Posting History for LWelsch
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| Ronald Reagan vs. Barack Obama In the diary Who is More Conservative: Ronald Reagan or Barack Obama? Cenk Uygur ... |
LWelsch | 07/09/2010 | 65 | 14 | - | 177 |
| Our Public School System is Being Destroyed I repeatedly argue in diary after diary that the US and the world needs more and better education. I believe hundreds of billions of more dollars needs to be spent on pre-K through post graduate ... |
LWelsch | 07/07/2010 | 151 | 43 | - | 61 |
| Education, Jobs, Education This is one of several diaries I have written with this title. First I would like to talk about our current economic problems. I started writing about them back in 2003 in the ... |
LWelsch | 07/02/2010 | 12 | 5 | - | 19 |
| Some Thoughts on Basic Economic Principles I recently saw a diary entitle What's Wrong with Economics Today? . I felt the diary showed a lack of understanding of what I consider ... |
LWelsch | 07/01/2010 | 33 | 7 | 1 | 28 |
| "a rhetorical-testosterone deficit" In today's Washington Post Kathleen Parker suggests the President Obama is "suffering a rhetorical-testosterone deficit" in her op-... |
LWelsch | 06/30/2010 | 7 | 8 | - | 83 |
| Reducing deficit spending is not the answer - See Ireland I and others have argued for what feels like an eternity that reducing deficits is not the answer. Yesterday bobswern pointed out that Then again, as I'... |
LWelsch | 06/29/2010 | 33 | 12 | - | 25 |
| The problem lies in Pakistan Today's New York Times has an excellent front page article titled Pakistan Is Said to Pursue a Foothold in ... |
LWelsch | 06/25/2010 | 45 | 4 | - | 21 |
| Privacy - What are your rights? We all know about unreasonable search. But, what about a right to privacy? Do corporations have the right to know where your cell phone is/was? What is stopping them? Do Google or Bing have a ... |
LWelsch | 06/24/2010 | 4 | 2 | - | 39 |
| 9/11, Katrina, Deep Water Horizon 9/11, Katrina and the Deep Water Horizon have one attribute in common; they are all national tragedies. Perception, not reality, determined the course for the country in 9/11. Reality determined the ... |
LWelsch | 06/21/2010 | 9 | - | - | 94 |
| Some thoughts on people leaving DailyKos I have seen my share of Goodbye Cruel World Diaries. I was deeply disappointed to learn that Keith Olbermann has left us. And yet I ... |
LWelsch | 06/20/2010 | 147 | 4 | - | 48 |
| "1937 All Over Again?" The op-ed article That ’30s Feeling by Paul Kruman ends with
How bad will it be? Will it really ... |
LWelsch | 06/18/2010 | 17 | 6 | - | 30 |
| Sanity or Insanity People talk about the next election as if the election were between liberals and conservatives. The truth is the election is between the somewhat sane candidates and the truly insane candidates. If ... |
LWelsch | 06/16/2010 | 3 | 1 | - | 41 |
| 50 billion dollars is a start Obama pleads for $50 billion in state, local aid is the headline in today's Washington ... |
LWelsch | 06/13/2010 | 8 | 3 | - | 24 |
| Education, Jobs, Education Now that not so super Tuesday is over, I need to write about a topic that I have written about many times . education and jobs. The continuous oil flow in the gulf is a major catastrophe and yes ... |
LWelsch | 06/09/2010 | 6 | 2 | - | 29 |
| Some thoughts on the retirement of Helen Thomas I do not know where to start. I have a great many conflicting views. There are no easy answers. Many early immigrants, not all, came to the US to avoid religious persecution. JFK was the first ... |
LWelsch | 06/08/2010 | 79 | 12 | - | 27 |
| Listen to Sarah Silverman | LWelsch | 06/03/2010 | 31 | 18 | 2 | 34 |
| To worry about deficits is nonsensical. Yesterday I said that in a diary pushing education. I was also pushing the need for spending in order to provide for all the different things the US and the world needs. Little did I know one of my ... |
LWelsch | 05/31/2010 | 69 | 5 | - | 39 |
| Education! Education! Education! I have been heavily criticized on DailyKos for believing education plays a critical role solving many problems including ending terrorism and bringing about a better world for everyone. I have also ... |
LWelsch | 05/30/2010 | 5 | 3 | - | 35 |
| Libertarianism versus Interconnectedness Before giving my own thoughts I provide Miriam-Webster's definitions for libertarian ... |
LWelsch | 05/23/2010 | 12 | 4 | - | 25 |
| Something there is that doesn't love a wall As a child I loved Robert Frost. I still do. As I think about immigration reform, I cannot help but think of the walls in Europe during the cold war and Robert Frost's poem Mending Wall .
