Tweet of the Century & Today's Must Read(s) and Weep

Funny how the same Repubs whining about 7 hours on ACA website never had problem with ppl waiting in line 7 hours to VOTE. @FoxNews @cspanwj
— Physguy (@physguy2) October 22, 2013

 Read 'Em and Weep

Hell Naw we ain't fergittn!   The Alabama Secretary of State released it's voter suppression guidelines.

Don't you wish democrats had the nerve to shut down the government until the  Voter ID law was defunded?

Republiklan governors are hurting more people than the Affordable Care Act Website. Warning Rude language.

With  Annoying Dems like Debbie Wassermann Schultz who needs republicans?  Real Democrat Alan Grayson is under fire for telling  the truth.  I mean, really?

Speaking of the Tea Party.... Tea party groups seeks to hide donors under Jim Crow-Era exemptions

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ObamaCare Race Baiting 101

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I thought republicans were pro-life?

Some conservatives have urged young uninsured Americans to steer clear of the Affordable Care Act's health insurance exchanges, and Sen. Angus King (I-ME) thinks that's reprehensible.
“That’s a scandal — those people are guilty of murder in my opinion,” King told Salon on Friday.

Clearly republicans are not pro life.  This is what they don't want you to know.  This is what they don't want you to have. They know once you have access to quality affordable health care you are going to like it.

How the health care law protects you

• Creates the Health Insurance Marketplace, a new way for individuals, families, and small businesses to get health coverage
• Requires insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing health conditions
• Helps you understand the coverage you’re getting
• Holds insurance companies accountable for rate increases
• Makes it illegal for health insurance companies to arbitrarily cancel your health insurance just because you get sick
• Protects your choice of doctors
• Covers young adults under 26
• Provides free preventive care
• Ends lifetime and yearly dollar limits on coverage of essential health benefits
• Guarantees your right to appeal

Questions? Call 1-800-318-2596, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. (TTY: 1-855-889-4325)

Alan Grayson on the GOP Health Care Plan for America:  'Don't get sick!  And if you do get sick, die quickly.

The Occupation will not be televised

The elitist Talking TeeVee Pundit Heads, are scratching their head pretending they don't know why in the world we the real American people have taken to the streets. According to them the protest doesn't have a clear message for them to mock, and no clear leader for them to bash.

It makes me want to holler, we want what you have...a high paying job...access to quality affordable medical, dental and mental health care.... 401k, portfolios, retirement and stock options.....several homes....an education...the ability to educate our children....the ability to take care of our elderly parents....the ability to travel around the country and the world....the ability to feed our families..... $200 dollar hair styles, designer clothes and shoes....OK, that last part was a snark but you get my drift.

Psst Talking TeeVee Pundit Heads! We the real American people are tired of the rich getting richer while the rest get the shaft.

We the real Americans are tired of being asked to do all the sacrificing of life and limb.

We the real Americans are tired of being lied into unjust, illegal, immoral wars.

We the real Americans want our damn country back.

You got that?

If not, watch, listen and learn as former Congressman Alan Grayson (D. Florida) breaks it down for you, that is if you really want to know what the occupation is all about.

TeaPublicans want us to die quickly. That's messed up.

After the blatant display of meanness on display at the TeaPublican Presidential debate last night I'm convinced republicans hate us for our freedom and want us to die quickly.

My first clue came when the audience cheered pro life, (gag) Texas Gooberner Rick Perry's execution record.

Republican voters at Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate expressed their approval of the death penalty by giving Gov. Rick Perry’s record on executions some of the loudest applause of the night.

“Your state has executed 234 death row inmates, more than any other governor in modern times,” NBC’s Brian Williams told Perry as the conservative audience broke into cheers and applause. “Have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent?”

“No, sir, I’ve never struggled with that at all,” Perry flatly stated. “In the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you kill one of our children, you kill a police officer, you’re involved with another crime and you kill one of our citizens, you will face the ultimate justice in the state of Texas, and that is you will be executed.”

Sound familiar?

A human being who is a murderer! Anyone who kills cops should die quickly!!!!

At last nights TeaPublican Presidential debate in Tampa, FL, they revealed themselves for who they really are.

The most surreal instance of the debate, a CNN/Tea Party Express collaboration, came when moderator Wolf Blitzer asked a hypothetical question about whether a young man who had failed to buy health insurance should be provided state-financed medical care in the event of a serious accident.
"Are you saying that society should just let him die?" Blitzer asked congressman Ron Paul, the tough-talking libertarian who seemed fleetingly taken aback when at least two audience members boisterously shouted "yeah!" when he hesitated.
It was the second Republican debate in less than a week to feature such a show-stopper from the audience. Last week in California, Rick Perry got the most boisterous cheers of the night when he noted proudly that 234 people had been executed in Texas in the 11 years he's been governor.
"Given all the applause for death in the last two GOP debates, the Grim Reaper would be a very strong candidate," read a Tweet by ThinkProgress, the liberal political watchdog.
This is the audacious public face of the Tea Party, a movement reviled by a majority of Americans, according to a number of recent public opinion polls.

