The moderator of “Meet The Press” also asked Army General Chief of Staff Casey about reports that Major Nidal Hasan was considered by some to be exhibiting “dangerous behavior” that if reported and acted upon could have prevented this horrible bloodbath. The General said the Army is investigating this!

I just wonder is that also what the Army calls “Don’t Ask – Don’t tell!” Perhaps if some investigators were not spying on the private sex lives of innocent Gay soldiers who only want to serve their country and even want to go to Iraq and Afghanistan then this blood bath could have been averted!

Amazing isn’t it that we have both George Bush, who never fully served his tour of duty in the National Guard and Major Hassan who went on a killing spree because he did not want to go to Iraq. But the Army persecutes innocent Gay soldiers who only want to do what the above two resisted!

This blogger has a message for General Casey: Let’s indeed honor our nation’s diversity that you claim we should prize! Time to eliminate “Don’t Ask – Don’t Tell”! Let patriotic Americans serve their country and do what others don’t want to do!

Barrack Obama is becoming a wimp in the face of Republicans and especially Tea Baggers! We liberals need to have our own Liberal version of the Tea Party Movement. We need to fight Corporate Collectivization! Our freedom as individuals is at stake!  It is bad enough that fat cat corporate executives have deeper pockets to support their candidates but they want to dip their hands into my wallet and TAX me via higher premiums to support their K – Street Operations! Why am I being taxed by these Corporate Collectives to finance their social agenda against my individual self interest? This is Taxation Without Representation! Their motto is “Power To The Corporate Collectives and the hell with Individual Freedom”! We need to have our own Progressive Tea Party Movement!

We Democrats have allowed the Republicans to steal the term “Freedom”.

• If you are out of a job and loose your health care that is not “freedom”.
• If you are rejected when you get sick that is not “freedom”.
• If you have to pay a hidden tax to support the Corporate Collectivists via higher premiums while they take our premium payments to finance their K – Street Operations, that is not Freedom!
• If banks can raise your credit card interest to 29.9% and force you to live in perpetual debt – That is not freedom!
• If your blue collar or white collar job is being shipped overseas while the corporation makes a profit and you fall into poverty – That is not Individual Freedom!

Yet Democrats will not realize that the Republican strategy of fear will continue to work unless Liberals can arouse the American center to see their Individual Freedom is being taken away to serve the Corporate Collectivists!

When government power recedes it does not always equal freedom! When the referees in a sports competition are removed the bully takes his place and individual freedom is lost!

Time to stand up for the American Middle Class and those who aspire to the American dream! Freedom to the individual not the corporate collective!

Without action all agree health care costs are about to explode. The public is not fully aware of this. If this weak watered down Health Care Bill passes with it’s  lack of muscle to give real competition to the insurance companies, then whole concept of Universal Health Care and the Democrats will be faulted by the Republicans when the insurance companies raise their premiums through the roof!

Thank God for Ed Schultz and Rep. Dennis Kucinich. They are expressing the views of most Democrats and yes most Americans! See the video  below!

President Obama is starting to get some testosterone but not enough! He is taking on the Fox Opinion Channel somewhat. Excuse me Mr. President but Fox and their fellow travelers have accused you of wanting death panels, being a Muslim, a non-American and a Nazi. The last being quite an accomplishment for a Black male. They smeared you for going to Delaware and paying respect to our fallen soldiers! They smear you for Afghanistan, yet for years they let the Afghan opium grow to support Al Qaeda! They turned their back on Afghanistan and Al Qaeda so they could perform their SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT in Iraq! I understand the need to play “Presidential”! But enough is enough! When are you going to swing back or at least unleash Vice President Biden!

We had to endure endless hours of “news” about Rev. Wright but almost nothing concerning Sarah Palin’s Church and the wackos minister from Africa who hunts witches. Mr. President while your loyalty to America is being questioned by Fox and the Republicans we never hear anything about Sarah Palin and her links to the Alaskan Independence Party. Yes I know she was not “formally” a member but her hubby was and as late as last year she even addressed their convention! What about her links to the late Joe Vogler!

What drives me nuts is that the Republicans are actually playing the populist point in attacking the big banks and corporations!

Health Care without a STRONG Public Option is merely an Insurance Company Bailout! We will be forced to pay premiums to the Corporate Collective while they use those funds to finance K – Street, Republicans and some Blue Dog Democrats! That is “Taxation Without Representation”! Where the hell is the outrage! We need a liberal version of the Tea Party Movement!

Progressive Senators should filibuster the Health Care Bill unless everyone can have access to the Public Option! To hell with financing it. Did the Republicans worry about money when they lowered taxes for the rich or commited us to their SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT in Iraq!

We need Medicare for all and right now not in 2013!

