While we have comforted ourselves during George W. Bush’s reign as President that the Democrats were so ineffectual as an opposition party because of the hyper-aggressive stances by the GOP that allowed no room for Democrats to influence the debate, we have now seen what the Democrats do when they hold all the cards. Nothing. Or more to the point: The exact same thing that they did when Bush was President. Democrats cower in weakness and timidity, with only a few showing some spine and intestinal fortitude....

This should be a far-fetched fantasy or joke with the Supreme Court ruling as the punch line. But, now, the biggest change in our country has taken place with barely a whimper, with no shots fired, and the media amazingly silent about this. It’s as if ten 9/11 attacks happened, and no one reported on it. Perhaps our new masters will be benevolent. Perhaps they won’t. Either way, we are theirs, body and soul. The citizenry is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of not just the U.S. corporations, but...

Remember the date January 21, 2010. Mark it well, because it is the day that Democracy died in the United States. In the year 2000, we had the Supreme Court deciding that all the votes in Florida should not be counted because Bush was ahead by a narrow margin, thus ensuring his victory. Now, in 2010, we have the Supreme Court taking the bogus case that “Corporations are people” and therefore entitled to free speech, and ratcheting up the concept. Now, these “people”, in the form...

After a week of horror in Haiti, there was brief respite from the hurt in the form of a humorous song. First unveiled on American Idol, this song penned and performed by General Larry Platt escaped my attention until Jimmy Fallon, doing the most perfect Neil Young impression in the history of the Universe, brought the song to his show on “Late Night”. For the uninitiated, Neil Young’s voice while doing slow, heart-rending (gut-wrenching?) solos is the stuff of legend, especially in his songs,...

This organization is already on the ground and treating the injured in Haiti.  Please consider a donation.  This money is really used to help save lives. The first reports are now emerging from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams who were already working on medical projects Haiti. They are treating hundreds of people injured in the quake and have been setting up clinics in tents to replace their own damaged medical facilities. The Martissant health center in a poor area of Port-au-Prince...

Pat Robertson has blamed the victims themselves for the 9–11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, Ariel Sharon’s severe stroke, Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, and he has even suggested that the CIA should assassinate Hugo Chavez. Now, he is at it again, saying on his 700 Club that: Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They...

The sad truth is that the Health Care Reform bill never stood a chance.  After forcibly removing advocates of a single-payer system, i.e., real health care reform, Max Baucus became the guardian of the health care industry’s interests.  With Max Baucus at the helm, there would be no force that could overwhelm the industry’s desires.  Just to be certain, Senator Baucus employed the Vice-President of Public Policy for WellPoint as his “Chief Health Advisor”, a fact...

“The Daily Show” fans might remember Jon Stewart saying on multiple occasions during the Health Care Reform debate, “I don’t know whether Obama is playing 12–dimensional chess, or whether he is getting his ass kicked on this.”  It was a good question, because blind Obama loyalists will insist that, despite the debacle of this past 12 months, Obama has been wielding his political-fu and is winning this game of 12–dimensional chess, like the...

The difference between progressives and Republican voters, is that the Republicans must have a religious belief in the infallibility of whomever they are adoring at the time, whether it be George W. Bush or Sarah Palin or Joe the Plumber. Criticizing George W. Bush during his Presidency was considered un-American by Republicans who believed their leader could do no wrong.  A dissenting voice among conservatives was never heard.  When Ron Paul represented one lone voice speaking truth and promoting...

I wonder if Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama know that there are no Republicans that are going to vote for Obama in 2012, much less for members of Congress in 2010? You would think Obama was confident of Republican votes the way that he is shrugging off Democrats and Independents as if they do not matter. It’s great that Obama will have health care money and insurance company money to wage his 2012 campaign. But, in this country, dollars do not get to vote. People do. And for that reason alone, President...

I have been silent on health care for last six weeks. No one wants a blow-by-blow description of a car wreck taking place in slow motion. I predicted in September that the White House did not originally want a public option and that all the talk about it was political theater, designed to distract and offer hope to loyal progressives, even though the Obama administration knew they were going to let Progressives down. Because, the White House gambles, who else are Progressives going to vote for? These are...

In this discussion with Fox News anchor, Gregg Jarrett (where do they get these names? Is he any kin to Major Garrett?), Democratic New Jersey Rep. Rob Andrew tries to get a word in edgewise and fails. In the video, you can spot the Republican spokesperson, because she has the ever-present grin that GOP pundits are trained to exhibit no matter how vile the words are that they are speaking. Rep. Rob Andrew tries to have himself cut a little slack, but he has both the anchor and the GOP woman talking all over...

Just as I predicted almost two months ago, there will be no Public Option. The discussion of the Public Option has just been red meat for the base, thrown out to placate the “lefties” while the real negotiations take place. While supporting the public option in speeches, Obama and Rahm Emanuel have been working behind the scenes to destroy the very necessary, and very popular, Public Option. Here’s the MoveOn.org email I received: Breaking news: Senator Harry Reid and other Democratic...

I think this ad says it all.  The out-of-shape, non-competitive, gluttonous American Health Insurance companies are not able to compete.  But they don’t have to be competitive.  The health insurance companies are exempt from laws regulating monopolies that apply to every other industry, except for American baseball. Congress is now working to strip the anti-trust exemptions for the health insurance industry, which would make it illegal to price-fix and artificially keep rates high. That,...

Anyone who even paid a little attention to last year’s campaign will remember the image of John McCain, Republican candidate for President, and the fact that Lindsey Graham was always standing attentively beside him. Lindsey Graham was always there to assist McCain in walking down the stairs, or to whisper a correction to John McCain when he was having a “senior moment”.  This, as you may have guessed is because Lindsey Graham idolizes John McCain. When Glenn Beck told Katie Couric that...