AND THEN THERE WAS JOE

Harry Reid came out yesterday all excited that the public option would be in the bill. Liberals jumped with glee.  Progressives patted themselves on the back for pushing their “elected” representatives to do the right thing.

And then:

I’ve told Sen. Reid that if the bill stays as it is now I will vote against cloture,” he said.

Lieberman strikes.

This is what happens when you have a party of wimps and cry babies who don’t do anything to kick people in the face when they get out of line.  The Democratic party needs to take some lessons from the LAPD:  When people don’t listen to what you tell them, you hit them with a goddamn night stick.

This is what should have happened with Lieberman.  He supports McCain.  He defends Republican policies.  And now, the Judas of Connecticut will block the public option all by himself.  Why?  Because he can.

What Should Reid do?  Easy.  Call Judas into the office, tell him that he will be stripped of all his leadership positions and responsibilities.  It will be public.  It will be ugly.  The President will join in on the beatdown.

Of course, Reid, the puny bastard who will be losing his election come November 2010 anyway, will never do that.  Lieberman will get his way.  As usual.

OBAMA: Nothing But Hot Air

In case you haven’t noticed, there hasn’t been much posting going on here.  Mostly it’s because I was so excited about the Obama candidacy.  I expected good things.  I have been met with nothing but disappointment.  The only good he has done is reverse some of the terrible things Bush did–and in a really weak manner.  But saying that you are doing a little better than one of the worst presidents in history isn’t really saying too much.

And that’s been the general theme of Obama’s presidency so far–lot of talk, but little substance.  This Olympic thing was a great example.  Dumbass flies across the world to try and bring the games to a fucked up city like Chicago–that has seen nothing but incredible violence and poverty in the last few days.  Instead of focusing on the problems that need to be fixed, Obama instead decided to focus on getting attention and being a rockstar.  I’ll get the Olympics–don’t you worry! He thought.

He brought more of his bullshit talk and bullshit idealistic platitudes to the Olympic Committee.  And like many Americans, they realized that nothing but a bunch of nice-sounding horse shit comes out of this man’s mouth.  Maybe Obama can come home and keep giving his horse shit speeches here and still do nothing.

At least we won’t have to pay for his travel costs if he stays here and does nothing.

The Goal Is The Public Option

Let’s be clear here.  The President and the Democratic bastard-wimps in Congress are hedging their bets on the public option.  Fine.  The Rethugs are being the filthy pigs we are used to them being.  Fine.

The public option is the goal, it is the centerpiece of any meaningful healthcare reform.  We need it.  We want it.  If the President delivers, great.  If he doesn’t, I won’t be surprised.  But we need this to get done one way or the other.

Obama is still a hacker that will fuck his grandmother for a Republican vote.  But he can be a grandmother fucker and still get the public option done.

So get it done.

Photo Of Dying Marine Makes Obama Pussies Cry

The coward Barack Obama had his yellow bellied minions out in full force over this photo, which shows a dying marine after being hit by an RPG.

During the Bush years, the propaganda machine, known as the main stream media, kept these pictures away from everyday Americans.  And as a result, we have been left with a sense that war “ain’t so bad.”  In reality war is brutal, ugly and tragic–but you would never know it by opening up an American newspaper or watching an American news report.

There is just too much money to be made by killing young Americans and civilians in other countries to let the dumbed-down American Idol public have a little dose of reality.

I applaud the AP for putting this picture out.  It’s high time that we see what war really is: a slaughter.  As Obama expands his murderous war in Afghanistan, expect these pictures to be few and far between–we can’t have the American people making their own decisions, that could cost money.

Then Obama sends out his Minister of Propaganda, fat pig Gibbs to send out a scalding letter to the AP.  Frankly, he should mind his own fucking business.  The White House’s job is to be a bunch of cowards who like to sniff Republican ass.  Let a reporter who has some courage to expose the truth do his job.

Obama, the Presidential failure, has no business telling other people how they should do their jobs.

Bill Gives President Control Over Internet

I think it is so funny to see conservatives cry like stupid little bitches every time some proposed law would give Obama “control” over something to “forward his socialist agenda.”  This is really funny, especially when you think about all the crazy shit the idiot loser Bush did, all the power grabs, all the spying on Americans, following reporters, listening to our phone conversations, reading our emails.  Conservatives were OK with that.  Nevermind that your privacy was in the hands of an idiot.

I complained about the unconstitutional power-grabs during the Bush years.  And you know what, I will continue to complain about them now.  We are moving so rapidly towards a totalitarian fascist state, it almost makes my head spin.  The corporate interests–just look at the healthcare debate–have infultrated every sector of government and with these new astroturfing campaigns, they are now infecting public discourse with their propaganda.

Meanwhile, the government continues its rapid expansion of powers over the working men and women of this country, and acts as if there is no such thing as a constitution that protects individuals from the government.

