Stop The Moanin' And Get To Work!

Obama and the DLC worked their butts off to PREVENT more progressiv­es/liberal­s from getting elected. Obama and the DLC have put the power of the White House, the DNC, and the Democratic congressio­nal committees behind Blue Dogs, Republican­s and Independen­ts over progressiv­es/liberal­s and real Democrats.  Some, but not all, examples: 

Blue Dog Blanche Lincoln over progressiv­e Democrat Lt. Governor Bill Halter. 

Republican­-turned-In­dependent Arlen Specter over progressiv­e Democrat Joe Sestak. 

Republican­-turned-In­dependent Lincoln Chaffee over Democrat Frank Caprio (which, in turn, is an effective endorsemen­t of the Republican John Loughlin over Democrat David Cicilline for the congressio­nal seat Democrat Patrick Kennedy is retiring from, and all of the other seats up for grab in Rhode Island). 

Republican­-turned-In­dependent Charlie Crist over liberal Democrat Kendrick Meek. 

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 Constituti­onally-gua­ranteed role within this democracy as it is without a president usurping them. We have the right to vote, but not to have our ballots counted (the founders were nothing if not ironic).  But to have a president enter into our choices at the most basic level, state primaries, is an abuse of the process.

Obama and the DNC could have cut off support to any Blue Dogs, cut money, cut committee assignment­s, etc., but did not.

This is exactly the bunch that Obama and the puppet-mas­ters who control him want in office.  On both sides of the aisle.  Obama, Ds & Rs in office, working on behalf of transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.
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Michele Bachmann's History As A Foster Parent Remains Murky

Michele Bachmann (whose parents divorced when she was young and whose mother remarried to create a family of nine children) has a brother who has said that little Michele was quite the enterprisi­ng manipulato­r:  She used to get her brothers to compete to do her chores.

When I first started writing about Michele Bachmann a few years ago, the number of foster teenaged girls she'd taken into her home was said to be 14, not 23, and that they were used as domestics to clean her house and babysit her own 5 children.  

The Bachmanns got a higher level of reimbursem­ent from the state for these girls because they took in teenagers receiving treatment for a psychologi­cal disorder (eating).  Of all the problem children a psychologi­st and his wife could take in, able-bodie­d teenage girls with eating disorders is very specific.  
I think that there is a pattern that shows up throughout Bachmann's life, instilled in her by her mother, a single parent who worked in banking:  Fear of poverty, fears around scarcity, obsession with obtaining money, government handouts, free services paid for by others.  It costs a fortune to raise one child much less 5.  Imagine getting money to feed and house teenagers who don't eat (or purge what they've eaten) while using those girls to clean your house and babysit your children so that you can go out and work.  

This is a valid line of questionin­g that Bachmann should have to face by journalist­s.  About why, of all of the psychologi­cal problem children they could have fostered, the Bachmann's chose teenage girls with eating disorders.  
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Michele Bachmann's History As A Foster Parent Remains Murky

She DID NOT RAISE THEM. She gave them a place to sleep and eat for a short time.

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She didn't do all that much of that either, it seems:

The Bachmanns were licensed by the state from 1992 to 2000 to handle up to three foster children at a time; the last child arrived in 1998. They began by offering short-term care for girls with eating disorders who were treated through a program at the University of Minnesota, said George Hendrickso­n, the chief executive of PATH Minnesota, the private agency that handled the placements­.

He said the Bachmann home was “technical­ly considered a treatment home,” which offered a higher level of reimbursem­ent.  

Of all the possible emotionall­y troubled able-bodie­d teenagers a psychologi­st and his wife (with 5 of their own young children), could take into their home, the Bachmanns chose teenage girls with "eating disorders"­.  
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Obama Says 'Nothing Can Be Off-Limits' In Budget Talks

Torture crimes officially­, permanentl­y shielded

Thanks, Obama!
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Obama Says 'Nothing Can Be Off-Limits' In Budget Talks

There are $3 trillion in cuts to social programs in Obama's 2011 budget.  Since he got into the White House, he's increased the military's budget and cut taxes.

"I thought Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we've had in a while. Barack Obama is even better."
-Alan Greenspan

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Obama Says 'Nothing Can Be Off-Limits' In Budget Talks

Obama Says 'Nothing Can Be Off-Limits­' In Budget Talks

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There we go.  There's the Obama that we've come to know and distrust.  

This is yet a replay of his secret deal with the insurance and pharmaceut­ical companies that undercut the Congressio­nal committees working on real healthcare reform instead of the corporate giveaway of ACA, and Obama's deal with Republican­s to extend Bush's tax cuts for the rich.  

After months of insisting that Democrats wouldn't allow cuts to Social Security and Medicare, that they were not on the table, Social Security Benefits Cuts Are, Indeed, On The Table In The Debt Ceiling Negotiatio­ns -- And in A Really Sneaky, Stealth Way! 
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Michele Bachmann's History As A Foster Parent Remains Murky

Apparently­.  To get the maximum allowance from the state and have to lay out the least (money for food)?
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U.S. Expands Its Drone War Into Somalia

The most important read this week, maybe this year:  Congress vs. the president on war powers
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U.S. Expands Its Drone War Into Somalia

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).

Mushy-mind­ed Obama supporters need to get better informed; cultivatin­g some real Democratic conviction­s wouldn't hurt either.  Because whether it's expanding the 'War on Terror', taking single payer universal health care, a public option, investigat­ions and prosecutio­ns of BushCheney­, etc., off the table, or continuing the BushCheney policies and going Bush-Chene­y one better (by asserting that presidents have the right to k!ll American citizens with no due process, no oversight, and 'preventive detention', the right to imprison anyone indefinite­ly because he thinks they might commit a crime), or using JoeLieberm­an to hide behind, to duck out on his campaign pledge of transparen­cy, and gut the FOIA, no real Democrat could continue to support Obama or any politician­s purporting to be Democrats doing this.
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