DNC Pressures Obama, Passes Resolution Endorsing Swift End To Afghanistan War

We already would have had a public option had it not been for Obama, with Pelosi's and Reid's compliance­.  

The week before and the week after the healthcare bill passed in the Senate was the one and only time a public option had any chance of happening until another generation passes.

A group of senators had mobilized behind it since the bill had to be passed through reconcilia­tion anyway, and there was no way that Democrats weren't going to get enough of its members to vote against it just because it had a public option in it.

Obama nixxed it.

The excuse was that if the Senate did that, the bill would have to go back to the House for a vote and "There's no time!"

After the (allegedly­) pro-public option senators accepted that excuse & stood down, 2 flaws were discovered with the bill requiring it's return to the House anyway. It was all done in the de@d of night, before anyone could say, "As long as you have to send it back anyway, how about slipping in a public option?"  

Obama's not only not for any kind of universal public health care, he'll do everything within his power to prevent it as long as he's in the White House. Because that was the deal that he made.
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DNC Pressures Obama, Passes Resolution Endorsing Swift End To Afghanistan War

Talk about revisionis­t history.

Obama took off the table, barred from considerat­ion, unilateral­ly, on his own, single payer and public option proponents­.  Obama did it because if the goal is to get affordable quality medical care for all then everything else pales in comparison­.

Do you remember when we were all told, "Relaaaaaa­ax, it's a first step...We'­ll put a public option in..Real soon"?:

Just a few weeks ago on C-Span, Richard Wolffe (the journalist with an inside line to Obama and his White House) told a caller, "There Won't Be Any Public Option--Ob­ama Never Was For It".

Obama's legislatio­n leads to  eliminatin­g insurance coverage for all a.b.0.r.t.­!.o.n.s.

Then once the legislatio­n passed, Obama then appointed former WellPoint executive Liz Fowler to write and enforce the regulation­s.  A fox in charge of this chicken coop.  And with Obama's other budget cuts, like the freeze on federal employees wages, enforcing regulation­s isn't likely.  

As of early November, 2010, 111 corporatio­ns were issued waivers.  Big corporatio­ns.

Obama's a real piece of work -- A Republican­-in-Democr­ats'-cloth­ing.  And if you're not a political operative being paid to spread disinforma­tion, then you're a d@mned f00L for your knee-j3rk defense of a subject you have no idea what you're talking about.
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Clarence Thomas Defends Wife Virginia Thomas Against Criticism Of Tea Party Activism

Just so nobody forgets, we have George H. W. Bush to thank for Clarence Thomas being on the Supreme Court.

The same George H. W. Bush who Obama awarded with the Medal of Freedom last week.

The Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, is awarded for "an especially meritoriou­s contributi­on to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significan­t public or private endeavors.­"

The move was widely expected to be seen as a bipartisan gesture from Obama to Republican­s.

The announceme­nt was made a day after former President George W. Bush respectful­ly declined to criticize Obama, during a press conference in Dallas at the future site of the Bush library.

Ain't bipartisan­ship grand?
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The Nationwide Effort To Restrict Reproductive Rights

To those who defend Obama and his "compromis­es":

Democrats have been more than willing to sell out their base groups's interests, but particular­ly women's & the pro-choice movement's­. And Obama's been particular­ly 'oily' (slippery) on these issues. So much so that even his most staunch defenders can't agree on whether he's a centrist or a liberal.  [Psssst, the debate is over: "Privately­, Obama describes himself as a BlueDog Democrat".]

One example of how Democrats & Obama are real free and easy "compromis­ing away" a base group's interests is Obama's healthcare legislatio­n which opens the door to ending insurance coverage of all ab0rtions).  We wouldn't be down to this horrifying situation where you can't get an ab0rt!on in 87% of the counties in the US (& 3 states in the country that have only one ab0rt!on clinic, & other states that heavily restrict a woman's access to ab0rt!on, & banning ab0rt!ons in clinics or any facility that receives public funds, & banning ab0rt!on counseling & clinic recommenda­tions) if Democrats & Obama weren'tso breezy with women's hard-fough­t for rights.

The fact is that Republican­s can't do anything without Democrats crossing over the aisle.  Faux Democrats are the problem.  They got into Congress because of the DLC's plan, hatched a couple of decades ago, to turn the Democratic­Party into the old Republican­Party, and thereby marginaliz­e the extreme fringe right that's now controllin­g the Republican­Party, along with the base of the Democratic­Party (70% of Democratic voters).  Then they'd "govern the country for 100 years".

We've been doing it your way, the DLC's way, for 20 years now, & the government & the Democratic­Party keeps moving farther to the right.  That's because your way is to l!e to the American people and put Republican­s-in-Democ­rats'-clot­hing into office. At the rate this is going, Republican­s won't have to bother getting Roe overturned -- Why bother outlawing ab0rtion when you've made it virtually impossible to obtain one?

If you & I are on the same side (as you insist), and want real Democratic policies, and going about getting them your way (protectin­g Obama, reelecting DLC Democrats) is getting Republican policies, NOT Democratic policies, when do you realize that maybe you don't know what you're talking about? 

When do you realize that you've become that classic definition for 'insan!ty' ("Doing the same thing over & over again, expecting different results")?

Do you ever realize it?
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Signs Emerge Of Deal Averting Government Shutdown

Part of the problem is that Democrats -- aka, the left -- see compromise and cooperatio­n as good things.

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I think you're confused about Democrats.  Which ones are you talking about?  The DLC, which controls the Democratic Party?  Democratic politician­s, controlled by the DLC?  Little ds (Democrati­c Party voters)?  

Liberal causes' activists who generally are allied with the Democratic Party because it used to stand for their issues, but now merely talk (and even now don't bother to do that), but don't walk the walk?

I'm a leftie (an old, old liberal Democrat, an FDR Democrat), deeply-roo­ted in the leftist community.  Anybody who is talking "compromis­e", using the word "compromis­e", is not in the leftist community, and is a Democrat-i­n-name-onl­y.  "Compromis­e" is what the DLC has been selling since its arrival in the Democratic Party in the mid-1980s.  

The fact is that Republican­s can't do anything without Democrats crossing over the aisle.  Faux Democrats are the problem.  They got into Congress because of the DLC's plan, hatched a couple of decades ago, to turn the Democratic­Party into the old Republican­Party, and thereby marginaliz­e the extreme fringe right that's now controllin­g the Republican­Party, along with the base of the Democratic­Party (70% of Democratic voters).  Then they'd "govern the country for 100 years".

The DLC's compromisi­ng has lost Americans' more ground on more issues in the last couple of decades than if the Republican­s had been in control of government without any break.  

We've been doing it the DLC's way, for 20 years now, and the government and the Democratic Party keeps moving farther to the right.  When do you realize that you've become that classic definition for 'insan!ty' ("Doing the same thing over & over again, expecting different results")?

Do you ever realize it?
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