Boehner has already stated his intent to continue to obstruct.

I am one happy California voter. The billionaires here in California designed a proposition to cripple the unions in our state from donating funds to their candidate’s campaign. It was funded by the wealthy Munger clan here and with funds from out of state. A Pac in Arizona was caught laundering campaign funds illegally to a Pac here in California. A California Commission got a court order to subpoena their records and found out they were illegally funneling funds from the likes of the Koch brothers through a Pac in Arizona called Jobs for America to a Pac here in Calif. The Commission plans on charging them with money laundering(the pac). Also, the California voters passed a bill to add a minimal tax on people making more than $250,000 a year and a sales tax increase of 1/4 of a cent on sales made here. It will stop a 50 billion dollar cut in educational funding for next year and will stop the massive overcrowding we have in our schools. The wealthiest in our state and country learned a severe lesson; you cannot buy our elections once the people are aware of what you’re doing! A victory for the California voters and residents, a loss for those who think they can buy our state and nation. I have to believe there are a lot of angry billionaires in our country today when they found out they did not buy a new tax cut for themselves...This message has been brought to you by one very happy Californian Voter!

flyguy8650, ARE YOU RELATED TO "PALINDROMEDARY"? YOUR RANTING’S SEEM STRANGELY THE SAME! THE MONEY RAN OUT IN 1928 AND WE ARE STILL HERE. I USE TO RANT ON WITH THE SAME DOOM AND GLOOM UNTIL I STARTED THINKING ABOUT WHAT I WAS SAYING AND HOW FOOLISH IT SOUNDED. I AM NOT TRYING TO INSULT YOU OR CRITICIZE YOUR OPINION, EVERYONE HAS ONE. HOPE YOU LIVE LONGER THAN YOU THINK, IT IS REALLY NOT THAT BAD HERE! BESIDES, IF WE RUN OUT OF MONEY WE CAN ALWAYS START ANOTHER WAR TO START THE ECONOMY! HA!

Palindromedary, I really thought you were gone, or hoped as much! What gives you the right to judge people if they did not vote the same as you? People have the right to exercise their constitutional right to vote for whomever they choose. And, please do not remind me it is not a constitutional right with your pious and disparaging attitude. I find your words so repulsive I cannot or will not bother to counter your B.S... I thought we were rid of your conspiracy rants and pious attitude or at least hoped! You hate the people of America and their political representatives so much, why don't you take your old carcass and move to Canada or Mexico where you can build your own kingdom? You are the biggest downer I have ever come across. You sound like some old retired guy with nothing to do but sit down and vent your anger in your rants you are so fond of posting. Christ, I do not think I can stand being in the same online environment with someone as vile as you. I was really hoping to see your stupid and pious name,"Palindromedary" in some online obituary column. If you really had any balls you would use your own name and picture for your rants instead of hiding behind some delusional name! As an Independent I find your manners more like someone from the far right wing ultra conservative Republican party. And what makes you think you represent the thoughts of fellow Americans concerning why they voted for President Obama. I feel no civility towards you and your rants that are posted on this site. I would really like to meet you in person to see what a person who rants such vile looks like. I picture you as some old hunched over grungy lost soul. On second thought that is the last thing I would like to do. Why don't you run for office? You seem to think you’re the type of person who has all the answers to the problems that plague America. Probably because you would be assassinated the first week in office if you won by some wild charge of the imagination. If you get the feeling I do not like your personification you are so right! I got enough pious attitudes from the likes of Romney. And I feel no civility towards you in anyway and had to state how I feel about your ranting’s. I might be asked to stop posting my thoughts on Hartmann's blog and it will have been worth it to speak my mind to a person

With ya Koolnightes, Check out South of the Border by Oliver Stone

Great list, very attentive and solution oriented. I must add that cleaning up the campaign finance mess is fundamental to anything else. One idea is to level the playing field by putting all contributions in the "pot", then divided equally amongst all current candidates along with air time. The details to be hashed out in the process by non-partisan entities. If the big money wants to throw in huge amounts of money, so be it, they simply don't have a say in where it goes. Somehow we have to "mandate" that wealth and special interest have no place in the electoral process. They must have EQUAL representation. We all have to engage in due process. Democracy is designed to be slow moving, thoughtful, fair, proactive and messy. The more clear and united we the people are on this, the more we are a force to be reckoned with. We only have freedom if we live it and live up to it.

The corporate bullies and war criminals are just that and will always want more than their fair share of everything. Our leadership makes a HUGE mistake in ever thinking or expecting the likes of them to be an asset to society. They are sociopaths, psychpaths and must be stopped, arrested, charged, convicted and sentenced absolutely, without hesitation or negotiations. They are criminals and an imminent threat to the world. How to deal with the bully on the playground, the existential question we all must contend with. Obama needs to get off the fence on this. A little martial arts in the political realm, use their strength against them.

