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Marcy wrote about this yesterday.
Remember how, several weeks ago, Michael Isikoff rationalized away any concerns about someone flying a plane into a federal office building? One distinction he made is that white American terrorists–the Unabomber, the anthrax killer (!), the tax protestor–don’t coordinate with others who have the same enemy. [...]
Now, to be fair, Isikoff also said that to qualify as a terrorist you had to set out to cause mass casualties (though of course the IRS protester failed only in execution on that front).
But as to coordination to serve a mutual enemy? We’re officially there now.
This is not going in a good direction.
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These are the lessons learned by the impressionable from never-ending wars and the notion burned into their psyches that war resolves disputes. The symbolic act of violence, the association with 9/11, the fact that it happened at all, is an indicator that we’ve gone too far with this motif of settling scores with violence.
But wars do resolve disputes, eventually. Typical alpha male behavior.
Of course, there might be better ways of resolving disputes but humans, esp Rs, are not evolved enough to avail themselves of such ways.
Levin is on cnbc sounding belligerent about China’s trade practices. Sounds like it’s time for a sternly worded letter.
U.S. opening a joint U.S.-Mexican military command center in Mexico city: democracynow.
Oh geez, O dedicated the HCR bill to his mother. Depth of cynicism.
Good grief. Well the masses will “buy” it. They are so happy now, they are sending Pelosi flowers and thank you cards. Un-believe-able.
Will they still be cheering when social security is reformed? Probably. I read last night on a few blogs about the new love for Pelosi. She’s the greatest Speaker evah!! Made me gag. People have gone completely over the edge. It’s like mass suicide a la Jonestown.
His mother had she lived would have had to declare bankruptcy then and now.
Who is he dedicating the Executive order to, the fuckin pope.
Prolly.
Gotta hop. Going to visit a friend in the hospital.
The government already has legal precedent to mandate we buy insurance – that health insurance is called Medicare.
Medicare IS insurance that the government forces, mandates, us to “buy” via FICA. Even though we may never want to use Medicare – we are still forced to “buy” Medicare via FICA.
IF: any person refuses to pay their share of FICA
THEN: The IRS does, in deed, impose a penalty & interest on the person.
… and .. IF: the person still refuses
Personally, I’d rather we be able to enroll in Medicare since we already are buying it.
Stupak
Anything that catapults the propaganda. Oh wait, that was supposed to be GWB not BHO.
Ah but you are talking health care the bill is about Insurance Co. care. Of course medicare buy in is the obvious choice but that would put the president’s biggest donors out of business. Why would a whore want her best clients to run out of money?
Don’t confuse the Health Insurance Company Welfare Act with terrorism. There is no excuse for such tactics. Intimidation through fear in order to cause policy change is terrorism and elected Republicans and conservative talking heads are encouraging it.
I am concerned about Medicare. I have friends who have just gone on Medicare and they are having trouble finding docs who will see them. Wondering what the half trillion dollar reduction in Medicare will do. It is all very troubling. Health care costs have to be addressed. Does just adding more people to the system as it is now really help?
I am on medicare. It is not inexpensive, 15% of my soc. sec. It requires a high copay but my doc has always been pro health care and anti Insurance Care so I do not have the problem of doc finding. My back up plan is a plane ticket back to Europe where I get FREE health care on my non-american passport. As for medicines, generic I buy here anything else comes from Canada and Europe…..and fuck the law.
It seems the NYT’s analysis of the Health Care legislation, in terms of its impact on economic inequality, is dramatically different than the prevalent view here.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36013261/ns/politics-the_new_york_times
You are right—it is costly. Glad you have a good doc. My friends who were already in with a good doc and had a good relationship were able to continue on with their docs–the others are still looking. Not on any meds so far but need to find out how to buy from Canada and Europe—just in case.
Glad you have a back up plan.
Mr. Bipartisan will invite the leaders over for a beer.
Pardon the parlor freudianism,(more precisely Alice Miller)these guys with the bricks and rifles are expressing their unacknowledged childhood rage. Gummit represents nasty old mommy and daddy who beat and humiliated them. Pelosi is bad mommy monster.
These are the childhood fantasies of revenge for their mistreatment. They literally don’t know what they are doing. The religious right who advocate physical abuse of children are raising another crop of these unfortunates.
Mornin’, BT, pups
The guy with the sign and his sidearm down around his knee. That’s the guy I want comin’ after me. I wanna laugh when he puts a round through his foot.
