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More lies about wars!!!
http://original.antiwar.com/pilger/2010/12/10/why-are-wars-not-being-reported-honestly/
Julian Assange will be imprisoned until he dies!!!!!
I SECOND THE VOTE!
Ralph Nader said: "He's a con man. I have no use for him"
Yes, Obama is a con man and his DNA is closely linked to W's DNA!!!
THE END IS NEAR!!!
http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2010/12/05/taking-down-america/
FYI to all Repubs SOCIAL SECURITY IS NOT A HAND OUT !! WORKING FOLKS PAY INTO IT I PAID DOUBLE FOR 30 YRS . TARP - WALL ST- AIG - GOLDMAN SACHS- BANK OF AMERICA NOW THAT WAS A MASSIVE HAND OUT...CORP WELFARE GOP LOVED THAT ONE ! THEY ALSO LOVE TOP 2 % AND TREAT OTHER 98 % AKA SMALL PEOPLE LIKE DIRTY DOGS. ARE WE PO 'd ENOUGH YET ? IF SO DO SOMETHING CALL YOUR REPS TELL THEN WE ARE SICK OF THE GREED- LIES-FEAR TACTICS AND THE SMEARS- HATE. GO TO
www.whitehouse.gov www.senate.gov www.congress.gov .
Will Dem caucus give in ? I pray NOT.I know Obama is btw a rock and a hard palce - in worst economy in 80 yrs with a GOP that will do, say anything to get thier precious fat cat cuts - while other 98 % have seen our wages- benefits go into the toilet. Yet millions of gulible ill voters just ' rewarded' the GOP for the long toxic GOP reign under 1981 Reaganomics 2008 Bush Cheney GOP fat cat favoring policies- deregulation- Reagans 1986 total amnesty for slave wages- 2 very long profit driven wars-huge cuts and debt- lies- fear tactics- Cheneys sweet oil deals-Bush Cheney global crash 2008 TARP...pushed along by the Goldman FED boys...Greenspan, Paulson , Rubin , Sommers .. all Goldman ' trained' Few realize that we have all been scammed- manipulated, lied to for eons. Last decade middle class real income is down While TOP 2 % is way way up due to Reagan's deregulation- debt-Bush - GOP policies- tax cuts- greed. IT'S SICKENING HOW DUMBED DOWN WE HAVE BECOME
Having a job with HI and 401k is an anomaly that apparently defines your world view. Do your employees have health insurance and retirement program? How about your children? Do they have scholarships to pay the tuition, room and board? Or can you pay for all of it so your children don't have to go through the "embarrassment" of financial aid?
What would you say to your son or daughter?
What if your children chose to be a carpenter, electrician, plumber, etc?
Would you disown them for associating with so called "working folk"?
Would you disown them for trying to be what you want and failing?
Would you care about any of this regardless of circumstances?
Social Security?
I pay into it for my Mom
Dad died in 2003 so you don't have to worry about him sucking away your money
It's a social safety net that all of us depend on, including you.
If you are truly concerned about social security cost, then kill all the old folks in your family. Because that is what you are asking all of us to do so you don't have to pay for somethng that you want no part of.
Or you could pay for the nursing home for my Mom, so I could be as carefree about it as you.
Thank you Bernie Sanders for speaking much needed thoughtfulness into public discourse. It's unfortunate that it takes filibuster to speak the words that each of us is praying to hear. Perhaps the good is that in this case it is utilized as one of the "checks and balances" that our democracy depends on for survival.
The great problem that seems insurmountable is achieving clarity on any issue. This is not "old" or "new", it just is.
Positions of clout take a long time to a) understand and b) figure out how to apply
My question is: if you worked for years and years as a public servant who really wants to help, how would you exercise your clout that took so long to achieve?
If you were President of the United States of America how would you exercise your clout?
If you were CEO of Goldman Sachs, how would you exercise your clout?
If you were Warren Buffet, how would you exercise your clout?
If you were a Dad trying to provide for his family, how would you exercise your clout?
If you were a Mom trying to provide for her family, how would you exercise your clout?
If you were a person who makes personal sacrifice, how would you exercise your clout?
If you were a person who listens, how would you exercise your clout?
If you were a person who cares, how would you exercise your clout?
What are you doing with your clout?
And if you were President of the United States of America, what are the first 100 things that you would do?
Obama needs a psych eval ASAP. The dudes crackin up bringing Bill Clinton into his press conference then walking out leaving Bill at the podium.
Basically we have had it with the guy... let's be real about this folks it's time to start grooming
someone else for the 2012 nomination.
OUT
In one sense President Obama is right; we are being held hostage. Not by the Republicans, but by the Corporations. They influence both the Democratic and Republican leadership and the White House into these sham deals that only benefit the corporate elite. I have been disgusted with the Republican leadership. Now I am disgusted with Obama and Reid. Thank God for real politicians, politicians that are willing to lead and do the right thing, like Senator Sanders and Brown and the congressman from Oregon, DeFazio? !
This maybe "Bro Rock" finding, firing up and consolidating his base. He has not had much rallying from congress or the public against the Repub's abusive behavior in the senate. It must be horrible to be leader with a majority in both chambers and yet see a total stand still. If the "WE" people of our country cannot break this strangle hold by the "ME" powers here and now, all maybe lost. What better way to charge up the base then to cross the core moral line. I would say the tax cuts are going to the favor of those who rebel the most or are funded the most? I think it will take some real pain to awaken the sleeper enough for real change but this maybe a start.
People Power "We" Party.
HEAD FAKE - Don't go for the head-fake of the House Democrats' opposition to the tax capitulation bill. Speaker Pelosi will tweak the bill in a minor way and then it will pass the House. This is merely grandstanding for the democratic base.
