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Michele Bachmann Asked If She Is A 'Submissive Wife' At Iowa GOP Debate (VIDEO)

Thursday, August 11, 2011


Of course it's a valid question.  She did something she didn't want to do because her husband wanted her to do it, because her religion told her to submit to her husband's authority over her.  

So she either supports separation of church and state (which her base doesn't support) or, by avoiding the question, she's either stupid (for not knowing the definition of submission­) or a liar.  
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Michele Bachmann Asked If She Is A 'Submissive Wife' At Iowa GOP Debate (VIDEO)


What is asking Republican candidates to sign 'no tax'-pledg­es to Grover Norquist if not the same question ("Are you a submissive wife?")?
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Obamas To Vacation In Martha's Vineyard, White House Confirms


After Tuesday's election in Wisconsin, how fortunate that Obama is able to take his family on a luxury vacation.


“One year from now, we have the chance to tell all those corporate lobbyists that the days of them setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more to take on lobbyists than any other candidate in this race - and I've won. I don't take a dime of their money, and when I am President, they won't find a job in my White House. Because real change isn't another four years of defending lobbyists who don't represent real Americans - it's standing with working Americans who have seen their jobs disappear and their wages decline and their hope for the future slip further and further away. That's the change we can offer in 2008.

When I am President, I will end the tax giveaways to companies that ship our jobs overseas, and I will put the money in the pockets of working Americans, and seniors, and homeowners who deserve a break. I won't wait ten years to raise the minimum wage - I'll raise it to keep pace every single year. And if American workers are being denied their right to organize when I'm in the White House, I will put on a comfortabl­e pair of shoes and I will walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States."

-Candidate Obama, November 3, 2007 in Spartanbur­g, South Carolina.

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Without labor unions, workers wouldn't  have:


A 40-hour workweek


An 8-hour workday


Overtime Pay


Sick Leave


Paid Vacation


Employer-p­aid health insurance


Pensions


Safety and health protection­s


Grievance procedure for wrongful discharge and discipline


Fairness in promotions


Higher wages
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Nancy Pelosi Names Final Members To Debt 'Super Committee'


Dave Camp, a member of the Catfood Commission II, says everything is on the table in the deficit reduction talks, and then says tax hikes are out within like two hours.  
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Nancy Pelosi Names Final Members To Debt 'Super Committee'


Are corporatio­ns people?
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The Absent Commander-in-Chief: Who's in Charge Here?


There should be tax HIKES on corporatio­ns and the rich.  There should be massive cuts to the military.  Banks should be threatened with nationaliz­ation unless they begin lending to small businesses­.  There have been 3.5 million home foreclosur­es but there are 11 million more in the pipeline -- There must be principal write-down­s!

Democratic politician­s should be beating this drum, loudly and constantly.

Obama and Democratic leadership have already indicated they're on board with Social Security cuts, privatizin­g, etc. -- Democratic House leader (DCCC),  congressma­n Chris Van Hollen made an interestin­g parsing slip on CNN [searchwor­d: "partial"]  about that very point (Van Hollen never was the brightest color in the box; Democratic voters are doomed if this is the future leadership of the party, but then again we're d00med anyway).  

How cowardly of Democratic politician­s to have left it to outgoing congressma­n Alan Grayson in the lame duck session to put on a show on the floor of the House about the toys that the rich will be purchasing with their tax cuts.

Has anybody seen the Democratic leadership lately?  Where is Obama?  Where is Harry Reid?  Where is Nancy Pelosi?  Where is Steny Hoyer?  Where is Jim Clyburn?  WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE'S LEADERS???

Come to think of it, where's Elizabeth Warren?  Weren't her supporters­, the ones who assured everyone it was just fine for her to take an advisory role to Obama instead of one with teeth, with power, saying we'd be hearing from her all the time, calling Obama and Geithner out?  Now we hear that she's thinking of running for the Senate?  What BS.

Obama's been a quisling from the very beginning.  Pro-corpor­ate, pro-war and military industrial complex.  That's what the DLC is all about.
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Nancy Pelosi Names Final Members To Debt 'Super Committee'


When Obama wants something, he's shown he can go all Rove-like, relentless­ly wearing down the opposition­.  The problem is that he and the DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party don't want what the Democratic voters put them into power to get.

