Political

I try not to wax political on this forum. There is a time and a place (every morning commuting with Shawn) and I usually choose to talk about Abby, myself, funny stories etc.

But the subject matter here directly impacts Abby and since it speaks for itself, here it is.
Watch the video if you can, it speaks volumes.

6 thoughts on “Political”

  1. Nice. He is such a moron. Did you see his interview this morning? He could not even complete a sentence.

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  2. About waxing political… This comment is not a political opinion but rather a comment about the lack of value in most policital opinions. I know nothing about the Q&A session in question, except that I read the text at the link. Nor do I know about the cuts or reforms in question because I have not myself read the entire text of the senates actions and most likely neither have you.

    So looking only at the text of the session: Tiffany asked Bush a very typical pointed question with the basic structure of “You cut a bunch of money on XYZ program and now we are all going to die. Why do you want us to die?”. That is not a good format for a question. Bush, as with any politician, of couse does not intend to actually answer the question but rather try to give a vague barely truthful answer that makes him look good. Whether it did or didn’t is trivial here. So really with this question and answer any waxing political on it’s content is meaningless.

    No let’s take a look at the “Student Loans” and “Pell Grants” comments just above the full transcript. (BTW who writes the analysis on thinkprogress.org? Who is the writer quoting?)
    Given just the text of those two paragraphs one could conclude that Cheney cast the deciding vote on a bill that is capping the interest on student loans for years to come. Or that during his first term Bush ensured that more students received pell grants than ever before in history. I am not saying that either of those are true but rather that one can spin anything in whatever direction one wishes.

    So Lief, why do I think I should comment on your waxing policial? When you read something at a web site such as thinkprogress.org and it hits close to home, to really give meaning to your waxing polical, don’t rely on the agenda of thinkprogress.org. Rather, research the Senate action in question. Read the Congressional Research Service ) report. And then wax political on your own interpritation of the facts rather than someone elses.

    I would rather read what Lief has to say about Student Loan politics instead of what thinkprogress.org thinks.

    Brad

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  4. For starters I would look up the Senate Bill, read at least the analysis or synopsis of it, preferably read the whole bill so you know of what you speak, then I would look at the voting record, who were the Senators that voted for the bill? Try to discover why they did that. If I agreed with them, I would let it be or tell them I support their opinion. If I didn’t agree with them I would write my own US. Senators AND the Senate Committee members governing Higher Education and/or Finance Committee (since the bill we are discussing I believe is a so called “Budget Reconciliation” bill it probably shows up under “Budget or Finance” and not higher education as such) and let them know what I think, how I disagree with their reasoning and ask them to stop following the dismal course, in this case of making it more difficult for economically disadvantaged students to complete their formal education.

    Maria Cantwell, Patty Murray and the Pres. of the UW spoke up against the financial aid budget cuts earlier this week on TV.

    Then after thanking the stars above that our particular U.S. Senators are opposed to the aforementioned higher education portion at least of the legislation I would offer to campaign for them to insure that they get re-elected, or to donate to their campaign or both. Additionally, I would be grateful for term limits so that we do not have to re-endure this Administration. . .

    And please folks, I was a politician once, an honest one, a hardworking one. It would be helpful if discussion centered on specific persons and specific legislation and did not deteriorate into generalized name calling. You could hurt a girl’s feelings. Good politicians do exist, but like everyone else on earth, they are not infallible. Thanks.

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  5. I did a little surfing regarding the bill which cut the financial aid that we were talking about earlier:
    http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SN01932:@@@L&summ2=m&
    With the above link you can access the bill summary, bill sponsers and co-sponsers etc. You can connect with a bill summary etc. On Dec. 14th you can see that Sen. Kennedy tried to preserve the Financial Aid from being cut. It is a compelling tale to get to 363 votes on motions etc.

    http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00363#name

    this links is a roll call vote, tells you who voted for it and ag’in it.

    The legislation is a pain in the neck because it IS the so called “Deficit Reduction Act 2005 ” (S1932) as a result it has everything in there except the kitchen sink, it took 363 actions and amendments to bring the thing to vote. On Dec. 14th Kennedy tried to preserve the Financial Aid

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  6. Bill or no bill, cuts or no cuts, I still think Bush has sold the country down the river. And he will catch the only plane to Saudi just before it all goes over the rapids.

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