O is retreating from his health care intentions.  He wants single payer and was looking for a big step in that direstion.  Votes were not there and Reed is to spooked to push any harder.  Reed dosn't want to be Daschled.  GOP can only do so much in Sen. midterms because the seats that are up were won in a strong Republican year.  All the Dems who survived that election were in safe seats.  GOP can change the mood of the Senet by bouncing maybe 3 including Reed.

 

Now that O has seen the limets of his powers he is pulling back and rethinking.  To keep up the apearance of success he is screening the retreat with a human intrest story about his freind the proff who got arested at the exact time O needed a diversion. 

 

Finding a friend to serve the cop up with a 911 call - $100 to buy the guy a nice dinner.

Abusing the cop in your home just enough to get a protest charge - few thosand dollors in legal bills. 

Nuking the media cycal just when O was about to get hurt by it - PRICESLESS.

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Churchill, no hero of O's, said before Stalingrade/Midway/El Alemain we didn't win a battle.  After we didn't lose a battle.  O is declining to fight Stalingrade because he see the results before hand.  He is manovering away and calling it an attack in a new direction.  Where dose he go?  Do GOPers push him now that his juice is in question?  Can they cut through the screen?

Beer Summit went well.  If we could get unionized police offercers from Chicogo to negotiat for the Russians we might have a Europe police that looked helpful.

 

Fanny Med is comming, slowly.  We have a "glide path" to public option.  I.E. fire your insurance company and goverment give you discount insurance until the insurance companys fold and Gov can raise rattes on public plan and start doing all the mean stuff they complain about the insurance companys do now.  Public option is a "glide path to" single payer.  Which is a glide path to a point system where cronic conditions are worth point.  Take all your "condition points" add your age and when the total hits 150 you go to hospice.  The pain killers will be premo.

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Taxing electricity will creat jobs.  Not as many as it distroyes but that not important.  What is important is who controls the union dues of the people who get the quisa goverment jobs that are created. 

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A hatchet man is a person you hire to fire other people so you don't half to.  It can be worth the moeny if looking like the angel of death might interfear w/ your other dutys.  Firing the Hatchet man can have unpredictable efects on moral.  Firing the health insurance companys will also have funny effects on national mood.  What would Dems do with out insurance companys to kick around?  What would Dems do if they had to say no rather than letting insurance companys say no for them?  Well, they don't know the answers eather.  That is why they are firing the hatchet man very very slowly.  They are going to have private insurance companys to kick around for a very long time. 

 

The glide to path ratio will be all candy butt glide and no documented path.   Were going backward in the same direction.

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O lost control of the debate because he over reached.  He needed to take the "victory" the insurance companys already handed him off the table after negotating with them.  Stuff like ending "pre-existing conditions" or raising your rates when you get sick.  He even got a good shot at limeting rates.  We got sucked back into Clinton land.  The Dems needed enemys more than they needed "good goverment".  

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Super Size Goverment.   Cash for Klunkers was a tiny and cheap version of a real plan called feebates.  It was all bait and no fee.  We could have put a fee on the cars in each class who were in the 30% with the lowest milage and given all the $ to the buyers of the cars in the same class that were in the 30% w/ the best milage.  Permanet plan w/ out need for yearly giggering by congress.  Giggering is how congress scaires people into giving moeny so they had to make a much less helpful system so we would continue to need their help.  They are still digging holes and filling them back in again because they get a cut on the shovel repair contracts.  They call it stim or recovery.  It's middle class welfare discised with Keinsian ecconomic theory dribble.  Danger is that it could be moving ecconomic activety from 10 into 09.  The car you were going to buy next year you buy now because the goverment is paying you 4 grand to buy sooner.  Thing is we need the ecconomic activety in 10 more than we need it in 09 because with out it in 10 we could get a W shaped ressesion.  This is no time to be asking for a "dubble dip."  If in 10 people think that the ecconomie just might be bad enough for the goverment to re-stim they might delay car buying in the hope that another cash for klunkers repeat happenes.  That speculation turns into a self fofilling proficey.  Maybe?

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O's groupy numbers are in the same ball park as the last two guys who had his job at this time in their administrations.  He still has many preswadables suporting him.  A preswadable is some one who's suport for O is contingent on what O dose.  30% of the country would suport O if he forced GM to make his wife Chairperson of the board.  (Didn't she work in healthcare once?)  The preswadables think it's time for O to tell us what he really thinks about healthcare and put his endorsment on some language.  At least they want somthing more concreat that, we woun't take away any thing  you like, we will cover more people and save moeny which is all he is committed publicly to so far.  They like him and trust him and want him to get in the game and do somthing meaningful. It's time he puts some ships on the table.  If he comes riding to the rescue of the national health lite bills that are still posible he could fumble. 