I’m sure O has something up his sleeve to save Medicare. Just like he had something up his sleeve to provide “universal health care.”
Actually the evidence is to the opposite. Wars do not solve disputes but rather add layers of resentment to existing conflicts. Two of hundreds of examples: In fact there are many elements of revenge for the Crusades of 1000 years ago that attracts if not participants to its ranks. If you think the Civil War resolved the conflicts recall it was on southern resentment that the current GOP was built ,just listen to the rhetoric of this past weekend,
We must get over this accepting violence between groups as useful or inevitable.
Some of these people should be arrested and if it was you or I saying such things with the chimp still president, never doubt we would be. I agree with you though. Sadly, Orahma won’t press for prosecutions and that will only cause the rhetoric and violence to escalate. Idiot.
The NYTimes?
The link Ecahn supplied this morning to an investment letter is illuminating on the subject of who wins and who loses in the Insurance Co. Care bill.
Yep I am sure you are right—I feel better
He reminds me of the weak Chancellors of Weimar Germany. Does not see the threat and is reluctant to act in the best interests of the nation.
Agree—can see why it happens though. I have a really hard time remaining civil at times when I hear spin and ridiculous arguments. I want to scream, call them stupid and set them straight–sigh. Usually I can restrain myself and stay calm but not always. That is when things get out of control, feelings are hurt and as you say—conflicts are not resolved.
This article is complete bullsh*t. The legislation is basically a tranfer of wealth from the middle class via taxes, mandates and subsidies to wealthy corporations. The middle and lower classes will be subjected to bankrupties, and a form of economic slavery by having to pay for something they cannnot afford even with subsisides. And they still will not have access to comprehensive health care. I predict the legislation will blow up in the coming years, much like predatory lending enabled the blow up of the economy.
When the leaders of the country can get away with torture, murder, mayhem and the like it sends a very poor message and greater violence will ensue.
Now that the “Too Big To Fail” guys are getting away with $billions through fraud and theft I can only image that we will see an increase of burglaries in the near future.
See, it is a success /s
I doubt vandalism is a federal crime. I don’t imagine the local sheriffs or police chiefs are very happy about the publicity, however. Guys who do stuff like this have a hard time keeping their mouths shut for very long. Some will get nabbed, some won’t.
Bluetoe2 at 28. Given Obama’s ideology I think he’s quite comfortable in feeling that what he’s doing is right. Finance capitalism is his game and right now the banksters and their cronies are in the catbird seat. Come the Second Great Depression next year we might be able to make a little headway in turning the country around.
new post up…
Agree totally
Yes. Exactly.
Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.
US KIA Irak: 4,386
US KIA Afghanistan: 1,026
Iraki and Afghan casualties: estimates vary to over 1.5M
US MBS 2010: 10,168 and counting
Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.
Namaste
For so many of us our pain and resentment at our ideas having been shut out from the beginning has clouded appreciation for the fact the passage of this bill is historic in that it affirms the right to health care for all of us. The law, feeble and down right poor in some policies as it may be, the principle I believe will endure.
Lord I hope I am wrong but I do have fear at the potential for real violence I see in these Tea Baggers being encouraged if not incited by the Republicans. The last time there was political unrest in my recall we got our greatest Liberal leaders assassinated as well as some college kids and little girls in church.
No but intimidation through fear with the aim of political change is. It’s called “terrorism”
You want to restate that? I hope it is a typo and You intended to hit u instead of i.
Why? What do you find inaccurate or objectionable? Are you talking about the word “chimp”? That you think I should have meant “chump”? No. I’ve called Bush “The chimp” since at least 2003. Do you object to that? Nobody else thought I was referring to Obama because when I refer to him, I call him Orahma, as I did in that very same comment.
“chimp”
In making fun of the spelling on the note attached to the brick thrown through the window – ‘it says, exremism, presumably, it was meant to say, extremism’ – Ms. Maddow would not have exposed her double standard had she similarly corrected MSNBC’s misspelling in the word “intimination,” prominently displayed on all graphics used in this segment, by replacing the “d” with an “n.”
“Why would a whore want her best clients to run out of money?”
Pronoun error: “His” best clients
I wonder if Rachel Maddow knows that Obama and the “Leadership and committee staffers in the House and Senate who wrote the bill are exempted” from having to participate in the new health care law, i.e. “the American people will have a public pool; the executive branch and congressional staffers kept their country-club pool private.”
