cadawa's Comments (98)

“Of course you'd like this bill Senator Kirk. You live in a State that has the same program that this bill imposes on the rest of the country. Your state has the highest health care costs on the planet but your big contributors are happy.
Massachusetts is having to cannabalize existing safety net programs to feed this miserable system and pay for CEO's yachts. But what do you care when the taxpayers have your back.
This bill is what happens when Senators who know nothing about medicine and care nothing about the lives of their constituents write legislation..
Dean is physician and you're not. He said no one could vote for this bill in good conscience. Apparently that is something you lack along with his credentials as a physcian. The one thing you don't lack is hubris.
This bill is ignorant, mean spirited and it won't work. Hopefully, your vote will cost you your job. I'm sure that won't bother you because you'll get a cushy billet in the health insurance industry. It will be however, a great relief to the rest of us.”

“Congress and the President were foolish to give away so many of taxpayer's dollars without any conditions.
You can fix that by demanding banks start lending or give back the TARP funds. Small businesses generate more jobs than any other sector of the business community. If you are serious, submit a bill.”

“Your argument ignores an important moral questions.
We have no right to be in Afghanistan. The Afghans did not attack us. The Afghan people don't want us or our corrupt government.
There is no moral justification for continuing to kill Afghans because Obama believes this is the way to solidify his political power.
Logisitically it's all wrong.
The last surge made things worse, galvanizing the Afghan people against the US presence. There is no evidence that repeating this mistake will have a different outcome.
All intelligence reports agree than less than a hundred Al Qaida remain in the bortder area. Our troop numbers will be at 100000 after Obama's latest escalation; 1000 US soldiers, per operative. If 700 soldiers can't hunt down a single Al Qaida operative, what makes anyone think 100 thousand can't.
He'll be spending 30 million a year to kill each operative.
None of it makes sense because that is not the reason Obama made his decision. It's pipeline politics. A new one is scheduled to begin in 2010. He's not going to withdraw US forces in the foreseeable future.”

“Your premise is flawed.
The bills before congress mean more money for health insurers; a lot more.
They get 50 million new customers, subsidized by tax payers and are no caps on premiums, co-pays or deductions. Taxpayers will take the poorest and the sickest off the hands of insurers.
It locks us into a system that skims 25% of our health care dollars and provides no health services.
It's not the Republicans that are blocking real reform, it's the Democrats and the Obama White House.
Instead of leading on reform, Obama cut secret deals with CEO's. When the Progressive Caucus stood firm on a strong pubic option, Obama sent Rahm to knock heads together.
:Pelosi stripped an amendment from the House bill that prevented insurers from suing states that set up their own single payer system.
Now they are trying to hoodwink you into blaming the GOP and supporting their "worse than nothing" bill.”

“While the GOPs are denouncing Medicaid, the Democrats are stealing from it.
They will be slashing a half a trillion from Medicare and Medicaid to pay for their faux health care reform bill. It isn't reform, it's tarp for the health care insurance industry and big pharma.
Please, Huffington Post, look into these bills. They are worse than nothing.”

“Republicans can still win elections because the Democrats are useless.
In every case, the candidates who lost were lack luster and ran poor campaigns. Rahm Emmanuel and the cowardly Democratic Party smple refuse to back populists and or anyone who won't embrace the corrupt Party line.
It's not the "populist message" that is the problem, it's the Democrat's elitist protectionism and unwillingness to create real change they promised that has people upset.
Voters aren't blaming the incumbents for other people's sins, they are blaming them for their own sins.
The Democratic Congress has been incrediby weak on every important issue. There is cap on health care spending but no cap on illicti war and no restrictions on the war industry fraud. Wall Street, Banksters and now the health care industry will all get their share but there is next to nothing for the people hurt by and economic collapse that congress could have prevented.
In spite of Obama's mighty rhetoric, here is nothing worthy of the name "leadership" coming from the White House. Instead of "change we can believe in", Obama devotes his time to fund raising from the very people that have crushed our democratic experiment.
That's why voters either voted for the none of the above or punished incumbents.”

“Amen Bob.
But let's not stop with food. The flouride that is being added to our water supply is a toxin. It is an industrial waste product that has no business being ingested by anyone.
Then there are a whole raft of other chemicals from frack to rocket fuel seeping into our drinking water as industries use our soil and water as personal garbage can..
Most personal care products, especially for women contain known carcinogens. Even toothpaste can be a problem.
Good air quality is critical to health. Many buildings where workers are housed have poor air quality.
Our urban centers suffer from automobile pollution. Heavy industry pollute the air and everyone from cruise ships to refineries dump their waste into it.
Human health cannot be maintained in a degraded environment.”

“What would be so terrible if the torturers apprentice lost his job? It would be a great relief everybody concerned, especially his hapless troops and the long suffering Afghan people. The sooner the better.”

“The survival of Israel as a Jewish State? The fourth largest army on the planet and not shy of invading their neighbors?
Ridiculous. More drivel from and Likud Party think tank.
The last thing this troubled world needs is a theorcracy with territorial ambitions and no visible moral structure.”

“Of course. The new business plan of the banking industry is to make working Americans, not only pay for their house several times over with 30 loans, but to make them do it over and over. It's like taking candy from a baby.”

“This is good news. I lived in the area and can attest that the scenery is stunning and the archaelogical resources unparalled. Never a week went by when some devastating corporate or military activity was purposed.
The ruling elite can't stand to see anything stay as it is. They have to put their stamp on it even if it decreases it's value.”

“And impeaching Obama would change what? Obama is channeling Bush militarily, economically and philosophically.”

“Do you realize you are pushing an untested vaccine?
After estrogen, this will be one of the largest drug trials ever.
So far the effects of this new strain are little different from the usual. So what's the fuss?”

“You mean a "hugely inefficient bureaucratic monster that kills off our relatives" like Medicare.
Medicare is ten times more efficient than any private company. Any competition that can make money by being more efficient than Medicare and still pay CEO's and shareholders that doesn't kill off your relatives more rapidly than the current system isn't going to happen.”

“Keeping Democrats in power no longer interests me. There are only marginal differences between the Democratic agenda and the extremist right wing.”

“Ambassador Marc,
I've heard this story before. The domino theory that was used to fallaciously support the war in Viet Nam. This is just the Middle Eastern varient. It was wrong then and it's wrong now.
According to regional specialists Al Qaida has not been active in Afghanistan for years. Might reconstitute, could reconstitute? Since when is it legal to invade and occupy countries because something "might " happen?
Anyway you know that is not why our military was sent to. Afghanistan. They were sent because the Taliban gave the oil pipeline contract to an Argentinian company. Our presence is about protecting that pipeline and maintaining a friendly, albeit corrupt, puppet in power.”

“Three cheers for AP. Keep those photos coming! If people are going to pay for wars they ought to be able to see what they are buying.
If Gates really thought this was a " war worth fighting" he wouldn't be trying so hard to keep a lid on things.”

“There are two kinds of thought in this country: power thought and rational thought. The right wing don't engage in any recognizeable thought process. They are out.
Power talk resides inside the beltway. It is comfortable to consider even the most heinous crimes if advances the aims of the ruling elite who are the only constituents the government serves.
Rattional thought (there are rare exceptions like Conyers) is what of the country is thinking.
Broder belongs to the first group. He lost his moral compass as soon he started schmoozing with the insiders. Now he is their useful idiot.
The rest of the country, cowed, ignored, ill informed and abused do believe that having system of laws and enforcing them is critical.”

“The GOPers first try bullying first, then they go to fear. You'd think the Democrats would have developed an effective strategy to counter them. They do the same things over and over again.
Health care reform without a robust public option isn't health care reform. It's a big hand out to the corporations that have undermined our health care system.
No legislation would be better than that.
Health care is on the governing elites radar because it cuts into their profits. They are also predictable. They want a bill that rewards them for being rich and makes working Americans pick up the tab.
If they can't get this kind of legislation passed (the Senate bill), they'll have to go back to the drawing board and craft something that appeals to the progressive caucus.
I agree the GOP are not an issue. Health care can get done without them. That goes double for any other progressive legislation . The Democrats are giving away their power by trying to be "inclusive".”

“The "health care debate" isn't one in true sense of the word. We know what works and we know what needs to be done.
It's a struggle between intrenched power and the people.
The insurance industry has employed 50,000 people to disrupt meetings and spread disinformation. The GOP, who feed disproprotionately off entrenched power, have become a conduit. Far right Christians, the GOP's foot soldiers, are being tricked into helping defeat the very policies that would improve their lives.
It's always good for the powerful if they can get "the many" to fight each other. We are less likely to notice that they arereally the ones who are hurting us.”

“A merger between FOX and MSNBC is too horrifying to contemplate.
Corporate media no longer even care about appearing to be credible. They just care about mugging the minds of the lazy and low information viewers. There is no way they should be given access to the public air waves.”

“I don't think it's fair for corporations than endanger their customers lives to "tell their stories" unless it's to a judge and jury.
US corporations poison are food, water, air and soil and willfully endanger our lives and health with their products. If we had an real DOJ, so many of them wouldn't need to hire spin doctors.”

“How can the victims of willful economic destruction hang on to their meager slice of the pie while laboring to pay off a huge tax burden levied on them by irresponsible government?
How depressing.
It would be much more useful to write about how to stop the forces of economic destruction like offshoring, HB-1 visas, the notion that captains of industry have that America can be a great country without a manufacturing sector and that Ponzi schemes and pushing money around is economic growth.”

“Fun is all well and good but when it's about gross abuse of power, murder, crimes against humanity, war crimes, torture, breaking international and domestic laws, I don't think it's something to joke about.
It's the kind of black humour you hear by repressed populations in nations controlled by a military juntas. It's the humour of the powerless. Is this the way we think about ourselves?
The fact that we endured eight years of an illegitimate criminal administration and the current administration appears uninterested in holding them accountable is a subject for anger and tears, not laughter.”

“Bonnie,
Apparently she is resigning to avoid prosecution (most likely successful) for ethics complaints. How does that make her a viable candidate?
Unless the press make her a credible candidate, as you are doing and refuse to report on the facts involving her resignation and other oddities surrounding herself and family, there is no chance.
it's really up to you. Are you going to do your job?”