ThinkFast: June 9, 2009
ThinkFast: June 9, 2009
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan led another protest against President Bush near his Dallas home yesterday. “George Bush and his administration are mass murderers,” she told the crowd, using a loudspeaker. “People say, ‘Cindy, get over it.’ Well, there are still two wars raging. I don’t have an option of getting over it. … We have to keep it up so things like this don’t happen again.”
The Justice Department announced that U.S. authorities have brought the first Gitmo detainee to the United States. The detainee, Ahmed Ghailani, is expected to appear in a federal court in New York later today. “Ghailani is being held accountable for his alleged role in the bombing of U.S. Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya and the murder of 224 people,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a press release.
“Senate Republicans are blocking a vote on the nomination of Robert Groves to be the Census Bureau’s director, leaving the agency without a leader less than a year before the 2010 nationwide head count.” The Wall Street Journal notes that Republicans’ reasons for blocking the nomination are “unclear.”
CIA Director Leon Panetta urged a federal judge yesterday not to release certain Bush-era documents that detail the videotaped interrogations of CIA detainees at secret prisons. “Panetta defended the classification of records describing the contents of the 92 videotapes, their destruction by the CIA in 2005 and what he called ‘sensitive operational information’ about the interrogations.”
FireDogLake’s Jane Hamsher reports that, “according to sources on the Hill,” the Lieberman-Graham amendment had been stripped from the supplemental funding currently in conference committee. The amendment would have allowed the Obama administration to suppress any “photograph taken between September 11, 2001 and January 22, 2009 relating to the treatment of individuals engaged, captured, or detained” after 9/11 by U.S. forces.
All House Democrats will meet today to discuss and present a health care plan “that would require most Americans to have health insurance or pay a penalty, mandate that employers cover their workers, and create an online ‘exchange’ where consumers can shop for insurance.” It would also feature a public insurance option, and would bar insurers from denying coverage due to pre-existing conditions.
Some government agencies “appear to be charging ahead of others” in spending their economic stimulus funding. HHS has “paid out more than $18.7 billion of the $29.5 billion in stimulus money it has available,” while the Education Department has “spent $4.9 billion of the $38.8 billion it has available.” But “of the $15 billion” that the Transportation Department has available, “only $151.7 million has been paid out.”
With just two weeks to go in its session, the New York State Senate was thrown into “chaos” yesterday, as two “dissident Democrats,” “bucked their party’s leaders” and effectively handed control of the chamber over to Republicans. The move “throws into question a host of high-profile legislation,” including the legalization of same-sex marriage and ethics reform.
Col. George Amland, the deputy commander of the Marine brigade in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, said Obama’s decision to surge U.S. troops into southern Afghanistan will be a major “game changer” in the largely Taliban-controlled region.
And finally: Matt Yglesias writes that “new media [is] transforming Congress in strange and disturbing ways.” Specifically, it’s allowing lawmakers to don NBA jerseys and argue about basketball. Watch it here.
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Glenn Beck has sexual fantasies about his sister.
Glen Blech! also has sexual fantasies about his left hand, I’m sure.
June 9th, 2009 at 9:06 am2 thoughts implanted to early in the morning…Isn’t there something better to write about guy’s,?…P. B. & J.
June 9th, 2009 at 9:13 amAntiwar activist Cindy Sheehan led another protest against President Bush…
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YOU GO GIRL!
June 9th, 2009 at 9:14 am“Senate Republicans are blocking a vote on the nomination of Robert Groves to be the Census Bureau’s director… Republicans’ reasons for blocking the nomination are “unclear.”
The reason is to obstruct. No other reason is necessary if you’re part of today’s GNOP.
PEACE
June 9th, 2009 at 9:16 amThe Justice Department announced that U.S. authorities have brought the first Gitmo detainee to the United States.
And he didn’t escape custody? Gee, how did that happen?
PEACE
June 9th, 2009 at 9:16 amThe Wall Street Journal notes that Republicans’ reasons for blocking the nomination are “unclear.”
They are completely clear. It’s the Party of NO, who thinks that ‘bipartisanship’ means that either they get their way 100%, or they pitch a temper tantrum (this act) until they do.
June 9th, 2009 at 9:18 amWhy? Because they can — and as the party of NO it is their divine right.
