ALL THOSE NEW VOTERS, WITH ALL THEIR "ENTHUSIASM" - YEAH THAT WAS A GREAT IDEA

When you see the left wing applauding Dodd's departure (and Dodd may not be a saint, but he's a damn GOOD man, and he knows how to turn the levers of government, not an easy task), it's pretty easy to see where this is headed. Not many Democratic senators are going to be willing to fall on their swords like Dodd did, which means big losses for us, and just f'ing doom for our country.

I'm so upset about Dodd, I'd like to smack someone, but I guess I'll just wipe a few tears and move on.

So, it looks like we're on our way to handing the GOP another majority in Congress. Thanks so much extreme left, brain-washed by MSNBC, HuffPo, DailyKos, etc., for unrealistically, immaturely, throwing out "the good," in pursuant of the impossibly "perfect," and in reality handing us the "worst possible," AGAIN. Good job. Enjoy your pure principles while the republicans repeal health care reform and anything else that could ACTUALLY help people. Thanks, thanks a bunch.

All these people, SO unhappy with Obama and the Dems, who frankly, didn't pay ANY attention during the election, or they just don't have the vaguest clue how goverment works, are not only cutting off their noses to spite THEIR faces, they're going to lop off all our noses.

It's nice to have new blood and new enthusiasm in the party, ain't it? Particularly, when that new blood self-destructs out of their own ignorance and blows us all up. Were they paying ANY attention AT ALL during the election to what Obama was proposing in terms of health care reform? Cause we're getting MORE than he even proposed, but no we can't be satisfied with people actually delivering what they promised - we're democrats, masters of self-defeat.

Obama DID NOT promote the public option during the election, and I've posted this video and the dozens just like it a 100 times. How can people not know this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f2_p-fd2D4

And even if there are some differences, did you think there wouldn't be? Really? Did you think one of the most difficult reforms in our country's history would be so simply and perfectly achieved? Besides, IF we keep "the trigger," in the final bill, THERE IS YOUR PUBLIC OPTION REALIZED!

And before you people start, yes Obama did MENTION the public option at least once. I've seen that grainy video too, that looks like cell phone video, from some union event or something, and it was more of a philosophical discussion if you ask me. He DID not promise it in his platform or anywhere else that was significant, NEITHER did Hillary Clinton. And from the moment she started talking about allowing us access to "the same insurance Congress has," I recognized that as code for - this is the way to universal, government run health care. We've already discovered (again recently as well), that you can't ram the kind of universal care we all want through the front door, but rather, you have to sneak it in the back.

I'll be signing up for that non-profit Congressional coverage the second it's available, IF the GOP doesn't take over Congress and repeal it by then, and before you say, that is not government run, I KNOW, just like Medicaid and Medicare are ADMINISTERED here in Alabama by BCBS, but BCBS doesn't set the rules, or profit from that administration other than a flat rate they are paid. This is very common in other states as well, and it is the only thing insurance companies are good for IMO.

I've studied both bills as they came out of the houses of Congress, and I suspect the final bill will mirror the Senate bill, but they will hide some more good stuff in there first that they can count on the blue dogs, etc. to vote for in order to hold that shaky 60 votes. It may not be the kind of outright, blow-the-doors-off reform we would all like, ideally, but it IS a damn great start, the first step, and something that the American people will end up liking very much and wanting refined and expanded. THAT is the critical point.

Also, I'm just really amazed that the Dems in the Senate get NO credit for working like mad men and woman all the way up to Christmas Eve, trying to force this baby to be born. Nothing, nada, not a shred of credit for the valiant fight they put up. Well, actually, that's not true. MOST democrats get it, understand what they were up against and what they did, but there are enough of the MSNBC heads to F up the entire thing.

So, in closing, if you think Pres. Obama's not keeping his promises, here's a fact check on that:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/browse/

Frankly, I'm astonished at how many of those promises he's kept or are on the way to being kept, in less than a year, but then I'm not some political novice who believes in magic or super heros.

But hey, that's the problem with being a true "big tent" party of "thinkers" who don't walk in lock step off the edge of a cliff. We have some moderates, some extremists, and some who border on being conservative, but they side with us because they can't stand the neo-cons, "social" conservatives, and the just plain dumbed-down, brain-washed Faux Spews hoards.

If we want to get thinking, rational people on our side, then we have to make compromises and expect that they're not all ideologically "pure." Please don't tell me the left is now going to start spouting off about "purity" tests and contracts?

