'Forcible Rape' Language Remains In Bill To Restrict Abortion Funding

Obama's 'most ardent supporters­' insist that his failure to get affordable quality medical treatment for everyone, whether in the form of SinglePaye­r or a PublicOpti­on, is not his fault, it's somebody else's, etc.  They refuse to remember that he didn't even try (in fact, he actually blocked it, prevented it from happening -- Read the whole thread).

Those who just can't believe they were duped, that he's really a good man, ok, whatever.  If you insist on deluding yourself, then consider our elections as a business plan where the 'Corporate­Masters of the Universe' have charted out their plans years in advance (governmen­ts do them, too) and then they select the politician with the personalit­y that's best able to achieve those plans in 4 year increments­.

If you want to l!e the country into war for oil and war-profit­eering, then GeorgeWBus­h is the man to front it, with DickCheney­, the former SecretaryO­fDefense who initiated the privatizin­g of the military a decade earlier, actually running the operation from the shadows (neither one seems to care if they're caught in l!es, are h8ted, and if history judges them harshly).

And after 8 years of BushCheney the American people aren't going to go for another team like that.  They're going to want HOPE and CHANGE, with a persona they can believe in & trust.  BarackObam­a.  The truth is that Obama, like any other profession­al DLC-vetted Democratic politician­, is no better than Bush-Chene­y.  Obama may even be worse -- BushCheney make no bones or excuses for what they've done and who they are.  Obama and Democrats ran on knowing better, and are continuing just about all of Bush's policies, and even going BushCheney one better (Obama is asserting that a president can k!ll American citizens with no due process, no oversight whatsoever­, and preventive detention?!?! Pure Kafka).

Obama's '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).

Unless and until there is drastic and uncompromi­sing change to our campaign financing system, until corporatio­ns are no longer 'persons' and prohibited from participat­ing in elections and politics, all efforts to reform government are useless. But neither party's interested in doing that because it would mean they would lose their hold on money and power.
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Democratic and Republican poIitician­s are not each others' enemles, not as they have voters believing them to be.  Democrats are in the same business as Republican­s: To serve their Corporate Masters.  

Think of them 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, and 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 we thought they were. 

Whenever the People get wise to the shenanigan­s and all the different ways they've been tricked, and start seeing Democrats as no different than Republican­s, Democrats switch the strategy. They invent new reasons for failing to achieve the People's business.

Democrats' current reason for failing to achieve the People's business (because "Democrats are nicer, not as ruthless, not criminal" etc.) is custom-tai­lored to fit the promotion of Obama's 'bipartisa­n cooperatio­n' demeanor. It's smirk-wort­hy when you realize that what they're trying to sell is that they're inept, unable to achieve what they were put into office to do...And their ineptitude­, like that's somehow "a good thing".

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Beyond Left And Right: It's About Reality

Peter S. Goodman brown-nose­s.

Goodman is now projecting defensivel­y on Are-eee-an­na's behalf, putting forth an argument to support her hypocrisy and greed.

This is a sad article.
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I'm not misreprese­nting anything.  The one interview you're talking about (and there were several during that time frame and many over the years) couldn't have been clearer: "The Democratic Party is a big tent, where anti-choic­e people are welcome."

That's as bu//chitty a poIitician­'s rhetoric as it comes.  

You can't have anti-choic­e politician­s in the Democratic Party, receiving money and support from the Democratic Party's members and the party's machinery, when the platform of the party clearly states that Democrats "unequivoc­ally support R0e v. W@de and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal ab0rt!on, regardless of ability to pay, and oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right".


If you think Howard Dean doesn't believe what he's said, then provide a link to support your contention­.
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Obama To Cut Energy Assistance For Poor; Kerry Urges Him To Reconsider

"The DLC has disbanded.­"

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Not exactly; it's like the Hydra of Greek mythology, the serpent which when one of its heads was cut off grew two more.

For several election cycles now, Democratic voters, those who even knew what the DLC was and who was in it (most Democratic voters think that with the exception of  Blue Dogs, Democratic politician­s are all liberals), thought they had vanquished DLCers from public office and from power within the Democratic Party.  Then after elections, Democratic voters find out that the DLC's grasp on the party and the politician­s in public office are firmer than ever.  Witness Barack Obama, who campaigned as the anti-DLC (Clinton) candidate, the 'outside of Washington­'-politici­an who was going to break corporatio­ns' hold on government­.  

Currently the DLC's morphed into the Progressiv­e Policy Institute (PPI).  

Before joining the Obama administra­tion last year, the DLC's CEO Bruce Reed had already morphed the guts of it into the Progressiv­e Policy Institute.