They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

“Temporary” my ass.  It was so funny watching the media propagandists cry about Iran’s clamp down on protests and how they shut down the internet.  The funny thing is, we all know the government here would react in the same exact manner.  Imagine hundreds of thousands in the streets protesting government and calling for change.  The fascist corporatists would freak, attack protestors, shut down internet, take control of tv in a heartbeat.

But you keep livin the dream, Mr. President.

Krugman: Obama’s Trust Problem

Paul Krugman’s latest piece discusses Obama’s trust problem with progressives.  He took us for granted so quickly and so harshly, that now he is realizing that we won’t put up with that kinda shit anymore.  It’s about time too.  I’m afraid that it may be too late.  We should have been demanding his support from day 1 from the first appointment.

Now with a cabinet full of hackers, and his promise to kiss Republican ass even when they slap him across the face, I don’t see how the Congress is going to get behind a leader that gets bitch slapped around by the minority party:

But there’s a point at which realism shades over into weakness, and progressives increasingly feel that the administration is on the wrong side of that line. It seems as if there is nothing Republicans can do that will draw an administration rebuke: Senator Charles E. Grassley feeds the death panel smear, warning that reform will “pull the plug on grandma,” and two days later the White House declares that it’s still committed to working with him.

President Obama: Great Campaigner, Terrible President

Sometimes I have to hit myself on the head to wrap my mind around the fact that this bumbling, gutless, vague buffoon is the same man as the brilliant campaigner who took this country by storm last year.  The distance between Obama the Campaigner and Obama the President is vast.

And I hate to say I told you so, but I goddamn told you so.  I was shouted down on all the liberal blogs when I first started sounding the alarm bells over Obama’s worthless and corrupt cabinet members.  Within the first week of his Presidency I could tell something was up.  We were promised change, and we got the same hack-job assholes who have been running this country for the past 20 years.  Instead of calling the President to task right away and holding him accountable, liberals instead were told to “give him a chance.”  I was told countless times, “he’s only been in two weeks.”  But that’s exactly when we should have pressured him to do the right thing.  We gave an inch, he took a mile.

It took something huge like the healthcare debate for liberals to realize that all the promises of change were lies, and that President Obama is more concerned with his political image than getting progressive goals that have become priorities for the left through congress and on his desk for signature.  After all, progressive activists worked hard and spent millions to win both houses of Congress, 60 seats in the senate and the presidency.

But while we worked hard, we forgot to be sure of the man we put at the top.  And to be truthful, we should have seen it coming. Throughout the entire campaign, President Obama talked in vague generalities.  Just think about it, he promised “change” and “hope” and a new direction for the country.  But what, specifically, did Obama promise? He used all these loaded words and phrases that simply pulled at our collective emotions without letting us take a step back and say, “well this just just a load of BS.”

Well now the BS is starting to stink.  And we saw Obama’s Bullshit on full display during his radio interview with talkie Michael Smerkonish. Obama never once hammered down one hard thing he wants out of the Health bill in Congress: Public Option?  Gee that would be nice but we’ll see.  Cutting costs?  Yes, let’s cut costs!  Well, wtf does that mean, Mr. President?  How?

This is why the healthcare debate is being lost by Democrats.

Obama should have sat everyone down and said, “look, we are passing a healthcare bill with a public option and with a series of specific (naming the specific) reforms.  I will count on each of you to work hard to pass this bill.  Blue dogs: the only reason you are in Congress is because of me, you never would have won otherwise, now it’s time to pay the toll.”

Instead, the Dems have been a mess, flailing in every direction, with no leadership, guidance, support, or plans from the White House or from the leadership in both houses: NOTHING.  It’s been pure anarchy and the Republicans have rightly capitalized on that anarchy.

Even today, when it is clear the debate is not going in the President’s direction, he REFUSES to take a stand, he REFUSES to lay out specifics, he REFUSES to clearly state what he wants, he REFUSES to play hardball with a Congress that has nobody but him to thank for their majority.

Obama is not a leader, he is a blundering fool more concerned about winning than about making a meaningful change in the lives of working Americans.  When it came time to hand billions to the corporations, Obama was there with the bailout, browbeating congress, pushing hard, fighting to get his bill passed.  But when it was his time to fight for the working man who put him in office, he decided to sit back and watch things fall apart.

We are truly suffering under this Health Care system.  We are being financially strangled.  Meanwhile, the rich and powerful Obama will not lift a finger to help us if it might hurt his political image.  Well guess what, asshole: you destroyed that all by yourself.

Health Care “Protesters”

Kinda funny how a year ago 75% of people said they wanted a public option.  Now that Dems hold town hall meetings, people show up and shout them down.  This is supposedly  the “people” rising up against getting better health care.  Yeah right.

We all know that the pharma companies and insurance companies have no problem spending money on propaganda campaigns of disinformation and lies.  That’s what’s going on here.

I’d take a government worker in charge of my healthcare over an insurance adjuster any day . . .  But that’s just me.