I don’t think bricks through windows rise to that level of intimidation. Threatening a person’s children, yes, and if that call wasn’t made from a pay phone somebody’s gonna be in the slammer before long.
Wait until they “reform” social security, unemployment insurance, and any other social program that might help anyone that isn’t rich. People will still cheer though. Clinton’s welfare reform in the 90′s was cheered by Dems and everyone that thought Bubba was “awesome”. Between that and his deregulations, it led to this economic mess we are in but people still glorify him. Must be envy from the guys of his sexual exploits, and gushing from the girls who wish that they exploited them? I don’t get it.
You object to me calling Bush a chimp?
I see some really nasty things happening here at FDL. Some of the language is no better than the right wing. Maybe I am in the wrong place.
Rachel won’t touch it. She’s partisan.
Read her comment again.
Hello? Rachel does that. It is a combination of Intimidation and nation. There are examples of that all throughout the history of her show. Intimination wasn’t an error like “exremism”
Gee, that’s quite the specific critique.
Yeah I thought about that. Sorry
Sorry. I didn’t realize that I would step on somebody’s feelings by calling George W Bush a chimp. I guess I didn’t know he had any fans here.
I found her show refreshing when the “Chimp” was still in the Whitehouse, but now find her show quite childish. Somebody forgot to tell her she isn’t in college anymore. I’m not fond of it. Same as the fake outrage from Keith O. Constant bombardment of Repubs evil-Dems great gets tiring after awhile.
One, it seems.
The rightwing terrorists may wish to consult the disturbing and fruitless histories of the Weather Underground, MOVE, the Baader-Meinhoff Gang/Red Army Faction (West Germany) and the Red Brigades (Italy). If they do, they will learn that political violence often leads those who practice it to oblivion. After all, a stable, modern nation-state can draw upon a much larger arsenal.
Finally, they should also reconsider the fact that non-violent popular resistance and federal governmental action even neutralized and defeated the Klan and Jim Crow in the South during the 1960s. The backlash which followed has failed to reinstate Jim Crow. Turning once more to terrorism will not bring it back to life. They country has moved on, so to speak and no pun intended. Nor will terrorism undermine this health care reform bill or the Democratic Party, as poorly considered as this bill is and as infuriating as the Democratic Party always proves to be.
As a rule of thumb, the presence of violence in politics indicates the weakness and, in some cases, the political impotence of the violent. The rightwing terrorists only threaten those they target and other like their targets. They do not threaten the federal state they despise and they will never gain the support of most Americans by seeking to deprive the common person of something they want — health care.
Actually I do.
But I did misunderstand who you were referring to which makes it offend me less. Thanks for clarifying On re read of the whole thread preceding it is still not that clear..
Yeah, she’s become quite the cheerleader. Sorta like Olbermann
Well sorry you were offended, honestly. Bluetoe got it though.
“I don’t get it.”
Just look at the record. Clinton inherited the biggest deficit in U.S. history and turned it into the biggest surplus in U.S. history. The poverty level plummeted, income rose at all levels, the deficit was being paid off. He was also doing good things for the environemnt, gun control, and a host of other areas. It was just the opposite of Obama.
I think it was Molly Ivins who started calling him a chimp when he was governor because he was always flinging poo. I could be wrong, that was years ago but I saw the first reference to it in the Austin American Statesman.
Some of these people grow way too fond of themselves.
NAFTA, Welfare, Bank deregulation…….
If you can’t take the heat, sign a civility agreement. Jesus Christ lady, the things our government is doing have real consequences, if you don’t like people’s reactions – too damn bad. Put your big girl pants on!
The chimp image was a favourite of the Europeans. Most of their political cartoons portrayed him in that image. Molly came up with Shrub at some point and started using that.
Yep. The explosion of the fake economy sure makes Clinton look like a genius. Dot com industries, corporations that were nothing more than a bunch of paper screwing investors out of money. I don’t buy the revisionist history. Sorry. Yep, on paper it looked great! Especially his much touted NAFTA deal! Awesome! But hey, none of his legislation contributed to anything down the road that was negative, right?
What did I miss?
That’s right! It was she that used the shrub. He had so many epithets used for him….
I think I was accused of calling Orahma “The chimp”
If you want to see some real fury and hate go to Huffpo. Go there only occasionally and can’t stay long. MHOO I find the dialogue at FDL thoughtful and honest.
He didn’t and still doesn’t deserve any better. The man was a piece of garbage (to be polite so as not to offend ;-)
Let us not forget Bosnia or Somalia. Our very first neoliberal prez. Fuck Bill Clinton.
Not alot of hate in cheerleading. LOL. The real “hateful” posts on HuffPo that are allowed, are questionable. Methinks it is HuffPo itself that posts those ones.
OT, Obama is now allowing loaded weapons in National Parks and Forests as long as the carrier follows the law of the particular state. Some of the states have very “liberal” gun laws. A really stupid concession to the NRA and the far right.
Yep, and the unlimited use of drones to kill women and children. Honestly, I despise the man. He was as fake as Obama is and people don’t see it. It’s like their eyes glaze over when they hear the name Clinton.
Yes it doesn’t achieve their aims. But our history alone tells us that it seems a number of good people have to get killed before anyone takes these kinds of people seriously. The lynchings and other KKK activities went on a long time before the will of the government was sufficiently mobilized.
You are right we continue to move forward on defending and human rights though the principles of the KKK and remain alive and well waiting for the chance to again expand.
I thought Obama was the “Appeaser?” Everyone knows who the “chimp” is.
I read the news articles but don’t pay any attention to the blog or opinion stuff.
I will confess to perusing some of the People mag type stuff.
Their eyes are glazed over when the wake up in the morning.
Revisionist indeed.
For the record;
Manufacturing boomed under Clinton. Salaries in manufacturing doubled under Clinton. Machine tool sales, once called a “Leading Economic Indicator”, boomed under Clinton. Real live people took home real live paychecks. There is nothing “revisionist” about that.
You were actually pre-warned not to, a pre emptive gambit to make sure your words don’t transgress someones comfort zone.
Yeah, I deleted HuffPo. The right wingers say pretty much what they want while they ban left leaning people for saying the mildest things. I think the right wingers are playing the moderation system there and when somebody makes a reasonable argument they can’t respond to, they hit the offensive comment button en masse and the moderators are too stupid to know they are being played.
I wasn’t accusing you. In fact I couldn’t believe my take on it. That is why I asked.
Apparently not.
Yeah, while visiting a wingnut close relative we tried a plan of me watching fox in exchange for her watching Rachel. Rachels smirking sarcasm turned her off quickly and I had to agree. Rachel needs to check the dailyhowler.com now and them, those two would have fun together.
Ha! There are quite a few blogs that I read, and will admit to reading the articles on HuffPo but couldn’t be bothered reading any of the comments. It’s the National Enquirer of online blogs.
One of the nasty things here is you. Why do you wish to trash and censor other people’s contributions?
Let me clear this up
Bush = chimp
Obama = chump
OK
Well I was shocked that someone found it offensive, especially since I’ve been using the term for about seven years and nobody except right wingers have objected to it but I understand it was a misunderstanding and I harbor no bad feelings. Friends?
I remember seeing a clip taken with a home camera of a cruise missile flying over the city at low level. I’m thinking, how fuckin’ frightening can it be watching a missile flying into one’s community. In Nam the thing that frightened me most were mortars. A missile, holy shit.
Well, if legislation works in the “future” as the Dems say it does when they are in power, then I guess we have to thank Bush Sr. for that “boom” then, wouldn’t you say? I mean right now Chimp is blamed for the current mess (rightfully so), so it has to work both ways, not? And NAFTA didn’t take a stranglehold on the economy until AFTER Clinton left. I remember a different 90s. I remember stagnant wages, everyone just doing the status quo. Kind of like now. Maybe I’m getting senile.
Worse than the old yahoo chat boards. Are they still around?
I think talking stick has a good point in general. We are not like them and I wish we would not sound like them.
Your use of “big girl pants” sounds demeaning to me, is that your intention?
Yeah, that’s got to be scary. Noisy, unseen death rain. I wish humanity would spend half the money and talent bettering ourselves as we do destroying each other. Hello? War is a reflexive survival strategy! We don’t NEED it anymore.
We wouldn’t have had the surplus if it hadn’t been for the things you listed. That said, the deindustrialization of the country really took off under Clinton.
I remember that. I also remember the world media showing the actual death and destruction of Iraq, and also that “aspirin factory” that was a terrorist village. The leftwing media (Ha!) seems to have no problem showing war and killing when it’s Republicans in charge, kinda like bragging. When it’s a Dem, they tend to ignore it. Right now Iraq and Afghanistan get barely a whisper, as do the constant killing drones in Pakistan. Just my take on it anyway.
