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what's the difference between Dave and Wal-mart?
Dave votes for Progressives.
Dave also dies.
and.. uh.. that's about it..
Does today's decision open the door to murder charges when you close a company or euthanize a pet? it removes the line between natural beings and other beings so where does the differentiation exist?
Grayson and Repair of the SCOTUS Decision
Rep. Alan Grayson has already introduced 5 bills to mitigate today's Supreme Court decision. He sent out a petition to sign BEFORE the SCOTUS decision. You can still add your name to it:
http://salsa.mydccc.org/o/30019/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4&tag=01...
Interesting timing that this decision was not released until after the MA special election. Voters that stayed home on Tuesday might have rallied around Coakley.
Thanks Federalist Society Judges!
Now there are no limits on what we can spend to sway elections.
George Soros
Arianna Huffington
Warren Buffet
Acorn
MoveOn
Keith Olbermann
SEIU
AFL-CIO
Red Army Industries (China)
I have been advocating that the Administration focus on the economy and jobs this period, (for political reasons), and then use this election cycle to highlight the problems and abuses of our election system to reform it, (for practical and patriotic reasons). Today's announcement from the Supreme Court illustrates the need to do so. Our house is on fire. Now is not the time to remodel or add a room. (health care reform) This is especially true when those remodeling plans are so lousy, (The Senate Plan).
The website access is an internet routing problem between Portland and the web provider. It is working for 99% of the world - but not in the studio. The daily topic was fixed from the United Kingdom.
Could this possibly be an end-around to eliminating corporate taxation?
If Congress removes taxes on corporation, there would be no right to representation. This could be done with the current Congress.
Or, corporations fund sympathetic candidates with unlimited misleading advertisement until enough are elected to remove corporate taxes and maintain pass favorable campaign finance laws.
Either way, the corporations win. It's just how much will it cost them?
This Congress needs to act now to overturn this decision. With new laws defining the 14th amendment or impeachment of activist Supreme Court justices.
DDay,
FYI: TH producers said the website was shut down on their end and they have been working to get it up for some time...:-)
...political hackers?
Supreme Court Phone Numbers*
Public Information Office: 202-479-3211, Reporters press 1
Clerk's Office: 202-479-3011
*They don't care what you think (nor will they take comments), but you can still tell them!
Thanks for flipping on the lights! Daily Topics for Thursday, January 21, is now open for business...(an hour late). Considering what the Supreme Court did, I thought the coup d'etat underway might have already shut us down here in Hartmannland. Oy vey.
At the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 18, 1787, a Mrs. Powel anxiously awaited the results, and as Benjamin Franklin emerged from the long task now finished, asked him directly: "Well Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" "A republic if you can keep it" responded Franklin.
It sure looks like we could not keep the republic given to us my our forefathers.
It seems to me that this is the final nail in the coffin of democracy.
Thursday January 21, No Daily Topics Live Blog.....What gives?
If Obama is not sure what to do and what the American people are expecting from him, all he needs to do is listen to his own speeches from the campaign. We are displeased with him, because we believed that words do matter. Maybe now he will begin to put some of those words into action. We can only hope...and support groups like PDAmerica and DFA....
Thom,
What can I do to reppeal the court decision? How can I take down the corparate conquest?
President Obama has been beguiled by the siren song of bipartisanship. He has become so transfixed by the song that he has become blind and deaf to the danger that lies ahead and to the cries of the rest of us warning him to close his ears to the siren song. Once the sirens draw him in they will proceed to destroy him.
WAKE UP President Obama! Bipartisanship is an illusion and unless you wake up from your reverie you will surely crash the ship of state on the rocks just beneath the surface.
During the 2008 primary campaigns, when I was a Hillary supporter, I kept telling people that there is something in Obama that cries, "Please like me? Please be my friend? I'll do whatever you want."
Obama's one real success so far has been restoring the international relationships that Bush shattered. Obama makes friends. He's good at that.
So he tries to make friends with the republicans. Democrats have a good reason to feel betrayed. We also feel trapped. What will we do when these dems are up for re-election? Vote for the republican? Stay home? Obama knows that if it's between him and Palin, we'll choose him.
I have that dilemma with my congressman, Harry Teague (NM). Talk about a phony. He's a millionaire oilman! I complained about him incessantly throughout the campaign, but other dems told me that he was a "good democrat and he has the money to beat the republican." I met the republican candidate. He asked for my vote, and I have to respect that. Teague just assumed I would vote straight ticket (okay, I did...). Meanwhile, since Teague has been in DC he's played the "phony democrat" role perfectly.
Teague voted for the Stupak-Pitts amendment. Teague is running for re-election but I will not vote for him again this November; the Stupak vote pushed me over the edge. Of course, I can't vote for the republican candidate (the guy is evil: Steven Pearce), but the republican still might win because of people like me. What are we supposed to do?
All these blogs are ultimately about the same thing. Not one ideology over another, or cheating with the vote count, or constitutional conventions. It's about campaign finance reform. Expel the corporate moneychangers from the temple (matching grants for viable but outspent candidates) so that we can be a democracy again.
On the anniversary of the swearing-in: Although I was jaundiced after having my prior Clinton worship (Bill) deflated by the revelations of his Repub-style laissez-faire economics, I supported Hillary in 08 despite the subliminal sexism still flourishing in the USA (another factor behind Ms. Coakley's loss in 'Bastin' and thereabouts--note Chris Mathews sneering and calling her "stupid" (!) on election day for forgetting the Sox's pitcher), because Hill is a she-lion about getting things done. But I joined in and voted for Obama after the primaries, and enjoyed the historic swearing-in. It's often said he patterned his first Presidential decisions after Lincoln. How ironic to see, by now, that he bears a far closer resemblance to Henry Clay (the Great Compromiser) who, you know, failed to avert the Civil War....
Great comments, Rich. I especially like the George Orwell quote.
As for blowing up the filibuster... if the Dems would be willing to expose the GOP as complete obstructionists, I would say let them filibuster. But I just don't see them doing that. Apparently the Republicans enjoy a majority at 51, but the Dems need 60 to have a majority. And even THAT wasn't good enough to get healthcare passed.
I have shared with you my belief that Obama will not seek re-election in 2012. Actually, the Democratic Party will approach Obama on the Fall of 2011 and they will tell Obama that the Party cannot support him in 2012. Soon afterwards Obama will go on national television announcing the fact that he will not seek re-election. The Grand Experiment will have failed.
On Tuesday's show Alex Epstein, once again in the true objectivist fashion, espouses the marvels of the "free" market where there are no rules, except for property rights of course. But hay, isn't the protection of property rights a restriction that denies me the right to steal Alex's stuff? What gives!
BREAKING NEWS ..... Send Harry Reid A Pair Of Balls:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sending-Harry-Reid-a-pair-of-balls/2858571...
http://leftake.com/diary/1560/dear-harry-reid-sew-on-a-pair-of-balls
DO YOUR PART! SEND HARRY SOME BALLS!!!
Oh PS. Your show was red hot today. People cannot stand this fakery any longer. People's lives are at stake and these coddled elite have got to stop using us like this. It has to stop. We want the party that ran and won to step up to the plate, The Progressives and the Progressive Policies.
THE NEW THING: "EXCEPTIONS"
Thom, people have been telling me about something new that the health care industry has come up with. Since they are going to have to include people with preexisting conditions, they have come up with a strange "go around". It's called "exceptions" An exception is where they treat you for everything BUT your preexisting condition. For example, a women with a preexisting condition of breast cysts would still be a patient of the company, but any problems concerning her breasts would no be covered. The patient is covered "except" for her breasts. Can you believe it???