Gawd! They make me sick!
June 9th, 2009 at 9:20 amWith just two weeks to go in its session, the New York State Senate was thrown into “chaos” yesterday, as two “dissident Democrats,” “bucked their party’s leaders” and effectively handed control of the chamber over to Republicans. The move “throws into question a host of high-profile legislation,” including the legalization of same-sex marriage and ethics reform.
I hope New Yorkers rememember the names of these DINO’s next time elections roll around…..
June 9th, 2009 at 9:25 amGood on Cindy Sheehan! I hope that crook Bush was shaking in his boots. No thank you for dragging America into wars Bush!
June 9th, 2009 at 9:26 amAll House Democrats will meet today to discuss and present a health care plan “that would require most Americans to have health insurance or pay a penalty, mandate that employers cover their workers, and create an online ‘exchange’ where consumers can shop for insurance.” It would also feature a public insurance option, and would bar insurers from denying coverage due to pre-existing conditions.
Sounds even more liberal than what was initially proposed. And why not do this thing right if we’re going to do it? We don’t need Republicans on this, and since they’ve pretty much stated that they will oppose any public plan without consideration. Just ignore them then and make it real socialized single-payer.
June 9th, 2009 at 9:28 amHow brain dead do you have to be to state, “George W. Bush did a good job.” ? Seriously!
June 9th, 2009 at 9:29 amWish I lived closer, would be marching with Cindy…Where are the war crimes investigation’s going.? Seems to me the same place the the sale of all our ports went, back page to no where….What the hell is wrong with all our representative’s? It’s plane to see they can only pander to one group of lobbiest at a time and get ready for another election, never mind we the people and our constitution…Multi tasking is not something any of them can do, stalling and lieing to all of us is their only real game…If the dem’s had any balls they would handle all these problem’s, I don’t think they want to..2 sides of the same coin…..P. B. & J
June 9th, 2009 at 9:29 amThe Justice Department announced that U.S. authorities have brought the first Gitmo detainee to the United States.
This has to be a mistake. The GOP swore up and down that as soon as one of the Gitmo detainees set foot on American soil, the entire country would literally explode, and all we’ve had so far are some possibly unrelated thunderstorms.
June 9th, 2009 at 9:34 am“AmericanStinker” ?
SludgeReport and/or The Weakly SubStandard are on vacation , you moronic GOP sycophant ?
June 9th, 2009 at 9:36 amDear Cindy,
As long as our elected officials consider themselves royalty and above the law, their arrogance will remain unchecked. This is sad I know but the only way to prevent war is to not provide the cannon fodder they need to expand the empire of the privileged banksters.
June 9th, 2009 at 9:36 amNote, the trolls are back to crap on the parade and thread….Answer to all, bull shit bush was a mindless, drunk, druggie who helped the most evil murder over one million Iraq men, women and children, over 4,600 military of our own and raided our country for the few rich frineds he baught….There would be dancing in the streets if he were prosacuted along with the rest of his evil administration…P. B. & J
June 9th, 2009 at 9:39 amWitch1 Says: What the hell is wrong with all our representative’s?
They are all rich people who have no idea what it is like to be us? We need to do what the greeks did and let every citizen serve for one year in order to have actual representation.
June 9th, 2009 at 9:41 amAnd some right wingers think they will actually regain power in coming elections.
It was already obvious that they live in a fantasy world, but to believe they can recover their brand using racism and fear is beyond delusional.
June 9th, 2009 at 9:41 am“Senate Republicans are blocking a vote on the nomination of Robert Groves to be the Census Bureau’s director, leaving the agency without a leader less than a year before the 2010 nationwide head count.” The Wall Street Journal notes that Republicans’ reasons for blocking the nomination are “unclear.”
Since when do they need a reason?
It’s just autonomic reflex for these folks. They’re not the G-NO-P for nothing, ya know.
June 9th, 2009 at 9:42 amThinking is hard for right wingers
Simply opposing all tings Obama is much better to them than thinking
The radio gives them the talking points and they Rush here to demonstrate their sheepish ignorance
June 9th, 2009 at 9:42 amCIA Director Leon Panetta urged a federal judge yesterday not to release certain Bush-era documents that detail the videotaped interrogations of CIA detainees at secret prisons. “Panetta defended the classification of records describing the contents of the 92 videotapes, their destruction by the CIA in 2005 and what he called ‘sensitive operational information’ about the interrogations.”
