers, pilots and flight attendants are all getting set to walk out in forty-eight hours.<br /><br /> <b>President Andrew Shepherd</b>: You know, I studied under a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and you know what he taught me?<br /><br /> <b>A.J.</b>: Never have an airline strike at Christmas?<br />-----<br /><br />It's not Christmas, but the principal remains the same: When people are trying to get home, they don't care about the niceties of political struggles. They just care if they are going to be stuck at the airport. The average citizens judges its government by how it handles the day-to-day stuff, even if they don't realize that is what they are doing. And when the stuff fails them, they will blame everyone until it gets fixed.Chris Andersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18139817527808942227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-3500083538164715112013-04-26T13:10:57.598-05:002013-04-26T13:10:57.598-05:00Don't get me wrong. The fact that this is the ...Don't get me wrong. The fact that this is the only priority pisses me off. But in the big scheme of things, voting against this (or vetoing it) wouldn't have changed anything for the better. Nancy LeTourneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-30144361311419230952013-04-26T13:02:05.508-05:002013-04-26T13:02:05.508-05:00Thanks for this explanation and perspective.
I wa...Thanks for this explanation and perspective.<br /><br />I was about to get pretty upset about this, because it seemed so unfair.<br /><br />Now, the strategy makes sense.eveingeorgiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01633540780387757620noreply@blogger.com