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For the record
Republicans, dittoheads, teaheads, right-wingers , no matter what they call themselves (e.g. religious fundamentalist Bart Stupak , who is willing to hold 45,000 Americans a year hostage has already helped kill 45,000 Americans in the past year, in a shameless attempt to force the US to enshrine his radical religious beliefs in law, who calls ( Read more... ) -
Your mission, should you choose to accept it....
...may result in your being paid an obscene amount of money to humiliate a powerful homophobic douchebag. In order to avoid spoilerizing my previous post, is ( behind the cut... ) -
Choking on my own schadenfreude... in a good way!
Most of you have probably already heard this, but t is worth waiting for the good bit. I know I shouldn't, but I laughed so hard I nearly choked!
If I didn't succeed in embedding it, here is the link to the Youtube, if that gets taken down, here is the link to the story on msnbc-- it's worth the ads-- and if (actually, when) you want more detal ( Read more... ) -
I am very busy right now but...
I think that it is important to reiterate: NO PUBLIC OPTION, NO DEAL!
I STILL will not compromise, because I STILL cannot afford to.
I STILL have MS, which means that I STILL can't afford private insurance, and private insurance STILL doesn't cover more than 1 month of meds per year.
A bill without at the very least a public option STILL does ( Read more... ) -
Memo to the DNC
Re: Special election ( Read more... ) -
The Greater Evil
A friend of mine recently told me how bad the Republicans are, and said that this is why I should continue to vote Democratic no matter what. I used to agree with her. Bush I was a terrible president and Bush II was positively horrifying. However, Obama is continuing almost all of the latter's policies, and that is specifically because he is ( Read more... ) -
Primary Challenge Time
Obama is firmly convinced that he can continue to thumb his nose at the people without whom he could not ever have won in 2008, and it is time to select the candidate to whom he will lose in 2012 ( Read more... ) -
First, I am going to ask you to do something really disgusting:
Imagine that you are a Republican senator (I did say it was disgusting ( Read more... ) -
Attention "Democratic" Senators
The following is your ONLY option for saving your political careers:
DO put the public option back in. It is the only part of this bill that is consistently supported by a strong majority of Americans. If you fail to get it for us now, I won't vote for you, and I always vote, almost always a straight blue ticket.
DON'T compromise with those that you ( Read more... ) -
An open letter to the DNC
Dear President Obama, and all Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Virginia Senators and Representatives I helped in my canvassing for Obama), as well as both my Senators, (not my representative, who is a real progressive ( Read more... )
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