I ... |
LWelsch | 05/07/2010 | 7 | 10 | - | 17 |
| Greece, Euro, Stocks, Energy, Unemployment, War, Terrorism SHIT happens. Hurricanes, floods, droughts, tornadoes, . . . all this shit happens and there often is little we people can do about these events. But much of what is happening today was due ... |
LWelsch | 05/06/2010 | 15 | 3 | - | 12 |
| The Chris Mathews Show and Kent State Some times on Sunday I watch The Chris Mathews Show . Last Sunday he had a long segment starting with ". . . it was 40 years ago this ... |
LWelsch | 05/05/2010 | 28 | 11 | - | 23 |
| Unless we change the world, terrorism will get us Over spring break my daughter took a trip with her friend to New York City. She stayed in an inexpensive (by New York standards) hotel in Times square. She ate in Times square. She saw a play not ... |
LWelsch | 05/02/2010 | 24 | 4 | - | 16 |
| Oklahoma Cervical Ultrasound Law ... |
LWelsch | 04/29/2010 | 14 | 8 | - | 30 |
| What will Democrats run on in November? The November election is coming. Many are predicting Democrats will lose. Despite Republican politicians being total assholes, Republicans are predicted to win many seats in Congress. Why? The ... |
LWelsch | 04/27/2010 | 34 | - | - | 19 |
| Jobs, Jobs, and again Jobs Okay employment is increasing. Yes there is the infamous bikini curve showing increasing unemployment rates under Bush and decreasing unemployment rates under Obama. The bottom line is that unless ... |
LWelsch | 04/26/2010 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 42 |
| What comes after financial reform? Okay, health care (such as it is, and boy does it need improvement) has passed. Something that looks like financial reform (too weak to be real reform) will pass. More people are getting jobs than ... |
LWelsch | 04/25/2010 | 8 | 1 | - | 18 |
| I do not want my tax dollars used to support religion I do not live in California. Public tax dollars in California have been used at Hastings College of the Law, part of the University of California, to support student groups as long as the groups do ... |
LWelsch | 04/19/2010 | 45 | 23 | - | 49 |
| The Confederacy - Fear, Slavery and the Tea Party I am a northerner. I was born in upstate New York in Niskayuna. My mother was born in Pittsfield Massachusetts and while my father was born in Munich Germany, he was brought up in Manhattan. Yeah I ... |
LWelsch | 04/18/2010 | 22 | 8 | - | 31 |
| I feel sorry for President Obama President Obama ran on change. Change is difficult. Part of the problem is that so many large changes need to happen. One was/is in health care. One was/is in nuclear arms. One was/is in the economy. |
LWelsch | 04/12/2010 | 68 | 15 | - | 131 |
| Edmund G. Brown Jr. for Supreme Court Justice OK, I know he is on nobody's list for the Supreme Court. For starters he is probably too old and too liberal. But I cannot help but think of how all the recent appointments have been appellate court ... |
LWelsch | 04/11/2010 | 25 | 3 | - | 26 |
| Some thoughts on: Rules, Moderation, Civility I thank the author of Rules, Moderation, Civility . Good job! Well Done! I agree with some rules ... |
LWelsch | 04/08/2010 | 40 | 2 | - | 10 |
| Do politicians believe in equality between the sexes? President Obama, democrats and republicans clearly do not. The health care bill recently signed into law clearly discriminates between a profession dominated by men and and a profession dominated by ... |
LWelsch | 04/05/2010 | 16 | - | - | 31 |
| Jobs / Financial Reform / Jobs This is not going to be a long diary - I never write very much. Yes, I am glad that the Health Care Bill is now a Law. The Health Care Law is barely a beginning and we need to move to single payer ... |