Let them die? Sound familiar?

A human being who is a murderer! Anyone who kills cops should die quickly!!!!

Former democratic Representative Alan Grayson was right (pun intended). Remember the uproar his word caused? Remember how he was ousted by a TeaPublican?

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida's freshman Democratic U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson was ousted by a veteran GOP politician after the Democrat earned notoriety for harsh rhetoric that included accusing Republicans of wanting sick people to "die quickly."

So, it's harsh rhetoric when a liberal democrat says it huh?

Lord, I HOPE and PRAY more of us show up to vote on election day than more of them.

I thought republicans were pro life?

TeaPublicans are jumping up and down like Cheetah because they think they have finally put Obama in his place, I mean repealed the Affordable Health Care Act.

Hate to disappoint them but it.ain't.on. just because a bought and paid for, right wing, republican, activist, State Supreme Court Judge says it's over.

By the time this case makes it through the court system to the U.S. Supreme Court it will be 2012. By that time Americans will be so happy with their ObamaCare, they will look at the republicans like the hypocrites they are.

But this is just what the TeaPublicans do. They fight every piece of important legislation tooth and nail. They fought against Social Security. Medicare. The voting rights act. Equal Pay for Women. Affirmative Action. Pell Grants. DADT. I'm beginning to think they hate America.

Seriously, for a group who claims to be pro life can they not recognize the correlation between life and health? Was Rep. Alan Grayson right (no pun)? Is the republican plan don't get sick. If you do get sick die quickly? Or, is it I got mine you get yours the best way you can.

I'm just saying...

What I want to hear President Obama say in the State of the Union

I want President Obama to have one of those Harrison Ford/Air Force One Moments when he tells the republicans to get the hell out of the way.

I want President Obama to have one of those Michael Douglas/An American President Moments when he tells the country he was so busy trying to keep his job he forgot to do his job.

I want a Josh Bartlett/West Wing State of the Union address.

I want President Obama to have one of those defining moments. And not just on TeeVee or on the big screen, but in real life.


Will he say this? h/t Alan Grayson

“My fellow Americans. Two years ago, 69 million of us voted for me to be our President. It was the largest vote for President that any person has ever received. But I understand that you did not support me merely because I have an unusual name. Especially the middle one. No, you supported me because I promised the change we need.

“We have been through two hard years, with many people losing their jobs, and many people losing their homes. You know that I did nothing to cause these problems, and I tried hard to solve them. Although our accomplishments have been substantial, an intransigent Republican minority in the Senate has blocked much of my legislative program.

“But a President is more than a legislative program. Although my title is ‘President,’ you did not elect me to preside. You elected me to lead.

“We are at a fork in the road. The Republican House Leadership demonstrated last week that its highest legislative priority is to prevent 30 million Americans from seeing a doctor when they are sick. We can let Republican control of the House of Representatives doom us to no progress, no change, for the next two years. Or I can exercise my powers under the Constitution and our laws to deliver the change we need.

“I choose the latter. As for the Republican leaders, they can lead, follow, or just get out of the way.

“These are the things that I will do now, to give us the good government that we Americans deserve, and the change we need:

“First, to give the economy an immediate boost, I will direct the executive agencies to accelerate the obligation of federal contracts and grants, rather than waiting until the end of the fiscal year.

“Second, I will recognize the obvious, declare China a ‘currency manipulator,’ and end the forced currency union with China that we never asked for and we don’t want, which has cost us 5 million manufacturing jobs in the last decade. I will institute ‘anti-dumping’ actions to protect American jobs.

“Third, I will direct Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the FHA and the VA to include in every home loan that they issue or finance a provision that requires mandatory mediation, at the bank’s expense, before foreclosure. Families who are in danger of losing their homes deserve at least that much.

“Fourth, I will direct both the Financial Stability Oversight Council and the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department to break up any financial institution that is considered ‘too big to fail.’ Too big to fail should mean too big to exist. There will be no more bailouts, no more Wall Street welfare.

“Fifth, I will ask the FBI to investigate and DOJ to prosecute anyone who committed criminal misconduct in connection with the collapse of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Bear Stearns, Countrywide, Merrill Lynch, and all the rest. I will ask the SEC to bar such people from publicly traded companies and the capital markets. In the 18 months before I took office, twenty percent of our national wealth was wiped out, and no one has been punished for that. If we leave the same people doing the same things, then those same disasters may well happen again. We can’t take that chance.

