Comments on: Please Lend A Hand For Kids In Need http://firedoglake.com/2007/09/25/please-lend-a-hand-for-kids-in-need/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:39:31 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Cozumel http://firedoglake.com/2007/09/25/please-lend-a-hand-for-kids-in-need/#comment-995131 Cozumel Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:30:21 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/25/please-lend-a-hand-for-kids-in-need/#comment-995131 <p>If this is what <strike>Regressives</strike> <em>Progressives</em> are all about then frankly, I’m done with it.</p> <p>Meet the new boss, same as the old boss</p> If this is what Regressives Progressives are all about then frankly, I’m done with it.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

]]> By: Cozumel http://firedoglake.com/2007/09/25/please-lend-a-hand-for-kids-in-need/#comment-995112 Cozumel Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:13:28 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/25/please-lend-a-hand-for-kids-in-need/#comment-995112 <p>Yeah, I’m back. And still disappointed, Christy! How disingenuous is it to not include the source of the funding in the body of your post which is smokers ONLY and not ANYONE else!? Thanks again for <strike>volunteering</strike> <b>pushing</b> to have me help fund this as you make your phone calls when it doesn’t cost you personally a dime. ARRRGGGGH!</p> Yeah, I’m back. And still disappointed, Christy! How disingenuous is it to not include the source of the funding in the body of your post which is smokers ONLY and not ANYONE else!? Thanks again for volunteering pushing to have me help fund this as you make your phone calls when it doesn’t cost you personally a dime. ARRRGGGGH!

]]> By: masaccio http://firedoglake.com/2007/09/25/please-lend-a-hand-for-kids-in-need/#comment-994692 masaccio Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:52:51 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/25/please-lend-a-hand-for-kids-in-need/#comment-994692 <p>That list of republican congresscritters who need a push is just disgusting. Deborah Pryce: single mother raising a daughter, how can she vote no? Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: tons of poorer Floridians in her district, but Cuba is the only issue? and on and on</p> That list of republican congresscritters who need a push is just disgusting. Deborah Pryce: single mother raising a daughter, how can she vote no? Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: tons of poorer Floridians in her district, but Cuba is the only issue? and on and on

]]> By: Sam Rasoul http://firedoglake.com/2007/09/25/please-lend-a-hand-for-kids-in-need/#comment-994291 Sam Rasoul Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:52:08 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/25/please-lend-a-hand-for-kids-in-need/#comment-994291 <p>I am Sam Rasoul a Congressional Candidate in Virginia and I support a bill called HR 676, which provides healthcare coverage to all Americans, but is not socialized medicine. </p> <p>HR 676 offers a publically subsidized, but PRIVATELY delivered system of healthcare where the government does not own the hospitals and have doctors as employees as with the VA medical system. For more info, please visit <a href="http://www.healthcare-now.org/">http://www.healthcare-now.org/</a> or visit my website at <a href="http://www.SAM2008.com.">www.SAM2008.com.</a></p> I am Sam Rasoul a Congressional Candidate in Virginia and I support a bill called HR 676, which provides healthcare coverage to all Americans, but is not socialized medicine.

HR 676 offers a publically subsidized, but PRIVATELY delivered system of healthcare where the government does not own the hospitals and have doctors as employees as with the VA medical system. For more info, please visit http://www.healthcare-now.org/ or visit my website at http://www.SAM2008.com.

]]> By: midwestvoter http://firedoglake.com/2007/09/25/please-lend-a-hand-for-kids-in-need/#comment-994268 midwestvoter Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:32:16 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/25/please-lend-a-hand-for-kids-in-need/#comment-994268 <p><a href="#comment-993972"><em>kdh22 @ 114</em></a></p> <blockquote><p><a href="#comment-993965"><em>Biodun @ 107</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>The question is not whether the House will vote for the bill (it will), but whether the House has two-thirds of the votes to <em>override </em>Bush’s veto. He has promised to veto the bill. And he will.</p></blockquote> <p>One of the progressive PACS should do a 30 second ad just on Bush’s vetos. What a telling portrait of the things Bush is against. Children, our troops, the elderly etc. </p> <p>No argument on that, Biodun. He’s warming up his veto pen in case he has more Repug defectors than he’d like.</p></blockquote> kdh22 @ 114

Biodun @ 107

The question is not whether the House will vote for the bill (it will), but whether the House has two-thirds of the votes to override Bush’s veto. He has promised to veto the bill. And he will.

One of the progressive PACS should do a 30 second ad just on Bush’s vetos. What a telling portrait of the things Bush is against. Children, our troops, the elderly etc.

No argument on that, Biodun. He’s warming up his veto pen in case he has more Repug defectors than he’d like.