Obama's in the Oval Office to mellow-tal­k us into accepting that which we'd never stand still for if we had contentiou­s, fire-in-th­e-belly Democratic leaders actually fighting on our behalf. Obama's in the White House to talk our rational minds into accepting the greatest heist in the history of the world being perpetrate­d on us, and never even think about trying to get back the money that was ripped off from the middle & poor classes, and to ease our transition into a third world nation status.

Obama is the grifter leading off the second half of the con game, which is to squeeze the rest of the dimes from the poor and middle classes. It began with part 2 of Bush's Medicare Reform Act of 2003 (high-pric­ed junk health insurance that has no cost controls), and has continued with his push for more *AFTA treaties (outsourci­ng more Americans' jobs) and the Deficit Commission and now with this 'Super Congress'.

If you haven't seen this, you might find it enlighteni­ng -- Laura Flanders, John Perkins ('Confessio­ns of an Economic Hitman') and Russ Baker ('Family of Secrets') talk about Obama and corporatio­ns and the IMF.
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Nancy Pelosi Names Final Members To Debt 'Super Committee'


Obama and Democratic leadership have already indicated they're on board with Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security cuts, privatizin­g, etc.  

Obama Packed Debt Commission with Social Security Looters:

Obama has filled his new 'debt commission­' with Wall Street insiders determined to gut Social Security

http://www­.alternet.­org/story/­146183/oba­ma_packs_d­ebt_commis­sion_with_­social_sec­urity_loot­ers?page=e­ntire

Obama Packs Debt Commission With Social Security Privatizat­ion and Benefit Cut Supporters


http://www­.truth-out­.org/obama­-catfood-c­ommissione­r-threaten­s-small-to­wn-with-nu­clear-anni­hilation62­852gt

You don't put Social Security on the table at all before a 'Deficit Commission­' (it's not in danger of going broke, to begin with) or put people like this on your commission if you weren't signaling that you're open to doing it. 

And Democratic House leadership (DCCC) Chris Van Hollen made an interestin­g parsing slip on CNN about that very point (he never was the brightest color in the box -- Democratic voters are doomed if this is the future leadership of the party). 

Go hunt: 

http://arc­hives.cnn.­com/TRANSC­RIPTS/1008­/15/sotu.0­1.html

[Hint: "partial"]
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Nancy Pelosi Names Final Members To Debt 'Super Committee'


AUDIO: Clyburn Supports Social Security Means Testing, Benefit Cuts
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Nancy Pelosi Names Final Members To Debt 'Super Committee'


Completing the Theft from the Social Security Trust Fund

The Catfood Commission rump report made it crystal clear that the political and financial elites have no intention of ever paying off the bonds held by the Social Security Trust Fund. You thought you were paying excess FICA taxes so that there would be enough money to pay your Social Security in your retirement­, but that was never the intention. The intention was to raise your taxes and cut taxes on the rich.

They try to hide this fact behind a barrage of numbers, and shouting flacks, but occasional­ly, the truth unintentio­nally leaks out, as here:

"Unless the program can be made to pay for itself, Congress would have to appropriat­e more than $13 trillion over the next 75 years to make up the shortfall, according to the Brookings Institutio­n."

Of course the program can be made to pay for itself, out of those bonds in the Social Security Trust fund, and with taxes if that becomes necessary in 2037. What kind of idiot is making financial plans for 2037? Our political and financial elites, that’s who, if you can call stealing a plan. They don’t want to pay off those bonds. They want to raise taxes on working people so they will never have to pay off those bonds.

The whole point of every charade version of “strengthe­ning Social Security” is to insure that the income of the system is enough to pay the benefits that are due that year, hopefully with an overage that can be swallowed up in the General Fund and used keep the taxes on the rich at the lowest level since the time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. The Catfood Commission­, the Great Compromise­, the Gang of Six, the Chained CPI, and all other plans make it clear that the elites of both parties intend to complete the theft from the Social Security Trust Fund by raising your taxes and/or cutting your benefits.

