"Home sales / values are increasing"

--This suggests otherwise: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091110/ap_o n_bi_ge/us_metro_home_prices;_ylt=AiMNPj I7aVkpuzW.VvMPGuN0fNdF

"home prices fell in eight out of every 10 U.S. cities in the third quarter of this year as heavily discounted distressed sales made up 30 percent of all deals."

Yes, home sales are increasing, values are not.  

"Jobs lag but if history is a guide..."

Can you provide us for a few examples?

Please pass this great American address on to those that might care. It is a call for a socially just, economically prosperous, and environmentally sound America that to this day we've not achieved. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches /tedkennedy1980dnc.htm

There's no way this insulates Democrats from 2010 fallout.  If the Reprobates gain seats in 2010, Burris will be a significant, though not the foremost component of that change in political tide.

I agree with the author's sentiment about Obama being partially to blame.  That's a defendable thesis in this case.  If you don't like that Democrats call out their own, then become a Republican.

The Clean Water Act passed on a Congressional override of Nixon's veto.

With nothing but Democrats?  Or did Republicans vote on this too?

Obama shouldn't waste his time appeasing the right wing.  They are a waste of time.  Unfortunately, he's already caving to them when there's no reason to, and congressional Democrats are even worse.

The stimulus bill is nothing more than repackaged failed Bush policies.

Some progressive congress/presidency.

That's fine that Obama thinks something can come out of a constructive debate, but you are kidding yourself if you think that's what Congressional Republicans want.  They want to make sure the least amount of his agenda passes, point to his failures (which they'll label everything, including the stuff they support), and hope the brain dead media buys into their side of the story.

Dead and/or retired.

Some of our better environmental laws and agencies, like the EPA, FLPMA, and the Clean Water Act were created during the Nixon administration through bipartisan efforts.

Shocking, I know.  

Even if Obama works with the reprobate Repukes in congress, they will say he didn't.  So why bother?  The truth doesn't matter to those people, or the media who will report "both sides of the story," even if one is bullshit.

This is a step in the direction of "Atlas Shrugged," which was the epitome of how to write a lot without saying anything important.

Was there even a point to this diary?  

That is a truly heartbreaking account of the way people are disposed of in the capitalist system when they are no longer deemed necessary.  It's sad beyond words.  :-(

http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/world/2009 01/23/D95SR3880_ml_yemen_al_qaida

do tell, why is she not objective on this?  Hmmm?

Is she objective on anything?

A prediction based off some early actions.  I'm not just making things up about him.

the task is to hold his feet to the fire and demand that he keeps his campaign promises and repeals DADT and DOMA.

I wouldn't hold your breath.

Obama is just Bill Clinton with more people believing that he's not triangulating.

It's disappointing, but it's reality.