FireDogLake’s Jane Hamsher reports that, “according to sources on the Hill,” the Lieberman-Graham amendment had been stripped from the supplemental funding currently in conference committee. The amendment would have allowed the Obama administration to suppress any “photograph taken between September 11, 2001 and January 22, 2009 relating to the treatment of individuals engaged, captured, or detained” after 9/11 by U.S. forces.
Is no one disturbed about these two articles? Panetta is not making his arguments on his own, and the Lieberman-Graham amendment has the President’s support. Only liberal Democrats in the House are able to block it for the time being. This is exactly the kind of troubling issue that angered Progressives during the Bush administration. Is it “ok” now because the man we supported and rallied behind is repeating the same behavior?
June 9th, 2009 at 9:42 amConservativeForProgress Says:
What happened in NY yesterday, in the EU in the past week, and in CA last month are previews of the 2010 Republican Revolution.
American voters are bombarded by their media with the message that conservatism is dead, because a Democrat got 52 perecent of the presidential vote. Meanwhile, the collapse of the Left proceeds apace elsewhere in the world.
Except that virtually everything that passes for “conservative” in the EU would look like screaming left wingers in this country, you tool. It is true that a number of outright racist white supremacist parties had members elected, however. You can be proud of that.
June 9th, 2009 at 9:44 amC4Pee probably thinks that The 1/2 Hour News Hour will return to the air and overtake The Daily Show in the ratings, too.
June 9th, 2009 at 9:44 amwow, look at the trolls parroting the talking points without question
they’ll believe anything as long as it sounds like it is anti-Obama, anti-”librul”, or anti-American
June 9th, 2009 at 9:48 amBack at ya Unbelievable, Yep!…I’m tired of waiting and watching them put their own ajendas up for votes when they know full well we the people want accountability and the end to war’s….To say I am angry would be an understatment and if they don’t get their shit together for us real soon I’m going back to marching and joining another party..This time for keeps….P. B. & J
June 9th, 2009 at 9:48 amsome right wingers even celebrate Palin getting away with corruption and fraud
sad little anti-American cowards
June 9th, 2009 at 9:48 amOh, good — Pee offers us the day’s digest of right-wing news from the Moonie Times and blotchdog offers us… well, I’m not sure what blotchdog s even offering… is that dog poop… on a stick?
June 9th, 2009 at 9:49 amwinddancer Says: Is it “ok” now because the man we supported and rallied behind is repeating the same behavior?
No, it’s not. It does bother me. But I guess after all the corruption in the Bush Regime and the refusal of Congressional Republicans to put the American people first, probably not as much as it should…
June 9th, 2009 at 9:49 amSo far, 2009 has been a deadly year for lightning strikes. Two people were killed last week, and another Monday, bringing the total number of lightning-related deaths to seven, with 50 injuries reported total.
Well, the GOP may not be able to win elections, but they can at least celebrate… people being killed by lightning. GO GOP!
June 9th, 2009 at 9:51 amBy the way… has anyone pointed out recently that “Conservative for Progress” is an oxymoron?
June 9th, 2009 at 9:51 amThe drug industry insists that, if they are forced to negotiate prices with Medicare which result in lower profits, they will not have the funding they need to do research to create new drugs to cure disease.
Last night I saw an ad for a new drug call “Latisse” which helps grow “long, full, darker [eye]lashes”. Now, I could be wrong, but I don’t believe that thinning eyelashes is a disease which needs prescription-only drugs. And when you stop using Latisse? Your eyelashes go back to being *gasp* thin!
Give me a phucking break! And President Obama, when are you going to call for the negotiation of drug prices under that Pharma boondoggle Medicare Part D?
PEACE
June 9th, 2009 at 9:52 amWhat happened in NY yesterday, in the EU in the past week, and in CA last month are previews of the 2010 Republican Revolution.
Where is this Revolution? What is its cause? What does it stand for?
Oh, yes. We know what it stands against:
At this point, to vote Republican is to vote in favor of creating a totalitarian theocracy.
