Time To Buck Up Senate Democrats

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/every-democratic-senator_b_333634.html This article spells out what I said a couple of months ago: Every Democrat needs to vote against a fillibuster. Then they can vote their conscience. Harry Reid, here is your blueprint.

I'm Back!!!!!

I'm sorry for not having any posts since Sept.11. I have had some health issues that had cause me to be laid up for awhile. But I'm ok and doing fine. Look for posts beginning tomorrow.

Health Care Reform Now

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/opinion/11fri1.html The President made a very clear and convincing argument for health care reform. It's apparent that reform will come from the Democrats as the Republicans, despite the President's attempt at bi-partisanship, are committed to being the Party of No.

Shame On Niagara Wheatfield School District

It has come to my attention that the Niagara Wheatfield School District decided to not have President Obama's speech for children today. What a god damn disgrace!!!! I'd love to know the un-American, domestic terrorist idiot who made that decision. Who the hell do these people think they are??? There's a disturbing trend here with Niagara-Wheatfield. The school district bans the African-American President's speech and the Town of Niagara bans a mosque from being located on Military Road......Hmmmmm..see a pattern here.

I want to hear the explanation for why a speech that advocated the importance of education and personal responsibility was not heard by students in the Niagara-Wheatfield School District??? I have a friend who works in the NF School District and she told me the children of Niagara Falls saw the President's speech. Why were the kids in NF allowed to see and hear the speech and why not in Niagara-Wheatfield???? Could it be that there are more minorities in the NF School District??? Could it be that the administration of the NF School District is more patriotic than the terrorists running Niagara-Wheatfield???

I want to see if the tremendous local news reporters pick up on this. How many other school districts here in Niagara County banned the President's speech???? In an earlier post, I compared this place to West Virginia or eastern Kentucky. I guess Niagara-Wheatfield is the capital. What a goddamn disgrace!!!!! And I bet these morons sing "Proud To Be An American" and cry when they sing. Hypocritical bastards!!!!!!

U.S.A.: We Are Children of Barnum & Bailey's Circus

http://www.truthout.org/090609Z?n Bill Moyers hits this one out of the park. This summer has proven what I have thought all along: we have become a country of chicken hawks who love to beat our chests and say how we are proud to be Americans. Yet, our founding fathers would be disgusted with our "me first, to hell with every one else" attitude. It gets me sick when I see these "patriotiic" American's sing Lee Greenwood's "Proud To Be An American". They are usually bigoted, love it or leave it hypocrites. All of us who supported President Obama need to stand up for our country!!!!!! We need to have health care reform and we need it now!!!!1

Just When You Think You Have Heard It All

http://mediamatters.org/research/200909030013 The utter ridiculous baseless criticism of Prsident Obama's desire to reach out to school children in this country to talk about the value of education is just about all I can syand. In fact, for you neo-con nut jobs, your man Reagan addressed school children in 1988 and talked about the importance of cutting taxes!!!!!! This recent nonsense takes the cake for down right domestic terrorism and racism. Hmmm.....we don't want a President to value education. WHY????? And we want to know why this country is in the shape it's in. In fact, just recently its was reported that American children areway below other industrial countries in math and science test scores. And you want to know why all these kids can do is work at Wal-mart!!!! I can't take it anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Afghanistan

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/05/opinion/05herbert.html?_r=1 I have not commented on Afghanistan but as I read more it appears to me that this is a war we can't win.

The Culture Of Cruelty

http://www.truthout.org/090209R?n What has happened to America??? We were a compassionate, looking out for the underdog people. We have truly become "The Ugly American".

What About The Poor??

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/ted-kennedy-and-the-missi_b_270053.html Senator Ted Kennedy was one of the last national politician to focus on the plight of those less fortunate, those struggling to survive, those homeless and hungry. When President Obama calls Kennedy the "soul of the Democratic Party" he was right on the money. But even more so, the soul of the country. The Reagan years began the focus on individual wealth and the hell with everyone else. The hope and promise that was a hallmark of the Kennedys has been replaced by hatred for government, disgust for the poor and overwhelming greed. Who will step up???

Tribute

http://www.truthout.org/082609R?n Ted Kennedy will be deeply missed by all lefties who believe in social justice, public service and an America that is respected and admired throughout the world. I'm still shocked that he is gone. Not that I didn't realize this was inevitable since the brain cancer was diagnosed but it is hard to imagine not having a Kennedy at the forefront of American politics. One thing that really struck me was the overwhelming sentiment that Ted Kennedy knew when he had to put his partisan hat aside and get down to the business of governing. Unfortunately, most of our representatives in Washington haven't learned this.

Of course, you can say that our elected representatives in general haven't learned it. Albany there is constant posturing. Senator Maziarz and Assemblywoman DelMonte can't resist taking shots at each other instead of working together for Niagara County.

Have you watched a Legislative meeting on cable lately. If the majority caucus is for something the Dems are against it. If the Dems are for something the majority caucus is against it. In the mean time the County is dying. And in Niagara Falls, every 4 years city councilman take turns trying to take down whoever the current Mayor is and as a result of this over the last 20 years the City continues to sink deeper.

Ted Kennedy was a statesman. There's not many left. His passing is the end of an era and for that I am sad. The ideals and basic principles of the New Frontier, the drive of RFK's commitment to the less fortunate and the call to get involved was embodied in Ted Kennedy's public service. He didn't need to be a Senator. He wasn't in it for the money as was neither JFK or RFK. They were in it to make America a better place and as a result the world a better place.

God Bless You Senator Edward Moore Kennedy. Us lefties will all miss you.

