The Reaction in review (September 4, 2009)

By Carol Gee

A week's Reactions that deserve a second look:


Creature Feature: great stuff on Health Care Reform -- "Trigger details," "...on life support," "Enzi:," "Trigger," "death of public option," "re seniors."


Friday

By Malia Cohen: "The Mission of a Generation" -- Our guest author's fine post takes a heartfelt look at Eric Greenberg's book discussion of the Millennial Generation's challenge of "inheriting a damaged future fueled by a series of problems that are of crisis proportions."

By Michael J.W. Stickings: "Canada, racism, and the nightmare of Suaad Hagi Mohamud" -- From his article published recently in The Guardian, Michael is "appalled" by the government's handling of the case.


Thursday

By Michael J.W. Stickings: "Public opinion and the public option" -- Citing E. J. Dionne's point that the media created a false impression regarding the importance of the right wing fringe view, Michael effectively argues "that there is much broader support for reform than we are led to believe . . . "

By Michael J.W. Stickings: "Worst Democrat of the Day: Blanche Lincoln" -- Senator Lincoln gets Michael's nomination for bailing out on the public option, saying that she (and others like her) can't "look beyond their noses . . . or put the good of the country before their own political ambitions."

By Michael J.W. Stickings: "Pat Buchanan, Hitler apologist" -- Regarding a Buchanan assertion, Michael says in his great little piece, "This is appalling, among the worst I've ever heard or read from Buchanan."


Wednesday

By Carl: "A lesson in populism" -- Carl's very fascinating piece explores the current fallout that has stemmed from California's earlier passage of Proposition 13 freezing property tax rates at 1%.

By Mustang Bobby: "Florida GOP gets a dunce cap" -- Bobby takes on Florida's Republican party for it's "lunatic" stance against President Obama's upcoming speech to school kids.

By Michael J.W. Stickings: "Exhibit #43,859 re: the American right is fucking insane" -- Michael's post, on an NLPC story from the right regarding gathering information from the internet, says he's had it with such hypocritical and paranoid charges.


Tuesday

By Carl: "The Third Musketeer: Pathos" -- Carl's incisive essay, on a feud between Joe Klein at Time Magazine and popular civil liberties attorney and liberal blogger, Glenn Greenwald, correctly comes down on Greenwald's side.

By Capt. Fogg: "WTF?" -- Fogg bravely wades in to the fetid waters of Republican Glenn Beck's show featuring black "pastor" Stephen Broden of Dallas, asking the the right question full out, rather than using the "telephone keypad abbreviation."

By (O)CT(O)PUS: "Exposing the puppet masters behind the puppets" -- Whether crazy right wing pundits' comments need be countered is the question explored in this great post, which argues that we forget their oligarchical puppet masters at our peril.

By Michael Lieberman: "Climate change is a real national security threat, even for a realist" -- Another of our guest posters from Truman Project, Lieberman persuasively argues that the effects of climate change can pose actual threats to U.S. national security, and are not necessarily "mere hype."

By Michael J.W. Stickings: "The truth about Republicans (and health care reform)" -- Michael exposes what is becoming abundantly apparent, "even ... supposed compromisers, the supposed moderates, don't really want reform at all, as we've suspected -- indeed, as we've known -- all along."


Monday

By Michael J.W. Stickings: "Understatement of the Day: Robert Gibbs on Dick Cheney" -- Michael would have put it much more strongly, it seems. For more on Cheney's Sunday prosecution pronouncement, see Carl's Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Dick! and Creature's Bored with Cheney.

(Cross-posted at Behind the Links.)