How Obama Intends to Fail

Krugman: "Town Hall Mob" Part Of Southern Strategy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/07/krugman-town-hall-mob-par_n_253705.html

lightningbolt said:
The reason many Obama supporters are not as passionate as the crazy right wingers is because Obama's plan isn't really what his supporters want. Obama's supporters want a single payer system, which is not even being talked about. Therefore, there is no reason to go out and fight.

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Back in May I said this:

Obama hasn't floated a plan of his own and despite his previous support for a single-payer plan he has refused to allow any such plan to be discussed at recent healthcare reform negotiations. His claimed deadline may reflect the political realities of congressional elections in 2010, but it is also defeatist and melodramatic. Where was the forewarning on this? Now everyone is supposed to immediately jump in support of whatever Obama decides his plan will be even though he has refused to state just what in the hell it is? And the single-payer option is off the table? And it's now or never? By 1 August 2009?

He doesn't seem very hopeful, does he?

Obama is carefully orchestrating all of the reasons why any healthcare reform will prove impossible. And despite whatever Obama or any other Democrat may say of it in the future - they are intentionally dropping the ball on this reform issue because they lack both the leadership and the courage to do the right thing. Cowards all!

And today I will go one step further: Obama is intentionally tanking everything. Every fucking thing a progressive might want is being deep-sixed. Obama is an owned man - a "house negro" as Malcolm X used to speak of them. Obama licks the hands of his corporate masters. If they feel bad, Obama feels bad too. Obama doesn't stand for hope unless it's false hope. Obama does not represent change anyone can believe in unless its change for the worse.

Here's the deal: The Dems think they can make people vote for them again in 2010 if they can keep people on the hook on the progressive issues of the day. As I said in early July:

Do you know how the GOP keeps promising the judgmental asshole bottom-feeders in the party that someday they really will outlaw abortion when everyone with any sense knows that they will never do that very thing because it is a) politically impossible and b) extremely useful as an issue to stir the support of their psychotically christian base?

I think healthcare reform and peace movements operate the exact same way in the Democratic party. The Democrats will never go against the monied interests of the health insurers nor big pharma. It just ain't gonna happen. And the Democrats are regularly greased by the military industrial complex too. No hope there either.

The Dems think we all have a big fucking "L" for loser imprinted on our foreheads and that they can keep riding our dashed political aspirations to victory each and every election. They mean for us to keep hoping with no payoff.

I am going to actively campaign against that notion. An all Democrat congress and White House was my final test. They aren't doing what's right and they're not even half trying to do anything worth doing. There is no quid pro quo between my vote and what they may or may not accomplish. They just want me and you on the hook, hoping forever.

I'm done.

Health care conflict exposes our pseudo-democracy

Posted by: Moonray on Jul 8, 2009 12:29 AM
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/141160/what's_so_scary_about_offering_people_the_option_of_a_public_health_plan_/

What makes health care reform so tricky is that it threatens to expose, once and for all, that we Americans don't have much of a democracy after all. What we have is a corporate oligarchy that pretends to be a democracy by using staged elections to rubber-stamp establishment policies.

The Obama team and Congress have no intention of really reforming health care. Their corporate masters simply won't allow them to do that. But they have to PRETEND to reform health care in a manner that will provide some kind of cover to Democrats and Republicans. Thus, they are likely to come up a complicated, costly hodgepodge of plans that will change our health care system very little except to direct lots of tax dollars to the key players.

Once this happens -- and the deception invariably will be exposed -- Americans will have to make the hard choice of either accepting our enslavement to the corporations or considering difficult alternatives.

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Based on all available evidence and as of the moment, I couldn't agree more.

Obama is Poison

I have grave doubts that Obama is going to achieve anything for which a progressive might have hoped. He's shaping up to be a total sell-out like the rest of his party. I don't know why I am surprised, but I am. I guess I thought his humble origins might mean some degree of integrity - you know, the kind that is so sorely lacking in most of our silver spoon type political masters.

I can't vote for him again. Nor for a democrat ever again either.

What else is left? I guess I am throwing away my votes from now on, or simply not voting. That was George Carlin's answer. It only encourages them and legitimizes the manner in which they completely thumb their noses at us.

Bill Maher: "Right now, I'm hoping for a little more audacity."

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Nailed it!

That's your hope of reelection slipping away from you...I won't vote for a do nothing president a second time, Obama.

Why Obama Sucks Cock in Hell

Obama Nominates Superfund Polluter Lawyer To Run DOJ Environment Division
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/15/ignacia-moreno-superfund/

Obama picks RIAA's favorite lawyer for a top Justice post
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10133425-38.html

Obama adds yet another RIAA attorney to Justice Department roster (now there are 5)
http://boingboing.net/2009/04/13/obama-adds-yet-anoth.html

That Didn't Take Long: Insurance Industry Breaks Promise To President Obama
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-rosenbaum/that-didnt-take-long-insu_b_203863.html

Obama's top 10 stocks
http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/15/news/economy/obama-stocks/index.htm

The fund's Top 10 holdings, according to the Vanguard site are:
01. JP Morgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500)
02. Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500)
03. Google (GOOG, Fortune 500)
04. Intel (INTC, Fortune 500)
05. Qualcomm (QCOM, Fortune 500)
06. McDonald's (MCD, Fortune 500)
07. Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500)
08. Amgen (AMGN, Fortune 500)
09. CVS Caremark (CVS, Fortune 500)
10. Gilead (GILD, Fortune 500)

The Federal Reserve Cannot Account For $9 Trillion In Off-Balance Sheet Transactions
http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/05/federal-reserve-can-not-account-for-9.html

AP Sources: Obama wants Fed to be finance supercop
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20090508/us-financial-meltdown-supercop/

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And this is really just the tip of the iceberg.

The continuing bailout of the banks and financial institutions is just a handout via Wall Street butt-boy Geithner. There's no real oversight. What corruption exists in the process is known about and desired by this administration. Main street can go fuck itself - the only way people will get help with their mortgages is if the banks can get another handout along the way. Credit card reforms? Don't hold your breath...

Obama never preached a single-payer healthcare plan. He always wanted to court the healthcare industry as it is today. In other words, Obama means to enshrine the current corrupt and comepletely broken healthcare system.

We're not really leaving Iraq. We are entering into Afghanistan. So Obama is another military-industrial complex styled warmonger. Natch! So much for hope for peace...

Obama is not progressive in any sense of the word. The people he picks are not at all progressive. The plans he wants to implement are not progressive. FWIW, he didn't run as a progressive either.

So we got exactly what was promised: a corporate cocksucker wholly sold out to the biggest multinationals. He pretends much and accomplishes little. It's reverse Robin Hood all the way: grandma is taxed to pay for bankster bonuses.

But this is not a failure of liberal or progressive policy. Progressives must distance themselves from Obama and admit that all they really did was vote against McCain.

The right rhetoric spills from Obama's lips for the most part. But he does not do the right things. His interests are perfectly aligned to those of his corporate masters.

We are in Mouseland:
http://www.saskndp.com/history/mouseland.php3

Voting for centrists will get you nowhere.