Lily Ledbetter Act - Read them all, and now see Nancy Pelosi's admission today; only eleven years later:
This is 'SMACK YA IN THE SIDE OF THE HEAD'-stuff coming out of Obama's mouth:
"This is the public option debate all over again. So I pass a signature piece of legislation where we finally get health care for all Americans, something that Democrats have been fighting for for a hundred years, but because there was a provision in there that they didn't get that would have affected maybe a couple million people, even though we got health insurance for 30 million people, and the potential for lower premiums for 100 million people, that somehow that was a sign of weakness and compromise."
Obama didn't get health care for all Americans -- He sold insurance policies on behalf of insurance companies using Americans' money. Over-priced, lousy insurance policies, at that. Having insurance doesn't mean getting health care. BIG DIFFERENCE.
And there are no cost controls in what Obama got. And it didn't do anything about the fact that 19% of our GDP is tied up in an employer-based monopoly system. Ending employment-based insurance was what everybody wanted.
Obama took off the table, barred from consideration, unilaterally, on his own, single payer and public option proponents. Do you remember when we were all told, "Relaaaaaaax, it's a first step...We'll put a public option in..Real soon"?:
Two weeks ago on C-Span, Richard Wolffe (the journalist with an inside line to Obama and his White House) said, "There Won't Be Any Public Option--Obama Never Was For It".
And Obama's legislation leads to eliminating insurance coverage for all ab0rt!ons.
Then once the legislation passed, Obama then appointed former WellPoint executive Liz Fowler to write and enforce the regulations. A fox in charge of this chicken coop. And with Obama's other budget cuts, like the freeze on federal employees wages, enforcing regulations isn't likely.
This guy's a real piece o'work.
Here are the options:
#1 - Republican
#2 - Republican
#3 - Republican
#4 - Democratic politician
#2 (letting Republican
After the lengths that the Obama administra
MAB 3 hours ago (10:24 AM)"Exposing U.S. records and no other country's records only makes us look like a fool worldwide. What has he released that has done YOU any good?"
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You're a little confused as to what's making the US look like a fool worldwide.
As a citizen of THIS country, my responsibi
They're misusing the power & the tools given to them to use IN OUR NAMES, & lying to us. Some have committed war crimes, other have criminally conspired to cover-up them up, & others have been derelict in their Constituti
Although many among us have suspected as much for some time now, we have been thwarted in our attempts to repair this government and get the nation back on track because of people like you whose thinking has been muddled (or are parties to the crimes or conspiracy to cover them up) who argue that there's no evidence.
Now comes W!kileaks showing us the actual proof that people in our government have been using the power and the tools given them in a manner incommensu
Other countries, by the way, have known what our government has been doing for a long time. They LIVE it. They're the recipient of our abuses. People in our government have been engaged in a conspiracy to keep us, their bosses, ig.nor.ant of the job performanc
Such as directing diplomats to break the law & spy on other diplomats (the State Dept. is NOT CIA or like any of the other 16 intelligen
Such as ordering helicopter gvnships to massacre civilians in broad daylight & then cover it up.
Such as Iy!ng about the numbers of civilian casualties (now there's a word for k!lling) in order to continue an illegal & failed w@r that American citizens want out of.
You have a responsibi
The rest of the world will love us when we become the great nation & people that We The People believe ourselves to be.
"Politics may be a bargain between beggars, but compromise between good and evil is never possible. God's work does not blend with power or greed. Your moral mortar is corrupt and the walls of your church will crumble and the roof will fall, and you and everyone who worships with you will be crushed. I would sooner live out the rest of my days feeding pigs at the monastery than feeding your ravenous ambition." -Prior Philip to Waleran, Pillars of the Earth
Read more...I'm not asking you to ignore suffering in Mississippi or anywhere else.
Whatever various scams you think you're aware of, I think you are missing the big picture in your haste to rush to Obama's defense. I provided links to information that might give you a different, if not broader, perspective. Check them out, or don't; what you do matters not to me.
About Barack Obama
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
What is this adminstration doing to restore the barrier islands and coastal wetlands of southern Louisiana.
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Obama's leaving it to BP.
About Barack Obama
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
The only reason that we don't have a strong healthcare bill is Obama. And we won't have any kind of real healthcare reform until he's out of office.
The week before & the week after the healthcare bill (or, more accurately, 'The Insurance & Pharmaceutical Industries Windfall Act') passed in the Senate was the one & only time a public option had any chance of happening until another generation passes.
A group of senators had mobilized behind it since the bill had to be passed through reconciliation anyway, & there was no way that Democrats weren't going to get enough of its members to vote against it just because it had a PublicOption in it.
Obama nixxed it.
The excuse was that if the Senate did that, the bill would have to go back to the House for a vote & "There's no time!"
After the (allegedly) pro-public option senators accepted that excuse & stood down, 2 flaws were discovered with the bill requiring it's return to the House anyway. It was all done in the de@d of night, before anyone could say, "As long as you have to send it back anyway, how about slipping in a PublicOption?"
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Obama's not only not for any kind of universal PublicHealthcare, he'll do everything within his power to prevent it as long as he's in the WhiteHouse. Because that was the deal that he made.
About Health
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Obama's timidity is myth -- He's plenty tough when it comes to standing up to the Democratic Party's base.
Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama&Democrats want public health care. The DLC-controlled Democratic party gives lip service to this and all populist issues.
If the Bush years taught us nothing else, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid & relentless in your sales pitch & tactics. It's not that Bush&R0ve were geniuses & knew something that nobody else knew; Bush&R0ve were just more ruthless (clumsy & careless many political graybeards would say) in doing what politicians & the parties had gone to great lengths to hide from Americans.
Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish the Clinton machine & the oldest, most experienced politicians in our nation's history (including the Rove machine) by not having mastered these skills. Nor do Democratic politicians (more incumbents than ever, in office longer) not know how to do it. How do you think Democrats managed to keep the impeachment of Bush&Cheney off the table & have us still reelecting them, not marching on Washington with torches&pitchforks?
Obama&Democrats know how to do it -- They don't want to do it.
The trick for them has been to keep the many different populist groups believing that they really do support our issues, but that they're merely inept. And to get us to keep voting for them in spite of their failure to deliver on any of our alleged shared objectives.
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