Bush Admits Katrina Air Force One Photo Was 'Huge Mistake'

Why is George W. Bush being allowed to crawl back into polite society?



Why isn't he having to spend 24/7 with his lawyers, working on a way to stay out of prison?



Oh, that's right, I forgot: Because Obama and the DLC-Democrats have blocked all investigations and prosecutions into Bush-Cheney and Republicans, and have allowed them to resurrect themselves and take back control over government.



And because of Obama's failure to restore the Constitution and return us to the rule of law, by holding Bush, Cheney, et al, accountable, JEB Bush was all over the news on election night as the man behind Florida's new Tea Party Senator, Marco Rubio. So expect a Jeb Bush run at the presidency in the not-to-di tant-future. Perhaps with Liz Cheney on the ticket with him.



This is Obama's fault -- The buck stops squarely at his feet.
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Bloomberg: Congress 'Can't Read' And Some Members Don't Know What, Or Where China Is

Whoa there, chum.



"Don't vote" is NOT my stance. I have NEVER encouraged people to sit out elections. Because if you're not at the table, you're on the menu. It's what p!sses me off about Obama, and one of many reason I know him to be a con man betraying them that brung 'im.



By shutting out liberals, the base, from his administration, by taking single payer, a public option, off the table, eliminating regulatory oversight from finance reform legislations, he's given pro-corporate, Republican-like policies an inside line. The People's advocates can't even get in the door of this government.



I tell people:



"You're not limited to voting for just Democrats and Republicans. There are other alternatives besides sitting out the election or voting for Republicans. There are other candidates running as independents, from Green to Libertarian, in just about every race."



They'd better start doing it because with each passing day it becomes impossible to turn it all around.
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Bloomberg: Congress 'Can't Read' And Some Members Don't Know What, Or Where China Is

And Bloomberg is no different.



Just about everyone who is in our political system got there by buying into the Corporatocracy. If they didn't (buy into it), they never could have gotten into office. And with the Citizens' United decision this year, they only become more entrenched.



Unless and until there is drastic and uncompromising change to our campaign financing system, until corporations are no longer 'persons' and are prohibited from participating in elections and politics, all efforts to reform government are useless.



Once campaigns are publicly financed, if they ever are, then reforming our system & returning the government to the People can begin. And that's when the work will really start. And there won't be any of these petty arguments, "If there really is any change", or "It's in the wrong direction."



When it's working, when we're back on course, EVERYONE will know it.
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Bloomberg: Congress 'Can't Read' And Some Members Don't Know What, Or Where China Is

If you must continue to delude yourself into thinking Obama's a good guy who never would have started those wars, & who has only the best of intentions (I don't share that opinion anymore), but got a bad deal, then think of all this as a business plan where the Corporate Masters of the Universe have charted out their plans years in advance (governments do them, too) & select the politician­/personali­ty best able to achieve those plans in 4 year increments. If you want to l!e the country into war for oil & war-profiteering, then George W. Bush is your man to front it (with Dick Cheney, the former Secretary of Defense who initiated the privatizing of the military a decade earlier, actually running the operation from the shadows).



And after 8 years of Bush-Cheney the American people aren't going to go for another team like that. They're going to want HOPE & CHANGE, with a persona they can believe in & trust. BarackObama.



The truth is that Obama is no better than Bush-Cheney. Not better, not worse, but the same. His 'most ardent admirers' just like the packaging better. I'm not talking skin color, although that may be a factor for some of them; I'm talking about how a 'D' after the name is a brand they trust believe and trust in, despite the fact that it's the same 'soap' (product).



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Bloomberg: Congress 'Can't Read' And Some Members Don't Know What, Or Where China Is

Over the course of US history, corporations have managed to game our political system, & done it so effectively that the two-party system competes to serve corporate interests while defending that service as, "What's good for GM (corporations) is good for America (We the People)".



