Alabama Ass Whuppin': Here's to Your Health

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Here's to Your Health

Blue Dogs bought by the Health Industry?!?

Shocking, I tells ya. Shocking.

'Centrist' = 'Sold to the Core'

Blue Dogs Receive More Health Industry Backing Than Other Democrats - washingtonpost.com:

At the same time, the group has set a record pace for fundraising this year through its political action committee, surpassing other congressional leadership PACs in collecting more than $1.1 million through June. More than half the money came from the health-care, insurance and financial services industries, marking a notable surge in donations from those sectors compared with earlier years, according to an analysis by the Center for Public Integrity."

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'Republican support' and 'bipartisanship' shouldn't even be part of the equation.

Amen, Kos. Amen.

Daily Kos: Too bad Dems are the problem:

"Remember, Democrats have the White House and dominant majorities in Congress. Any problems passing a health care bill are self-inflicted. Were the tables reversed, Republicans wouldn't have any problem pushing through their agenda unimpeded by an irrelevant minority."

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Heartening... if it actually occurs.

Dawn Teo: President's Field Team Targets Blue Dogs' Districts Over Health Care Battle:

"As members of Congress head home for an August recess, Barack Obama's former campaign arm, Organizing for America (OFA), is gearing up to target Blue Dog districts with old-fashioned, election-style, on-the-ground operations."

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The GOP: Bringing lynching into the 21st century.

Astro-turfing motherfuckers.

Right-Wing Harassment Strategy Against Dems Detailed In Memo: ‘Yell,’ ‘Stand Up And Shout Out,’ ‘Rattle Him’:

"The lobbyist-run groups Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, which orchestrated the anti-Obama tea parties earlier this year, are now pursuing an aggressive strategy to create an image of mass public opposition to health care and clean energy reform. A leaked memo from Bob MacGuffie, a volunteer with the FreedomWorks website Tea Party Patriots, details how members should be infiltrating town halls and harassing Democratic members of Congress:"

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Slimy bastards.

NAACP-Forgery Group, Bonner & Associates, Has A Decades-Long History Of Astroturf Tactics

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Art... reality. Reality... art.

It is a strange, Dobbsian world in which we exist.

Daily Kos: The Birthers: A Short Play

In my new tradition of summarizing major political stories in the form of short plays, may I present: The Birthers...
Conservative: I don't believe you were born in the United States. I demand you show me your birth certificate.
Liberal: OK, here it is.
Conservative: I'm not going away, damn it. I demand to see your real birth certificate.
Liberal: I told you, it's right here.
Conservative: I demand you put it on the web, so everyone can see it.
Liberal: I already did. You can see it right here. Just look at it.
Conservative: Some guy in Mississippi says it looks fake. I demand you show me your secret birth certificate.
Liberal: I don't have a secret birth certificate. This is it. I put it on the web.
Conservative: Conspiracy! Conspiracy! I can see now you're hiding something! I demand to see your birth certificate!
Liberal: It's Right. F---ing. Here. Ten thousand people across the planet have printed it out.
Conservative: Those are copies. I want to see the original.
Liberal: Lots of reporters have seen the original. I can't bloody send it around to every conservative nutcase in America, one at a time, like a birth certificate chain letter.
(long pause)
Conservative: I don't believe you have a checking account. I demand to know your account number, routing number, pin number, and that you give me a blank check made out to "cash".
Liberal: Go to hell.
and, SCENE.
Thank you. I am happy to announce that Lou Dobbs has agreed to attend the off-Broadway premiere.