The Clinton Deception Continues
The Clinton Machine continues to lie and luckily this time, they got caught.
Obama camp: Clinton would be ‘deeply flawed’ nominee
The Obama campaign launched some of its sharpest attacks to date on Hillary Clinton's candidacy Friday, telling reporters on a conference call that the New York senator is a dishonest politician who has consistently misled voters.
What Happened to Free Speech?
After reading the condemnation coming from so many people regarding Mr. Wright’s alleged anti-American remarks I think it’s important for everyone to take just a minute and recall exactly what is said in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. For those of you that need a little refresher course, here it is: “Congress shall [...]
What’s Hillary Hiding? Where are her Taxes?
Why is is that Hillary hasn't released her Taxes? What's she hiding? Middle East Oil Money? Shady deals? Enron, Qwest and Tyco stock gains? We'd all love to know.
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Midday open thread
09 March 2010
Rove's new book is (obviously) full of lies. By fighting hard, progressives were able to significantly strengthen the health care bill. We obviously didn't get everything we wanted, but we pass this, and we have a good foundation to tinker, improve, and expand. And losing Rush to Costa Rica is just the cherry on top. (Although not for Costa Rica, which would suddenly have justifiable grounds to declare war on the United States.) Iraqi pullout still on track. Iraq's elections went well enough to allow the U.S. military to stick to its plan to withdraw nearly half of the troops this year, the U.S. commander in Iraq said Monday. "Unless there's a catastrophic event, we don't see that changing," Gen. Ray Odierno said. "We believe we're right on track." Odierno said Sunday's vote was another milestone that will let him meet President Obama's intent to have all but 50,000 non-combat servicemembers out of Iraq by the end of August. Odierno said the current level of about 96,000 servicemembers will remain relatively flat until May. He will then gradually pull out troops through August. US troops also pulling out of Haiti. Dennis Kucinich has always been a little prick, and that hasn't changed. He's someone who deserves a real primary. World Nut Daily is single-handedly destroying the CPAC conference. And it's ready to kick it up to the next level with a September conference that will be ALL about the birthers. Can't wait! That's why today I pronounce CPAC dead. It's one of the reasons I am organizing a conference this September called "Taking America Back." This one is about the ultimate issues of God, the Constitution, the tea-party uprising, freedom and justice. There will be no two-headed monkeys. There will be no same-sex marriage sponsors. But there will be free and open discussion of issues like the constitutional eligibility of the man occupying the White House. I want to send Hunter. Glenn Beck is now telling you which churches to attend. Chatting with Hunter yesterday, he came up with a new idea in response to Survival Seeds: Rapture kit in a box. For just 5000 bucks I'll sell you a big wooden box with everything you need to survive the Rapture. But if you open it at any point before the Rapture, you'll break the delicate mechanisms and void your warranty. Then the contents of the box will just turn to sand, a few rocks, and whatever was in my compost bin the day I packed your box. All he has to do is advertise on Glenn Beck's show, and he'll be a multi-millionaire by lunchtime. I'm actually looking forward to the Tron and Clash of the Titans remakes. They were two of my favorite movies as a kid. Titans looks like it'll be as cheesy as the original, which is a good thing.
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CA-Sen: Fiorina Continues To Get Pounded in GOP Primary
09 March 2010
Needless to say, former Hewlett Packard head Carly Fiorina has found her entrance into the elective political game to be a bit challenging. She opened up this election year with a January rollout of a website which was almost uniformly mocked. Then came the now infamous Demon Sheep, an ad so terrible that some in the political game wondered if it was bad enough to amount to a form of genius. After all, everyone was talking about it the next day. Things, apparently, aren't getting better for the businesswoman-turned-politico: Republican Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina touts her business resume, particularly her years as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, as the reason GOP voters should nominate her to face Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer. But [Monday] morning, an heir to one of the company’s founders issued a slashing rebuttal, arguing that Fiorina nearly drove the technology firm into the ground. Arianna Packard, the granddaughter of HP founded David Packard, unloaded on Fiorina in a letter to a right-wing website. Packard was apparently incensed by a letter circulating from a trio of the Senate's most right-wing voices (Jim Inhofe, Jon Kyl, and Tom Coburn) extolling the virtues of Fiorina, who has long been seen as the default "insider's choice" among the three U.S. Senate candidates vying for the GOP nomination to take on Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer. That letter was being eagerly circulated this weekend by Team Fiorina, who was trying to earn the endorsement of the California Republican Assembly, a key conservative "get" for any California candidate. Apparently, it didn't have the desired effect: Each delegate at the convention received an e-mailed copy of the senators’ letter last week, print-outs of articles and polls favorable to Fiorina stuffed underneath their hotel room doors Sunday morning and Fiorina-branded pens to mark their ballots. DeVore ended up receiving 194 votes, while Fiorina received 89. The California primaries will be held on June 8th. Fiorina will have one notable advantage heading into the homestretch--she is the only self-funder in the Senate field (unlike the free-swinging gubernatorial primary). Whether money can trump what is obviously a sizeable reservoir of hostility among her right flank remains to be seen.
