Topics for the show:
Dylan gives an update on his Lent torture
1 in 30 people in DC have AIDS?
Chlamydia wins the STD popularity contest
Young boys and their disgusting fascination with wearing women’s jeans
A boy’s parent’s consider suing because his school suspended over his facebook activity
NY Governor decides not to run for reelection
1 Senator holds up unemployment benefits for millions
Clips and comments from the Health Care Summit the media won’t talk about
This country has never been “By the people, for the people”
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If the only part of the Health Care summit you saw yesterday was clips on the news or the analysis from pundits, then you would probably think that President Obama was “boorish” and that the only interesting parts were the exchanges between the President and Senator John McCain. Truth is, there was a lot said in that summit and the biggest thing to really come out was that most of the Republican health care plan is already in the Senate bill.
President Obama opening to the Summit
The media says that there was a “good exchange” between President Obama and Senator Lamar Alexander. What they don’t say is that the President is right.
Great retort from the President after Senator Barrasso suggests all we need is catastrophic care and a health savings account.
To add more to that video, here’s the transcript for what happened afterwards:
SENATOR BARRASSO: Mr. President, having a high-deductible plan
and a health savings account is an option for members of Congress and
federal employees –
THE PRESIDENT: If — that’s right, because members of Congress
get paid $176,000 a year.
SENATOR BARRASSO: — 16,000 employees did take advantage of that.
THE PRESIDENT: Because they –
SENATOR BARRASSO: And so, it’s the same plan –
THE PRESIDENT: — because members of Congress –
SENATOR BARRASSO: — that the Park Rangers get in the
Yellowstone National Park.
THE PRESIDENT: John — John, members of Congress are in the top
income brackets of the country. And health savings accounts I think
can be a useful tool, but every study has shown that the people who
use them are folks who’ve got a lot of disposable income. And the
people that we’re talking about don’t.
President Obama getting on Sen. Kyl about talking points
Cantor being a douche and using props
Also after that Cantor went into a ramble about how Government can’t come in and set minimum rules for insurance companies because it would be too expensive, to which President Obama responded with the following:
Obama: We could set up a system where food was cheaper than it is right now if we just eliminated meat inspectors, and we eliminated any regulations on how food is distributed and how it’s stored. I’ll bet in terms of drug prices we would definitely reduce prescription drug prices if we didn’t have a drug administration that makes sure that we test the drugs so that they don’t kill us, but we don’t do that.
We make some decisions to protect consumers in every aspect of our lives
*edit* Found a longer portion of the exchange between President Obama and Cantor
Congressman Becerra trying to set the record straight as to whether the GOP want to use and believe CBO numbers or not
President Obama explaining why high risk pools to cover people won’t work.
Senator Durbin made a strong case yesterday for why he should be MajorityLeader and replace Reid. Here’s just a snippet of what he said yesterday.
Obama closing saying he’s willing to consider some of the the things the GOP said and asking them to do the same
If you were at work last Friday (as most people are) and didn’t happen to catch the President’s Q & A session in Baltimore with House Republicans, I suggest you take an hour and a half to watch the whole thing. Clips from the media don’t do this exchange justice because in order to fully appreciate what happened, you need to hear both the questions asked AND the full answers of the President. The media, as the President actually said on Friday, only cares about crash & burn soundbites. So if you want to really learn something, watch the entire session for yourself.
It seems like republicans came to this meeting with their talking points in hand but nothing else to really back them up. That lead to the President cutting them down one by one. The best part is when he told the republicans that they need to realize that just because they aren’t getting 100% or even 80% of what they want, that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t vote for issues and bills that represent a lot of ideas that they do support. This was definitely great to watch and I only hope that the President does it again AND does it with democrats as well.
