Comments on: What a Week!

By: Rima Regas

Rima Regas — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 17:39:00 +0000

You and the rest of the country.

By: Rima Regas

Rima Regas — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 17:33:33 +0000

I used to have a cat that loved it when we leashed and took it out on walks… It stopped escaping. Maybe you should try that.

By: Jared Bernstein

Jared Bernstein — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 12:47:27 +0000

Just read the Blow piece–ironically, after spending about an hour catching an escaping cat!–and agree–excellent and important.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 09:49:45 +0000

Only if the media doesn’t deliberately confuse the issue. Most folks don’t know that it’s Republicans opposing everything, because Obama’s too good to keep people informed, and our media confuses everything.

By: Rima Regas

Rima Regas — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 02:58:53 +0000

At the root of our country’s most serious problems, in my very humble opinion, is the lack of a solid social ethics foundation. Every single issue, when analyzed goes all the way back to that. Wall Street? Broken ethics. Prison industrial complex in all states? Broken ethics. Education? Ditto. Politics? Well… We’re at the point where, if a certain GOP candidate gets elected, we might well be ditching a good portion of our social contract. Did you catch Charles Blow’s column for today’s NYT? It resonated with a lot of people, including me. Far be it for me to ever defend a Bush appointee, but it happened. I defended Justice Roberts. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/opinion/obama-for-the-win.html?_r=1

What is going on in our society is beyond appalling.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 22:43:03 +0000

I’d be cautious about saying blithely that just because the Supreme Court said something was ok, it was ok. Do Democrats simply accept anything a Republican President passes, and the Supreme Court says ok to (Citizen’s United anyone?)Granted, Citizens United wasn’t a law but it was ok’d by the Supreme Court as being constitutional, and I’m sure as heck hoping someone finds some way to put a limit or reversal on it. One of the bad aspects of Democracy is that there are so few absolute laws, the rest have to be fought and re-fought. Nothing is set in stone, all is mutable. Passionately ignorant does not mean the Republicans are acting in a way the Democrats couldn’t (or even shouldn’t.) If nothing else, I wish more Democrats were as passionate after a bad Republican law was passed.

Futhermore, why are ignorant independents to be courted so much? Do I need to raise the spector of Casablanca to make the point that neutrality isn’t a moral choice but an abdication of moral choice? If you haven’t gathered enough information to pick a side, you aren’t informed.

By: eternal skeptic

eternal skeptic — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 22:29:20 +0000

The penalty for not buying insurance was ALWAYS going to be enforced by the IRS. Yet not a peep from Conservatives about this until Robert’s decision. Now the shrieks are being heard from Maine to California. “It’s a tax, it’s a tax, Obama promised never to raise taxes on the middle class.” I’m amazed Grover Norquist isn’t in apoplexy; then again, maybe he is.

There are days I feel like I’ve teleported to a parallel universe.

By: Nhon Tran

Nhon Tran — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 02:11:41 +0000

Thank you. I am overjoyed about the decision, too, although perplexed that it’s a tax. If people are interested in reading about Judge Roberts, Judge John Paul Stevens’s memoir “Five Chiefs,” (2011) has an informative chapter about him. Regards.