You're getting bored

Because you're losing. Boo hoo.

Doesn't sound as if.

If you had suffered

As much as the rest of us did, then you'd likely sing a different tune. People who prefer to serve as British footstools don't deserve the right to call themselves Irish.

God bless Michael Collins, Gerry Adams, Martin McGuiness, Bobby Sands and all the other true Irish patriots throughout history.

Remember Bloody Sunday.

Free Ireland! (the official Sinn Fein slogan, btw)

Then you can go back to merrye olde England and kiss THEIR arses all you like

Unless you'd rather go to a crowded Dublin pub some night and say that. Either would suit me fine.

Actually the bloody Brits lost that right

over 800 years ago when they invaded. And the list of their war crimes and attempted genocide ever since stinks to high heaven. Irish children were rounded up to serve as plantation slaves in British colonies. And I've seen the official document regarding their continued plans for genocide. It trumpets 'At last we shall be free of the scourge of the Irish in Ireland!'

Well golly gee, what's not to love about that?

Apples and oranges

The times and circumstances were different. The IRA only did what it had to do to secure freedom, safety and peace in a nation which never did belong to its British invaders.

Gerry Adams and Martin 'Watch Your Kneecaps' McGuiness are national heroes on the order of all who fought in our own war for independence. Or do you think that's a blessing best denied others?

See my post #27 in reply to your post #1.

BTW, dear buster:

It doesn't matter if we're all gone before GOP sheeple realize their masters have led them over a cliff. What matters - the only thing that does, really - is to splinter their ranks and render them powerless. They'll wise up and change when hell freezes over, so don't let that hold you back at all. If each of us manages even to place one small grain of sand on the beach head before expiring, the effort will have been worth it. Don't do what you must because you see results; do it simply because you must.

Can't wait to get my mitts on this book

Now I know what I want to give myself for my birthday! Or at least this year's Christmas present.

I felt awfully let down too, at first

Until directed to various excellent sources on the matter declaring President Obama's budget proposal is an outright bluff; he knows it's DOA but wants to use the virtual certainty of GOP rejection to break them on the tax issue. Another measure of safety comes via Democratic legislators' vehement objections; most of them want to remain in Congress, too. The gigantic roar against chained CPI should make them think twice before rolling over on us.

Even if worse came to worse, the chained CPI could potentially provide a better safety net under the poorest and most elderly than what they receive now, with so few COLA increases. It would begin on a very modest scale and at least supposedly could be tweaked upward at a later time. Of course this would only happen with a strong Democratic majority in both Senate and House. DINO's don't count. So people might be especially wise to vote in real liberals ASAP.

President Obama's miscalculation, if indeed this is one, more likely lies in any false confidence he might've had in his own base to see these matters better than the GOP sheeple. From what I've seen of him, my personal best guess suggests he might be willing to sacrifice something of himself if this (risky?) chess move fails, and that it might be worth it to him regardless as it certainly would to us if it succeeds in destroying the conservatives' ability to wreck havoc.

Whether they like him or not, most people admit he's a brilliant strategist. Surely he knew how the country would react, and if I'm right about him, he expected and wanted this outcry. I sign every petition I can find against this chained CPI, and I write letters to newspapers urging others to do so but also asking people to consider this alternate interpretation. People who hate him will change their hearts when hell freezes over; those of us who don't should look deeper and think twice before defecting.

Wouldn't the GOP just love that? We want them to splinter and start a 3rd or even 4th party, historically doomed. We need to stick together for once. I'd like to think we're a little less suicidal than the opposition.

PS: Here's an RFK quote that should help calm queasy stomachs:

"Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change." Robert F. Kennedy

We all believe we're seeing things as they are

But we can't afford to forget that we can also misread and misjudge at times. Even the best of us. So I'm busy asking all good Democrats and Progressives to take another look at this and consider other options. My own personal gauge has always been that if even I can understand something, it's not setting the bar too high to at least ask my comrades to slow down, take a deep breath, and another long hard look before they bolt away and do something they'll regret in the long run. I myself have needed that reminder recently by cooler heads, so I'm not insulting anyone by my request.

The President seems to be manuvering to facilitate a fatal split in the GOP. Don't let them turn around and do it to US! Think in chess terms; before long he will declare 'Check!' and leave them in the lurch. They deserve it. We don't. He doesn't need us to really abandon him no matter how fiercely he might expect and want us to threaten that. Heck, if I thought it would help advance our party's agenda - which is his own - I'd stand in the middle of the town square and burn all my Barack tee shirts. Just for effect, you understand. I love political theatre. Let's help him drive a stake through the GOP heart. A figurative one since they clearly lack a real one.