So I got a little frustrated yesterday dealing with people complaining about Obama’s first year in office. It is my firm belief that people are being completely irrational with their criticisms of the President. Holding the President accountable and providing constructive criticism is one thing, but what I’m seeing and hearing is more like a bunch of whining and bitching about things people haven’t fully seemed to grasp. I believe it’s a mixture of panic from the status of the economy (which is not his fault), not having a firm grasp of civics and having just completely unreasonable expectations from a President who took over a mess left by arguably the worst President in history. President Obama faces the daunting task of cleaning up several conflicts and crisis with an American public that has ADD and is addicted to a 24 hour news cycle. Think about it for a minute. Before September 11, 2001, do you remember President Bush taking this much shit for things he did/didn’t do during his first year in office? Most people on the left were spending all their time still complaining about Florida’s recount instead of actually looking at what Bush was doing. Fast forward to January/Feburary of 2009 and you had people calling President Obama a failure in his first 100 days in office. No really, I want you to stop and think back to Obama’s first 100 days. Remember all the media (Print, Radio, Cable, Internet, etc.) and the microscope they had President Obama under and how they were rating him on how much progress he gotten in fixing problems there were 8+ years in the making. Joe Scarborough and others would sit there and blame 10.5% unemployment on President Obama…completely ignoring that unemployment is a lagging indicator and that it was generated by a financial collapse that happened in the last months of President Bush’s term. Not only was it irrational but it was also completely unprecedented in that no President in recent history has ever faced THAT much scrutiny over their first 100 days. EVER. Now, after a year in office you have people that will look you in your face and tell you that President Obama hasn’t accomplished ANYTHING in his first year in office. Quite honestly, that pisses me off. Listen, I have my issues with some of the things the President has done (or hasn’t done) over the past year, but to say he hasn’t accomplished anything over the last year makes you at best, misinformed or in denial and at worse dishonest.
First and foremost, let’s not underestimate the pussification of democrats in Congress. Comparing what a Republican President can get done with a Democratic President is like comparing apples and oranges. Despite their disjointedness, Republicans for the most part stick together. They have no problem sacrificing their principles for political gain. This is evident in the reemergence of “deficit hawks” during the Obama administration who were completely silent while Bush was “making it rain” like Pacman Jones. Democrats on the other hand are a more rag tag group of ‘everyone not a republican’. This means you have to deal with a lot more ideological differences in the same party. It also means you deal with “Conservative Democrats’ who are democrat in name but come from conservative states/districts and therefore have to be more careful with what they support. Take the closing of Gitmo. President Obama signed the order to close it but Congress hasn’t funded it. Sure, the President could spend time and political capital laying down the law and getting congress to do it, but in comparison to other issues…it’s not worth it. So, isn’t it a little unfair to say the President hasn’t keep his promise when the true problem lies with Congress? People should also give the President credit for his attempts to work on that shut down by beginning to hold trials for terror suspects. It’s completely unfair to say “But he hasn’t closed Gitmo” and ignore the fact that he’s had prisoners released, transferred, begun trials for some and start to work on getting a prison built to house the rest. So while it’s true Gitmo isn’t closed, let’s not ignore the significant progress this Administration has made despite having it’s hands tied by Congress.
To back me up in my beliefs that the President has done more than people give him credit for, I went to PolitiFacts.com. To be honest, I’m surprised PolitiFacts doesn’t get more press because they do a pretty good job of cutting through the chatter and exposing the truth behind what politicians say, regardless of their political affiliation. For Obama’s first year in office, PolitiFacts compared the 502 campaign promises candidate Obama made to what President Obama has done. The results are quite shocking. Out of 502 campaign promises, the President has kept 91, compromised on 33, has 275 in the works, 87 stalled and only broken 15 (2 are “Not yet rated”). Adding up the promises kept with the compromises (Hate to break it to you but compromise is what happens in politics), that puts Obama at keeping just under 25% of his campaign promises. Looking at a 4 year term…that’s on pace to keep the majority of his promises in his first term. Which leaves me wondering JUST WHAT THE FUCK PEOPLE ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT???? Reading through the promises kept/compromised and even the ones he’s made enough progress on to be considered “In the Works”, it’s convinced me that this country not only has ADD but that the majority of people get their information from the cable news networks. It makes sense considering the Cable news only focuses on train wrecks and therefore most people wouldn’t realize what the President has done.
