It's impeachmen
Whether Congress exercises its power, that's another story.
Congress NOT exercising its power (what I and many other say is Congress's obligation) is what has led to "a long line of presidents who have ignored the act since its passage".
About Libya
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The White House would forge ahead with military action in Libya even if Congress passed a resolution constraining the mission, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said during a classified briefing to House members Wednesday afternoon.
Treat the online support for what Obama has done with suspicion:
[t]here is a leaked email that has gotten surprisingly little attention around here. It's the one where AaronBarr discusses his intention to post at DailyKos - presumably something negative about Anonymous, the hacking group. But that's not the email I'm talking about here.
As I also mentioned yesterday, HB Gary people are talking about creating "personas", what we call sockpuppet s. This isn't new. PR firms have been using fake "people" to promote products and other things for a while now, both online and even in bars & 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 involves creating 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. Thenvthe team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online.
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
Treat the online support for what Obama has done with suspicion:
[t]here is a leaked email that has gotten surprisingly little attention around here. It's the one where AaronBarr discusses his intention to post at DailyKos - presumably something negative about Anonymous, the hacking group. But that's not the email I'm talking about here.
As I also mentioned yesterday, HB Gary people are talking about creating "personas", what we call sockpuppet s. This isn't new. PR firms have been using fake "people" to promote products and other things for a while now, both online and even in bars & 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 involves creating 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. Thenvthe team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online.
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
Treat the online support for what Obama has done with suspicion:
[t]here is a leaked email that has gotten surprisingly little attention around here. It's the one where AaronBarr discusses his intention to post at DailyKos - presumably something negative about Anonymous, the hacking group. But that's not the email I'm talking about here.
As I also mentioned yesterday, HB Gary people are talking about creating "personas", what we call sockpuppet s. This isn't new. PR firms have been using fake "people" to promote products and other things for a while now, both online and even in bars & 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 involves creating 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. Thenvthe team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online.
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
The White House would forge ahead with military action in Libya even if Congress passed a resolution constraining the mission, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said during a classified briefing to House members Wednesday afternoon.
And radioactiv
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
The White House would forge ahead with military action in Libya even if Congress passed a resolution constraining the mission, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said during a classified briefing to House members Wednesday afternoon.
By the way, SinglePaye
Had Republican
A weak PublicOpti
The latest Democratic caving is over the budget.
When the budget process began, Republican congressma
So now they're at $64 billion and Democrats have moved all the way over to where Paul Ryan was when the process began. So even if Democrats get that number (which in Washington would be considered a "win" for Democrats)
Nothing is going to change until and unless Obama and Democratic politician
About Barack Obama
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
To those who spew rhetoric like, "Look at how impatient they are. What did they think, he was going to come in and fundamenta
The reason people are disappoint
Everything that Obama does is intended to entrench the system rather than subvert and undermine it. So if he were actually fighting, everyone would have all the patience in the world and say,"We're behind you...It's going to take a long time...(We know that) you can't unentrench powerful interests quickly", etc. The disappoint
The proof of that is evident on a daily basis.
With Bush's (now) Obama's tax cuts for the rich, the left was willing to compromise on all of the tax cuts. Obama's deal on the tax cuts for the rich wind doesn't cover the 99ers and increases taxes on the poor.
The left comes to the table already having compromise
And even after we compromise
In the end, with the Stupak amendment and Obama's executive order, Obama and Democrats have put us firmly on the path of ending all insurance coverage for abortions.
http://new
Fairly soon, Roe and overturnin
KEEP READING
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At the national headquarte
Howard Dean's a nice guy, but he's not a liberal and definitely not 'married' to what I would say are sacrosanct Democratic Party positions, like pro-choice and public healthcare
You do not rise within either political party unless you have run the gauntlet and proven you're one of the team. You have to buy into the group think, and that group think accepts the status quo that they are beholden to transnatio
Political parties have platforms, written documents, that state clearly what the party stands for, with an agenda and list of goals. The Democratic Party's platform is crystal clear on reproducti
Pro-choice doesn't mean you can be anti-ab0rt
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 Howard Dean. During Howard Dean's tenure as chairman of the DNC, he indicated in several interviews that the intent was to move the Democratic Party from referring to abortion at all in its platform. Here's one of those interviews
January 14, 2005 - Dems May Waver on Choice, Repro Rights
Democrats haven't been taking care of us. They're not vigilant about our issues. They're not vigilant about our issues. They're vigilant about their own careers, which are reliant upon pleasing transnatio
About Barack Obama
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Deja vu all over again.
Afghanista
This has disaster written all over it.
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Instead of continuing the anger over not getting single-pay
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How do we get to single payer (or even a public option) with Obama's healthcare legislatio
Step-by-st
About Barack Obama
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if we could get the republican
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Not if they're informed pro-choice
Because Democrats have abandoned reproducti
It's out of the business of being pro-choice because it's trying to turn the Democratic Party into the old Republican Party, grow the Democratic Party by attracting into the party anybody it can. It hasn't actually announced it publicly, but it only goes through the motions of seeming to be champions of women's reproducti
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 Connecticu
During the Bush-Chene
In the 2010 midterm campaign, I asked rhetorical
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About Barack Obama
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Between me, Arrrr-eeee -anna, and others, Politifact has been discredite
PolitiFact 's Truth-O-Me
PolitiFact Embraces Equivocati
PolitiFact Is Wrong About Nita Lowey: Abortion Coverage Could Become Rare With Stupak Amendment
PolitiFact gets it wrong on Jones
http://sou
About Barack Obama
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I speak on behalf of all anti-war leftists everywhere when I say that we don't support what Obama's doing.
Ideologica
About Libya
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I am a liberal and I know NO liberals who support this.
About Libya
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What a difference a day makes.
Up until Obama's speech, the rebels were winning.
Now, not so much.
Where is Congress?
I want every last member's butt on the line with a vote. I want them each on the record.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
By the way, single payer universal health care was the compromise
Had Republican
A weak public option was whittled down into a trigger and then dropped altogether
The latest Democratic caving is over the budget.
When the budget process began, Republican congressma
So now they're at $64 billion and Democrats have moved all the way over to where Paul Ryan was when the process began. So even if Democrats get that number (which in Washington would be considered a "win" for Democrats)
Nothing is going to change until and unless Obama and Democratic politician
About Barack Obama
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
With Bush's Obama's tax cuts for the rich, the left was willing to compromise on all of the tax cuts. Obama's deal on the tax cuts for the rich wind doesn't cover the 99ers and increases taxes on the poor.
The left comes to the table already having compromise
And even after we compromise
In the end, with the Stupak amendment and Obama's executive order, Obama and Democrats have put us firmly on the path of ending all insurance coverage for abortions. http://new
Fairly soon, Roe and overturnin
KEEP READING
About Barack Obama
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
The old Obama "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the possible"-
[Note that Obama and his merry band of surrogates like David Axelrod dropped the "enemy of the good" rhetoric early on for "possible"
To those like you who spew rhetoric like, "Look at how impatient they are. What did they think, he was going to come in and fundamenta
The reason people are disappoint
Everything that Obama does is intended to entrench the system rather than subvert and undermine it. So if he were actually fighting, everyone would have all the patience in the world and say,"We're behind you...It's going to take a long time...(We know that) you can't unentrench powerful interests quickly", etc. The disappoint
The proof of that is evident on a daily basis.
KEEP READING
About Barack Obama
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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