Posting History for LWelsch
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| 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 | - | - |
| A Candidates Debate The MSNBC democratic candidates debate was pathetic. A minute here 30 seconds there and maybe a minute and a half over there. Poor commercials and that was about it.
So what is the solution? ... |
LWelsch | 05/22/2007 | 1 | 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| "raging, contradictory forces" In The Politics Of WikiLeaks Howard Fineman says
The dominant impression is of an Obama ... |
LWelsch | 11/29/2010 | 1 | - | - | 38 |
| An open invitation to join Educating and Learning Yeah, I finally did it. I formed a new group. Yes I saw the group Educator Voices and I tried to join as a contributor and failed. I ... |
LWelsch | 03/06/2011 | 1 | - | - | 18 |
| What does XXX want? I often hear pundits say: “what does XXX want?” XXX refers to some group of people such as plutocrats, Latinos, Catholics, union workers, etc. etc. etc. More broadly question is what do people ... |
LWelsch | 12/10/2012 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - |
| Forever searching People who know me consider me to be a liberal’s liberal. Yes I am a progressive; but, I am foremost a liberal. To me being a liberal means that I am always searching for the truth. Being a ... |
LWelsch | 12/17/2012 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Time to be heard Pres. Obama recently asked us to make our voices heard to our elected representatives. I agree with him. Everyone should call their elected representatives as soon as possible. Everyone should send ... |
LWelsch | 12/21/2012 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Moving on The next item on the agenda is filibuster reform. The filibuster rule must change. Hopefully Democrats will insist on a rule where a senator must talk in order to filibuster anything. Only if the ... |
LWelsch | 01/02/2013 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| False Expectations | LWelsch | 10/22/2006 | 2 | - | - | - |
| Honesty I love The Daily Show and The Colbert Report . To find such good satire one must return to Jonathan Swift. As Nancy Pelosi put it there is a new congress in town. Sadly the new congress ... |
LWelsch | 05/25/2007 | 2 | 2 | - | - |
| 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.
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LWelsch | 10/09/2007 | 2 | 3 | - | 15 |
| 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 |
| Another Hostage The first hostages were unemployment insurance and tax cuts for the middle class. This is nothing compared to the current hostage, the federal budget. After that will come the debt ceiling hostage.
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LWelsch | 02/24/2011 | 2 | - | - | 21 |
| New Technology and Education This started as a comment to teacherken 's excellent ... |
LWelsch | 03/05/2011 | 2 | 1 | - | 27 |
| Protest Music: Springsteen (Banned) I lived in New Jersey from 1970 until 1983. I drove through Freehold many times and for a while lived near Asbury Park. Bruce Springsteen is one of my favorite musicians. Below is his song Banned. |
LWelsch | 03/08/2011 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 28 |
| Right-Wing Republican Bullies Robert Reich in Why the Right-Wing Bullies Will Hold The Nation Hostage Again and Again properly writes:
I hope the President decides he has to take a stand, and the ... |
LWelsch | 04/10/2011 | 2 | 2 | - | 44 |
| The economy is going to get ya, if you don't watch out. Chinese inflation and US bond ratings will have an impact on our economy and the economies of many nations of the world. The result will be to slightly accelerate the fall into a Greater ... |
LWelsch | 04/19/2011 | 2 | 3 | - | 40 |
| Interdependence The time has come to move from celebrating independence to recognizing our interdependence. With a few exceptions humans have always depended on each other. Yes I will grant you the occasional ... |
LWelsch | 07/04/2011 | 2 | 1 | - | 14 |
| Won't you please come to chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel reminds me of Mayor Daley - not the last one. So interesting that a Daley replaced Rahm as chief of staff. |
LWelsch | 10/26/2011 | 2 | 4 | - | 51 |
| Looking Backward | LWelsch | 10/31/2011 | 2 | 1 | - | 21 |
| A fool's paradise? As I read the New York Times article New Austerity Incites a Bitterness the Postwar Generation Did Without I came across the following
Now, the point of departure is ... |
LWelsch | 11/14/2011 | 2 | 2 | - | 39 |
| Forget money This is not a quibble about whether or not money is important; money is important. Goods and services are more important. The inequitable distribution of goods and services is a serious problem that ... |
LWelsch | 11/22/2011 | 2 | 1 | - | 24 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Some Reflection Yesterday teacherken wrote an excellent diary, thankfulness = mindfulness = thankfulness (please ... |
LWelsch | 11/26/2010 | 3 | 2 | - | 44 |
| Prejudice Yesterday teacherken wrote an excellent diary on Hatred . I agree that hatred is terrible. While I do not curse at other drivers ... |
LWelsch | 05/01/2011 | 3 | 2 | - | 65 |
| EFF Shared Sacrifice Since when is sacrifice payhing your taxes. To me sacrifice means losing one's health food or shelter. So now let's talk social security. Social security is paid up in full with lots of money saved ... |
LWelsch | 06/29/2011 | 3 | 3 | - | 36 |
| Killer Mike - "Burn"
Listen to this carefully. This is not just the truth for African Americans, ... |
LWelsch | 08/05/2011 | 3 | 3 | - | 42 |
| It is productivity - stupid Part of the underlying understanding of economics is the belief that in a capitalistic society people will behave rationally. Unfortunately people do not behave rationally. People do not minimize ... |
LWelsch | 08/08/2011 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 47 |
| I am a social capitalist - I mean a capital socialist I believe neither socialism nor capitalism are ideal, but a mix of both will benefit society better than strictly one or the other. I will only address the issue of the "means of production." In a ... |
LWelsch | 08/09/2011 | 3 | 1 | - | 28 |
| Jobs - The worst scenario Tonight is the night of the big speech. The bets are the proposal will be somewhere between three hundred to four hundred billion dollars. A good deal of money will be for extending unemployment ... |
LWelsch | 09/08/2011 | 3 | 1 | - | 52 |
| "part of a pattern of fits and starts?" The closing paragraph of Charles Blow's op-... |
LWelsch | 09/10/2011 | 3 | 2 | - | 52 |
| Nobody wants Nobody wants cuts in government services. Nobody wants increased taxes. Nobody wants to see the debt increase. Nobody wants deficits.