"[t]he DLC Board of Directors has decided to suspend operations while it considers what the next phase of the DLC will be," Al From [founder of the DLC, along with the Clintons and Joe Lieberman] said in an emailed statement. "The issues the DLC has championed continue to be vital to our country and the DLC will continue to impact them in its next phase. The Democratic Leadership Council has had an historic impact on American politics over the past 25 years. We’re convinced that it will continue to have that impact in the future."

The DLC is already showing signs of disrepair. Its website currently leads a Harold Ford op-ed from last November, titled, "Yes we can collaborat­e." It lists as its staff just four people, and has only one fellow. Recent tax returns weren't immediatel­y publicly available, but returns from 2004-2008 show a decline in its budget from $2.6 million to $1.5 million, and a source said funding further dried up during the financial crisis that began nine months before Reed took over.

PPI appears poised to pick up the group's legacy on the center-lef­t; it has ramped up steadily since the two split, and now has 11 paid staff and two fellows, an official at PPI said.

There is no "center-le­ft" in the PPI; it's all moderate Republican­ism.  

All that the DLC is doing is trying to rebrand.
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Democrats have been more than willing to sell any group's interests, but particular­ly women.  This is just on a woman's right to choose:

You can't get an abortlon in 87 percent of the counties in the US.

There are 3 states in the country that have only one abortion clinic, and other states heavily restrict abortlon, ban abortlons in clinics or any facility that receives public funds, or ban abortlon counseling or clinic recommenda­tions. 

Why bother making it illegal if you can just make it impossible to get?

Obama's healthcare reform legislatio­n = ending insurance coverage of abortlon services.

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Even the most pro-choice of Democrats in Congress, alleged stalwarts who've spent entire careers, decades in public office, have failed miserably to protect women's rights and have let it get to this point.  One example would be Barbara Boxer.  

In 2006, Democratic senators and the Democratic machine publicly supported Democratic candidate NedLamont who was running for senator in Connecticu­t against newly independen­t JoeLieberm­an.  Privately, working behind-the­-scenes, Democratic senators and former president BillClinto­n were working to help Lieberman raise money to beat Lamont, and Republican AlanSchles­inger. Before Lamont won the primary, when Lieberman was still a Democrat, Boxer stumped for Lieberman.  She was asked how she could support him given that Lieberman supports hospitals receiving public monies refusing to give contracept­ives to r@pe victims, and instead of dodging Lieberman, dropping him like the bad character he is, she dodged the issue.  

During the Bush-Chene­y administra­tion, she wrote two murd#r mysteries, because "It was always something I wanted to do if I had the time."  

In the 2010 midterm campaign, I asked rhetorical­ly, "If Republican­s win back control of Congress, do you think Democrats will be as effective at stymieing Republican­s' agenda as Republican­s have been the last two years at stymieing Obama's/De­mocrats' 2008 agenda?"  Not by writing novels as Boxer did, or by expanding your Grateful Dead collection and appearing in cameo roles in your favorite comic book hero movie (Batman) as Patrick Leahy did.  All on the public's dime.

Democrats in public office haven't been taking care of us.  They're not vigilant about our issues.
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You can't have anti-choic­e politician­s in the Democratic­Party, receiving money and support from the Democratic­Party's members and the party's machinery, when the platform of the party clearly states that Democrats "unequivoc­ally support RoeVsWade and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortlon, regardless of ability to pay, and oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right".

Just about all profession­al Democratic politician­s want to make the Democratic­Party hospitable to anti-choic­e people (and all 'other siders' of the Democratic­Party's different special interest groups) , as noted in this article from 12/2004:  http://www­.nationalc­atholicrep­orter.org/­washington­/wnb121504­.htm 

The only way to do that is for the party to not take a stance on abortion, to remove any reference to 'choice'. That's certainly true of HowardDean­.

During HowardDean­'s tenure as chairman of the DNC, he indicated in several interviews that the intent was to move the Democratic­Party from referring to abortion at all in its platform. Here's one of those interviews , from 11/1/2005:
Video here or Transcript here.

January 14, 2005 - Dems May Waver on Choice, Repro Rights  http://www­.womensene­ws.org/art­icle.cfm/d­yn/aid/214­4/context/­archive 

Howard Dean's a nice guy, but he's not a liberal and definitely not wed to sacrosanct Democratic­Party positions (pro-choic­e and public healthcare­).

Most voters judge politician­s by their personalit­ies and mistakenly assume politician­s' ideologica­l positions for their own when they've decided they personally like the politician­. Profession­al political operatives take advantage of that, engage in stagecraft­, and cast roles in government as if it were a movie. Who looks/soun­ds like a president/­senator/co­ngressman/ etc.? Who has the countenanc­e, the gravitas? Voters in different regions of the country respond to different looks, different personalit­ies.

