Posting History for LWelsch
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| Truthout Town Meeting - RIP | LWelsch | 09/23/2006 | 24 | 2 | - | 3 |
| Lack of a Silent Majority | LWelsch | 09/26/2006 | 8 | 2 | - | - |
| You don't need a weather man | LWelsch | 09/30/2006 | 5 | 1 | - | - |
| The Foley Scandal | LWelsch | 10/06/2006 | 6 | 3 | - | - |
| Why is President Bush in Denial? | LWelsch | 10/16/2006 | 17 | 1 | - | - |
| False Expectations | LWelsch | 10/22/2006 | 2 | - | - | - |
| How Do You Ask a Man to Be the Last Man to Die in Vietnam? | LWelsch | 10/23/2006 | 4 | 1 | - | - |
| Arrogance of Power | LWelsch | 11/10/2006 | 6 | 2 | - | - |
| No to the DRAFT Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) has long advocated returning to the draft, but his efforts drew little attention during the 12 years that House Democrats were in the minority. Starting ... |
LWelsch | 11/20/2006 | 66 | 4 | - | 16 |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Lessons Learned I occasionally republish what I write on the website www.truthtown.org on other forums such as the Daily Kos. I republished ... |
LWelsch | 06/23/2007 | 10 | 1 | - | - |
| No Middle Ground in War One thing that people fail to realize is that there is no middle ground in war. You can either fight with all resources available or exit as quickly as possible. There is no in between point. I ... |
LWelsch | 06/28/2007 | 17 | 2 | - | - |
| Impeach Earl Warren I remember the signs from my youth. My family drove in the 54 Pontiac from Maryland to the Florida Keys in the late fifties. All along US 1 there were signs, Interstate 95 did not exist. There mixed ... |
LWelsch | 06/29/2007 | 11 | 17 | - | 17 |
| When is something not what it seems? When it is produced by Hillary Clinton.
English teachers in high school love hidden meanings. They spent so dam much time looking for hidden meanings and symbolism I used to wonder if they missed ... |
LWelsch | 07/03/2007 | 18 | - | - | 4 |
| The Danger of a Superficial Analogy Between Scandals Michael Kinsley in the op-ed section of the New York times provides a superficial analysis comparing Bill Clinton's lying about a blow job to Libby's lying about about a cover up of a stupid ... |
LWelsch | 07/05/2007 | 15 | 6 | - | - |
| If the Democrats will Not Govern then the time is rapidly approaching when Democrats will be voted out of office. Cindy Sheehan recently called on Nancy Pelosi in Cindy ... |
LWelsch | 07/12/2007 | 32 | 3 | - | - |
| The power of the House In the constitution of US the three branches of government are not equal. The Congress is more powerful than the Presidency and the Supreme Court. In the Congress the House of Representatives is ... |
LWelsch | 07/13/2007 | 11 | 5 | - | - |
| Nancy Pelosi broke her Oath of Office Nancy Pelosi and all high level federal officials take an oath of office to uphold the constitution. The clip ... |
LWelsch | 07/15/2007 | 32 | 11 | - | 11 |
| So arrogant! The action cries for impeachment I was shocked this morning to see the article Broader Privilege Claimed In Firings: White ... |
LWelsch | 07/20/2007 | 44 | 5 | - | 1 |
| World Population Management - The Unspoken Issue One of the forces behind many of the problems the US faces is the ever growing population in the world. Take for example global warming. Let's say we reduce the impact of each person in the world by ... |
LWelsch | 07/22/2007 | 53 | 14 | - | 6 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Hillary Achilles Heel - Earmarks There I was watching Bill Moyers Journal on TIVO and up pops Hillary's picture as Bill Moyers was ... |
LWelsch | 07/28/2007 | 88 | 6 | - | 13 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Questioning our Patriotism Today's Washington Post published the op-ed The Washington Clock Runs Down by Kyle ... |
LWelsch | 08/30/2007 | 1 | 2 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |