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How long does it take you to "send hope and prayers"?
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Ed? Who's Ed?
BEFORE THE MIDTERMS, Obama broadcast that he would be doing more of the same, more caving by Obama & Democrats, to Republican
Aides say that the president's been spending "a lot of time talking about Obama 2.0," brainstorm ing with administra tion officials about the best way to revamp the strategies & goals of the White House.
And despite the predictions that Democrats may relinquish a large degree of legislatin g power, including perhaps control of the House & even Senate, Obama isn't thinking of the next two years as a period that'll be marked with the same obstructiv e nature from the GOP.
"It may be that regardless of what happens after this election, [Republicans] feel more responsibl e, either because they didn't do as well as they anticipate d, & so the strategy of just saying no to everything & sitting on the sidelines & throwing bombs didn't work for them," Obama says. "Or they did reasonably well, in which case the American people are going to be looking to them to offer serious proposals & work with me in a serious way."
Dick Durbin says Obama's post-election agenda "will have to be limited & focused on the things that are achievable and high priorities for the American people." Tom Daschle says Obama has to reach out more: "The keyword is inclusion. He's got to find ways to be inclusive. "
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Members of Congress are terrlfied of maximum security prisons holding Guantanamo detainees being on the US mainland, but the distinct possibilit
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Obama and Democrats, including Weiner, are in bed with the banks and corporatio
If you don't want to believe that they work in tandem, build upon each other's 'successes
Those who just can't believe they were duped, who insist 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 'Corporate Masters of the Universe' have charted out their plans years in advance (governmen
If you want to l!e the country into war for oil and war-profit
And after 8 years of Bush-Chene
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).
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Obama and Democrats are in bed with the banks and corporatio
If you don't want to believe that they work in tandem, build upon each other's 'successes
Those who just can't believe they were duped, who insist 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 'Corporate Masters of the Universe' have charted out their plans years in advance (governmen
If you want to l!e the country into war for oil and war-profit
And after 8 years of Bush-Chene
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).
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What 'pragmatis
If 'pragmatis
If 'pragmatis
[Here's another example of the folly of 'pragmatis
If it isn't affecting them, it won't affect them, & so it's nothing that they should have to waste their time on. Or in their 'bottom line'.
There's nothing "pragmatic
But it's certainly not a Democratic value.
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L0rd, help us from those ever "well-mean
We hear about "pragmatis
'Pragmatis
'Pragmatis
Two of the best recent examples of the ObamaAdmin
See here.
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And here.
And here.
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We the People need to stand up for Obama. We don't have to agree with everything he's done (I'm looking at you, Extension of Bush Tax Cuts), but we do have to support our President and we have to be vocal about it. We have to support President Obama as loud or louder than the craziest Tea Partier opposes him. He can't do this alone!
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"Standing up for him" = More of the same "bipartisa
The #1 obstacle to getting to what we thought we were voting for when we put Obama & Democrats into power: The'Pragmatis
L0rd, help us from those ever "well-mean
We hear about "pragmatis
'Pragmatis
'Pragmatis
Two of the best recent examples of the Obama Administra
See here.
And here.
And here.
And here.
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The Tea Party is an effective nemesis for Obama: A paper tiger. If Obama and DLC-Democr
Instead of taking to the bully pulpit, announcing increased security on government properties hosting these events, Obama disappeare
What Obama did instead during the same Town Hall time period: Unleashed federal security forces to Pittsburgh to break up peaceful protests of the G20 meeting (using the new weaponry on dissenters who the 'establish
Obama has no problem quelling dissent or inspiring our better angels when he wants or needs to.
Obama wants to drive a wedge between the base of the Republican Party that controls the Republican Party (far rightwing extremists
The Tea Party serves this end it several ways. Chiefly though, It lets Democrats keep a legislativ
Obama didn't invent this plan -- It's been on the drawing boards of the DLC for years. The midterm elections did nothing to change the plan.