However it is far worse than that! We must remember some facts:

1. America spends far more per capita on healthcare than the United Kingdom or Canada.
2. Yet we are ranked 37^th by the World Health Care Organization.
3. All agree that if nothing is done the cost of health care will sky rocket in the next few years.

This last fact is very important and something the Democratic Party better take into consideration before falsely believing “passing any healthcare bill, no matter how weak, is better than none”!

The Democratic Party is turning into the “Party of Meow”! Since most Americans are not fully aware of what is going to happen in the next few years if nothing is done, the Republicans could be setting the Democrats up to take the blame for the cost increases when they happen! When the already forecasted healthcare costs rise the Republicans will blame it on the passage of a national healthcare care law! That is why we must have a strong Public Option!

They already have used this technique this year!

Just look at how the Democrats are taking the blame for the large budget deficits due to the stimulus bill! Yes the Democrats do counter that George Bush left Obama a deficit but the important issue is President Obama should have vigorously blamed the Republicans for the past deficit and the  “future deficit” as he started his term! No instead he stated he wanted to “look forward” and not to point the finger of blame!

Can you hear all the Democrats now with their new “mantra”. What is that “mantra”. The mantra is “MEOW”! Oh dear we don’t want to get negative now do we? Oh I don’t want to incur any bad karma! To hell with being nice! I want to point the finger and blame the Republicans! Time for some guts or does being liberal mean being a wimp?

The video below by www.MoveOn.Org illustrates the current frustration of Americans as we experience the high costs of healthcare! If we do not have a strong Public Option to keep the insurance companies in check then the costs will continue to sky rocket and we Democrats will take the blame!

Republicans will use the same techniques featured by MoveOn.Org in the video above to falsely blame the Democrats as healthcare costs continue to rise! The costs will rise if we do not have a strong public option to contain the insurance cartel!

Just look at the way Republicans are “stealing” Main Street’s rage against “Wall Street”. They are actually making us look to be the friends of corporate America! What is the Democratic Party’s response?

That response is one word: “MEOW”

My God we have the majority in both Houses of Congress and the Presidency! The Republicans have more potency as a minority then we have with our control of the government.

Meanwhile the insurance cartel continues to tax middle class Americans via premiums to subsidize their K – Street activities! When will corporate undermining of democracy be addressed by the Democratic Congress? How about a Liberal version of the Tea Party Movement! This is corporate America engaging in “Taxation Without Representation”.

Do we hear any outrage from the majority of Democrats?

No just a deafing “MEOW”!

Thank God President Obama mustered some testosterone to go on the offensive. MoveOn.Org is mounting an online petition to support our President in this time of war! (I love to use Republican lingo in the service of liberal causes). Let’s play the Republican game now. It is a time of war when the Republicans have let our guard down in Afghanistan! Opium production in Afghanistan that supports Al Qaeda is up and that drives our national security down! But do the Republicans “Support Our President”? Hell no!

But then again we just had a Republican President who never completed his National Guard requirements yet the conservatives are more interested in President Obama’s birth certficate which has been produced. Why cannot George Bush, Jr. produce friends who served with him all six years in the National Guard! You would think a news organization like Fox News would be on top of this – right?

Here is your chance to join with MoveOn.Org and sign their petition! Let’s help fight the real news media biases which is from the right wing!

As one protester’s sign read:

The Democratic Congressional Majority: Use it or loose it!

I listen to Keith Olbermann and he quotes new studies that say we have the support of the majority of Americans for the “Public Option”. Further according to Keith Olbermann the Tea Parties have backfired. Americans don’t care for bipartisanship. They just want the “Public Option”! You will have to excuse me as I am a latter day hippie and remember how the Republicans, during the Vietnam War, successfully wraped themselves around the flag! Then with their phony patriotism they scared Americans into four more additional years of the Vietnam War. I see Liz Chenney has set up a group to capitalize on any future terrorist attacks on America. Americans love action figures! Obama and Reid are not making the grade here!

The Democrats need to use fiery rhetoric and remind Americans that the Republicans wasted valuable time, lives and resources in the pursuit of their vast “SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT” in Iraq while the Al Qaeda threat grew in Afghanistan! Note I love to use conservative rhetoric in the service of liberal arguments! I believe we liberals need to do this and be far more aggressive. If you were around during the Vietnam War the Republicans would always whine about “liberal news media biases”. Yeah right. Well thank God Obama is taking a page out of history and showing how Fox News has pro-conservative biases!

