Obama's Social Security/Medicare Betrayal Passes

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Friday December 17, 2010 · 5:51 AM PST

2010/12/17 · 05:51

The first step of Obama's sellout of Social Security and Medicare will be signed very soon!

This corporatist Dem(?) president will accomplish the Republican DREAM by starting the collapse of 'entitlement' programs by passing the Republican tax cuts and allowing the Republicans to write the budget which will reflect those goddamn tax cuts.

How WONDERFULLY corporacraptastic!

~Ruff

Nobody Ever Lost Money Betting Obama Would Capitulate

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Tuesday December 07, 2010 · 5:48 AM PST

2010/12/07 · 05:48

Sad but true... but there are still problems for non-gamblers in the final two years of the Obama administration.

The first problem is that fewer and fewer folks will take the "Won't Capitulate" side of the bet even with odds. It's getting to be like trying to find a 'counter-party' for a bet that the sky is blue on a clear day.

The second problem is that the window of time allowed to make your bet before Obama capitulates grows shorter and shorter. In the case of the healthcare capitulation Obama argued for a public option long after he had sold out on it. (And of course, the gambling community was never even allowed to take bets on single-payer, because those folks got arrested for trusting in Obama's promise that 'everybody will get a seat at the table'.

How soon before 'deficit reduction' comes up? And how long before Obama ~~capitulates~~ sells out on that? I'm really uncertain that the comming Social Security/Medicare cuts can count as a 'capitulation' when Obama forms the Catfood Commission himself.

Hey, bets anyone?!?!

~Ruff

Bernie Sanders - Please Run For President 2012

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Wednesday December 01, 2010 · 12:44 PM PST

2010/12/01 · 12:44

When I read today that Obama is quietly preparing to capitulate on Tax Cuts For the Rich, that tore it for me.

NO MORE!

Bernie Sanders, please consider this a request to allow yourself to be DRAFTED to run in the Democratic Primary for 2012.

No 'Democrat' has the stones to stand up to the bastardoes who have stolen our government and turned it into a 'cash-flow' subsidary of Wall Street.

~Ruff

DEMS: Double or Triple Down NOW!

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Tuesday November 30, 2010 · 12:56 PM PST

2010/11/30 · 12:56

This is the time for some DEMS to show some moxie!

Instead of the tired debate about mouse-nutz tax cuts for the working class and huge tax cuts for the parasite class, it's time to show some BRAINS and GUTS!

The Dems should DOUBLE or TRIPLE the tax cuts for the under $250,000 folks and dare the Republicans to block it.

For God's sake, STOP talking about re-doing Bush crap and go them two or three BETTER!

Alan Grayson, here's a last hurrah to do along with the Medicare Buy-In plan you proposed.

~Ruff

Poll

47 votes Show Results

Tax Cuts

47 votes Vote Now!

Tax Cuts

Extend the mouse-nutz Bush Tax Cuts

4 votes

DOUBLE the tax cuts under $250,000

6 votes

TRIPLE the tax cuts under $250,000

5 votes

Give It ALL to the under $250,000 bracket!

32 votes

I've Heard Enough Now

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Monday November 15, 2010 · 6:19 AM PST

2010/11/15 · 06:19

Save your endless pitches for 'stratergeric' voting for Dems(?) who betray. I don't care if the Repugs can make gains when the base blames 'weakling' Dems(?) who vote like Repugs.

If we don't rid ourselves of the turncoats and backstabbers then we will face endless cycles of betrayal. Why should a Bush Dog vote for the interests of the people who elected them when they can trust the idiots to put them back in office no matter WHAT backstabbing is done?

Therefore... I'm telling everybody right now!

If Obama so much as allows a single reduction in Social Security and Medicare and allows the rich to get their tax cuts at Main Street's expense, I will never vote for another Bush Dog backstabber again including Obama.

N.E.V.E.R. AGAIN!

Save your breath, fanbois and grils.

I don't care anymore, I've had MORE than enough from the 'Et Tu, Brute' caucus of supposed Dems(?) who have had one piece of advice for 30 years, "Move Right".

~Ruff

Liveblog: Napa Dem Event w/ Bill Clinton

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Sunday October 17, 2010 · 1:52 PM PDT

2010/10/17 · 13:52

Sorry, tiny keyboard on cellphone, big fingers. Mrs Ruff is taking pics we hope to add comments.

It's tough getting past the filtering software with a cellphone keyboard, DKos admins.

Doors opened at 1 PM Pacific, program starts at 2PM. That said, we begin.

Most of the comments will be terse mai nly with photos sent over 3G network.

Mr & Mrs Ruff

Make Patents Conditional On USA Manufacture

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Thursday July 29, 2010 · 9:32 AM PDT

2010/07/29 · 09:32

Do you want to have a manufacturing comeback in the USA?

Consider patents, which are government-enforced monopolies on the manufacture of a product. Nowadays, patents are often used by corporations to prevent US manufacture of a good because the monopoly patent holder can choose to make the goods elsewhere that has starvation wages.

So a good step would be to require that all US patents on goods that are sold in the USA have 51% of the entire manufacturing process done in the USA or the patent is open for use by US manufacturers until the 51% level is reached.

All US patent holders must license manufacture in the USA if they do not manufacture 51% of their US sales in the USA.

"You want a USA patent? Then you must make it here."

Expect corporatist squealing in the comments, my friends!