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The list of issues that 'pragmatis
If 'pragmatis
If 'pragmatis
[Here's another example of the folly of 'pragmatis
If it isn't affecting them, it won't affect them, & so it's nothing that they should have to waste their time on. Or in their 'bottom line'.
There's nothing "pragmatic
But it's certainly not a Democratic value.
And as no discussion on the !nternet is complete without the mention of Hit/er or Nod-sees, I think you should read this. I wrote it a long time ago, about the lessons of the past benefittin
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The #1 obstacle to getting to what we thought we were voting for when we put Obama & Democrats into power: The'Pragmatis
L0rd, help us from those ever "well-mean
We hear about "pragmatis
'Pragmatis
'Pragmatis
Two of the best recent examples of the Obama Administra
See here.
And here.
And here.
And here.
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We the People need to stand up for him. We don't have to agree with everything he's done (I'm looking at you, Extension of Bush Tax Cuts), but we do have to support our President and we have to be vocal about it. We have to support President Obama as loud or louder than the craziest Tea Partier opposes him. He can't do this alone!
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FYI, there's rarely a majority in Congress to pass anything at all until a campaign has been mounted to sell it.
And when a president and his political party are swept into power to deliver affordable
Obama took single payer (Medicare For All) off the table, because if the goal is to get affordable quality medical care for all then everything else pales in comparison
In February 2010, when proponents of a public option were finally making some headway between the time that the House passed its version of healthcare reform and the time that the Senate passed its version (and it's important to remember that Obama never pressured Blue Dogs or Joe Lieberman, never used the power of the White House and never took to the bu//y pu/pit to advocate for a public option), Obama held a 'make it or break it bipartisan summit' at the WhiteHouse which was gamed to prevent public option proponents from getting real reform, (affordabl
The summit was gamed to let insurance companies retain their lock on the path to getting healthcare
Whether it's Republican
Insurance adds NOTHING to the medical model. The insurance industry is the 'Don Fanucci' (Godfather
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Obama's healthcare legislatio
There is no mechanism for lowering the costs of treatment. Obama put a fox in charge of this chicken coop (former WellPoint executive Liz Fowler) to write and enforce the regulation
Obama's healthcare legislatio
Obama's healthcare legislatio
Not only doesn't Obama's healthcare legislatio
Obama's healthcare legislatio
Having insurance (which is all that Obama's legislatio
There is no limitation on insurance companies' charging and increasing co-pays and deductible
Insurance companies have already figured out the way around the restrictio
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“The Democrats & Republicanhttp://wwws give the illusion that there are difference s between them,” said Flowers. “This keeps the public divided. It weakens opposition . We fight over whether a Democrat or a Republican will get elected. We vote for the lesser evil, but meanwhile the policies the two parties enact aren't significan tly different. There were no Democrats willing to hold the line on SinglePaye r. Not one. I don’t see this changing until we radically shift the balance of power by creating a larger & broader social movement.”
The corporate control of every aspect of American life is mirrored in the corporate control of healthcare. And there are no barriers to prevent corporate domination of every sector of our lives.
“We're at a crisis,” Flowers said. “Healthcare providers, particular ly those in primary care, are finding it very difficult to sustain an independen t practice. We're seeing greater corporatiz ation of our healthcare . Practices are being taken over by these large corporatio ns. You have absolutely no voice when it comes to dealing with the InsuranceC ompany. They tell you what your reimbursem ents will be. They make it incredibly difficult & complex to get reimbursed . The rules are arbitrary & change frequently .”
“This new legislation doesn't change any of that. It doesn't make it easier for doctors. It adds more administra tive complexity . We're going to continue to have a shortage of doctors. As the new law rolls out they're giving waivers as the provisions kick in because corporatio ns like McDonald’s say they can’t comply. Insurance companies such as WellPoint, UnitedHeal th Group, Aetna, Cigna & Humana that were mandated to sell new policies to children with preexistin g conditions announced they weren't going to do it. They said they were going to stop selling new policies to children. So they got waivers from the ObamaAdmin istration allowing them to charge higher premiums. Healthcare costs are going to rise faster.
