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Think Progress …


UNDER THE RADAR

RADICAL RIGHT  — GOP LAWMAKERS DEFEND TEA PARTY PROTESTERS’ RACIAL, HOMOPHOBIC SLURS: Tea party activists protesting health care reform on Capitol Hill this weekend   hurled racist and homophobic slurs at members of Congress who planned on voting for the measure. Protesters chanted “the N-word, 15 times” at Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), a hero of the civil rights movement, and his colleague Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN). Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) was spit on, and someone yelled f—-t at openly-gay Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) as he walked through the Capitol complex on Saturday. Leaders of the Republican Party spent Sunday distancing themselves from from the outbursts. “Nobody condones that at all. There were 30,000 people here in Washington yesterday. And, yes, there were some very awful things said,” stated Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) on ABC. But some Republican members of Congress defended the protesters’ behavior. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) said Sunday that the remarks were understandable in light of “totalitarian tactics” used by Democrats that cause people to “begin to act crazy.” Rep. Steve King (R-IA), who was the sole dissenting vote against recognizing the use of slave labor in the construction of the U.S. Capitol, implied that the homophobic and racial slurs were “no big deal.” “I just don’t think it’s anything,” King said, adding that focusing on the incidents obscures “something that is determined to undermine the people.” King also claimed that he faced the same discrimination as the African-American and openly gay lawmakers. “There are a lot of places in this country that I couldn’t walk through,” King told Roll Call. “I wouldn’t live to get to the other end of it.”

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the President’s Plan … 2010


THE PRESIDENT’s PROPOSAL  puts AMERICANS FAMILIES and Small Business owners in control of their own HEALTH CARE

Over the past year the House and the Senate have been working on an effort to provide health insurance reform that lowers costs, guarantees choices, and enhances quality health care for all Americans. Building on that year-long effort, the President has now put forth a proposal that incorporates the work the House and the Senate have done and adds additional ideas from Republican members of Congress. The President has long said he is open to any good ideas for reforming our health care system, and he looks forward to discussing ideas for further improvements from Republicans and Democrats at an open, bipartisan meeting on Thursday.

The proposal will make health care more affordable, make health insurers more accountable, expand health coverage to all Americans, and make the health system sustainable, stabilizing family budgets, the Federal budget, and the economy:

  • It makes insurance more affordable by providing the largest middle class tax cut for health care in history, reducing premium costs for tens of millions of families and small business owners who are priced out of coverage today.  This helps over 31 million Americans afford health care who do not get it today – and makes coverage more affordable for many more.
  • It sets up a new competitive health insurance market giving tens of millions of Americans the exact same insurance choices that members of Congress will have.
  • It brings greater accountability to health care by laying out commonsense rules of the road to keep premiums down and prevent insurance industry abuses and denial of care.
  • It will end discrimination against Americans with pre-existing conditions.
  • It puts our budget and economy on a more stable path by reducing the deficit by $100 billion over the next ten years – and about $1 trillion over the second decade – by cutting government overspending and reining in waste, fraud and abuse.

Key Provisions in the President’s Proposal:

The President’s Proposal builds off of the legislation that passed the Senate and improves on it by bridging key differences between the House and the Senate as well as by incorporating Republican provisions that strengthen the proposal.

One key improvement, for example, is eliminating the Nebraska FMAP provision and providing significant additional Federal financing to all States for the expansion of Medicaid.  For America’s seniors, the proposal completely closes the Medicare prescription drug “donut hole” coverage gap.  It strengthens the Senate bill’s provisions that make insurance affordable for individuals and families, while also strengthening the provisions to fight fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid to save taxpayer dollars.  The threshold for the excise tax on the most expensive health plans will be raised from $23,000 for a family plan to $27,500 and will start in 2018 for all such plans.  And another important idea included is improving insurance protections for consumers and creating a new Health Insurance Rate Authority to review and rein in unreasonable rate increases and other unfair practices of insurance plans.

Summaries of Key Elements of the President’s Proposal:

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What’s going on … in the House and Senate


Today 2/4/2010

Both leaders of the House and Senate are on their way toward establishing a new path toward a jobs bill and health-care reform. The issues have been difficult but they will not give up. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi states that in the near future people will be paying 1dollar out of every 5dollars for health-care, the problem will not go away, we can solve the issue by repealing the anti-trust exemptions, increase , lower cost and improve choices for all Americans.