Put simply nobody wants to deal with the reality with which we ... |
LWelsch | 12/12/2012 | 3 | 4 | - | - |
| How Do You Ask a Man to Be the Last Man to Die in Vietnam? | LWelsch | 10/23/2006 | 4 | 1 | - | - |
| It Could Never Happen Here As a US citizen I like to think It could never happen in the US today. When bad despicable actions happen, I like to think that if they happened in the US then they are past and the US has ... |
LWelsch | 05/24/2007 | 4 | 5 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Some thoughts on the Deficit and Jobs Let's start with two simple truths. The US has a deficit problem. The US has has a Jobs problem. A third simple truth is the US needs to deal with both of these problems now. What is not a simple ... |
LWelsch | 11/11/2010 | 4 | 4 | - | 36 |
| The BIG Picture I wish there was a BIG picture, some sort of jigsaw puzzle that we could piece together and then all would be right in the world. There are lots of pieces and the pieces are all interconnected, |
LWelsch | 05/03/2011 | 4 | 3 | - | 80 |
| More brinkmanship with a government shutdown coming soon I remember a diary I wrote not long ago End of September there is yet another ... |
LWelsch | 11/02/2011 | 4 | - | - | 60 |
| You don't need a weather man | LWelsch | 09/30/2006 | 5 | 1 | - | - |
| They are off Well sorta. Even before the race for 04 was over, some like Senator John McCaine were off and running for 08. By ... |
LWelsch | 01/08/2007 | 5 | - | - | - |
| Dear Democratic Party Leadership I do not know who you are, but I presume you include Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Harry Ried, and Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean. I write you out of concern that you are ... |
LWelsch | 07/25/2007 | 5 | 3 | - | - |
| 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 |
| Where Have All the Flowers Gone? | LWelsch | 12/27/2009 | 5 | 2 | - | 82 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| David Rovics - Today's Protest Music If you do not know who David Rovics is then go to his web site and learn. Below are a few of my favorite protest songs. |
LWelsch | 02/25/2011 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 35 |
| Mediocre Employment numbers The New York Times reports that Spurred by Private Hiring, Job Growth Gathers Steam . The article notes ... |
LWelsch | 03/04/2011 | 5 | 4 | - | 50 |
| Politics is not the problem Recently I have seen articles, diaries, videos, comments, TV pundits, and on and on blaming "politics" for the debt ceiling crisis. The alternative to politics is dictatorship. Arguments, open ... |
LWelsch | 07/31/2011 | 5 | - | - | 27 |
| I remember the demonstrations and riots of sixties My neighbor's store was burned to the ground. There was smoke in the air and the smoke did not come from the steel mills. Demonstrators in Washington DC were rounded up in buses and then the buses ... |
LWelsch | 08/10/2011 | 5 | 2 | - | 52 |
| Consistent republican message As I watched clips of the debate, clips of republicans in Iowa and clips of Governor Rick Perry; I heard a consistent republican message that jobs will be created by cutting the deficit through ... |
LWelsch | 08/14/2011 | 5 | 2 | - | 52 |
| Government shutdown looms again I raised this ugly issue in my diary End of September there is yet another ... |
LWelsch | 09/22/2011 | 5 | 3 | - | 50 |
| Fair taxation I got a phone call yesterday from a group taking a survey, actually an automated survey. I hate automated phone calls. If I get another from "Rachel of card holder services" I think I will sue for ... |
LWelsch | 11/18/2011 | 5 | - | - | 37 |
| I am a social capitalist I made up the term social capitalist to describe my set of beliefs. I believe good societies provide for all their members. Providing includes food, shelter, healthcare, education and productive ... |
LWelsch | 10/15/2015 | 5 | 3 | - | - |
| Republicans redesign Daily Kos Republican operatives designed DK-5. They wanted to make certain that liberal ideas could not be seen.