Healthcare “reform”

Guess what folks.  Get ready to get pounded.  Here is what health care “reform” is going to look like:

1. Uninsured people will be forced to purchase insurance from the insurance companies
2. Companies will not be regulated on “preexisting” conditions
3. Companies will not be regulated on the cost of premiums

Translation: all Americans will be forced to purchase health insurance from companies that will see no new regulation and will be able to continue doing whatever they want.

Change you can believe in!

But the day’s events suggested that House Democratic leaders, having temporarily lost control of one of the most powerful committees in Congress, might have to make significant concessions to secure passage of the legislation, the centerpiece of Mr. Obama’s domestic agenda.

Remember, the healthcare industry puts a lot more money in the pockets of congressmen, senators, and the white house than you do.

Liberals Just Realizing Sotomayor Is Not Their Friend

The fraud President, Barack Obama, who lied this country into believing he was a liberal in order to get elected, nominated a wishy-washy judge that has no clear liberal leaning to the Supreme Court.

And only now are the liberals realizing that Obama is not one of them. He is a corporatist in disguise, a moderate deal maker more concerned with his image than with progress.

And so, with a chance to put a Justice on the Supreme Court that could clearly articulate a liberal vision for the future of American jurisprudence, he has appointed someone who, like him, is a corporatist masquerading as a liberal.

Only when this fraudster Sotomayor was questioned by the Senate did the liberals realize we weren’t getting one of us: we were getting just another pro-corporate pro-government moderate more concerned about protecting the status quo and her career than with justice.

The hearings were a moment of history that liberals had awaited for 15 years: an opportunity for a Democratic president’s Supreme Court nominee to inject into the public dialogue fresh ideas about the Constitution and the law, beginning to recalibrate a court that has gravitated to the right.

A moment lost forever.  Because it isn’t likely that this 60-seat majority in the Senate and the Presidency will be in control of Democrats at the next Supreme Court hearings.  When Democrats had an opportunity to appoint someone to go toe-to-toe with Scumbag Scalia and the like, they appointed someone who will be known as the first Latina justice and nothing more.

Sotomayor’s inscrutability last week has raised fundamental questions: about the Obama administration’s approach to future nominations, the direction of the court, the way Senate Democrats are using the benefits of their majority and the influence of the American left.

I started screaming about this as soon as I started seeing the assholes Obama put in his cabinet–center-right hacks who thing change means nothing more than putting on a clean pair of underwear.

These are not “leaders” concerned with advancing the interests of the common, hard-working, American.  These are hacks who were part of the status-quo that ripped our economy apart, and they are part of the group of folks who are desperately trying to keep things the way they are: bad for the average american, good for the rich.

Did the hearings reveal a true absence of liberal ideas in the 55-year-old judge President Obama chose to fill his first Supreme Court vacancy?

Duh.  She will never take a liberal position that isn’t firmly within the mainstream.  She will avoid every contentios issue to look “moderate,” meanwhile, the right-wing nuts on the court will continue to fight hard for their conservative agenda.

Either way, Sotomayor’s reticence, if not her nomination, has disappointed legal thinkers on the left. The hearings “did serious damage to the cause of progressive thought in constitutional law,” said Geoffrey R. Stone, a University of Chicago Law School professor who was dean there when Obama joined its faculty. Doug Kendall, president of the Constitutional Accountability Center, a liberal think tank, called them “a totally missed opportunity. . . . The progressive legal project hit rock bottom [last] week.”

That’s exactly right: Sotomayor signals the death of liberalism in the Courts.  Conservatives can rest assured that liberalism was dealt a serious blow in the realm of the courts, and all at the hand of President “change” Obama, no less!

Even ultra-right legal groups like the Federalist Society are patting theselves on the back at this point!

Leonard A. Leo, executive vice president of the conservative Federalist Society, said conservative thinking essentially defined the hearings.

Democrats made “no effort to interrogate the nominee to make sure she would expansively interpret the Constitution,” he said. “She said she would apply the same basic principle of judicial restraint” articulated by the court’s most recent members, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. — both reliable conservatives.

These right-wing idiots think that the hackers they have on the court don’t make shit up.  But they do, they inject their politics into every decision.  Case in point: Marijuana.  The conservatives are suppose to “narrowly” (they never do) read the constitution.  Of course, when it came to states’ rights and Marijuana, they turned into a bunch of activists, reading stuff into the constitution that was never there.

They did it because they are huge ideologs and activists–that’s why they were put on the Court.

The president, Eisgruber said, may have decided not to spend political capital on the court while pursuing other difficult goals, including changes to the U.S. health-care system.

Yes, worthless changes that wont include a public option and will do NOTHING to solve the health care problems we have.  Mark my words, Obama the liar will bend over and spread them for the health care industry.

He’s just waiting for his chance to, like he does with every other issue.

But he gives such a good speech!  He talks a lot and does nothing–he is an empty suit with a big mouth.