Quote:

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”--Martin Luther King

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Glory Days

The gamesmanship in the Rep. Greg Walden uproar, when the Oregon Republican broke with the party line on Social Security this morning, is hilarious.

So is Walden a good old teabagger, or a bane for the Republican elite?  His head must be spinning.

Watch Walden squirm in this video as he tries to justify his opinion in light of the GOP blow back he must have guessed would arise.

Boehner has Obama right where he wants him, and Walden speaks up to upset the status quo!

Strange bedfellows, indeed: Sanders and Walden!

Walden has been a clownish rep for years and has never seen a military contract he doesn't like, but in this instance he sucked it up for realpolitik. 

It's sort of admirable.  Few but the wealthy think cutting Social Security is a good idea.  Not even his conservative constituency in depressed Oregon will go down without a fight on this one.

This is all terribly exciting.

Walden is in limbo.  He's left himself on an island while marrying progressive Demos without so much as a kiss.

I thought there was a law against that...


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