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    Friday, October 30, 2009

    Joe Lieberman Must Go !!!

    Joe Lieberman must go.

    Sen. Lieberman has indicated he plans to join with Republicans to filibuster any health care bill that contains a public option. Alone, the Republicans don't have the votes for a filibuster. So by joining with them, Lieberman would be tipping the balance of power in order to sink health care reform.


    We need to push the leaders of the Democratic caucus to take a tough stand against Lieberman. Last year, the New York Times quoted an anonymous "member of the Senate Democratic leadership" who said about Lieberman:

    "We need every vote. He's with us on everything but the war."

    But now Joe Lieberman has announced that he will not vote to stop the filibuster of any for a health care bill that contains the public option. He justifies this position by saying that a government-run health insurance option will cost taxpayers and increase the National Debt even though the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecasts $100 billion in savings thanks to the public option. He further claims that his position is what is best for his constituents, even though polling in Connecticut shows that among likely voters 68 percent favor a public option, while only 21 percent oppose it.


    Now is the time for Senate Democratic leadership -- Senators Reid, Schumer, and Durbin -- to stop making excuses for Joe Lieberman. Harry Reid has shown great leadership in writing a health care bill that includes the public option. But Joe Lieberman is not "with us" on everything but the war. Joe Lieberman's position is against Senate Democrats, against his constituents in Connecticut and against the will of the American public.


    Actions must have consequences. Any senator who filibusters the public option does not deserve a chairmanship and should be removed from his or her post.

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    Obama Should Look at Bush Co. Crimes!!!

    Obama should ask his Justice Department Erik Holder to look at crimes from the Bush Co.

    Obama has been too nice with the Bush Co. and republicans. Obama needs to get some spine and prosecute the Bush crime family.

    These gang of criminals : Bush, Cheney and others should be put in jail or be shipped to fight in Afghanistan to see what war is all about.

    I know that Obama is limited to govern due to the military-industrial complex who really is the boss in this country.

    Why spend this enormous amount of money with the military. In my opinion US should pull out of all the bases overseas. It should do away with nuclear weapons. It should abandon F-22 aircraft and etc.

    The saved money from this military reduction would finance healthcare reform and free education (free all the way from elementary to college) for all.

    Wednesday, October 21, 2009

    Fox News' Criminals Pundits

    Fox News’ Criminal Pundits

    By James Thindwa

    Conservatives have created a two-tier system of accountability: one for progressives, the other for themselves and their claimed moral rectitude.
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    The sensationalist media inquest into Sen. Barack Obama’s associations has cheapened the national debate. It has also exposed the hypocrisy and double standard of the conservative media.

    Fox News, which has championed this “guilt by association,” questions Obama’s fitness for office because of his relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, a distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

    But if Fox News truly believed in guilt-by-association, the network would have severed ties with some of its pundits and consultants.

    Mark Fuhrman — of O.J. Simpson infamy — is now one of its talking heads. Fuhrman, if you remember, was convicted of lying under oath during Simpson’s murder trial when he denied having used the word “nigger.” For right-wingers unburdened with racial sensitivity, Fuhrman’s easy use of the “n” word was probably not a big deal. And for Fox News, flouting the law is OK as long as the cause is right. O.J. Simpson was guilty, legalities be damned.

    G. Gordon Liddy, sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the 1972 Watergate break-in (he served almost five), enjoys a post-prison celebrity status among conservatives. Liddy turns up on Fox News as a respected commentator, and has cultivated a fan base as a right-wing talk-radio jock. While Fox’s pundits froth at the mouth condemning Ayers for his membership in the Weather Underground 40 years ago, Liddy, whose crimes created a constitutional crisis, is embraced and celebrated as a conservative hero.

    How about Oliver North? His claim to fame was the Iran-Contra affair in the ’80s, when he illegally sold weapons to Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini and transferred the money to Nicaraguan Contras, in violation of U.S. law. He was charged with 16 felonies and convicted of three, which were later overturned because the prosecution had used testimony given under a grant of immunity. For his mockery of the Constitution, North became a right-wing folk hero, eventually landing a job at Fox News as an Iraq War correspondent. He was subsequently given his own television show, “War Stories.”

    Former Bush adviser Karl Rove is now a paid commentator on Fox News. Though Rove has not been convicted of any crimes, he has had an uneasy relationship with ethics and the law: reportedly the mastermind of the political firing of nine U.S. attorneys; allegedly outing CIA operative Valerie Plame; spreading rumors in 2000 about Sen. John McCain having fathered a daughter with a black woman; and selling the Iraq War for political advantage. But to Fox News and its conservative base, Rove is a hero.

