Posting History for LWelsch
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| Fighting Terrorism at its Roots | LWelsch | 09/27/2006 | 24 | - | 2 | 1 |
| False Expectations | LWelsch | 10/22/2006 | 2 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| God vs. Atheism or Religion vs. Science I recently listened to Thom Hartmann talking to Chris ... |
LWelsch | 04/12/2008 | 29 | - | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| "raging, contradictory forces" In The Politics Of WikiLeaks Howard Fineman says
The dominant impression is of an Obama ... |
LWelsch | 11/29/2010 | 1 | - | - | 38 |
| Republican Weekly Address to the Nation I did not realize that republicans had a weekly address to the nation until I read ... |
LWelsch | 01/02/2011 | 20 | - | - | 77 |
| Tonight is the Night Tonight is President Obama's opportunity to present the State of the Union to the nation. Will he admit the the nation is suffering from two afflictions, high unemployment and a high deficit? ... |
LWelsch | 01/25/2011 | 20 | - | - | 68 |
| 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.
... |
LWelsch | 02/24/2011 | 2 | - | - | 21 |
| 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 |
| Dancing with the Stars Trumps the President I found the story Before Libya, White House Must Negotiate ... |
LWelsch | 03/29/2011 | 14 | - | - | 49 |
| 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 |
| YACI - Yet Another Cave In Time for a new acronym. YACI - Yet Another Cave In fits the bill. But what President Obama just did goes beyond YACI and falls into YAVI - Yet Another Village Idiot realm. I mean really, how can one ... |
LWelsch | 09/01/2011 | 8 | - | - | 78 |
| Inflation should be a concern BUT , and this is a big but, unless we deal with both the underlying needs of people and the underlying causes of inflation simultaneously we will enter a period of stagflation that will cause ... |
LWelsch | 09/30/2011 | 18 | - | - | 66 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| DK development needs improvement I have been a user for 9 years. I remember the update from dk3 to dk4. Sadly the same mistake was made. The mistake was/is that users are doing the debugging. I remember the group frustrati where w |
LWelsch | 11/11/2015 | 9 | - | - | - |
| You don't need a weather man | LWelsch | 09/30/2006 | 5 | 1 | - | - |
| Why is President Bush in Denial? | LWelsch | 10/16/2006 | 17 | 1 | - | - |
| How Do You Ask a Man to Be the Last Man to Die in Vietnam? | LWelsch | 10/23/2006 | 4 | 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| "Don't Have the Votes" nonsense I hear all the time X or Y cannot be done because we don't have the votes. For some reasons this does not stop republicans. Well this should not stop Democrats either. |
LWelsch | 07/26/2007 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Default is the lesser evil The main reason everyone has been saying default is so bad is that the US will lose its triple A bond rating. No one knows that and now there are rumblings that the US will triple A bond rating ... |
LWelsch | 08/01/2011 | 9 | 1 | - | 53 |
| End of September there is yet another hostage Friday September 30th unless there is a budget or a continuing resolution the government will shutdown. Unlike the rest of the universe the Federal year for the budget starts October 1 and ends ... |
LWelsch | 08/02/2011 | 12 | 1 | - | 96 |
| 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 |
| Looking Backward | LWelsch | 10/31/2011 | 2 | 1 | - | 21 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Truthout Town Meeting - RIP | LWelsch | 09/23/2006 | 24 | 2 | - | 3 |
| Lack of a Silent Majority | LWelsch | 09/26/2006 | 8 | 2 | - | - |
| Arrogance of Power | LWelsch | 11/10/2006 | 6 | 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Questioning our Patriotism Today's Washington Post published the op-ed The Washington Clock Runs Down by Kyle ... |
LWelsch | 08/30/2007 | 1 | 2 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| I am against the Senate Bill LaFeminista in "Shut Up You Stupid Woman" and slinkerwink ... |
LWelsch | 12/20/2009 | 21 | 2 | - | 43 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Tangible Results askew wrote an excellent ... |
LWelsch | 07/16/2010 | 12 | 2 | - | 20 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Some Reflection Yesterday teacherken wrote an excellent diary, thankfulness = mindfulness = thankfulness (please ... |
LWelsch | 11/26/2010 | 3 | 2 | - | 44 |
| The Real Truth is the US and the world is screwed One of my favorite diary authors, slinkerwink , posted an excellent diary, |
LWelsch | 12/02/2010 | 10 | 2 | - | 32 |
| I watched the news today oh boy Senate Republicans Defeat Reauthorization Of Jobless Aid, Tax ... |
LWelsch | 12/04/2010 | 27 | 2 | - | 29 |
| Web of Popularity, Achieved by Bullying The article Web of Popularity, Achieved by Bullying is fascinating. I recommend highly that ... |
LWelsch | 02/15/2011 | 10 | 2 | - | 57 |
| 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 |
| It's All Over Now Baby Blue - Bob Dylan
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue ... |
LWelsch | 03/11/2011 | 26 | 2 | - | 167 |
| 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 |