The CenterForMedicare & MedicaidSe rvices estimated that after the legislatio n passed, our healthcare costs would rise more steeply than if we'd done nothing. The CensusBure au reports that the number of uninsured in the US jumped 10 percent to 51 million people in 2009. About 5.8 million were able to go on public programs, but a third of our population under the age of 65 was uninsured for some portion of 2009. The NationalHe althInsura nceSurvey estimates that we now have 58 or 59 million uninsured. And the trend is toward underinsur ance. These faulty insurance products leave people financiall y vulnerable if they have a serious accident or illness. They also have financial barriers to care. Co-pays & deductible s cause people to delay or avoid getting the care they need. And all these trends will worsen.”
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“You can’t effect change from the inside,” she has concluded. “We have a huge imbalance of power. Until we have a shift in power we won’t get effective change in any area, whether financial, climate, you name it. With the wealth inequalities, with the road we are headed down, we face serious problems. Those who work and advocate for social and economic justice have to now join together. We have to be independen t of political parties and the major funders. The revolution will not be funded. This is very true.”
“Those who are working for effective change are not going to get foundation dollars,” she stated. “Once a foundation or a wealthy individual agrees to give money they control how that money is used. You have to report to them how you spend that money. They control what you can and cannot do. Robert Wood Johnson [the foundation], for example, funds many public health department s. They fund groups that advocate for health care reform, but those groups are not allowed to pursue or talk about single-pay er. Robert Wood Johnson only supports work that is done to create what they call public/pri vate partnershi p. And we know this is totally ineffectiv e. We tried this before. It is allowing private insurers to exist but developing programs to fill the gaps. Robert Wood Johnson actually works against a single-pay er health care system. The Health Care for America Now coalition was another example. It only supported what the Democrats supported.
There are a lot of activist groups controlled by the Democratic Party, including Families USA and MoveOn. MoveOn is a very good example. If you look at polls of Democrats on single-payer, about 80 percent support it. But at MoveOn meetings, which is made up mostly of Democrats, when people raised the idea of working for single-pay er they were told by MoveOn leaders that the organizati on was not doing that. And this took place while the Democrats were busy selling out women’s rights, immigrant rights to health care and abandoning the public option. Yet all these groups continued to work for the bill. They argued, in the end, that the health care bill had to be supported because it was not really about health care. It was about the viability of President Obama and the Democratic Party. This is why, in the end, we had to pass it.”
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Dr. Margaret Flowers, a pediatriciKEEP READINGan from Maryland who volunteers for Physicians for a National Health Program, knows what it is like to challenge the corporate leviathan. She was blackliste d by the corporate media. She was locked out of the debate on health care reform by the Democratic Party and liberal organizati ons such as MoveOn. She was abandoned by those in Congress who had once backed calls for a rational health care policy. And when she and seven other activists demanded that the argument for universal health care be considered at the hearings held by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, they were forcibly removed from the hearing room.
“The reform process exposed how broken our system is,” Flowers said when we spoke a few days ago. “The health reform debate was never an actual debate. Those in power were very reluctant to have single-payer advocates testify or come to the table. They would not seriously consider our proposal because it was based on evidence of what works. And they did not want this evidence placed before the public. They needed the reform to be based on what they thought was politicall y feasible and acceptable to the industries that fund their campaigns. ”
“There was nobody in the House or the Senate who held fast on universal health care,” she lamented. “Sen. [Bernie] Sanders from Vermont introduced a single-payer bill, S 703. He introduced an amendment that would have substitute d S 703 for what the Senate was putting together. We had to push pretty hard to get that to the Senate floor, but in the end he was forced by the leadership to withdraw it. He was our strongest person. In the House we saw Chairman John Conyers, who is the lead sponsor for the House single-pay er bill, give up pushing for single-pay er very early in the process in 2009. Dennis Kucinich pushed to get an amendment that would help give states the ability to pass single-pay er. He was not successful in getting that kept in the final House bill. He held out for the longest, but in the end he caved.”
