Democrats Hope Tea Party Candidates Win GOP Primaries, Help Keep The Senate Blue
Thursday, September 29, 2011
And Obama doesn't need Congress to go after the banks; his Justice Department can do the job just fine.
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Democrats Hope Tea Party Candidates Win GOP Primaries, Help Keep The Senate Blue
To begin with, while Bush 1 may have birthed it, NAFTA was ratified by a Democratic Congress and signed into law during Bill Clinton's administra
Obama came into office with the wind at his back. More people voted for him, a black man in good old raclst America, than ever voted for any other presidenti
That's 'Titanium' political capital, and Obama came into office oozing it. So much that the GOP was in a puddle in the gutter outside of the US Capitol. Is that really a vague memory? After the 2008 election, Republican
His political team and machine also disbanded the grass roots groups across the nation. If you knew anything about politics, you'd know that this is a dead giveaway that the last thing these politician
And after more than a year of making secret deals with BigInsuran
Obama's 'most ardent supporters
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Adoption Rates Hit New Low With More Children Left In Care
About 25,000 US-born children are placed for adoption in the US annually.
Just in California
Because there are so many displaced and neglected children in need of foster care, and so few families to provide for them, most foster homes are overcrowde
An average foster baby will live in three different homes before his first birthday. On average, a child will remain in foster care for 26.6 months.
This revolving door of care puts children at risk for Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD), which leads to a lifetime of disrupted relationsh
Research shows that children in foster care are far more likely to endure homelessne
54 percent get a high school diploma
2 percent get a Bachelor’s degree or higher
84 percent become parents too soon, exposing their children to a repeated cycle of neglect and abuse
51 percent are unemployed
30 percent have no health insurance
25 percent experience homelessne
30 percent receive public assistance
These figures are five years old. It's safe to assume that as the economy has worsened, so has this situation.
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The Affordable Care Act? What the Heck Is That?
No, my friend, insurance companies have already figured out the way around the restrictio
Don't believe me? Meet Wendell Potter.
On Countdown with Keith Olbermann, whistleblo
What Obama has done is sell (and buy) insurance policies on behalf of insurance companies using Americans' money. Over-price
Having insurance doesn't mean getting health care. BIG DIFFERENCE
There are no cost controls in this legislatio
Obama's legislatio
Obama's preserving an anachronis
"Covering the kids up to age 26" is a cruel farcical joke. To begin with, how many people do you think were bought off with that? To have insurance, to pay for it, you need to have a job. To keep a job in this economy. To get a job in this economy. Not just the 26 year olds who can't find a job in this economy, but their middle-age
And with Obama's 'Super Congress' planning Medicare and Medicaid cuts, including upping the age for qualifying
Then there's the prohibitio
The insurance mandate is, indeed, a tax. Contrary to what Obama claimed, the IRS will be the enforcer, which means compounded fines and prison.
Put your money into private prison stocks; that's where the growth is going to be.
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The Affordable Care Act? What the Heck Is That?
Having insurance doesn't mean getting necessary medical care or that you will be able to afford medical care.
Think about that for a minute, because I do understand how, after hours/days/months of spin by profession al spinmeiste rs (politicia ns), you might not appreciate the distinctio n.
What the legislation does is require money to go from here (my pockets/ta xpayers' pockets) and into insurance companies' pockets.
There is NO LIMITATION on insurance companies' charging and increasing co-pays and deductibles and eliminatin g services.
There is NO REQUIREMENT for insurance companies to have to provide services not paid for.
Anthem's announcement some months ago hit people over their heads like a two-by-fou r, making the need to eliminate insurance companies as the middleman in our medical care system obvious to many:
== Health insurance hikes stun small businesses
While Anthem Blue Cross has been taking the heat for proposing rate increases of up to 39 percent on individual consumers, other health insurers have stunned some small businesses with hikes that in some cases exceed 75 percent.
Tom Simmons, president of an Oakland design and consulting firm with four employees, said he had just read about the Anthem increases when he opened a letter from his insurer, Blue Shield of California, informing him his monthly family premium would go up to $1,596 a month from $908, a nearly 76 percent increase.
Obama and Democrats were put into power with a mandate to get affordable
About Barack Obama
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The Men We Trusted to Lead Us
"Why Aren't We Demanding Restitutio
On Dylan Ratigan's show, Eliot Spitzer and Larry McDonald explain how banks paying back TARPmonies doesn't begin to cover what's been stolen.
Watch it here.
About Ben Bernanke
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The Men We Trusted to Lead Us
What would Obama/Demo
He/They are for more *AFTA treaties, which means more Americans' jobs leaving the US.
