Currently the major contenders in the Ohio Democratic primary are Lee Fisher - Ohio Lt Gov and Jennifer Brunner - Ohio SoS.

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In fact it's an unmitigated disaster.  

To think that Social Security may be on treacherous ground with a Democrat in the White House an overwhelming Democratic majority in both the House and the Senate is a genuine nightmare.

Read Jane Hamsher's post about Monday's Fiscal Responsibility summit.

Note also the eviseration of Congress and the empowering of the Republicans to hide responsibility for destroying entitlements.

Transparency indeed, accountability indeed.

This is not what the American people voted for in November.

Business sucks. And the weather here in the Midwest is lousy. But my health and my families health is good.

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Don't know what to make of it, but it certainly seems to me that if they don't have to cash or deposit the check to receive an increase in food stamp allocation, then what was the reasoning behind spending $250,000 to get those checks out to people? They know who needs the help, obviously...so, sign them up for the extra $30 a month in food stamps!

If you read George Lakoff's book "Whose Freedom" one does gain an understanding the concept in framing an issue. It helped me cope with hate radio people. Especially understanding, Michael Savage, Limbaugh, Hannity, or cable types like Mathews, and Andre Mitchell's methods of persuasion. They are professionals that clearly know the ropes in verbal contextual bait and switch.

It's interesting that Lakoff is calling this the Obama "Code" and the way some here characterize it. It was very funny to think of it as a, decode, like for deciphering hieroglyphics. But it's not with a giggle and a laugh it is not a decode sheet of some sort that will find the well of souls.

For me it sounds like that type of code that is the "rule of political level invariants" you know an unwritten law. You know how politicals lie, walk around giving speeches, getting paid big bucks. Its more like in that pirate movie to "Parlay" to honor the code. For heaven sakes America is buying into this stuff called "ear marks" that to me are nothing more than manufactured public media circus fodder.

Sort of like if you don't pass this bill it will be sensationalized on cable for weeks and juggle jabbered by Journalist till out rage occurs and total confusion take to the limit of exhaustion till it just passes because of huge argued fatigue to go away.

If Obama pulls this off he will command big bucks for future speeches, he figured the code and knows how to shift gears on the Republicans. They the Republicans look tired. They can not match him. No one at that summit expressed the confidence and direction Obama messaged.

Everyone knows that Drug warriors eat pork and eggs for breakfast anyway and that stoners binge on corn flakes.

Morons, and now they are hurting due to the boycott.

Stock down and reputation trashed.

Out of the 5,600 company reputations Vanno monitors, Kellogg ranked ninth before it booted Phelps. Now it's ranked 83. Not even an industry-wide peanut scare inflicted as much damage on the food company's reputation.