In a series of votes that dramatized the conflicting pressures Democrats face to spur job growth and control the deficit. The House voted 217-212 to raise the government’s borrowing authority to a record level, with 37 Democrats joining Republicans opposing the measure.

The speaker reminded people that this is a important day, the House celebrated the enactment of payasyougo (HJ RES 45) today in a vote of 233yeas and 187nays without one Republican vote; payasyougo does not pay down the current debt accrued; it does force or puts the brakes on future increases. The 1.9 Trillion increase in the cap the govt can borrow and the measure to force stricter rules will create fiscal responsibility. The speaker reminded people that she is definitely focused on getting Eleanor Holmes-Norton re-elected, is concerned and working toward equal rights for the people, is very proud that the lily ledbetter law has been passed as well.

In a vote of 94 yeas and 2nays, which, was changed to 96-o because two Republican Senators rescinded their votes.   Martha Johnson was finally appointed to her position as GSA head. In a moment of emotion, Senator Dorgan voiced my feelings at least,  that for over 8months Republicans have blocked her nomination and now they almost unanimously vote to put her in, which raises doubts in the integrity of Republicans.

The intent is clear, question is will they continue to hold up appointments; without them in place the administration will never be as competent as they should be, any Republican holding up appointments are directly responsible for any and all problems that occur.

Senate Maj. Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced that the Senate will begin work on job creation legislation, offering a hand of good faith to do this in bipartisanship.  He also discussed the recent meeting between Pres. Obama and Senate Democrats, and outlined his broader legislative goals for the year.

In what was quite possibly the last business of the day in the Senate; a step-down speech; sad but a proud moment for Democrat Senator Paul Kirk,a speech delivered from a true Public Servant  who will be truly missed on the Senate Floor.

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Cats away … so-called insiders diss our President


REPost from 7/2009

Some things just don’t change…

why do people in the Obama administration seem to wait until he is out of DC to  talk, rant and rave about what is going on? or lack of it … i support what Obama wants to achieve … Republicans are being childish, not planning on helping Americans out, the decision to be the party of no hopefully will backfire.

We the People voted for Obama… the people want change … healthcare, energy and better education

but some democrats in office don’t seem to want to act in our best interest … the Public is not stupid … it will take a long time for change … it took  how long for this crisis to blow up? people need to be reminded … Obama has been in office for 7months…1yr now… anyone with common sense, i guess 1yr later and common sense among the people is over, i thought people would know it will take longer than 7months to see a difference … even now a yr later

fear mongering  is creeping up again and this time it’s on both sides of the isle …  teachers and fire fighters are loosing their jobs … some states are cutting social services .. my state is… any state using this money to balance their budget is why the numbers are not good …

the stimulus package is being held up,now passed, the question is why?and the answer to why the stim was held up? Republicans have decided to kill any bill, thus killing the Obama Presidency.  heard only 7/10% of it has been processed … and most of it going to rural America? i don’t believe that is totally true but what is def true; Officials used that money to plug budget holes

id say that last 90% should be jobs jobs jobs, the grid and the train … or just jobs jobs jobs … 10% is not very good … someone needs to tell me what’s up

It appears like some stuff is going on behind the scenes … who is sitting on the stimulus money if at all … if not tell us the truth …  someone needs to get this stuff straight …

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Tell Chevron to Clean Up Its Toxic Mess in Ecuador




Demand that Chevron to take responsibility for dumping 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater.
 Over the course of twenty-six years of oil drilling in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, U.S. oil giant Chevron deliberately dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into the rainforest, leaving local people suffering a wave of cancers, miscarriages and birth defects.

The tragedy in Ecuador is so profound, it has been compared to the Exxon Valdez spill and called the “Amazon’s Chernobyl.”

In spite of the tremendous suffering caused by this toxic pollution, Chevron has refused to clean up the catastrophe.

Demand that Chevron take responsibility for its actions now >

Within the next year, the outcome of a court case sixteen years in the making will be determined by a court in Ecuador.

Chevron has pledged that even if it is found guilty in court the company simply won’t pay to clean up the site or provide health care, potable water and compensation to affected communities.

Chevron needs to take responsibility. But the company won’t unless it feels pressure from its American customers and the general public.

Send a letter to CEO John Watson and tell him he needs to clean up the toxic legacy in Ecuador >

And tell Watson that Chevron must shift to clean sources energy and adopt sound human rights policies so that what is happening to the people of Ecuador and the rainforest never happens anywhere else.

Thank you for lending your voice,

– The Change.org Team in partnership
with Rainforest Action Network