Maybe Obama Should Use GE Public Financing

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Monday February 18, 2008 · 6:38 AM PST

2008/02/18 · 06:38

The conventional wisdom is that Barrack Obama should NOT take public financing... but I am going to advocate the other side for a moment.

If McCain and Obama are BOTH matched evenly for campaign funds (they both are publicly financed) then:

(1) More money would be available to downticket races, especially if Obama would make sure that every campaign stop is an Obama event as well as an event for the local Dem candidate. Obama could raise money for the downticket races instead of his own. All of the Republican organizations are having money troubles and the DNC could raise money for Obama if needed. Strengthening the Democratic Party and taking it away from the big donors would be a blessing. If Obama wins and that's very likely, why not concentrate on bringing-in a massively stronger reform legislature as well? THINK FDR!

(2) The DC "Dem" beltway consultants would have to endure a well-deserved famine. Union-busting assholes who take time off to support a 'Dem' candidate can kiss my ass. They have been sucking up millions and the DLC Dems lose anyway, so the survivors would come back hungrier and more focused on what "We, the People..." want over what corporations want at our expense.

There are probably more arguments available... Please discuss.

--Lefty!!!

The 'Limblog Report': CA Dem Pres Exit Poll

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Tuesday February 05, 2008 · 5:27 AM PST

2008/02/05 · 05:27

Not much to say here.

When you have ACTUALLY voted in California for the Dem Presidential Nominee, please take this poll.

Don't tell us how you would have voted... if only you could/would have voted. Let's hear from ACTUAL Voters.

It's too late to 'cheat' and have any real effect on the actual primary results, so this poll relies on the 'Honor System'. Let's find out if the CA Kossack vote actually reflects the way the rest of CA voted tonight.

California Kossacks and other with interest, please consider recommending this diary to keep the poll up today.

--Lefty!!!

Poll

48 votes Show Results

California Kossack Exit Poll

48 votes Vote Now!

California Kossack Exit Poll

Actually Voted for Clinton

7 votes

Actually Voted for Obama

29 votes

Actually Voted for Some Other Dem

0 votes

Actually Voted for Some Republican

0 votes

Actually Voted for Ron Paul

3 votes

Actually Voted for 'None of the Above'

1 vote

Actually... I am going to LIE about my vote after the fact, you stinking LIBRUL busybodies!

5 votes

Actually, my dog ate my vote... you stinking LIBRUL busybodies!

3 votes

Personal Polling in CA

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Friday February 01, 2008 · 7:58 AM PST

2008/02/01 · 07:58

After last night's debate I held a personal poll in the Limblog household.

Two members and 100% of the votes are in.

There were two Edwards supporters up to his stepping back out of the race in this poll.

Edwards Supporters changing to Obama: 2 - 100%
Edwards Supporters changing to Clinton: 0 - 0%

Did we know any other Edwards Supporters switching to Clinton? NO.

This non-scientific poll will likely be borne out in CA on Feb 5th, we hope.

--Lefty!!!

Hello? Dem Candidates? It's NOT About YOU!

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Wednesday January 23, 2008 · 4:49 AM PST

2008/01/23 · 04:49

Hello? Candidates? Being chosen to work for the American people on a four-year, single-renewal contract is NOT about you, other than whether WE think you are qualified.

I was pretty disgusted to watch the last Dem Debate. The sense of entitlement from the Clinton campaign and Obama arguing about Reagan were... to put it mildly... off-putting.

Start talking about what you are going to do for US or take a hike.

After that mess, I am for John Edwards!

--Lefty!!!

Yesterday, I Forgave Bill and Hill

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Thursday January 17, 2008 · 6:09 AM PST

2008/01/17 · 06:09

Yesterday, January 16th, 2008 in the morning when I got up, I did not know Bill Clinton was coming to Napa, California to stump for Hillary Clinton's presidential bid. My wife told me about it around 10:40 AM and the meeting was supposed to begin at 2:30 PM.

I put the batteries for the camera and the video camera on the charger, took a shower in no particular hurry and set out to tape what I could.

I had not really admitted it but this old progressive was MAD at Bill and Hill, very, very MAD!

But I came to forgive them. Here is why.

More over the jump...

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Wednesday January 09, 2008 · 12:52 PM PST

2008/01/09 · 12:52

I read the 'Democracy for New Hampshire' post that 81% of votes counted in NH were on Diebold Optical scanners and many citizens are not allowed to watch, question procedures or vote counts.

Nobody can PROVE that Hillary or McCain won, or PROVE they didn't.

And NOBODY, not Dems, not Reps... has done anything in EIGHT YEARS.

There are STILL states that have no re-count rules at all and disturbing numbers of states that have no mechanism for citizens to demand a recount.

When the US choses, 'Exit Polling' numbers are used to prove 'election irregularities' in other countries like the Ukraine. But... somehow in 2008, EIGHT YEARS after election 2000 first threw mud in our eyes, we are supposed to believe 'the polling was wrong'.

B.U.L.L.S.H.I.T.

My hunch is that we are going to hear lots about how the race tightens between this nominee and that nominee. Then it's going to slip into the 'margin of error', to paralyse us into doubting the results. Then crooked voting machines and crooks are going to do what the crooks have been doing since 2000. And years later, the truth comes out.

So, if we are told 'our' side won, could one of 'the winners' actually do something about this tragedy?

--Lefty!!!

Lower Malpractice Premiums with Single-Payer!

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Monday November 26, 2007 · 8:01 AM PST

2007/11/26 · 08:01

I've seen some real heated rhetoric tossed around DKos about doctors/malpractice issues... and decided to see this Kossack could help pull "the thorn from the lion's paw".

