President Obama This Evening: Our World News Report

Obamacrat! Another unhappy lying Republican. Where on Wall Street do you work. Obviously you don’t care about or for the working class of people. Your morals are, I bet, about as low as Palin and her gang. I really hope she runs for President. A shoe in for the Democats, but if she wins(God help us), morals will return to dogs that run loose and have puppies. In case you don’t understand its part of her culture to have and approve of babies before marriage. Animal world call them bast–ds.

I’m glad this bill is passing., It would be a shameful comment on the state of American politics if health care reform failed because of lies from the Republican politicians and the incredibly hateful, ignorant , creepy behavior of their base voters.

But the biggest slap in the face is the lack of effort to ease ways for employers to expand and grow their businesses, hire workers at good wages
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You mean like a tax break for employers who hire new employees? What a good idea!
Already done . . . .last week.

Did the major networks get a sweetheart deal from Obama to help pass OCare.
Or maybe he just asked them to help save his presidency.

Yes We Can!

I love the shrieking wail of impotent right wingers on the eve of a victory for the American people.

Obama is already like Chavez.
Truly a sad day for America.
Posted by: larry | Mar 21, 2010 11:02:10 PM
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You forgot to squawk out the other talking points – Stalin, Hitler, Jack the Ripper, Mao and Ted Bundy . .

I love the shrieking wail of impotent right wingers on the eve of a victory for the American people.
Posted by: Ryan c | Mar 21, 2010 10:54:35 PM
Right wingers? It’s on record now. The die is cast. BIPARTISAN OPPOSITION to the bill. The Dems own it – wherever it takes us.

“The health care bill’s taxes will go into effect promptly, but its substantive provisions are, for the most part, deferred for four years. This means that we have plenty of time to repeal the legislation. Sure, it will take a new Congress and new President. But repealing this disaster of a bill will by a rallying cry for the American people for years to come.” Powerline

“osted by: For the Record | Mar 21, 2010 11:12:56 PM”
Please Republicans…run on repeal.
That will help the Democrats tremendously

“Wait until the young working class realize they have to help pay for this”
Yeah those young people who just LOVE Republicans.
ROFLMAO!

Yeah those young people who just LOVE Republicans.
ROFLMAO!
Posted by: Ryan C | Mar 21, 2010 11:18:15 PM
Most youngsters don’t even know who the Vice President is. But they will know when their paycheck is a lot lower than it used to be.

“Most youngsters don’t even know who the Vice President is.”
ROFLMAO!
Keep clinging to your shrinking party.

I am done with the Democrats. Fraudbama ruined the Democratic Party.
Posted by: Bubbles | Mar 21, 2010 11:22:37 PM
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Democrats pass health care reform that gives an additional millions upon millions of people health care – and you’re abandoning them?
What exactly was it you admired about the Democrats before?

“So you are saying somehow if it’s an epic failure, it will be the Republicans’ fault?”
Oh no, not at all.
I am saying the Republicans thinking their base are gullible idiots will claim credit for any successes brought about by this bill.
Much like quite a few anti-stimulus in rhetoric and vote GOPers did when they handed out giant stimulus checks for pictures in the local paper.

“Are you unaware of the provision that allows young people to stay on their parent’s coverage until 26?”
A bipartisan idea embraced by both parties except for some dishonest right wingers apparently.

“What exactly was it you admired about the Democrats before?”
Its like quitting the Republican party because they cut taxes.
The right wingers are pathologically dishonest.

Posted by: Bubbles | Mar 21, 2010 11:34:37 PM
Yeah, some far lefters and single payer people are disappointed – I don’t think the people who have been denied coverage for their sick children, or cut off coverage, or never had coverage will be all that disappointed . ..

Are you unaware of the provision that allows young people to stay on their parent’s coverage until 26?
Are you unaware of the provisions of financial support for low-income earners?
The Republican right seems out of touch.
Posted by: tierra | Mar 21, 2010 11:29:34 PM
Late twenties are youngsters when you are as old as I am.
Lots of non-low income earners will be affected. Count on it. There will be plenty of unaware wage earners who will get a big surprise very, very soon.
And once again, a non-American tries to insert herself into the conversation.
BTW: The mandate is unconstitutional.