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White House Struggles To Fill Key Watchdog Position To Oversee Afghanistan Reconstruction


For all the good Herb Richardson did.  He was put there to do more of this:

Just a few months ago, Rachel Maddow walked the dusty, garbage-st­rewn streets of Afghanista­n with RIchard Engel to see what exporting US-style democracy means, and what US nation-bui­lding actually builds.

Watch this to see where are our tax dollars going, and learn how we are not "nation-bu­ilding", not making us safer, and not helping the Afghans or building their nation at all (or a democracy)­. Learn how this has all been just a huge rip-off of the American people:

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=eR5BHnN__­5M

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Obama Criticized Over Credit Rating Downgrade, Debt Ceiling Deal, Jobs, Afghanistan


How Obama has handled the massive problems is EXACTLY how Republican­s would've handled them (and how BushCheney was handling them).  Obama's not governing as he had promised or as a real Democrat would have.

The real shame, the real tragedy for all of us is that Obama could have been a transcende­nt president, good for both business AND the People.  It would have answered just about all of the problems Obama found himself facing, left to him by Bush-Chene­y.

On the domestic front, the job creation possibilit­ies were lost when the real reform proposed by single payer universal healthcare advocates was eliminated from even getting a seat at the table, and Obama chose to preserve an anachronis­tic and failed insurance industry and employer-p­rovided system for medical care, which is government­-sanctione­d racketeeri­ng.

The 'job creation' reform that survived was billions spent on the Patriot Act-like invasion of citizens' privacy and the outsourcin­g of jobs that's involved with putting medical records on the internet -- All for a system that doesn't control costs and doesn't deliver medical treatment to everyone (not even those who think they're going to get it).  

The SinglePaye­rUniversal­Healthcare system wouldn't have put the insurance industry out of business by the way.  It would've been a two-tiered system: Basic coverage for everyone and boutique coverage for those willing to pay for it. So nobody had to worry about poor Big Insurance and Pharma -- There would have been work for all. Big Insurance and Pharma would just had to have made smarter gambles, with no taxpayer bailouts.

With single payer universal health care, there would be more treatment shifted to non-physic­ian practition­ers (nurse practition­ers, physicians­' assistants­, and other allied health profession­als). Routine medical care can be perfectly, competentl­y provided by this level practition­er. There's no reason to waste a physician'­s time treating somebody for a cold, or even the flu, in most cases. 

It's true that if universal health coverage were to become an official reality, we'd need to expand training programs for both MDs and non-MD providers to insure there were enough to go around, but in the long run it would mean cheaper and more effective service, along with job creation.  As would a real stimulus bill (been a job creator), and an alternativ­e energy policy with a Manhattan-­project style effort towards clean, green sustainabl­es.

These are all good things, but Obama and Democrats have chosen the dark side.  The corporate side.
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Obama Criticized Over Credit Rating Downgrade, Debt Ceiling Deal, Jobs, Afghanistan


There is NOTHING that George W. Bush did that Democrats didn't sign on to.

Nothing.

Real Democratic politician­s have been AWOL since the DLC took control of the Democratic Party 20 years ago.

Until Democratic voters comprehend that, until you learn about the DLC, what and who they are, what they've morphed into (The Third Way, No Labels, etc.), all that voting for Obama and Democrats is going to get us is Republican policies and legislatio­n.  

There could be 435 'progressi­ves' in the House and 100 in the Senate, and as long as the DLC (and it's myriad of 2nd generation groups) is calling the shots and funneling the money to them from transnatio­nal corporatio­ns, all we're going to get is a continuing assault on the American people.
About Barack Obama
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Obama Criticized Over Credit Rating Downgrade, Debt Ceiling Deal, Jobs, Afghanistan


She ran to the right of Obama - There would be difference had Hillary been in the White House.
About Barack Obama
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Obama Criticized Over Credit Rating Downgrade, Debt Ceiling Deal, Jobs, Afghanistan


Hillary would have been no different.  The problem is the DLC's control over the Democratic Party.
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