June 9th, 2009 at 9:52 amC4Pee, it’s hard to call Alaska’s State Personnel Board “independent” when it’s comprised of Palin’s appointees. Last summer Princess Wasilla was pushing to get all of her ethics charges out of the State House’s hands and into her cabal of toady’s hands where she knew she would be cleared.
Or was that too long ago to remember?
PEACE
June 9th, 2009 at 9:57 amOur oxymoronic friend is putting a lot of stock in the NY Senate controversy.
I’m sure he’ll be disappointed to learn that it is far from a done deal.
But should the Republicans prevail, Pee can be pleased that the G-NO-P is earning its power the old-fashioned way (for Republicans, that is) – exploiting corruption:
Perhaps they made a deal that, in return for their betrayal, the charges against them would be dropped.
Or maybe, being corrupt politicians, they just felt more at home on the Right side of the aisle.
June 9th, 2009 at 10:01 amWitch1 Says: To say I am angry would be an understatment and if they don’t get their shit together for us real soon I’m going back to marching and joining another party..
I often think that a Parliamentary system might have been a better choice than just two parties… So for now, it’s why I am an Independent.
June 9th, 2009 at 10:02 amAs long as Sarah Palin is in the public eye, Tina Fey will never be out of work!
June 9th, 2009 at 10:02 amCFP, Your repug revolution is really off to a good start. Their big fundraising event drew in the lowest amount in 5 years. They only took in 14.5 million from the die hard base as opposed to 21.5 last year. Even the hard core repugs are not willing to open their wallets for this loser party.
June 9th, 2009 at 10:08 amCIA Director Leon Panetta urged a federal judge yesterday not to release certain Bush-era documents that detail the videotaped interrogations of CIA detainees at secret prisons.
What the people don’t know will keep them from being outraged.
They also can’t have their reasons for torturing be exposed.
Let’s see, what have we heard so far ?
One: They were ‘protecting the people of the United States’.
There’s a lie that’s so tired I can’t believe they still use it.
Two: dick cheney needed to tie aq to Iraq.
Bingo #1
There must be other reasons that they would rather not talk about.
June 9th, 2009 at 10:09 amThe GOP went to great lengths the other day to not hurt Newt’s feelings by having Alaska’s Dunceanator speak at a fund-raiser at which Gingrich was also speaking. For some reason the Reich still thinks of these two as viable candidates. I can only hope that they don’t change their minds before midterm elections.
June 9th, 2009 at 10:10 amConservativeForProgress Says:
The trial of corrupt Democrat William Jefferson finally begins today.
Good. It’s long overdue. All corrupt politicians, regardless of party affiliation, should be dealt with. Of course, they usually are GOPers, but the occasional dirty Democrat deserves no better.
June 9th, 2009 at 10:13 amGood point Unbelievable….Hows the weather.? Warm and great here, planted lot’s of veggies in pot’s for the first time in years..Going out to harass a few venders and crazy driver’s soon, errands for the resort today…Will check back later and scroll past all the pooping trolls….Happy posting…P.B. & J
June 9th, 2009 at 10:13 amThank-you, gummble-bee-itch, for #46. Unlike the Reich, with its unlimited powers of rationalization, liberals would like see corruption rooted out of the system no matter what side of the aisle its on. Meanwhile, the neoCons still carry the flame for people like G. Gordon Liddy, who is not only a criminal, but a lousy one at that.
June 9th, 2009 at 10:16 amConstipatedForProgress Says:
The trial for ACCUSED corrupt Democrat William Jefferson finally beings today.
GOOD! NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON IS ABOVE THE LAW!
June 9th, 2009 at 10:19 amNow, that being said Pee, how do you feel that Bush & Co. allowed America to torture?
The Party of NO came out and offered thier idea of Financial reform. They would create a Board of Regulators with no enforcement powers, wink, wink, nod, nod. Another word, no regulation wall street, you now can continue to rape the country.
June 9th, 2009 at 10:21 amDid Pee expect us to defend Jefferson? The way the Right defended Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, Tom Delay and on and on and on…?
June 9th, 2009 at 10:22 amConservativeForProgress Says:
The trial of corrupt Democrat William Jefferson finally begins today.