We can accomplish a heck of a lot by bonding together with those who aren't as far left as the extreme left, but we will crumble if we try to force everyone into that mold. I, for one, want no part of the extreme left zombies who just rant and rave, regurgitating their MSNBC, HuffPo, and DailyKos programming, without any REAL knowledge or comprehension.

Our government was designed and born of compromise. We are the "United" States - it's right there in the name, and without the contributions AND compromises of men like Hamilton AND Jefferson, our government would never have survived the first year.

The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises

This is a fantastic website, that allows you to see whether or not Pres. Obama has kept 500 of his key campaign promises. Wow, I'm even more impressed with Pres. Obama than I already was. Does the man ever sleep at all?

Extreme "Anti-war" Left Painting Military as Monsters . . . History Repeates Itself in More Ways Than One

Are the extreme left now going to start hating on and demonizing members of the military, since they're absurd, immoral anti-war BS that they didn't even VOTE FOR when voting for president, didn't come true? Gosh, didn't they persecute Vietnam Vets in EXACTLY the same way? F'ers. Some things just never change. They couldn't care less what happens to Afghans or Pakistanis after we pull out, given the gigantic mess we've made. They don't give a rat's ass about children, addicted to opium, to stave off hunger pangs, since the Afghan population has been utterly enslaved into growing 90% of the world's heroin by the Taliban and Al Quaeda, through starvation, brutality, and ignorance. There is only a 10% literacy rate in Afghanistan, girls and women are horribly, barbarically persecuted, but they don't care about Afghans in any real sense, even though they put out garbage like this:

http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/440

It's absolute BULLSHIT to paint all military members as mass murdering, soulless monsters. I can tell you some things about the people my brothers helped in Bosnia and Somalia or what my father suffered in WWII, including taking bullets, to save the world from mass murdering monsters like Hitler.

For all the "support the troops" sentiments, there are some, mostly on the left, who think anyone who joins the military is transformed into a brain-washed, bloodthirsty murderer. I've been fighting that stereo-type for a long time.

Blame the government and those who run it when our military is misused, NOT the idea of, nor the members of the military. In fact, I believe in mandatory service - people might feel a lot differently about war and aggression and how our military is used if it were THEIR necks and THEIR children's necks on the line.

I don't believe we should have gone into Iraq, but I would have re-enlisted and stood shoulder to shoulder with my brothers and sisters in the military there if I could have, in a heart beat. I'm not sure I can articulate where I'm coming from. I believe in military service. It is who I am. I only served 2 yrs in the U.S.A.F, but I'm about as proud of having done that as anything else I've ever done.

There were a lot of reasons people joined the military after 9/11, fear, nationalism, revenge . . . I don't know. I don't actually think it matters. The fact is there were a lot of people ALREADY in the military on 9/11, and I might well have been one of them if it had occurred when I was in the service, which is what happened with my brother (who just made 20 yrs. this month), and I would have followed orders and gone where I was sent, and I support those who are following orders in every way I possibly can. This how our military MUST operate; otherwise, they become a threat to us all.

The military doesn't decide which wars to fight, our government does, and WE are our government. It is OUR responsibility and our fault when our military is sent into fight immoral, unnecessary wars . . . EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Don’t let terrorists scare the liberty out of you!

First, I have to say, as for someone’s dad or relative reporting them to an embassy as becoming "radicalized," and that resulting in ANYONE not being able to travel - well, that’s just absurd to the nth degree. I’m sure my exhusband would like to make my life my difficult by saying something like that. People, seriously, get a freaking grip! The media is covering this as if the “underwear bomber” should have been locked up or denied the freedom to travel because someone, who may or may not have ulterior motives or proof of ANY kind, told American authorities he might be dangerous. Really? Is that where we are in our irrational fears? I believe American authorities acted properly by opening an investigation, etc.

Further, I think calling these people “terrorists” is totally inaccurate. What they are is cult members. A bunch of men, who abuse women and children, flout the law and societal norms for their own gratification based on some twisted version of religion, and they are willing to use violence and even mass suicide and murder to do it. These are a bunch of brain-washed MEN who want to have total authority and control over as many women as possible, and they do it in the name of religion. In this country, we’ve long since stop legitimizing these scum bags by calling them religious extremists. No, they’re cults - violent, manipulative CULTS. Now, in the American Revolution, our founders might have been accurately labeled as "terrorists" or freedom fights, but not Al Quaeda and their ilk. They are obviously cults. Take the Taliban, or Saudi Arabia in general - people are kept poor and ignorant. What little "education" they do receive is religious propaganda designed to make them more mailable. People who are recruited as "terrorists" are often weak-minded, socially isolated, lonely, unhappy people, and they are recruited often using religion and even from religious locations. They are told they should fight based mostly on twisted religous view and that they will be rewarded for dying as religious "martyrs," and the main premise of what is wrong and evil with the West often has to do with educating girls, freedom for women, and just freedom and free thinking in general. Now, to me, that sounds like a freaking cult! No doubt, our government has been screwing around in that part of the world for FAR too long and doing some pretty despicable things, and there is some blame there on our heads, but that doesn't make my comparison any less reasonable.

