Primary Obama Now

Primary Obama Now site has nice detailed editorial on Obama's betrayal of Progressive values, & why Progressives should support a Dem Primary challenger in the 2012 Presidential race

fw - Greenwald ethers traitor Obama

Glenn Greenwald editorial on how Obama is gutting core principles of Dem party

fw - Ted Rall "Rise of the Obamabots"

Ted Rall editorial . It does seem imho that Obamabots (such as extreme douche Daily Kos Moulitsas) copied "It's OK If You Are A Republican" into "It's OK if Obama does it".

Well the phenomenon of Obamabots shows most USians support a politrickian, cursing the policy of the other side when they do it, but staying silent when their Dear Leader does it.

Those of us who support a policy regardless are in the minority. *smh in disgust*

Max Keiser "cacacracy"

LOL @ Max keiser, financial pundit/journalist, ex-Wall Street worker & anti-Wall Street, anti-US oligarchy steez. An American that lives in Paris due to US being too corrupt. http://maxkeiser.com

"The US in recent decades is a cacacracy, the rule by the worst of the society. Cacacracy derives from the Latin/French word, Merd".

fdl opinion article that Obama < Bush 43

opinion from David Swanson that Obama < Bush 43. I don't agree, but the guy makes good points. I do agree with Swanson in being very disappointed with the Wall $treet Welfare Weed Carrier, Pope of Hope.

Bogus Accounting of US National Debt & Social Security

Random thought.

Have you ever heard those that want to slash the US New Deal-inspired Safety Net programs of Social Security, Medicaire, Medicaid? Such as Pete Peterson, David M Walker, etc?

They throw out some huge number such as the "real national debt" is 60 Trillion if you "count unfunded liabilities such as SSN, Medicare, Medicaid".

First of SSN IS funded & taking in more $ than it spends until 2040 or so. Even after that, the "problem" by several ways. One obvious way is eliminate the tax cap. Currently Joe UpperMiddleClass that makes $107K pays the same SSN tax as Bill Gates, since the tax is capped at the first $107K in income. Without the cap Gates would be paying ~10,000X as Joe UMC.

As Dr Dean Baker has pointed out, Medicare & Medicaid, although still much cheaper in admin costs than private health insurance, are too expensive because of US health care cartel interests, that get paid excessively compared to any other rich world country.

But put that aside for a second.

Why do the Pete Peterson types never talk about the Trillions in costs for the Net Present Value of all funding for the

Military Industrial Complex

Corporate Welfare

Wall $treet Welfare

Overly broad Patent system which often creates cartel industries & stifles innovation

etc

It's like the NPV of all future spending which might help Average Joe, eg SSN, Medicare, Medicaid; must be funded & accounted for NOW.

But Cartel/Rich Welfare programs that benefit at most the richest 2% & in many cases 0.1% or 0.01% of Americans? No they must not be accounted for NEVER.

Am I missing something obvious? Or am I correct? You tell me.

Naomi Wolf 10 steps that close an open society

Naomi Wolf 10 steps that close an open society (article). Wolf's book on the topic is The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot .

Michael J Smith "The Ratchet Effect" of US bipartisan rightwing trend

Michael J Smith essay that claims that since 1968, the Fed Democrats function is to maintain the political spectrum position, whereas the Republicans always move it rightwards.

This is similar notion to Cenk Uyger's opinion that Obama is more conservative than Reagan.

Apparently Smith's essay is a chapter from a book he hosts on his site, as well as blog articles.

G Greenwald article - Dems are fronting on Public Option

Glenn Greenwald breaks it down as u-sual.

This is really disappointing.  Supposedly Adam Green/Progressive Change Campaign Comittee has 41 Senators who signed paperwork claiming to vote for a Public Option.  Huffington Post Ryan Grim article claims Obama could pressure 12 additional Dem Sens to get 53 votes, based off of these Sens' prior statements wrt Public Option, & would only need 9 of these 12 to get to 50 Sens & win the vote (VP Joe The Biden is a tiebreaker when Senate ties 50-50).

So Obama COULD get the Public Option if he actually WANTED it?  Obama is 2X worse than Liebermann.

You know how Dems usually clown closeted gay ReThugs like Larry Craig?  The rationale, which I agree with, is the Hypocrisy Rule.  Craig, Mark Foley, Rev Ted Haggard, etc are hardcore anti-equal rights for gays, when they themselves are gheys.

To be fair, I think it's way past time to apply the Hypocrisy Rule on fake-ass Cartel Corporatist Whore Dems like Obama & Liebermann.  ReThugs don't front that they are for the average Jane.  ReThugs clearly state themselves Big Cartel Corporate Whores, no ReThug hypocrisy here.  But Cartel Dems like Obama pretend & campaign for the economic issues of the Average Jane & Joe voter, when really they continually defecate on Avg Jane & sellout in backroom non-Cspan'd televised deals with Wall Street, Pharma, Heath Ins, etc.  I call Hypocrisy, I call BS.

