Liberal Blogosphere

What If...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:32 GMT

Can you imagine what would have happened to Howard Dean if he had tried to pull this when he was chairman of the DNC? Last week, Republican National Committee Michael Steele warned GOP members of Congress that they will face tough consequences if they vote in favor of the health care bill. "So candidates who live in moderate to slightly liberal districts have got to walk a little bit carefully here, because you do not want to put yourself in a position where you're crossing that line on conservative principles, fiscal principles, because we'll come after you," Steele told ABC News.

HCR is Still a Toss-Up

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:58 GMT

The way Joe Lieberman is talking, he's not leaving himself any room to support the Senate bill if it includes a public option. He's locking himself in as an opponent. WALLACE: So at this point, I take it, youre a no vote in the Senate? LIEBERMAN: If the public option plan is in there, as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote because I believe debt can break America and send us into a recession thats worse than the one were fighting our way out of today. I dont want to do that to our children and grandchildren. Never mind that it is the provision of a public option that makes the Senate bill save more money in the budget than it costs. If Lieberman doesn't change his mind, and Olympia Snowe doesn't change her mind, then there will be no public option. In fact, the Senate bill simply won't pass. Reid will have to withdraw the bill and introduce Snowe's trigger as the base bill, or he will have to give up entirely and go to reconciliation. But I am not sure anymore that the House can pass a bill in reconciliation. I am not sure that they can pass a bill with a trigger, either. It's still a toss-up whether health care reform can actually pass in any form.

Hasan Was Al Qaeda Terrorist!

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:55 GMT

Major Nidal Hasan was part of an Al Qaeda sleeper cell with the 9/11 hijackers. I know, I know, that's not what the liberal mainstream media and Obama lackeys are claiming, but fotunately for us right wing bloggers are on the case, and they have definitive proof that Hasan was part of an Al Qaeda plot. Or he could have been. Or maybe he ran into some of the hijackers there. It could have happened. But that's beside the point. See, now we have solid evidence of the Obama -> Hasan -> Al Qaeda connection to destroy America, one military base massacre at a time. Well, that and murder by health care reform. Let's not forget about that. And anyone who believes otherwise is a probably a liberal, global warming ecoterrorist, Marxist, Socialist Nazi Obama worshiper who should be taken out and shot by loyal patriots of Real America. Oh, and ... WOLVERINES!!!!!!

Stelmach Survives Leadership Review

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:27 GMT

No surprise here, although the number is higher than expected since rumours of his impending demise were rampant following the recent upsurge in poll numbers for the neocon-like Wildrose Alliance party.

Stelmach wins 77% support for leadership while the party faithful were confronted by some 700 protesters.

Apropos.

Photo credit (for Balloon Boy Stelmach): Gavin Young, Calgary Herald

Disappointed

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:32 GMT

I'm disappointed that President Obama's actions in office has been closer to those of former President Clinton and, with respect to our civil liberties, often closer to former President Bush, than to former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I'm disappointed Harry Reid is the weakest, most pathetic political leader I've seen in my lifetime, and that's saying something. I'm disappointed that a woman's constitutional right to choose whether to have an abortion has been compromised, again, and even more disappointed it was members of the Democratic Party that were behind that heartless disregard for the rights of my daughter and all the other women of child bearing age. I'm disappointed that so many who work for our major media outlets report on political issues of great import to this nation, such as health care reform, as if it were a sport and gives equal time to liars without pointing out their lies, rather than produce shows and articles that highlight the facts about our current health care system and its many failures. I'm disappointed so many Democrats in Congress felt it was more important to vote against their constituents' interests and for the interests of large insurance companies who make decisions every day to deny needed health care services for which people paid their hard earned dollars, services that in many cases create untold physical and financial misery to millions of Americans, and often hasten the deaths of their "customers" all in the name of profit. I'm disappointed that so many Americans have been so easily misled by the radical extremists in the Republican Party and the Conservative Media such that they believe our first African American President who won election by a large margin both in the public vote and in the Electoral College is illegitimate, a Marxist, a socialist, a fascist and a tyrant simply for promoting health care reform that the will save our government and society billions of dollars versus continuing our present system which will only continue to cost us a greater share of our gross domestic product while insuring fewer people. I'm disappointed that the actions and statements of former President Bush and, even more incredibly, former Vice president Cheney, are considered newsworthy. I'm disappointed that violence based on bigotry and hatred is on the rise in America. I'm disappointed that television networks will show ads by insurance companies lying about health care reform, but refuse to show ads from organizations promoting progressive or non-conservative points of view on issues. I'm disappointed that so many people continue to irrationally believe that gay marriage somehow threatens their heterosexual marriages, so much so that they continue to deny basic human rights to their fellow human beings. I'm disappointed we still have troops in Iraq and Afghanistan costing us billions of dollars and thousands of lives without any real benefit to America's national security or the lives of the people who live "over there." I'm disappointed that no one from the former administration has been prosecuted for violations of American law, violations of our civil rights, torture, war crimes and crimes against humanity despite all the evidence that they committed such crimes. I'm disappointed whenever I hear the names Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachmann mentioned by our major media outlets, as if what they have to say about current events is anything but insane irrational drivel. I'm disappointed that Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck and all the other hate radio and TV hosts continue to air their destructive, racist, and eliminationist slanders, and I'm even more disappointed that so many gullible Americans continue to believe their lies. I'm disappointed that our country continues to deny the atrocities that occurred when Israel invaded Gaza, and continues to oppose the findings of the Goldstone Report prepared by an independent commission which documented those atrocities. I'm disappointed in so many things, more than I can enumerate here. Someday I hope some of those things that I've listed above will no longer exist and my disappointments will be fewer. Then again, I have always been an idealist and a dreamer.