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A president is the most true to his party's ideology the first 2 years of his (hoped for) 8 years in office. Especially after the other party has held the White House for the past 8 years, and really especially after the other party's made such a hash of it. A president'
A president is at his most powerful then, his bully pulpit is stuffed to the gills and overflowin
After that first two years, then the first mid-term elections, it's a steady move to the middle, to attract the Independen
If he gets reelected, he's working on his legacy, his post-White House years. He's positionin
What we've seen is Obama as 'left' as he's ever going to be, and that ain't anything. With his readiness to cut social programs at this stage in his presidency
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I think that Democratic voters need to reflect on their elected representa
The DLC got into power by refusing to defend the word 'liberal' when Ronald Reagan, Lee Atwater and Karl Rove were demonizing the word. Instead of educating the public about liberalism
When informed of the issues, most Americans agree with liberal policies. Neither they (nor I) would characteri
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 and R0ve were just more ruthless in doing what politician
Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish the Clinton machine (to get the nomination
Obama and Democrats know how to do it -- They don't want to do it.
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Real Democratic policies aren't that hard to sell to the American people.
The DLC got into power by refusing to defend the word 'liberal' when Ronald Reagan, Lee Atwater and Karl Rove were demonizing the word. Instead of educating the public about liberalism
When informed of the issues, most Americans agree with liberal policies. Neither they (nor I) would characteri
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 and R0ve were just more ruthless in doing what politician
Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish the Clinton machine (to get the nomination
Obama and Democrats know how to do it -- They don't want to do it.
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Obama and the DLC worked their butts off to PREVENT more progressiv
Blue Dog Blanche Lincoln over progressiv
Republican
Republican
Republican
By the way, by getting involved in the election at the primaries' stage, Obama became the first sitting president in US history to interfere with the citizens' very limited rights in this democratic republic to select who they will trust to make laws to which they consent to be governed.
Citizens have little enough of a Constituti
Obama and the DNC could have cut off support to any Blue Dogs, cut money, cut committee assignment
This is exactly the bunch that Obama and the pvppet-mas
New faces within the Democratic Party wouldn't be any different from those already there. The party machinery recruits and backs those who will carry the same torch, and that's true for both the Republican and Democratic Parties.
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Democrats have been more than willing to sell out their base groups's interests, but particular
One example of how Democrats & Obama are real free and easy "compromis
The fact is that Republican
We've been doing it your way, the DLC's way, for 20 years now, & the government & the Democratic
If you & I are on the same side (as you insist), and want real Democratic policies, and going about getting them your way (protectin
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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Lynn Woolsey, head of the Progressiv
Democrats have had the ability to accomplish putting the wars on budget (and thus end the wars) since they took over control of Congress in 2006 and haven't done it. They haven't needed Republican
As the head of the Progressiv
Woolsey then led the 79 to renege on the pledge.
Unbeknowns
Democrats have let Obama continue with just about all of Bush-Chene
Democrats have abdicated their Constituti
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And as far as cuts to social programs, Republican
Profession
Their only problem with this is that corporatio
Democrats in both chambers of Congress work as a team. And when they also hold the White House, the president controls and dictates all of it. They identify what they hope to achieve (pro-corpo
Democratic politician
Here's an example of how they tag team us:
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If I'm the first Democrat you've heard make the claim, you must be very young. Would you accuse Ralph Nader of being Karl Rove or a Republican
I am an old, OLD liberal Democrat (an FDR Democrat) who has never voted for a Republican
And I never advise people to sit out elections because if you're not at the table, you're on the menu. That's probably what p!sses me off most about Obama, and one of many reasons I know him to be a con man betraying "them that brung 'im". Because by shutting out liberals, the base, from his administra
I tell people that they're not limited to voting for just Democrats and Republican
They'd better start doing it because with each passing day it becomes impossible to turn it all around.