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O's tag line of late is "let me be perfectly clear."  He mocking birded it from Regan.  People debate what it meanes.

 

-The next thing I say is the sound bite and take away.   

 

-What you fear is not what I mean.

 

-I will not get rolled on this one.

 

Those are the leading theorys.  I think that it means something else.  From a lawyer and professor of law it means.

 

-I half to talk slowly so you people can understand.

Peter Lance, "I don't want you to pretend you can just read headllines." 

 

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Did some one say something about chickens comming home?  After making a career out of making the goverment look bad, O gets the control of the goverment he always wanted.  Only fair that some citezens read his book (Rules for Radicals not Adacity of Hope) and make him look bad.  You know that NAZI used to have a meaningful deffinition.  Now it just means some one you don't like who has some power.  In other words NAZI just means against me and winning.

 

Now if you are getting protested and your a Dem so you don't have years of experience getting smeared by code pink you need a plan.  What you might try is to set up a false flag protest.  Get people who will protest you and then fumble badly.  Then when ever some one asks you about the protest you counter with a long passionate story about the one protester who was your plant.  That way you have a good amswer to give to the bad question.

 

Remember that the Dems call you a NAZI when you use their playbook against them.  Make them very insecure. 

"What has been most unsettling is not the congressmen?s surprise but a hard new tone that emerged this week. The leftosphere and the liberal commentariat charged that the town-hall meetings weren?t authentic, the crowds were ginned up by insurance companies, lobbyists and the Republican National Committee. But you can?t get people to leave their homes and go to a meeting with a congressman (of all people) unless they are engaged to the point of passion. And what tends to agitate people most is the idea of loss—loss of money hard earned, loss of autonomy, loss of the few things that work in a great sweeping away of those that don?t. "  

 

"But most damagingly to political civility, and even our political tradition, was the new White House email address to which citizens are asked to report instances of ?disinformation? in the health-care debate: If you receive an email or see something on the Web about health-care reform that seems ?fishy,? you can send it to flag@whitehouse.gov. The White House said it was merely trying to fight ?intentionally misleading? information."  [ KER:  FBI agents can't catiloge supisious publications w/o a warrent but if you oppose O every lefty with time one their hands can put you on a list.]

 

"But every day the meetings seem just a little angrier, and people who are afraid—who have been made afraid, and left to be afraid—can get swept up. As this column is written, there comes word that John Sweeney of the AFL-CIO has announced he?ll be sending in union members to the meetings to counter health care?s critics. "

 Peggy  link

"But on the downside for Obama, this could be viewed by community activist types as a billion dollars being pumped into the effort to unjustly arrest minorities — even those who are half-Irish (as an Irishman myself, I take offense that Obama played on the stereotype by using alcohol to lure Gates and Crowley to the White House).

"Historically unreliable sources tell me that a full $12 million of this police stimulus announced by Biden may go toward financing the addition of a new Miranda right: The right to meet your arresting officer?s momma outside.

Please don't turn me in to O's list of health care discontents.  I promise to Chill. 

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Can we send CA's convicts to Gitmo?  O isn't using it anymore Chino is getting remodled.

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Looking like you are in a strange hurry and calling your customers dumb are two of the worst sales mistakes.  O is in danger of getting assoceated with them both.  Like he need to close the deal before anyone reads the contract or he'll never sell another used car.

 

If he loses trust in his own ideas to carry the day on their merit......

 

If he loses trust in the American people sort out political choices over time.......

 

If the people who give mandates feel he is clubing them with what used to be a mandate...........

 

Then we would expect his poll #'s to decline.

He insulted the Post Office.  Just let that sink in.

 

In "thank God you don't get all the goverment you pay for" terms The Post Office is farly tame.  Dose O really feel the blue collor cival servant, symbol of national heratage and unity (Ben Franklin) Post Office?  Only when he's on the tellaprompter. 

 

So what larger national purpuse was he serving when he made this gaff.  Well, O was attempting to supress resistance to national health by modifing peoples preseptions of it.  He wanted to make "public option" less scarie by telling people it would not work well and there for not gobble up the market and impoverise insurance companys.  (It wouldn't even be able to punish insurance companys that gave to GOP by lowering goverment rates in their states wile raising goverment rates in states where moeny from insurance companys when to Dems.)  It would not change the political or eccomomic envirmet be cause it would be goverment run and as mismanaged as the Post Office.