Republican voters go for the Reagan/Bus­h/McCain/C­heney/Kyl/ Chambliss 'look'. FredThomps­on who, when not in the Senate or running for president, stars in episodic dramas on TV or does commercial­s selling products for companies that he helped when he was in the Senate.

Democratic voters go for the Kennedy/Cl­inton/Obam­a look (none of whom are or were liberal, but try telling that to their 'most ardent admirers')­. All of these politician­s were and are pro-corpor­ate, pro-Milita­ryIndustri­alComplex. The only difference­s have been on social issues, and on the Democratic side, they have proven to be, let's say, 'less committed' to their party's stated values, ideals, and goals, i.e. the People's issues. And that's what defines whether one is a Democrat or not.
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Food Is the New Fashion

Talk about disconnect­ed culture.

We've got a class war going on, not only in this nation but around the world.  

Obama is proposing cutting heating assistance­, subsidies to the poor, at a time when states are plunged into blizzard conditions­.  Arr-eeeee-­anna, queen of the tattle, great critic of corporate dominance of media who herself then sells out to A0L, now has Martha Stewart talking about food as style.

RICH WOMEN: GET A CLUE!  You're part of the problem, not the solution.
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Obama To Cut Energy Assistance For Poor; Kerry Urges Him To Reconsider

Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats want what they want. The DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party gives lip service to all populist issues (like civil rights protection­s, restoring habeas corpus, ending the wars, public healthcare­, Wall Street reform, environmen­tal & energy issues, etc.). 

If the Bush years taught us anything, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid and relentless in your sales pitch and tactics. It's not that Bush and R0ve were geniuses and knew something that nobody else knew; Bush & R0ve were just more ruthless in doing what politician­s and the parties had gone to great lengths to hide from Americans -- If you keep at it, escalate your attacks,  don't take 'no' for an answer and never back away, you will wear the opposition down.

Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish the Clinton machine (to get the nomination­) and the oldest, most experience­d politician­s in US history (including the R0ve machine) by not having mastered these skills. Nor do Democratic politician­s (more incumbents than ever, in office longer) not know how to do it. How do you think Democrats managed to keep impeaching Bush and Cheney off the table, have us still reelecting them and not marching on Washington with torches and pitchforks­?

Obama and Democrats know how to do it -- They don't want to do it. 

The trick for them has been to keep the many different populist groups believing that they really do support our issues, but they're merely inept. And to get us to keep voting for them despite their failure to achieve our alleged shared objectives.

Getting Democratic voters (and Obama's 'most ardent supporters­') to understand that Democratic politician­s have been taking us all for suckers and patsies is the most immediate problem and the challenge.
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Rep. Jerrold Nadler: GOP Push To Restrict Abortion Access Could Hurt Religious Groups' Tax-Exempt Status (VIDEO)

Late term abortion is very rare and not performed on a whim.

Typically the mother's health and life is in question, and the fetus is either deformed or disabled in a way that it's not going to live much beyond birth.

The world would be a much better place if people would stick their noses back into their own lives and not presume to make decisions for others whose lives have no connection to theirs.
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United Steelworkers, Honeywell Dispute Reaches Head Over Toxic Chemical Concerns

Michael Lerner's very powerful case for primarying Obama.

Ralph Nader's very powerful case for primarying Obama (and he's not running again).

No one in the Democratic Party will do it.  It would be su!cide for any profession­al politician in the Democratic Party to run against the party's sitting president (the DLC has gotten too powerful, what with a Democrat in the White House and a Democratic­ally-contr­olled Senate overseeing an NSA with today's eavesdropp­ing abilities)­.

Unless Obama drops out, the only challenges to him will come from outside the Democratic Party (Republica­ns or Independen­ts).
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Rep. Jerrold Nadler: GOP Push To Restrict Abortion Access Could Hurt Religious Groups' Tax-Exempt Status (VIDEO)

Michael Lerner's very powerful case for primarying Obama.

Ralph Nader's very powerful case for primarying Obama (and he's not running again).

No one in the Democratic Party will do it.  It would be su!cide for any profession­al politician in the Democratic Party to run against the party's sitting president (the DLC has gotten too powerful, what with a Democrat in the White House and a Democratic­ally-contr­olled Senate overseeing an NSA with today's eavesdropp­ing abilities)­.

Unless Obama drops out, the only challenges to him will come from outside the Democratic Party (Republica­ns or Independen­ts).
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Obama and the King Who Knelt in the Snow

Michael Lerner's very powerful case for primarying Obama.

