This is really brazen. She's not even faking anymore.

You just can't make this stuff up. I wonder if it's better to be like the majority of people who keep their heads in the sand or be constantly aware of the lying and deceit as presented by the articles in CD, related blogs and MSNBC? I am heartsick (I have health insurance;don't panic) What's the point of being constantly disappointed and/or appalled? As soon as I heard "trigger" and the talk about build up to public option that it was all over. Even when you have a miniscule dust mote of hope, it still hurts to be disappointed. I guess I just have to "harden up" and get real like some people on CD. Down with Pollyanna and up with cynical, jaded and realistic.

The price of that spaghetti dinner with Nancy is similar to how much it costs to see a doctor for five minutes.

Not surprised. Pelosi has no integrity. She's amply demonstrated how corrupt she is over the years. There's an orange jumpsuit with her name on it, though, just waiting....

"I wrote a book a few years ago called Hostile Takeover whose premise was that corruption and legalized bribery has become so widespread that nobody in Washington even tries to hide it. This is about as good an example of that truism as I've ever seen."

No, nobody tries to hide anything. That's all part of the plan: Keep the People reeling with one brazen scandal after another so that we come to expect it and not get too angry. Another example of the Shock Doctrine at work.

The System was designed to lead to this point. Electing another knight on a white horse will not change this. This system needs to collapse and be rebuilt. We can help it happen or we can diddle on the sidelines and play into the game.

I have no patience anymore with the election spambots (If we would only elect _______, things would change). No, they wouldn't. The System controls the elections and it controls the elected. The People are the last line and only We can save ourselves.

Time to stop playing in the System's sandbox.

I hope the people of San Francisco have learned by now there are more important issues than marriage equality and don't ask don't tell.

You voted for this corrupt cowardly sellout piece of garbage and in so doing may have destroyed the chance for hundreds of millions of suffering Americans to have health care security.

By the way OpEd News and InformationClearinghouse still print Cindy Sheehan's articles.

Cindy is continuing her protest of the wars, virtually alone.

And Pelosi is making sure they are still funded.

Okay people, next time, let's just elect Paris Hilton and he done with it. Okay?

Nancy Pelosi. Oh yes, this is the same woman who supported all of Bush's agendas including bombing innocent people in Iraq.

While she's shoveling cash into her limo, Obama is preparing another speech about how unacceptable it is that Americans are dying without health care.

Oh Mr. Obama. Really? Gee, you look so earnest and bright when you say stuff like that I just wanna believe you so bad.

But, I think if Paris Hilton were saying it, the effect would be better. Then when it didn't happen, no one would be surprised.

And really, all this bitterness over the disappointment of yet another lying president and Nancy Pelosi.

Wouldn't it be better if we all just gave up hope and elected someone who would at least amuse us with her celebrity antics?

Oh AND may I suggest that everyone without health care RSVP

At the home of
Steve Elmendorf
2301 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Apt. 7B
Washington, D.C.

To RSVP or for additional information please contact
Carmela Clendening at (202) 485-3508 or clendening@dccc.org

AND DO PASS THIS ALONG SO MS. PELOSI KNOWS HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT HER PARTY.

Pelosi is a typical democrat.

There need to be meetings in homes all over the Nation to check her out and send her back home.

The politicians have incentive to drag the healthcare debate out. More time to receive political contributions.

A skeptic could argue that Congress is waging the whole health care discussion to raise funds, not enact real change. Obama and Congress are acting like they are on a captainless and rudderless boat. The only thing being accomplished is raising campaign funds.

Back to the fundraiser. Pelosi is from California; yet she is fund raising in Washington DC. This tells you who she is representing.

A typical Democrat/Republican. It's a corporate party w/2 "wings". Neither is substantially different from the other.

Nancy PeLOUSY!
CAMPAIGN SPENDING LIMITS!!

Our so called elected representatives can change colors faster than a Chamelon to accomplish their personal goals!

What a testament to the elected officials at the highest levels representing the democratic process in America.

So, she is kissing the a_ _ of United Health. Gee, I'm so shocked! By the way, I neglected to sign up for my company's health care plan this year so they gave me...you guessed it, United Health. My deductible is $4,000. I don't really give a rat's patootie as I use "alternative" medicine whenever I need it. I'm 60 years old, soon to be 61. It works much better for me as I can't use over the counter medications (they work the opposite on me)nor prescription meds. same deal. Of course, if I fall off my horse and break something, I guess I'll be in deep doodoo as I can't set a bone.

Frankly, I don't know if we will get any kind of health care in this country that won't cost the individual a small fortune and enrich the insurance companies. It just doesn't look promising from this end. I think Obama is reigned in by the "illuminati" toadies in his administration. They have him by the short hairs. We need a revolution....

Yet more evidence of institutionalized corruption. We don't have normal corruption in America, it is institutionalized and perfectly legal and part of our political culture.

We knew Pelosi, like the vast majority of Congress members, are corrupt. What does one expect from a big money, corporate controlled democratic process?

End "corporate personhood".

End all corporate political contributions, as well as PAC contributions. We're supposed to be a democracvy, not an auction.

End all corporate tax havens, loopholes, and corporate subsidies, and all corporate welfare, including bailouts.

Raise corporate taxes to what they were before Reagan and hire more IRS agents to make sure all corporate taxes are paid.

Challenge corporate charters.

