The Senate Bends Over and Spreads Its Ass-Cheeks for the Health Insurance Industry

Say it isn't so?!? Say it isn't so?!!?!

But alas, it is as the the United States Senate's Finance Committee has grabbed its collective ankles and let the pulsating, putrid penis from the Health Insurance Industry get rammed up their sphincter so tough until its bled today, as they rebuked the notion of having a Public Option. While this is the first major setback to President Barak Obama's desire for healthcare reform, it's actually the main critical factor -- because nearly all the other points can be linked back to the fact that there is no choice competitive choice when it comes to selecting an insurer.

You have to ask yourself, "what is so damn bad, wrong, outrageous, socialist(?) about having a different, COMPETITIVE option than the bullshit we're forced to choke on by the likes of Aetna, Cigna and Kaiser?"

What this really says about the power of the Voice of the People is that it has been diluted and nailed shut by the moneyed fat cats on Wall Street. Some national polls (Gallup, Time/CNN, etc.) have stated that 65% of the American people WANT a Public Option. It's not like that super-majority is asking for a Single-Payer System (which is what we should have or some variant of that, like in France*). but what the super-majority craves is an opportunity to not have to deep throat the smelly cock of Wall Street anymore. As much as I relish the fact that President Obama is a Black man up in the White House and it shattered some many societal ails, his biggest campaign contributor was Goldman Sachs... yeah, that investment bank that conned the American public out of $12B (while education only gets $4.3B)... so we're not going to see the "Change We Can Believe In" until the corporations get their dicks out of politics, all campaigns must only take public funds, and there's some rioting in the street (which after the Kent State Shootings... isn't going to happen, because articulate white people got shot then, and they don't want to get shot now. Other Western countries disallow corporate campaign donations, but we in America embrace it, and when that one case comes before the Supreme Court shortly which will decide if corporations can make UNLIMITED campaign contributions, there game will be over. The US of A will become akin to the USSR in terms of who is RUNNING SHIT!

Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) had removed the Public Option possibility from his proposal, because he felt he couldn't get GOP/Republican/Confederate Party support. See that's the first BIG mistake, trying to reach out to those who blatantly act in service of the greedy, rapacious and blood-thirsty god called Profit... you don't engage the enemy, you make them kowtow to your agenda. Obama started out from a hat in hand position just by beginning the debate with his line in the sand being The Public Option, the fact that he wasn't pushing for Universal Healthcare for All through a Single-Payer System was him showing that he's got a cockleash on and the handle is controlled by Wall Street factions.

Do you know that Corporations have "better" rights in America than its citizens? They can avoid being sued and have any meaningful recourse taken against them... no company goes to jail for killing people, no company gets put out of business for treating the public like shit and peddling a crappy product that turns around hurts consumers and the environment.

The majority of Americans - both hemispheres - live in a Third World status; I can only postulate that Canada is the only First World Country in the Western Hemisphere, and that's because I don't know if 95% of Canadian wealth is in the hands of 1% of the Canadian population. When then International Monetary Fund and the World Bank stroll around the global stage looking to uplift countries where the wealth disparity is a mirror image to what we have in the good ole US of A, the first thing they would do is say, "you have to break down these oligarchs (that's the term one uses when the upper 1% has such complete control of the wealth) who run the banking and financial services sector they have TOO much wealth and they throw around the muscle the wealth affords them to rig elections, grab the government's dick - squeeze it hard -- and force the government, which is supposed to be run by the people, to continue to pass laws that feed more and more wealth back to the Upper 1%.

Where's the American Hugo Chavez? That's what I want to know?

Is there really any reason why the top personal income tax rate shouldn't be 50% or 60%? I'm in the lower class, and I can routinely pay damn near zero percent income tax (usually around 5%), so imagine what the razor-sharp accountants are doing for someone who's making say $500,000/year?

These questions will be answered later this week -- stay tuned.

Joe Wilson, Card-carrying member of John BIrch Society and KKK

Joe Wilson was heckling the President of the United States of America! If that's not the most disrespectful act a GOP/Confederate/Republican Ass-Fucker could have done, I don't know what is?