I'm calling all corporatist piggies! Suuuuuuiiiiieeee!

~Ruff

Bad News For Bush Dogs From Nate Silver UPDATED

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Tuesday July 20, 2010 · 9:24 AM PDT

2010/07/20 · 09:24

Yep! Nate Silver['s site] (used to be Poblano on DailyKos)over at fivethirtyeight.com has bad news for Bush Dog Dems? [in the form of a post by Tom Schaller.]

I'm trying to weep for the Bush Dogs, honest.

This is good news for progressives who have been soldout by these turncoat clowns for a year and a half!

When a Bush Dog Dem? comes to you for support, throw them an anchor! Donate to progressive Democrats through ActBlue instead of feeding a Bush Dog!

Write in your vote for a REAL Democrat like Alan Grayson instead of their sellout asses!

NEVER vote for a Repug, but don't vote for Repug-Lite either.

How many posts here and elsewhere tell you that you MUST vote against your best interests so sellouts can continue to undermine and weaken progressive agenda items? Far too many. But we do NOT have to fall for the same old crap yet again.

The House is simple majority rule, we need more LOYAL DEMS! in the caucus, not more turncoats!

Write in a progressive DEMOCRAT instead!

~Ruff

If It Wasn't Liz Fowler...

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Thursday July 15, 2010 · 5:43 AM PDT

2010/07/15 · 05:43

The corporatist leeches would have gotten somebody else to do their dirty work for them.

For one example, AHIP could have used Tom Dashle and did try to get that set up. Remember, good ole Tommy was against the Public Option too!

In spite of all the Dem? campaign promises, Obama colluded with AHIP and the hospitals to make sure there was no Public Option.

Instead of what we were promised, and worked so damn hard to get, what we got was the arrests of pro-single payer activists, no public option, and another government subsidy of corporations with little in the way of cost controls.

Now the budget peacocks will ensure that what little the AHIP subsidy plan does do for average Americans will be underfunded.

So far the corporations still own Washington, DC and... our 'public servants'.

~Ruff

Are You Excited Yet?

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Tuesday July 13, 2010 · 7:31 AM PDT

2010/07/13 · 07:31

Have any of those lectures about how bad the Repugs were/are made you excited about voting for Bush Dog sellouts yet?

Has the Dem? silence and passiveness on UNEMPLOYMENT while the Teabagger crack-heads call the unemployed (like 'Something the Dog Said' for one example) lazy and spoiled, made you eager to open your wallet for Bush Dogs?

Have ANY of the corporatist turncoats won your heart?

If not, find somebody who does have your heart (Alan Grayson maybe?) and write their name in everywhere on the ballot you find a turncoat Bush Dog.

Voting for 'More of the Same' won't help whether it is a corporatist Bush Dog Dem? or a corporatist Bush Dog Repug.

A Bush Dog won't vote in your best interest (if you return them to office) any more than they did in this term.

The oncoming economic collapse will not be stopped by sending the same asshats back to Congress to gut Social Security and call Americans lazy and spoiled for another two years.

~Ruff

I Was Wrong About Obama's Speech Last Night

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Wednesday June 16, 2010 · 7:41 AM PDT

2010/06/16 · 07:41

I had said that I expected "A Great Speech and Half-Measures" yesterday and that I had the title already chosen (in double quotes).

I was wrong.

Because of Obama's Oval Office Speech, I had to re-write the title as above.

It was not a great speech when you consider that Obama can be a tremendous orator. And there was not much talk in the way of even 'half-measures' last night.

Not much new (or news for that matter) at all.

I guess that stuff from the UK about their pension problems if BP has to pay for the full costs of the spill has moved Obama to be even more 'moderate' than his usual level of 'moderation' and tolerance of greedhead misdeeds.

It seems to me to be the same strategy that Obama used with the Banksters and AHIP... let them off the hook until something else even worse comes up to divert media attention.

Sad. Sad. SAD.

Obama could have been the first black FDR and instead he's standing between the bad guys and the folks with pitchforks once again. What is really sad is that these greedhead sociopaths and psychopaths don't appreciate him and are busily sharpening their knives.

Et Tu, Brute?

~Ruff

What's Up With The "OIL CORRAL"?

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Tuesday June 01, 2010 · 1:23 PM PDT

2010/06/01 · 13:23

"Self-regulation" FAILED.
"PR" FAILED.
"Top Hat" FAILED.
"Top Kill" FAILED.
"Junk Shot" FAILED.
"Top Kill" and "Junk Shot" FAILED.
"New BOP" FAILED.

At the root, allowing our politicians to be bought and sold FAILED.

Today's Bloomberg News is saying that BP is going to stop trying and wait for the relief wells to be completed sometime in AUGUST for chrissake.

Why are the government and BP silent about the 'OIL CORRAL'?

Are the DC Dems? EVER going to stop ignoring the folks who worked their asses off to get them elected?

Are these 'elites' going to stand around switching thumbs from oral sphincter to anal sphincter and back again for another TWO MONTHS?

If this is 'the best they can do' it's time to start looking at a fearless progressive like Alan Grayson for president in 2012!

The only thing our system of government allows us to do is FIRE losers and weaklings until we get a better team in place.

Take BP into receivership and fire all the MIS-managers!

If Obama won't take action then we need to FIRE him in 2012.

Flame away, "my friends"

~Ruff

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