LWelsch | 03/28/2010 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 24 |
| More cuts in county governments I live in Montgomery County Maryland. Montgomery County is one of the richest counties in the United States with one of the best school system in the nation. Yet the County must cut its budget for ... |
LWelsch | 03/17/2010 | 11 | 2 | - | 15 |
| "The Wal-Mart Hippies" The article The Wal-Mart Hippies by David Brooks enraged me. While not a hippie myself, people who saw me sure ... |
LWelsch | 03/05/2010 | 64 | 12 | - | 51 |
| Climate Change The New York Times has an article entitled Scientists Taking Steps to Defend Work on Climate . Those who ... |
LWelsch | 03/03/2010 | 26 | 11 | - | 16 |
| Too much? Too Little? As I listened to the Sunday talk shows I kept hearing that President Obama was trying to accomplish too much. General Powell said Obama should have stuck to the economy. Senator McConnell called ... |
LWelsch | 02/22/2010 | 3 | - | - | 18 |
| Pay as you go is stupid, dumb, idiotic Pay as you go or PAYGO as Wikipedia puts it, means "financing expenditures with funds that are currently available rather than borrowed." Aside from ... |
LWelsch | 02/13/2010 | 85 | 5 | - | 28 |
| Is Chris Matthews a Racist Start by watching the video below
See URL http://videos.mediaite.com/video/Chris-Matthews-On-Obama-I-Forgo
The transcript reads:
I was trying to think about who he was tonight. It's ... |
LWelsch | 01/31/2010 | 103 | 6 | - | 39 |
| A sharp left turn In 2008 democrats had a huge win. They won the House and Senate with large some say super majorities. Democrats won the presidency. These wins were for change from the right wing of American politics. |
LWelsch | 01/20/2010 | 19 | 6 | - | 12 |
| Don't blame me, I am from Massachusetts In 1972 Massachusetts was the only state to vote for Senator George McGovern. During Watergate and later my friends from Massachusetts (I have many) all said, Don't blame me (for Nixon), I am from ... |
LWelsch | 01/18/2010 | 32 | 19 | 1 | 90 |
| a hypocritical diary *update* The diary Nurse Kelley Sez: Do you eat with that mouth? (Updated) is ... |
LWelsch | 01/11/2010 | 216 | 4 | 1 | 23 |
| Solidifying Democratic Control of Congress I am hearing how the democrats are going to lose seats in Congress. Some, such as E. J. Dionne are concerned about ... |
LWelsch | 01/04/2010 | 35 | 6 | - | 12 |
| College Football Bowl Games So this is not a political diary, though, President Obama expressed his opinion long ago on the BCS ranking system and college bowls.
Forty years ago, President Nixon declared the Texas Longhorns ... |
LWelsch | 01/02/2010 | 17 | 1 | - | 24 |
| Ideals Come First Are Sanford and Ensign pragmatic? I think not. In the diary Stop Telling Me I'm Not ... |
LWelsch | 12/30/2009 | 7 | 2 | - | 22 |
| Where Have All the Flowers Gone? | LWelsch | 12/27/2009 | 5 | 2 | - | 82 |
| What Next?? There is little question that sometime during the winter a health care bill will be signed into law. The bill will look substantially like what just passed the Senate with some improvements. ... |
LWelsch | 12/24/2009 | 10 | - | - | 33 |
| I am against the Senate Bill LaFeminista in "Shut Up You Stupid Woman" and slinkerwink ... |
LWelsch | 12/20/2009 | 21 | 2 | - | 43 |
| The time to call is now This morning I called the offices of my two Senators (Mikulski and Cardin) and my Representative (Van Hollen). I told the staff member my name, my address and that I voted for them the last time ... |
LWelsch | 12/17/2009 | 6 | 1 | - | 19 |
| Jobs and Afghanistan are more important than health care 'YOU'RE SCREWED' Rep. Michael Capuano tells fellow dems.
