It’s just a bad day to be paying attention.

Wildfires in California are, of course, because of teh gay. Wonder where these guys are when, for example, Hurricane Gustav hits at the same time as the Republican convention.

Lieberman’s everyone’s best chum again. It’s actually this chain of events that made me get irritated in the comments of my last post. The Democrat personality type tends to be more reasonable and accepting, but you have to have the fortitude to say when someone’s wrong. Lieberman should be kicked the hell off whatever he thinks is important, and I don’t know why they continue to coddle this buffoon. Well, I have a guess: it’s because the Senate Democrats think “play nice” is more important than “do what’s right”.

And I can’t even read Glenn Greenwald recently, it’s just too depressing.

I am pretty sure Obama is going to disappoint me. This is the best time we’ve had in decades to push for universal health care, but I’m pretty sure that’s not what’s going to happen. We’re just going to be further locked into depending on employers, which further deepens the leverage corporations have over their workers. And Lieberman saying that Obama’s support was crucial, that just further gives me an idea of how things are going to go. I was hoping that all the idiots saying “Obama must act from the center, not the left” would not have an effect on him, but given he’s probably inside the bubble now, it probably is.

Edit: though, on the other hand, here’s Greenwald today talking about the probable new attorney general, and there’s the news that Tom Daschle will be Secretary of Health and Human Services. And nice words from Rahm Emanuel on health care, though of course they’re just words. I dunno, tho, what Obama was saying during the debates — “we’ll make your premiums lower” — doesn’t sound like the scale of things Emanuel’s talking about. If it turns into the kind of thing where they said one thing during the election so as to not make waves, but actually have bigger plans — well, that’s kinda a typical politician underhanded move, but at least if it gets us an actual working health care system, I might not care so much.

So yeah, I’m fully with the argument that “he’s not even President yet, let’s see what happens.” But I’m not going to reflexively believe him just because he was elected, and I will admit I’m cynical on the activity of federal politicians. And the market forces involved, in the form of health care companies, drug companies, and the like — are massive and glacial.

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