    William Kristol is not a former convict, but as salesman-in-chief for the Iraq War he has committed crimes of conscience. Kristol has a permanent seat on Fox News Sunday. Despite his discredited claims about Saddam Hussein’s nuclear programs and his many attempts to link Hussein with al Qaeda, Kristol continues to be featured as an expert on the war.

    Bill O’Reilly, the big daddy of Fox News, reached a settlement in November 2004 with a colleague who had reportedly recorded him attempting to have phone sex with her as he masturbated with a vibrator. This history contradicts the self-righteous protestations in his book Cultural Warriors and his screeds against “liberal” wrongdoers.

    Newt Gingrich, Fox News’ most erudite and self-righteous pundit, has a checkered past that includes reportedly serving divorce papers to his cancer-stricken wife while she lay in her hospital bed. The former House Speaker also admitted to an affair with an aide while he was still married, even as he championed President Clinton’s impeachment. Most liberals believe these private matters should not disqualify people from public office. However, the pedantic moralists at Fox News cannot exempt themselves from the standards they apply to others. Their hypocrisy needs exposing.

    Conservatives have created a two-tier system of accountability: one for progressives, the other for themselves. But their claimed moral rectitude belies an indulgent attitude toward questionable legal and ethical conduct. Mark Fuhrman, G. Gordon Liddy and Oliver North betrayed the rule of law that conservatives like to crow about.

    Fox News and its right-wing functionaries threaten the fabric of our electoral system. The push back should start with denying them legitimacy. That means exposing their hypocritical invocation of the “rule of law,” challenging their simplistic “anything goes” standard of patriotism and denouncing their use of guilt-by-association.

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    Australian Rupert Murdoch(fox News President) go home!!

    Rupert Murdoch (Fox News) Go home !!!

    It should be prohibited one person own a empire of media (newspaper and TV stations). His empire includes Fox News, unfortunately.

    Fox News flourished due to George Bush and White House paying them millions to lie to the American public.

    Fox News continues to represent the Republican party with their cast of criminals, indicted people, drug users, madmen, liars, republicans : O'Reilly, Beck, Hannity, Cristal, and others.

    These criminals day in, day out are dissipating hatred comments against the liberals, democrats and the current democratic president Obama.

    I urge everybody to boicott Fox News. I asked my cable to cut Fox News out of my cable stations.

    Friday, October 2, 2009

    How the GOP, Reagan, Bush, Bush Sr, Bush Jr Betrayed, Pillaged, then Sold The U.S.

    How the GOP, Reagan, Bush Sr, Bush Jr Betrayed, Pillaged, then Sold the U.S. »

    Posted By Radiofreeeuropa 7 months, 1 week ago in Political News

    Like Rome, the US has despoiled the land, waged war upon both the small farmer and the laborer, outsourced it's industry, devalued it's currency and

    subverted the products of labor --the sole source of 'value' in any economy.

    Let's take a look at the history before it gets re-written:

    * Any Democratic President has presided over greater economic growth and job creation than any Republican President since World War II.

    * When Bush Jr took office, job creation was worst under a Republican, Bush Sr, at 0.6% per year and best under a Democrat, Johnson, at 3.8% per year.

    * Economic growth under President Carter was far greater than under Reagan or Bush Sr. In fact, economic growth in general was greater under Johnson, Kennedy, Carter, and Clinton than under Reagan or Bush. Democrats always outperform a failed party: the GOP!

    * The job creation rate under Clinton was 2.4% significantly higher than Ronald Reagan's 2.1% per year.

    * The "top performing Presidents" by this standard, in order from best down, were Johnson, Carter, Clinton, and Kennedy. The "worst" (in descending order) were Nixon, Reagan, Bush.

    * Half of jobs created under Reagan were in the public sector--some 2 million jobs added to the Federal Bureaucracy. Hadn't he promised to reduce that bureaucracy?

    * Reagan, though promising to reduce government and spending, tripled the national debt and left huge deficits to his successor. Bush Jr's record will be even worse.

    * By contrast, most of the jobs created on Clinton's watch were in the private sector.

    * Put another way: any Democratic President beats any Republican President since World War II.

    Everything posted above is based upon official, government stats from the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, CBO, and BEA among others. They are

    'official' and irrefutable unless someone wants to make the outlandish case that the Federal Bureaucracy, the numerous agencies which keep these stats, is

    somehow biased. That argument is absurd in light of the fact that of those 20 years from the election of Ronald Reagan to the stolen election of 2000,

    Democrats had the Presidency in only eight of them.

    The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government. -- Patrick Henry


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