The notion struck me that 'single-payer' healthcare eliminates one item for which doctors get sued if medical errors are made.

That eliminated item is the cost of medical care for the victim of malpractice. Why? Because a single-payer healthcare system would pay for all the medical care of all citizens. Someone would not have to sue to get remedial medical care due to some medical error.

This still leaves lawyers with other actionable items for a lawsuit, but the addition of a disability pension system for victims of medical errors would go along way towards eliminating medical malpractice lawsuits if the victims did not have to wait for years on the legal system and would accept the disability pension instead.

What do you think?

--Lefty!!!

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35 votes Show Results

Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Under Single-Payer Healthcare

35 votes Vote Now!

Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Under Single-Payer Healthcare

Could Go DOWN

14 votes

Could Go UP

0 votes

Would go DOWN with a Medical Error Disability Pension System

13 votes

Would go UP with a Medical Error Disability Pension System.

2 votes

Nothing's gonna change

6 votes

'Debates' Managed by Corpocrocs Suck!

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Thursday November 15, 2007 · 8:34 PM PST

2007/11/15 · 20:34

I am writing this brief missive to say that I am tired of 'Debates' as proffered by corporate propaganda networks. The Corporate Numbskull Network is no less of a bushitery than FAUX NOISE. Ban them all!

I don't even much care which party it is, corporate flacks and 'misinformation' operations run crappy 'debates'.

When the 'League of Women Voters' handled debates they were much more valuable, unless you count the fancy graphics and stage sets as value-added.

And... NOW... even more disgustingly... the 'after-debate spin' and 'horserace babble' has moved to DailyKos because they know that we won't watch their bushite on TV.

Frankly, I don't care who bitch-slapped whom. I came away convinced that Kuchinich was the most Democratic Democrat on the stage and just like Ron Paul in the Republican debates the other folks look bad in comparison to the Black Sheep of both parties.

--Lefty!!!

Turncoats in the Democratic Party

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Friday November 02, 2007 · 4:15 PM PDT

2007/11/02 · 16:15

Yes, we have Turncoats in the Democratic Party.

For those of us who listened with dismay to the "news" that Senator Feinstein (DINO-CA) and Senator Schumer (DINO-NY) voted with the Evildoers, there can be no clearer message than this that the Washington,DC Evil Empire has not been defeated as yet.

In 2006, the netroots supported Ned LaMont in CT... and the DINOs in Washington, DC most certainly did not. Sen Boxer, and Sen Obama both campaigned for... Lieberman. How did that turn out for ya? In CT the netroots candidate lost... and Reid has had Lieberman to hide behind ever since.

On Aug 15,2005, I started a site to Dump DIFI, which was largely ignored when I wasn't pilloried as some kind of traitor to the Democratic Party. Maybe I was ahead of the curve... "Dianne Feinstein - Torture Condoner"

California Dems - NOW how about dumping Bush Dogs when we get the chance?

--Lefty!!!

Where's That BIG Rubberstamp?

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Thursday October 04, 2007 · 9:56 AM PDT

2007/10/04 · 09:56

Many who watched some, or any... of the C-SPAN coverage of the 'Young Dems At Nite' show on C-SPAN remember that 'BIG Rubberstamp' up by the podium as those folks correctly disparaged the Rubberstamp Republicans for giving Mr. Bungle and his Wrecking Crew everything they wanted and then some...

So where is it now?

Nancy, Stenny, and Rahm in the House...

And...

Harry, Dianne and Joe n the Senate need it!

They've been pretty much talking tough, but using their little rubberstamps to give Mr. Bungle pretty much whatever he wants...

That BIG rubberstamp might just save them some effort.

American kids marooned in Iraq are gonna keep dying for Washington insider hyena politics anyway.

--Lefty!!!

Obamies and Edwardsies in CA?

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Monday September 24, 2007 · 12:10 PM PDT

2007/09/24 · 12:10

California has moved into the early primary states and that puts pressure on the 2nd and 3rd candidates to win in CA rather quickly after the very early primary states.

It is pretty obvious to me that the Sunday bobbleheads are trying to anoint Hill-n-Bill as the Dem nominee now. Rupert Murdoch wants her. The Bushite Pioneers want her. It was leaked that even Mr. Bungle 'the Decider' has decided that Hill-n-Bill will be the next president.

The 'California Democratic Party' apparatus wants her, just like they wanted Schwartzeneggar -- God knows why in both cases.

Is Hill-n-Bill what California wants? Really?

Where are the stories of primary challengers for the California contingent of the DC 'Dem' jellyfish?

Is the 'fix' in for CA's nomination process?

For the sake of America the Beautiful, I sure hope not.

--Lefty!!!

LL: You'd Think It Was High School

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Thursday September 06, 2007 · 6:47 AM PDT

2007/09/06 · 06:47

Today, I checked the Iraq Casualties Website and found the deathtoll for Americans troops in Iraq at 749. So about 750 American troops have died so DC 'Dems' could dither...

And now the DC 'Dems' Leadersheep are looking for opportunities to grovel before the shrunken codpiece yet again. "Just say NO!"... why do the Republicans get the good soundbytes?

This is no High School president and student we are electing, folks, this is life and death.

If the DC 'Dem' Leadersheep spend YET ANOTHER $200 billion on 'Bushiter's Folly' while our bridges collapse, 47 million American have no health insurance, and our situation deteriorates...

IF ( We let them get away with it )
THEN...

We deserve the 'government' we are going to get shoved up where the sun don't shine.

ENDIF

--Lefty!!!

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