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LWelsch | 11/08/2015 | 5 | 19 | - | - |
| The Foley Scandal | LWelsch | 10/06/2006 | 6 | 3 | - | - |
| Arrogance of Power | LWelsch | 11/10/2006 | 6 | 2 | - | - |
| Hula Hoops - Election 2008
In 1957 the hula hoop was reinvented by Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Medlin, founders of ... |
LWelsch | 07/02/2007 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 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 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 |
| 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 |
| principle, rules, negotiation, compromise, and common ground I recently wrote a diary title “the country was “not” founded on (yeah I know I said in) compromise.” I received many comments even though I pointed out that the constitution ... |
LWelsch | 12/17/2010 | 6 | 1 | - | 99 |
| Justice, Punishment, & Rehabilitation Does our system of government deliver JUSTICE ? I do not believe so. I believe our laws and system of government deliver punishment in lieu of justice and in the false belief that punishment ... |
LWelsch | 02/23/2011 | 6 | 2 | - | 31 |
| Olbermann on Unions The following is Keith Olberman's speech on Unions. |
LWelsch | 04/02/2011 | 6 | 18 | 1 | 226 |
| To hell with the "middle class" In the community spotlight I saw the diary titled The Path to a Restoration of the Middle ... |
LWelsch | 04/20/2011 | 6 | 8 | - | 105 |
| Tornadoes and the Budget Somebody needs to point out that republicans and yes republicans from the states most impacted by the tornadoes want to cut funds for the agency that is providing relief from the devastation from ... |
LWelsch | 04/30/2011 | 6 | 8 | - | 53 |
| While history never repeats itself there are similarities to what is happening now in Europe and the United States to what happened prior to WW II.
First lets take a look at Europe. Prior to WW II the Germans had a huge deficit, in ... |
LWelsch | 06/17/2011 | 6 | 1 | - | 36 |
| Unemployment rises once again Unemployment continues to worsen. In Job Growth Falters Badly, Clouding ... |
LWelsch | 07/08/2011 | 6 | 7 | - | 49 |
| "Washington’s Rogue Elephants" I learned a lot today about real elephants in the New York Times op-ed Washington’s Rogue Elephants .
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LWelsch | 07/27/2011 | 6 | 4 | - | 38 |
| Power to the People Occupy Wall Street brings back memories. This oldie but goodie captures the mood I see at OWS. |
LWelsch | 10/11/2011 | 6 | 3 | - | 27 |
| President Bush will Celebrate the Death of Important American Principles | LWelsch | 09/29/2006 | 7 | 6 | 1 | - |
| GIVE ME JACK BAUER! Ethics and law "go out the window" when terrorism strikes – said Tancredo during the Republican presidential debate. Then this week from an episode of The Sopranos on the Banks of the ... |
LWelsch | 05/19/2007 | 7 | 5 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| New Year's Resolutions I resolve:
To limit my use of "Obama" in the title of diaries
To continue the struggle to improve the economy
To recognize capitalism is not the solution to every ... |
LWelsch | 01/01/2011 | 7 | 4 | - | 67 |
| Some thoughts on big government Nobody wants big government. Yet I believe big government is inevitable. Conservatives are right to talk about pink (I mean black) helicopters. Why do I believe big government ... |
LWelsch | 02/16/2011 | 7 | 1 | - | 43 |
| The Republican budget if enacted will result in death for Americans When health care reform was being debated republicans made a big stink about "death panels," though nothing of the kind was in the bill or in the law. If the republican budget is enacted then many ... |
LWelsch | 04/05/2011 | 7 | 6 | - | 48 |
| Death of Osama bin Laden - First and Final Thoughts Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore have both expressed opinions that killing Osama bin Laden was wrong and violated Pakistan's sovereignty. I wish Osama bin Laden had be brought to trial and sentenced ... |
LWelsch | 05/25/2011 | 7 | 1 | - | 50 |
| Without Short Term Stimulus Global Economy Will Go Over The Precipice The following Real News Network video explains why better than any other explanation I have seen. Watch and learn. |
LWelsch | 09/03/2011 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 60 |
| I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it any more As I listen to the media I keep hearing this need to boil down "occupy wall street" to a simple 30 second sound bite. I also hear this need for the "occupiers" to solve all the problems in 30 ... |
LWelsch | 10/01/2011 | 7 | 11 | - | 67 |
| Stop Children What's That Sound Paul Krugman's column Confronting the Malefactors starts with "There’s something ... |
LWelsch | 10/06/2011 | 7 | 29 | - | 197 |
| Being different There are two reasons George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin; Trayvon Martin looks different and George Zimmerman is a coward. We are all different from each other. The greater the appearance of ... |
LWelsch | 07/16/2013 | 7 | 3 | 1 | - |
| Lack of a Silent Majority | LWelsch | 09/26/2006 | 8 | 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |