The Rude One’s got a good one about how the Dems need some sack:
If Republicans had wanted universal health care, you would have seen commercials with heartless insurance agents stabbing babies and drinking their blood. You would have seen ads with desperate, laid-off old men offering to blow people for quarters so they could afford their insulin. You would have seen ads about how sad it is that a depressed middle-aged woman with a dream of a scrapbooking store is now suicidal over not being able to follow her small business dream because if she left her shitty office job, she’d lose her health care. The ad would have ended with a gunshot in darkness. People would have been begging for health care reform because Republicans would have made it seem like the world would fall apart without it.
…that the Dems would cave in on the public option with hardly a fight, could they? So unbelievably shocking, eh? Whoda thunk? Especially since they’ve been fighting so hard to fix things in this country for the last few decadesyearsweeksminutesseconds… ah, fuck it.
And in the other side, nobody could ever have imagined this:
Congress should cut the top marginal tax rate for individuals as its newest stimulus, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said Tuesday.
The conservative senator said that not only should the Congress keep in place the tax cuts enacted earlier this decade by President George W. Bush, but also cut the top rate even further…
Congress wants to really create jobs, it should slash the 35 percent rate currently faced by the wealthiest individuals and corporations (i.e., with an income in 2009 higher than $373,000).
The one thing Republicans seem to have no problem telling the truth about is their raging hard-on for the plutocracy. Seriously, there could be an asteroid heading for Earth, and these fucktards would propose “more tax cuts for the rich!” as the solution.
God, it must suck to be a Democrat in Congress right now. Elected as a triumphant mega-super-duper majority in 2008, now you have been coerced into rethinking the very positions that got you that majority by an unsilent minority of easily-duped yahoos, driven to madness by a steady diet of shitty food, unemployment, and hard right media figures. It’s like the end result of a long-term contingency plan by Karl Rove: if everything else goes to shit, send forth our zombie armies. Set upon in this way, you go into retreat mode, putting aside truly revolutionary goals for merely mildly reasonable ones. And you more or less hand power to the most frightened, the Democrats who actually believe the Republicans will act as honest partners in any compromise action. Yet, dear sucking Democrat, what you are merely doing is enabling the destruction of the Obama presidency because of a misguided notion that the nation is comprised of the mewling children who pollute our airwaves and whose minions have the time to go to your townhall meetings.
Spineless fuckers, the lot of ‘em… yeah, that Obama guy, too. And no, I’m not surprised at all, although it is rather unsettling to see so many examples in my news this morning. I’ll let the links speak for themselves.
Cue sound of smacking forehead. This is getting old. From Kos:
That means, of course, de facto amnesty for the telcos. The federal district court would not be deciding on the legality of the program, they would be limited to determining if the White House showed the telcos a piece of paper saying that the warrantless program was legal enough–which we already know. They’re going to try to justify it with that “substantial evidence” business, as if defining that piece of paper as “substantial” somehow makes the fact that they are directing the court to make its decision, regardless of the law, not a travesty.
“A formal statement goes out making it clear that everyone — Democrats, Republicans, House, Senate — agrees that telecoms should have retroactive immunity.”
“I’ve now just read a copy of the final “compromise” bill. It’s even worse than expected. When you read it, it’s actually hard to believe that the Congress is about to make this into our law. Then again, this is the same Congress that abolished habeas corpus with the Military Commissions Act, and legalized George Bush’s warrantless eavesdropping program with the “Protect America Act,” so it shouldn’t be hard to believe at all. Seeing the words in print, though, adds a new dimension to appreciating just how corrupt and repugnant this is”
You know what to do, folks. If you have a blog, please spread the word, or at the very least, get some friends to make some phone calls.
Contact Nancy Pelosi: District Office – 450 Golden Gate Ave. – 14th Floor – San Francisco, CA 94102 – (415) 556-4862 -
Washington, D.C. Office – 235 Cannon HOB – Washington, DC 20515 – (202) 225-4965
FAX: 202-225-4188
Contact Steny Hoyer (who is to blame for a good deal of this happening): 1705 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone – (202) 225-4131
Fax – (202) 225-4300
Contact the Obama campaign: 866-675-2008
Contact Peter Welch: (802) 652-2450
Other congress members contact info can be reached here.
Well, apparently that Dem strategy of talking tough for a bit, get everybody excited and still bend over for Bush is still in full swing. It seems like now, after holding fast on FISA, there’s talk of still passing the telco immunity obstruction of justice provisions, this time in two separate votes which enables the House members opposed to immunity to still somehow feel good about themselves, while failing to realize if they actually did something dramatic or drastic, they might feel good about themselves and stand up for the Constitution. But that’d be asking too much, now, wouldn’t it? It boggles the mind? It’s still truly baffling why some feel compelled to give in to Mr. Dogshit-in-Chief. Where is the pressure coming from? Oh, that’s right.. all that telco money. Silly me.
And I’d like to issue a correction, of sorts. A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece praising Rep. Silvestre Reyes for standing up to Bush on FISA, with his sharply worded letter that stated:
You have also suggested that Congress must grant retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies. As someone who has been briefed on our most sensitive intelligence programs, I can see no argument why the future security of our country depends on whether past actions of telecommunications companies are immunized…
I, for one, do not intend to back down – not to the terrorists and not to anyone, including a President, who wants Americans to cower in fear.
We are a strong nation. We cannot allow ourselves to be scared into suspending the Constitution. If we do that, we might as well call the terrorists and tell them that they have won.
Well, you can throw Reyes and his letter into the full-of-shit can, as well. TPM Muckraker has the goods on a CNN interview with Reyes from last weekend (emphasis mine):
And Reyes said yesterday that “we are talking to the representatives from the communications companies because, if we’re going to give them blanket immunity, we want to know and we want to understand what it is that we’re giving immunity for.” When Wolf Blitzer asked him whether he’s “open” to such immunity, he answered “absolutely.” He said that he and the other House and Senate Dems working on hammering out a compromise would probably be finished “probably within the next week.”
Fucking disgusting. And they know they got us all by the proverbial balls right now. We need more primary challenges. Many more. I know, it’s not an end-all solution, but it’d be a good start.
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Well, apparently that Dem strategy of talking tough for a bit, get everybody excited and still bend over for Bush is still in full swing. It seems like now, after holding fast on FISA, 