Apparently, we are supposed to be outraged by this trial. CFP, will you teach us how to be outraged that a possibly or probably corrupt member of one’s party is going to trial? I know you’ve had much more practice. We await your learned assistance.
June 9th, 2009 at 10:22 amOkay, let’s dissect this hypothetical Republican Revolution of 2010.
If the Republican party is so successful, and so popular, why the need for change?
And why would one want to “revolt” against it?
Maybe because the party has changed so much, and so negative, these last 8 years, that it’s original beliefs and ideologies have all but disappeared?
You know, like less government.
Maybe a revolution is inevitable, because the core of Repulicanism was so radically bastardized by the likes of Rove, Cheney, et al.
Power to the Moderates, eh Constipated?
I, for one, look forward to this Republican Revolution! A revolution, I hope, that would distance itself from the toxic mess created by Bush.
June 9th, 2009 at 10:28 amGood luck, Pee.
Stand tall, and fight em hard!
The old GOP trick of creating or staffing a watchdog “department” with no real enforcement power goes back to Reagan. But 30 years of abuse at their hands doesn’t stop people like St. Newt, The Patron Saint of Convenient Catholic Conversions, from dropping nuggets of wisdom like this to the Ignorant Faithful.
“Bureaucrats managing companies does not work, politicians dominating the economy does not work,” Gingrich told about 2,000 Republicans who attended the event at the Washington Convention Center last night. (AP)
Yeah, deregulated “money men” are the only who can do it right, eh Newt? You know, the ones who used to run GM (and Wall Street, and the insurance, banking and energy industries).
June 9th, 2009 at 10:29 amAmen, DrxJ, on #53
June 9th, 2009 at 10:32 amRalph,
I’m going with octo-moron when it comes to our pal c4pee.
The poor guy has been reduced to claiming the moral high ground in the gaseous swamps of Louisiana. The only state in the union where jury of Cold Cash Jefferson’s peers could well include Diaper Dan Vitter.
June 9th, 2009 at 10:46 amProud Says:
The hate vomited out by Cindy Sheehan in the past directly led to the death of the Soldier in Arkansas.
June 9th, 2009 at 10:45 am
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You’re going to need to prove that.
June 9th, 2009 at 10:48 amConservativeForProgress Says:
Former Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi (D) is slated to be arraigned in federal court today
June 9th, 2009 at 10:53 am
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You have proven your case well. All Italians are criminals. I get it.
June 9th, 2009 at 10:55 amI might still be too sleepy for this… but it looks to me like the blocking of the Lieberman-Graham amendment makes it possible to release the photos. Which is a good thing.
Obama may have said it’s better not to release them, thereby pleasing the right who want to shove it out of sight, but now there is no funding so sorry, it will have to come to light. I see this as another winning chess move on his part.
Then again, I might still be asleep.
I don’t think the photos should be released with the prisoner’s faces visible. But I think our country needs a wakeup call about how evil we have become. Most people still are unwilling to believe in it. How can we change without knowing the truth?
June 9th, 2009 at 10:55 amThe New York Senate reverting to Republican control was only made possible by the aide of two men, according to the article cited, both who are in some kind of legal trouble:
How fitting that a Republican return to power is facilitated by a criminal element…the more things change the more they stay the same…
June 9th, 2009 at 11:00 amThis hodge-podge will eventually fail…the only long term solution is universal health care…everyone in, no one out…
June 9th, 2009 at 11:02 amCindy must be in dire need of some attention again. She’s not crawled out from under her rock in quite awhile and apparently still doesn’t accept that few if any care about her whining any longer. Its time to move on Cindy. Your five minutes of fame were over four years ago. Next.
June 9th, 2009 at 11:03 amI think this is a good strategy for Pee:
don’t make any argument in your own words, since they so often lead to embarrassment.
instead, simply cut-and-paste articles of Democrats in legal trouble, however insignifiacnt the trouble, however insignificant the Democrat, in an attempt to create a moral equivalence that isn’t there.
More evidence that Pee is content to simply drag everyone else down into his mud puddle.
Still, what else has he got to work with? So in a way you gotta hand it to him.
