Displaying 19,141 To 19,170 Of 19,504 Comments To add to your analogy, the public option may be like our shoes which we must take off before being allowed to get on the plane. I think Obama made a big mistake by bringing Rahm on as his COS, he is an old school DLCer who could care less about the people and regular Dems and is rooted in the status quo and conservative/corporate ideals. It is the Senate though where most darts should be thrown. If it was left up solely to the House and Obama, we would have a fantastic health care reform bill. The Senate Dems are responsible for all the problems. Some are great champions of real health care reform, others however are self-serving pawns of corporate America and would rather benefit themselves than help millions of Americans. Ultimately, I do hope that some kind of public option, even the opt out one, is passed by the Senate because in reconciliation, they could adopt a robust public option that would only need 51 votes from the Senate. The House needs to stand strong in insisting on a public option or holding off on approving reconciliation. You’re absolutely right that the public option would not initially help the majority of Americans but once it’s in place and proves it’s worthiness…and that it won’t put the greedy insurance companies out of business…it will be easier to expand it to eventually all Americans. As for your proposal and goals, as I’ve said, I think it’s a brilliant idea and I’m happy to help as I can. » Posted By AdLib On October 16, 2009 @ 6:35 pm Regulating the Financial Sector Begins Which is why Rahm is getting what he wants, like trying to bury the public option, I’m the Senate. The DLC is what gutted the Dem party in the past and what is threatening to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory on health care reform. » Posted By AdLib On October 15, 2009 @ 11:55 pm Unfortunately, just as with Health Care Reform, the Senate is going to be a drag on getting real financial reforms passed into law. I am really on the fence about wanting Harry Reid to lose his election. With a stronger leader in the Senate, so much more could be accomplished. Yes, it would mean having less than 60 senators but what does that matter when under Reid, 60 Dem Senators are no more useful than 51. » Posted By AdLib On October 15, 2009 @ 7:34 pm Feel better, Kalima! I like and added that photo of her to the library (but of course KQuark wrote the article and selected it) because to me it exudes all the phoniness and lust for celebrity and wealth that is Arianna. That this photo of her comes off as annoying is a good thing, that was the intention. Now that I’m back, hope to see you around more, get better! » Posted By AdLib On October 17, 2009 @ 10:43 am Excellent! We should make your post a petition for people to sign then submit it to the press and HuffPo. Think HuffPo would do an article on it? » Posted By AdLib On October 16, 2009 @ 10:25 pm Or a con-fusion that makes us wrongly claim our 6 year old is in a runaway balloon. Emphasis on the “con”. » Posted By AdLib On October 16, 2009 @ 10:21 pm Heh! I’m thinking that each time Arianna is scheduled to be on a news show, one of us releases a UFO-shaped balloon. Or claim to have discovered cold fusion, a cure for cancer or intelligent life in the GOP. » Posted By AdLib On October 16, 2009 @ 9:03 pm At the same time her article was on the site whining about the MSM focusing on meaningless trivia, the top story in hot red in a banner on every page of HuffPo was, “Baloon Boy Found Safe – Developing!” HuffPo is a hack site despite many earnest and legit people blogging there. The sum of its purpose is to exploit progressives to make as much money as possible, there is no genuine progressive philosophy to the site, Arianna or her hedge fund partners. Progressives are just seen as suckers, no differently than conservatives are seen as suckers by Fox. » Posted By AdLib On October 16, 2009 @ 11:04 am It is so hilarious! Arianna was on the Ed Show today to exploit her purposely bullshit article about wanting Joe Biden to resign…when Balloon Boy took all the wind out of her superficial sails. That’s all MSNBC and Ed wanted to talk about. She then “got even” by writing a wah-wah article on HuffPo to decry how the MSM is so shallow and attracted to stories that are hollow and sensationalistic. Yep, this coming from the hollow and sensationalistic woman who wrote that contrived article just to get on the news shows. Arianna, a word of advice, live by the bullshit, get buried by the bullshit. So funny! As I’ve quoted before from Airplane 2, “Sometimes irony can be pretty ironic.” » Posted By AdLib On October 15, 2009 @ 7:45 pm Right again! She never stopped being a Republican in her thought process, she just did a sudden 180 when she concluded that she could make more money and get more fame by being a “liberal”. How does any mature adult (sorry Arianna, you ain’t no ingenue) suddenly flip from hard core conservative to hard left liberal? Answer: When it’s more