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NY-23: Hoffman Announces 2010 Congressional Bid
09 March 2010
Given how much of a trainwreck he became in the closing days of the campaign, the entry of this particular high profile Republican candidate might actually be good news for the Democratic incumbent: Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate in the NY-23 special election in 2009, has officially announced that he's running again this year against Democratic Rep. Bill Owens, who defeated Hoffman last fall. Hoffman announced in a press release Monday night that he would be seeking the nominations of the Republican, Conservative and Independence parties, "and unite them, as one team, to defeat the agenda of Nancy Pelosi and Bill Owens." Hoffman's bluster about uniting those forces as one team might prove to be a bit silly. After all, many Independence Party folks, when confronted with the option of Hoffman or Owens last November, went with Owens. In fact, the chairman of the party lamented that they had not gone with Owens all along. Aside from that, the idea of Doug Hoffman as "uniter and not a divider" is pretty preposterous on its face. You might recall that Hoffman, who was on the Conservative line for the 2009 special election to replace former longtime GOP Rep. John McHugh, attacked the GOP nominee, state legislator DeDe Scozzafava, with so much ferocity that many prominent conservatives endorsed his candidacy instead. Her campaign in tatters, with prominent supporters suddenly shifting into neutral, she made the incredibly surprising decision to scuttle her candidacy on the weekend before the election. Hoffman could have benefitted from a clear shot at the Democrat. Instead, he alienated the remaining Scozzafava voters with his taunting, sneering response to the suspension of her candidacy. This, in turn, led Scozzafava to endorse the Democrat in the race, Bill Owens. After a bizarre election day in which Hoffman bellowed about ACORN slashing his tires, only to learn that his staffer ran over a broken bottle, Owens emerged victorious by two points. Incidentally, Hoffman will find another fairly well-known GOP legislator in the field in 2010, as state Assemblyman Will Barclay is already in the race. Hoffman did announce that he would be seeking multiple lines on the ballot: the Republican, Conservative and Independence lines. This, of course, sets up the possibility of a scenario very similar to 2009 should Barclay manage to win the GOP primary. While the Independence line might be a tough get for Hoffman, it is hard to imagine him being denied the Conservative Party line.
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Strange bedfellows
09 March 2010
Now that Eric Massa is claiming his resignation is all part of a plot by Democrats to pass health care reform (not a recurrence of his cancer, as he originally claimed), he's become the newest sweetheart of the right-wing media. Just take a look at this Chyron from Fox earlier today: Later today, Massa journeys into Glennbeckistan to discuss his allegations of a Democratic conspiracy to provide coverage for all Americans. Beck is already hailing Massa as an American hero for daring to speak the truth. Of course, as MSNBC’s David Shuster and Luke Russert point out, the reality of Massa's resignation has nothing to do with his Alex Jones-style rants. Unless Democrats somehow implanted a chip into Massa forcing him to behavior inappropriately with staffers, his resignation is a result of his own actions -- things like joking about having sex with one of his aides. As Russert says, Massa's rantings have exposed him as being "a few fries short of a Happy Meal," but conservatives are still drawn to him like Paultards to the gold standard. If you're going to assign any credibility to Eric Massa's conspiracy theory (and given his original claim of cancer, how can you?), you also have to believe that (a) the only reason a Congressman would ever get called out for sexual harassment is to apply political pressure and that (b) sexual harassment isn't really that big of a deal. The fact that right-wing media is latching onto such a weak story simply because of his wild allegations against the administration is yet another window into their world in which facts don't matter: it only matters which side you're on. In the process, they are giving voice to lies -- for the sole purpose of scoring political points.
