What is America? Is it merely a flag? Is it an armed force, with tanks and guns and planes? After all, that’s what many people see in villages around the world. That’s what simple groups of small villagers saw in Iraq…people with no television, no media elite, no sophisticated intellectual government in their region to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'lobbyists'
Government by Lobbyist
July 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, Lobbying, Politics, Wall Street
The recent Citizens United verdict by the Supreme Court makes one thing clear. For the time being, at least, lobbying is here to stay and has been given even greater abilities to interfere in the legislation and administration of the United States.
What we have now is a law that says that any corporation, and probably [...]
Tags: corporate lobbying·health care lobbying·Lobbying·lobbyists·Neconservative lobbyists·Republican lobbyists·Wall Street lobbyists
Debts, Lies and Obstructionism
May 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Corporations and Industry, Politics, energy
No mistake about it. We are in crisis mode. No matter what the stock market or the boys knocking down millions on Wall Street say…we are in an economic crisis. And we are in a political crisis.
We have trillions of debt that we need to pay off. We owe about $12.8 trillion of which about [...]
Tags: corporate lobbyists·lobbyists·Neocon Republican obstruction·Republican obstruction
Lobbying: Our Worst National Disaster
April 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Lobbying, Media, Politics
There are about 14,000 lobbyists now in Washington. That is more than 26 lobbyists for every Senator, Congressman and member of the White House staff. Last year, 2009, lobbyists spent a staggering $3.46 billion on influencing government.
This is a huge problem for the United States of America and its future.
If you are a Middle Class [...]
Tags: corporate influence·corporate lobbyists·corporation lobbying·health insurance lobbyists·independent government·John Boehner·Lobbying·lobbyist influence·lobbyist money in Washington·lobbyists·Mitch McConnell·Neocon lobbyist pandering·Neocon lobbyists·Republican lobbyist pandering
The Next American Revolution
February 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Health Care, Media, Politics, wars and militarism
It is time for all Americans to stop what they are doing and think about the future. Your future has already been mapped out for you by a relatively small percentage of Americans, who want to eliminate the middle class. The Neoconservatives, on a mission for the very wealthy and huge international corporations, have the [...]
Tags: Bush·Bush tax cuts·deficits·health care reform·how to pay for deficits·Iraq war·lobbyists·Medicare·national debt·Neoconservative propaganda·Neoconservative think tanks·Neoconservatives·Reagan·Reagan tax cuts·Social Security·tax cuts·tax reform·wars
The Neoconservative Republican Agenda Is Quite Simple. Lie and Lie Again.
February 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics
In the cool, rarefied air of Senate multi-millionaires it may be possible to conduct policy discussions with great civility. At least on the non-producing Democratic side. On the other side, the Neocon Obstructionist Party smiles, makes sarcastic comments in the legislative chamber and then votes against everything. No exaggeration. They have voted against everything by [...]
Tags: health care reform·lobbyist-paid politicians·lobbyists·neoconservative agenda·neoconservative lies. Neoconservative·Republican lies·stimulus plan
Are Neoconservatives Making Us a Laughing Stock Around the World?
February 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Health Care, Politics
I am sure that Senator Mitch McConnell, whom some pundit called, I believe, a “turtle-hybrid” recently feels that he has accomplished quite a bit for his Party this last year.
The Neoconservatives, despite repeated and repeated and frustratingly, boringly repeated efforts by the President to have them join in, be part of the government of [...]
Tags: Add new tag·Health Care·health care debate·lobbyist pandering·lobbyists·Neoconservatives·obstruction
We Can’t All “Just Get Along.” Here’s Why.
February 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Media, Politics
Our political system is broken. It didn’t happen accidentally. It was deliberate and it has been happening for a long time, gradually, methodically. Corporations have taken all their chips and gone all-in with the Neoconservative Republicans. And the Neocons are now 100% for corporations. They are the arm of corporations in Congress.
Take the Republican [...]
Tags: legislation·lobbyists·neocon political ideology·Politics·Right Wing
Over Neoconservative Obstruction and Health Care Lobbying, Health Reform Passes.
December 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Health Care, Politics
Right to the end, the Neoconservative Obstructionists in the Senate fought their hardest for the health insurance industry, trying to get every benefit they could and putting pressure on all Democratic Senators with any political vulnerability.
They fired salvo after salvo at health care reform. They said that the American People were basically ungrateful to [...]
Tags: Health Care·health care lobby·health insurance·health insurance industry·lobbyists·Neoconservative·obstruction
Before Neocons Call People “Nazis” They Should Look in the Mirror.
December 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Health Care, Media, Politics
Shame on the Neoconservatives, as they call themselves. They want to be called “Republicans.” But we can’t really call them Republicans, can we? They are not traditional Republicans. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower were more or less traditional Republicans. Neoconservatives are more like the old Dixiecrats. In fact the manic racist Strom Thurmond [...]
Tags: Add new tag·Cheney·health care reform·health insurance industry·Hitler·Lieberman·lobbyists·Lunatic fringe·Nazi·Nazis·neocon·Neoconservative·Politics·President Obama·Right Wing·Rupert Murdoch·tea parties
Down to the Wire on Health Care Reform
December 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Health Care, Politics
Americans used to be winners. Now we are losers. The current crop of middle-aged Americans are so far from reality that it almost makes a grown man…of which there are fewer and fewer…cry. We started out a year ago electing a man as President who said that he would initiate the process of creating a [...]
Tags: Congressional debate on health care·Health Care·health care debate·health care lobby·health care reform·health insurance·health insurance industry·lobbyists·Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska·Senator Blanche Lincoln·Senator Evan Bayh·Senator Landrieu·Senator Lieberman·Senator Mark Pryor
The Health Care Reform Battle and the Neocon Alternatives
November 9th, 2009 · No Comments · General, Health Care, Politics
On Saturday, November 7, 2009, the members in the House of Representatives of the Neoconservative Obstructionist Party spent an entire day doing their best to obstruct and prevent legislation. But the Affordable Health Care for America Act passed by 220 to 215.
It was bi-partisan. One Republican voted with the Democrats. And 39 petty, cowardly [...]
Tags: Bush administration·Health Care·health care reform·health insurance industry·lobbyists·Neocon Republicans·Republican health care plan·tea parties
What’s in a Name? Republicans Are Now the Neoconservative Obstructionist Party
October 31st, 2009 · No Comments · General, Health Care, Media, Politics
Shakespeare and the current Republican Party do not exactly fit within the same imagery. We do not see Sarah Palin quoting Shakespeare, something that might not surprise us to hear from either the President or the Vice President. The point is that we have long, long since reduced our expectations of erudition or even fiscally [...]
Tags: health care reform·lobbyists·media and politics·neocon·Neoconservative·Politics·Republicans·Right Wing
Turncoat Lieberman, Bought By Health Insurance Companies
October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Health Care, Politics
The clear message is that Senator Joseph Lieberman, like Duke Cunningham and others, including Senator John McCain of Arizona, has now taken his former respected status and sold his character and reputation to the highest bidder. In Lieberman’s case, his reputation was earned as a supporter in his early career of issues such as civil [...]
Tags: filibuster·Health Care·health care debate·health insurance industry·Lieberman·lobbyists·Neoconservative·Republicans·Right Wing
The Great Right-Wing Propaganda War
November 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Culture, Health Care, Media, Politics, jobs
There is a war going on in this country. It is a war against the American People and a war against the truth. It is not being waged by terrorists but by a group of hugely wealthy, arch-conservative individuals who merely want…more. Their personal assets, both individually and collectively are in the billions and they [...]
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