]]> By: midwestvoter http://firedoglake.com/2007/09/25/please-lend-a-hand-for-kids-in-need/#comment-994237 midwestvoter Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:09:29 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/25/please-lend-a-hand-for-kids-in-need/#comment-994237 <p><a href="#comment-993855"><em>SufiLizard @ 12</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>We might also point out that this issue is a win-win for congress. They are currently at an 11 percent approval rating, and taking a stand on this issue will certainly improve their public perception…</p></blockquote> <p>This is the same plan the Republicans had in the 1994 GOP takeover. They hijacked, fillibustered, delayed and thrwarted everything imaginable to give the public the impression of Dems not being able to get anything done. It worked then, and they are hoping it works now. Blame the Dems, promise reform with some bogus “contract with America” and presto, the thugs are back in control. They don’t give a rat’s ass about children, the elderly, the sick or anything else. They want power- any. way. they. can. get. it.</p> SufiLizard @ 12

We might also point out that this issue is a win-win for congress. They are currently at an 11 percent approval rating, and taking a stand on this issue will certainly improve their public perception…

This is the same plan the Republicans had in the 1994 GOP takeover. They hijacked, fillibustered, delayed and thrwarted everything imaginable to give the public the impression of Dems not being able to get anything done. It worked then, and they are hoping it works now. Blame the Dems, promise reform with some bogus “contract with America” and presto, the thugs are back in control. They don’t give a rat’s ass about children, the elderly, the sick or anything else. They want power- any. way. they. can. get. it.

]]> By: mnamna http://firedoglake.com/2007/09/25/please-lend-a-hand-for-kids-in-need/#comment-994139 mnamna Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:10:23 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/25/please-lend-a-hand-for-kids-in-need/#comment-994139 <p>Just called Congressman Manzullo (R)IL16 and his office is not providing any indication as to which way he will be voting.</p> Just called Congressman Manzullo (R)IL16 and his office is not providing any indication as to which way he will be voting.

]]> By: Kathleen http://firedoglake.com/2007/09/25/please-lend-a-hand-for-kids-in-need/#comment-994132 Kathleen Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:07:13 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/25/please-lend-a-hand-for-kids-in-need/#comment-994132 <p>OMG Andrea Mitchells report on the Columbia incident is also disgusting. She calls Ahmadinejad “combative” but says nothing at all about Bollingers diatribe before Iranian President Ahmadinejad even said a word. </p> <p>What spin Andrea Mitchell participated in. This is what Andrea Mitchell calls fair and balanced?</p> <p>Brian Williams spins<br /> calling Ahmadinejad “attempting to give as good as he got”</p> <p>Watch “war of words”<br /> <a href="http://video.msn.com/v/us/fv/msnbc/fv.htm??g=66834e8b-de4c-41f7-b78e-3f57966eaf40&f=00&fg=copy">http://video.msn.com/v/us/fv/m.....mp;fg=copy</a></p> OMG Andrea Mitchells report on the Columbia incident is also disgusting. She calls Ahmadinejad “combative” but says nothing at all about Bollingers diatribe before Iranian President Ahmadinejad even said a word.

What spin Andrea Mitchell participated in. This is what Andrea Mitchell calls fair and balanced?

Brian Williams spins
calling Ahmadinejad “attempting to give as good as he got”

Watch “war of words”
http://video.msn.com/v/us/fv/m…..mp;fg=copy

]]> By: Kathleen http://firedoglake.com/2007/09/25/please-lend-a-hand-for-kids-in-need/#comment-994109 Kathleen Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:59:18 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/25/please-lend-a-hand-for-kids-in-need/#comment-994109 <p>Columbia’s President Bollingers entire diatribe. And this is the way a University opens up to a guest. One more very serious example of how institutions roll over to the “lobby”</p> <p><a href="http://video.msn.com/v/us/fv/msnbc/fv.htm??g=66834">http://video.msn.com/v/us/fv/msnbc/fv.htm??g=66834</a><br /> e8b-de4c-41f7-b78e-3f57966eaf40&f=00&fg=copy</p> <p>Glenn Greenwald writes about the Lobby hammering Columbia threatened to pull funding.</p> <p><a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/09/24/ahmadinejad/index.html">http://www.salon.com/opinion/g.....index.html</a></p> Columbia’s President Bollingers entire diatribe. And this is the way a University opens up to a guest. One more very serious example of how institutions roll over to the “lobby”

http://video.msn.com/v/us/fv/msnbc/fv.htm??g=66834
e8b-de4c-41f7-b78e-3f57966eaf40&f=00&fg=copy

Glenn Greenwald writes about the Lobby hammering Columbia threatened to pull funding.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/g…..index.html

]]> By: Cozumel http://firedoglake.com/2007/09/25/please-lend-a-hand-for-kids-in-need/#comment-994098 Cozumel Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:53:42 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/25/please-lend-a-hand-for-kids-in-need/#comment-994098 <p>The increase is very specifically a regressive tax on cigarette smokers and has absolutely nothing to do with <em>the amount of money we would spend for 6 weeks in Iraq</em>. To try and conflate the two, well…</p> The increase is very specifically a regressive tax on cigarette smokers and has absolutely nothing to do with the amount of money we would spend for 6 weeks in Iraq. To try and conflate the two, well…

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