But this is not enough. In a era where Obama is criticized for attending expensive fund raisers while corporations tax the “Silent Majority” of America to support their K-Street lobbying of Congress, we need to use the language of “class warfare”! Oh dear me what did I say! Oh will I generate bad karma on myself? Well I am sick and tired of corporations sticking their hands into my wallet to pay for their self interest! Health Care is just the surface issue of a more deeper power struggle going on in America! Oh I am so afraid of Euro-Socialism. With Germans having 11 week vacations! No I would rather work like a dog to support my social betters!

Republicans don’t have any problem setting American against American to support the Corporation Collectivization of America! I value individual freedom. You cannot have individual freedom if you are dependant on the Corporation for health care! I am not just talking about Blue Collar workers but White Collar workers!

Democrats need to drop the term “worker” and use the term “employees”! Republicans love to set blue collar and white collar employees against each other! Who are they to criticize Obama for an expensive fund raiser? That is the nature of politics. I am glad some upper class individuals remember what it is like to struggle. No one is against people being millionaires! The issue is balance!

]]> http://middle-class-populist.com/2009/10/21/just-say-%e2%80%9cno%e2%80%9d-to-snowe-and-the-party-of-no/feed/ 0 http://middle-class-populist.com/2009/10/17/dont-ask-%e2%80%93-dont-tell-gays-doing-what-bush-shirked/ http://middle-class-populist.com/2009/10/17/dont-ask-%e2%80%93-dont-tell-gays-doing-what-bush-shirked/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:37:47 +0000 Brian http://middle-class-populist.com/?p=686 Isn’t it amazing that Gays are trying to stay in the military, especially in war time! George Bush, Jr did not want to serve in the military and even missed his required meeting quota! But you never hear the Tea Baggers, the Birthers or their fellow travelers in the Republican Party ever ask questions about our former Commander – in Chief’s service record in the Air National Guard!

I guess when the issue is George Bush’s complete service record in the Air National Guard the “Birthers”, Tea Baggers and even the news media have a slogan!

George Bush’s record of required service in the National Guard: Don’t Ask – Don’t tell!

While Gays try to serve their country openly and say they are proud to be in the military, George Bush, Jr. likes to keep his military record in the closet! What is amazing is the Democrats don’t want to out his record nor does the so – called Liberal news media! I guess we see who the REAL WIMPS are!

• Come on former Commander – In – Chief come out of the closet with your military record.

• Where are Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi on this issue? Why are they such wimps in going after George Bush?

As I mentioned in a prior post, having a Public Option is a national security issue! Since Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and even Barrack Obama are such wimps in attacking the Republicans and their fellow travelers in the Tea Bag movement then how can they defend the United States against foreign terrorist and military attacks?

Why don’t they stand up for Gay members of the military who want to do what Texas Macho Man George Bush was afraid to do. That is to serve in the military!

But then again the three Democratic Party wimps I mentioned above don’t have the guts to stand up to the birthers, tea baggers or the Town Hall Meeting disruptor crowd. We are witnessing Health Care being converted into a welfare program for the insurance cartel! Without a public option what is to stop the insurance cartel from raising our rates while lowering our service?

Again might I suggest a role model of testosterone for the leadership of the Democratic Party? As I mentioned before they should ask Gay Congressman Barney Frank to donate to them some testosterone as he has more guts than Obama, Reid and Pelosi combined!

]]> http://middle-class-populist.com/2009/10/17/dont-ask-%e2%80%93-dont-tell-gays-doing-what-bush-shirked/feed/ 0 http://middle-class-populist.com/2009/10/15/the-public-option-and-corporate-power-one-dollar-%e2%80%93-one-vote/ http://middle-class-populist.com/2009/10/15/the-public-option-and-corporate-power-one-dollar-%e2%80%93-one-vote/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:20:16 +0000 Brian http://middle-class-populist.com/?p=681 The Public Option does not stand a chance! Not because the American people don’t want it but because of the power of Corporate Lobbyists! Where are the “Tea Baggers” with their pompous slogans of “No Taxation Without Representation”? We Middle Class Americans are being taxed by these corporations to support their self interest against our own class interest (oh dear did I say something wrong here). Where do you think these Corporations get their money to fund their K-Street Operations? They get it from the average American against our will. Health Insurance Companies must either raise their premiums or lower their coverage to finance their K -Street lobbying against the Public Option. See video below.

I thought our nation was founded on the principle of “One Person – One Vote”! Instead we operate on the principle of “One Dollar – One Vote”! Forget the fact that the Corporate Elitists have deep pockets and earn more than the President of the United States! That is not good enough for them. They rather stick their hands into MY POCKET to fund their activities when they as individuals have far to deep pockets to begin with!

Make no mistake about it the issue is not just the “Public Option” the issue is CLASS WARFARE against the Middle Class. Oh they talk the Ayn Rand lingo about the “Individual vs the Collectivists”. With the word “collectivists” being a label for Democrats as government intervention is evil. Yet these effete snobs of privilege want to render the Middle Class individual into a servant of the CORPORATE COLLECTIVISTS!

