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White House Done With Wilson - The Daily Beast

The White House hits the road for health care reform, and speaks out-proclaiming the town halls didn't matter. Brand the Wilson flap as "a pimple on the ass of progress"

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NEW NFL SEASON- Pigskin picks

The 2009 NFL season kicks off tonight with the defending Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers hosting the Tennessee Titans.
The Steelers will get their championship rings and then look to defend their title against a superb defensive team.
On Sunday, 13 games are slated to go and of course, Monday night football returns on ESPN with New England facing Buffalo and then the west coast showdown as the San Diego Chargers ( heftyinfo's choice to win the Super Bowl this season) travel to Oakland to face the Raiders.
So here goes... Week One fearless forecasts...
(Note: Home teams are listed in capitol letters)

PITTSBURGH over Tennessee
ATLANTA over Miami
CINCINNATI over Denver
Minnesota over CLEVELAND
INDIANAPOLIS over Jacksonville
NEW ORLEANS over Detroit
Dallas over TAMPA BAY
Philadelphia over CAROLINA
BALTIMORE over Kansas City
HOUSTON over NY Jets
NY GIANTS over Washington
ARIZONA over San Francisco
SEATTLE over St. Louis
Chicago over GREEN BAY
NEW ENGLAND over Buffalo
San Diego over OAKLAND

PRESIDENT OBAMA HITS A HOME RUN ON HEALTH CARE REFORM SPEECH

President Barack Obama is back!
Was there ever any doubt?
The way the mainstream media made things sound in recent weeks, one would have thought that Obama was dead in the water when it came to health care reform.
But one speech changed it all.
The President mentioned the public option once again regarding the health care debate and a bill is once again on track for future passage in the Congress.
This was the Barack Obama that voters came to know and applaud last year on the campaign trail as he made history.
Looking back at things, this was par for the course for the Obama Administration. Just when things looked at their worse for the health care bill, Obama slammed the opposition and the obstructionists with his rhetoric, including calling out the parties spreading the lies about the health care bill being formed in Congress.
The President reached out once more to the Republicans, even naming John McCain and an idea that he liked that McCain had talked about on the campaign trail last year.
The bottom line in all of this is Barack Obama rose up and delivered just as he did a year ago even as the naysayers and the "town hall protesters" are ready to go for the throat (not literally) on this issue.
The future is now for health care reform and as President Obama said, "The time for games is over."
The Republicans have NO ideas for reform nor do they want to have health care reform.
Forget the GOP.
The train is now rolling and the Democrats are on board, that is if they are true Democrats, to get this reform done.
Obama himself said that when he signs this bill, "pre-existing" conditions will be against the law as will people being "dropped" or canceled by insurers just because they have a claim for their illnesses.
"I am not the first President to take on this cause," Obama stated. "But I am determined to be the last."
Go Obama Go.
Like it or not (and yours truly stated this on August 4, 2009) health care reform will pass this year.
God Bless America!

NO CLASS

Decide for yourself, who is the real bozo?

In case you are wondering, the guy in the bottom photo in the suit is Representative Joe Wilson, a Republican from the 2nd District of South Carolina, who was the idiot that yelled "You Lie!" at President Obama during the President's speech.
He must have thought he was at a Town Hall Meeting or something.
Wilson later apologized for the remarks but, he and fellow members of Congress knew the content of the speech ahead of time, and really he had no choice if he wants to remain in national politics.


So, with that being said, feel free to blast away at this true clown...

Just for the fun of it

Double standards are alive and well in America

There seems to be a double standard and the complacent, corporate boot-licking main stream media just continues to go along for the ride because they have to.
Van Jones, an adviser to President Barack Obama, recently resigned from his position after it was revealed (by Fox "News" Channel) that he signed a 9/11 truth petition in 2004 and had called Republicans "assholes" at a town hall style meeting.
Granted, not the wisest of choices by Jones. However, there is definitely a double standard when it comes to these types of political controversies.
When the birther movement got going a few months back, many Republican politicians (I won't list names because there were so many that it would start to resemble a phone book directory if ALL the names were listed) jumped on board and showed their support for the nut jobs on the right.
There was not a huge outcry or media coverage (especially not by Fox) on this and I don't recall a single Republican political figure (Senator, House Representative or behind the scenes staff supporter) having to resign over this zaniness.
Point is the media is corporate controlled and with few exceptions (MSNBC with Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow and sometimes Chris Matthews are examples) do they go after the GOP and the right wing.
Fox kisses their asses and vice versa because Rupert Murdoch is in control there and no one dares to tell the Fox czar what to do.
Hell, he still has Glenn Beck on the payroll even when nearly 70 (that's 7-0) corporate sponsors have dropped Beck's program because of his remark in calling Barack Obama a racist.
At least they had the gumption to do that, but Beck still has not resigned or been fired by the Fox network and probably won't be any time soon.
That is alright though because Keith Olbermann has him in the cross hairs on "Countdown" on MSNBC and will continue to bombard the nut case regularly.
In addition, "stopbeck" and "Fox News Boycott", two efforts that are regulars on the net (via Twitter and websites) continue their crusades against Beck and have shown success as the groundswell continues and the advertisers also continue to flee away from Beck.
Some more examples of the hypocrisy of Jones resigning are David Vitter (Republican Senator from Louisiana) who is still in Congress after having an extra-marital affair. Republican Governor Mark Sanford from South Carolina still resides in his mansion as the leader of the southern state. He also had a highly publicized extra-marital affair. GOP Senator John Ensign from Nevada is another one still in office after cheating on his wife.
He, along with Newt Gingrich (another hypocrite on which an entire book could be written about his political exploits) and numerous Republicans lambasted former President Bill Clinton for his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky.
Remember that?
Hypocrites!
Again, there were so many GOP representatives who came out in support of the birther movement and none of them has resigned over these "extremist" ideas like Jones was forced to do after his "extremist" actions were brought to light.
Republican House Representative Michelle Bachmann from Minneosta, the right wing nut job who rose to prominence (but not in a good way) following an interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Hardball last year during which she called for an investigation of Democratic candidates, including Barack Obama, for being "un-American" for their political views, is another example.
This woman is right there with the woman formerly known as the Governor of Alaska when it comes to political lunacy. This woman is batshit crazy and there she is still residing in the House of Representatives as the new session begins this week.
The mainstream media in this country needs to grow a pair and get after these radical right wing nut jobs the way they attack the left when it comes to outcries over political controversy.
That will only happen when Fox, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O' Reilly, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Beck and even CNN (they tend to lean right these days as well) get on the case.
In other words, do not hold your breath.
The Fairness Doctrine needs to be brought back into light and Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota) in the past has mentioned bringing this to the Senate floor.
Former President Ronald Reagan deregulated the FCC in the mid 1980's and shortly there after, the Fox Network came into being, followed a decade later by Fox "News" Channel courtesy of Australian born Rupert Murdoch. Oh yeah, guess who else started slithering onto the scene just after the FCC was deregulated by Reagan.
Rush Limbaugh.
So is it any surprise there is a double standard these days as these forces continued to mount while Americans "slept" on this development over the past 25 years?
Hardly.
The best thing that can happen is for Americans to take action like "stopbeck" and "Fox News Boycott" and rise up and counter these people and their cause.
After all, Limbaugh said it himself "I hope (President) Barack Obama fails."
If that happens, the United States of America also fails.