June 9th, 2009 at 11:04 amAm I the only one here that knows what proud cut means in the equine world.? Well let me tell you… It’s a guilding, once a stallion that do’s not know it can no longer perform…A slip of the knife by the vet and the job not quite good enough…or a mental defect as it were….The guilding still think’s it can perform, sadly it can not..like the proud stupid troll that drop’s crap here…The only hate I see is not with Cindy but with blood thirsty warmonging trolls…The trolls are big on spouting war crap and killing on their key board, much like the limpdick’s, o’lilies and reich winger’s and never give a thought to Peace and Justice..Time to send them all back under their bridges and fumigate the thread’s…P. B. & J
June 9th, 2009 at 11:06 amI’m glad that people are still reacting to this war. Both wars have gone on long enough and have left our country close to bankruptcy.
June 9th, 2009 at 11:19 amvia C&L, apropos to a “discussion” at TP yesterday… well, anyday:
Intrepid Liberal Journal: Billy Graham & the Rise of the Republican South: An interview with historian Steven P. Miller
June 9th, 2009 at 11:26 amThanks a lot, all you San Francisco hypocrites.
We’ll be dealing with Pelosi’s lies indefinitely now.
June 9th, 2009 at 11:31 amHillary Clinton said a nuclear attack on Israel is an attack on U.S.
http://arisfreedomswitch.blogspot.com/2009/06/clinton-nuclear-attack-on-israel-is.html
June 9th, 2009 at 11:37 amYou and your god lush limpdick need to get a room constipatedforprogress..
June 9th, 2009 at 11:37 amCFP, and what should we apologies for? Some phony vet who folled the public and in the end was found out? We put up you rightwing phony vets on this site all the time. Big deal.
June 9th, 2009 at 11:44 amShould have been fooled. sorry.
June 9th, 2009 at 11:45 amC4Pee’s giving his Google a workout this morning.
All to discredit the evidence that discredits his original assertion that a “Republican Revolution” is on its way.
I’ll grant ya this, Pee… there will almost have to be some form of recovery for the G-NO-P. I mean, they can’t get much lower than they are right now.
Not if they want to remain a viable party, that is.
June 9th, 2009 at 11:45 amWitch1 – its GELDING, nut gulding.
June 9th, 2009 at 12:17 pmalmost forgot:
this morning on TODAY, dr.nancy and jean schatsky (sp?) presented a video story of 2 cases of how a cancer diagnosis financially devastated 2 different families… i was hopeful that they would discuss how much we needed the single pay option…
nope. the take-away message was, basically, read the fine print on your policy, to make sure what is covered… and a savings account would be helpful, to help cover the 20% that is the patients responsibility…
imagine that.
June 9th, 2009 at 12:21 pmThank you, Curlew…..Blessings
June 9th, 2009 at 12:34 pmCindy Sheehan is making far more sense than “look to the future” Obama.
I will work unfailingly against Obama’s reelection unless he decides that America’s soul is worthy of defending and works to prosecute those involved in bush’s torture program.
Telecom immunity was a slap in the face. State secrets citation was vintage bush. Preventative detention is nothing short of surreal. Obama’s indifference and cowardice, sidestepping investigations and allowing loudmouth conservative pundits to bang their gums and laugh at the rule of law is inexcusable. Progressives are getting kicked in the teeth because Obama is a liar and backslider.
Tired of the excuses. “Oh, Obama’s plate is full” or Obama’s some chess mastermind who is saving up a big Machiavellian double whammy for bush or the classic, “It’s not Obama’s decision…” Really? I’ve some land in Florida for you, too. Meanwhile, Rove, bush and Cheney are peeing on the rule of law, televising and sneering openly over their guilt, and generally destroying US credibility while encouraging a whole new generation of conservative sub-humans to wreak havoc on not only our national discourse but emboldening them to keep applying bullsh¡t propaganda and further weakening the people’s ability to get any progress accomplished.
Bullsh¡t is bullsh¡t and what Obama’s serving up across the board, from ducking bush prosecutions to DOMA to telecom immunity, to suppression of Gitmo evidence to military tribunals to continued suppression of Habeas Corpus to Preventative detention to illegal Bagram detentions is BULLSH¡T!
Obama wants us to “make him” do the right thing? Okay.
No. Second. Term. Ever.
That enough motivation?
