No Need for Obama to Condemn Hoffa’s ‘SOB’ Remark

If you don't like Hoffa and want him discredited then be happy he is showing himself to be the hostile mafioso that streotypes unions and is causing thier rapid decrease in membership. Who wants to be associated with such as that? And getting him to reiterate it was classic rope-a-dope.

If you do like Hoffa and think he's doin' it right, then re-read the above paragraph..........those oppossed to organized labor would apreciate your emulating that behavior loudly and often.

Eggman of CO 3:56PM September 09, 2011

Anonywriter, I was illustrating Ms. Marshall's hypocrisy by quoting from another of her columns. I think you were under the impression they were my own comments, or that I support them. That is incorrect.

Rich of CO 4:16AM September 09, 2011

Many people are buzzing about an article at truthout.org by one Mike Lofgren, a longtime Republican staff aide on Capitol Hill who just couldn’t take the crazy anymore, left his job, and produced this buzzy (and quite well-written) lamentation about his party’s tactics and goals. If you haven’t read it, you must

The Lofgren piece is full of harsh observations and accusations, but here’s just a little sampling:

• The debt-ceiling debate was an act of “political terrorism,” in which the GOP concocted a crisis and used it to ensure that the party's unprecedented demands were met. He writes: “Everyone knows that in a hostage situation, the reckless and amoral actor has the negotiating upper hand over the cautious and responsible actor because the latter is actually concerned about the life of the hostage, while the former does not care.”

• The August FAA reauthorization fight was another instance such of hostage-taking: “Republicans were willing to lay off 4,000 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees, 70,000 private construction workers, and let FAA safety inspectors work without pay, in fact, forcing them to pay for their own work-related travel—how prudent is that?—in order to strong arm some union-busting provisions into the FAA reauthorization.”

• The GOP plan to discredit government in the people’s eyes is very conscious: “A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption. Should Republicans succeed in obstructing the Senate from doing its job, it would further lower Congress's generic favorability rating among the American people. By sabotaging the reputation of an institution of government, the party that is programmatically against government would come out the relative winner.”

• As for belief as opposed to tactics, the party basically really cares only about the rich. Actually, Lofgren doesn’t say “basically.” He says “solely and exclusively.” And he explains how they’ve camouflaged this with talk of protecting small businesses and so on.

There is much, much more. He’s not very happy either about his party’s militarism, its cynical use of religion, its total opposition to doing anything about the environment, and other matters, but most

programs so they will be there in the future."

rain of CO 9:20PM September 08, 2011

"....on a billboard in Colorado that said to vote for Obama a DemocRAT, or as Hitler on a billboard in Iowa."

Don't forget the billboard in Minnesota with a smiling G.W. Bush that reads, "...miss me yet?"

I have never seen "any" billboards denigrating a POTUS like this in my entire life!

These are only exhibitions of the feelings of most of the citizens of this country, Marshall, and he, most assuredly, deserves it!

...so, what is your problem???

Haberdashery of ID 9:07AM September 08, 2011