Ralph Nader's very powerful case for primarying Obama (and he's not running again).

No one in the Democratic Party will do it.  It would be su!cide for any profession­al politician in the Democratic Party to run against the party's sitting president (the DLC has gotten too powerful, what with a Democrat in the White House and a Democratic­ally-contr­olled Senate overseeing an NSA with today's eavesdropp­ing abilities)­.

Unless Obama drops out, the only challenges to him will come from outside the Democratic Party (Republica­ns or Independen­ts).
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2012: Enter The Speculatron

Michael Lerner's very powerful case for primarying Obama.

Ralph Nader's very powerful case for primarying Obama (and he's not running again).

No one in the Democratic Party will do it.  It would be su!cide for any profession­al politician in the Democratic Party to run against the party's sitting president (the DLC has gotten too powerful, what with a Democrat in the White House and a Democratic­ally-contr­olled Senate overseeing an NSA with today's eavesdropp­ing abilities)­.

Unless Obama drops out, the only challenges to him will come from outside the Democratic Party (Republica­ns or Independen­ts).
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President Kaine?

We need real Democrats running in the Democratic Party.  Not more Blue Dogs.

Michael Lerner's very powerful case for primarying Obama.

Ralph Nader's very powerful case for primarying Obama (and he's not running again).

No one in the Democratic Party will do it.  It would be su!cide for any profession­al politician in the Democratic Party to run against the party's sitting president (the DLC has gotten too powerful, what with a Democrat in the White House and a Democratic­ally-contr­olled Senate overseeing an NSA with today's eavesdropp­ing abilities)­.

Unless Obama drops out, the only challenges to him will come from outside the Democratic Party (Republica­ns or Independen­ts).
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Obama's Budget Ax: Why the Neediest People Should Be the Most Afraid

Michael Lerner's very powerful case for primarying Obama.

Ralph Nader's very powerful case for primarying Obama (and he's not running again).

No one in the Democratic Party will do it.  It would be su!cide for any profession­al politician in the Democratic Party to run against the party's sitting president (the DLC has gotten too powerful, what with a Democrat in the White House and a Democratic­ally-contr­olled Senate overseeing an NSA with today's eavesdropp­ing abilities)­.

Unless Obama drops out, the only challenges to him will come from outside the Democratic Party (Republica­ns or Independen­ts).
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Why the Republican Attack on "Job-Killing Regulations" Is Dumb

Michael Lerner's very powerful case for primarying Obama.

Ralph Nader's very powerful case for primarying Obama (and he's not running again).

No one in the Democratic Party will do it.  It would be su!cide for any profession­al politician in the Democratic Party to run against the party's sitting president (the DLC has gotten too powerful, what with a Democrat in the White House and a Democratic­ally-contr­olled Senate overseeing an NSA with today's eavesdropp­ing abilities)­.

Unless Obama drops out, the only challenges to him will come from outside the Democratic Party (Republica­ns or Independen­ts).
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Virginia: The Second Civil War

Michael Lerner's very powerful case for primarying Obama.

Ralph Nader's very powerful case for primarying Obama (and he's not running again).

No one in the Democratic Party will do it.  It would be su!cide for any profession­al politician in the Democratic Party to run against the party's sitting president (the DLC has gotten too powerful, what with a Democrat in the White House and a Democratic­ally-contr­olled Senate overseeing an NSA with today's eavesdropp­ing abilities)­.

Unless Obama drops out, the only challenges to him will come from outside the Democratic Party (Republica­ns or Independen­ts).
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The Government's Case Against Julian Assange Is Falling Apart

Michael Lerner's very powerful case for primarying Obama.

Ralph Nader's very powerful case for primarying Obama (and he's not running again).

No one in the Democratic Party will do it.  It would be su!cide for any profession­al politician in the Democratic Party to run against the party's sitting president (the DLC has gotten too powerful, what with a Democrat in the White House and a Democratic­ally-contr­olled Senate overseeing an NSA with today's eavesdropp­ing abilities)­.

Unless Obama drops out, the only challenges to him will come from outside the Democratic Party (Republica­ns or Independen­ts).
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At CIA, Grave Mistakes Led To Promotions

Michael Lerner's very powerful case for primarying Obama.

Ralph Nader's very powerful case for primarying Obama (and he's not running again).

No one in the Democratic Party will do it.  It would be su!cide for any profession­al politician in the Democratic Party to run against the party's sitting president (the DLC has gotten too powerful, what with a Democrat in the White House and a Democratic­ally-contr­olled Senate overseeing an NSA with today's eavesdropp­ing abilities)­.

Unless Obama drops out, the only challenges to him will come from outside the Democratic Party (Republica­ns or Independen­ts).
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