Are Obama/Demo
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The Men We Trusted to Lead Us
Dylan Ratigan kicked off the campaign to GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS this week. Ratigan has committed to using his show on MSNBC as a platform to force this issue to the center of the 2012 elections with a petition for a Constituti
Here is the proposed Constituti
"No person, corporation or business entity of any type, domestic or foreign, shall be allowed to contribute money, directly or indirectly , to any candidate for Federal office or to contribute money on behalf of or opposed to any type of campaign for Federal office. Notwithsta nding any other provision of law, campaign contributi ons to candidates for Federal office shall not constitute speech of any kind as guaranteed by the U.S. Constituti on or any amendment to the U. S. Constituti on. Congress shall set forth a federal holiday for the purposes of voting for candidates for Federal office."
Sign the petition, tell friends, Facebook it, Tweet it. #GetMoneyO
Or Text SIGN to +191772068 88 to sign.
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The Men We Trusted to Lead Us
That's not how it works: After he's reelected is too late.
I'm an old OLD liberal Democrat who has been voting for the lesser of two evils for the past couple of decades that the DLC has controlled the Democratic Party. Always it's that line, "after we get the Democrat elected, we hold Democrats' feet to the fire to force change", and it never happens.
The Democratic Party is bought and paid for by corporate elites, just like the Republican Party is. The only way, or the first step, is to get the money out of politics.
Check this out, sign the petition, tell friends, Facebook it, Tweet it. #GetMoneyO
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About Ben Bernanke
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The Men We Trusted to Lead Us
Which is why all of the talk about Obama having "finally discovered a backbone" and has changed the last week or so with these jobs' speeches is just so much BS. When he fires Geithner and Bill Daley (and every other corporate-
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The Men We Trusted to Lead Us
It is true that GWB inherited a recession .
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No, it is NOT true that GWBush inherited a recession; Bush and Cheney did everything they could to push the nation into recession by eroding consumer confidence from the very day after the USSC selected them as the winners of the 2000 election.
Bush-Chene
The actual recession, as called by NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) identified the date for the beginning of the recession to March, 2001.
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Obama Healthcare Plan: Justice Department Joins States In Call For Prompt Review Of Law
Has Obama said anything of the sort? [No.]
In 'Audacity Of Hope', Obama said of his own political appeal:
“I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.”
Obama got into office by misleading Democratic voters. He ran to the left of Hillary Clinton. He convinced centrists that he was a centrist. He convinced liberals he was a liberal posing as a centrist. But guess what?
"Privately, Obama describes himself as a Blue Dog Democrat"
Blue Dog = (might as well be registered as a) Republican
Candidate Obama was all over the place, depending on who was talking to at any given time and what day it was in the campaign, which primaries were done with and who he didn't need to woo anymore.
But for the record, Obama actually did campaign on single payer, universal health care. In addition to the now infamous video clip from 2003 -http://www
See the part where he says he has a plan to "cover everyone'? That's called "universal coverage". Just in case that confuses you, there's even a graphic in the ad that says "The Obama Plan - UNIVERSAL coverage for all Americans"
Here's another reference where Obama campaigned on public option - http://cam
During the campaign, Obama supported "healthcar
Candidate Obama was against and/or for everything
So don't presume to know what Obama means or intends until you get it from him (and then take it with a grain of sand because as we've already seen, Obama changes his positions and pledges like most people change their underwear)
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Obama: Defense of Marriage Issue Will Be Settled Soon
The Hyde Amendment prohibits federal money going for abortions. Stop spreading lies..
About Gay Marriage
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Obama: Defense of Marriage Issue Will Be Settled Soon
Americans can only make laws that don't abridge or infringe on people's rights as guaranteed in the Constituti
Even if it was true that the majority of Americans didn't want there to be gay marriage (it isn't; the majority of Americans support gay marriage -- 53 percent of people believe the government should give legal recognitio
And 100 percent of Americans could be Christian and the bible would still not be the law of this land.
About Gay Marriage
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The Republicans Continue to Wage War Against Government Workers
Dear Bob Cesca,
It's not just Republican
“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.
Watch the clip here.
Dylan Ratigan kicked off the campaign to GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS yesterday. Ratigan has committed to using his show on MSNBC as a platform to force this issue to the center of the 2012 elections with a petition for a Constituti
Here is the proposed Constituti
"No person, corporation or business entity of any type, domestic or foreign, shall be allowed to contribute money, directly or indirectly , to any candidate for Federal office or to contribute money on behalf of or opposed to any type of campaign for Federal office. Notwithsta nding any other provision of law, campaign contributi ons to candidates for Federal office shall not constitute speech of any kind as guaranteed by the U.S. Constituti on or any amendment to the U. S. Constituti on. Congress shall set forth a federal holiday for the purposes of voting for candidates for Federal office."
Why don't you join us all, Bob, sign the petition, tell friends, Facebook it, Tweet it. #GetMoneyO
Or Text SIGN to +191772068
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