People are talking about what will happen in ... |
LWelsch | 12/15/2009 | 11 | - | - | 55 |
| Deleting comments - update - and another I recently posted a comment to the diary Happy Moonday Pooties and Woozles and ... |
LWelsch | 12/14/2009 | 224 | 4 | 1 | 49 |
| A New Beginning The New Deal, the New Frontier, the Great Society, are all terms used by democratic presidents to lay out broad new programs for society. Bill Clinton had "It's the economy, stupid" to revise the ... |
LWelsch | 12/11/2009 | 1 | - | - | 12 |
| What Public Option? There never was a "public option." A public option is a plan where the public, not just the fill in the blank with your favorite group or goups , could take the option. There were plans ... |
LWelsch | 12/10/2009 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 125 |
| It is the economy stupid! Most important jobs, stupid! For years John Kenneth Galbraith was my favorite economist. He died and along came Paul Krugman. I still love Professor Krugman, but after listening to the following my favorite economist is John ... |
LWelsch | 12/05/2009 | 2 | 2 | - | 39 |
| You may not like this - think about it anyway Compared to the "change we can believe in" we were promised the performance of the democratic majority in congress and President Barack Obama sucks. Whether we like or it or not Republicans are ... |
LWelsch | 11/28/2009 | 141 | 8 | - | 104 |
| Procedural Votes Is Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, going to allow 4 democratic Senators to obstruct health care? The question in my mind is "Where is the arm twisting?" |
LWelsch | 11/18/2009 | 4 | - | - | 138 |
| Not Thinking Most people do not think, rather, they memorize and regurgitate. When asked to recite the letters of the alphabet almost everyone regurgitates a, b, c, . . . A few might say q, w, e, . . . Someone ... |
LWelsch | 11/15/2009 | 12 | - | - | 57 |
| The Importance of REAL Democrats Democratic candidates lost big in Virginia, lost in New York City and lost in New Jersey. Okay there was a weird race in upstate New York that a Democratic candidate won, but the "conservative" was ... |
LWelsch | 11/04/2009 | 23 | 2 | - | 124 |
| Woodstock In Sunday's New York Times both Gail Collins ... |
LWelsch | 08/16/2009 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 123 |
| Some thoughts for pro life (anti-choice) folks I am pro choice. I believe people have the right to determine what happens to their bodies, including euthanasia. While I do have reservations about euthanasia, there is no question in my mind that ... |
LWelsch | 06/02/2009 | 10 | 1 | - | 1 |
| Global Warming Al Gore has us all worried about global warming. He is right that calamity will befall the world unless we can reduce the level of creating carbon dioxide to below the level at which the tropical ... |
LWelsch | 03/09/2009 | 48 | 3 | - | 4 |
| Social Security I am yet again hearing about plans to fix social security. There is nothing wrong with social security that needs fixing. There is plenty wrong with the budget, Medicare, Medicaid, the VA, . |
LWelsch | 02/23/2009 | 26 | 4 | - | 9 |
| "What is a Jewish democratic state?" The above quote comes from the article Once a Political Riser, ... |
LWelsch | 12/28/2008 | 167 | 8 | 1 | 20 |
| Bill Ayers and Charles Keating I was in my early twenties in the late sixties and early seventies. I remember those times well. I was number twenty five in the first draft lottery. I had friends who had been to Vietnam and ... |
LWelsch | 10/07/2008 | 16 | 3 | - | 9 |
| No Hard Questions on Palin for McCain I just watched Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer . One thing was apparent. No questions, absolutely none, on any of tricky issues on ... |
