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US Politics & Gov't  (tags: healthcare, healthcare, government, congress, americans, corruption, obama, lies, usa, ethics, dishonesty )

Jill
- 45 days ago - counterpunch.com
The gap between our citizens and our Government has never been so wide. The people are looking for honest answers, not easy answers; clear leadership, not false claims and evasiveness and politics as usual..What you see too often in Washington and elsewhe
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Jill P. (41)
Tuesday November 3, 2009, 10:36 am
Why are Bush and Cheney NOT on trial for war crimes, treason, illegal wiretapping, etc....
Kucinich submitted over 28 articles of impeachment for EACH of them last year. What happened? The Democrats, who are supposed to be different for the republicans, won't investigate let alone prosecute. Obama says it's in the past let's forget about it! Really? America do we really find that acceptable? Or is Obama just letting it slide because they are all working for the same goal, personal gain and screw the rest of us? Is he ignoring it because it set the stage for him to commit whatever crimes he chooses and get away wit it. He enjoys the illegal wiretapping as much as Bush. He even expanded it. he enjoys the patriot Act as well.
Crooks, the lot of them. Why do we keep voting the same crooks in, just different faces?
 

Carol H. (31)
Tuesday November 3, 2009, 11:14 am
BO got into office on a lie and ACORN helped in and look what they have done lie lie so as far as I am concerned he is reflections of them and that is a fact.
 

Jill P. (41)
Wednesday November 11, 2009, 1:05 pm
Single payer Expanded Medicare for All HR 676, the ONLY economical and humane way to go.
This if from the PEN
A couple weeks ago the Democratic Senate Committee put out a video
called "I'm A Democrat, And I'm A Republican" (itself a play on the
cultural icon Mac ads), begging us for more campaign contributions
based on the premise that even 60 votes in their caucus is not enough
to pass a decent bill. So we decided to produce a series of our own
issue advocacy satire videos, to propagate the truth that NEITHER the
Democrats NOR the Republicans want real health care reform. And you
can watch the first one on this page.

Medicare For All Fax Action Page:
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1020.php

And from the same action you can also send a fax (for no charge) to
all your members of Congress (or special new advocacy capability)
calling for the passage of Medicare for All, instead of the
ridiculous sell out to medical corporation special interests that
barely squeaked out of the House over the weekend, and only at the
additional price of a total betrayal of a woman's right to choose.

For this special fax action there is a prepared petition text which
you can read on the page above, calling on Congress to get serious
about doing something the American people all want, and pass to
economical and efficient Medicare for all. But you can still add any
personal comments of your own you like.

And if you are represented by any member of the Congressional
so-called Progressive Caucus, you might tell them how profoundly
ASHAMED of them you are, given that outside of the courageous
exceptions of Dennis Kucinich and Eric Massa not one of others voted
against this terrible, awful bill (HR 3962). Remember back in June
they all signed a letter that they would only support a bill with a
"robust" public option. Instead they all voted for a total corporate
insurance take over of our national health care system, and they were
so anxious to sell out any principle they ever claimed to have, that
they threw a woman's right to choose under the bus along the way.

Please take careful note we said a CORPORATE take over of health
care. Because the only thing more dishonest that the Democrats
claiming there is some kind of meaningful public option in the bill
are the Republicans braying that it is a government take over. It is
not "socialized" medicine as the "one smear fits all" demagogues on
the right shout, but instead capitalist medicine, with the most
feeble possible public plan they thought they could pass off to the
American people.

And of course, nobody expects the Senate to turn it into something
better. Instead, it will be a monumental struggle now to even derail
the horrible anti-choice provision, which dictates that after a woman
is forced to buy one of the official overpriced insurance exchange
plans, even if she paid for it with 100% of her own money, that
provider cannot cover the expense of an abortion.

For those who argued we should just pass SOMETHING, even if it was a
bad bill, because they said we could fix it later, this is what you
get from a strategy of perpetual compromise, a bill that is utterly
beyond redemption. It's time to throw HR 3962 in the medical waste
bin, and do what should have been done in the first place, build a
new national health care system on what actually DOES work, by
extending the existing economical and efficient Medicare plan to all
ages.
 
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