“And once again, a non-American tries to insert herself into the conversation.”
Bizarre xenophobic attack…but hey this is the same right wingers who scream racial slurs at Congressman and hurl bricks through a COngresswoman’s office window.

Are you unaware of the provision that allows young people to stay on their parent’s coverage until 26?
Posted by: tierra |
Honey, an 18 yr old that voted for Obama will be 24 yrs old when the benefits kick in. Between now and then he/she will pay obamacare taxes… if they can find a job. Best case is 2 years of mommy and daddy’s support. Then they get to buy mandatory private insurance all by themselves. 26th birthdays are going to be so special in America.
Of course, if you were 20 or older in 2008 you don’t get squat.
Entiendo?

26th birthdays are going to be so special in America.
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn | Mar 21, 2010 11:44:45 PM
By that time, the liberals will have raised it to age 30.

“So low-income families do not have to pay premiums but they can spend their money on doritos, beer and cigarettes”
Ahhh a mini revival of the “welfare queen” attack.
Next comes attacks on illegal immigrants and then hispanics in general.

“Then they get to buy mandatory private insurance all by themselves. 26th birthdays are going to be so special in America”
ROFLMAO!
Right wingers actually think getting insurance as a young person will be looked on as some sort of horrible burden.
Such is the self centered mindset of the sad right winger.

“Honey, an 18 yr old that voted for Obama will be 24 yrs old when the benefits kick in”
The provision to allowing children to stay on their parents insurance until 26 and the ban on denying children insurance with pre existing conditions goes into effect 6 months after it becomes law.
But hey you wouldn’t be doing your job if you weren’t grossly misinforming people on the behalf of the right wing.

This bill does not “give” anybody anything.
Posted by: Bubbles | Mar 21, 2010 11:34:37 PM
Actually, that’s not true. It gives many Americans security — the security of knowing that if they are diagnosed with a costly disease, or if they are in an accident and sustain costly chronic injuries, their insurance can’t be cancelled, and coverage can’t be denied. It gives many Americans with an entreprenueurial or artistic or independent spirit the freedom to strike out on their own rather than being job-locked due to employee benefits.
As the president just said, this isn’t a radical change and the bill won’t solve all our problems– but it is change, a step in the right direction.
Thank you Democrats!! Doing something, solving problems, fulfilling campaign promises is hella sexy!!!
two thumbs up, Madame Speaker, way up (you liberal San Franciscan double socialist, you– God love ya! ) :^)

Right wingers actually think getting insurance as a young person will be looked on as some sort of horrible burden.
Posted by: Ryan C |
The “slacker provision” is your favorite part, isn’t it?

Actually, I’m not sure why I am fighting this so hard. My wife is retired, I’m unemployed and we just got turned down for hc insurance for pre-existing conditions. Seems like we should be able to get something free out of this.

tierra wrote: “Nonsense. The parental plan part kicks in immediately.”
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Republicans raise their kids to be self-sufficient by the time they are 18 years old. Democrats raise theirs to mooch off others wherever they can get away with it. Now they can continue till they are 26 before having to face the cold hard reality of the real world.

“The “slacker provision” is your favorite part, isn’t it?”
It doesn’t affect me.
But as mentioned the unemployment rate for young people is higher than the national average and this will help some stay covered by insurance that usually comes via employment.
I’m not sure what your problem with allowing children to stay on their parent insurance is. Its been part of GOP ideas for healthcare reform

Republicans raise their kids to be self-sufficient by the time they are 18 years old.
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Oh yeah! I raised my boy to be self-sufficient by the time he was 3.2 months old and he was a billionaire and retired by the time he was 8 months old.

I keep forgetting – all the Republicans are rich, not a poor one among them.
Posted by: tierra |
hahahaha. If you were a slacker/moocher, which party would you vote for? Let’s ask the frat boy.