Wholeheartedly I agree with medicare for all. Have seen many facts and figures on the topic. The credible sources are those in the field and most all of them say that we already have the infrastructure, the gains will be in quality of care, more resources and money for true health care and preventive medicine, better paid employees, a healthier population-children will be better cared for, thus have more success in their lives, healthier workforce. lower operating costs. Health and wellness ought not be for profit! How anti-social must we be? Same for education! Our contempt for education in the last several decades really shows itself in the form of our current congress. So many of the new tea partyers are hugely lacking in knowledge of history and our form of government. They have such an ignorant impassioned commitment to working against their own best interests. At the risk of seeming judgemental I say this. I feel I need to listen to opposing beliefs and viewpoints to be a better citizen, and this I do, however this observation is accurate. The solution is not debate, that is a win-lose scenario. We just have to leave the haters in our dust. Taking action and participating in the process of changing the status quo is the only true solution. Education is the key to much of our dilemma. "When the people lead the leaders follow" Great bumpersticker

Time to go, thanks all for being here. Democracy only works if you work it. (that is also borrowed expression, not an original thought)

Some more of my two cents...smile

We need to get rid of "Citizens Unite"!

We need to do something about this voting garbage.... make it a mandatory 18 month time allowance to make State changes in anything from voting districts to ID required, time changes of polls opened. Anything changed after that 18 month time frame will go into affect the following election. That will give people enough time to get what is required done... Ask questions about what is required. Or to appeal the change.

I just wrote to Michale Moore and will enclose email here.... we need to let the President know where we stand on issues before they come to past..not afterwards.

Hello Michael Moore,I couldn’t agree with you more... as an individual I am one voice.. I have already wrote President Obama and told him that the Right have told him they don’t like him and have proved it over and over again these past 4 years... it is now time to stand up to the plate and ...SWING!... or make those 3 point shots!!After watching Sicko, and Corporations:A Love Story............Fahrenheit 9/11... I think we are on same page.I think some people should go to jail!! if for nothing else for OBSTRUCTIONIST... no more fines.... jail time... no more converted Holiday Inns... maybe some of the jails THEY built or maybe even own.I think Grover Norquest should be tared and feathered and ran out of the country.Washington has become increasingly the house of liars and thief's. Government by the people for the people... if not... fire them! No more guarantees.xxxxP.S....Great job on all your films and for standing up for the citizens of USA.

I have been extremely vocal in my criticisms of Obama's hypocrisy in not keeping so many of the most important campaign promises he made. But it may be that the only way Obama can get away with doing the right thing on big issues (without being assasinated), is to have such a powerful groundswell of popular support from the Occupy folks and from millions more, that the people who actually run this country will say, "Can't avoid it this time, better let them have it."

I heard that Roosevelt succeeded in getting the New Deal because so many of the little people had no food, no place to live, and no way to improve their quality of life. In other words, they had nothing to lose. And the last group of people that the anal retentive rich white thieves want to have REALLY pissed off at them, is millions of people who have nothing to lose.

To me the most strange aspect of this whole thing is that the billionaire thieves have talked poor white trash men into voting for republicans whose only job in congress is to protect the thieves who are keeping those poor white trash people's kids from being educated and enjoying better lives.

I think the thieves are lucky that Romney didn't win, because we would have slid deeper into the depression that we are still in (and which may not have hit bottom yet...). And can you see Mitt Romney being the only thing standing between those thieves, and millions of people who have nothing to lose? Let's look at a partial list of what Mitt would say to those millions of people:

1. "I know exactly what you are feeling. Why, before I became president, I was unemployed myself."

2. "Well, you could all become Mormons and then the church would give you unemployment, but you'd have to agree that women don't have souls and that men should control women's bodies, and when you get a job you'll have to give a hefty percentage of your income to the church and if you don't give it to them they'll send someone round to your house to collect it. And finally- and this is the good part- you'll have to wear Mormon brand magic underwear."

3. "Of course I declared war on Iran. Why for the money that Israel gave me, I would have declared war on you. In fact, wait- let me check on something- oh yeah- I HAVE declared war on you."

4. "I understand how you feel about having no homes. Why, just the other day I was in Miami, and Miami isn't one of the ten or twelve cities where I own houses, and I had to have one of my servants rent the entire top floor of the best hotel in town for me. I'm telling you, I know about suffering."

5. "My friends, you have a problem. In fact, you have two problems. First off, you think the government owes you a fair shake at life, but the thing is, the government's too busy giving billionaire thieves your money, to give you a fair shake. And your other problem is that you could be billionaires, too, if you were willing to claw, lie, steal, and murder your way to the top of the corporate dung heap. And if you're not willing to do that, well, I'll just quote Herman Cain: blame y'self!"

6. "Would it make you feel any better if my wife dresses up in leather clothing and says she loves women?"

I voted No but I think we need a continued effort to make sure Republicans in the house are voted out in the next election cycle if they do continue to obstruct progress and refuse to undo the Bush tax cuts.

Nice outline ckrob [#8], I'm gonna copy and pass it on-- It's a good place to start.