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It's not just the US military.
FYI:
[t]here is a leaked email that has gotten surprisingly little attention around here. It's the one where Aaron Barr discusses his intention to post at Daily Kos - presumably something negative about Anonymous, the hacking group. But that's not the email I'm talking about here.
As I also mentioned yesterday, in some of the emails, HB Gary people are talking about creating "personas", what we would call sockpuppet s. This is not new. PR firms have been using fake "people" to promote products and other things for a while now, both online and even in bars and coffee houses.
But for a defense contractor with ties to the federal government, Hunton & Williams, DOD, NSA, and the CIA - whose enemies are labor unions, progressiv e organizati ons, journalist s, and progressiv e bloggers, a persona apparently goes far beyond creating a mere sockpuppet .
According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HB Gary emails, it involvescreating an army of sockpuppets, with sophistica ted "persona management " software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidental ly cross-cont aminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online.
In another Word document, one of the team spells out how automation can work so one person can be many personas:
Using the assigned social media accounts we can automate the posting of content that is relevant to the persona. In this case there are specific social media strategy website RSS feeds we can subscribe to and then repost content on twitter with the appropriate hashtags. In fact using hashtags and gaming some location based check-in services we can make it appear as if a persona was actually at a conference and introduce himself/he rself to key individual s as part of the exercise, as one example. There are a variety of social media tricks we can use to add a level of realness to all fictitious personas
It goes far beyond the mere ability for a government stooge, corporatio
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Taxpayers are footing the bill for this.
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#2 - Crimes against people of other nationalities does have my support obviously; I am the one arguing for it. You are the one arguing against it. Forgive me if there are crimes against my way of life that I focus more if my attention on currently.
I wouldn't really expect anything more though from someone who hasn't ever experienced hate or persecutio n. It's humiliatin g and degrading and demoralizi ng and perpetrate d by people like you. It's also the reason I can stand up and say I support efforts to help other people and mean it.
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To begin with, the US has never, EVER, gone to war to protect people of other nationalit
As to the rest of your screed, you don't know what you're talking about.
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#1 - DADT has not been repealed. How many more straight people does this need to be explained to? You can still be kicked out for being gay. Until this can no longer happen, DADT is still in effect.
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Precision in language is your friend, and you're arguing with the wrong person here about this.
DADT has been repealed. It is not been implemente
There are plenty of gays in the military and serving and not being kicked out.
If you feel as passionate
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To those who defend Democrats' "compromis
Democrats have been more than willing to sell out their base groups's interests, but particular
One example of how Democrats & Obama are real free and easy "compromis
The fact is that Republican
We've been doing it your way, the DLC's way, for 20 years now, & the government & the Democratic
If you & I are on the same side (as you insist), and want real Democratic policies, and going about getting them your way (protectin
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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Lynn Woolsey, head of the Progressiv
Democrats have had the ability to accomplish putting the wars on budget (and thus end the wars) since they took over control of Congress in 2006 and haven't done it. They haven't needed Republican
As the head of the Progressiv
Woolsey then led the 79 to renege on the pledge.
Unbeknowns
Democrats have let Obama continue with just about all of Bush-Chene
Democrats have abdicated their Constituti
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Profession
Their only problem with this is that corporatio
When Nancy Pelosi boasts of getting 420 pieces of legislatio
Democrats in both chambers of Congress work as a team. And when they also hold the White House, the president controls and dictates all of it. They identify what they hope to achieve (pro-corpo
Those in liberal districts get to talk a good game about being champions of the People, but when push comes to shove, if their votes are needed to cross over and k!ll liberal legislatio
Here's an example of how they tag team us:
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