The Passion of the Netroots makes objectivity a fleeting characteristic

. . . it's a lonely life out here, but someone has to live it.

Some Obama supporters (admitedly in comments on an orange festooned blog known to all) were all giddy about Chuck Hagel as a possible VP choice.

It's also either funny or disgusting to witness 'liberals' drinking Obama kool-aid, boosting him as the liberal hope when every shred of measurable evidence indicates he was the most conservative of the Democrats in the race for the nomination and is the more conservative of the two remaining.

It always seems to come down to one issue at the exclusion of all others.  There's no attempt to view the whole picture or to place issues in context.

I withdrew from a Nation Associates discussion group in part because most of the participants exhibited that trait.

I agree that in the long run we need a carbon tax, but in the short run, over the summer, in a recession, the idea of encouraging people to spend and subsidizing that with a temporary government reduction in taxes seems the right thing to do.

If she does get a windfall profits tax it takes away the problem that Krugman noted with her proposal.  And it's good optics to play against John McCain, to take his plan and seemingly make it more fair by adding in a windfall profits tax.

I think the folks who are absolutely wrong are the ones saying that that we need a tax increase, or a government subsidy on bus fares, or government incentives to build rapid transit. Most people are not served well by buses because of where the routes are compared to where they need to go.  So adding buses to existing routes or making bus fares cheaper doesn't solve the problem for many people. And while we need more and better rapid transit, that's not a short term solution.