Take Health Care for instance. Liberals are bitching that the President broke his promise on supporting a Public Option. They even have ads up showing him on a campaign calling for one. What they DON’T show you though is the other campaign promises he made on Health Care reform: Tax credits for individuals/small businesses that need help to buy insurance, a National Health Insurance exchange, electronic health records and other things…all which are in the Senate bill. It’s also paid for and lowers the deficit over time…also things candidate Obama promised. So when you step back and look at it objectively, the Presidents statement that “A Public Option is nice but doesn’t mean without it Health Care Reform is dead” makes sense. The Public Option was but one piece of President Obama’s health care plans. He realized he didn’t have the votes for it, but for everything else…so he accepted what most smart people would, a compromise to get the majority of what he wanted. Yet somehow, despite getting a Health Care bill to pass the senate (never done before), people still are saying the President hasn’t lived up to promises with Health Care Reform. Is it perfect? No. But to say he hasn’t lived up to most of what he promised is disingenuous and stupid.
I’ll end with this from Thomas Mann from the Brookings Institute and what he says about Obama’s first year:
The bad economy may have dimmed public perceptions of his accomplishments, said Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who studies the federal government. Obama’s approval ratings dropped as 2009 came to an end.
“He’s been largely faithful to the promises he made in the campaign, especially substantive policy ones,” Mann said. “But the public doesn’t see what I see in objective terms. There’s distrust about the economy, and they’re put off by the partisan bickering in Washington. They’re scared and skeptical of government, so there’s a gulf between what he’s accomplished and how it’s viewed.”
CHICAGO — Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says he’s “blacker than Barack Obama” and tells Esquire magazine that he was a real person in a political arena dominated by phonies.
Blagojevich, referring to the president as “this guy,” says Obama was elected based simply on hope.
“What the (expletive)? Everything he’s saying’s on the teleprompter,” Blagojevich told the magazine for a story in its February issue, which hits newsstands Jan. 19.
“I’m blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived,” Blagojevich said. “I saw it all growing up.”
The White House refused to comment.
The twice-elected Democrat was impeached and removed from office last year after federal prosecutors arrested him on corruption charges that included trying to sell Obama’s old U.S. Senate seat. He has pleaded not guilty.(Source)
I know President Obama has to live and uphold the standards of the Office of the President, but I wish this once we could all vote to allow him to punch Rod Blagojevich in the face. And if that’s not possible, then I say we at least let Michelle kick him in the nuts a couple of times. Seriously, this guy is an attention whore and I really shouldn’t even be doing this, but this interview he did with Esquire is so offensive I had to say something. Rod is doing what most black people hate about white people. He’s using a modified “But I have black friends” excuse. So because your father had a laundromat in a black community that gives you a pass in the black community? Even worse is him saying that he grew up poor and that somehow, that makes him “black”. So being poor is now a trait of black people Rod? Seriously, fuck this guy. He’s just saying shit now to take attention away from the fact that he tried to illegally sell a Senate seat.
I also want to point out that people like Joe Scarborough will probably ignore how fellow Democrats blast Blagojevich for his comments because it doesn’t fit their narrative that Democrats ignore or forgive fellow Democrats that say racially insensitive things. See, unlike Harry Reid’s comments, Blagos were meant to be offensive. Reid, while making a stupid statement, wasn’t intentionally trying to stir the racial pot. There is a difference folks.
The more and more I read and watch people complaining about the “gift to the Insurance companies” that this new Health Care Reform bill is, the more I wonder if they’ve ever followed politics before. Let’s be frank here. Wu Tang had it right. C.R.E.A.M. is the belief system that runs this country. Those with money and power run the world while those of us who don’t, struggle. This is the unfortunate reality of not just this country but of the entire human existence. A lot of talk was made during the election of the “evil” catchphrase “Redistribution of Wealth” which is associated with Communism, Socialism and Marxism. But here’s the truth. Capitalism is jut another form of “Redistribution of Wealth.” Actually, it should be called “Redistribution of Power” because that’s what it really is. No matter what the system, there is always someone with power and money making out. Period.
