Because it sounds more threatening and it's absolutely meant to immediately turn people off and fearful without thinking?

Then every American liberal or progressive could be labeled a - whoooo.... scary "leftist"...most liberals and progressives are also socialist as well....I know I am.

"Leftist" is used by AP is to lie and imply Chavez is a dictator when as Penn stated, Chavez has been elected twice and the last time by over 62% of the people of Venezuela!

AP & other corporate media use "leftist" to always insinuate liberals or progressives in Latin America who aren't the propped up puppet dictators for the American multinational corporations...

I'm surprised the "Rightist" Regressive Republicans haven't used that term against us liberals and progressives here in the U.S. - Just watch they will, and the same fools as now will be frightened, screaming & pointing the finger as they are told to - against what the uninformed morons don't fucking know anything about.

remaining senators who have not signed nor committed - Just need nine more senators to make 50 (VP Biden would vote & make 51)!

PLEASE CALL THESE SENATORS AND DEMAND THEY SIGN ON TO THE BENNET LETTER SUPPORTING A PUBLIC OPTION AS PART OF RECONCILIATION.

Sen. Max Baucus MT (202) 224-2651 (406) 329-3123

Sen. Evan Bayh IN (202) 224-5623 (317) 554-0750

Sen. Mark Begich AK (202) 224-3004 (907) 271-5915

Sen. Robert Byrd WV (202) 224-3954 (304) 342-5855

Sen. Thomas Carper DE (202) 224-2441 (302) 573-6291

Sen. Kent Conrad ND (202) 224-2043 (701) 258-4648

Sen. Kay Hagan NC (202) 224-6342 (336) 333-5311

Sen. Tom Harkin IA (202) 224-3254 (515) 284-4574

Sen. Herb Kohl WI (202) 224-5653 (414) 297-4451

Sen. Mary Landrieu LA (202) 224-5824 (225) 389-0395

Sen. Blanche Lincoln AR (202) 224-4843 (501) 375-2993

Sen. Claire McCaskill MO (202) 224-6154 (314) 367-1364

Sen. Ben Nelson NE (202) 224-6551 (402) 441-4600

Sen. Mark Pryor AR (202) 224-2353 (501) 324-6336

Sen. John Rockefeller WV (202) 224-6472 (304) 347-5372

Sen. Mark Warner VA (202) 224-2023 (804) 775-2314

Sen. Jim Webb VA (202) 224-4024 (804) 771-2221


54 Senators publicly open to using reconciliation to finish health reform. It is actually 55 if you trust Joe Lieberman, which no one should.
http://www.openleft.com/diary/17767/bill-n...

VP Joe Biden would be the deciding 51st vote for the public option if necessary.

However, if the Democrats get 10 more signatures, they could pass the Public Option without the help of VP Biden (and without the need for any of the 41 corporate whore obstructionist republican assholes)!

It would be gutted and made ineffective in a heartbeat - Never to be heard from again in the republican administration.

And future republicans presidents & their administrations would make changes to this same federal agency so as to make future Democratic presidents hand-tied, left with a shell of an agency controlled by banking interest with no real oversight or control in place, a phony bloated federal agency in looks only, used by the banks for cover and back room deal making.

Pretty much as the Dems are now by the banking industry....

The simple fact; banking corporations make the rules, pay-off politicians well and run & control our government.

I despise these manipulating self-serving fuckers who pontificated & whored for Bush, why didn't they educate themselves and understand this shit before helping the fucking republicans do their number on public education and every other aspect of government....

Now they tell us now that they finally "took a long hard look" and want to be treated as heroes when they help to lie, distort, smear and do so much fucking harm, the regressing of public education and damaging helpless children with their lies, manipulations of facts & rhetoric is all that they offered.

We knew these people would becoming out of the woodwork from Bush's so corrupt administration AFTER the fact....here's another one........These people disgust me!!

And so do these people who praise them!

"principle men" was this fucker for real?