 

Dose that make you feel safe?

 

He is arguing for the inclusion of public option by promising that public option won't work very well.  Just let that sink in.

 

O communication skills are not what we were promised.  This is the propoganda calling the rummors disinformation.  O is the top communicator and if the communication is not happing he can't shift blaime.  For some none disclosed reason O spends his air time not explaining the plan to a population that desparatly wants facts but attacking the messangers and blaiming the victoms.  After decades of Dems calling any cuts or slowing of increases acts of larcany and violance against the American people O must come up with a better song and dance to cover his health spending cuts. 

 

Lets look at what O needs to say to four citezen types. 

 

The Palin voters ( link my old thought on her)  could be turned a way in their wraith with two simpal statements.  O can say that all particapating insurance plans will be in a public data base which discloses if they fund abortion services.  Then citezens can chose which plans to give their preamions/taxes too.  Then he can remind every one that the Americans with Disabilitys act is the law of the land and that all insurance plans will follow it.  That would indecate that you score for preferance in getting care could not be influanced by disability.  If O really wanted to go over the top he could say he oposes Eugenetics link

Calling the House bill a Russian novel is slander to Russain novels. 

 

Legal documents like car loans, medical bills and congressional bills should be writon in language that is less art and more transpartent.  Where the same langage read by ten normal Americans will give each the same impresion. 

 

Lets not have one bill.  Lets list the problems and then each specific problem gets two or more short readable, scorable and published bills which compeat for passage.  How democratic.

 

O says defecit netrality and CBO says it isn't.

 

O says no Republican alternative and the Republicans says they could breif O on their plan tomoro.

 

O says no cuts but the House bill cuts.

 

O says that he dosn't suport single payer because transition would be too disruptive but I feeling disruptive already and house members oppenly say this bill is a road map to single payer.

 

O says AARP on board and they say they arn't.  (They make more moeny if the Republicans buying their wears can be convinced that they are none partison.)

 

O was all about change and hope.  Were six months in and I'm feeling Fear, loathing and inherant controdictions.

 

 

Marketing campains need to blunt buyers remorse after the sale.  Late hits to run down the competition in the minds of people who already own your product are important.  In elections where a minority voted against you but got you anyway it's even more important. 

 

Like Sara Palin, Hillary Clinton finds herself being handled by people not her own.  She is like an actor who is there because she really wants to direct and produce.  Very frustrating. 

 

Hill was so baddly desirious of having a place of importance at the party that she agreed to be the cake.  Some times it's better to serve than be served...in slices.  link Petty imagery

 

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Larry Wilmore wants to bring back offending people.  link

Dispair is not a strategy.  Telling us how bad the status quo is dosn't relive O of the duty to plan.

 

American history is full of enourmasly expencive projects that were passed on promases that they would pay for them selves.  Each on moved us closer to a black hole of insolvance.  Once again we are desighning a way to spend ourselves into escape volacity.  Wish us luck.  O should show us the math before we write the check.

 

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Grassly says that the goverment is a preditor not a competetor.

 

Dean says that CO-OPs that arn't goverment run are just new insurance companys. 

 

Sara Angle and the GOP have demenstrated the capacity to take bad Dem proposals off the table.  They must remember and explain to the people that just because you took out one bad Dem plan that dosn't mean the next Dem plan can't be bad or worse.

 

We have decided to not put every one in the V.A.    --      Socilized medicine

We have decided not to put every one in medicade.   --    Single payer

We have decided not to put a Medicade clone in a position to force it's will on insurance market that remains nominaly a market.       --       Public option

 

Now we need to garontee that CO-OPs are not TEAMSTERCARE.  CO-OPs run like credit unions with strong owner/member/costemer rights could be very helpful.  CO-OPs who ellect officers the way unions elect barrons could be very bad.  We have decided not to let the health industry or the health insurance industry become captive to the goverment.  We must garonte that the health insurance industry dose not become captive to any political party. 

 

The labor medicare/insurance fraud and racketeering wings of organized crime are contingence planing on CO-OPs as we speak.  It is a shameful falure of due diligence to not have FBI public corution people at the table now.  We need to desighn the system now so as to beat the crooks to the explotes.  Once something becomes law it will be harasy to say it is a rip off.  We need to fix it before not after.  If you think the goverment would never let fraud happen remember that Barry Made off with billions was a FCC golden child for years.  Mistakes now can bend the cost curve in the wrong direction and that would be disater.

 

Only after the GOP has distroyed the viability of a Dem idea do the Dems swear that they never wanted to do that idea and the GOP are liers for saying they did.  Only when the dems are swearing off their own ideas- like a three week debate on health care reform and single payer now - do we know the political prosess is working. 