Finally, I can’t remember how many movies and tv shows I saw growing up wherein the central plot involved “terrorists” taking over a plane. The movie poster above is from 1996, and I even remember the movie Airplane! having some pretty hilarious terrorists in it. This is a fact of life, always has been. No matter how many of our rights and privacies we give up, people who are determined, WILL find a way to get on a plane with some sort of weapon. This isn’t new. What is new is the kind of damage and mass murder terrorists were able to exact on 9/11. Our focus should be on making sure they cannot take over planes and ram them into buildings, etc. Keeping them off the planes entirely, probably isn't even possible, and it isn’t worth the what it would cost us all in terms our our liberty and privacy.

MSNBC Must Be At It Again, My Facebook Page Just Lit Up

People just like to complain. I think the media discovered that during the democratic primary when their ratings shot up - people like conflict, even if it's contrived.

I'm just getting so sick of all this hair-on-fire, the-sky-is-falling crap day in and day out. I can always tell when MSNBC is "reporting" some garbage that activates people's fake outrage, because it erupts on my facebook page in waves of misinformed ranting. Then, they get the facts, calm down, and a few hours later, it starts all over again.

I image it's the same for Faux Spews viewers. I quit watching Fox years and years ago, and MSNBC over a year ago, after both switched from news to fact challenged brain-washing for ad revenues.

Thank goodness for NPR, PBS, and the internet - makes staying informed for the self-governed possible.

The Left Wing Has Its Own Ignorant, Mislead Teabaggers - Ya think?

PLEASE people! Get your heads our of your behinds! We're HELPING the insurance industry and their GOP lap dogs destroy health care reform! It's just STUPID, STUPID, STUPID! I've seen people get duped, but this is insane! Keith Olbermann isn't your brain . . . it's your brain on some idiot's self-serving, fact-starved propaganda!

Bill Clinton urges passage of health-reform bill, warning failure would be 'a colossal blunder'

Former president Bill Clinton waded in the debate on the health-care reform bill Thursday, urging support for its passage and warning "America can't afford to let the perfect be the enemy of the good."

"This is a good bill," he wrote in a statement released by the William J. Clinton Foundation. "It increases the security of those who already have insurance and gives every American access to affordable coverage; and contains comprehensive efforts to control costs and improve quality, with more information on best practices, and comparative costs and results. The bill will shift the power away from the insurance companies and into the hands of consumers."

And he urged that those wavering in their support of it seize "the mantle of history and act to insure its passage, despite their misgivings. "Our only responsible choice is the path of action. Does this bill read exactly how I would write it? No. Does it contain everything everyone wants? Of course not. But America can't afford to let the perfect be the enemy of the good," he wrote.

"Take it from someone who knows: these chances don't come around every day. Allowing this effort to fall short now would be a colossal blunder -- both politically for our party and, far more important, for the physical, fiscal, and economic health of our country."

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/12/bill-clinton-urges-passage-of.html?wprss=44

"Tea parties -- they aren't just for conservatives anymore.
Gee, haven't I been saying this for weeks? "Liberals are turning against President Obama with an energy that until now has been reserved for Fox News viewers who wear tri-corner hats and wave yellow "Don't Tread on Me" flags."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/16/AR2009121603640.html?hpid=topnews

Please people! Remember what Obama actually promised!

Where did Obama, Clinton, or even Edwards promise a "public option" or "Medicare buy in" during their campaigns for president? I'll give you a hint - they didn't. They all proposed that the American people have access to the same insurance Congress does.

So, I think I'll probably be satisfied with that, along with the trigger for a public option and a lot of other reforms that are a big fat bonus with a cherry on top. :)

Seriously, it still sounds, at this early stage with no ACTUAL bill to review, like we're getting more than we wanted. People. Get a grip. We have a very, very shaky "super majority" no matter what the media says, and there are going to have to be compromises. I think it's pretty slick that everyone thinks they're winning in this deal, lol. Well, except for the far left and far right, who just can't be pleased cause they live in an alternate reality.... See More

If the left doesn't get their heads on straight they're going to screw this up for everyone in the 2010 elections, and we're going to be stuck with a bunch of teabaggers in Congress.