The problem with America is, we like to pretend that isn’t the case. Take Glenn Beck’s love affair with the ‘Founding Fathers’ of this country. Beck, his supporters and many others like to romanticize the Founding Fathers as some kind of righteous “above the fray” individuals who were so much more in tune with the people than today’s politician. This my friends, is a crock of shit. The founding fathers weren’t a collection of poor farmers. They owned plantations and had their own money. They started the revolutionary war, not because of freedom but because their own selfish concern about keeping more of their own money. George Washington wasn’t a pauper. He was very wealthy and had prestige. This notion that the Founding Fathers stood for freedom for all is one of those lies our children are taught at a young age so they don’t know any better. The truth is, the Founding Fathers capitulated on slaves and even counting them as full human beings. Beck likes to romanticize this as a battle over taxation. However, the truth is very simple: They compromised. They compromised on human lives. Fast forward a few hundred years and we have the same thing going on with Health Care. This isn’t new people.
If you think about it, Obama is the most normal, close-to-regular individual we’ve had in office. Barack and Michelle had only paid off their student loans but a few years before Barack announced his run from President. Both Bush’s came from oil money. Reagan was an actor. Even failed candidates Edwards, Kerry and McCain had shit loads of money. So the first thing to realize is, we’re fucked. This is the history of this country. Those in power have money, those without don’t. Stephen A. Smith was on Morning Joe (for no reason other than to talk about Tiger Woods) brought up a good point when Scarborough was talking about how awful it is that to be President you have to take all this money from Big Business. Smith said that if you get rid of lobbyist money completely, only people with billions of disposable income like Bloomberg can run. And do we really want President Bloomberg? I mean talk about an “empire state of mind.” Bloomberg changed the rules so he could run again for a 3rd term. He basically bought himself an election with is own money. So even there we’re screwed.
Now once you come to grips with that, there are 2 things you can do. First, try to become rich yourself. You know, if you can’t beat them, join them. This is why I always laugh at those that say they are going to vote for more “progressive” third party candidates. Really? You think that’s going to change human nature? You think once in power Ralph Nader wouldn’t be doing his own set of underhanded deals? Come on. You can’t be that naïve.
The second thing we can do, that will probably bring change, is to start to push for limits on the number of consecutive terms members of Congress can run. We have it for the President, why not Congress too? Right now you have about 30 seats in the Senate and triple that in the House that are in essence “Lifetime Appointments.” These individuals will never lose their seats in elections, NEVER. No matter how much they suck at their jobs or how much money they take from lobbyist, their seats are basically safe. So you give them two consecutive terms. It doesn’t solve the problem but it at least opens the Congress up to more ideas and fresh faces. Its absurd that Senator Byrd has been in Congress for 50 years. FIFTY YEARS. He’s being wheeled into the Senate chambers to make votes and I don’t even know if the man knows what year it is. Orin Hatch was making a big deal a few years back about illegal downloads and file sharing and the man knows nothing about file sharing. Ted Stevens described the Internet as a “series of tubes.” John McCain was almost President of the United States and he needs help checking his email. While its obviously ridiculous that men who write the laws in this country, during the age of Technology can’t even use it, its even worse than that. See, because these people don’t know anything about the technology, they are susceptible to lobbyist paying them to think the way the lobbyist want them to. That is why there needs to be a change to bring in new faces and fresh blood into the Congress on a regular basis. Will it stop corruption? Of course not. But it might make some members focus more on the people than the paycheck for life they get from lobbyist.
Of course…as I’ve said before…a change like this requires Congress’s approval and….THAT’S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. So I’m off to buy my Lotto ticket in the hopes that one day, I’m a billionaire and can act with reckless abandonment of my morals too.