profitable. I never read or heard any statement from her about what great epiphany made her become Opposite Woman. She just made a calculated decision and she was right. As you say, there are far too many people out there, in all spectrums of opinion, who NEED to have someone who speaks AND thinks for them. Then they can just parrot what their “leader” says and they sound smart and feel valid. Now that I think about it…maybe now’s the time for me to become a right wing Republican! I could make a fortune as the only wild eyed ranting Republican who can make logical arguments! I’d be a celebrity and think of all the followers I could get! And the money I could make! And all the teabagging I can dunk! Principles, shrinciples, my principles are very valuable to…which is why I can charge so much to sell them! Show me the HuffPo money! I’ll even talk in a Greek accent, I’ll even blog in a Greek accent,(“Eet eez vary clair, Oboma eez a Mahrxeest Nijerrean!”) Now, who’ll make the first bid?! » Posted By AdLib On October 14, 2009 @ 10:38 pm Does Arianna really believe anything she says? Isn’t it more her desperate need for attention, so she can get invited again on Morning Joe and Larry King? She wants to be the left’s Glenn Beck. An egotist with no practical solutions, just Rushian/Beckian hyperbole to fill the huge gap of reason that attention-getting bullshit creates. If one were to take anything she says seriously, which IMHO would be a mistake, her proposition is that anyone who disagrees with what their colleagues’ opinions are, should just quit. Though this seems to work well for her in the way HuffPo is run (no opinions opposing Arianna allowed) and the way she has comments on her articles always heavily moderated to screen out strong opposition, it is not the way a democracy works. Not that Arianna cares about democracy, her hedge-funded, misleading headlined site attacking Obama and riling up her readership for more clicks shows a cynical greed at work, not a genuine interest in this country’s democracy. If her contrived outrageousness was to be taken as a legit opinion, then all Dems who support a Public Option should resign in protest from Congress since the Baucus bill was passed by Dems without a Public Option. Yeah, that would show them Repubs, leaving them in control of Congress! Quitting is what democracy is all about! Come to think of it, Arianna seems to be following Sarah Palin’s philosophy. Birds of a feather. Cuckoos. » Posted By AdLib On October 14, 2009 @ 8:01 pm Historic Day for Healthcare Reform It is indeed an historic day and a short path now to profound health care reform with a robust public option. Your urging and advice is right on target. Now is when we all need to step up and fight for the reform we need. It’s so close now, there will be a bill (or as you say, the Dems will lose their support and majorities) and whoever wins this final face off wins everything. We can’t take anything for granted, Congress needs to have the voice of the people drown out the offers of campaign contributions from the insurance industry. It’s going to take the same push we made to elect Obama…and if we do…I think we’ll win, for ourselves, our friends and families and all Americans in the future. Let’s do this! » Posted By AdLib On October 14, 2009 @ 1:27 am Insurance Lobby Promotes Public Option Absolutely, though the cost of health care, like everything else, will rise, when you subtract the 30% (though I’ll bet it’s more) in profits they tack on…and the recissions and denial of care from their corporate “death panels”, the public will be doing so much better. We can hope too that a public option eventually leads to single payer too. BTW, I do think that the cost of insurance should be reduced further when people who typically use emergency rooms for advanced issues and then can’t pay, feel free to visit doctors early on and be treated when issues are less severe so urgent care isn’t needed as much. » Posted By AdLib On October 12, 2009 @ 8:12 pm President Obama Awarded Nobel Peace Prize I’m with you on this, Nellie. He has made great strides in turning around the U.S. into a more peaceful force in the world after 8 horrible years of war mongering, torture, violation of civil rights, new arms races, etc. It is far more deserved than Kissinger having having received one. » Posted By AdLib On October 12, 2009 @ 9:11 pm Very often, those awarding the Nobel Peace Prize have done so to encourage progress towards a more peaceful world, as opposed to recognizing someone for accomplishments. Kissinger got it when he was in the midst of talks that were hoped to end the Vietnam War. Otherwise, all he brought to the world was war, death and misery. Yasser Arafat received it for the same reason when he was negotiating for a potential peace agreement between Palestinians and Israel. Meanwhile, he was an admitted terrorist who was responsible for killing innocent people. This time it was in the same vein, an encouragement to press ahead with nuclear disarmament