“Many states already have such provisions.”
Yes quite a few have passed laws in the last couple of decades of varying degrees (depends on age, students status etc)
This makes it a national policy.
I seem to recall that many states have enacted tort reform yet the GOP pushes for that to be national policy.
Now there may be merit to tort reform but its not going to be the cost saver its portrayed as by the right.

progressive mama wrote: “I believe the Republican party is both exploiting and pandering to fear and hate. And making excuses for it. ”
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Ask black conservative activist Kenneth Gladney who was called the “n” word and beat to the ground by a bunch of purple shirted SEIU thugs outside a rigged “town hall” meeting in St. Louis for passing out yellow “Don’t Tread on Me” flags. See if he agrees with you.

“Ask black conservative activist Kenneth Gladney who was called the “n” word and beat to the ground by a bunch of purple shirted SEIU thugs outside”
Hmmmm even on the video right wingers passed around the n word was not used.
There was a scuffle between him and two men which ended with him running away after getting knocked to the ground.
The next day he showed up, with his right wing lawyer in tow, in a wheel chair and neck brace.
He never made good his claim then to sue…guess the newscycle had passed and he had gotten his mileage.

Hmmmm even on the video right wingers passed around the n word was not used.
Posted by: Ryan C |
Mr Gladney says he was called that. Do you not believe him? Are you a racist?

Extremism does not favor a political party, as much as you would like it to.
Posted by: For the Record | Mar 22, 2010 12:10:43 AM
I believe the Republican party is both exploiting and pandering to fear and hate. And making excuses for it.
Posted by: progressive mama | Mar 22, 2010 12:30:38 AM
During the Bush administration, Democrats did the same thing. Many stood on the floor of Congress to do it. Get real.

Posted by: gk | Mar 22, 2010 12:36:27 AM
I condemn violence, including the violence in that scenario– and if the n word was used, I condemn that as well. However, when I watched the video clip of the incident, I found the accusations that sent the conservative blogosphere atwitter somewhat suspect– and as nobody came up with any witnesses, I’ve always been left with some questions, admittedly because it was a political environment, and when it comes to politics (not all things) and the political environment, I’ve always found Republicans to be liars and distorters(example: the whole thing with the girl who carved up her own face was a hoax with racist undertones. I forget her name. )
Ultimately, the Gladney scenario is a he said, he said scenario. One of the so-called SEIU “thugs” was a disabled minister named Reverend Elston McCowan, and in the video clip he is already on the ground. He dislocated his shoulder and chipped a bone.
Plus, didn’t Gladney’s case fall apart? I don’t recall but it just sort of disappeared– though diehards bring it up as an excuse not to have to condemn the racist remarks and threats of violence and nasty acts of their like-minded “conservative,” right-leaning “independent” and Republican pals.
After seeing how anti-health reform protestors treated the man with Parkinson’s, and hearing that they spit on an African American congressman and shouted racial slurs at John Lewis, a civil rights hero, I just really don’t buy the “there’s extremists on both sides and somehow its all even and fair and square” argument.
I campaigned for Obama in red districts in red states. I saw and heard things that shocked and nauseated me and I don’t shock easy. The GOP isn’t known as a party of tolerance– at least not anymore.
What’s most telling is all the excuses. Nobody on here is willing to say they condemn it. Excuse, excuse, excuse– and try to distract.
in other words, you’ve become part of the problem.

“Mr Gladney says he was called that. Do you not believe him”
Considering the comical embellishment of his “injuries” with a wheelchair?
That he accuses a black man of using the offensive word?
No, I do not believe him or Andrew Breitbart, who thinks of himself as some kind of latter day Goebbels.
Posted by: Ryan C | Mar 22, 2010 1:13:56 AM
Okay– Ryan’s posts in response are better than mine (see the one at 12:42:59 AM also.) Short, punchy, on point.
Thanks Ryan.

Okay– Ryan’s posts in response are better than mine (see the one at 12:42:59 AM also.) Short, punchy, on point.
Posted by: progressive mama |
and just like yours, it was wrong.

Even Ashley Todd is old news in the context of discussing what happened to John Lewis yesterday.
Posted by: Ryan C |
Why would the seiu beat up John Lewis?

