Obama Still Leadership Challenged

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Sunday March 07, 2010 · 8:42 AM PST

2010/03/07 · 08:42

Six months ago I wrote a diary questioning Obama's leadership on the health care reform issue that he himself declared was one of his Adminstration's defining challenges. That diary received a lot of negative comments. Right now I'm thinking of egg and faces.

Nothing has changed. Obama still has not delivered because of his "community organizer" aproach to dealing with Republicans. The diary I wrote six months ago is still right on the money about Obama's falilure of leadership. Frankly, I don't think Obama has learned a damn thing. That he may not pass his dilluted, pathetic, fake health care reform bill simply reinforces the point I was making six months ago. (yes, I'm repeating "six months ago" ad nauseum to make a point...It was six fucking months ago.) My other diary is below the fold. It outlines just what Obama should still do, but also what he has demonstrated time and again he is unable or unwilling to do.

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Sunday September 06, 2009 · 7:40 PM PDT

2009/09/06 · 19:40

President Obama will give a speech on his health care plan in a few days. It's beginning to look like he will cave on one of his central campaign themes: a government insurance plan as a central part of health care reform. He campaigned on the promise of a robust publically funded health insurance plan as a counterweight to the greed and inefficiency of private insurance companies. Without the so called public option, adding 46 million uninsured Americans to the ranks of the privately insured will simply funnel billions more of government subsidy money to the same insurance companies that pay ridiculous bonuses to their top exec's, routinely deny legitimate claims and deny insurance based upon pre-existing conditions, and additionally, pay less than 70 cents of every premium dollar to doctors and hospitals as opposed to Medicare which pays 97 cents of every "premium" dollar out to doctors and hospitals. Now, apparently, that "public option" will go the way of the Edsel, and perhaps the way of Obama's non-existent second term.

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Wednesday February 15, 2006 · 1:36 AM PST

2006/02/15 · 01:36

Molly Ivins has another fine article. We've seen the notion of impeaching Bush on dKos for several months, if not years. If not now, when. If not for his arm length rap sheet of constitutional violations, then for what.

Kick the guy out of office. The 2006 mid term elections are elections for the soul of the republic. Will we become a republic again or continue to be a Bush-family-owned-tyranny?

Molly after the fold. Read More

On the Incompetence of Bush

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Tuesday February 14, 2006 · 12:05 PM PST

2006/02/14 · 12:05

The current implosion of the Bush Administration almost gives me wood: teak, I think.

Hypocrisy unmasked with regards to Cheney leaking, his lax muzzle discipline relates to all aspects of his sorry existence. Brownie stridently trying to protect his own ass by putting Chertoff's on the line. Could it be that finally, the American electorate will see through these pieces of s**t. The good news started me on meditation about citizenship and how important it is to actually be a citizen rather than a subject. Here goes. Read More

Dear Howard Dean: Democrats are the Party of Strength, get it?

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Sunday February 05, 2006 · 10:51 AM PST

2006/02/05 · 10:51

Dear Howard Dean,

Next time you want a spokesperson for the Democratic Party don't send someone like Kaine, even though he's the latest poster boy, send a fighting Democrat like John Murtha.
His letter to Bush would have been 1000% better than the tripe we got from Kaine as the Democratic Party response to Bush's State of the Union Address. Howard, why do the American people believe a lying SOB like Bush is better for us on national security issues than our Democratic Party? Quit being an idiot. You keep personally nailing Republicans on their emmersion in the culture of corruption since they control all three branches of government, and let John Murtha speak for the Democratic Party on National Security.

Congressman Murtha's entire letter is below the fold. Read More

Filibuster Alito

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Wednesday January 25, 2006 · 5:00 AM PST

2006/01/25 · 05:00

Read this in Mother Jones about why the Democrats in the Senate have to grow some balls and filibuster Alito. Use the filibuster to focus attention on Bush's rationalization of the concentration of power in the executive, and his incompetence and unlawful behavior.

http://www.motherjones.com/...

And one other thing.....focus attention on judicial activism from the fascist wing of the republican party which controls all three branches of government

Give Me Liberty

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Saturday January 07, 2006 · 7:26 AM PST

2006/01/07 · 07:26

I cross posted this at Booman.

Is this a metaphor for our liberty under Bush attack or what?
by phronesis
Sat Jan 7th, 2006 at 10:30:06 AM EST

Reading this article about a 1200 pound cow caused some late Friday night ruminations.
http://www.twincities.com/... Read More

2006 Democratic Party Resolution

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Sunday January 01, 2006 · 7:31 AM PST

2006/01/01 · 07:31

Cross posted at "Praxis for Progressives."

Read it below the fold.

You'll notice that I don't mention the war in Iraq. Bush will cravenly and, according to Rep. Jean Schmidt, "cowardly" reduce or completely remove our forces in Iraq before the election this year. So his incompetence, hypocrisy and lying will still be an issue, but not the continuation of the war but hey, I wanted to be positive one day out of the year. Read More

Belated Christmas Wish: A Real Democratic Party

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Tuesday December 27, 2005 · 2:38 PM PST

2005/12/27 · 14:38

I saw this Jim Hightower piece on AlterNet and thought this community would like it. It says it all as far as I'm concerned

http://www.alternet.org/...

I think Hightower puts his finger on the entire point: what's the use of a Democratic Party if it doesn't speak for the poor and middle class.

Here's some Jim after the fold. (How can I put quoted passages in those cool boxes I see in other posts? Quotation marks don't set them off as well) Read More

The Biggest Reason Republicans Have Wrecked America

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Saturday December 24, 2005 · 5:16 AM PST

2005/12/24 · 05:16

At DailyKos, we bombard ourselves with all the reasons why the current litter of Republicans are so damaging to our beloved country: incompetence, a culture of exclusion and demonizing people who are different in any way, a culture of lying and corruption, the fucking lunatic religious right who don't understand Jesus or the values of their own political Founders, did I mention incompetence, the dismantling of the New Deal and Civil Rights which made America the light of the world in how working men and women can be both politically and economically free in a capitalist society and served as an antidote to state socialism, redistribution of wealth from the poor and middle classes to the uber rich, and of course all of us could go on and on.

The reason isn't because we're negative Democrats, it's because the Bush Administration and the last 25 years of Republicans give us so many example.

There's more after the fold. Read More

War Profiteering Sleazeballs

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Sunday December 18, 2005 · 1:32 PM PST

2005/12/18 · 13:32

Here's an interesting piece from AlterNet that demonstrates the real reason why we are at war in Iraq.

The article is about a CEO whose bonus bloated compensation package has increased over 13,000% since 9/11 and the start of hostilities in Iraq. God Bless America.

Of course, the most obvious war profiteer in America is VP Dick Cheney who makes millions in blood money from Halliburton's overcharging the US taxpayers for services delivered either not very well or not at all.

http://www.alternet.org/...

Brooks rivals Cheney for war profiteer sleazeball of the year.

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Bush's Dream World

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Sunday November 27, 2005 · 6:17 AM PST

2005/11/27 · 06:17

I had a dream last night. I woke up in the middle of it and it was so good that I actually got myself back to sleep to finish. Unfortunately, the dream was not about my gorgeous wife, or a suitable replacement like Pamela Anderson or Angelina Jolie: it was about George Bush. This in itself is a disturbing statement either about my age (57) or the state of my subconscious mind (At least I thought I was okay).

It gets better after the fold. Read More

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