Posting History for LWelsch
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| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| I am against the Senate Bill LaFeminista in "Shut Up You Stupid Woman" and slinkerwink ... |
LWelsch | 12/20/2009 | 21 | 2 | - | 43 |
| 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 |
| Where Have All the Flowers Gone? | LWelsch | 12/27/2009 | 5 | 2 | - | 82 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Oklahoma Cervical Ultrasound Law ... |
LWelsch | 04/29/2010 | 14 | 8 | - | 30 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Libertarianism versus Interconnectedness Before giving my own thoughts I provide Miriam-Webster's definitions for libertarian ... |
LWelsch | 05/23/2010 | 12 | 4 | - | 25 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| A Baby Boomer's Thoughts on Social Security Thanks to A Question For The Community I started thinking about Social Security. I was born in 1948 and am ... |
LWelsch | 07/11/2010 | 40 | 20 | - | 46 |
| The Education Crisis Those of you who read my diaries know that I am in favor of spending a whole lot of money to improve education in this country. Today's New York Times has two excellent op-ed articles, one by Bob ... |
LWelsch | 07/13/2010 | 16 | 9 | - | 50 |
| Tangible Results askew wrote an excellent ... |
LWelsch | 07/16/2010 | 12 | 2 | - | 20 |
| No man is an island
"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so ... |
LWelsch | 08/02/2010 | 16 | 5 | - | 13 |
| Losing the November election Despite the utter stupidity of republicans we democrats are in danger of losing November's election. By losing, I mean republicans will gain at least one seat in congress. There is a possibility ... |
LWelsch | 08/05/2010 | 28 | 5 | - | 19 |
| the cancer in the American heart — joblessness The title is taken from Frank Rich's op-ed How to Lose an Election Without Really Trying . The cancer unless treated ... |
LWelsch | 08/08/2010 | 7 | 4 | - | 27 |
| Exporting Jobs - A False Issue (Updated) I recently read a diary that said
Life is becoming harder and harder for most people and the prospects for the future are not good. More jobs will be exported.
I responded ... |
LWelsch | 08/10/2010 | 51 | 2 | - | 29 |
| Another Economic Collapse The Dow Jones industrial average fell 265.42 points today. See Wall Street Retreats in the Face of a ... |
LWelsch | 08/11/2010 | 78 | 10 | - | 44 |
| Hope has morphed into widespread gloom The last two paragraphs of Bob Herbert's op-ed column Fire and Imagination column are:
Now, with so ... |
LWelsch | 08/14/2010 | 21 | 6 | - | 28 |
| So much work! So many unemployed! People are starving. People don't have shelter. Floods are killing people. Forest fires are wreaking havoc. People are dying from lack of health care. Children are not receiving an adequate education. |
LWelsch | 08/15/2010 | 35 | 6 | - | 26 |
| The DSCC needs to get its act together I just received a "phone bank" call from the DSCC asking for a hundred dollars to maintain a democratic senate. The caller started by talking about our common goals. I pointed out that I was ... |
LWelsch | 08/16/2010 | 33 | 4 | - | 21 |
| Is anyone listening? Tom Toles makes a point in today's Washington Post. (Unfortunately DailyKos will not allow images from the ... |
LWelsch | 08/17/2010 | 16 | 2 | - | 22 |
| Sexist Disgusting MN Republican Video This is one of the most disgusting sexist videos I have ever seen. To think that the Minnesota Republican Party put this on their web site ... |
LWelsch | 08/19/2010 | 47 | 16 | - | 58 |
| The Economy As teacherken pointed out school is starting for many this Monday. (See A Saturday morning pause ). Labor day is ... |
LWelsch | 08/22/2010 | 8 | 7 | - | 33 |
| The Way Back Machine Way back in 2003 I wrote Some thoughts on the Root Causes of our Economic Problems . The key ... |
LWelsch | 08/24/2010 | 3 | 5 | - | 27 |
| November's election is FUBAR Yeah, that is right. November's election is Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition. Let's start with the Republicans. The other night Ed Rendell called the republicans wacky. That they surely are. Look at ... |
LWelsch | 08/27/2010 | 35 | 9 | - | 39 |
| Has Change Come to Washington? blackwaterdog has written an excellent diary titled Change HAS come to Washington . Everything ... |
LWelsch | 08/28/2010 | 27 | 11 | - | 30 |
| My muse: President Obama is a part of the problem LaFeminista wrote an excellent diary called Morning Muse: Obama is not the problem. I disagree. The failure of President ... |
LWelsch | 09/04/2010 | 33 | 10 | - | 31 |
| Is Almost Everybody Really that Stupid? I ask the question, because stupidity on economic issues is running rampant. I will start with President Obama. All the news outlets are reporting that ... |
LWelsch | 09/06/2010 | 68 | 17 | - | 46 |
| Forget what you know about education The New York Times has an interesting article Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits . There are some very ... |
LWelsch | 09/08/2010 | 31 | 16 | - | 70 |
| Silver Bullet I remember silver bullets from watching The Lone Ranger on television years ago. The Lone Ranger "decides to use only silver bullets—... |
LWelsch | 09/10/2010 | 5 | 3 | - | 19 |
| Schizophrenia Sometimes I see something so profound on the web that I feel I must bring it to the attention of others. The New York Times health section has what to me is a profoundly serious feature ... |
LWelsch | 09/16/2010 | 25 | 26 | - | 37 |
| many millions of Americans trapped in a world of hurt So ends Bob Herbert's op-ed column Two Different Worlds .
The movers and shakers of our society seem ... |
LWelsch | 09/18/2010 | 5 | 8 | - | 27 |
| Democratic recovery began in 2009 - For whom? The diary NBER confirms Obama - Democratic recovery began in 2009 claims we are now ... |
LWelsch | 09/21/2010 | 57 | 9 | - | 54 |
| Who should replace Summers? I highly recommend that Geithner resign and that Barack make a recess appointment to replace Geithner.
The answer to the question posed in the title is simple, Professor Paul Krugman. The answer to ... |
LWelsch | 09/23/2010 | 41 | 4 | - | 27 |
| Some Democratic Politicians Insist on Harming Themselves There is/was an important opportunity for democratic politicians to help themselves this session. That opportunity was/is voting in favor of tax cuts on income below 250K while allowing tax cuts ... |
LWelsch | 09/23/2010 | 8 | 8 | - | 27 |