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14086 [lbo-talk] Colbert, Dafur, and Dems -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Not necessarily. A self-employed person or entrepreneur might prefer >regulation of large, predatory firms, up to or including nationalization >(e.g., railroads in the 19th century) or substitution of cooperatives >(ditto). Sure. But regulation of small biz? Never. 19th century farmers were all for regulating the railroads - but regulating food prices? Nah! Which is why you can never trust the petit bourgeoisie! Doug

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Date:	Wed May 3 15:01:18 PDT 2006

14087 [lbo-talk] MPug Rats Out Yoshie To Cooper -- rank: 1000

Jo Ellen Green Kaiser wrote: >www.tikkun.org/magazine ignore the organizational stuff on the tikkun front >page and go right to the "magazine" where you will find some intelligent >thinking under the "politics" "israel/palestine" "judaism" and "culture" >sections, thanks in no part to my colleague Joel. I hope you meant "no SMALL part." Doug

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Date:	Wed May 3 15:01:53 PDT 2006

14088 [lbo-talk] Colbert, Dafur, and Dems -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >I wonder why raising the minimum wage is so popular. Because it "rewards work" (for the deserving poor) and is not a "giveaway" (to the undeserving poor). Doug

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Date:	Wed May 3 13:53:10 PDT 2006

14089 [lbo-talk] Colbert, Dafur, and Dems -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >>Michael Pollak wrote: >> >>>The most populist conceivable economic platform today would be >>>single payer health care. You don't think that could be a vote >>>winner? >> >> >>Oh yes. But that's not populism - that's social democracy! (Just joking.) > > >You're not totally joking. are you? What joke is ever totally unserious? To me, economic populism has its roots in appeals to ...

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Date:	Wed May 3 13:49:17 PDT 2006

14090 [lbo-talk] Colbert, Dafur, and Dems -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >The most populist conceivable economic platform today would be >single payer health care. You don't think that could be a vote >winner? Oh yes. But that's not populism - that's social democracy! (Just joking.) It has to be sold as universal, though, and not just targeted at the poor and/or uninsured. Raising the min wage is also tremendously popular. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 3 12:15:42 PDT 2006

14091 [lbo-talk] Reference on immigrants and taxes -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Center for Immigration Studies Founded by the same xenophobic creep who founded FAIR and US English. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 3 12:12:16 PDT 2006

14092 [lbo-talk] Colbert, Dafur, and Dems -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >In Bartel's original paper -- where he divides the electorate into >third by income -- he says that the lower third -- the working class >in his definition -- mainly cares about economic issues and holds >economic policy preferences that are to the left of the other two >classes. So by that analysis, going left on the economy should have >the potential to pull in lots of votes. New votes? I doubt it; they're probably voting Dem already. So if the middle ...

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Date:	Wed May 3 12:11:19 PDT 2006

14093 [lbo-talk] Khomeni & Israel -- rank: 1000

[this is rather amazing - I had no idea! - I presume this was to annoy Iraq?] <http://www.juancole.com/> But, by the way, Khomeini sold oil to Israel, and Israel sold him weapons and spare parts, and put the Reagan administration up to doing the same thing. You will note that when Khomeini originally made the statement about the occupation regime over Jerusalem vanishing from the page of time, that was not front page news. In fact, secret Israeli arms shipments were arriving in Tehran as K ...

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Date:	Wed May 3 11:24:18 PDT 2006

14094 [lbo-talk] Colbert, Dafur, and Dems -- rank: 1000

Steven L. Robinson wrote: >What success? The Dens only won the popular Presidential vote in >1992 and 1996 because of Perot. On the Congressional level, Under >New Dem leadership, the Dems definitively became the minority in >1994 - losing control of the House of Representatives, which they >had - with a couple of breaks- dominated since 1932 and the Senate >as well, Electorally they have never regained control of either >chamber, evein when Clinton was re-elected.. In Cal ...

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Date:	Wed May 3 11:19:47 PDT 2006

14095 [lbo-talk] Colbert, Dafur, and Dems -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Question for Doug and Joel regarding Frank's conclusion that there are >immediate political gains to be had by moving leftwards economically: what's >his evidence? None really - a point that's reinforced by Bartels' analysis of the National Election Survey numbers. A very substantial portion of white voters supports Rep economic policies. Riding my current hobbyhorse, it's a reflection of American Protestantism, which quite likes the market because 1) humans are esse ...

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Date:	Wed May 3 10:58:40 PDT 2006

14096 [lbo-talk] Bush sang the national anthem in Spanish! -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - May 3, 2006 W's anthem-nesia: He sang in Spanish BY KENNETH R. BAZINET DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON - President Bush says the national anthem should only be sung in English, but he was apparently singing a different tune during his first run for President and at his inaugural festivities. On the campaign trail in 1999, Bush would often sing along as the national anthem was sung in Spanish during stops in Hispanic communities, GOP scholar Kevin Phillips wrote in h ...

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Date:	Wed May 3 08:27:23 PDT 2006

14097 [lbo-talk] Herr MPug Rats Out Yoshie To Cooper -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >It really made my day when Cooper's putrid voice left RadioNation >and was replaced by Laura Flanders. Three cheers for Laura Flanders. She's off on a fellowship, and Ned Sublette was her substitute recently. Sublette interviewed Greg Grandin about his new book on Latin America - which, by all accounts is excellent, though I haven't had a chance to check it out yet. Grandin told me that Sublette's questions were really sharp, and the guy clearly knows his Latin American polit ...

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Date:	Wed May 3 08:24:50 PDT 2006

14098 [lbo-talk] MPug Rats Out Yoshie To Cooper -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >A claim that "the Jews" have disproportionate power >is an odious anti-Semitic stereotype, but a claim that establishment >Jews have power over ordinary Jews (mainly the power to cow them, by >saying "Are you a self-hating Jew?" "Do you hate Israel?" etc.) in >their communities to manufacture a semblance of consensus to serve >imperialism, just as establishment Cubans, establishment Blacks, >establishment whatever do, is ...

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14099 [lbo-talk] MPug Rats Out Yoshie To Cooper -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >I take no side in this. Just thought the list might find it interesting. > ><http://marccooper.com/its-those-jews-again/> I just posted this comment: >Marc, I'm really sad to see this. I've really liked a lot of your >work over the years, and liked you personally as well. I'm >distressed to watch you evolve into a policeman of the left. I've >known Yoshie Furuhashi for over a decade, and she's never written >anything remotely anti-Semitic. Depl ...

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Date:	Wed May 3 07:12:28 PDT 2006

14100 [lbo-talk] MPug Rats Out Yoshie To Cooper -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >You don't really mean to say we don't take sides on this, do you? >Antisemite-baiting is the contemporary McCarthyism, albeit without >the capacity to scare and silence Americans the way redbaiting did. >Still, it threatens careers and reputations and needs to be squashed >whenever and wherever it appears. Good reply by Yoshie on Cooper's >blog to Pugliese's mischief. Yup. Cooper's playing an intellectually disgraceful game here. Save the anti-Semitism ch ...

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Date:	Wed May 3 06:16:06 PDT 2006