Journal pudge's Journal: Just a Reminder: Then and Now 9
Barack Obama, inaugural address: "In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame."
Nancy Pelosi, this month: "If you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care."
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Give us this day, our daily ... (Score:1)
... circus.
I esp. like the "or whatever" from Pelosi. Just, y'know, send her a bill, or something, as you please.
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Tim, the "Daily Circus" is sig-worthy. Nicely done.
For fun and amusement (Score:1)
It would be kind of fun to propose some kind of wacky and completely stupid bill to one of her sycophants and see if they take it up and run with it.
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Like the health care reform bill? ;)
but I don't have rent money..... (Score:1)
you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care.
How can I quit my job when Uncle Sam won't pay for my rent? Ms. Pelosi needs to get on this. People are suffering!
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I'll play the representative from the DailyKOS:
See, people have been convinced that they need to be slaves to corporations, and that we are suppose compete with one another instead of working together. If the super rich didnt horde all the money, there wouldnt be starving people in Africa. The invisible hand of the free market is bull shit because white people have been stealing from all the native peoples around the world since those evil tax evading europeans declared themselves free from the benevolent i
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Teehee :)
Not for me... (Score:2)
Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame."
I don't need riches or fame, but I much prefer leisure to work. I don't live to work, I work to live. IMO anybody who prefers work to leisure is batshit insane. My grandfather was like that, when he reached mandatory retirement he sat in his rocking chair and waited to die.
It took him thirty years, but he fina
eh, business as usual (Score:1)
These people are so bland. I miss Tip O'Neil and Good Time Charlie.. "The humor is gone. The camaraderie. The civility. The good human juices don't flow there anymore. There's all this goddamned rigidity and two-bit hypocrisy. So-called reforms saying we can't accept a drink or a meal from a friend or lobbyist. But either of 'em can slip us $5,000 across the table as a contribution, and somehow that is OK!"