June 9th, 2009 at 12:36 pmDito #81 and thank you for posting..Blessings
June 9th, 2009 at 12:55 pmThe “future” involves lots of corporafornication for the big money boys. Obama favors private equity underwriters. The big speech in Cairo mentioned business support. Funny, the Carlyle Group has a $500 million Middle East/North Africa fund. They aren’t the only PEU with designs on the region.
From banks to infrastructure to intelligence to health care, the Obama team wants private equity and their affiliates to solve our problems. The Carlyle Group is ecstatic over getting 30% annual returns back on track. They got $4.9 billion in subsidy from the FDIC for BankUnited. It’s non-TARP money, free of pay restrictions.
June 9th, 2009 at 1:07 pm“get to it before it crashes”… or try later… good EDitorial there too.
Take Ed’s Poll
Do you feel that President Obama and Democrats are living up to their promises on health care they made during the campaign?
http://wegoted.com/
June 9th, 2009 at 1:24 pm84. Says: Take Ed’s Poll
Do you feel that President Obama and Democrats are living up to their promises on health care they made during the campaign?
There isn’t a,
option, so I didn’t vote.
June 9th, 2009 at 1:39 pmSomebody needs to inform Sheehan, who is koo koo for coco puffs, that there is a new sheriff in the white house. That new sheriff has had almost 5 months to get the troops of of Iraq. Yet, for all his pre-election talk, those troops are still in Iraq and more are going to Afghanistan. So, wake up, Sheehan. Bush is long gone. Fool.
June 9th, 2009 at 1:57 pmhanshiro the antlion – your comments at #81 and #85 – well said! I keep waiting for that REAL “Change we can believe in,” and so far only see some improvements in some limited areas – mostly domestic. And I really appreciate the emphasis on diplomacy that seems to be occurring. But on other issues like Defense and National Security, I see no change except for some wierd expansion going on. Regarding Iraq, not only are we still there (and I heard the other day that U.S. troops are far outweighed by private armed contractors), but we’ve doubled down in Afghanistan. Shutting down Gitmo sounds noble (if not accompanied by concrete plans in how to do so) but the expansion and continuation of lack of anything close to Habeas Corpus in Bagram prison in Afghanistan is flying far under the radar.
June 9th, 2009 at 2:04 pmhuh… “i wonder if it’s a good idea to call attention to myself…?”
Democrats vow to take back now-shuttered NY Senate
The Associated Press – ?31 minutes ago?
ALBANY, NY (AP) – A Republican coup in the state Senate, helped along by one Democrat with legal troubles and another who violated election laws, paralyzed the chamber on Tuesday.
way to GO!!!
June 9th, 2009 at 2:11 pmThe new sheriff in town is looking like a watered down old sheriff…The important issues are not getting done at all…If anything Presiden Obama is acting just like palosi, a block and tackeler for the bush administration…The rule of law, constitution and appointing new untainted faces is not happening….So far what we have is centerest leaniong hard to the right, right wingers and people that caused the problem’s being installed to govern..Surely there are dem’s equipt to do these jobs…Guess the president’s idea of change is much diffrent than mine….If it keep’s up as it is our country will be no diffrent than when bull shit bush was in with the exception we have some one who speaks well…Blessings, we need them.
June 9th, 2009 at 2:23 pmBinding PAYGO right before health care reform? That’s not a good sign folks.
America can blow trillions out the wazoo for financial firms, but might have to pay for covering the uninsured day 1.
Obama and Congress’ corporate sponsors don’t want to pay. That leaves the employee or the individual. Watch the details. They’ll happen in conference committee, while people’s attention is elsewhere.
Our bait & switch President/Congress can deliver nothing other than continued corporafornication.
June 9th, 2009 at 2:28 pmBush lied, Obama does likewise. It’s sad.
http://stateofthedivision.blogspot.com/2009/06/in-search-of-explanation-complexity-on.html
June 9th, 2009 at 2:39 pmThe FEC is close to a key opinion. A West Texas Congressman wants to use his personal yacht for campaign events.
http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2009/jun/07/neugebauer-may-sail-clear-seas/#comments
How many ways can elected officials wash campaign cash through personal coffers?
June 9th, 2009 at 3:54 pmthanks
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