“Sixth, because corporate income tax revenues have dropped by half in the past decade, while Big Business is enjoying record profits, I will ask the IRS to audit every one of the Fortune 500. This will ensure that they are paying the taxes that are due, rather than evading taxes through transfer pricing and offshore tax havens. And I will ask FASB and the SEC to mandate that public companies keep one set of books, rather than one set for investors and a different one for the IRS.

“Seventh, I will direct the EPA to exercise its authority to treat carbon dioxide as a pollutant. I expect to be able to reduce our emissions and pollution as much as other countries do. If they can do it, then so can we.

“Eighth, I will ask the SEC to direct that shareholders in public companies must authorize all campaign expenditures in advance, and that public companies disclose all such expenditures within 48 hours. We cannot allow trillion-dollar multinational companies to dictate the outcome of our elections secretly. We have to keep sewer money out of politics.

“Ninth, I ask the NLRB to take all available steps to ensure that the right of employees to organize, which is rooted in the Constitution’s ‘freedom of association,’ be defended – including the promulgation of ‘card check’ by regulation under the National Labor Relations Act.

“Finally, as Commander in Chief, I will bring all of our troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan by the end of this year, if not sooner. After a decade of war, it’s time for peace.

“Many of you heard me for the first time six years ago, when I said that I believe not in a Blue America or a Red America, but rather, I believe in America. I still do. Americans deserve a good government, which delivers public services effectively and economically. America also deserves leadership that recognizes our problems, attacks them, and solves them. That’s the change we need, and the change we deserve. I won’t settle for less.”

The Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party shows you how to deal right wing republican Bully's

And NO, you don't bend over and take your gang banging like Girlie Men, and NO you don't resign yourself to go along to get along. YOU CALL THEIR BLUFF. You call out they HYPOCRISY. You stand up to them. Kudos to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the progressive, I mean LIBERAL caucus. This is what I'm talking about!

From Talking Points Memo

"If we're going to lose, let's lose with a strong message," Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) -- chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus -- told me and another reporter in the Speaker's Lobby this afternoon.

Earlier today, he and other progressives interrupted the tax plan's glide path by blocking a key procedural measure -- a stalling tactic they hope to leverage into being given a chance to vote on substantial changes to the bill. All efforts to amend the legislation are expected to fail. But rank and file Dems are angry that during the brief floor debate over the cuts they were given only one shot at a relatively narrow, symbolic amendment to raise the estate tax.

As long as they're being set up to fail, progressives want that measure to include a whole range of changes to the bill.

Oh, and remember how the righty's were complaining about Congress not knowing what was in the health care bill, that President Obama didn't have hearings on C-Span nor did he include the republicans? Can't find a link, but outgoing Florida democratic Congressman Alan Grayon (Liberal) makes note the government is getting ready to spend trillions without what's knowing what's in the bill(besides tax cuts for the rich, the estate tax and unemployment insurance) without hearings or mark ups. Now ain't that a dip?

I heard a Talking TeeVee Chuckle head say the democrats want to push this bill through before the republicans take over the house because "they would come up with something much worse and cut off unemployment insurance" blah, blah, blab, blab. I say Let em Bring it On. The blood will be on their hands. To quote Governor Howard Dean, I'm tired of being bullied by the right wing. If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything. Freedom is worth fighting for.

You get the Batsh#t crazy you vote for

Only in America is bad behavior rewarded. The republicans blocked the extension of unemployment insurance and the middle class tax cuts then got the heck out Dodge quicker than a New York Minute.

I agree with Booman, there should be NO Christmas for the U.S. Senate

I think there should be no Christmas for Republicans. This morning the GOP voted against extending tax cuts to the middle class and then they voted against extending tax cuts to everyone who earns less than a million dollars a year. To be more accurate, they voted against cloture on those two amendments, meaning that the Senate was unable to hold an up or down vote on extending the tax cuts. We can expect them to repeat this trick on almost everything remaining on the Senate's agenda.

I wonder what part of tax cuts usually lead to higher unemployment don't they understand?

The legacy of trickle down economics.
More wealth for the rich, fewer jobs for the rest of America.

Senator Al Franken (D. MN) calls out the big fat hypocrites for the Scrooges they are.

Franken asserts that if the Republicans cared about “mom and pop” operations, they would have supported the Small Business Jobs Act as well as the Hire Act to find jobs for the unemployed. But the Republicans scare tactic is to rally concern among their base for “small businesses” (using spin and technicality) when the businesses they are really protecting are the likes of Bechtel, 1/5 largest company in the US, or the Koch brothers $100 billion company or the Wall Street high flyer's, etc., etc., etc.

No yelling. No name calling. Just the truth.

Watch Alan Grayson (Balls, he haz dem) expose Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, Bill O'Reilly, Newt Gingrich and George W. Bush as crooks who want a FAILED tax policy that only benefits themselves.

It's time to sharpen your pitchforks.