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We get health care reform, we get rid of Rush Limbaugh
09 March 2010
Additional motivation: CALLER: If the health care bill passes, where would you go for health care yourself? And the second part of that is, what would happen to the doctors, do they have to participate in the federal program, or could they opt out of it? [...] LIMBAUGH: My guess in even in Canada and even in the UK, doctors have opted out. And once they’ve opted, they can’t see anybody Medicare, Medicaid, or what will become the exchanges. They have to have a clientele of private patients that will pay them a retainer and it’ll be a very small practice. I don’t know if that’s been outlawed in the Senate bill. I don’t know. I’ll just tell you this, if this passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented — I am leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa Rica. Any chance they can move up implementation of most reforms to next year? Then again, what will happen when Rush realizes that Costa Rica has universal health care? A primary contributor to Costa Rica’s success has been its focus on the well being of its people. For Costa Rica, health and education are priorities for the success of their nation. The World Bank highlights this priority: “The Government of Costa Rica sees the health sector as an essential determinant of the country’s economic and social development, giving it a priority that is manifested in sustained high levels of spending and active policy attention at the highest levels.” The attention to health has brought this middle-wealth country’s health indicators in line with those of OECD countries. In 2001 the average life expectancy at birth in Costa Rica was 76.6 years. In 2000, 97% of births were attended by skilled professionals, 89% of the pregnant women were given prenatal care, and 93% of children under 1 had health insurance. From 1990 to 2000 life expectancy increased by 0.8 years, the fertility rate dropped, and the population grew due to an influx of Nicaraguan immigrants. In 2000 there were 16 physicians and 3.2 nurses per 10,000 population. In 1999 there were 12,000 people living with HIV/AIDS, giving an adult prevalence rate of 0.54%. However, Costa is the only Central American country to provide antiretroviral treatment to all patients through its social security system. The leading causes of death were cardiovascular disease and neoplasms, which is comparable to many OECD countries. Spending on health care has increased steadily over recent years, and in 2000 it composed 9% of the national GDP. These outcomes are the result of one of the world’s most successful “universal” health care systems. “Universality” in the Costa Rican system means that 100% of the population is given equal comprehensive public health insurance with equal access to services. Given Costa Rica's successful "cradle to grave" universal health care system is not just for Costa Ricans, but even for foreigners in the country, I'd like to suggest Rush try Somalia instead. I'm pretty sure Somalia doesn't suffer from the evils of socialized medicine.
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Health Care Rally Kicks Off
09 March 2010
I'm down in DC's Dupont Circle for the start of the "Citizen's Posse" march, ostensibly to make a "citizens' arrest" of health insurance CEOs meeting (appropriately) at the nearby Ritz-Carlton hotel. I make the crowd out to be 2,000+ and growing, by what I think is a rather conservative estimate. The Circle itself is jammed, and contingets numbering in the hundreds are arriving from staging areas in all directions. Howard Dean is on hand under the auspices of Americans United for Change, and I've made visual confirmation on that. CORRECTION: Credit for organizing the event belongs to Health Care for America Now! Clever use of signage here, with several dozen folks carrying customizable signs that read, "Another ____ for the Public Option," the blank having been filled in with everything from "healthy voter" to "bleeding heart commie". Also on hand, of course, drummers, since no protest would be complete without them. News coverage is sparse, but I've seen at least one ABC camera crew, and someone -- news, police or otherwise -- has deemed it worthy of a chopper overhead. Pics, via iPhone as I can manage: Howard Dean on hand Crowd sets off UPDATE: The networks went bonkers for teabagger protests of maybe a tenth this size, but word is there's almost zero coverage for this rally, which is shoulder to shoulder for a full city block. Why? I don't know. It ain't for lack of cameras. Here's ABC's Jonathan Karl on the spot, conducting interviews. Was ABC showing footage? You tell me.
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President Obama in Pennsylvania: “The need is great. The opportunity is here. Let’s seize reform. It’s within our grasp.”
09 March 2010
On the road in Glenside, Pennsylvania yesterday, President Obama called on Congress to pass reform and asked the American people to make their voices heard to help get the job done.The Los Angeles Times reported from the President's speech in Glenside:In an impassioned rally that evoked his campaign, President Obama left what he called the Washington "echo chamber" Monday and urged voters to knock on doors and make phone calls to embolden members of Congress to pass heathcare legislation.Obama said that Washington pundits obsessed with analyzing the political repercussions of a yes or no vote on healthcare are distracting lawmakers from what's fundamentally at stake: If Congress fails to act, the president said, premiums will rise, insurers will deny coverage based on preexisting conditions and more people will be without insurance."They need to hear your voices because right now the Washington echo chamber is in full throttle," Obama told an audience of 1,800 at Arcadia University outside Philadelphia. "It is as deafening as it's ever been. And as we come to that final vote, that echo chamber is telling members of Congress, wait, think about the politics -- instead of thinking about doing the right thing."In his speech, President Obama asked that everyone who believes that health reform is the right thing to do stand with him and fight during these final critical weeks.Sign up here to join Organizing for America’s final march to help get health reform over the finish line, and stay tuned for national actions and local events near you.
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AR-Sen: Look who is running scared
09 March 2010
No one could've predicted that a primary challenge would turn Blanche Lincoln into a better Democrat. A moderate Democrat who had vowed to oppose any effort by party leaders to push a health care bill through the Senate with a simple majority vote is rethinking her position. Sen. Blanche Lincoln said Tuesday that she wants to see what is in the companion bill before deciding. Of course, she is so clueless, she already ran a primary ad bragging about shafting Democrats on the public option and cap and trade. It looks like she's starting to realize that to win a Democratic primary, she might have to start acting like one. Too late, Blanche. Contribute to Bill Halter Bill Halter for Senate Volunteer
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