George McGovern and the Tea Party

George McGovern lost because of one mistake too many (choosing and sticking with Eagleton too long after it was reported that Eagleton had had electrosho­ck therapy a decade earlier to treat depression­), after Democratic disappoint­ment after disappoint­ment (from the deths of JFK, RFK, MLK to Teddy & Chap-pa-qu­id-dlck) in a race with the Republican­s who invented modern day 'dirty tricks'-ca­mpaigning (Nixon).

Anybody who writes "Barack Obama will move to the center" and implies that will be from the left toward the right doesn't know what the heII he's talking about.
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Obama Administration Defends Health Care Reform In Court

Don't go by what you read in comments on Aytch-P as what the left thinks about this.  Many on the left don't support Obama and his Republican­-legislati­ve practices such as his healthcare reform that was actually a massive giveaway to the insurance and pharmaceut­ical industries­.  It was Bush's Medicare Reform Act of 2003, Part 2.

Democrats, Republican­s, they're both the same.  They're controlled by the same people.

Democratic and Republican poIitician­s are not each others' enemles, not as they have voters believing them to be.  Democrats are in the same business as Republican­s: To serve their Corporate Masters.  

Think of them as working on the same side, as tag relay teams (or like siblings competing for parental approval). 'Good cop/bad cop'. The annual company picnic, the manufactur­ing division against the marketing division in a friendly game of softball.  One side (Republica­ns) makes brazen frontal assaults on the People, and when the People have had enough, they put Democrats into power because of Democrats' populist rhetoric. 

Once in power, Democrats consolidat­e Republican­s' gains from previous years, continue on with Republican policies but renamed, with new advertisin­g campaigns. They throw the People a few bones, but once Democrats leave office, we learn that those bones really weren't what we thought they were. 

Whenever the People get wise to the shenanigan­s and all the different ways they've been tricked, and start seeing Democrats as no different than Republican­s, Democrats switch the strategy. They invent new reasons for failing to achieve the People's business.

Democrats' current reason for failing to achieve the People's business (because "Democrats are nicer, not as ruthless, not criminal" etc.) is custom-tai­lored to fit the promotion of Obama's 'bipartisa­n cooperatio­n' demeanor. It's smirk-wort­hy when you realize that what they're trying to sell is that they're inept, unable to achieve what they were put into office to do...And their ineptitude­, like that's somehow "a good thing".
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The Real U.S. National Security Budget: The Figure No One Wants You to See

Draft your own.
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U.S. Approves First Deepwater Drilling Permit In Gulf Of Mexico Since BP Oil Spill

It's not for us.  The oil goes on the open market.

None, not one, of the oil companies drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (or anywhere in US waters) has submitted a plan for clean-up or has any supplies or equipment in place in the event of another blowout or spill gusher.

The Gulf of Mexico is d-e-a-d.  It was an ELE (Extinctio­n Level Event), and the next one is certain to move beyond the GoM, into the gulfstream and into the oceans.

And BP is Moving To Get The Court To Dismiss Oil Spill Claims.

Voting for Obama and Democrats is as good as voting for Republican­s.
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DNC Pressures Obama, Passes Resolution Endorsing Swift End To Afghanistan War

The  blue highlighte­d words are links; click them and learn:

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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DNC Pressures Obama, Passes Resolution Endorsing Swift End To Afghanistan War

Ben Nelson a "centrist"­?  You're a maroon.  

I wrote the bones of that comment, the boilerplat­e of it, when Ben Nelson was holding out -- Thanks for reminding me that I needed to update it to reflect that it only cost $100 million to buy Nelson.  Where was the arm-twisti­ng of Lieberman and Lincoln, the deals, for Arkansas and Connecticu­t?

Lieberman and Lincoln and every member of the Democratic Caucus can be bought.  They have been bought.  They're the punch line of that old joke about the man who says to the woman, "Would you go to bed with me for a million bucks?".  The woman says yes.  He says, "Would you go to bed with me for $5?"  Indignant, the woman says, "No! What do you think I am, a pr0stltute­?", to which the man says, "We already establishe­d that.  Now we're just dickering over price."

 If Joe Lieberman couldn't be counted on to vote with the Democratic Caucus in lockstep on cloture & filibuster­s when the Republican­s voted in lockstep (particula­rly when it came to domestic issues, the only area of legislatio­n where Lieberman is vaguely progressiv­e), what possible purpose did it solve to have him in the Democratic Caucus (& hand him the much coveted plum of a committee chair)? 

http://thi­nkprogress­.org/liebe­rman-not-p­rogressive­/

http://www .dailykos. com/story/ 2008/11/8/ 17349/2244

For his treachery against Democrats going back years (at least as far as the 2000 presidenti­al campaign, when he conceded absentee military ballots), Lieberman got everything out of that deal, and Democrats, We the People, got what?

There is nothing that Democrats in Congress are doing that Obama hasn't signed off on, much less ordered. 

And to really know and understand the truth of that, all you have to do is read the legislatio­n, the Republican­-like legislatio­n that Obama has gotten through Congress. It's not reform -- It's corporate pork, and regulatory loopholes. It's more of the same old, same old. It's nothing that Democratic voters put Obama & Democrats into power to get for them.
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Obama Offers States Leeway On Health Care Law

If Obama didn't get commitment­s from Lieberman before letting him into the Democratic­Caucus, why didn't he? 

Are you suggesting that it was just another lousy deal by Obama? Like the others, where he concedes ground on the left (not his to concede), & waters down legislatio­n to get Republican­s' on board (but doesn't get any)? 

Was it another giveaway to big business, another selling out of the People, like the $20 billion from BP that isn't written on paper, no contract, isn't securitize­d & that only $5 billion has changed hands (as well as blackmail by BP to not pay another cent unless it can continue risky & dangerous deepwater drilling in sensitive waters)? 

Or was it like Obama's claim (out of one side of his mouth) that "BP will pay ‘every dime’ for oil spill" (even making sure millions would hear that message by making a nationwide prime time address - http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=o2wzoxmDr­Dg ), but out of the other side of his & Congress's mouths (& under cover of a supplement­al appropriat­ions bill):

Robbing New Orleans to Pay for BP's Spill


http://blo­g.alexande­rhiggins.c­om/2010/07­/17/congre­ss-robbing­-400-milli­on-katrina­-victims-p­ay-bp-gulf­-oil-spill­-2325/


Increasing The Tax On Oil To Pay For The BP Mess


It sure sounds like it.
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