waiting for the next toss over the transom

Here's an article from about fifteen seconds of internet research.  http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/aug/12/barack-obama/obama-has-praised-single-payer-plans-past/

Obama is a guy who plays his cards close to his vest and I think what happened was that once he realized Obamacare would never go over with single payer, he stopped mentioning it.  

Stupak rang a bell.  I remember that was a big deal.  The trouble with blue dogs.  When you have all the yellow dogs with you and all the republicans against you, the blue dogs have a lot of power.  As for Stupak resigning, politicians never drop out of politics because they upset by some matter of principle.  They drop out because they want to spend more time with their families. 

Joe Lieberman was a blue dog that Gore put on the ticket as veep to balance his liberalness.  He was a pain in the ass.  He got so righty that someone beat him in the primary, and he ran as an independent, and then pretended he was a democrat when all his ideas were clearly republican, and then he backed Cap'n Fogey for prez.  Glad to see him gone.

There was that uproar about Obama making changes to Obamacare without going to congress (as if anything he ever wanted to do would get through congress), but I think the supremes backed him up on that.  Then there was that thing about whether or not something was a tax which John Roberts surprisingly backed Obama on, and lately there is that thing where catholic hospitals don't want to pay for birth control pills for their employees which went down because Scalia is dead.

Then that union dues thing recently went our way.  The reps have a shot at putting a moderate on the supreme court if they act quickly but they'd rather wait and let the big girl put in a flaming liberal.

Yar Trump is for all these other nations that are on our side right now going nuclear.  I guess it never occurs to him that later on they might be on the other side.  And now he is refusing to rule out nuclear weapons in Europe.  I expect that makes our allies there a tad nervous.

Trump wants nukes on ISIS, Lyin' Ted wants carpet bombing and making the desert glow, Uncle Johnny Ohio, a relative moderate, only wants boots on the ground.  But that is as far as they go on details.  The dems insist that it is complicated and you have to make deals with all these other players and blah blah blah.  That doesn't make the blood run like mushroom clouds or glowing sands or our boys running across the desert, but i think it is a far better way to deal with the situation.  Because it is complicated.  Another difference between liberals and conservatives.  Liberals think the world is complicated and conservatives think it is simple.

There were tactical nuclear weapons, which are just smaller nuclear weapons which I think were the vogue among a certain set during the cold war.  Then there was the neutron bomb which was touted because it didn't destroy any infrastructure it just killed people.  But for some reason people didn't like that.  The dirty bomb is a regular bomb wrapped in radioactive material which scatters when the bomb goes off.  None has ever been used and anymore it is chiefly used to spread terror about ISIS.  Since terror is their business ISIS can't feel bad about that.

And I haven't even gotten to all of Trump's latest blabs, and now they will have a whole weekend to accumulate, how can we ever keep up?