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Sep 30 2009
The beatings will continue until support for a PO improves. Getcher Sticks & Carrots here
Crossposted at Daily Kos
Beatings of a rhetorical sort, of course
Senator Olympia Snowe all but admitted that a Trigger on a Public Option is total bull yesterday. She basically proved that she is NOT bargaining in good faith, and that if there were any illusions that the trigger she supports is designed to never be pulled, they are totally gone now. How do we know this?
Because Sen. Snowe VOTED AGAINST a Public Option twice.
This proves (HELLO! ARE YOU FRAKKING LISTENING DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS?) that Sen. Snowe WILL NOT vote for an actual Public Option, just the idea of one, or rather, the idea of the idea of one.
And why? What is Olympia Snowe, the Republican Party, the Insurance Lobbyists and at least 5 DINO Republocrat Senators afraid of?
This quote from yesterday’s Senate Finance Committee hearing sums it up best. . .
“What are we afraid of? That Americans might actually like it?”
~ Senator John Kerry (D-MA)
Yes. That is EXACTLY what they are afraid of.
More and a call to action below the fold.
Sep 30 2009
Invisibility technology means Goodbye freedom, makes 1984 look like a walk in the park
Duke University, 2006. 3 years later, how much more has been learned?
Blogging the future looks like it might be some scary shit.
Because, lets face it, invisibility in the hands of the Oligarchy means we WILL have Secret Police, and Secret Police means freedom is dead and thought crime is next. When you can crush political dissent, what can’t you do?
Sep 29 2009
So you’ve decided to lose your next election. 5 DINO Republocrats who need to be primaried NOW
The vote is in on the Rockefellar Public Option Amendment and it has failed, not because Democrats do not have a majority, but because some Democrats are corrupt shills who hide behind Republicans as an excuse for their own corruption,
The following Democrats voted against competition, thus ensuring their own defeat in their next primary elections.
NO – Baucus (BlueCross-MT)
NO – Conrad (BlueCross-ND)
NO – Lincoln (BlueCross-AR)
NO – Carper (BlueCross-DE)
NO – Ben Nelson (BlueCross-FL)
Oh, and regarding Bif$%kingyousansh!t, let it be noted that EVERY SINGLE Republican voted NO, including Senate Majority Leader Olympia Snowe.
Throw down the gauntlet, progressives. The electoral beatings of DINO’s should begin NOW!
And now the Schumer version of the Publiic Option is dead too, only Nelson and Carper voted yea out of the 5 DINO Republicrats, Conrad, Baucus and Lincoln all voted NO.
They have to go. Simple.
So, wehn they ask for your vote, money or volunteer work, the best answer we can give them is “Sorry, we just don’t have the votes to get you re-elected, so I am voting NO and primarying your ASS”
FUCK THESE SENATORS AND THE LOBBYISTS THEY RODE IN ON!!!!!
Sep 29 2009
Sen. Dorgan’s big FU to WH/Baucus/PhRMA deal, will introduce Amendment allowing Canadian imports
Crossposted at Daily Kos
Remember how proud you felt when you heard change meant a 2% deal with big PhRMA to allow Health Care Reform to pass (as if their permission were essential?)
Well, it looks like someone in the Senate actually wants to fight to help Americans, not help screw them.
A Senate Democratic leader is hoping to blow up the deal reached between the White House, drug makers and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), by introducing an amendment on the floor to allow prescription drugs to be re-imported from Canada.
It’s one of the simplest ways to reduce health care costs but was ruled out by the agreement, which limits Big Pharma’s contribution to health care reform to $80 billion over ten years.
This is another instance of competition vs massive monopoly that harms people. I’m glad to see someone doing something about it.
More below the fold
Sep 28 2009
Grayson pulls “Corporate Death Penalty” card! If ACORN goes down ALL Crook Contractors go down too
Crossposted at Daily Kos
“Death Panels” ain’t got nothing on this!
How can you be for the Death Penalty and be against the “Corporate Death Penalty”?
ACORN was smeared to death, and that sucks. So, how do we make the best of it?
If ACORN must go, the rest of all the Bush Era Crooked Contractors you know and loathe will just have to go too.
On Friday (Spet 25th), Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) inserted into the “legislative history” language spelling out that including all fraudulent organizations was, in fact, the intent of the Congress.
~snip~
“The bill imposes, and is intended to impose, a corporate death penalty on contractors who fall within the scope of its prohibitions.”
Bold and Italics added by diarist
What’s good for the goose, or, in this case, nut.
More political judo below the fold.
Sep 27 2009
Bush/GOP already lost it when Iraq > Afghan War, No more Unvice from Idiots who are always WRONG
Crossposted at Daily Kos
Obama CAN NOT lose something that is already lost.
Short diary, but worth discussing.
I WANT TO KILL THIS MEME NOW!
Meme: Obama might lose Afghanistan without surge
NEW RULE: Idiots who were wrong about Iraq DON’T GET to give any more unvise about what the military should do.
Bush and Republicans LOST AFGHANISTAN the Minute they moved the debate to Iraq, like idiots.