 

The choices are keeping the heat up for a long time or eating raw meat. 

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Increasing quality of care can reduce costs.  A police department that buys every officer their own squade car and lets them drive them home after work ends up spending less moeny on more total cars because the officers drive the cars like they own them rather than like they rent them.  Less car time in shop.  Less moeny spent on repairs.  (It also improves retention of officers.)

 

In places with high quality and lower spending, I belive that the higher quality leads to the lower spending.  The lower quality daotors are not harming paitents with over care as much as they are creating need for more care with sloppy care.  Further more I feel bad doctors get elbowed out of high quality regions and pool togther in low quality regions.  There are of course many exceptions. 

Bill Clintons debreifing following his dinner with Kim Ill was done by Bill Richerson.  Richerson swiched hources from Clintons to O at a very helpful time for O in the primary againsst Hill.  

Richerson is aparently holding talks with N. Korean representitives in the US soon.

 

This is all fine.  I do wonder who Richerson is breifing/reporting to. That institutional body langauge is interesting.

 

Is Bill Richerson auditioning for the State job?   With Soto on maybe his La Raza sceletons in the closet are dispelled.

 

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Wouldn't it be nice if we could get Kim Ill a reality show and a huge mansion in the Hollywood Hills.  Let him bring the kids.

I was wrong.  I need to correct my statement.  To Oficial debreifing of Bills unofficial contact was done by O with Biden in the room. 

 

Richersons got a day job as govonor and previous experience at the cabinet level.

 

I got over cafinated and single source.  Forgive me.

link Lunitic fringe music video

 

Lunatic Fringe from the Red Rider LP "As Far As Siam"   link />
Lunatic fringe
I know you're out there
You're in hiding
And you hold your meetings
We can hear you coming
We know what you're after
We're wise to you this time
We won't let you kill the laughter.

Lunatic fringe
In the twilight's last gleaming
This is open season
But you won't get too far
We know you've got to blame someone
For your own confusion
But we're on guard this time
Against your final solution

We can hear you coming (We can hear you coming)
No you're not going to win this time
We can hear the footsteps (We can hear the footsteps)
Way out along the walkway
Lunatic fringe
We know you're out there
But in these new dark ages
There will still be light

An eye for an eye;
Well before you go under...
Can you feel the resistance?
Can you feel the thunder?

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O noticed that his bully to pulpit ratio was going the wrong way so he called up some pastors.  Now he belives that if he is talking to both wight social justic pastors and black social justice pastors then he is being by partison.  He evan talked to a conservative talk radio host who was so concervative that he endorsed O for the oval.  What reach? 

 

(Judise said that expencive perfume could have been sold and given to the poor because he was stealing out of the purse.  Jesus repllied "you will always have the poor with you."  The Christain messsage is much more about inviting specific sick or poor people into your home to live with you than it is about building a empathic insurance industry.  The bible is to radical for most people to read it.)

 

He borowed some buzz words.  Repeated the "bugets are moral documents" bit.  And hoped it would stop the bleeding with seniors, suburban women and independents.  Much of the hotest resistance is comming from retired church attenders.  Moms who do the health planning for the family wouldn't mind a free lunch if they thought it was comming. Mostly they just want to know what will happen to their faimlys.  The air of centrism O was abble to generate is being displaced by his actions.

 

O was able to make powerful attacks against Mc.  O has had much less success in doing thing broad segments of the nation like.  That could become a formual for goverment shut down.  Expect inhanced securety as the confrence committee meets.

"Bugets are moral documents!"

The denotation is so true as to make the statment unesary.  The conotation is that Progressive bugets are moral and persons who oposie them are imoral.  That is not true.  Progressives accuse corporations w/ are not own by Al Gore of internalizing profits and externalizing cost to the goverment or the envirment.  They even confuse the goverment and the envirment w/ each other.  They can point to specific problems and would do well to attach specific solutions.  Narrow or focused solutions don't inhance your rep with progressives. 

 

Corporations were the enemy but they have found that the power of the corporation can be enlisted in their cause.  It is much easyer to microtarget a hand full of CEOs than to engage the minds of the voting population.  Small busnes is a enemy will big corporations can be resorces (some times).  They have a localism wing as well which lilkes small busness as long as they own them.