Just look at the Public Option a year ago. How many House democrats SWORE that they would vote against any healthcare bill without a public option?
Don't go for the head-fake!
They will probably pass this tax bill almost as is!!
Bernie Sanders became a true American Hero today. At the same time, President Obama further humiliated and belittled himself by bringing in a former president to speak policy for him. Has this ever happened before? The Dems will be in trouble in 2012 if Obama is our candidate. Too many voters have lost respect for him, which will keep voters home in 2012. Chris Mathews said something interesting, saying that no democrat will attempt to unseat the first African-American president. If that is true, then the cons might win in 2012.
I like the Obama/GOP tax deal, because I like it politically for Obama.
The one statistic Americans know is the unemployment rate. Clearly giving tax cuts to the wealthy isn't going to create jobs, but if the unemployment rate continues to rise, which it will once the Stimulus runs out, and state and local governments lay off thousands of public sector workers, if we hadn't given the GOP their wealthy tax cuts, then the mighty GOP propaganda machine would effectively blame it on the "rising tax rates."
In effect, Obama has sold the unemployment rate to the GOP, and we'll prove once and for all that supply side economics is a bunch of baloney.
Obama has cover; he said he doesn't think it will work, and that he's only going along with this deal because America spoke in the 2010 election. Americans will punish the GOP in 2012, and Obama will finally get to replace some conservative Justices with liberal Justices.
We got lucky with this deal. It's only adding $140B to the Debt, and the upside is we'll send the GOP into the wilderness for a generation.
It is time that President Obama listens to his people or he has lost the reelection anyway , on top of that he would lose his own party support!
Again any kind of tax cut, for the top 2% or less wealthiest, at the cost of 98 % or more is a SHAME !!!!!, in what ever disguise it may be put.
Fighting everyone on this tax bill and unemployment extension is a noble thought, BUT IT IS TOO LATE!! Where has all this outrage been for the last TWO YEARS at all the tea party histrionics and stupidity. Did every single one of these angry Dems vote in the midterms? Have they been calling and emailing their senators and representatives offices regarding all the other obstructive measures the Republicans have been perpetrating ever since Obama was elected? If so, you have a right to complain, but the level of anger at Obama at this late date I find specious.
As of the middle of this month, a very close friend of mine will receive her very last unemployment check for $400. She is packing to move everything into storage. She has been looking for work for the last 8 months with no success. She is not lazy, she is not a loser, She is highly educated and experienced in her field, and she does not live beyond her means when she is making a modest income. She and her cat will essentially be homeless, and she is only one of thousands facing this very same reality. Most have families and children. Holding up this bill now will ensure extreme personal hardship for those thousands before the month is out. I will most likely be on unemployment by the end of February myself.
Go ahead, yell all you want, but as distasteful as this thing is, something needs to be done, and soon, and not for the three or so months the Republicans would have agreed to if Obama had fought this.
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Corporatist right has spent 40+ years of time and fortune to create sound bites for suckers. Progressives don't have those resource but we have lots of folks with brains.
I suggest that progressive talkers sponsor weekly contests for slogans and sound bites for progressive candidates and campaigns to use to get our message across.
We should have used phrases against Bush like "Borrow and spend is a tax in the end!"
Bush should have been depicted with a huge national credit card, with the bills for two wars and prescription coverage. Surely we can collect the combined wit and wisdom of the people and advertise progresive positions. You could even have a competition among the listeners of a variety of progressive media programs. The best of Thom vs the best of Big Eddie etc. This could be a lot of fun! "The oil Dependentcy Tax"
I will be able to listen more freely since my job functions were outsourced yesterday afternoon.
Rather than a $350 billion tax break for the rich… increase Social Security benefits by 25%. The cost would be the same. You'd directly benefit 20% of the population (instead of 1%), and immediately stimulate the economy.
STOP saying "Let's Hope Obama will change his course." I cringe everytime I hear Thom say that! Obama has NOTHING is his history to indicate that he is anything more than a Washington Power Player. Ralph Nader said: "He's a con man. I have no use for him"
Read this Harpers Article from 2006 titled "Barack Obama Inc. The birth of a Washington machine" It will confirm your worst fears.
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/11/0081275
All I hear are progressives, (of which I consider myself to be), screaming about "standing on principle" or other progressive talk show people saying "we must sacrifice" to show the repubs who is boss. In otherwords, now you don't get 13 months of unemployment benefits and the middle class loses thousands of dollars out of their paychecks. So the recovery in the economy we are just now starting to see will grind to a halt and the 2 million now on unemployment can lose the rest of whatever they have been able to kling to for the past two years. The rich progressives will not be inconvienced anymore then the rich repubs. Standing on principle is easy when it is someone else that is going to actually feel the pain. And where were all of these democrats that are now screaming about standing on principle when we (the un-american liberals at the time) were saying hell no to 2 wars and the wholesale onslot on personal freedoms with the patriot act and changes in FISA? The majority of them voted for those attrocities. I am begining to see the dems as phony as Sarah Palin on a hunting trip. (Have you noticed you never actually see her shoot a weapon?)
I contacted Huffington Post's Tip Site and let them know about the filibuster about an hour ago.
Go Defazio. Swallow the horse pill and expose the greed. If that's the way they want it at least we all suffer together rather than reward greed outright.
Thom needs to get some real techs running his tv show.Obama is falling in a GOP trap.He seems ready to jump right in.Only the Dems can stop this.
Chris Rock points out that Shaq is rich. His boss is wealthy: "here Shaq, go buy yourself a car that bounces."