The End Of An Era

The passing of the great liberal lion of the Senate, Senator Ted Kennedy, truly marks the end of an era. The Kennedy family has been dedicated to public service and particularly for championing the causes for those less fortunate. I will have more later today. Our country lost a piece of its soul today.

The Curse Of Reagan Continues

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/opinion/24krugman.html?_r=2 It's incredible what a lasting influence such a terrible President has had on this country.

Long History Of Nut Jobs From The Far Right

http://www.truthout.org/082309V?n

This Is What I've Been Talking About!!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/opinion/23rich.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1251025949-3AfeREEz5mCM+NGRmF2IoQ Frank Rich is echoing the alarm which I have been ringing for months. As he states so well, you have elected officials like Senator Coburn stating its ok to be caring guns to public meetings. I asked the nit-wit Senator: What's the purpose for carrying a gun to a town hall meeting???? About the same reason you would carry a gun to a supermarket: there is none. But when morons like Coburn, Beck, Hannity and Limbaugh tell everyone the government is the enemy and that Obama is Hitler, what might happen when a gun toting militia man walks in to a town hall meeting??? Please read and hope that someone rational takes over the Republican Party

Health Care Mobs = Swift Boaters

http://mediamatters.org/columns/200908180002 Please read.....It's getting to the point where these guys just keep the same old playbook. The trouble is we have to make sure it doesn't work again!!!!!

More and More Clear: Forget The G.O.P.

http://www.truthout.org/081909R?n This article spells out that the Republican is not only against a public option for health insurance, they are against health care reform in general. It's obvious Jon Kyl has never ahd to worry about being denied health care. He should be ashamed.

Face Reality: A Majority Of Americans Want a Public Option

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-borosage/health-care-let-the-major_b_262666.html A recent poll by Rasmussen (a conservative leaning polling company) shows that 57% of Americans believe that without a public option there will be no true health care reform. The aricle attached nails it: have the Democrats kill a fillibuster and then let there be a vote up or down.

It's Crunch Time For President Obama

The last few days I have been besides myself. The Obama Administration stating that a public option was only a sliver of health care reform through me for a loop. I've tried to figure out what the President was trying to accomplish. One thought was maybe by saying that the public option wasn't a key to health care reform the President was looking to mobilize the left. The other thing I was thinking was maybe he was trying to gauge where the American people were on all of this. I then considered maybe the President felt that he needed to get a health care reform bill passed even if there was no public option.

Of all three, I'm really hoping that he wanted to mobilize the left. Passing health care reform bill without a public option is not really reform. Politically, if a health care reform bill is passed without a public option, the President will still not get Republican votes and he will lose Democratic support and alienate the base. In my opinion, the President needs to push the public option and let the chips fall where they may. While I admire President Obama's attempt to change the bitter partisanship of Washington, it takes two to tango and the Republicans want no part of the bipartisan dance. That is why the President needs to lean on the Democrats to pass a bill with a public option and put an end of it.

Palin Wake Up

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen-reardon/the-death-panel-already-e_b_256089.html Hey Sarah, wake up!!!! We have death panels now.

More Palin!!!!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shannyn-moore/death-panels-for-dummies_b_255060.html You may be wondering why am I slamming Palin so badly. Well, there are 2 reasons. First, she is intellectually bankrupt. Her next original thought will be her first. I don't believe she is qualified to be Mayor of Wasilla let alone President of the United States. But she is classic Republican candidate material. She is no different than W. except that W. was a governor of a major state, had a resume' that was well crafted and followed instructions to mask his inefficiencies. Palin does not listen to anyone and has no resume' It's frustrating because there are people out there who think she's great. I had a conversation with some elderly men. They loved Palin. I asked them why and the bottom line: she's good looking and has great legs!!!! And you want to know why this country is in the state that were in.

Secondly, because people like Palin and Limbaugh and Hannity and Beck are listened to and believed by millions of Americans they are extremely dangerous when they spew lies and frighten people. They amount to being domestic terrorists!!! Interesting clip I saw the other night where George Stephanopolous called Gingrich out by saying that the health care bill had nothing in it about euthansia. Gingrich just blew it off and continued with the Republican talking points. But there are people who believe the crap about death panels, etc. Today I heard a Congressman tell a story of a 90 year old woman begging him not to put her out on an ice flow to die. The scary thing is that the day before a right wing radio talk show host was saying that Obamacare was going to round all the old people up and put them on ice flows to die.

This is why the Becks, Limbaughs and Palins of the world need to be called out and they need to be called liars, anti-American and domestic terrorists because that is what they are. As Americans we should be able to have intelligent debate. But when you have these terrorists spewing their lies and hate there cannot be intelligent debate but merely fear, hatred and ultimately violence.

When Walter Cronkite died it made me remember of a better time before 24 hour news and opinionated talking heads who are not reporting the news but are trying to make the news and get high ratings. Cronkite was the most trusted man in America because he just gave us the facts and left it up to the American people to figure out where they stood on issues. But 24 hour news has to be outrageous to get ratings. Hence we have Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly. And let's not forget Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs. And how can we forget Pat Buchannan who has returned to his extremist self from 1992 by acting like your typical angry old white guy.

We as Americans have no one to blame but ourselves. People don't read anymore and reporters are all about giving their opinions as opposed to reporting the facts. That is why we lefties need to call these domestic terrorists out!!! Let's not patronize the sponsors of Limbaugh and Hannity and Beck and O'Reilly and Fox News. And let's correct the lies and calm the fears. If things continue the way they have, I'm afraid something terrible is going to happen.