Charge corporate polluters to pay for clean-ups of all corporate pollution.

Put corporations back where they belong, as economic factors, not political influences.

"We live in a society, not in an economy." - Rashi Fein

How can some still believe in representative government?

This is the same United Health Care that pays their CEO, Stephen Hemsley, $102,000 per hour. No doubt, his salary is about to go up!

Don't waste time or money on the Democrats any longer. For 30 years or more they have been useless. They have been clearly and solidly right wing. There are no prospects for this changing. The Democrats being right wing appears to be locked-in, given what the economy and society as a whole have evolved into.

It could be argued that the Democrats’ unresponsiveness to lower income people and to true progressives is due as much to the changed economic structure as to their lust for campaign money. The US economic structure, in three words, is extreme, unprecedented inequality. For this short article, let's divide the economy into three equal classes, upper, middle, and lower. The low end of the lower third is indisputably living in a third world situation.

Obama himself commonly mentions that he is working for "the middle class." A politician admitting openly he is working for just one economic class is basically unprecedented, although Bill Clinton waffled between saying he was working "for the middle class" and working for everyone. Prior to Clinton, Presidents who said who they were working for at all invariably said they were working for everyone.

It's interesting to note that even in societies that historically have had strong class systems, such as Britain and to a lesser but still significant degree The Netherlands, it has been anathema for close to a century for any politician to claim that he or she is working only or mostly for a particular class. So the USA is moving backwards in this regard, becoming like some European countries were more than a century ago in terms of being hidebound by an inefficient class-based political and economic system.

But realistically, Obama actually has a practical reason for saying he is working only for the middle class. The reason is apparently that the USA has moved so far in the direction of a third world economy in general and a third world income structure in particular, that in many policy areas, unless revolutionary change is brought about, you really with one law can only address at most one "class tier," either upper class, middle class, or lower class.

The new health care reform, as Obama himself says, is designed primarily for the middle class. Even for that class, results will ultimately be grossly inferior both economically and health-wise, compared with what everyone gets in reputable countries that have enacted smart combinations of single payer, good regulations on players in the health industry, true cost controls, and generous subsidies for such things as education for doctors and construction of new hospitals.

For the lower class or tier, the new law, that will supposedly require individuals to purchase health insurance, poses the threat of being devastating. Consider the basic facts. A big majority of the uninsured are in the lower third. The cost of health insurance, especially when you don't make the mistake of not including the deductibles, co-pays, and disallowed items, has become completely prohibitive for any single person with an income of less than between $25,000 and $40,000 per year, with the specific level depending on where the person lives.

The US Government does not have the resources to fully or adequately subsidize the many millions who are in this lower range who do not have health insurance. Nor would the Government want to do so if it did have the reources. Simply but accurately put, the amount of money needed to fully or just truly adequately subsidize the purchase of health insurance, by lower tier people, is far in excess of what the US can possibly afford.

We already know the subsidies are going to be inadequate, though it will be interesting if you are a wonk to find out exactly how inadequate they will be. As a result, non-compliance will be very large scale. It is plausible that we will be seeing non-compliance similar to non-compliance with prohibition, especially considering that the right wing has clearly dug in it's heals against anything associated with Obama.

There will be two levels of non-compliance. First, at least compared with normal non-compliance rates, there will be extremely heavy non-compliance with the mandate to buy health insurance. Second, there will be surprisingly high and plausibly unprecedented taxation non-compliance, specifically with the requirement to pay a tax penalty if the insurance is not purchased.

Be aware though that this "health insurance mandate" has been talked about and then planned for in right of center elite academic and political circles for at least 20 years. The "health reform" you are going to end up with was indeed decided in advance of all the dog and pony shows you are seeing now. The "town hall meetings" could not be more of a meaningless sham than they are.

Elitists working for rich people long ago decided they would prevent the health insurance system from complete collapse, at least for a few decades, by "requiring purchase" of grossly overpriced health insurance. They decided they would use the IRS as a collection agency for Blue Cross and Blue Shield and other large insurance corporations.

And make sure you understand that the elites know right now, in advance, that there will be heavy non-compliance. So they are designing specific aspects to as much as possible force compliance from the non-compliant. For example, there will be people who lose their tax refunds when they try to avoid chipping in to the bloated and failed health insurance racket.
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Priors and links to all my CD favorite articles: http://www.unity-progress.blogspot.com

The so-called "public option" was in favor of Big Insurance more than the people to begin with. In that sense, the "public option" might as well go. Had there been a true public option put in place that actually puts coverage first and reins in Big Insurance, that option would have been harder to defeat. For those in SF who voted for Nancy Pelosi last year over Cindy Sheehan, how do you like it now? Dennis Kucinich could have been the Speaker of the House instead. At least he would put the real public option on the table, single payer health care.

Impeachment-Off-the-Table-Get-the-Antiwar-Demonstrators-Away-from-My-House Pelosi . . . say no more.

I wonder how she paid for her face? Oh, I forgot, her husband has barrels of money. But it doesn't matter to her if sick people get medical care as long as she looks good and gets elected. She is a narcissist ten ways until Sunday.

The fact that the Democrats annointed her to a position of power is disgraceful.

Joe

Well, we know the address of this little party. If I were in the neighborhood, I'd be real tempted to drop by and have a little party of my own.

Has someone sent this to the papers?