Republicans want us to fear the excercise of the societal action via a freely elected goverment to enhance the lives of all citizens not just the elite! When the decision making processes of a free government are corrupted by Corporate Collectivists the individual looses!

When Government intervention in the service of the individual is thwarted, when the police power of a free society is diminished freedom is not increased because the BULLY fills the vacuum! That bully is the power of CORPORATE COLLECTIVISM!

It is not just Health Insurance but the credit card industry and the off shoring of American Middle Class blue collar and white collar jobs that is the issue. While these CUT AND RUN CORPORATIONS ship our future out from America we Middle Class Americans, blue collar and white collar employees, see our hopes and dreams destroyed. All in the service of the wealth and leisure of our social betters who now want middle class Americans to pay for their political lobbying!

Meanwhile the Democrats continue to take contributions from these elitists! When will Barrack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi get some testosterone and fight back? The Democrat Party has turned into wimps!

But this goes even beyond wimpy Obama! We Democrats had control of both Houses of Congress for the last two years of George Bush’s presidency. But did Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid do anything tangible to stop the war in Iraq? Did they inundate the news media with multiple Congressional Committee hearings on the faulty intelligence that lead us to this war and the chronic economic deficit that resulted from the Republican Social Engineering Experiment in Iraq while Al Qaeda got a free hand in Afghanistan? Wimps Wimps Wimps! The answer is that the Democratic Party has betrayed it’s progressive base in the masochistic pursuit of impotence! This is not the image to portray to a foreign aggressor! While Conservatives hold “Tea Parties” and accuse Obama of not being a native born American, a Muslim, an advocate of death panels and a communist our President throws away our opportunity to use our control of Congress! One recent protestor held up a sign that says it all!

The Democratic Party Congressional Majority: USE IT OR LOOSE IT!

When are Democrats going to stand up and use the majorities we have now in Congress before we loose it? Where is the Democratic Party outrage?

• When are Democrats going to hold “Tea Parties” for the Silent Majority who are taxed against their will and our self interest in order to promote the self interest of the Corporate Collectives that control Health Insurance as they tax our insurance payments to use on K-Street lobbying of Congress! Where is the outrage?
• Where is the outrage that Sarah Pallin could accuse our President of advocating “death panels” while she only a few months before her nomination speech was addressing the Alaskan independence Party!

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If Barrack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid can let these outrages pass then what is our “Image of Deterrence” on the foreign policy scene with nut jobs like the Dear Leader in North Korea or the fanatics in Iran?

President Obama don’t worry about your “karma” the time has come to get angry and show some resolve. TO HELL WITH BIPARTISANSHIP! LET’S KICK SOME ELEPHANT ASS NOW OR GET SAT ON LATTER!

]]> http://middle-class-populist.com/2009/10/13/the-public-option-is-a-national-security-requisite/feed/ 0 http://middle-class-populist.com/2009/10/10/republicans-against-america/ http://middle-class-populist.com/2009/10/10/republicans-against-america/#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:00:50 +0000 Brian http://middle-class-populist.com/?p=654 The Republicans were so happy when our nation lost it’s bid for the 2016 Olympics. (See video below). They even rejoiced saying Barrack Obama had lost his charisma! But their glee was short lived when our President received the Nobel Prize for Peace! You would think they would stand behind our President especially in this time of war! No instead they stand behind the CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS who ship our jobs and technology to distant shores, often the enemies of America. They support Halliburton which has transferred it’s Corporate HQ to Dubai and whose subsidiary has caused the death of our soldiers by electrocution due to faulty base construction! But they rather target ACORN since that “sinister” organization is registering new voters that are not influenced by K-Street targeted ads.

Where is the old mainstream news-media while our nation gets bashed by these America bashers of the right wing? Imagine if these loonies had been Democrats! Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck who are competing for the leadership of the Republican Party would try to out do each other in their attacks against the patriotism of Democrats!

Why aren’t Democrats crying “News media biases”? No one in the news media except on MSNBC is raising the issue of Republican hypocrisy! The leadership of the Democratic Party needs some testosterone injections! What happened to droping partisan differences when we leave our shores? The Republicans value party before country!

Middle Class Americans need to develop a “Middle Class Consciousness”! Why should we be taxed for Health Care. Repeal the Reagan and Bush Tax Cuts to the wealthy now! Hell you would think these effete snobs of privilege earned their lavish lifestyle while they ship our jobs and wealth overseas!

America’s Silent Majority, our great Middle Class and those who aspire to be Middle Class need to take our nation back from these effete snobs of privilege!