Unvice = crappy advise from people who are always WRONG
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Republicans, Joe Lieberman and the MIC want more war, and they want it bad. No strategy, no exit plan, just give us more troops and money or the Country is DOOMED, I say, DOOMED. And then the terrorists will win, they’ll get WMD’s, the Taliban will get stronger and al Qaeda will attack us again.
Blah, Blah, Blah, I’ve heard this bullshit before.
To which my answer to the Unxperts are: Didn’t you say that about Iraq?
More Sunday ranting below the fold
Sep 26 2009
On Bannings and Losing Your 1st Amendment rights of speech and assembly
Recently a good friend here on teh toobz was banned from public discourse in a private setting, a limitation of his personal freedom of speech in a private place. Though he was offered reinstatement, he refused it on principle. He stood by his perinciple. He defended his freedom.
Personally, I think the whole situation sucks.
But MUCH BIGGER than that was the Police State RIOT SQUADS brutal response to PROPERTY DAMAGE in Pittsburgh, PA this weekend, when protestors without Government permission to exercisize.
This is my point.
If you have to ASK PERMISSION to use your rights, you never really had that right in the first place.
Sep 26 2009
G20 Protests = Tear Gas, Sound guns, Rubber Bullets. Teaparties = Promotion. Class War
Crossposted at Daily Kos
2008 Should live on in infamy as the year the class war became OBVIOUS.
No permit was obtained for the grassroots protests of the G20 in Pittsburgh. You have to ask your government permission to protest it. This is what Democracy looks like?
THIS IS WHAT A POLICE STATE LOOKS LIKE!
America, Class War; Battle of Pittsburgh.
~ September 2009
Fascism is coming? IT’S ALREADY HERE!
Sep 25 2009
Glenn Beck praises SLAVERY! Ye Gods, man!
Crossposted at Daily Kos
Beck’s new book “Arguing on behalf of with Idiots” is a real gem, which includes this piece where Beck explains why SLAVERY is good and Uhmerican, just like the Founding Fathers wanted it.
Provision Beck praised actually “barred Congress from ending the international slave trade before 1808.”
Beck praises “Migration or Importation” tax provision in taking cheap shot at “immigrants.” In the chapter, Beck reprints and then praises Article I, Section 9, Clause 1 of the Constitution. Beck specifically highlights in yellow the phrase “ten dollars for each person”:
from page 278 “Aguing with Idiots”
Oh, and by gem, I mean AssNugget
More below the fold
Sep 24 2009
Only 3 of 763 Patriot Act wiretaps in 2008 were terrorism related. 65% were Drug cases.
Crossposted at Daily Kos
Only three of the 763 “sneak-and-peek” requests in fiscal year 2008 involved terrorism cases, according to a July 2009 report from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Sixty-five percent were drug cases.Bold text added by the diarist
You must be frigging kidding me.
A partial transcript, commentary and more below the fold.
Sep 23 2009
Cantor tells uninsured woman with growing tumors to Find Charity
Crossposted at Daily Kos
The woman in the video below is Patricia Churchill, who tells the story of a member of her family who lost her job and insurance and has cancer that needs treating NOW.
The full quote of what Rep. Cantor (Fink-VA) said was “there is probably 23, 24% of the uninsured that is already eligible for an existing government program […] Beyond that, I know that there are programs, there are charitable organizations. . .”
Rep. Cantor went on to say “No one in this country, given who we are, should be sitting without an option to be addressed.”
Yesterday, Eric Cantor called for “Scrapping” the Public Option.
Transcript and more below the fold
Sep 23 2009
(UPDATED) Pelosi to Blue Dogs:DEAL! UNF$%KINGREAL!
UPDATED: (and not surprisingly!)
Sept 23, 2009
Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami emailed us late last night to assert that no final decisions have been made on the shape of the public option: “It is inaccurate for anyone to assert that the Speaker or the Leadership has determined the form of the public option. How we move forward on the public option will continue to be discussed by the Leadership and the Caucus, which will meet on Thursday.”
Didn’t Take very long for this bullshit to happen. Shoulda seen it coming.
Sept 22, 2009
Speaker Pelosi is nixing a deal she cut with centrists to advance health reform, said a source familiar with negotiations.
Pelosi’s decision to abandon the agreement that was made with a group of Blue Dogs to get the bill out of committee would steer the healthcare legislation back to the left as she prepares for a floor vote.
Pelosi is planning to include a governmentrun public option in the House version of the healthcare bill. She wants to model it on Medicare,- with providers getting reimbursed on a scale pegged to Medicare rates.--“The speaker is full-steam-ahead,” said a senior Democratic aide.-
It was a VERY good day for Progressives in DC and working class Americans today. Pelosi has shot down her deal with the Blue Dogsthe MAYO Clinic is going to support a Public Option and Senator Tom Harkin (D-IO) has said that he is now VERY confident that a Public Option will make it to the President’s desk in Health Care Reform.
Hell, even Harry Reid grew some temporary spine and said that a 51 majority vote will be used to pass health care reform if all else fails.
Let’s see who long Harry’s new found vertebrae lasts.
So, all in all it is a good day for Progressives politically, and working class Americans everywhere as we push harder for a Progressive agenda that benefits working class Americans FIRST.
Let’s hope more good news is coming soon. I could get used to writing happy diaries like this am getting f#$king sick and tired of this BULLSHIT
ARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!