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Sold Down The River

April 12, 2011

Before steamboats proliferated, goods could not easily be moved upstream on the Mississippi River. It was much easier to "go with the flow", as it were, because of the prohibitive cost of sending goods up river. "Sold down the river" was the easier, cheaper, status-quo method of moving your products to markets. President Obama will [...]

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Leaning Forward, Falling Backward

December 28, 2010

Perhaps you've seen MSNBC's new slogan…."Lean Forward." A year ago on the Blog of Mass Destruction…. December 19, 2009…. With corporately-compromised Democrats leaving potential Democratic voters despondent because of their refusal to get tough and do the will of the majority of Americans, it is conceivable that the…..Republican Party TeaBaggers could rise to snatch the [...]

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Stupid Is As Stupid Does

December 13, 2010

NY Times… Mr. Goolsbee said the White House was betting that after a two-year extension of tax policies of President George W. Bush, it would be far harder for Republicans to defend the tax cuts for the wealthy in 2012, when the economy is expected to be stronger, thereby weakening their argument that allowing tax [...]

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Obama Scolds His Base….Again

December 8, 2010

Obama scolding the very people who put him in office….. So this notion that somehow we are willing to compromise too much reminds me of the debate that we had during health care. This is the public option debate all over again. So I pass a signature piece of legislation where we finally get health [...]

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Gibbs Goes Winger

August 11, 2010

Robert Gibbs throws a Sarah Palin-like temper tantrum…. “I hear these people saying he’s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested,” Gibbs said. “I mean, it’s crazy.” March 12, 2010, Blog of Mass Destruction: Different President, Same Lawlessness:"President Obama, despite his many campaign attacks on the "lawless" Bush-Cheney regime, has continued those [...]

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Drilled

April 1, 2010

Remember the good ole' days when presidential candidate, Barack Obama, was described by less-than-honest Republicans and conservatives as the "most liberal senator in the Senate?" Remember that? This liberal is still waiting for a few of those, you know, "green shoots", of new liberal goverance in America, to sprout. I'm relatively sure at this point [...]

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Health Care Reform…..Almost Done

December 21, 2009

In the early morning hours today, the Senate voted 60-40 for cloture on….. ….a major package of health care amendments–and by doing so, signaled that the Democratic caucus is unified, and ready to pass a far-reaching reform bill straight down party lines. The Senate is now expected to hold more procedural votes on Tuesday and [...]

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Kill The Bill

December 17, 2009

The last two mornings my Roadrunner has been working like an old Ford with a bad carburetur……every time I would try to save my work, it was lost. Lots of very vulgar words were spoken. If you didn't see Keith Olbermann's special comment last night urging Congress and the president to scrap the current rubbish [...]

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No Change At All

December 15, 2009

The Obama White House and Congressional Democrats are hurriedly wrapping the huge Christmas present they're preparing to give to their bestest friends forever….for-profit coporate health care insurers. Rahm Emanuel, Obama's Chief of Staff, is doing most of the holiday wrapping this year…. Obama administration officials were not pleased when word leaked out earlier today that [...]

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Medicare Buy-In

December 9, 2009

Now it's getting embarassing. As I predicted, the Senate has jettisoned the public health insurance option……not that this is a surprise in any way. Many Senators work directly for big medical-pharma-insurance corporations who pay for their elections. Nothing personal against those Americans who need health insurance, mind you……it's just not in their corporate clients' interest……profits [...]

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