House Democrats Punk Republicans On Budget Vote (VIDEO)

 No, this is Obama's "compromis­e" 2011 budget deal, voted and passed by both Houses of Congress last week.
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This isn't spin; these are facts.  

In reality, neither you nor I know how Democratic voters are going to cast their votes in 2012.  

I can't tell people what to do; I can only give them informatio­n and what they choose to do with that informatio­n is up to them.  I can advise (and have advised) people to become active in many ways.  But continuing to vote for Democrats who legislate and govern as Republican­s is that old definition of insanity (Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different outcome).  

Until it sinks in that Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party is not a populist party but the same old Republican Party of Nixon & Reagan, people are going to continue getting swept up by very high-price­d focus group tested rhetoric.  

Perhaps you would like it if I did it in ad-speak?  The Democratic Party, just like the Republican Party, only kinder, gentler, softer, with more diverse faces.  "Same great taste, but with fewer calories!"  As you're losing your home, living in your car (until it's repossesse­d) and scrounging your next meal in a dumpster, Democrats tell you that they're "really trying, but those mean Republican­s", and give you a sympatheti­c face.  

Don't you think it's odd that Obama's fiscal speech, advertised 2 days before to be a nighttime address, with huge build-up, said nothing except "everythin­g is on the table" (meaning Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security), and the speech was delivered at 11 am PDT?  

Obama's off on the same track as when he took kiIIed single payer/publ­ic option and extending  Bush's tax cuts for the rich.  He assures his followers he's for it, and then he cuts secret deals against it.  The people find out about it when it's all too late, a done deal.  

He's not an honest broker.  And no Democrats in office are.  And just because you've heard me say it before doesn't mean others have.  So I'm going to keep saying it until I no longer have to.  If you don't like it, get out there, organize a progressiv­e or populist movement.
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Let's say that all that is true.  Let's say that Soros and unions are spending on par with the Koch brothers:  American people/wor­kers have lost huge ground over the past 40 years to the interests on the Koch brothers' side and the issues that the Koch brothers are pushing.  Do American citizens want to be broke, hungry and homeless?  Do American citizens want 2% to hoard the wealth of the nation?
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Japan Nuclear Crisis: Fukushima Plant Operator Announces Plan To End Crisis

I asked you how you come to believe it, and you tell me it's on the basis of 2 men's opinions.  You can believe as Hansen and Lovelock do if you put blinders on and deIude yourself into believing that the only nuclear accident that's ever taken place was Chernobyl, and then dismiss that as "human error, the kind that can only take place in Soviet Union".   

 "Three Mile Island not even close to being only nuclear accident in USA!"

"Can the US Produce Safe Nuclear Energy & Prevent The Kind of Crisis We're Seeing in Japan?  No."



Gore does NOT support nuclear, by the way.  That was even before the catastroph­e in Japan.

The fact about nuclear is that it's NOT cheap, it's NOT clean, and it's NOT safe.  

If you're looking for a solution for the problem of abundant energy that is NOT coal or oil, yes, nuclear is an alternativ­e.  And that is all that Hansen and Lovelock are addressing­.  But it's like that old story, "The surgery to remove the tumor was a success, but the patient died on the table from complicati­ons during the surgery."

There are solutions, and the solutions may not allow for the continued squanderin­g of the earth's resources, growth/dev­elopment/p­aving over the surface of the planet for unlimited human population­, or a worldwide economy that exploits the most to live in abject squalor and poverty for the lavish lifestyles of a few.  

The gas and oil industries have been buying up patents for alternativ­es for years and burying them to eliminate competitio­n.  See here.

That's got to end.  And the thinking that even debates the efficacy of it has to stop.

A lot of people worldwide are going to dle in the coming years either way, but the conditions for those remaining won't have to include a toxic, poisoned environmen­t which makes their few years on the planet one of sickness and deformity.
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Japan Nuclear Crisis: Fukushima Plant Operator Announces Plan To End Crisis

And remember our choice is not solar/wind or coal, it's coal or nuclear, with a little solar and wind.

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How do you come to believe that?  

It's not true, but I'm interested in why, of all the many possibilit­ies, you have managed to buy into the one which doesn't solve our problems, spells out d00m, and makes the transnatio­nal energy corporatio­ns richer.
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Tim Geithner Confident Congress Will Raise Debt Ceiling: Not Doing So Would Be 'Catastrophic' (VIDEO)

"Not Raising Debt Ceiling Would Be 'Catastrop­hic'"

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As will raising the debt ceiling.

Obama and Democratic leadership have already indicated they're on board with Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security cuts, privatizin­g, etc.   Obama's already announced that if 14 of the 18 on the Bowles-Sim­pson Commision can agree on a plan, he's on board, and there are already more than 14 on the commission that support privatizat­ion.  

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 d00med if this is the future leadership of the party, but then again we're d00med anyway).  We're being set up to accept that which they're saying is inevitable­.

When Obama wants something, he's shown he can go all R0ve-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 & 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.

If you haven't seen this, you might find it enlighteni­ng -- Laura Flanders, John Perkins ('Confessio­ns of an Economic Hitman') & Russ Baker ('Family of Secrets') talk about Obama and corporatio­ns and the IMF.
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Joe Walsh Claims Every Time The U.S. Has Cut Taxes, Revenue Has Gone Up (VIDEO)

In his speech this past week, Obama left EVERYTHING on the table.  That includes Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

Just as Obama said he wouldn't sign any legislatio­n that didn't include a public option and then reneged, I'm sure that in the weeks ahead he's going to be cutting another secret deal with Republican­s, just like the lousy health insurance legislatio­n and tax cuts for the rich, that ends Great Society programs.  It's Obama's MO.  It's how he operates.

Obama is not a man of the People; he's a tool of the Corporatio­ns.
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