LWelsch | 09/09/2008 | 8 | 1 | - | - |
| The Nation is Unprepared for Gustav When I look back to hurricane Katrina, I remember the birthday cake Bush & McCain ate as well as how woefully unprepared New Orleans was, combined with the president's refusal to supply the help ... |
LWelsch | 08/31/2008 | 6 | - | - | 7 |
| The Time to Give $$$ is now Starting with the convention Obama/Biden and the Democratic National Committee will need lots of money for the next three months. Also get those bumper stickers, signs, buttons, shirts, caps, . . . ... |
LWelsch | 08/24/2008 | 11 | - | - | - |
| Updated not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime. So speaks Attorney General Michael Mukasey. The full quote from the article Justice Staffers Won't Be ... |
LWelsch | 08/12/2008 | 64 | 28 | - | 28 |
| David Brooks endorses Barack Obama In this morning's New York Times David Brooks writes:
If you look at Barack Obama’s education proposals — especially his emphasis on early childhood — you see that ... |
LWelsch | 07/29/2008 | 16 | 7 | - | - |
| The Right to Bear Arms As we all know the Supreme Court upheld " that the Second Amendment protects an individual ... |
LWelsch | 06/29/2008 | 139 | 1 | - | 17 |
| Political Jujitsu I recently read article Jujitsu in Action — The Smart Way to Fight Smears Against Obama While I agree with everybody who say ... |
LWelsch | 06/13/2008 | - | 1 | - | - |
| Hillary continues to act disruptively I will finally say it; Hillary lost . The search for delegates is over. Obama won.
So What does Hillary want? She wants to be president. Sadly enough she wants it ... |
LWelsch | 06/04/2008 | 12 | 3 | - | - |
| FL/MI primaries in 2012 The question that needs addressing is what will happen to democratic delegations from state democratic parties that break the Democratic National Committee rules. |
LWelsch | 05/28/2008 | 7 | - | - | 9 |
| Racism and Sexism Problems When Geraldine Ferraro said "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position," she was correct. By the same troken if Hillary was a white man she would not be in this position either. |
LWelsch | 05/11/2008 | 26 | 1 | - | - |
| Trade is not a problem As I listen to both democrats argue about trade with China and NAFTA, I often wonder do they really understand what the "problem" is all about. Today the New Times ... |
LWelsch | 04/27/2008 | 15 | 2 | - | - |
| Not a Dime's Worth of Difference When looking at Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's policies, there is very little difference between them. Both have highly similar economic policies, health plan policies, and military policies ... |
LWelsch | 04/18/2008 | 19 | 1 | - | 1 |
| God vs. Atheism or Religion vs. Science I recently listened to Thom Hartmann talking to Chris ... |
LWelsch | 04/12/2008 | 29 | - | 1 | - |
| Many Pro-Lifers are really Pro-Death Not long ago there was an important diary called What It Means to Be a Pro-Life Democrat . The author, The ... |
LWelsch | 04/02/2008 | 42 | 5 | 1 | - |
| Hillary's losses in Ohio and Texas Everyone is talking about how Hillary won in both Ohio and Texas. What did she win. Well she won the popular vote and a few delegates. Hillary is claiming that because of these wins she is better ... |
LWelsch | 03/06/2008 | 29 | 9 | - | 3 |
| Ohio Ballots Voting results in Ohio were highly questioned in the 2004 election for president. In yesterday's election there was a shortage of ballots in Cleveland (... |
LWelsch | 03/05/2008 | 9 | 1 | - | - |
| The shield law that should not pass The Bush administration told lie after lie to convince the nation to go to war with Iraq. The New York Times repeated those lies one after the other. Very few news organizations did their homework.
