Stupak sold his soul and now he is retiring and we are still stuck with his mess.

A comment from John at johnwsmart.com

Stupak's excuse

...the "people were so mean to me" excuse does not wash with me. These people are making choices that affect our lives. They chose the job. The government went out of its way to ignore and debase those who opposed this crock of a bill - hearing this man whine is pathetic. Get over it, Bart. You wanted the job. The job is about big tough issues and this is still a republic. Grow up. You sold your soul, Bart S. and running back home because of some crazy phone calls and some anger - REAL anger - won't get you your soul back.

Copied from a post by Carig Della Penna

This is what tyranny looks like…

By CRAIG DELLA ; http://theheraclitanfire.blogspot.com/

Something happened yesterday that has, so far as I can see, gone unmentioned in the Directorate of Propaganda (otherwise known as the Mass Media): we have made a giant step down the road to tyranny.

Yesterday Barack Obama issued a worldwide ‘kill or capture’ order on an American citizen. No indictment has been offered, no court has issued an arrest warrant, no officer of the court or the law was consulted, no military tribunal was invoked, JAG was not asked for an opinion, habeus corpus was not involved. The American citizen who is the subject of the ‘kill or capture’ order was investigated by Barack Obama, indicted by Barack Obama, tried by Barack Obama, convicted by Barack Obama and sentenced to death by Barack Obama… all very neatly and legally (the laws were perverted by BushCo for just this purpose and BO(zo) was happy to use them as such).

Just in case you are confused about it, I will state it for you:

President Obama has just overturned the most fundamental principle of western civilization and of any free society. He has arrogated to himself the right to accuse, try, convict and kill an American citizen without reference to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights without due process or Habeus Corpus or two centuries of ironclad, settled law of the land. …Just because he says so…

I can’t believe I have to say this, but: YOU could be next. Think about it, take your time and think it through (this is actually an insult but you’d have to have read Protector to get it).

In a, now typical, Obama blow job piece, the toilet paper formerly known as the New York Times goes all the way back to Gerald Ford to rationalize this deeply criminal act here .

Glenn Greenwald has a scathing article with many more details here about this disgrace, writing as one constitutional scholar to another.

So, knowing all this, do you think we should militate for the impeachment of President Obama? Or shall we wait for the next step on the road to dictatorship?

“All that is required for evil to triumph, is for enough good men to do nothing.”
– Edmund Burke

Bobby Kennedy, Jr. said at a December rally that industry has “captured” our politicians and agencies. This tragedy is a direct result of that takeover.

We lost more Americans in West Virginia in one moment than we lost, as a country, this month in military action. Are we numb to losing life? If your son, husband, wife or friend died today, would you be OK? NO!

Big Coal backers Senator Jay Rockefeller and Congressman Nick Rahall talk about energy independence and the coal barons equate what they do to national security efforts. That is pure bull and they know it. There is no excuse whatsoever for this tragedy.

What can you do?

Demand that if a mining company breaks the law that they will be SHUT DOWN. Right now they may continue to operate through the countless years of legal appeals.

Give independent bargaining power to non-union employees. They should not have to join a union to go to the boss, Don Blankenship (Massey’s $20M/yr CEO) and demand safety controls.

Don Blankenship, and the government that let him run a China-Grade operation, killed the people in that mine and they all should be prosecuted.

An email I was sent. I agree with most of this
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Subject: congressional reform

Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 1:33 PM

I am sending this to virtually everybody on my e-mail list and that includes conservatives, liberals, and everybody in between. Even though we disagree on a number of issues, I count all of yo u as friends. My friend and neighbor wants to promote a “Congressional Reform Act of 2010.” It would contain eight provisions, all of which would probably be strongly endorsed by those who drafted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

I know many of you will say “this is impossible.” Let me remind you, Congress has the lowest approval rating of any entity in Government. Now is the time when Americans will join together to reform Congress – the entity that represents us.

We need to get a Senator to introduce this bill in the US Senate and a Representative to introduce a similar bill in the US House. These people will become American heroes.

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Congressional Reform Act of 2010

1. Term Limits.
12 years only, one of the possible options below..

A. Two Six-year Senate terms
B. Six Two-year House terms
C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms

2. No Tenure / No Pension.

A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.

All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.

4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/11.

The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

If you agree with the above, pass it on.

Has anyone else noticed?

If you go look at Betty McCollum's congressional web page, which I think we pay for, to find out her schedule all you can find out is what she did. No where on our congressional web page does she give us any advance notice of her agenda. How can she get away with that. Does anyone think it is an oversight, that she just forgets or doesn't understand that we might want to know where she is planning to appear or speak? I don't think so. It speaks of her arrogance. I call her all the time, a lot since 2007, and anything I say seems to fall on deaf ears. When calling to leave a message they always want a name (spelt) address and phone number so a month ago I starting leaving that information thinking that possibly her aides (acorn) were not forwarding my message because I had not followed the rules. I'll tell ya what happened, my comments still fell on deaf ears but now I get letters from her or the DNC thanking me for my continued support and asking me for money. What a bunch.

Maybe we should start another web page called: MN 4 - Where's Betty, and what would you like to say to her.

Here is the 4 minute video that goes with the post below:

Here is an intersting article by Jack Cashill

How Quickly Spread the Tea Party Smear

http://tinyurl.com/yg2okog

Jack Cashill

To make the racial smear of the Tea Party protestors at the Capitol clear to anyone with eyes to see, I have assembled this four-minute video. (see video @ link)

In composing it, I checked with my source on the scene, Greg Farrell, to get a timeline on the passage of the Black Caucus members from the Cannon Building to the Capitol and back. According to Farrell, they left the Cannon Building about 2:30 PM on March 20th and returned about 3:15 PM. He had no reason to exaggerate.

I asked because at 4:51 that same day, McClatchy reporter William Douglas posted an article on the McClatchy website with the inflammatory headline, “Tea party protesters scream ‘nigger’ at black congressman.”

In other words, Douglas, with an attributed assist from James Rosen, managed to interview representatives John Lewis, Emanuel Cleaver, and Barney Frank, compose an 800-word article, and have it edited and formatted for posting within a 90-minute window.

During that same 90 minutes, Douglas would have received and incorporated a press release from Emanuel Cleaver, making the easily disproved claim that he had “been spat upon and that Capitol Police had arrested his assailant.”

Only two possibilities present themselves, neither of them good: Douglas had started writing this enormously consequential article in advance and/or he assembled it with a reckless indifference to the facts. A simple call to the Capitol Police would have killed the spitting story and a review of the video footage would have thrown the screaming of “nigger” by multiple “protestors” into such serious doubt that no responsible paper would have printed it.

The fact that Douglas is himself black and that the McClatchy chain has a liberal bent should not matter, but in this case they both do. This is not journalism. This is collusion. Heads should roll at McClatchy. If only!

I guess I would like to hear, and feel I deserve-as we all do, an explanation from McClatchy reporter William Douglas.