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I Am Angry

Tuesday 09 March 2010

by: John Cory, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed 

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; 

Adapted: HeyThereSpaceman., unforth, D Sharon Pruitt)

I am angry.

I'm tired of pundits and know-nothing, media gasbags. I'm tired of snarky "inside politics" programming. I am sick of the bigotry and hatred of "birthers" and faux patriotic cranks and their GOP puppet masters. And I'm really pissed at the Democratic Party that confuses having a plate of limp noodles with having a spine.

I'm going to vomit if I hear the word "bipartisanship" one more time.

It was bipartisanship that gave us this activist, conservative Supreme Court, a Supreme Court that says money is free speech and corporations are persons except when real people try to hold them accountable for their greed and poisonous ways.

Bipartisanship gave us the Patriot Act and FISA and illegal wiretaps and two wars and "free speech zones" and "no fly" lists. God bless bipartisan America.

I get nauseated every time the Senate explains how it takes a super majority to do anything for the American people. Tell you what, Senate Bozos, if it takes 60 votes to pass legislation, then it should take 60 percent of the popular vote to get you elected.

When some Tea Party crank says, "I want my country back," I respond, "No madam, you want your country backward."

When a deficit-mongering politician says, "How do we pay for this?," why not ask, "What did you Republicans do with the surplus we Democrats left you?"

When a compassionate conservative says, "Health care reform is socialism," why not answer, "No, sir, it is the moral and American way to care for people"?

Yes, I can hear it now: "You are naïve and simplistic. These are complicated matters and require sophisticated solutions. Democrats are a big tent and strive for balance. But Republicans block our path at every turn. We are thinking and considering new ways to work in harmony with everyone."

Bite me.

The only thing you get with "harmony" is a barbershop quartet.

Democrats, stop being Republican Lite. Stop whining about that mean GOP and their nasty messaging. Grow a pair; get a message; get a bumper sticker and hang it out there. Get some strong vivid talking points.

G-O-P = Greed Over People.

Greed kills - jobs, people and the economy.

Terrorism is Viagra for Republicans: The more fear - the more excited they get.

When a soldier dies for America, who dares ask if they were gay or straight?

Don't act so shocked, Democratic Party. Have you looked around lately?

You're losing the young vote that showed up to elect Obama. You're losing those old enough to remember real Democrats. Why? Because you don't talk to them anymore than you talk to me. You talk at me. You talk around me. You talk down to me. You talk about me. You don't talk with me. And you don't inspire and you don't champion and without that you are nothing more than an arbitrator of compromise and abdication.

You are facing a bully. Deal with it!

Republicans want the country backward. They champion superstition over science because it entrenches ignorance and bigotry and captures the easily frightened.

Republicans treat the Constitution the way they treat the Bible, with selective interpretation and selective application to others, while exempting themselves from judgment and accountability.

Republicans preach the gospel of fear because fear is darkness and darkness covers their theft of civil liberties and constitutional principles.

For 30 years the Republican Party has claimed the mantel of law and order, but now quake in dread of the American judicial system when putting terrorists on trial. How criminal is that?

Torture is illegal. Period. John Wayne and Jack Bauer were not our Founding Fathers - only in the make-believe world of Republican drugstore patriots.

"Don't ask, don't tell" needs to be repealed. Now. It is unconscionable, immoral and disgusting.

Empathy, compassion and equality are not pejoratives. They are American values proven again and again throughout our history.

Republicans believe that bake sales and cookies for chemotherapy best determine the value of life and health care because life is a pre-existing condition and the "free market" should not have to take on such a high risk - after all, no one gets out alive, so why should the corporation be left holding the bag? Unless, of course, the price is right.

Republicans believe that government should keep its hands off health care, but should put its hands inside a woman's body.

Republicans believe in small government - small enough to hold the "right" people and small enough to be owned and operated by the right people. And who are the right people? Them. Not you.

Democratic Party, DNC, DLCC, DSCC or whatever your acronym - I have only one question for you: Really?

You can't win against these guys? You can't get your message out against these guys? You can't give America leadership against these guys?

Really? 

 
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Let The Sun Shine In......

Insurance Companies Can't Be Held Accountable If They Can Dictate Legislation

Chris Bowers is right on! This is all about who runs this country, in the final analysis. 

Is it the people, the bought-and-paid-for, by big corporations, elected officials, or the officers of big corporations, who continue to see that their stock options don't bleed nor do their bonuses cease to reach astounding, if not nauseating heights, even when they have run their conpanies into the ground with deceitful business and accounting practices?


I guess we will soon know where we stand.When that happens, if we see what we believe to be the truth, that corporate types run not only our nation, but more or less the whole world, it will be time for people of intelligence and decency to come up with a way to deal with the people who buy our elected officials and screw the people every chance they get.

 If these deceitful, greedy fear-mongers cannot be held accountable under laws they help write, it will be up to the citizens to hold them accountable by way of mass non-violent action.


 

by: Chris Bowers Thu Sep 10, 2009 at 15:25
Last night, President Obama said that he wants to hold insurance companies accountable: Now, I have no interest in putting insurance companies out of business.  They provide a legitimate service, and employ a lot of our friends and neighbors.  I just want to hold them accountable. And he told House Progressives that the public option was only one of many possible means to that end: To my progressive friends, I would remind you that for decades, the driving idea behind reform has been to end insurance company abuses and make coverage affordable for those without it.  The public option is only a means to that end - and we should remain open to other ideas that accomplish our ultimate goal. In response, I submit the following: it is impossible for the federal government to hold insurance companies accountable if those insurance companies can dictate whatever types of legislation they want to Congress. Private health insurance companies have made the public option just as much of a sticking point as House   Progressives have. Whereas House Progressives have stated they will oppose any health care reform legislation without a "robust" public option, private health insurance companies have stated they will oppose any legislation that includes one. If these private health insurance companies can have a public option removed from health care legislation just because they do, then there is really no way to hold private health insurance companies accountable. If these companies have enough control over the federal government that they can dictate legislation against the wishes of the member of Congress themselves, then there is simply no way that the federal government can hold private health insurance companies accountable by any means. So far under the Democratic trifecta, we had stimulus bill that was approved of by the Chamber of Commerce. We saw limits on executive compensation for firms receiving bailout money removed from that same stimulus bill in order to get those executives to accept hundreds of billions in government loans. We had bankruptcy reform favorable to people losing their homes removed from housing legislation in order to appease those same banks. We saw six Democratic Senators flip on card check legislation to appease large employers. We saw a climate change bill that gives away billions of dollars worth of pollution permits to major polluters for free. Now, we have a health insurance industry seeking to kill a public health insurance option just because there might be a chance that providing insurance to people without providing hundreds of millions in salaries to executives might actually result in lower-priced health insurance. I submit that as long as powerful financial institutions--and that is exactly what private health insurance companies are--can dictate legislation to Congress, then there is no possible way for Congress to hold those financial institutions accountable. You can't drop the public option at the behest of private health insurers and then still think you are somehow going to hold those insurers accountable through a different means. (We could not agree more! As long as these crooks called corporate officers are not held accountable lawfully for their greed and other heinous behavior and we cannot get the big money out of politics, the ordinary Joes and Josephines of America don't stand a chance of not living the rest of their lives under crushing debt and real death panels run by big health-care corporations, but which are never talked about.  Nothing of any importance will ever change in this country until we demand 1) publicly funded campaigns and elections, 2)  that the electoral college is abolished, at least in its current form and 3) that every voting machine in America has a paper trail.) This fight is about who runs the country. If Congress drops the public option, it will be because private health insurers told them to drop it. If there is no public option, then these powerful corporations and financial institutions are the ones telling Congress what to do, not the other way around. And when someone is only and ever giving you orders, good luck ever holding that someone accountable. Ever.

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Let The Sun Shine In......