Senator Baucus: It's Time To Reset the Table!

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Tuesday May 12, 2009 · 2:35 PM PDT

2009/05/12 · 14:35

I have been reading many diaries in Daily Kos and elsewhere, concerning the way the Senate Finance Committee hearings on Health Care, which begun last week, have been stacked in favor of the powers that be. Indeed, the Committee has heard three panels of witnesses, and not one of them has testified in favor of single-payer. If single-payer is off the table, then a viable, Medicare-like option gets consigned to the edge of the table. A sense of helplessness pervades these articles, as if there is nothing we can do about this. This sense of helplessness is based on two false assumptions: 1) Senator Baucus can set the agenda any way he wants, and 2) The nurses' protest is the only way to voice objection.

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Friday October 17, 2008 · 4:15 AM PDT

2008/10/17 · 04:15

Just a few months ago, the Bush Administration sent me a $600 Economic Stimulus Payment. By sending such payments to taxpayers, this Administration thought it could jump-start the economy.

This stimulus program has proven to be a miserable failure. I put my stimulus payment into the bank, where it has drawn a paltry interest, far less than the rate at which price inflation is eating it away. Thank goodness I didn't put it into my mutual fund, where it would have lost far more of its value.

I have decided that the only way I can help stimulate the economy is to help Barack Obama get elected, and bring real change to our economy and to our nation. So, yesterday I took that stimulus money out of the bank and I donated it to his campaign. I hope all his supporters will consider doing the same.

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw bombs

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Monday October 06, 2008 · 5:44 PM PDT

2008/10/06 · 17:44

The wingnut media smear machine has, over the years, acquired a surface legitimacy that permits it to condone outrageous, even violent or treasonous, behavior that would be immediately seen for what it was, and summarily condemned, were it coming from any other source.

Case in point: the William Ayers "controversy." Reasonable people can see this as a non-issue, but politics does not live by reason alone, to say the least. In their blindness, the MSM have allowed the legitimization of a right-wing worldview that is both false and dangerous. As a result, they simply do not see the patterns of violence and treason, or the advocacy of same, that are actually quite frequent in right wing circles, and frequently condoned by "responsible" conservatives who should know better.

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Friday July 25, 2008 · 9:47 AM PDT

2008/07/25 · 09:47

On last night's Countdown on CSNBC,Keith Olbermann reported that Ben Stein and other right-wing pundits expressed outrage that Barack Obama addressed the people of Berlin outdoors, and 200,000 people took it upon themselves to show up for this event. Horror of horrors! Mr. Stein suggested that this was somehow reminiscent of Nazi rallies, implying some connection between Sen. Obama's candidacy and the danger of fascism. Typical wingnut use of innuendo. I am not writing this diary to bemoan the wingnuts' tendency to stoop to this kind of smear when they're running behind in the polls; we've learned to expect that.

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Saturday July 28, 2007 · 7:17 PM PDT

2007/07/28 · 19:17

This is the first diary I have posted on Daily Kos. I have followed this blog's discussion concerning the absolute necessity that the Legislative branch respond appropriately to the Administration's refusal to honor subpoenas relating to a host of Justice Department misdeeds. This issue is likely to repeat itself many times over, since Congress has the duty to exercise oversight relating to many other things, including: billions in unaccounted-for funding to contractors in Iraq; massive waste and mismanagement in the wake of Katrina; the Energy Task Force; the RNC vanished e-mails; the Abramoff connection; the Bush-Rove-Cheney-DeLay-Abramoff quid-pro-quos; Abu Ghraib; extraordinary rendition; Tillman-gate; political misuse of the Surgeon-General; shoddy care for veterans by politically-favored privatizers; and these are just for starters.

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