I hope you had some good poutine; it sure is yummmmmy.

Never thought it would be discussed in Marcy’s domain…

It will be the end of the democratic party for a long, long time unless something VERY miraculous happens and I haven’t witnessed many Washington DC miracles in my lifetime.

well, at least that will be the silver lining of this dismal cloud.

they will have brought it upon themselves, and they will deserve the scorn and shunning they get from the electorate.

now, if progressives could only move beyond their unrequited devotion to the (D)’s there could be some 3rd Party infrastructure in place by 2012 to catch some of the fleeing voters.

United Nations conference calls for new global currency
BY STEPHEN C. WEBSTER 

Published: September 7, 2009 
Updated -1737 second ago

“The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development said in a report published Monday that the U.S. dollar should be replaced as the world’s standard reserve currency, giving rise to a new global currency managed by an as-yet undetermined financial regulatory organization.”

More.

More here, too.

PS MarkH, I am deeply concerned about these (and many other) issues, and not at all interested in engaging in a dispute with you. Conversation, absolutely. Thnx.

and remember, obama is just one person in a rather large group of whitehouse input makers and decisions makers (in silly contemporary jargon, obama’s the “brand” on the can),

has decided that america is a fundamentally right-wing country and they would profit politically from setting their sails to that right wind.

i don’t agree.

i think america is, and always has been, at it’s core a liberal country.

it has appeared, and voted, right-wing these last decades because the language of public discourse has become the angry, paranoid, foolish, selfish, lacking-in-empathy language of the emotionally straightened (aka, tight-assed wealthy) republican right-wing.

the essential american character is, and has been from the beginning, liberal,

jefferson was a liberal, incredibly so for his times,

madison was a liberal,

monroe was a liberal,

franklin was a liberal (organized the first health care for poor people!),

for that matter, washington and hamilton were liberals.

liberalism, that is,

-care and concern for others as well as oneself,

- deep determination to establish and keep a society where one can speak one’s mind to government (it’s called the first amendment) without being disappeared,

- and regard for science and similar accurate descriptions (e.g., history) of the world we live in (as opposed to ideological valhallas like “no sex until marriage” or fairy tales like the intellectual accomplishments respecting government that occurred during the reign of ronald reagan.)

is the essence of american democracy.

it is amazing to me just how far from our natural political center the radical republican right-wing has been able to push this nation in its public discourse.