House Democrats Who Voted Against the Health Care Bill - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com »
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Detailed table profiling the 39 Democrats who voted against a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system.
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hyperbola1 week, 4 days ago
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What I would like to see is an analysis of how many of these "blue dogs" were candidates parachuted into their districts by Rahm Emanuel when this Israeli soldier forced pro-Iraq-war candidates on the democratic party in his role as campaign chairman. Especially given Emanuel's role in "downplaying" the public option for health care and his previous history of "getting rich quick" through the auspices of "zionist oligarchs" on Wall Street. He doesn't seem to be a politician with the interests of America and Americans amongst his highest priorities.
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Emanuel's War Plan for Democrats
The Book of Rahm
http://www.counterpunch.org/walsh10242006.html
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jimdoze1 week, 4 days ago
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This is good! The basic information can be found on the House website as well. But now, in one spot we now have a list of Dems who either value their politcal career over that of the President's or truly understand the damage that the administration's initiatives in this arena will do to the country. Either way, I give them high credit and praise.
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If I had to guess, I'd have to say that the purpose of the article is to "Dede Scozzafava" these Dems.-
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hyperbola1 week, 4 days ago
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More likely they belong to the "zioncon" wing of the democratic party. Another indication of how much work we have to do to weed out "polticians" whose first loyalty is not to America and Americans.
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Shut Down the Murderous Health Care Racket
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/11/07/shut-dow...
Al Capone is awake in his grave in awe at the criminal racket promulgated by the health care industry: a murderous multi-billion dollar industry that keeps the world’s Superpower in the sociological Stone Age. A recent study upped the figure of Americans killed by this enterprise from 20,000 to about 45,000: that is fifteen 9-11’s a year of Americans facing a cruel, painful death at the hands of these prolific killers....
Some might say I sound like a demagogue. When you are used to insipid soundbytes and P.C.-fluff, the truth starts sounding like demagoguery. The fact of the matter is that the truth is extraordinarily painful in this country ruled by a peculiar Victorian fetish of the marketplace. Nowhere in the civilized world could one imagine civic leaders fear mongering the populace about the evils of “socialized medicine” without getting laughed out of the country. Unfortunately, these goons of capitalist oppression seem to have been collectively laughed out of the civilized world and into Land of the Free.
Nonetheless, the problem is not this visceral minority. The problem lies in those that pretend to befriend progress: that grand, archaic organ of political oppression called the Democratic Party. This increasingly irrelevant union of crooks, hucksters and swindlers has betrayed the American people beyond recognition. Their failure to enact meaningful health care reform must be the last straw....
...In the end, both the Kucinich and Weiner amendments were removed from consideration by house leadership this past week. Meanwhile, Democratic cheerleaders have been trumpeting the success at instituting a “public option” in both the House and Senate versions of the health reform bill. The proposed public option will cover about 3% of the population, while roughly 33% of Americans are un- or under-insured. Many progressive democrats inform me that this is the best we can realistically do given the conservative dynamics of the American populace. I don’t understand what American populace they are talking about. As someone who goes out to the bungalow belt of Chicago to knock on doors practically everyday, I can say with full confidence that only an insignificant wacko minority is repelled by the thought of “Medicare for all.” Perhaps we can figure out a way to leave those few people out when we finally do institute a single-payer system. -
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hyperbola1 week, 4 days ago
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Progressive leaders have fallen to the right of the American people. Americans crave and need meaningful health care reform in line with the remainder of the civilized world. They crave and need leadership in Washington that stands for the interests of their constituents: leaders that aren’t fearful of lifting their heads above the fray, pounding their fists on the podium and declaring “It is time we shut this racket down. Let us throw the insurance companies into the dustbin of history once and for all, and end this domestic terrorism that kills 45,000 Americans a year!”
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Unfortunately, to get to this point, we are going to have to purge the Congress of almost every last one of its members, and stop thinking that the Democrats or the NGO industrial complex will ever bring Americans their cherished Medicare-for-all. -
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hyperbola1 week, 4 days ago
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And Jimdo, a good place to start the housecleaning would be with the misnamed "Democratic Leadership Council", which is just another of the many deceptively named zionist front organizations.
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The DLC and Israel
Zionist Democrats
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hyperbola1 week, 4 days ago
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Why do you like punishing Americans so much? We have suffered much from the kind of corporate corruption you support - it is time to end it.
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Army Troops Called in to Protect Billionaire Corruption
"We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity and opportunity for all," says one Goldman Sachs adviser. But tell that to the people of Samson, Ala.
Editor's Note: The shocking transfer of public wealth to Wall Street's pockets is illustrated vividly in Mark Ames' article below, which covers some very disturbing recent events in Alabama, where billionaires and banks are squeezing the locals so hard that they're literally going bankrupt just for flushing their toilets, where violence and the threat of violence are reaching a boiling point and where even the Posse Comitatus Act is under threat. "We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity and opportunity for all" said one Goldman Sachs vice-chairman recently. Well, here's a tale of the kind of inequality the finance industry expects citizens to tolerate.
One of this year's more disturbing stories that were ignored was the illegal Army occupation of Samson, Alabama...
.... The logical outcome of the billionaires' plundering of Alabama is the same thing that happens all over the Third World: violence, fear and calling in the troops, the only way to secure the billionaires' dirty profits:........... The state's response is right out of the Central America banana republic playbook: When there's no money left for the people, send in the troops......... In light of all of this, the Army's brief, illegal occupation of a string of towns in Alabama this past spring no longer looks like a freak one-off, but rather a logical progression in the ongoing billionaire plunder of America.
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Natureboy1 week, 4 days ago
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Fortunately, it is likely to die in the Senate.
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The bill fully perpetuates and protects private, for profit insurers. And it would effectively block efforts to gain single-payor coverage at the state level.
It does not give us what we want so much as force us to participate in what we were opposing in the first place.
I'm glad Kucinich voted against it. It was a brave and principled move, and will likely attract the wrath of a bunch of liberal weenies who are agitated about healthcare reform while having no real grasp of what they are agitated about. -
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tiredofwhiners1 week, 3 days ago
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There are 1000's of arguments about national health care pro and con. All may have some merit. I break it down to a few basic reasons why I am against it. #1 is that I feel that all government programs tend to be inefficient and overly expensive to manage. #2 is that the U.S cannot afford such a massive program given our already staggering national debt. #3 is I believe that private industry and competition is what works best and made us #1 in the world. There is no competition in government and little if any accountability. I don't know of many, if any, government programs that were under budget, on schedule and significantly effective. Medicare and social security (I have both) are about bankrupt and will add significantly to our debt in the future. And just at the time that we already have huge deficits. How do we pay for all this? By printing more $$$ and causing massive inflation and decline of the dollar? Tax the rich more? And where will all the doctors, nurses and new facilities needed come from? There are only so many people who want to be or have the talent to become doctors. If national health care is the top priority, then congress must cut other programs an equivalent amount. (Lots of luck on that). Where is the tort reform and the ability to shop around nationally? And don't forget, every year there are more new medical procedures, drugs and equipment that cost more $$$. Call me heartless and stupid but that's my take.
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