The sad thing is that real Progressive leadership ala FD Roosevelt or or TD Roosevelt or LB Johnson looks unlikely until Jan 2017 at the EARLIEST, assuming Obama isn't gonna magically turn Progressive, nor is it likely Obama could be primary challenged in 2012.  So it's either Obama, Romney, or another even worse ReThug as Pres until 2017.  The country has excessive multiple problems to wait until 2017 for adult & Progressive Fed Gov governance to fix this mess.  W T F.  Perhaps I should holler at a girl with Canada or EU citizenship?  Only half-kidding.

John Dean "Republican Rule is Dangerous article

article by John Dean, Nixon's "White House Counsel" lawyer

Kanye West "Yo" images

Have you seen these joke Kanye West "Yo" images mocking Kanye's douche behavior interrupting Taylor Swift @ MTV Awards?

example

I want to see one as follows

"Yo Obama, I acknowledge you're an epic Corporate Whore in general, & specifically for killing the Public Health Insurance Option, & I'll let you finish, but George Bush 43 was the Biggest Corporate Whore President of All Time"!

Politifact

Politifact reports on the truthfulness of statements made by politrickians.

Chris Hedges "It's Not Going to be OK"

Chris Hedges big-picture editorial about the US economy & state of democracy.

Judd Gregg same bad behavior as Blago

C&L makes great point that NH Sen now Sec of Commerce Judd Gregg did similar action as disgraced IL Gov Rod Blagojevich aka Blago.

Ron Paul kicks the truth on the Gaza massacre

Ron Paul quickly in 3 mins drops some intellectual ether on Israeli's Gaza massacre, & hypocrisy in US foreign policy since the 80s to now.

Howard Dean gets no love like foster kids

Howard Dean, was an innovator in using the internet for campaign donations in his 2004 Presidential Campaign. Dean also innovated as the Democratic Party Chair (aka DNC Chair) with the "50 State Strategy", which led to the Dem party performing well in the 2006 & 2008 elections. Both Dean innovations greatly influenced Obama's 2008 campaign.

Note that many typical "centrist Dems" like Rahm Emmanul, Bill & H Clinton & her WCs like space alien/campaign advisor James Carville all scorned Dean for trying something different. Dean's approach was more democratic a "bottom-up" approach from everyday people on the internet. The old Clinton approach was "top down" appealing to big rich individual & corporate donors, & ignoring the grass roots, especially in "red states" that recently had been voting ReThug.

This C&L article notes Dean will not even be at new DNC Chair Tim Kaine's induction ceremony. It states that Obama Chief of Staff & former Dem US Rep Rahm Emmanuel was a big Dean & 50 State Strategy hater, & may have something to do with Dean not being named to a Cabinet office in the Obama staff.

Dean, a former VT Governor who implemented a good health care reform, & a physician, could have been a great qualified pick for a health-related position, but Obama gave Health & Human Services to Tom Daschle, & Surgeon General to CNN TV medical PR dude Sanjay Gupta.

What the fock. No reward for doing a great job for Dean. Dean "gets no love like foster kids".

Obama has made some good decisions like naming Dr Chu to Sec Energy, & is infinitely superior to WOAT Bush or McShame. Despite this, with moves like shafting Dean [||], Obama is half-wack in his approach so far. Man, funk dat (c) Sagat.

Obama selects physicist Steven Chu for Sec of Energy

Obama nominates for Sec of Energy Dr Steven Chu, a cabinet member that's an real work doer/thinker/engineer, as physicist. As opposed to candidates that are more of BS work doer/salesman/politrickian than real work doers, like H Clinton & Larry Summers. Bill Richardson is kind of half salesman, half real-work doer, as he has significant work experience in many Government sectors.

Anyways, it's great to see a physicist like Chu at the Dept. of Energy, at a time where allocating resources to different alternative renewable energy projects will be pursued. Chu is a Nobel Prize winner in physics, so his capability for this task is about infinite that of a typical generic DC douche lawyer/politrickian.

Too bad Obama skipped on real work doer Susan Rice to be Secretary of State, a PhD with 20 years of diplomat experience. Instead, Obama went with saleswoman/poltirickian Hill Dog Clinton, whose diplomat experience consists of meeting some foreign leaders while being First Lady in the 1990s.

The government, & US organizations in general public or private, could stand to use more real work doers/engineers/scientists/genuine subject matter experts/PhDs, & less bs work doers/salesmen/politrickians/lawyers.

Liberal Oasis

fw - family member recommended this progressive radio talk show Liberal Oasis.

Sirota "McCain Banking on Confederacy of Dunces"

David Sirota goes in on McShame.

Sarah Palin on SNL

Sarah Palin is finna continue clowning herself on SNL, Sat Oct-18. Wikipedia lists some dude named Josh Brolin as the guest, so it appears that Palin would prolly just be in 1 skit.

Still tho, isn't Palin supposedly "an energy expert"? How does she have time to clown on SNL, with the election in 20 days ALSO, LOL.