... |
LWelsch | 10/09/2007 | 2 | 3 | - | 15 |
| What happened to American Values? President Bush, Republican Legislators, and a Republican Supreme Court stole them. The above crew were aided and abetted by many Democrats and sadly by many citizens. We let fear and greed guide us ... |
LWelsch | 10/07/2007 | 9 | 3 | - | 1 |
| Hillary's Problem I am not a member of the anti-Hillary mafia she alluded to in her Sopranos video. Yet, I have grave reservations about Hillary that were captured by Frank Rich in the ... |
LWelsch | 09/30/2007 | 32 | 1 | - | - |
| Not Policy alone When thinking about presidential candidates I consider many factors, including their policy positions. I am not even certain policy positions are the most important issue. Among democrats I argue ... |
LWelsch | 09/25/2007 | 3 | - | - | - |
| "She (Hillary) has goons just like the republicans have goons." as said by Medea Benjamin on Hardball segment Protecting the First Amendment . |
LWelsch | 09/19/2007 | 56 | 8 | 1 | 2 |
| Unasked Question With all the time spent playing to cameras by Senators and Representatives, there was little time for any questions at all. There was one question with many follow up questions that was not asked. |
LWelsch | 09/12/2007 | 3 | 1 | - | - |
| Why are the Democratic leaders in Congress destoying the party? From 2002 until 2006 the Republican party ruled Washington with an Iron Fist, controlling all branches of the Federal Government. In 2006 the country elected Democrats by a slim margin to rule the ... |
LWelsch | 09/07/2007 | 11 | 3 | - | 9 |
| Who among the Democrats will demonstrate leadership? As we enter the the phase of debating Iraq and defense spending, the question I have is who among the democrats will demonstrate leadership.
Let me start by defining what I mean by leadership. To ... |
LWelsch | 09/06/2007 | 5 | 4 | - | 9 |
| Like a Thief President Bush went to Iraq on Labor day weekend. The MSM calls it a surprise visit. The reality is he went like a thief in the middle of the night. |
LWelsch | 09/04/2007 | 3 | 1 | - | 3 |
| Is Joe Lieberman the next AG? If President Bush is looking for a bipartisan appointment that will give control of the Senate to the Republicans and have a Democrat/Independent supporting all of Bush's unconstitutional unitary ... |
LWelsch | 09/02/2007 | 54 | 1 | - | - |
| See you in September In late winter and all spring, President Bush was pleading with the nation to just give the surge until September. Due largely to a sympathetic press and an inept congress President Bush got his wish. |
LWelsch | 09/01/2007 | 3 | 1 | - | - |
| Questioning our Patriotism Today's Washington Post published the op-ed The Washington Clock Runs Down by Kyle ... |
LWelsch | 08/30/2007 | 1 | 2 | - | - |
| The DNC and Florida - Much ado about nothing The states are in a race to be first to pick party delegates. The nature of the game selecting delegates has changed dramatically since 68. The Democratic national party is now almost irrelevant in ... |
LWelsch | 08/29/2007 | 8 | - | - | 4 |
| Labor Day is Coming DC is hot. Anybody who counts is on vacation. As Cheney might say, that all changes on Labor Day. Most people know the facts. Some are already claiming limited success for a failed surge. Failed, ... |
LWelsch | 08/27/2007 | 7 | 1 | - | 1 |
| California Electoral College Initiative is Unconstitutional I never cease to be amazed at how few people have read and understand the Constitution. We know President Bush ignores the Constitution and Vice President Cheney uses the document as toilet paper. ... |
LWelsch | 08/21/2007 | 58 | 15 | - | 7 |
| Where is Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.? Hubert Humphrey was selected as LBJ's vice president in 64 and ran for president in 68. Despite the Chicago convention, the anti-war blame on LBJ, and Humphrey's effort's not to criticize LBJ; he ... |
LWelsch | 08/18/2007 | 28 | 2 | - | - |
| Republican Corruption at a Straw Poll As a democrat, I don't pay much attention to the republican straw poll. So imagine my surprise to learn that the straw poll is basically here is some money for your vote. Oh yes and the candidate ... |
LWelsch | 08/10/2007 | 9 | - | - | - |
| Hillary's Lobbiest - DoD appropriation earmarks problem There was Hillary defending lobbyists as just plain normal people like the baker and the butcher. Now, we also see Hillary as being savvy for getting on the committee that oversees the DoD ... |
LWelsch | 08/07/2007 | 12 | 1 | - | - |
| The Trouble with the Anti-Impeachment Argument In the article Why Pelosi Opposes Impeachment Ari Berman claims the reason is:
Democratic Party leaders do ... |
LWelsch | 08/02/2007 | 37 | 7 | - | - |