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Psychotic US Rep. Bachmann causes the very concept of irony to burst into flames

Seriously, Michele? You're all for the 4th Amendment as it pertains to bodies, suddenly? You want the government out of your hooner? Holy shit. Bachmann: No Government Control Over My Body! | TPMDC

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), who is a a staunch champion of the religious right and an opponent of President Obama on all things under the sun, has a new line against the Democrats on health care: Keep the government off my body! Bachmann appeared on Sean Hannity's radio show on Tuesday, and check out what she said, at the 5:35 mark. "That's why people need to continue to go to the town halls, continue to melt the phone lines of their liberal members of Congress," said Bachmann, "and let them know, under no certain circumstances will I give the government control over my body and my health care decisions." The irony here is that this same message is often used in American politics to mean something completely different -- as a slogan of the pro-choice movement, to which Bachmann most certainly does not belong.

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Ridge - Bush Aides Pushed to Raise Threat Level

Ridge - Bush Aides Pushed to Raise Threat Level - NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON — Tom Ridge, the first secretary of homeland security, asserts in a new book that he was pressured by top advisers to President George W. Bush to raise the national threat level just before the 2004 election in what he suspected was an effort to influence the vote.

Posted in Dic(k) Move - Politic(k)s. Posted by Alan at 09:23 PM | Permalink

Barney Frank bitchslaps evil Godwin-rule-breaking pig woman so hard her dead grandma starts crying

Fuck yeah Barney!! YouTube - Barney Frank Confronts Woman At Townhall Comparing Obama To Hitler

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Left learns to live with war

This is politics, after all. Now that the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan is in full swing, we can't expect Obama to survive a three-way civil war on top of 20 percent of the world's oil reserves and pass health care reform. For the Left, war without Bush is not war at all | Washington Examiner

Fast forward to last weekend, when YearlyKos, renamed Netroots Nation, held its convention in Pittsburgh. The meeting didn't draw much coverage, but the views of those who attended are still, as they were in 2006, a pretty good snapshot of the left wing of the Democratic party. The news that emerged is that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have virtually fallen off the liberal radar screen. Kossacks (as fans of DailyKos like to call themselves) who were consumed by the Iraq war when George W. Bush was president are now, with Barack Obama in the White House, not so consumed, either with Iraq or with Obama's escalation of the conflict in Afghanistan. In fact, they barely seem to care.

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Will the Democratic Party fail on public option and become irrelevant?

Labor Warns Dems: We'll Sit Out Election If You Oppose Public Plan

One of the country's most prominent union officials is warning that big labor may pull its support from Democrats who don't fight for a government-run insurance plan. In an interview with the Huffington Post on Saturday, Richard Trumka, the secretary-treasurer and likely next president of the AFL-CIO, said his federation is drawing a line in the sand when it comes to a public option in the health care bill. Lawmakers who don't support the provision, he said, shouldn't take anything for granted.

Raw Story -- Liberals say bill without public option won't pass

Liberal Democrats in the House say that a healthcare reform bill that doesn't include the so-called public option won't pass. President Barack Obama, as well as his press secretary and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius signaled Sunday that they were open to a healthcare bill that didn't carry the public option. But their remarks have sent liberal Democrats into a tailspin, and haven't drawn much backing from Republicans in Congress. The public option would create a public insurance carrier that would be handled by the government and compete with private insurance companies, likely driving down premiums and negotiating lower payments for drugs and services. “A bill without a public option won’t pass the House,” Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) told Politico for an article published Tuesday. “Not only are they weakening their proposal, but they are also weakening their hand. This is legislative subtraction by subtraction.”

Posted in (K)apital, Labor, (K)ommerce and Economic(k)s - Politic(k)s. Posted by Alan at 12:14 AM | Permalink

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August 20, 2009

Psychotic US Rep. Bachmann causes the very concept of irony to burst into flames

Ridge - Bush Aides Pushed to Raise Threat Level

August 19, 2009

Barney Frank bitchslaps evil Godwin-rule-breaking pig woman so hard her dead grandma starts crying

Left learns to live with war

Will the Democratic Party fail on public option and become irrelevant?

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