Last night Ken and I were talking about the pointlessness of speeches on the House floor. I had been telling him how moved I was by Donna Edwards' very personal explanation of why she was voting for health care reform. We both marveled at how shamelessly one well-fed Republican zombie after another got up to the podium to recite identical , canned talking point meant only to distort facts and frighten...
Ring of Fire 's Mike Papantonio may be one of the only couple of good things left on Air America these days, and here Pap Attacks the health insurance corporations with the help of Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla, ) who is so refreshingly logical that he makes me want to cry. Why is it so hard for Americans to get their minds around the concept of shaking up a corrupt industry in order to help our neighbors...
Just as Rep. Alan Grayson, who called the health-crisis an American "Holocaust" on the House Floor gets far less criticism for his remarks than stray private citizens carrying rude signs at Tea Party rallies, this ought to slide by left...
" Why Does Sen Tom Coburn (R-OK) Hate the Troops? Tom Coburn, who ran on the platform that there were lesbians in lavatories all over Oklahoma and when asked couldn't explain why that was relevant to the Senate race, turns out to be the one who's been blocking veterans' benefits bills for months. " Dustbowl memories , " Catastrophe enough to forever dash optimism and hope. ." And...
All through history, anti-Semitism has been a mainstay of right-wing extremism-- and not just in overseas manifestations from the Babylonian Captivity, the blood libels, the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition to pogroms throughout Europe and the Nazis' systematic Holocaust-- but also right here in America, where the KKK, Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent , Father Coughlin (the Rush Limbaugh of the...
DownWithTyranny!: Senate Prepares To Back Another Obama War Supplemental For Afghanistan Escalation The context is that the Senate is about to sink another few BILLION dollars and thousands of American troops into the "graveyard of empires." A lot of experts think that Afghanistan is ungovernable and unwinnable. We need an exit plan to avoid being stuck there until we can no longer afford...
On a party line vote with one RINO in favor, the Neo-com Democrats pass PelosiCare (the House version of Obamacare). Here are the miscreants that will rob the elderly of medicare and create a death panel so they wont need medicare: From the NY Times Voted YEA Neil Abercrombie D HI-1 Gary L. Ackerman D NY-5 Robert E. Andrews D NJ-1 Michael Arcuri D NY-24 Xavier Becerra D CA-31 Howard L. Berman D CA-28...
Marcy Kaptur is on C-Span right now talking glowingly about the anti-women's rights addition to the Insurance Industry Protection Act. Sigh. Now somebody else [Christopher Smith] is up, talking about the huge number of babies who would have been killed and all the mothers who would have been wounded without the intervention of the brave right-to-life souls who got this amendment into the bill. Eric...
Baghdad Bob Gibbs, the current Minister of Propaganda, bemoans the use of fascist images, because no one has ever done that before. Its so gauche. I've seen much worse than Hitler images in the streets over the past 4 years. February 2006 Washington DC World Cant Wait Gibbs: Can You Imagine if, 5 Years Ago, People Had Protested With Hitler Pictures?!? The Hammer Drops: Let's help Gibbs out with this...
ht Think Progress Those chucklehead Republicans went all apeshit on the House floor today. Ha! And you all were watching football!!! The conservative clown troupe first objects to the democRAT ladies talking at all. Representative John Dingell (D-Michigan) ages right before your eyes!!! Representative Alan Grayson (D-Florida) jumped up, stripped his clothes off, and yelled, “Suck it, losers!!!!”...
Outside of financial reform and monetary policy, I haven't followed anything that Alan Grayson has been working on. But on those issues I've been extremely impressed. This is someone who's taking positions and asking questions long understood to be taboo, at least if one wanted to avoid getting on the wrong side of some powerful interests. He's in a tough home district, and I hope his
It wasn't so long ago that Republicans had a hissy-fit over Alan Grayson, who is Jewish, using the word "holocaust" (lower-case "h") to describe the deaths of over 40,000 Americans EVERY YEAR due to lack of health care coverage. Richard Blair wants to know , and so do I, why NOT ONE REPUBLICAN has taken a similar stand of outrage against the lunatic frothing teabagger who went to...
The 2010 midterms are just around the corner (sort of). Here's what's happening: Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) claimed he didn't endorse the stimulus, even though he stumped for it at a rally with President Obama; the Club for Growth, meanwhile, is airing a TV ad that highlights his erstwhile stimulus support; Ned Lamont, the Democrat who defeated Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) in the 2006 Democratic...
Ex Citigroup-CEO apologizes for role in building it, says bring back Glass-Steagall and break up Citigroup. Alan Grayson. Congressman with guts Doubt raised about theory of peak oil. Arrested trader Zvi Goffer nicknamed “Octopussy” because he had sources everywhere. A Right Wing Coup. Tory Euro-skeptics power grab endangers ECR Group and UK Election chances. Dicking and dithering in Afghanistan...
Today, Robert Gibbs lamented some of the offensive signs at Bachmann's anti-health bill rally (of which there were some, but not enough to even fill out HuffPo's 12 Most Offensive slideshow ): "I will continue to say what I've said before. You hear in this debate, you hear analogies, you hear references to, you see pictures about and depictions of individuals that are truly stunning, and you...
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