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Dean: I’m stunned. I just can’t that this party is so open about how contemptuous it is for the very people they work for ultimately which is the American people.Well Howard, the Democratic Party might not be this openly contemptuous of its progressive wing, but they don't always treat us much better. They just haven't been stupid enough to put it in writing.
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But the small donors… this is why there’s a Tea Party and this is why the Republicans can’t rely on the Tea Party movement, because they know the Republicans, they may not like the Democrats, but the Republicans don’t like them. So what they’re really angry about is just they’re tired of being treated like dirt by the people in power and that is not confined to the Democrats—the Republicans are doing exactly the same thing and this sort of shows that they don’t view the Tea Party as their allies. They view the Tea Party as a problem, as dopes and all the kinds of things the Tea Party people say “Oh the Democrats and the elite”. Well guess what? This shows that the Republicans also are elitists, and they don’t have, we have no corner on the market of being elitist and I think the Tea Party is going to eat them for lunch for this.
“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people”
Abraham Lincoln quotes (American 16th US President (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"The quote "Divide and Conquer" is attributed to Julius Caesar."
...on Jun 15 2009
It is impossible of course to say for certain, but Julius Caesar has been attributed the quote "Divide et impera" which is latin for "Divide and Conquer". | |
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Advice to House: Don't Take Any Obama Wooden Nickels
The Senate may trick the House into passing its bill.
By JOHN FUND
Nancy Pelosi is trying to shoo House Democrats into voting for the Senate health care bill, but members are more worried than ever that the Senate won't then implement the necessary changes through the reconciliation process to make the final bill acceptable. They have good reason for concern.Now they're hearing from Senate colleagues that the GOP can be expected to make Senate reconciliation as difficult and drawn-out as possible through delaying tactics. President Obama may wind up just signing the Senate bill into law no changes whatsoever -- preserving some of the most egregious elements that made the Senate bill such a public lightning rod.
These include not just the "Cornhusker Kickback," "Louisiana Purchase" and other special-interest deals rolled into the Senate bill last December to buy wavering Democratic votes. Democrats also would have to explain all over again why 800,000 seniors in Florida will be spared Medicare Advantage cuts, while those elsewhere won't.
Senator Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican, says Mr. Obama is asking House Democrats "to hold hands, drop off a cliff and hope [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid catches them. And Harry Reid will have no incentive to catch them because by the time he gets to the reconciliation bill, the president will have already signed the health care bill into law."
Meanwhile, President Obama met with 20 undecided House Democrats yesterday in private. He urged them to put aside their political concerns and vote for the Senate bill in the interests of duty and country. "It's always a bad sign when a chief executive tells members of Congress of his own party to ignore the politics," says presidential historian Al Felzenberg. "It usually means he's got a bad product."
“I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...”
Abraham Lincoln quotes (American 16th US President (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865)Rahm Apologizes for Privately Calling Liberal Activists "Retarded" - Political Punch
White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel apologized to the head of the Special Olympics today after the Wall Street Journal reported the fiery Chicagoan privately called a group of liberal activists "f---ing retarded."
Last August, Emanuel "showed up at a weekly strategy session featuring liberal groups and White House aides," the Journal's Peter Wallsten reported lastTuesday."Some attendees said they were planning to air ads attacking conservative Democrats who were balking at Mr. Obama's health-care overhaul. 'F—ing retarded,' Mr. Emanuel scolded the group, according to several participants. He warned them not to alienate lawmakers whose votes would be needed on health care and other top legislative items."
A White House official confirms that Emanuel made the remark and reports that Emanuel called Tim Shriver last week when the Journal story first appeared to apologize to the disabled community and the apology was accepted.
"The White House remains committed to addressing the concerns and needs of Americans living with disabilities and recognizes that derogatory remarks demean us all," the official said.
The apology was reported earlier today by Politico's Ben Smith though it was first reported last Thursday by Disability Scoop, which bills itself as "the first and only national news organization serving the developmental disability community including autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, fragile X and intellectual disability, among others."
Shriver heads the Special Olympics, which has launched a campaign urging people to stop using the term "retarded" as an insult, "Spread the word to end the word."
Former Alaska Gov, Sarah Palin, who has a son with Down's Syndrome, was offended by Emanuel's reported remark, posting on her Facebook page: "Just as we’d be appalled if any public figure of Rahm’s stature ever used the 'N-word' or other such inappropriate language, Rahm’s slur on all God’s children with cognitive and developmental disabilities – and the people who love them – is unacceptable, and it’s heartbreaking.
"A patriot in North Andover, Massachusetts, notified me of Rahm’s 'retarded” slam,'" Palin wrote. "I join this gentleman, who is the father of a beautiful child born with Down Syndrome, in asking why the Special Olympics, National Down Syndrome Society and other groups condemning Rahm’s degrading scolding have been completely ignored by the White House. No comment from his boss, the president?
"As my friend in North Andover says, 'This isn’t about politics; it’s about decency. I am not speaking as a political figure but as a parent and as an everyday American wanting my child to grow up in a country free from mindless prejudice and discrimination, free from gratuitous insults of people who are ostensibly smart enough to know better... Have you no sense of decency, sir?'"
This is not the first time someone who works in the White House has called Shriver after an errant remark. Last March, President Obama called Shriver from Air Force One after joking on the Tonight Show that his notoriously bad bowling skills were "like the Special Olympics or something."
(One alternate theory is that the president was comparing Jay Leno's patronizing "That's very good, Mr. President," to the affirmations given to Special Olympics athletes, but that's not how Shriver took it, nor has any White House official supported that explanation.)
-jpt
February 2, 2010
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