-for the lulz!!!!!!1

Absolutely.

A man of your intellect and passions has no business taking soft stances. Voltaire called you out long ago.

More later.

Obama’s and the Dems solution to the economy is to borrow and spend money we don’t have on a whole slew of non-capital related projects, to increase the budget deficit as a % of GDP to the highest level since WWII, and to tax energy like it’s going out of style. Hate the Republicans all you like. That doesn’t mean the Democrats are doing the right thing with respect to the economy. Checking the excesses of the free market through regulation and transparency is good. Taxing the ever loving crap out of everything is not the solution to an economic crisis, however.

P2: Massive deregulation and purposely bankrupting the government, that’s how. Your statements are trite and do not reflect the reality of the damage the last eight years have done to our country. Fact: in our lifetimes, every Republican administration has been marked by unnecessary war and massive deficits (and now, two recessions). The only Democratic administration was marked by peace and prosperity. Believe it or not, the decisions made in government make a difference.

P3: You’re wrong. He’s saying, “We tried to work with them on this, and they refused. We don’t have to try to work with them anymore.” And nor should they– the people don’t want them to; the Republicans’ ideas have failed, and even the general populace sees that. The Republicans are still playing politics while we have real problems to solve. Frankly, I think most of them are trying to hold back the stimulus in hopes that the economy continues to tank and they win some seats back in the midterms.

The Bush administration by and large was crappy. The economy now sucks. But economies go in cycles, and I haven’t heard any coherent criticism that would explain how Bush/Repubs CAUSED the current economic downturn. In general, political parties and ESPECIALLY Presidents get too much credit for a good economy, and too much blame for a bad one.

“I don’t think the onus is on us. We tried. The story is they failed.” This Emanuel quote is frankly quite alarming to me. It sounds like he’s saying “the Republicans broke the economy, and because we rushed through a stimulus bill [that won't work, or won't have a big enough effect to really do anything], you can’t hold us responsible.” Feel free to tell me if you think he’s saying something different.

Wow that wasn’t brief at all. Ok back to work.

I just think that so much about the ways in which we traditionally consider love and sex, in the ways we’re conditioned to think about relationships, involves so much taking, so much selfishness. All taking and no giving. The trope that men have to trick women to “get some”.
It’s like we’re trained to accept unfulfillment and discontent, taught that love only exists in fiction, that there’s just no time for it here. That we all have to be grouchy and dysfunctional and neutered.

But there’s so much possibility, so much sheer joy, in the romance of a real love, in the depths you can find in someone, and when you open yourself up to more people in that way, it’s exponential… the degree to which one can love and be loved in this life is incredible, I feel, and I’m learning, doing my best, digging deeper and deeper…