Talk about believing ones own press clippings....these fucking elitist republican capitalist, the pig JP Morgan really believed they were fucking noble and anointed, believing that it was their destiny because they were special to rule & exploit, that they were actually better than other humans as if they were made of something more magnificent than the poor bastard in the street....simply because they owned things....So it justifies the republicans elitist corporate ideology in their minds (fascism)...."By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies" Divide & conquer, the cornerstone of the republican party....Republicans have always believed & practiced this shit to the "T"!

That they will do what they can for that incumbent....most important, party unity is at stake here!

It would look like a stab in the back if the president didn't support the incumbents in his own party to the other incumbents in that party....even if that same incumbent in question has stabbed you in the back in the past....

The president must be bigger than that, a uniter and let the chips fall where they may....No matter how he personally feels.

Hopefully they'll come out the way a president really wants them to.

republicans always trash & want to destroy and then privatize - a give away republicans want to give to corporations so the corporations can file bankruptcy at anytime when they choose to steal the huge pensions funds they'll have, in place of a long gone SS - while the same corporations will also be receiving bailouts & subsidies from our tax dollars....

Amazing is the republicans duplicity.

Dems fought for these programs that republican hate, never supported and constantly trying to destroy....what the fuck is wrong with republicans who use these programs and vote against their own interest....is the republican base really that stupid & ignorant, do they really have low IQ as reported....It must be true.....I guess hatred & racism supersedes all with their little minds!

are the only successful democrats to hold the office of governor in California....That's a long time of Republican governors in CA....Warren-12 years - Reagan-8 years - Deukmejian-8 years - Wilson-8 years - Schwarzenegger-8 years (after the republicans, media & Enron were able to trash & get rid of Gray Davis quickly).

Again, the only democrats (besides the tossed Davis) that California has had as governors since the 1940's have been the Browns, both serving two terms each as governor.

Another republican governor in California will be a nightmare!

 
every republican is giving Obama "advice" bomb Iran and get re-elected....

Cheney has wanted it for years, so have the oil corporations who drool over those Iranian oil fields, the weapons makers are also drooling over the aspect of huge profits as are the two hundred plus other corporations who have been makings outrageous profits keeping wars going....they want Obama to do their dirty work.

Just as they wanted president Clinton to invade Iraq (better to have a Dem start a war). But if the Dem won't do it, the republicans will certainly come up with some "terrorism" excuse to convince people we need to bomb and invade another sovereign nation....the more unrest in the region the more profits and non-accountability.....

Republicans want wars for profits, and they want wars for the trillions of dollars in oil and they want war for their military & weapons and to keep us in fear and wars of imperialism WILL create even more terrorist in that region, as we bomb & kill civilians.

Republican warmongers love the thought of more terrorist....it makes the republicans & corporations job easier and gives the republicans an excuse for their wars for profits, and it keeps the American people in fear and wanting to support a trillion dollar military budget every year...not to mention the corporate profits made on the military, CIA world imperialism....The republicans love and create the terrorist.

in office and the republicans are pounding away lying, trashing and filling all media with bullshit about Obama to discredit him, the republicans tactic of just say no to everything, holding up appointments & policy, with obstruction....

All in order to bring in another of their idiot republican spokesperson for the continued corporate fascism of our country, can they do it with Palin?

It really doesn't matter who it is, the republicans must do it this way because they have no sell-able ideas or agenda, they have to use other tactics as always lying, cheating & stealing....

The republicans simply want a spokesperson (NOT a brilliant mind, someone who can sell with their corporate bullshit) and set corporate policy all via image....remember how the republican sell it...."no difference between a republican or democrat (they push this every election it helps the republicans immensely) how most people would like to have a beer with Bush...you know good old boy wouldn't hurt a fly until he got in office and did everything possible for the corporations interest over the peoples & workers....REAGAN was exactly the same...no great political mind, but a fine salesman, huckster who sold the country bullshit and CORPORATISM and union busting.