Democrats (controlled by the DLC, and that's important to remember) & Republicans are corporate t00Is. Like siblings competing for the attention & approval (campaign contributions) of a parent, Republicans & DLC-controlled Democrats try to outdo each other in delivering for their real constituent, BigCorporations. The trick for them has been to make it seem as if they were really working on behalf of WeThePeople.



Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama & Democrats were for strong regulations on banks, WallStreet, investigations, prosecutions, restitution of what has been robbed from the middle class and poor for the past 30+ years, environmental clean-up, clean, sustainable renewable energy (& that isn't nuclear), putting an end to the wars and occupation of Iraq & Afghanistan, affordable, quality universal healthcare (which ObamaCare is not), and more. The DLC-controlled DemocraticParty gives lip service to these & all populist issues, because like the RepublicanParty, the DLC works for the benefit of transnational corporations.



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Bloomberg: Congress 'Can't Read' And Some Members Don't Know What, Or Where China Is

Dylan Ratigan, Glenn Greenwald, and Cenk Uygur talked this week after the elections about the Obama presidency, progressives and the Democratic Party.



Watch it and see if you don't agree:



Part 1 - http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v =TRpK_ANpTvM



Part 2 - http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=EMUx6Bt6q­Vg
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Dylan Ratigan, Glenn Greenwald, and Cenk Uygur talked after the election last week about the Obama presidency, progressives and the Democratic Party, and what they had to say should be required listening for all:



Part 1 - http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=TRpK_ANpT­vM
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Bloomberg: Congress 'Can't Read' And Some Members Don't Know What, Or Where China Is

Democratic voters, for the most part, still haven't finished their love affair with Bill Clinton.



Like the real debate & assessment of Reagan that's never happened, we've never assessed Clinton's true legacy. Eliminating the social welfare safety nets, Glass-Steagle, the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, rendition, privatization, the sanctions & daily bombing of Iraq (& so much more) laid the foundation for what Bush-Cheney did to decimate the country. As Alan Greenspan said, "Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we've had in a while."



The same is so for Obama. More so.



The DLC's pitch for not throwing Democratic incumbents out of office last week was "Do you want to return to the failed policies of BushCheney & Republicans?"



When did we ever leave them?



Obama's been continuing just about all of the BushCheney policies, and the DLC-controlled Congress has been watering down real Democratic legislation, turning it into Republican legislation.



Republicans love it -- They get, generally, what they want (or what they can build on later) & don't have to vote for it, which satisfies their base's need for knee-jerk tribal warfare between the 2 political parties (how many times have you heard Republican tr0IIs declare that a bill "must be bad if Democrats are for it"?), AND, it satisfies their & Democrats' shared Corporate Masters. They get amply rewarded with great big donations to their reelection campaigns.



What Obama's been doing should be shocking to all real Democratic voters.
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Bloomberg: Congress 'Can't Read' And Some Members Don't Know What, Or Where China Is

I suggest that you consider Democrats & Republicans as working on the same side, as tag relay teams (or like siblings competing for parental approval). 'Good cop/bad cop'. One side (Republicans) makes brazen frontal assaults on the People, & when the People have had enough, they put Democrats into power because of Democrats' populist rhetoric.



Once in power, Democrats consolidate Republicans' gains from previous years, & continue on with Republican policies but renamed, with new advertising campaigns. They throw the People a few bones, but once Democrats leave office, we learn that those bones really weren't what WeThePeople thought they were.



Whenever the People get wise to the shenanigans & all the different ways they've been tricked & start seeing Democrats as no different than Republicans, Democrats switch the strategy. They invent new reasons for failing to achieve the People's business -- This current one, because "Democrats are nicer, not as ruthless, not criminal" etc., is custom-tailored to Obama's 'bipartisan cooperation' demeanor. It's smirk-worthy when you realize they're trying to sell that they're inept, unable to achieve what they were put into office to do, & that's "a good thing".