Nice.
Good to know someone is monitoring what people say so nothing improper goes on, huh?
lmao
AOL. Hahahahaahahha.
Oh give it a rest! Women say such things to each other. I’ve been told that any number of times and it’s almost never used scornfully.
Or seeing a drone hovering above ones head as those poor buggers in Pakistan have to put up with.
And people still USE AOL. As PT Barnum said…..
Republican supporters like Shock and Awe and massive fireworks so they can go “ewwwwwww……ahhhhhhh”
Dem supporters like sneak in, kill em and don’t say a word no matter who we kill.
One reason the Jim Crow system lasted as long as it did was because it was economically advantageous for the Southern elite. Eventually, however, the whole country turned against Jim Crow. This happy change occurred at about the time when the Jim Crow system lost its economic value.
Unfortunately, we cannot outlaw stupidity and bigotry. We can only point to or ridicule them when they appear in public for what they are.
Purely an exhortation, but have fun with it if you like.
: )
Well gang. Gotta run. Got a daydate with my daughter!! She’s in nursing college hoping to hell there is a job for her when she is done going into debt up to eyeballs. Haven’t seen her in awhile, so going to spend the day with her. Keep on tellin’ the truth!!!!!
A ha! The Mossad conspiracy lurker speaks.
Let me add the link to the Diary of rambling irrational spam I was referring to and let others make their own judgement.
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/36246
Oh lookie… Blue Texan is out singing the praises of the Democrats again… what a surprize.
Pelosi’s approval rating was the lowest evah for any SOH. Fewer than 1 in 3 people think she’s doing a good job. So, a few of those few are sending her flowers and notes. Wait ’til they see their new insurance rates next time they have to renew their policy.
And that is the beauty of free speech.
Have a fun day with your daughter! :-)
Does anyone know if the new insurance health reeeform act still has the anti-trust exemption?
Ad homnems (can’t spell it) are against the rules here but if the mods really enforced it they would have time for nothing else.
Yep. Since those wonderful regs don’t kick in for so long, look for the rates on everybody to more than triple before they do.
My experience differs. Manufacturing began to decline with the reversal of incentives aimed at domestic manufacturing jobs. That didn’t happen until Bush’s first 5 minutes in office.
I am very tired of being accused of spamming by you, Cass. You need to look up the definition. You have lots of negative waves, but very few linkies. Lurk? Me? Hardly.
I think that’s supposed to be in the “fix” but since Max Baucus is controlling that, it’s not long for the world.
Insurance reform is not germane to health care and therefor could not be brought up. The issue will be dealt with by AIG lobbyist Chris Dodd at his next hearing….sometime.
Just heard Peter DeFazio of Oregon saying something to the effect that he thought it would be difficult to revisit the anti-trust exemption any time soon. Difficult to listen to “liberal” talk radio basically fall in line with the spin on this “awesome” legislation. Everyone talks about how things will be fixed “down the road.”
Not the site for you: http://www.smirkingchimp.com/
It was legislation to guarantee the health of for profit health insurance corporations.
I wan’t so disturbed by the content itself and we are all free to ignore it. But my main concern as to the diary is that Google will bring it up when anyone puts in 9/11 related searches. I think most loyal Firdoglakers would not like for folks to see that as a representation of what original writing is on the site.
Yes, that hasn’t changed
I find it amusing that this person misinterpreted what was said and then was inflamed by her own misinterpretation. But only slightly less inflamed when her misunderstanding was explained to her.
“Ask not at whom the Chimp smirks. He smirks at you.”
Except apparently it has:
Good morning.
It’s not up to you. Trust FDL to run their site as they see fit. That’s not to say you aren’t entitled to your opinion, but you should cease assuming that your opinion has any more relevance than anyone else’s. Your ‘concern’ is how you justify your attempts to control other people’s expression.
: )
Why not prolong the agony.
I find it amusing that those who begin sentences with “I find it amusing that..” rarely seem to be actually amused. Some other sentiment may be afoot.
I don’t go through life fretting about what people think about me based on what I read. If I find it too offensive or too stupid, I stop reading it. The only power we have is where we spend our money and who we lend legitimacy to.
Economically my family did pretty well during Clinton. However the repeal of the Glass Steagall act near the end of his last term was a big mistake that added to the problems we are now having.
I think that is what I said –or at least meant to.
My family did well also. Agree re Glass Steagall.