with Russia, continuing to use diplomacy first to try and resolve Iran and nukes and so on. This is not unusual, to award it to someone who hasn’t accomplished great deeds yet but to encourage them to do so. And let’s face it, the MSM and the GOP would condemn him for receiving any props from any outside entity so their reaction is indeed far less surprising than Obama winning. » Posted By AdLib On October 12, 2009 @ 9:07 pm I don’t think so. Obama came in ending torture, ordering Guantanamo closed, promoting diplomacy (as he’s practiced with Iran and North Korea with positive results), outreached to the Muslim world, shut down the missile defense systems on Russia’s borders, worked with nations to unite against Iran’s nuclear ambitions, supports and paid our unpaid dues to the UN, opposed nuclear proliferation and more. Indeed, in contrast with the belligerent, warmongering Bush, he is even more appreciated. The polls now show the world loving America again, America has once again become the most respected country and is leading the world on the most important issues of the day. Yes, the world is sighing in relief that America is no longer a rogue nation and is again a nation of conscience and real leadership. For all of the above, Obama received the Nobel prize as encouragement and inspiration to press ahead for peaceful coexistence and collaboration around the world. What better use of the Nobel Peace Prize than to help the most powerful leader in the world to keep pressing forward as he has? » Posted By AdLib On October 9, 2009 @ 9:43 pm I can see it already, the Taliban and GOP doing a music video of “Ebony and Ivory” with burning crosses and IEDs exploding. Rush and Osama Bin Laden fighting over who gets to light the Obama effigy. Maybe Toby Keith can write new lyrics: “Ebony and Ivory, » Posted By AdLib On October 9, 2009 @ 5:06 pm Yep, look what happened to MLK and Gandhi. Hard to relate to the mindset of people who are in a civilized society and hate so violently. I can understand how those living in severe and desperate circumstances could be driven into such hatred but Americans who generally have homes and food and education for their children? Such virulent hatred…so strong they will insult and attack their own country and president and side with terrorist enemies of their own nation…who could be plotting to kill them, their children or friends…all solely because their political party lost an election and the skin color of our president doesn’t match theirs. It is totally beyond me. » Posted By AdLib On October 9, 2009 @ 4:51 pm The tens of millions of Americans also who voted for the president and support him now should be awarded a fraction of the Nobel Peace Prize for choosing hope over cynicism and peace over warmongering. Great sentiment, hear hear! And the point that the GOP and Taliban are singing together from the same anti-America hymn book is very telling and sadly on target. And what is all over the MSM? Celebration? No. More criticism disqualifying Obama as legitimate. Hell, war mongering Kissinger got the peace prize when it looked like he was negotiating for a peaceful resolution in Vietnam…in the end, what did Kissinger ever end up doing for peace? Yasser Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize when it looked like there might be a breakthrough in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. And what did he ever end up doing for peace? He was a proven and admitted terrorist who killed innocent people. The more recent history of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize is all about affirming and encouraging significant people to pursue peace, it is NOT just an award for lifetime achievement as evidenced by the examples above and many other winners. Kind of ironic and pathetic that the MSM uses the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to stir up hatred and resentment of Pres. Obama. » Posted By AdLib On October 9, 2009 @ 12:32 pm The End of Democracy Will Be Televised Very much value your perspective on this. Agreed on all points you make. On the practical side of being a journalist, the corporate mindset is that they feel they can afford to cut on that side because in their minds, journalists don’t bring in revenue, ratings do. Slashing the budgets and international offices makes sense to the corporate bosses because they see no direct connection between investigative and comprehensive journalism and their quarterly report…except the expense. That’s where the aspects I focused on merge with the aspects you focused on. It’s cheaper and (sadly) more effective to goose up ratings and earnings by throwing pretty talking heads spouting extremist views or arguing opinions than investing time and responsibility in providing quality journalism. The corporations have made a concerted effort to de-fund investigative journalism and news gathering and analysis. Like everything else corporate capitalism has degraded, it’s all about the balance sheet, providing the minimal amount