“South Carolina’s unexpected Democratic nominee for the US Senate, mystery man Alvin Greene, says he wants to play golf with Barack Obama. But in Texas, another surprise Democratic primary winner, congressional nominee Kesha Rogers, wants to impeach the President. So while South Carolina party officials are still unsure of what to do about Greene’s success at the ballot box, Texas Democrats have no such reservations - they wasted little time in casting Rogers into exile and offering no support or recognition of her campaign to win what once was Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s old seat.

Rogers, 33, told TIME she is a “full time political activist” in the Lyndon LaRouche Youth Movement, a recruiting arm of the LaRouche political organization that is active on many college campuses. The LYM espouses LaRouche opposition to free trade and “globalism” (the UN, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund) and it also calls for a return to a humanist classical education, emphasizing the works of Plato and Leibnitz. On her professional looking campaign website, kesharogers.com, she touts the LaRouche political philosophy - a mix of support for the economic policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the impeachment of President Obama - and calls Obama a “London and Wall Street backed puppet” whose policies will destroy the Democratic Party. During the campaign, she was photographed carrying an oversized portrait of the President with a Hitler-style moustache penciled on his lip.”

Hylton, H. (June 21, 2010). Texas Dems Grapple with Their own Alvin Greene.

No inference should be drawn from my silence other than the fact that my business life has been so very slammed that I cannot even put enough time together to post something reasonably well thought out. And as you point out, certainly not for lack of content. The AZ law alone could be a career in posting.

Interesting list and worthy of comment - but alas I am not currently able. It’s always funny to me that the conservative argument moves to whatever hasn’t been done yet. You must really believe that guy is God to be able to have tackled all that has been done so far and all the rest of that as well. I’m impressed by your obvious admiration for the guy.

Go well Edgar - I’ll try to post here sometime soon.

Long time no argue…

“I think that Republican partisanship, has played nasty against some conservatives, because partisanship trumps conservative values - which a true conservative despises”

I totally agree, although I’m not a Tea Partyer yet.

Well, back in 2008 Obama promised the “get out of war NOW” that we’d bring the boys back home. Now in 2010 we are still at war.

Looks like another war might be brewing in earnest re north and south korea. The administration gave full backing to the south koreans. We are about to run some maritime war games off the coast of the two koreas. Not looking so good.

Why is Obama such a warmonger? I’m shocked.

Now Perk, you are definitely slacking. There’s so much to bitch about if you are a liberal. What about the new Arizona law? Hmm? What about the great state of Texas and their more middle-of-the-road amendments to school curriculum textbooks?

Well, I wonder when Obama is going to fix:

Guantanamo
iraq
afghanistan
israel/palestine
korea
unemployment
illegal immigration
his buddies on wallstreet
the partisan divide
our relationships with our allies

Cameron is the new King of England and Israel all but spit on Joe Biden.

No wonder it’s so quite in the liberal lunchroom.

Partisanship from the right is causing a lot of the dissent, as is their perception that the Liberal agenda is something other than what it is. Even though I disagree with much of what the tea partyers say (although I speculate if they knew more some of their opinions might sway) I like the fact that they are in the game for what they perceive to be better for AMERICA, rather than a party. Partisanship is perhaps what pisses me off the most.

I think that Republican partisanship, has played nasty against some conservatives, because partisanship trumps conservative values - which a true conservative despises (exactly the way partisanship from the left pisses a true Liberal off). The Tea Partyers are clearly a symptom of Republican loss of way.

Don’t like all they have to say, but I like the American democracy of it all

“But back to Texas, there’s no surprise there. They want to secede from the union, FCOL. Texas electing a right wing reactionary is no surprise at all.”

Well, what I find interesting is the dynamic that exists in an electoral sense. To put it simply, many republicans, while they have a certain kinship with the teaparty, ultimately reject the notion of a third part - especially a conservative one like the TP.

Republicans basically think that it would be electoral suicide to allow the TP to become a major political party. They basically think that this would do nothing more than fragment the republican party - which would lead to democratic victories.

That makes sense, right? It would split (or so they say) the conservative vote between the republican party and the TP, leaving the democrats in a stronger position.

So, in that sense, it’s interesting that a TeaPartier was *allowed* to win in Texas. See what I mean?

Republicans are afraid that the TP will divide conservatives, thus committing electoral suicide.

What do you think? Is the TP good, bad or irrelevant?

IMO, the tea party movement is people, like you and me, pissed off that we are not getting what we’re paying for, and are tired of feeling screwed. The important point is that they don’t realize that the government is not the only one screwing them - they’ve been lead to believe that corporations are the free market, and that free market is what’s best for them. It’s a comedic level of ignorance about corporate America and what corporations actually exist to do (profit off them).

I think that if the people in the party knew exactly how they were being played by the large corporations, the insurance industry, lobbyists etc etc they’d be pissed off at a lot more than our government. Certainly, our government deserves plenty scrutiny and cleaning out. But they ignore the much larger demon when they focus only there.

But back to Texas, there’s no surprise there. They want to secede from the union, FCOL. Texas electing a right wing reactionary is no surprise at all.

“And I’m REALLY LOL that you’d assume that a Republican or tea partier getting elected in TX is any big deal”

Well, the tea party is new, and it appears to be getting some traction. It’s interesting, don’t you think?

@ backlash: LOL you’ll read it any way you want it. Despite GOP whining, Bloomberg reports that the economy is stabilizing, the market’s up, housing starts are up, joblessless as a whole is moving down … Congress’ approval is still on the way down but Obama’s is holding firm.

And I’m REALLY LOL that you’d assume that a Republican or tea partier getting elected in TX is any big deal

“After all, where is the outrage now?”

Interesting, that makes it clear that you do not listen to anything even remotely middle of the road, much less progressive.”

Bull! You couldn’t turn on the radio or the TV (any news channel) without seeing all the outrage. Now we have to dig for it. Gimme a break…

Did you notice that what’s his name rode the Tea Party thing to victory in Texas? Obama is creating a backlash like he never imagined.

Interesting, that makes it clear that you do not listen to anything even remotely middle of the road, much less progressive. This is one of the defining differences between us, Edgar: unlike the Repubs that walk lock-step, regardless of the ill effect on the American people, we liberals challenge our leaders and challenge their leadership. Obama is taking a *lot* of flack from the left because he’s just to busy trying to be loved by the assholes on the right.

He may or may not wind up being a nightmare for liberals, but he has 75% of his presidency left to sort things out. I realize that you are more interested in seeing him fail than seeing the American people succeed, and that’s unfortunate - but he does have 3 years left on his contract. We’ll see if he’s worthy of another 4, soon.