Hearing the ramblings of Howard Dean, Arianna Huffington, Keith Olbermann, Ed Shultz and many other “progressives”, I’m beginning to think some progressives want to see republicans back in control of not only Congress but also the White House. It’s as if some of these democrats ONLY know how to bitch, moan and complain and are completely out of their element when it comes to getting stuff done. I can’t lie. That’s partly why Democrats get on my nerve. Where Republicans will pull a Dick Cheney and shoot their friend in the face, Democrats turn the gun on themselves and blow their own jaw off. Listen, I understand everything Howard Dean was saying. The Health Care Reform bill is not the greatest thing in the world. It doesn’t include a Public Option that we really need. However, its better than nothing. Ed Shultz even admitted that on Morning Joe yesterday. So while I can understand being a little salty that its not the perfect bill, saying he won’t ‘vigorously’ support Obama’s reelection is just a stupid thing to say on a morning show. Keith Olbermann has lost a lot of points in my book because, well…he doesn’t vote. He doesn’t vote and that’s part of why Congress is full of a bunch of idiots now. Arianna’s site is useful but sometimes I think their headlines are as sensationalized as Fox News’. Listen, at what point do democrats stop eating their own and just get it done? Instead of trying (and failing) to get the most progressive bill possible, why not take baby steps? No bill is ever perfect. EVER. It was asinine for progressives to think that they could elect a moderate President (yes, he was moderate if you were paying attention) and that he would throw all his political capital behind the most progressive Health Care Bill possible. Really, what sense does that make? This is POLITICS folks.
For those thinking that if there’s no Public Option, you’re going to stay home in 2012 and not vote for Obama: Congratulations on cutting off your nose to spite your face. The problem is not Obama. Hell, as much as I can’t stand him the problem isn’t even Joe Liebermann. The problem is “blue dog” democrats in conservative states. The President has no leverage over any of them. At all. Unlike Lieberman who is just being a douchebag, these other “conservative” democrats are representing the will of the people in their states unfortunately. If you want the most progressive bill possible, then support your local elections and the elections for the House of Representatives and Senate in your states. Vote for progressives there. THAT’S how you’ll get change. This is what politics is about people. It’s messy. It’s not fun. It’s a lot of backdoor deals and back stabbing. If you thought electing Obama meant the change of that, then sorry to say this, you’re an idiot. One man can’t change the system. Congress is the problem. It always has been, always will be.
As much as I hate them, you would never see Republicans do this to a republican President in his first year in office. NEVER. Republicans, even if they disagree, will rally with their own. It’s annoying because usually they’re rallying around a stupid position, but they give the support. Why do they do it? Because they know that even if they don’t get everything they want, it’s still better than getting nothing. This seems to be lost on progressives (and democrats as a whole). The biggest “maverick” in the Republican party during the Bush years was John McCain and even he came home when it counted. In 2000, Bush’s campaign team slandered McCain big time. BIG TIME. Yet in 2004, he was right there endorsing and hugging Bush. Why? Because he supported his own. Progressives are being impatient little cry babies right now instead of looking at the big picture of what they are getting. Sure, Gitmo didn’t get closed immediately…but Obama’s made huge progress in making sure that gets done (Holder says it might close by the middle of next year). He hasn’t ended “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” yet but every indication is, that he will. Despite the uproar of the anti-war crowd over him KEEPING A CAMPAIGN PROMISE in Afghanistan, he’s also making sure troops in Iraq are out by 2011. He’s on the verge of getting a Health Care Reform bill passed. That’s NEVER happened. Sure, its not the best bill in the world, but its better than nothing and NO ONE can really argue with that. I appreciate that Democrats/Progressives hold the President accountable, but at the same time, I think they are going overboard here. The man is trying his best. Will I agree with everything he does? No. But I also see him trying the best he can with what he has. Remember, its only been 11 months. ELEVEN MONTHS. It took Bush at least 3 before he really started fucking us over. Obama’s just a man. He can’t turn water into wine. Stop expecting him to. I just wish progressives were this vocal with their Congressman/woman when they cosigned the Patriot Act and Bush’s Iraq War. I’m just saying. Putting all your anger at Obama is misplaced when he’s working with a bunch of people that are part of the larger problem.
POTUS: Cut the crap Joe, this isn’t a courtesy call. This is me, the President of the United States calling you…the Independent Senator from Connecticut and letting you know who the big dick in charge is because it seems you’ve forgotten that. See, its really starting to piss me off that you’re sitting around trying to tell me that I don’t know what I’m doing with this Health Care Reform when your entire career in the Senate has been marred with you being extraordinarily mediocre.