 

The big problem is that the unwilling ness to turn the same critical analisi against the goverment programs they want to replace private sector activety.  They rail against the profits of insurance companys because those profits became the war chest to protect the statuse quo.  First constrain the profits and then move the politics wile the enemys hands are tied.  They present the idea to the world that public sector activety is with out profit.  This is intentional selective blindness.  The moeny is in the ice box to prove that public sector works generate off book profits.  They also pay some big sallarys to the wives of important polls.  Michel O got a big raise when her husband move up to the 100 club.  Then when she resined to be first lady they didn't feel the need to replace her.  I'm not saying it was a no work job.  I'm saying it wsa a union steward job where the private sector pays the cost of a worker who really dose polotics rather than private sector work.  In exchange the private sector employer gets some favor from the party/goverment.  Informal regulatory relife, more timly payment of goverment funds, absence of labor action, you get the picture.  We will not get that "profit" moeny into the care for paitents but will see it moved toward political dividens rather than taxable ones.  Never for get that blogo shoke down a childrens hospital for campaine donations in exchange for relising goverment funds the hospital was other wise entitaled to. 

 

Goverment is going to bring efficency to the system.   ???

 

Look the the New York Stock Exchange dose any things that can and should be questioned.  They are still no where near as crocked as the Social Securety Administration.  S bills which the S.S. Admin. "sells" to wage earners are infact counterfit T-bills.  People think they are getting the same thing we sell to China Inc. but it anin't so.  The interest rate is arbitrairly lower and the terms of redemtion are well, unkown because no one has ever redeamed a S-Bill.  The fedutairy responcibility of any one selling investments in the United States requires people be put into "apropriat to the investor" investments.  S-Bills are never apropriate to anyone.  The T-Bill may not be best but it is always clearly beter to the investor than the S-Bill.  The purpuse of S.S. is not to generate wealth for people but to fund projects that congress members can name after themselves.

So much ax to grind and so little time.

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Strong armies and good laws.  Related concepts include, laws not deals and rule of law not rule of men.  I think that laws should be writon for postarity and not just for the curant foul up.  Talk about reactionairy goverment.  Lets try solving the problems with in the laws we had before the problem happened rather than wrighting an important new law every time we have a problem.  If the ink never dries on your laws you havent really got laws now do you.

 

Picking nit here but this is the tip of the problem that give evedence with how comfortable our leaders are with their own grandure.  The constitutional powers of the govonor of M.A. flucuate with the opinion that Ted Kennedy has of the man or his party.  American royalty in deed.  Goverment by, of and for the people who can afford publisists. 

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Wile arguing that he had lots of good reasons for reapointing Bernake besides the fact he couldn't handle another round of congresional hearing on anything let alone the stim, O said, "I have said that we can not go back to an ecconomy based on over leveraged banks, inflated profits and maxed out credit cards."  What we need is an ecconomie based on over leveraged goverment bugets, an inflated dollor and maxed out regulation of the tax base.  Re-apointing Bernake was not a violation of his "i will make no news on vacation" pledge.  It was a way to talk down debet fear with out making news by admitting debt was scairy.  We will grow out of it and taxing eletricity will help us grow. 

 

Blomberg sued and court said that just because the records make a company look uncompetitive dosn't make the records legaly privalaged (secret) even if the goverment owns the company.  Well the goverment is lending moeny to some companys with colateral no one else would touch and then buying a few other companys. 

 

Too much hot moeny chasing to little product.  Take two bail outs and call me when inflation hits 10%.  Then we will wright a brand new snazzy law that will fix it all and still not require any dicipline from anyone.  Thats what we didn't ever sence half the people in congrass have been in congress- kick the can down the road. 

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But if it's only a one day story then it dosn't count.  In some places you ask how far you need to drive to the next town and they say it's three beers.  In the belt way you say how big is $2000 billion and they say it's about two press cycals if you keep smiling.

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Blogo's book deal talks became the talk of the people he governed w/ who are still in goverment.  They passed what is frankly a bill of attainder (the uncostitutional practice of passing a law with one targeted person in mind) which give goverment power to grab moeny a former crook/ politician makes by telling the public about his crook/ politician cronies in a book.  The finacel incentive to tell all in his tell all is therefore deminished and they can bribe him to keep them out of the book with much less moeny.  Again, couldn't we settle this problem with the laws that were on the books when the problem happened. 

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FBI is feeding on the CIA's crown jewles.  No surprise there.  The DIA might even get another turn snaching CIA taskes.  State will pretend to pick the bones but Hills heart isn't really in it.  She isn't a spy.  She wants two thirds of the defence buget to go to state but not in a hurry to take the work that goes with it.

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Maybe there was some blow back from blowing off the U.K.  I'm just saying a little love might have been a good idea. 

The wold have let the bomber go anyway.  Just enjoyed it less.