Joe Wilson is as bad as that Iraqi who threw his shoes a Dumbass Dubya Bush... but for some reason no one in the White House is taking him to task. Thereby showing that the Democrats are a bunch of pussies.

Rahm Emanuel, so-called Mr. Nutcracker, asked for an apology from Joe Wilson... uh, hate to break it to you buddy, but you don't ask for an apology from a scoundrel like Wilson in the first place. What ever you get will be insincere, will be lacking any kind of humility and it let's him off the hook from getting attacked and attacked and attacked and attacked and attacked and then made the poster child of what is wrong the GOP/Republicans -- that over-weight Southern White Boys who back the Birther Movement.

Although what the media isn't saying about the Joe Wilson rebuke of the first Black President is -- just what is this childish man's mind state to make such a remark? It's plain and simple -- it's racism to Nth degree, and here's how and why. Joe Wilson is from South Carolina, so off the bat he's a Confederate who thinks the South Will Live Again, but also he must hold the greatest outrage over the fact that Barak Obama is President of the United States. Southerns over the age of 35, particularly those who have amassed power in the 80s and 90s, don't like niggers. Not one bit. They still think Black people are beneath the Whites, no matter what accomplishments or measure of intelligence, prestige, money or success the Black person has -- Niggers were our property only a 140 years ago, so I just don't see how they will ever been anything equal or better than us Aryans.



Joe Wilson's outburst was basically him saying, "boy, what kinda shit are ya spewin' ta yer betters?" I'm sure Wilson never refers to President Barak Obama as, "Mr. President," but probably always calls him, "Barak." Wilson just proved to me that adage that all Republicans aren't racists, but that all racists are Republicans! And mark my words, anyone who attempted to thwart President Bush's half-intelligible rhetoric would have been burned at the stake. I mean the Republican Party in ANY of its incarnations and formats didn't censure Wilson == and they fucking pricks for not doing so. Michael Steele, you were your Uncle Tom/Clarence Thomas mask with such aplomb!

Don't let the country be back on the Road of Prosperity because of the policies the Barak Obama put in place happen before the 2012 election... just it'll basically say, "America was saved by a Harvard-educated Black man! After a Yale educated White Man and his cronies stuck a hot poker up America's collective asses!"

Hold These MuthaF*cka Accountable!

President Barak Obama just finished his speech to both houses of Congress regarding the problems facing us with the health care reform legislation that he wants to see passed.

He made one supremely telling statement, a CEO of an Insurance company got up in front of the Senate and made some statement about how employees are encouraged to drop long-paying customers who happen to get sick, because they need to boost profits. The same CEO said this is done because of "Wall Street's Relentless Profit Expectations" - THIS is the true barbarian at the gate, ready to rape and pillage. In fact, it (Wall Street's thirst for ever increasing profits) has been pretty much raping, pillaging and stealing from the general public UNCHECKED since Ronald Reagan rolled up into the Oval Office.

Their Power Is Unparralled

We don't even really know how tight the Corporate Power Structure

There was a recent episode of Warren Olney's Show Which Way L.A. in which he was discussing the fact that most medical students avoid being general practitioners because the pay is so low and the cost to run an office and deal with the bullshit insurance bureaucracy siphons off any kind of cash that they may make. This doctor from the heartland of California was talking about how specialists get three and four times the amount, when a regular internist can provide the same care. And another doctor was stating that the drug companies pay kickbacks and bonuses to doctors who prescribe their pharmaceuticals... or the sales reps for the expense ass machines like MRIs also pay kickbacks when those machines are incorporated in part of the regimen for ATTEMPTING to deduce what is wrong with someone. The fact that all these doctors and hospitals are in the pocket on the Drug Companies isn't shocking, it's appalling. It makes you wonder if you can really trust the diagnosis, because the doctor making the claims could be making enough cash for the mortgage on his vacation home by slangin' oxycontin or xanax or God knows what other drug is being prescribed (like all the fucking anti-depressant drugs that are on the market. There's even boost Anti-Depressants that extent the reach of shit like Zoloft.