As you like.
: )
Margaret’s comment was totally obvious. TS immediately started to slander her. He calls me names. There are several other persons who have deprecated comments by others, with regard to certain unnamed topics disapproved by Cass Sunstein. If someone wants to call me names, fine. I call myself the Counter-Attacker Man.
Ah! My bad. :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na2W38tLp_Q
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16 billion dollars per month of taxpayer dollars and debt. Is this a great country or what?
Nice, a truther thread. Have there been others.
Previous comment responding to you.
Or, What To Do In A Zombie Attack.
I’ll say only that that is not representative of the Lake.
I don’t put that on Clinton, just that the decline began to pick up steam while he was in office. He didn’t embrace Friedman’s free market stance nearly as much as Shrub did.
(I was not attempting to control what anyone said. Even the part about accusing me of being anti-Semitic and then strangely calling me a Mossad agent serving as a megaphone for their conspiracies.)
I don’t think FDL does but should they expect us to just show up and never dissent or make a suggestion then I would have to go find another Veal pen.
He didn’t talk like he did, but he definately shares the blame for where we’re at, imo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rubin
Rachel Maddow doesn’t like the views of progressives on the passing of the Senate health care reform bill. (That is, not since she, along with Ed Schultz, experienced her 180 degree “epiphany”, suddenly favoring the passage of the dreadful Senate legislation…the same epiphany experienced by Dennis Kucinich and the rest of the House Progressive Caucus.)
Why should anyone be surprised that she looks unfavorably on the teabaggers?
What do you think she’d say about Jane?
There’s a big difference between the Medicare mandate and the mandate to buy private insurance in THIS bill.
Medicare is standardized, regulated and has oversight, not to mention that it’s VERY inexpensive.
Also, the ‘insurance agent’ in Medicare is the federal govt, as they are the ones who pay providers. When you are enrolled into Medicare, you know exactly what you will and won’t get and you have recourse.
OTOH, well you know that mandating us to buy a plan from a private, for private, unregulated, monopolistic industry who have been the problem all along, will not guarantee us or protect us from crap. The only thing it guarantees is more obscene profits for the insurance/pharma cartels and that we will continue to be abused by them, and now with the govt’s OFFICIAL blessings.
Has Rachel ever had Jane on her show?
I’ve had to stop watching Rachel. I don’t know which is worse, her show or nails scratching on a chalkboard.
My nerves don’t handle either one too well.
Bush is a lying, mentally twisted, CHIMP who with his sidekick Darth Cheney destroyed tens of thousands of peoples lifes while in power
Obama is a lying, mentally twisted, CHUMP who with his sidekick Robot Rahm is destroying tens of millions of peoples lifes while in power.
Get a grip folks, the country is going down the tubes fast and furious, and we spend our time worrying about name calling…wait until the madness really hits the fan in a short while and we have death and chaos in the streets…name calling will be the least of our problems! Flame on…
edve, #150
Bush is still President?
Raising hand.
Also, Medicare has a lot of the same features as “regular” insurance: co-pays, deductibles, excluded treatments/tests.
it does have some good features [no pre-existing condition kick-out, as far as I can tell], but I agree: as we push for “Medicare for all,” we need to tune up Medicare. However, it looks to me like current legislation and anticipated “fixes” are taking its tires and engine.
Obama’s not taking responsibility — nor are the media pointing out — for the fact that if he had come in and acknowledged the valid points folks had about being screwed by banks, insurance companies, drug manufacturers and then put forth proposals to do something about it, that would have defused a large portion of this anger and frustration.
Not, of course, the part that’s racially motivated and just plain crazy, but a portion.
But having installed Geithner and his Goldman friends in the Administration, and invited the drug and insurance folks over to make the secret deals, he couldn’t very well harness the anger in the direction it deserved.
Plus, he was so focused on getting a “win,” rather than proposing the right stuff, fighting for it, and taking a “loss” or scale-back if he had to, that he again couldn’t say “the forces against us are strong, they’ve got a lot of money and “friends,” but we’re going to fight. Join us.”
Finally, his whole ridiculous “bi-partisan” crap demonstrated that bullying, violence, threats and acting out would be rewarded. He never drew a line in the sand and said, “this type of behavior is un-American. It’s got to stop,” with regard to both the violence and the unremitting obstructionism.
Hell, it worked for Mitch McConnell & Bart Stupak. What sort of lesson are these loons in the street supposed to take from all that?