of quality necessary to return increased quarterly returns. Some things should be non-profit because they’re too vital to be undermined by greed and IMO, health care and journalism are two of those things. » Posted By AdLib On October 12, 2009 @ 9:27 pm It all kind of makes me root for the opt out public option plan. In a general way, it would help get our society back on the proper path of evolution and let the lesser mentally equipped shorten their own lives. A helpful and voluntary thinning of the herd. Only problem is that there would be many innocent people in each backward state who would be unwilling victims of the majority’s ignorance. If that plan came into effect, there should be a relocation fund set up to help people move to a civilized state. Or maybe we can just encourage Texas and the others to secede? » Posted By AdLib On October 9, 2009 @ 4:38 pm She becomes a character in The Nutcracker? 😉 » Posted By AdLib On October 8, 2009 @ 11:59 pm Any truth to the rumor that they are experimenting with using stem cells derived from the brains of fruit flies to create a new breed of cable news directors? » Posted By AdLib On October 8, 2009 @ 11:57 pm Time is also compressed into White Castle Sliders in our society. Bite size nibbles that are mostly empty and have little substance. How much time is wasted in our society on video games, texting, Twittering, and all kinds of trivial distractions? Would be nice if we included “time” among the things we want to recycle in this country. » Posted By AdLib On October 8, 2009 @ 11:55 pm Thanks, my friend. Indeed, it is now a standard story for the MSM to question why huge changes to American society don’t happen overnight… and criticize Obama for not being a magic genie who can just blink and make everything change. And let’s not forget the fallacy of claiming to present all sides of an issue by having lunatics froth about insane accusations, “Why hasn’t he come out to specifically oppose Zombie Hitlers? Maybe because he supports Zombie Hitlers taking over America?!” » Posted By AdLib On October 8, 2009 @ 11:46 pm Also the anti-intellectualism of ‘Meruhcans. As in many problematic societies, America harbors the resentment of the ignorant towards the educated, hostility towards science, rejecting seeing grays instead of black and white and insisting that everyone believes in the same version of an ancient fable about why we exist and what happens when we die. BTW, the crab puffs rock! Any Vienna Sausages left? » Posted By AdLib On October 8, 2009 @ 11:40 pm Don’t know about that but I saw some Hoi next to the Polloi over there. » Posted By AdLib On October 8, 2009 @ 11:33 pm Thanks WTS! Absolutely, corporate capitalism in it’s full splendor. In addition to the corruption that corporations would naturally bring to news shows, I think the idea of an all news channel needing to attract an audience…that is owned by a massive corporation as all three 24/7 news networks are…makes it inescapable that the gravity of ratings will continue to pull “news” deeper and deeper into the realm of entertainment. And to entertain, the most outrageous people and statements must be promoted and “newsertainment” must be written and created to sustain ratings. » Posted By AdLib On October 8, 2009 @ 11:31 pm Thanks for welcoming me back to Planet Questinia. Now I know how The President of Honduras felt. Well, at least it was a bloodless coup. And catered from what I understand (I heard the crab puffs were to die for). I think the MSM is using this period of waiting for the process to deliver a Health Care Bill as an excuse to raise all kinds of questions about Pres. Obama…because they have nothing else to fill programming. Think about what Bush had accomplished in his first 9 months. Think harder. Anything? He did spend more time at his faux ranch cutting brush, more vacation time in his first 9 months than I think any other president ever had. Yet, Obama who passed the stimulus, kept the country from collapsing into a depression, he hasn’t done enough. When health care reform passes with a public option, as I believe it will, they will all change their tunes and wring their hands over Obama doing too much too quickly. Fickle bastards. » Posted By AdLib On October 8, 2009 @ 5:06 pm A Suggested Public Option Compromise Thanks, glad to be back. I also heard that some Dems in the Senate are pressing for an approach that any Dems who side with the Repubs on the filibuster would be stripped of their Chairmanships. That’s the way to whip these Blue Dogs in line. If they vote with Repubs to try and kill Health Care Reform, they should lose their chairmanships. Because, if the Dems don’t pass reform with a public option that makes a difference, they will lose in 2010 and 2012 and no Dems will be Chairmen in a GOP Congress. » Posted By AdLib On October 8, 2009 @ 9:53 amComments Posted By AdLib
live together in damned misogyny
Side by side in the White House,
oh lord, why must we?”
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