Al Franken has more courage than Obama

Now why can’t the President show some backbone like Al Franken??  Traitor Joe called Obama a Muslim and terrorist during the campaign, now he’s taking all the public protection out of the healthcare bill, and Obama cowers like a baby when Traitor Joe withholds his vote.

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/franken-cuts-lieberman-off-wont-let-him-finish-floor-speech.php

TRAITOR JOE HITS A NEW LOW

Traitor Joe stalls healthcare by making the Senate take out the public option and the Medicare buy-in … a New Low for Joe.  Now an honest Connecticut politician calls for his recall.  Thanks again, Connecticut for giving us this corporate shill.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30627.html

Tea Party Protesters Schedule

9 a.m. – Wake up

9:15 a.m. – Watch Fox News segment on why Obama is a Socialist and nod in agreement

9:30 a.m. – Cash government unemployment check

10 a.m. – Listen to Limbaugh on radio and giggle, “you tell ‘em Rush!”

10:30 a.m. – Go to doctor paid for by Medicare

11 a.m. – Read email claiming Obama was born in Kenya, forward it to friends and demand to personally see his birth certificate

11:15 a.m. – Print email of talking points against public option written by insurance company which they think comes from “average Americans” like them

11:30 – Paint offensive sign criticizing Obama and Nancy Pelosi

Noon – buy more bullets for hand gun at Wal-Mart, pick up prescription medication for free paid by Medicare

1 p.m. – Picket outside Town Hall meeting, accuse all opponents of being Communists

2 p.m. – Yell inside Town Hall meeting “I want my country back!’

3 p.m. – Try to get interviewed by local Fox affiliate who organized this “grass roots” protest

3:30 p.m. – Listen to Sean Hannity on the radio and smirk, “You tell ‘em Sean!”

4 p.m. – Go online and sign up for extension of unemployment benefits, claim to be looking for jobs

5 p.m. – Watch O’Reilly on Fox News and mutter, “This country is going to hell.”

Time to resign you Big Dummy!

But Paw … I wanna be Governor and go to Argentina to visit my mistress for free

Dummies

Why we need Health Insurance Reform

Without a successful reform of current escalations in health care
expenditure, the future solvency of the American nation is on the line
– a genuine issue of national security — the stakes couldn’t be
higher.  Much of the opposition from the right and profit motivated
stakeholders (insurance companies, pharma, docs (who in private
practice are generally out of touch with the nearly 50 million
uninsured and seem to have difficulty separating a buck from what’s
good for us as a nation).

The opposition is often couched in black and white ideological terms
– which as a marginal political strategy may well have some traction,
but it’s a profound disservice to this most important of national
discussions.

What we know with certainty, is that the current status quo can’t
continue.  Should there not be reform now, the hammer of history will
strike again; likely much, much harder — as we head further into an
exponential expansion of health care related expenditure obligations.

The political spin-meisters would have you believe that there will be
“rationing” under “Obamacare” — in truth, we irrationally ration
massively currently by excluding tens of millions from routine health
care services.  The real hope with Obamacare

Elderly Right Winger says "God will get you!" for supporting reform

is that we’ll start “rationing” more rationally; which leads to spending less and getting more and reducing the overall profitability of an otherwise opaque and segmented medical-industrial complex.

And that’s the real fear of the profit motivated stakeholders.

What’s good for America as a whole may well not be good for them.   Hush now, they don’t want you to know that!

Why Palin Resigned

With the geese cackling behind her at Friday’s press conference, what better way to illustrate the ol’ Hockey Mom’s goose is cooked, eh?  Daily Beast reports she’s going to be indicted on a kickback scheme dating back to Wasilla.  What a Thrilla for the old point guard who knows when to call an audible, break the full court press, pass for victory, and score a touchdown and hit a home run, or some other folksy saying, doncha know?

“The suddenness of her announcement raises the question about whether Palin resigned to avert a major scandal. One logical place to start looking is the affair that has Alaska political circles buzzing: an alleged scandal centered around a building contractor, Spenard Building Supplies, with close ties to Palin and her husband, Todd.

Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002. The home was built just two months before Palin began campaigning for governor, a job which would have provided her enhanced power to grant building contracts in the wide-open state.

SBS has close ties to the Palins. The company has not only sponsored Todd Palin’s snowmobile team, according to the Village Voice’s Wayne Barrett, it hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004.

Though Todd Palin told Fox News he built his Lake Lucille home with the help of a few “buddies,” according to Barrett’s report, public records revealed that SBS supplied the materials for the house. While serving as mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin blocked an initiative that would have required the public filing of building permits—thus momentarily preventing the revelation of such suspicious information.”

