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To all gutless Obamaistas
I've been trumpeting Obama was a corporatist since late January 2009 based purely on the return of the Robert Rubin crowd and the dumping of the team that ran the 2008 campaign so beautifully. But ...
LouisMartin 03/30/2011 81 - - 258
A Modest Proposal regarding Healthcare
Now that the healthcare debate has been reduced to arguing about how to extract an additional trillion dollars from the economy over the next decade in order to enrich the insurance industry and ...
LouisMartin 07/26/2009 17 2 1 3
An alternative plan for universal health care
I've followed the battle for healthcare reform very carefully, but standing on the sidelines. I joined Harvard Community Health Plan in 1973 directly from Harvard Student Health Plan and have ...
LouisMartin 07/10/2009 10 5 - 10
Is everyone here braindead?
Surely there must be some Kossacks who are old enough to remember how to play political hardball. Stop saying Obama needs to talk to Harry Reid or have a private meeting with Bachus or Nelson or ...
LouisMartin 06/21/2009 32 26 - 28
A plea and a challenge
I must first apoligize for my lack of research and investigative reporting skills. All too frequently I depend upon my personal memories of political events which only exist as history to so many ...
LouisMartin 06/11/2009 4 - - 2
Dem Senators for usury!!
I'm so outraged that it's very difficult to write anything about the Democratic Senators who voted NAY to the amendment to cap credit card interest at 15%!! These are the flunkies of the bankers ...
LouisMartin 05/13/2009 46 4 - 3
Sen. Durbin - " Banks Frankly Own the Place"
From the Huffington Post "Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has been battling the banks the last few weeks in an effort to get 60 votes lined up for bankruptcy reform. He's losing. On Monday night in ...
LouisMartin 04/29/2009 35 32 1 28
"Executive Experience" My Ass
If they get the lie out soon enough, and have it repeated often enough, these Rovians operate under the assumption that the American voter is too stupid to remember anything from American History.
LouisMartin 09/01/2008 25 2 1 4
A Note to Louisiana's Parents
So, I see your state government has finally done it... Louisiana's Governor Bobby Jindal signed Senate Bill 733 into law, 27 years after the state passed its Balance Treatment for ...
LouisMartin 06/29/2008 19 2 - 13
Musings on Same Sex Marriage
Brain Teaser 1.... A young couple misses closing time at the County Clerk's office on a Friday afternoon to sign and pick up their marriage license, but go ahead with the religious ceremony, ...
LouisMartin 05/23/2008 31 12 - 4
How to show our disgust
It seems many of us have reached a point of near total frustration, and yet we have no ideas as to how to express it. March-ins and sit-ins are passe, and given the current nature of "homeland ...
LouisMartin 12/10/2007 13 2 - 255
Thinking about Iraq after we withdraw
This is my first diary. Though I've been lurking here since 2003 and went to Yearly Kos in Las Vegas, I've never felt compelled to diary, leaving that to others with more commitment. However, I've ...
LouisMartin 02/27/2007 10 7 - -
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