Pop quiz--name the political leader who said the following: "We must be willing to pull the plug before sinking more dollars into weapons that do not provide what our warriors need." Now name the leader who said this: "(W)e cannot track $2.3 trillion in (Pentagon spending)... We maintain 20 to 25 percent more base infrastructure than we need to support our forces, at an annual waste...
The letter below was sent out by the Progressive Democrats of America, and is reprinted in its entirety with permission from Tim Carpenter, Executive Director. I hope you'll use the links to read the background. The information in the (health care) links talk about a number of things the current legislation being discussed misses. The rights of individual states to allow for Single Payer in just their...
Fresh from his sanctimonious vote against health care reform in congress, Dennis Kucinich of Ohio appeared on "Hardball" tonight to rail against President Obama's impending announcement on troops to Afghanistan. I'm not taking a position in advance of Obama's address next Tuesday. But I do want to object to Kucinich's statement (I paraphrase) that "we owe a debt to Afghan society eventually,...
Can Barney Frank Dunk on Lebron? No, he cannot. Nor can anyone else in Washington. Nor can they catch passes from Ben Rothlisberger in the Super Bowl or strike out Derek Jeter in the World Series. They are not equipped to do so. So what? This ridiculous image speaks to the business malaise infecting the economy since Obama took office. The point is that politicians are equally ill-equipped to run the...
Well, I’ve been wondering what Rep. Dennis Kucinich thinks about the health reform bill and was glad to find an article on why he voted no. Included are his insights into some of the financial shenanigans being perpetrated, too. Wonder why statements from Kucinich and Ron Paul always make more sense to me than their colleagues’ [...]
What do we say when a Senator Abandons his Constituents on such an Important Issue as their Health and Wellbeing ? You can click the title , but I also encourage you to read below. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (Enigma Background with Ohio) I live here in Cleveland, and have for over three years....I have been astounded HOW the Political leaders here treat their citizens....and sadly it is not just Repugs...
If you've been following the Blue America PAC at all, you may already be aware that we've decided that we won't be endorsing any candidates for the House in 2010 unless they are genuinely enthusiastic about passing John Larson's Fair Elections Now Act ( HR 1826 ). We're not asking for some unenforceable pledge; we want nothing less than heartfelt enthusiasm. Right now Larson has 117 co-sponsors from...
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) made the following statement on the House Floor about H. Res 867, which condemns the ‘Goldstone Report’ or the Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict: “Today we journey from Operation Cast Lead to Operation Cast Doubt. Almost as serious as committing war crimes is covering up war crimes, pretending that war crimes...
Entrepreneurs Go on Strike By C. Edmund Wright Can Barney Frank Dunk on Lebron? No, he cannot. Nor can anyone else in Washington. Nor can they catch passes from Ben Rothlisberger in the Super Bowl or strike out Derek Jeter in the World Series. They are not equipped to do so. So what? This ridiculous image speaks to the business malaise infecting the economy since Obama took office. The point is that...
(x-posted at ePluribus media ) Via The Hill, John Conyers hammers Obama's weak stance in the healthcare battle in a radio interview: "I'm getting tired of saving Obama's can in the White House," Conyers said on the liberal Bill Press radio show . "He only won by five votes in the House, and this bill wasn't even anything to write home about." "The only way he could have got...
Dennis Gartman reminds us how intrusive the government actually is. ...the government is moving leftward rapidly here in the US, and as it moves leftward it becomes more and more intrusive into the day-to-day lives of the American people. The federal government mandates the size of our toilets; it mandates the water than can be pushed through our shower heads; it mandates fuel usage for automobiles;...
The paper D&C led this morning's front page with a story on Massa's "no" vote on healthcare reform. The story covers a healthcare rally in Rochester where Dennis Kucinich was featured (via telephone).
Sometimes experience speaks volumes. Such is the case when it comes to Tim Carpenter. The fifth of six speakers who addressed the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. Louis, Carpenter’s resume includes having served on the team that managed the unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign of Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio). Today, he’s known as [...]
"...the bill as it is currently constructed could make a bad situation worse." Six Smart Progressive Complaints About House Health Bill posted by JOHN NICHOLS on 11/09/2009 The Nation The Affordable Health Care for America Act was approved by the U.S. House Saturday night with overwhelming support from progressive Democrats who serve in the chamber and from a president who was nominated and...
The House of Representatives agreed to go into a secret session Thursday night to debate revisions to federal surveillance laws, closing off the chamber for the first time since 1983 at the request of its Republican minority.