9/11, The Day That Everything Changed

George W. Bush was the pResident on 911.

Prior to 911 Bush was on a month long vacation.

While on his month long vacation Bush received a PDB(Presidential Daily Briefing) form NSA (National Security Advisor) Condolezza Rice that said Osama bin Laden determined to attack inside the United States.

On 911 Bush was in Florida reading My Pet Goat.

After 911 Bush said he was going to get Bin Laden dead or alive, and that he had hit the Trifecta.

Then he invaded Iraq.

From pre-emptive war, to taking our shoes off at the airport, to color coded Terror Alerts, to FISA, to the Patriot Act, to ending habeas corpus, 9/11 is the day that will live in infamy as the day that changed everything in America.

Politicians claimed ownership of 9/11 almost from the get-go to advance their goals. Within five hours of the strike, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld was plotting ways to harness it as an excuse to attack Iraq. The Bush administration and Congress invoked 9/11 as they rushed into law in six weeks an act comprised largely of a police- and surveillance-powers wish list they had been keeping on a shelf, which they dubbed the USA PATRIOT Act. And, of course, the Bush administration repeatedly conjured images of 9/11 over the next 20 months to successfully campaign for the Iraq invasion.

A face book friend recently posted the following;

We the people, in order to:

1. form a more perfect union
2. establish justice
3. ensure domestic tranquility
4. provide for the common defense
5. promote the general welfare, and
6. secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our prosperity

do ordain and establish the constitution for the United States of America.

How are we doing?

Another friend replied:

I think we took a wrong turn somewhere in the recent past. Clear signs that we're moving in the wrong direction:

1. People tampering with the gas lines at what they thought to be a Congressman's house. It was really his brother's house. T...he worst part, both the Congressman and his brother have young children. When this was pointed out to the two nutcases that posted the address online and encouraged people to go to the Congressman's home, their response? The Congressman should have taken that into consideration when he didn't do what the American people wanted him to do [his "crime" was voting in favor of health care reform], that they have no reason to believe that it is really not the Congressman's home and that they will continue until the Congressman gives them his correct address for them to post online.

2. People carrying weapons to events where the President is speaking.

3. People throwing around hate speech and racial and ethnic and religious slurs about one billion people because a couple of dozen committed horrific acts back in 2001. Vandalized the playgrounds of mosques and religious schools, protesting their right to have a place to worship and more. This one is a huge slap in the face of freedom of religion and separation of church & state. My favorite of this group (favorite is meant sarcastically) is the guy who wrote an article trying to justify this and arguing against everyone trying to remind people that a majority of Muslims do not subscribe to a violent ideology. His argument was an uncited "statistic" that 7% of Muslims were in favor of the 9/11 attacks. Really? Because that would mean that 93% weren't. That basically supports what the people you're arguing against have been saying all along.

4. A guy, who admitted in a deposition that he does not know anything about Islam except for things he learned on YouTube causing an international uproar, probably putting our troops in danger, and just generally being a hateful person by deciding to burn 200 copies of the holy book of the world's largest religion. Then, when everyone from the other clergy in his community up to the President point out that it will probably incite people to retaliate against troops and citizens abroad the guy says basically, don't blame me, blame them and tell them they had better not retaliate or we will beat them up. I thought this guy was stuck back in the grammar school playground until I saw his picture and realized that he's really stuck back in pre-Revolution days. Then, Colonel Burn-a-Book, in the same sentence, condemns Islam as a hateful ideology then says that he hates Islam. Sounds like YOU have the hateful ideology, Colonel!

I'd say these violate at least numbers 2, 3, 5 and 6 up there. Sadly, there are many, many, many more examples.

Thank goodness we have a President capable of leading the country in the the right (no pun) direction and back to the founding principles that make America the the land of the free and the home of the brave;

"I think I've been pretty clear on my position here," he said. "And that is, is that this country stands for the proposition that all men and women are created equal, that they have certain inalienable rights; one of those inalienable rights is to practice their religion freely. And what that means is that if you could build a church on a site, you could build a synagogue on a site, if you could build a Hindu temple on a site, then you should be able to build a mosque on the site."

After 911 are we really going to allow the gop infused, media enabled Tea Party control our government, again and change everything?

"During an appearance on the progressive talk-radio 'Stephanie Miller Show” on Thursday — part of a regular segment called 'Face the Grayson'...Miller: 'The Glenn Beck thing — is that going to have an effect in November?...Grayson: 'These are people who were wearing sheets over their heads 25 years ago.'” If only we had more Democrats in Washington, D.C. like Alan Grayson. If only we had more men like Alan Grayson who never hesitates to tell the truth, more Democrats who would stand up and tell it like it is,

I want to go back to before 911. I want my democracy back.

This post is dedicated to the memory of the 3000 Americans who died on 9/11 and the tens of thousand dead because 9/11 changed everything.