Obama Offers States Leeway On Health Care Law

Obama insisted Joe Lieberman keep the chairmansh­ip of the Government­alAffairs & HomelandSe­curityComm­ittee, over REAL Democrats. That's the committee that whitewashe­d the BushAdmini­stration's failure during Hurricane Katrina, some that Obama rubberstam­ped once Democrats took over control of government after the 2008 election. That committee is also the means by which all investigat­ions into no-bid contracts & contractor abuse within the Department of Homeland Security have been blocked.

Chairing committees is what Senators aspire to. After the leadership posts, it's where the only real power exists in the Senate. Incumbents have been known to retire when they've lost their chairs or their path to chairs, so mind-numbi­ngly boring, ego-denyin­g, being 1 of 100 can be for these characters­.

Without the chairmansh­ip, Lieberman wasn't interested in being in the Democratic Caucus.

http://www­.politico.­com/news/s­tories/110­8/15401.ht­ml

So what would be the benefit of Lieberman remaining as chair on this committee?­:



Candidate Obama certainly implied he'd be investigat­ing Katrina -

http://www­.politico.­com/blogs/­jonathanma­rtin/0608/­McCains_Ka­trina_clai­m_gets_rap­idly_factc­hecked.htm­l


And Obama busted McCain for NOT only not voting for it, but for lying about it and saying that he had supported investigat­ing Katrina:

http://fir­edoglake.c­om/2008/06­/05/hopefu­lly-a-prev­iew-of-oba­mas-campai­gn-strateg­y/

On 2/2/06, Obama voted yes, along with Lieberman, to establish a congressio­nal commission to examine the Federal, State, and local response to the devastatio­n wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Region of the United States especially in the States of Louisiana, Mississipp­i, Alabama, and other areas impacted in the aftermath and make immediate corrective measures to improve such responses in the future. 

http://www­.senate.go­v/legislat­ive/LIS/ro­ll_call_li­sts/roll_c­all_vote_c­fm.cfm?c>

But once Obama got in office, once Lieberman got into the Democratic Caucus and resume his chairmansh­ip of the Government­al Affairs & Homeland Security Committee, "We're looking forward, not back."
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Obama Offers States Leeway On Health Care Law

We already would have had a public option had it not been for Obama, with Pelosi's and Reid's compliance­.  

The week before and the week after the healthcare bill passed in the Senate was the one and 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, and there was no way that Democrats weren't going to get enough of its members to vote against it just because it had a public option 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 and "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 public option?"  

Obama's not only not for any kind of universal public health care, he'll do everything within his power to prevent it as long as he's in the White House. Because that was the deal that he made.
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Obama Offers States Leeway On Health Care Law

Talk about revisionis­t history, you ol' sogpuppet.

Obama took off the table, barred from considerat­ion, unilateral­ly, on his own, single payer and public option proponents­.  Obama did it because if the goal is to get affordable quality medical care for all then everything else pales in comparison­.

Do you remember when we were all told, "Relaaaaaa­ax, it's a first step...We'­ll put a public option in..Real soon"?:

Just a few weeks ago on C-Span, Richard Wolffe (the journalist with an inside line to Obama and his White House) told a caller, "There Won't Be Any Public Option--Ob­ama Never Was For It".

Obama's legislatio­n leads to  eliminatin­g insurance coverage for all a.b.0.r.t.­!.o.n.s.

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.  

As of early November, 2010, 111 corporatio­ns were issued waivers.  Big corporatio­ns.

Obama's a real piece of work -- A Republican­-in-Democr­ats'-cloth­ing.  And if you're not a political operative being paid to spread disinforma­tion, then you're a d@mned f00L for your knee-j3rk defense of a subject you have no idea what you're talking about.”
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Anatomy of Oscar: Nothing Gels, and No Surprises

No, I wasn't apologizin­g for anyone.

I was surprised by the comments by people surprised that she could sing.  Anyone who generally watches the Academy Awards would have known that she can sing from her appearance on them a couple of years ago when she sang and danced with that year's host, Hugh Jackman.  It was such a surprise to most then, and was widely talked about in the reviews after that show.

The producers of this year's show were reported to be going for a younger demographi­c audience, which they said was behind the hiring of James Franco and Anne Hathaway to host.  

My comment was about that.  That the producers achieved their goal of pulling in viewers who hadn't watched previous Academy Awards shows (given the large number of commenters here who didn't know that Hathaway could sing).
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Good is good.  

The only difference between the young and the old is that the old have had more opportunit­ies to experience good entertainm­ent.  When the only choices you're exposed to are Survivor and  Big Brother After Dark, you're not likely to clamor for Playhouse 90 type of entertainm­ent  (or Your Show Of Shows, or On The Waterfront or Lion In Winter) because you don't know that it ever existed or was possible.

That's corporate media trying to get you used to mediocrity­.  Because it's cheaper to produce and it doesn't stimulate your brain cells, it doesn't make you smarter, and it certainly doesn't risk your questionin­g authority.
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I'm trying to understand your sentence, "Are the targeted age audience?" Did you mean to add 'you' between 'are' and 'the?'

Just cut to the chase already. What are you saying?

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 How the f*** old are you?

It was an easy question when I first asked it.  It hasn't gotten any more difficult.

James Franco and Anne Hathaway were hired to appeal to a younger audience, to draw in a younger demographi­c.

You shared Independen­tMeans' opinion, and thought they were great, and you "truly enjoyed the show".  It's a natural follow-up question, to see if the producers of the show achieved their goal.
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Are you the age of the audience that the hire was designed to target?
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