The Anchorage News website and message boards are full of stories about an impending criminal announcement.

SBS was also the subcontractor for the house former Senator Ted Stevens built, some say with illegal kickbacks from oil services companies, you betcha!   Another salient comment from Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo:

“The idea that Gov. Palin just up and decided for no reason in particular to resign her office little more than half way through her term, with a hastily assembled press conference and a rambling and histrionic speech, is just too silly for serious consideration.”

SANFORD AND SIN

SANFORD AND SIN

Watch the hilarious adventures of a horny South Carolina Governor, his wife, his four kids, his mistress, his “other women,” his spiritual advisor and the compliant Right Wing media who support him every week in “Sanford and Sin,” coming soon.  In last week’s episode, Mark left the state without a leader and flew to Argentina to canoodle with his “soul mate” while he told his staff and the citizens of South Carolina he was hiking the Appalachian trail.

This week Gov. Sanford talks about his “other women” and how he may have “crossed the line” but not the ultimate line because he was doing his shennigans out  of the country.   Guest starring the Attorney General who wants to know how many trips the state paid for while Sanford was canoodling with other women and Senator Lindsay Graham, who says Sanford should stay as Governor as long as Sanford’s wife agrees to accept a “submissive” role.  COMEDY.

Republican Tea Baggers Go Nuts

Notice anything about the Republican Tea Baggers?

The knee-jerk Republican response to any question — from military service, to taxes, to bonuses — is to protect the wealthy. Wealth is their only religion. The GOP love to talk about Christian religion to stroke their evangelical base but they actually hate anyone who follows the historic Jesus who said: “It is easier for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into the kingdom of God.” – Frank Schaefer

“There’s obviously nothing wrong with the right attempting to engage in protest politics. The problem is that it was never clear what they were protesting. So far Obama has cut taxes for most of the population and… well, that’s it … But the teabaggers… honestly, I still have no idea what it was about. I mean, I know it was about tribal allegiance against Barack Mumia Saddam Obama III. But it wasn’t actually about anything else.” – Atrios

“A Fox News-hyped U. S. anti-tax movement has failed to bring about the “popular uprising” its creators had hoped for.  The day of “tea parties,” pushed by Republican operatives and partisan advocacy groups such as FreedomWorks, which sought to protest U. S. President Barack Obama government’s tax and stimulus policies by encouraging people to”wave tea bags,” brought about only a few hundred “tea-baggers” in most parts of the U. S., despite relentless promotion by Fox News TV hosts.” – Calgary Herald

“I wandered up to the Fox News-sponsored Sacramento “Tea Party” at the state capitol this afternoon and was amazed at the number of middle-aged white people. Frankly, it looked a lot like the Iowa State Fair, but without the smiles and funnel cakes. Except for the SN&R Press Pass, I would‘ve fit right in—well, except for the frightened, confused, anti-tax, anti-immigrant and just a tad racist thing.” – Sacramento News

“Hey Big Brother: Show us Your Real Birth Certificate,” said one sign in the rain-soaked crowd.  “Blackbeard Obama, King of the Tax Pirates,” said another.  A third showed the president dressed up as Steve Urkel, the nerdy black kid with big glasses and suspenders from “Family Matters.” … Though ostensibly an anti-tax protest, it was more of an anti-Obama festival. Among the messages: “The Audacity of the Dope,” “O Crap” and Obama as an acronym for “One Big Awful Mistake America.” Some messages were ugly (“Napolitano — Obama’s Gestapo Queen,” “Hang ‘Em High Traitors,” and a sign held by a young girl saying “Victim of Child Tax Abuse”). – Washington Post

From a GALLUP Poll

First off, the federal tax burden is actually low by historical standards. The effective tax rate (that is, the rate people really pay after deductions, credits and exemptions) was 9.1 percent in 2006, the last year for which the Congressional Budget Office had numbers. This is down from a peak of 12 percent in 1981. The effective federal rate for the middle fifth of all taxpayers is 3 percent. Taxpayers seem to think this is a reasonable levy.

Second, contrary to received political wisdom, the tax system is viewed as pretty fair overall. In 2009, 61 percent thought the tax they pay is fair. That’s way up from the years before 2003 and the Bush tax cuts. Republican politicians tend to think taxpayers always resent their tax bills. They don’t. Democratic politicians tend to think taxpayers always resent the fact the rich don’t pay much more in taxes. They don’t. – NPR

Besides being uninformed and angry … all WHITE people.  But of course, it’s all about “taxes.”

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