Hello, Docudharma!

…. for my account here as the hard drive died on my computer 🙁  several weeks ago, and I decided that it was the perfect time to take a break  once I saw what the Senate Bill version was going to be on the Wellpoint Bailout, and figured out that the Oval Office was officially tossing the base under the bus AND this was going to be it for the rest of his term in office. Business as usual with a “D” instead of an “R” in front of it, and the PanderCrats .

I really can’t effectively comment on a “Democratic”  blog where the moderator is actively enabling and protecting the enemies of the reform platform that the Democrats ran on during the 2006 and 2008 election campaigns.  

Oh My Effing Gawd, what a horrible way to have to earn a living.  

I (past tense) did a tremendous amount of original source research on how the right wing Republicans act, think, and write, during 06 and 08, and I know it when I see it.    Authoritarian, top down….  the orders have been issued.  Take out the middle, shove the window over to right, eliminate the left and marginalize it as much as possible.  Markos gets more hits and more ad revenue $$$ by letting the Republicans (and Geebus Crackers, would people STOP calling the right wing nutter,  contingent “moderates” or “moderate Democrats,” over there and in the MSM) and the Republican masqueraders and sock pups  take over the site.  It doesn’t matter who’s in power or who’s not. It’s just another job.

My attitude has never been to appease bullies in the vague hope that maybe then they will be nice to me.  My attitude also doesn’t much cotton to those who are pushing the Democrats in Congress to pass the Crappiest health care bill possible.  If they have nothing but character assassination left in their arsenal, they have lost the argument. Of course, they will win this and consign the President to the mediocrity they so fiercely desire.  

This opening salvo kills any climate change and energy bills.  With no energy bills, you have no change in mid east policy until the Arabs mercifully run out of petroleum, which will be for the next generation to deal with.  If they survive climate change and the next world war and pandemics.  

And don’t even get me going on clueless Fake Feminists, begging for donations to Planned Parenthood, who are whining petulantly that the blog l’orange is too white bread and has not enough people of color posting their deep concern about the Hyde amendment.  You know, that same Hyde Amendment that they actually don’t give a flying rat’s a$$ about because they think Stupak is okay and the Senate version of the insurance bailout bill is okay.   She’s just going to keep on posting troll diary after troll diary. It plays well in Freeperville.  It’s the New Blog Face of the Democratic Party.  If people won’t stand up for the ones who NEED reform, just what the effing hell is it they are doing posting on a political blog other than being lobbyists for the insurance business irregardless of race, gender, creed, or self appointed title ?  

Things will have to get a lot worse before people get angry enough and motivated enough to try to make it any better.  And the country isn’t, incredibly, there yet.   The Pandercrats are not willing to insist that they be respected.  The administration prays the Repubs will run another senile old man and a Palin and that just by being “not Republican” that will be good enough.  The arrogance is astonishing.  Of course they won’t do that again. They learn from their mistakes.  And McCain was merely a placeholder.

I salute your efforts and energy and stamina this year, in trying to get more Americans towards Universal Health Care coverage and stopping the insurance industry from stealing us all into poverty the minute we become ill or injured.