Mike's Blog Roundup
By Mike Finnigan Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 7:00amSunlight Foundation Blog: The health care industry, in its attempt to influence the debate over health care reform, has hired at least 350 former government staffers and former members of Congress, opreating with bottomless funding, to lobby against meaningful reform.
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We don't take our trips on LSD
We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street;
We like livin' right, and bein' free.
I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee,
A place where even squares can have a ball
We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse,
And white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all.
We don't make a party out of lovin';
We like holdin' hands and pitchin' woo;
We don't let our hair grow long and shaggy,
Like the hippies out in San Francisco do.
And I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee,
A place where even squares can have a ball.
We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse,
And white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all.
Leather boots are still in style for manly footwear;
Beads and Roman sandals won't be seen.
Football's still the roughest thing on campus,
And the kids here still respect the college dean.
We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse,
In Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA.
exposing the cabal that is the govt-corp is critical.
what the disease-profiteers are doing now to subvert democracy is nothing new, it has been the template since about 1787, from railroads, to steel, to oil, to finance, to health, etc.
the state of the american "free" market:
The ___________ industry, in its attempt to influence the debate over ____________ reform, has hired at least ____ former government staffers and former members of Congress, operating with bottomless funding, to lobby against meaningful reform
that is the template applied to nearly every sector of the economy
and industry has worked hard, spent gazillions and employed anyone/anything to keep the public from doing anything about it.
LMMFAO!!!
Wow...just fucking WOW!!!
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=80169...
Thank the deity of your choice she isn't in the WH!!!
If she had gotten in the white house she probably would be gone by now anyway. I mean once you visit all the rooms, what the hell is there left to do? There are no fishing holes at the white house.
just the lingering odor of wasted semen and cigar smoke in the hallway lavatory.
This is the best part of that piece
"But as for whether another pursuit of national office, as she did less than a year ago when she joined Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in the race for the White House, would result in the same political blood sport, Palin said there is a difference between the White House and what she has experienced in Alaska. If she were in the White House, she said, the "department of law" would protect her from baseless ethical allegations.
"I think on a national level, your department of law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out," she said.
There is no "Department of Law" at the White House. "
when not wearing the blue dress.
I believe the Department of Fashion in the white house handles those matters.
"I know this is the best thing for Alaska"
Really! No truer words were ever spoken.
"There is no "Department of Law" at the White House."
Sure there is ... its just down the hall from the Office of "Superintendent of Stuff"
I hope Nicole (and all other posters) will read this article that was published this morning by Dr. Suzanne L. King in The Berkshire Eagle:
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/otheropinions/c...
Dr. King makes the best argument I have read to date as to why The Public Option is a smokescreen to the American People.
If the American People TRULY want quality, standardized health care for EVERYONE, then our Congresspersons must be told, in no uncertain terms, that we have HAD IT with the for-profit health insurance corporations.
We MUST demand CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN AND COUNT ON.
Calling our Congresspersons, emailing our Congresspersons, snail mailing our Congresspersons will NOT be enough.
We MUST organize NATIONALLY as citizen lobbyists and visit these "SERVANTS" en masse. They must all be given copies of "SICKO" we must DEMAND that they sign on to Conyers H.R. 676 or Sen. Sanders bill in the Senate.
They must be told, in no uncertain terms, that if they do NOT support a Single Payer System for ALL Americans, that we will fight as hard as we can to replace them in their next election cycle.
If they are already co-sponsors of one of those bills, we must visit their LOCAL offices and THANK them for doing so.
This may be the last chance we ever have to make quality, STANDARDIZED health care a reality in this country. And the ONLY way to control the "costs" is to remove the for-profit health insurance corporations/big pharma from the equation AND from our Congresspersons offices!!!!!!
Abbybwood, R.N.
Abbywood! You kick much ass!
That's what I been screaming, though nowhere nearly as intelligently as you.
Thank you!
excellent!!!!!!!!!!!
"Feministe: Ross Douthat tries to understand teh sexism"
This link (under "understand") actually goes to an Anne Applebaum column at the WaPo.
from Palin.
take a hint?
Palin said there is a difference between the White House and what she has experienced in Alaska. If she were in the White House the "department of law" would protect her from baseless ethical allegations.
Na-Tehisi Coates responds to Douthat by accepting that dichotomy. I wouldn't limit the field to those categories. There is aristocracy, oligarchy both of which we've seen way too much of, but don't fail to consider demogoguery. I see Palin are a failed demogogue more than anything else.
Palin tried to be Nixon, but only suceeded on the "disgracing self" part.
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What'll we DO???
Well, it can wait till we're done with Michael Jackson.
Thanks for helping us focus, MSM.
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is symbolic of all the wretched excesses of the Reagan 80's so it's a funeral for that era also.
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Their rotting corporatista corpses are stinking up our government.
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