Whichever of us is right (& I can back up my contentions with much evidence of Obama's not being any more ethical than BushCheney, beginning with his assertion that the president has the right to k!II American citizens with absolutely no due process, no oversight), how is his government's ineffectiveness working for you, for us, I ask rhetorically.
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Redistricting Could Hand Republicans The Next Decade

American liberals and progressives are no more "commie" than the founders were.
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Stewart Takes On Media's Insistence That Obama 'Doesn't Get It' (VIDEO)

Jon Stewart is a COMEDIAN. No clue who you are to say he shouldn't have taken the meeting.

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When, as it's been reported, more Americans get their news from The Daily Show than any other place, Jon Stewart is not merely a comedian, but a premiere political influence on Americans, particularly Obama's 'most ardent supporters', whether Stewart (or you) cares to admit it.



But that's only one concern about Geithner's and Stewart's meeting. What's been getting less attention is the fact that Jon Stewart's brother, the COO of the NY Stock Exchange and who keeps a low profile, shunning the spotlight, had just 3 days before meeting with Geithner, attracted the public's eye at an economic summit (the Reuters Global Exchanges and Trading Summit -- Wealth Managers Cautious On Municipal Debt):



http://www­.reuters.c­om/article­/idUSTRE6A­26GY201011­03



http://onl­ine.wsj.co­m/article/­SB10001424­0527023044­3440457514­9961189063­780.html?K­EYWORDS=le­ibowitz



This raises the issue that Geithner used Stewart as a backdoor-channel to get to Stewart's brother, the COO of the New York Stock Exchange, to avoid disclosure.



Like all other problems with the Obama administration, it keeps coming back to the promise of transparency by this administration and Obama's failure to deliver.
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Stewart Takes On Media's Insistence That Obama 'Doesn't Get It' (VIDEO)

Back up "neither of them will say," since you are the one making the claim that not one but BOTH of them have been asked about this meeting.

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So you have no support to back up your assertion that "No one has even asked Stewart"?



Spokesmen for both men have declined comment (other than what Geithner's spokesman said when asked about the off-the-record meeting: “Jon Stewart is influential in America, so we took the opportunity for the two to meet and to discuss the economy"). -



http://www­.bloomberg­.com/news/­2010-11-04­/geithner-­visited-jo­n-stewart-­last-april­-to-talk-a­bout-econo­my-not-com­edy.html



Being an obn0xious aggressive a**hole is no way to go through life, oonamanoona.



Aggression as a Defense Mechanism:

Aggression is a way to deflect thinking from whatever is causing the anxiety. Aggressive people are usually anxious about something and trying to avoid the emotion involved with the anxiety. They strike out at everyone else around them instead of dealing with their emotions.
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Redistricting Could Hand Republicans The Next Decade

Progressives that decide to stay home rather than go vote will hand the Republicans the next decade.

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DLC-Democrats, DINOs, who fail to serve the interests of the Democratic voters that elected them, will be to blame.



And the Democratic voters who put them into power.



It's up to Democratic voters like you to stop your knee-j3rk support of Obama's 'civility campaign' and efforts to "work in a bipartisan way with Republicans" if you don't want to see the GOP's rise.
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No one has even asked Stewart so how can you even type "neither of them will say" ?

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Why would you think no one has asked Stewart?
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George Bush Thinks Sarah Palin Is 'Unqualified,' Lost Election For McCain, Says GOP Source

Why is George W. Bush being allowed to back into polite society?



Why isn't he having to spend 24/7 with his lawyers, working on a way to stay out of prison?



Oh, that's right, I forgot: Because Obama and the DLC-Democrats have blocked all investigations and prosecutions into Bush-Cheney and Republicans, and have allowed them to resurrect themselves and take back control over government.



And because of Obama's failure to restore the Constitution and return us to the rule of law, by holding Bush, Cheney, et al, accountable, JEB Bush was all over the news on election night as the man behind Florida's new Tea Party Senator, Marco Rubio. So expect a Jeb Bush run at the presidency in the not-to-di tant-future. Perhaps with Liz Cheney on the ticket with him.



This is Obama's fault -- The buck stops squarely at his feet.
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