Americans need to be very afraid of the Corporate Power Structure, it's not just the military industrial complex that we need to be vigilant about, it's the financial-industrial-chemical complex that is standing with its foot on our neck, and must people are just too dumb to realize it.

Paul Krugman's NYTimes Editorial excoriated the right-wing/GOP/Confederates and the outright lies that they're offering the public as the alternative to Obama-care; these lies serve who? You guessed it!

But Krugman makes some interesting points about how potentially ungovernable the nation is (just like California has proven to be), because of the lines drawn in the sand by the members of the Republican / Confederate party, "Given the combination of G.O.P. extremism and corporate power, it’s now doubtful whether health reform, even if we get it — which is by no means certain — will be anywhere near as good as Nixon’s proposal (you have to read the whole article for this explanation), even though Democrats control the White House and have a large Congressional majority.

And what about other challenges? Every desperately needed reform I can think of, from controlling greenhouse gases to restoring fiscal balance, will have to run the same gauntlet of lobbying and lies.

I’m not saying that reformers should give up. They do, however, have to realize what they’re up against. There was a lot of talk last year about how Barack Obama would be a “transformational” president — but true transformation, it turns out, requires a lot more than electing one telegenic leader. Actually turning this country around is going to take years of siege warfare against deeply entrenched interests, defending a deeply dysfunctional political system."

So where are we when it comes to uncuffing the LLC Shackles? When these idiots in the town hall meetings scream that they want their America back, I somehow doubt they mean the pre-70s America, when corporate lobbyists and interests didn't steal the governing from Main Street and put all the decisions in the hands of Wall Street and those sitting in boardrooms smoking cigar and sipping brandy, chuckling gleefully as they continue to bad their pockets at the expense of the hard working people who make up the dramatically dwindling middle class.

Uncle Tom Redux

Anyone know the race of the Malcolm X Assassins?

They were BLACK! Yes, actual African-Americans... who has transformed into the worst Unkle Toms imaginable... or as we could say today, into Clarence Thomases...

This so-called Black Man - a Clarence Thomas emulator if I ever saw one (and obviously a bitch-ass, card-carrying GOP member) was kicking it at the President Obama's speech yesterday... not Obama's speech on gun rights, but his speech about Health Insurance Reform, brandishing an AR-15 ranging from his shoulder and pistol on his belt. Whatever this nouveau CT's real name is, he was part of a group of fools at the rally. When this bespectacled so-called Black man was asked why he was toting his guns at a Presidential speech, proclaimed, "Because I can do it. In Arizona, I still have some freedoms."

Still have some freedoms? Is he living in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip? Who does this zealot think he is? No doubt this deluded NeoCon-reactionary believes that some of his freedoms are being stripped away only 7 months into the Obama Presidency, as if there are ANY left after the last eight years of Dubya Bush's reign over America! I don't recall any legislation being passed that presses down on the so-called Freedoms of America (as they can be suspended at any time, just ask the Dubya Bush stream of attorneys general!)

The 2nd Amendment is so abused by Conservatives it's down-right sick... makes me gag that people actually parse up the lines of the Amendment, picking and choosing what the hell they think is appropriate for their brand of ignorance...

If ANY Black Man had a visible gun at a Dubya Bush rally, he'd be waterboarded to an inch of his life within in 5 minutes of capture... oh, because you know there would be an arrest. Just on GP, a racial profiling case that would get brushed under the rug after a quick visit by Dick Cheney... we all know that's how it would have went down.

The conservative movement in America, in any country really, is where the dangerous zealots, extremists and namby-pamby knuckleheads are born... be afraid of these people, be very afraid...

It's the INSURANCE INDUSTRY, STUPID!

The political mantra, "it's the economy, stupid" was the prime-time reason for the changing of the guard in most political contests in the West, particularly in America. But what's happening now in the national debate over health care is that people are taking their eye of the ball -- which is the scurrilous straight bitches who work in the insurance industry.

