Landrieu Reminds McCain That He Lost

via youtube.com

After missing 100's of meetings over the past few months, the Republicans choose politics over policy.

"Instead of coming to the table and working with Democrats to write a bipartisan health care reform bill, Republicans chose to put partisan politics first. Fabricating "death panels", distorting Medicare cuts and undermining and disrespecting the role of government in protecting its citizens, they have engaged in a relentless misinformation campaign aimed solely at using fear to sway public opinion against this bill. Recently, Senator McCain has been claiming that the American people are opposed to reform and speaking about "the will of the majority." I would remind my colleague from Arizona that the will of the majority was heard loud and clear last November." - Sen. Mary Landrieu

Elections have consequences. You lost.

Posted via web from liberalsarecool's posterous

CSPAN Caller Pwns Republican

CSPAN caller goofs on Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) vis-a-vis Sen. Tom Coburn's (R-OK) call to pray that a Democrat would miss the vote on Health Care. The caller, from "a small tea bag group here in Whitecross", questions:

"Yeah doctor. Our small tea bag group here in Whitecross (sp), we got our vigil together and took Dr. Coburn’s instructions and prayed real hard that Sen. Byrd would either die or couldn’t show up at the vote the other night.

How hard did you pray because I see one of our members was missing this morning. Did it backfire on us? One of our members died? How hard did you pray senator? Did you pray hard enough?"

Or maybe it's a real caller. Hard to tell. The Jerky Boys would be proud.



Praying for a Senator to fall ill. Praying for rain in Denver during Obama's DNC speech. Prayer used by a doctor [Coburn] to wish ill health on someone. Tis' the season.

Source: ThinkProgress

Michelle Bachmann: Welfare Queen

Rep. Michelle Bachmann has voted against every Bill that would help average homeowners and has used "Marxist" and "Socialist" just about as much as humanly possible, but has no problem taking more than a few subsidies from the Government. She's even claims to be an opponent of farm subsidies which she benefits from.

"According to the organization’s records, Bachmann’s family farm received $251,973 in federal subsidies between 1995 and 2006."

So it's Bachmann who has a Government job, Government Health Care and receives Government subsidies, all paid by taxpayer money, who is the anti-Socialism poster child? It's the upside down welfare state, “socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.”

Not saying anything she did was illegal, just hypocritical. She has her farm "bailout", FU to the rest of America.

Source: Truthdig.com

Bamboozler Of The Year

Frank Rich makes a case for Tiger Woods being Person of the year. Like most big stories of the year and decade, it's about being bamboozled.

"If there’s been a consistent narrative to this year and every other in this decade, it’s that most of us, Bernanke included, have been so easily bamboozled. The men who played us for suckers, whether at Citigroup or Fannie Mae, at the White House or Ted Haggard’s megachurch, are the real movers and shakers of this century’s history so far. That’s why the obvious person of the year is Tiger Woods. His sham beatific image, questioned by almost no one until it collapsed, is nothing if not the farcical reductio ad absurdum of the decade’s flimflams, from the cancerous (the subprime mortgage) to the inane (balloon boy)."

Enron? WMD? 2000 Election? Steroids in sports? John Edwards? Eliot Spitzer? Bernie Madoff? The entire Bush presidency?

Source: NYT

VIDEO: Advent Conspiracy

Embrace the religious aspects of Christmas and reflect on the consumerism surrounding it. The "war on Christmas" is over. Happy Holidays.



Source: www.adventconspiracy.org