To assume the republicans can't do it with Palin is being as stupid as we Dems have been in the past and still haven't learned a thing about republican tactics....Republicans will use corporate money, their powerful media, the stacked courts along with lies, smears & distortions, the dense single issue voters, to go along with the republicans stealing votes electronically (Dems still haven't done shit about the easily hackable, untraceable voting machines) as well as using voter purging, and other slimy tactics we've seen the republicans use, all to squeeze in another republican huckster robot into the presidency.

Yes indeed the republicans can do it and they are DEFINITELY working on it each and every day.

simply because the Republican platform is Anti-Choice ("Anti-Abortion") to some voters, the republicans can stick a knife right in their backs (and they do), republicans can & do take money & benefits right out of their pockets and even ship their jobs away.... yet many voters will still vote only republicans because of this one issue.

Republican leaders & their think tanks know this and exploit this extremely well.

The republicans use this tactic of hate & fear for other issues as well... gay marriage, minorities rights, gun control...etc. etc...

Many who vote republican vote on single issues.....republicans always keep in the publics mind as in today's Super bowl ad....Republicans make sure every chance they get to exploit these issues and keep public attention focused on them so at voting time republicans make it clear of their position & platform.

These single issue voters make up a large percentage of the republican party, without them the republicans would almost cease to exist.

the republicans are trying very hard to do the same to Obama, and will blame Obama for many years to come (say it enough times and people believe it) republicans will lie & try to change history and will say it was a republican who pulled us out (after Obama) just as they did with Carter.

Republicans still use Cater unfairly as their whipping boy and try to say it was the asshole republican, Reagan who came to the rescue....REAGAN'S BUDGET PROPOSAL THAT HE GOT WAS THE LARGEST TAX INCREASE IN HISTORY OF THE WORLD ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE (PAID FOR BY THE MIDDLE CLASS - CORPORATIONS RECEIVED TAX CUTS)- FACT - LOOK IT UP!

(Republican NEVER want to talk about Regan's tax increase and will even deny it, trying to change history).

Now they are trying to do the same thing to Obama and they'll continue to blame Obama, a democrat, for years to come they will make up (like they did with Reagan) that it was a republican who pulled us out of a recession.

Carter inherited eight years of Nixon/Ford's mess and Obama inherited eight years of Bush/Cheney's mess, just as Clinton inherited twelve years of Reagan/Bush's mess!

Republicans are liars who constantly try to change history because of their greed, corporate ideology and ineptness!

Matthews obviously has and mentioned last night, and they never will.....They only saw a black man whom they hate and want to destroy and who think a black man has a no right to be president or any other leader in our country (as we see so clearly who makes up the republican party decade after decade, besides a token here & there).

Matthews clearly likes Obama and has said wonderful things about him and he was trying in to say it didn't matter once Obama started speaking (it should NEVER matter)...Matthews was just fumbling, awkward, and clumsy at saying it...tired, late who knows, still extremely clumsy.

But what Matthews wasn't taking into consideration is that most racist, republicans & Fox news idiots & sheep would never watch an Obama speech, ever. Their hate ideology & bigotry is far too great for them to overcome an African-American speaking for the nation and his vision and plans to make it certainly better than it is now.

No, my complaint with Tweety is his usual republican kiss-ass ways and his talking over people who are very progressives, liberals who are making excellent points on his show that Matthews doesn't agree with.

Again, there was no way Matthews was being a racist, a Limbaugh, a Buchanan, or all the rest, Matthews is in no way like them....it's just his politics & machine-gun talking over people that I usually can't stand and that drives me crazy!!

Lieberman should be thrown out of his chairmanship on his ass and stomped on....His "60th" vote (was always bullshit) that he held the democratic party hostage to and back stabbed every progressive Dem when we could least afford it.

Lieberman campaigned for republican McCain, Lieberman is NOT a democrat, he's an Independent who votes with republicans....Kick fucking Lieberman in the ass and send him on his way back across the isle to the republicans, let them have this two-faced, lying unethical shameless pile of shit Lieberman, he fits into the slimy republican party perfectly.