She's Got My Vote

[filkertom]

If Rachel Maddow had addressed the nation Tuesday instead of Barack Obama.

Comments

[lizziecrowe.livejournal.com]

HELLS yeah!

[raven-ap-morgan.livejournal.com]

Ditto!

Raven

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

I think we probably should have elected Rachel. I'd vote for her in a heartbeat.

[laurel-potter.livejournal.com]

I saw it last night, and enjoyed it a lot. But it was a tad long.

[ruisseau.livejournal.com]

I'd vote for her twice.

[pjack.livejournal.com]

OK, that was pretty awesome.

[tcgtrf.livejournal.com]

Her first two proposals (especially the second one) are certainly implementable and within the power of a President with the will to do so.

The third? I find it hard to believe that a Congress controlled by lobbyists would ever pass the legislation that she called for. There's no corporate money in it for them or their parties and, as Illinois and South Carolina show, when a candidate from outside of the party machine is nominated for an office, the party apparatus and their media accomplices conspire to ridicule them and force them into giving up their candidacy.

As long as we are a corporatist state, nothing will be done--this is why the real President didn't make the speech. He belongs to the corporations, even as he mouths empty words about kicking their ass.

Tom T.

[kengr]

Alas, she's wrong on several points.

BP *thought* they knew how to cap the well. The first "box" they tried failed for reasons that are obvious in hindsight, but that you can't blame them too much for missing.

And since there's no practical way to *test* capping solutions *without* a real blowout, saying that they can't drill unless they can fix it if something goes wrong is not a reasonable requirement.

Booming is a whole different matter. The problem there is that the booms are being deployed improperly (as a link you posted a couple weeks back showed). And that's at least as much due to the fact that they have untrained people doing the deployments.

That's a combo of poor planning and folks wanting to believe that booms can stop oil rather than redirect it.

For the energy policy stuff, I'd want to see some budgets and spreadsheets showing *costs*.