It obviously doesn’t matter to you but charges have been filed against 6 people and a court date has been set and there are witnesses (interfering with police is one of the charges, want to impugn the police too?) one of which claims to have hear the N word.
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn | Mar 22, 2010 1:32:11 AM
I don’t know why you’d say it doesn’t matter. I wasn’t the one afraid of condemning the violence or calling someone racial epithets. I said it right upfront. Whereas you haven’t. I condemn it. But I believe in innocence till you’re proven guilty when it comes to charges. We’ll see what happens. The guy I saw holding his shoulder was the disabled SEIU minister. (And if you’re really in the dark as to why I think Republicans are shady, who was that guy that doctored the tapes of his visits to ACORN offices, again? A Republican liar, perhaps?) As for impugning police– I was for the stimulus that kept many in jobs, and I support their union and the middle class. LOL.

“Your first paragraph speaks for itself. Don’t be disingenuous.”
ROFLMAO!
Someone who posts right wing lies on a daily basis wrote the above.
At least you haven’t lost your gall in the wake of defeat.

No beating, no kicking.
Posted by: Ryan C |
Maybe they called him a witch. Then you could condemn it.

Even Ashley Todd is old news in the context of discussing what happened to John Lewis yesterday.
Posted by: Ryan C | Mar 22, 2010 1:34:38 AM
Just in the past couple days- John Lewis, Emanuel Cleaver, Barney Frank, Ciro Rodriguez, a conservative blogger calling for the assassination of the President via Twitter leading to a Secret Service investigation.
As the Southern Poverty Law Center has noted, hate, racist and extremist groups are on the rise.

“Your first paragraph speaks for itself. Don’t be disingenuous.”
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Particularly the first sentence:
“I condemn violence, including the violence in that scenario– and if the n word was used, I condemn that as well. ”
Meanwhile, the “conservative” blogosphere and punditry keeps fact checkers extremely busy– and the Republican VP candidate told the whopper of the year according to fact checkers. What is disingenuous is not understanding why someone would question the conservative blogosphere’s stories given their history and the — particularly when videotape doesn’t confirm their version of “the facts” and they act like somehow it does. LOL.

“Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn | Mar 22, 2010 2:02:12 AM”
The Southern Poverty Law Center monitors neo nazis, klansmens, aryan brotherhood members and the like.
Not sure what why you would dislike SPLC unless you have some affinity for such groups.

Not sure what why you would dislike SPLC unless you have some affinity for such groups.
Posted by: Ryan C | Mar 22, 2010 2:07:15 AM
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Still no condemnation. Just an apologist who is now namecalling in hopes of distracting from the point that you’re in better command of the facts and on higher ground.
Oh well, back to the point of the blog post.
Matt Steinglass, The Economist:
” Nancy Pelosi …has presided over one of the most effective sessions in the history of the House, and if Congress finally passes health-care reform this weekend, she will have emerged the victor in the bloodiest battle America’s legislature has seen since the impeachment of Bill Clinton, if not longer.” (I’d say longer…)

” Nancy Pelosi …has presided over one of the most effective sessions in the history of the House, and if Congress finally passes health-care reform this weekend, she will have emerged the victor in the bloodiest battle America’s legislature has seen since the impeachment of Bill Clinton, if not longer.” (I’d say longer…”
The impeachment was different in many ways though with some GOP casualties that in many ways changed the tone of their reign of power.
Think of Newt remaining as Speaker.
I would compare this to civil rights legislation and Vietnam for the contentiousness in Congress though.
As I said before this was an important legislative victory for Americans and a political victory for the Democrats and President Obama.

The n word being said at Lewis is on tape.
Do you condemn it?
Posted by: Ryan C | Mar 22, 2010 1:57:00 AM
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isn’t this the second time the foghorn has ducked it and made apologies . . .

Like far too many right wingers he is hoping his fiction prevails over reality.
Posted by: Ryan C |
I think your fiction has prevailed. Greatest deficit reduction legislation in a generation, right?

Common sense is an uncommon virtue.

“Wasn’t Keith Olbermann available for comment?”
He will be, tonight!

What would be your next topic next week on your blog.,;~**

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