Lieberman: Sir now I think you’ve crossed the line with that…
POTUS: Seriously Joe, shut the fuck up and listen. I understand you’re doing this whole thing out of spite. You’re like a small child begging for daddy’s attention and so you act out in class. Well Joe, I’m your daddy and you have my attention. I get it. Your entire Senate career has been highlighted by you playing second fiddle and now you find yourself in a position where people actually have to listen to your whining and hypocrisy. You failed as Al Gore’s Vice Presidential candidate. You failed to be a Presidential nominee yourself, finishing after even Al Sharptoon in popular vote. When the democratic party decided not to support you because of your asinine support of Bush’s Iraq War you acted out like a small child for the first time and ran as an Independent. We still let you caucus with us. Then there was last year, where you decided to turn to you best buddy in the Senate John McCain. Not only did you turn your back on fellow democrats but you also by default supported bogus attacks against MY character. Even with all that back stabbing you still couldn’t get McCain to pick you as his VP candidate and instead he made you go on the morning shows and support an inexperienced moron in Sarah Palin when you knew she was neither qualified or ready for that responsibility. But you kept up the act because you wanted to “stick it” to democrats. I thought when I yoked you up in the Senate chambers after I won that we had this settled. I thought that we had an understanding. I let you keep your committee chairmanship positions. I thought we could get past this. But here you are, standing as the last hurdle blocking getting this health care bill done before Christmas…
Lieberman: I’m just not for entitlements…
POTUS: Really? You’re not for entitlements? Three months ago you were for this very program. We have your ass on record as for this type of program as far back as 2000. But let’s come back to that. You’re worried about entitlements that could be detrimental to this country yet you were willing to lie to the American people and tell them that Sarah Palin is qualified to run this country. You wanted to support the war in Iraq and then a candidate that seemed willing to start a war in Iran. And you’re going to try to tell me that you’re worried about increasing debt? You’re full of shit Joe.
Lieberman: Mr. President, I don’t really appreciate the tone you are taking with this. You need me to get this bill passed and you promised the American People you would bring people together and…
POTUS: Don’t tell me what I promised the American people Joe. I don’t need a lecture, not from the likes of you. Health Care Reform WILL pass with the Medicare buy-in and you WILL vote for it whether you like it or not.
Lieberman: No sir, I wi….
POTUS: Yes, you fucking will. Because if you don’t, you’ll be facing an election next year with zero DNC support. ZERO. Now you can think you can just rerun again as an Independent and win your seat again, but believe me when I say that the grassroots movement I used to get elected is nothing compared to what I will unleash just on you to ensure you don’t win reelection. And if by some miracle you still win, you will be stripped of any chairmanship positions you have and be persona non grata in the Democratic Caucus. You can go be a Republican since you like supporting them so much.
Lieberman: Sir you are out of line…
POTUS: Out of line? Joe, let me explain something to you. I’m President of the United States. Me. Not you. I run this shit. And if you got a problem with that then in 2012, you can challenge me in a primary. But we both know that’s not your style. You play second fiddle…you aren’t good at being the person calling the shots. So sit back, shut the fuck up and vote for this bill before Christmas. End of story. *click*
Oh one can only dream that President Obama would just get fed up with Joe Lieberman and shut him down like this. But we know that won’t happen. Hopefully the rest of the democrats realize what Lieberman is up to and use reconciliation to get all the parts in necessary. Hell, attach the public option to a defense spending bill. As much as I hate that, Health Care Reform is that important and necessary. We shouldn’t let Joe Lieberman’s personal vendetta against democrats stop this progress. Just in case anyone thinks people are being too hard on Joe, here’s proof of Lieberman’s douchebaggery where he talks about supporting an expansion of Medicare, the same one he now doesn’t support…three months ago.
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Submachine gun attack at a birthday party in Baltimore
Tila Tequila whores herself out for attention again
Why are women so catty and anti-Rihanna?
Tiger Woods might be a professional golfer but he’s an amateur cheater
Obama’s decision to send troops to Afghanistan
Black people and some of their unreasonable expectations of Obama
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