ROADBLOCKS BY BITCHES IN THE GOP/CONFEDERATE PARTY

The RNC -- which is claiming that the current blacklash against President Barak Obama's health care/insurance reform plan is a grassroots movement -- just plum plain forgot that couple of weeks ago announces that the RNC was going to spend $1million in a campaign to discredit or “cast a shadow” on President Barak Obama’s health care revamp initiative. Like WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?

Seriously is Michael Steele the biggest Uncle Tom/Clarence Thomas that has ever been produced (outside of those “brothas” that shot Malcolm X)??? If ever a black man needed a lynching (which I never advocate, except in dire and extreme circumstances)

You can’t reasonably believe that Obama’s plan is catastrophic, and why the fuck do the GOP/Republician/BigBusiness Fucktoys continually deride, denounce and destroy attempts to revamp healthcare. This will be the reason why I move out of the United States, because Health Care costs just eat up too much.

Granted America is filled with fat, over-fucking-weight slobs who munch down on too much fast food and have all around shitty diets which start causing harm from your late 30s until you die, and that needs to change for any change in the cost of health care to be meaningful as non-wasted expenses in a family’s yearly financial structure.

Those GOP/Confederate fucks wasted our time and the tax payers money with Sonya Sotomayor hearings, focusing in on her stance that a Latin woman is more wise than a white man – no doubt that is true, because white men when they get to a certain age and achieved a certain level of power to make decisions that more than their immediate family have either committed a lot heinous crimes or are just ignorant and stubborn about their ignorance.

I heard some White Trash Bitch claim that the government shouldn't have control over 1/6 (or 1/7) of the national economy... uh, bitch, they control 110% of the national economy -- if they want to, have you considered that? And 60% of health is already run by Washington Desk jockeys... get your head out of your ass.

The JOURNEY BEGINS... a new day has dawned in America.

A

BLACK MAN

is now the President of the United States! Can you mutha-fuckin'-believe it!!!

The huge expectations that now hang over Obama's shoulders probably can't be conveyed in words (maybe a book or two), because everybody has their own idea of what "CHANGE" means in respect to Obama and what he's supposed to bring to Washington, to America, to the Rest of the World.

First and foremost we have to believe that the Post-Cold War Kids, who were strategically crucial in this paradigm-shift election, now want government to actually DO something. Put away all the bullshit regarding who's right on the Left and who's wrong on the Right, stow the partisan rhetoric and let's end these pernicious Culture Wars -- because the Right-Wing/Conservative/Confederate Party/GOP lost, their emissaries have raped the economy, pillaged Wall Street and gutted everyone's pension fund and retirements... so they could party like it's 1987!

The challenges that face Barak Obama are considerable, but he's put together a team of heavy weights who will challenge him and challenge the timber of the federal political machine. Just to name a few:
- Change the way Americans consumer energy

- Enact Public Healthcare for all Americans

- Reform Entitlement Programs

- Solve the Shit in the Middle East

- Capture bin Laden (dead or alive)

- Change "The Tone" of politics

I'm glad that Barak Obama and his Michelle were restrained through the entire ceremony, because Blacks, in general, get associated with emotionalism far too much (witness Cuba Gooding, Jr., Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx) -- his speech was powerful, but not the oratory soar that we might have expected. However, it was great from start to finish and didn't get too emotional or peppered with "remember this" lines -- that would have cheapened the moment. Let it be known that Obama did get in his veiled jabs at Dubya and his failed abysmal administration.

Are we going to refer to Barak Obama as BHO in the future? The way we use JFK, FDR and LBJ? After he leaves office? Before?

This Ras The Exhorter signing out.

Do Votes Count?

So the Democratic Rules Committee gave Michigan and Florida half voting rights... not the best of circumstances, but not a terrible adventure in Presidential politics. Honestly, those two states shouldn't have any delegates sitting in the national committee because they broke the rules. But this is Presidential politics and Florida is involved so some shit was expected to come out of the process.

Most people predicted that each state would get half, and that's what happened.

What's interesting is that Puerto Rico is having a primary, because those people -- while I believe are US Citizens -- don't get to vote in the November General Election. So it's kind of stupid to have them vote in the primary, but I don't make the rules.

