deep breath

Here’s why the White House will go after Howard Dean but not the actual people who are derailing health care reform:

People wondering why the White House does tough, public pushback against Howard Dean but not against the likes of Ben Nelson or Joe Lieberman ought to take a deep breath and consider that Nelson and Lieberman . . . get votes in the United States Senate.

The White House hasn’t publicly attacked Bernie Sanders or Roland Burris over there Dean-esque doubts any more than they’ve publicly denounced Nelson or Lieberman. That’s because the White House doesn’t want to get into a downward spiral of recriminations with any of the 62 Senators who they’re hoping will vote for the bill.

As Aravosis puts it “In other words, they'll respect you when they fear you”. Truer words never spoken.

Watch this video - go puke - then come back for my commentary.

This is a typical whine of the wingnuts out there. If you ban then from a site or delete something they say then you are infringing on their rights. This could be taken seriously if I could post a comment on Malkin's blog that says something like "Republicans appease child molesters". The fact of the matter is Malkin would delete it right away. Go to any right wing forum or blog out there and see how quickly they delete stuff. Go onto something like Sean Hannity's forum and say something against the GOP agenda and see how quickly you are banned.