Obama abandons liberal House members.

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Thursday July 15, 2010 · 8:40 AM PDT

2010/07/15 · 08:40

At risk House members who took the more liberal votes on health care, on climate, on stimulus, on Wall Street are mad at Obama for failing to support them for taking the principled stands that Obama would not.

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Tuesday July 13, 2010 · 8:51 PM PDT

2010/07/13 · 20:51

China hopes social safety net will push its citizens to consume more, save less

And China's main reason for adding economic safety net of unemployment, medical care and retirement, it will spur economic growth.

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Sunday July 11, 2010 · 6:09 AM PDT

2010/07/11 · 06:09

Barack Obama's oil policy to date.

Open up 3 million acres of US East coast to oil drilling.

Open up 2 million acres of AK to oil drilling.

Stating that government will "protect environment" in both cases. A scientifically and technically impossible lie.

$1T for continued oil wars in Iraqistan.

Letting AK oil Senator Murkowski write Obama's oil/energy climate bill.

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Thursday July 08, 2010 · 8:01 PM PDT

2010/07/08 · 20:01

Polling shows Obama has lost the support of independents with approval rating dropping to 38% vs. 52% in 2008 election. As we see here on DKOS and also reflected in Obama's overall approval rating of 46%, Obama has also lost a substantial portions number of Liberal Democrats.

The reasons are Obama failed to deliver on his liberal, reform agenda, not, as the right wing GOP claims that Obama "went too far".

Axelrod and Emanuel and others argue Obama went too far left but as we remember from the health care debate, the public by 70% margins SUPPORTED Obama's campaign promise of public option. Obama's demise began when he abandoned his campaign promise on public option which was the heart of health care reform.

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Tuesday July 06, 2010 · 7:33 AM PDT

2010/07/06 · 07:33

Barney Frank and Ron Paul have organized a group in Congress to cut US Pentagon budget a modest $1T over next 10 years. A total yearly military budget of $500B.

This is actually a bigger cut than it appears as Frank/Paul's study group baselines military budget at $583B vs. the actual 2010 military spending of $975B which includes Iraqistan war and "supplemental" spending bills.

This is the kind of new thinking US needs if it is going to survive and repair the damage of 30 years of Reaganomics of which a key failure was pointless military spending to pay off military contractor financial contributors to GOP.

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Sunday July 04, 2010 · 9:09 AM PDT

2010/07/04 · 09:09

In many real ways the Gulf Oil disaster is a terrorist attack. It has caused the destruction of an entire sea, the Gulf of Mexico. It has destroyed a massive ecosystem, 40% of US wetlands, 1,500 miles of coastline, thousands of businesses, a million or more jobs, destruction that is still building and will continue for the rest of the century.

The terrorism is the terrorism of oil dependence and of the ideology of "anti-government", of no scientific or technological oversight by government for public interest.

The oil industry has done more damage to America than Bin Laden could hope to do.

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Saturday July 03, 2010 · 6:46 AM PDT

2010/07/03 · 06:46

The US media is missing the real heart of RNC Chair Michael Steele's comments on Afghanistan.

"If he's such a student of history, has he not understood that, you know, that's the one thing you don't do is engage in a land war in Afghanistan? All right? Because everyone who's tried, over a thousand years of history, has failed," Steele said. "And there are reasons for that. There are other ways to engage in Afghanistan."

I wish Obama had said that! I wish Petraeus had the courage and patriotism to say that at his confirmation hearing.

Poor bumbling Steele, he correctly states why Bush/GOP war in Afghanistan was a disaster, a foregone disaster based on 1,000 years of history. Steele is also correct that it is now Obama's war just as it was Gorbachev's war previously. It's Obama's war because he chose to escalate a war that US should never have engaged in, a land war in Afghanistan to impose a US puppet government on the Afghans.

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Thursday July 01, 2010 · 11:22 PM PDT

2010/07/01 · 23:22

The House just voted to send $30B down the Karzai heroin dealer rat hole in Afghanistan while denying $20B to US unemployed and states bankrupted by the Afghanistan war and other GOP disasters like Wall Street fraud collapse.

The House can pass that before July 4th but can't pass $10B worth of unemployment help for US workers who lost their jobs because US dumped $1T to finance corruption and Cheney/Bush hubris in the Middle East benefiting no one but Halliburton and Blackwater.

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Thursday July 01, 2010 · 7:37 PM PDT

2010/07/01 · 19:37

Nancy Pelosi finally came out and told the Democrats that they need to kill the filibuster if they are going to survive, if the nation is going to survive.

Democrats could end it now via the "Nuclear Option" (link below) which the GOP used on the Democrats in 2005. Democrats could invoke it, do the stimulus, extend unemployment, fix health care, fix the Wall St. bill, close Guantanamo, pass equal right and likely save the Democratic majority.

Or as it should be called as Democrats end minority rule THE CONSTITUTIONAL OPTION.

If nothing else, Democrats should agree as an issue for the 2010 elections that they will kill the filibuster if voters give them a second chance in November. Democrats can say the tried to be bipartisan but GOP would never do what is in the nation's best interest. The GOP cannot be trusted with government and Democrats will end the tyranny of the minority if re-elected, the will invoke the CONSTITUTIONAL OPTION and save America from the GOP. A unifying and winning theme for Democrats to save themselves in 2010.

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Tuesday June 29, 2010 · 1:32 PM PDT

2010/06/29 · 13:32

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The authors of sweeping energy legislation stalled in the Senate said Tuesday they were prepared to scale back their bill to get Republican support.

In the short lived, soon to be over, two year Democratic majority, the consistent theme has been propose a bill that contains little (Wall St) or no (health care) reform, claim they lack votes for even that Potemkin "reform" bill despite a solid majority in both houses, offer to gut the bill of any value in return for GOP support, fail to get that support and then pass the useless legislation to claim "progress" and ask for re-election from an increasingly skeptical electorate.

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Sunday June 27, 2010 · 9:58 AM PDT

2010/06/27 · 09:58

Why is this man being sent to Afghanistan? Probably nothing exemplifies the failure of the Obama administration to live up to its promise more than Obama's blind plunge into the quaqmire of Afghanistan.

We see many pretty pictures of Obama and his lovely family but it's not about Obama. It is about Sgt. Keith and his family.

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Thursday June 24, 2010 · 8:21 AM PDT

2010/06/24 · 08:21

One of the coolest government sponsored programs on earth is the Solar Decathlon, created by and sponsored by US Department of Energy. Universities from around the world compete in the event with student teams designing and building zero net energy, sustainable homes for the future.

The event is so popular (and so cool) that this year Europe organized a Solar Decathlon - Europe.

Links to US and European events below. Here are the main goals.

To educate the general public on renewable energy, energy efficiency and the technologies available to help them reduce their energy consumption.

To encourage the use of solar technologies and to distribute them more quickly to the market

To raise awareness of the students participating in the competition of the various benefits and possibilities of using renewable energies and energy efficient construction, challenging them to think creatively about energy and how it affects our everyday lives.

To clearly demonstrate that solar houses can be built without sacrificing energy efficiency or comfort, and that they can be both attractive and affordable.

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