Did you see the HBO TV Moive "RECOUNT"? It was an interesting look at the debacle that was the 2000 Election... you would think that a movie about voting discrenpancies would be less entertaining than it was, not to say it didn't take me two viewings to get through it (as I nodded off the first time near the end). What it did do was shed some light on that main event that eventually led to the posting Prescott Bush's Grandson into the Oval Office and enabled him to take on the moniker of "The Nero of the Pax Americana" -- yeah, that's how he's going to be seen in the history books, the out of touch leader who not only led the country into a war that he knew never had a remote change of being completely under his watch or as easily or cheapily as he was told. Yes, as he was told, but didn't listen to effectively to those people.

I had an opportunity to read the new Oliver Stone movie called "W", a semi-trenchant look at George W. Bush's years in the White House and how that idiot got there in the first place. It's not going to be what you expect from Stone, because it's not a scathing lashing out attack of the worst president ever... no, it paints the man as a woefully incompetant manager, who could never live up to his parents' expectations.

The Dream Team

Senator Barak Obama picked Senator Joe Biden to be his running mate... it was predicted by many at least a month ago.
But let's think about this choice... it appears to be great on the surface. Smooth Barry and Joltin' Joe!

I wager it's the best possible choice, but the question is will Barak let Joe do all the shitting on McCain?

I was just skimming through this week's TIME magazine, the one with Barak's face on the cover with the "Special: The Democrats" emblazoned across the top, and Joe Klein -- ever the nay-sayer (with good reason, though) -- makes a specific point about Obama needing to actualize his feelings to actionable items that will enable white people to get with the program.

See the way I see it, it didn't matter who Obama chose for his Veep (except for Hillary, still too much of a lightning rod; plus Bill didn't want her to win anyway... on that in a second), because what the race ultimately comes down to is:
Will the non-Black Americans -- whites, latinos, East Asians, and South Asians -- pull the arm in the ballot box for a Black man? The most vilified personage on the planet for the past 400 years? Think about it 400 years Black people have been demonized by whites, and most violently in the mass media age of the past 50 to 75 years (glossy photographs and film strips really know how to make a nigga seem to be the Public Enemy No. 1 for all God fearing Americans... and anyone who aspires for the American Dream (the piece of propaganda that the entire world had bought, until Dubya Bush assumed the reigns and stuck his limp dick into everyone's ass).

Of course a good percentage of whites have voted for Barak, but will they do so when it counts? The true believers are all the under 25 year olds, and shit even the under 21 years olds -- these people, this section of the population can make history on such a proportion that it'll be, it'll be Historical!!! Shit, if I know another word that summarizes what's going to happen better, do you?

Joe Biden has been someone I thought could have been a President in various other election cycles, and perhaps he might get his chance to run for the big office in eight years, but we'll have to see what the next few weeks tell us... it's Obama's election to lose and he needs to stay on message -- the GOP, led by Dubya Bush, fucked this country's economy and allowed the uber-class to make more money than they should have at the expense of those who toil and break their backs to make these rich peeps their cash -- wage slavery is a term I throw around quiet a bit, but think about it... working hard under the Bush regime... has done nothing to get you ahead. Working with a hand in the cookie jar and plastic ranch-flavored smile on your face is how you get your cash... can anyone say Jack Abramhoff?

On to my statement about Bill Clinton, this is the man who made us think twice when he claimed that getting his dick slobbed on in the Oval Office WAS NOT CONSIDERED SEX!!! Now a man that smart, that shrewd with his words didn't loose his ability to stay on message when he dropped all these bombs during the Primary that made him fall out of favor with the preponderance of Blacks, the Blacks who loved him like they ain't supposed to love no white man!

So we want to see Biden be the attack dog for Obama, but Barak needs to do the jugular slices himself. It's a perfect way to tag-team the so-called Maverick, and send the GOP rule.

It's nothing short of state-sanctioned revolt that we as a people get the GOP out of the cone of power IN ALL FEDERAL BRANCHES... especially the Supreme Court. Perhaps that John Grisham novel, I believe it's called The Pelican Brief, should be dusted off the shelf.