The Sloganeer

In their haste to capitalize on the ACORN ’scandal’ and appease the Hannity’s of the World, the mental giants in the Congress passed a bill to de-fund the community organization.  A slight problem with that, however, as one writer put it…”the bill could plausibly defund the entire military-industrial complex.  Whoops.”
You see, the bill dictates that there [...]

Here’s an idea. Instead of spending billions and billions of dollars on weapons of war, most of which we don’t want or need, how about we peel a fraction away to pay for the Human Right of Healthcare for All. Remember just before 9/11 when Rummy basically said that the Pentagon couldn’t locate some 2 [...]

“What it’s saying is, is that we’re not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you anymore,” said Obama.
How despicable is that.
We can carry Wall Street’s ‘burdens’ to the tune $800,000,000,000, but we can’t get those caught in the flight of jobs to foreign lands, affordable healthcare. The American Dream.
We can carry AIG’s [...]

Well it’s that time of year now, when hundreds of thousands or maybe millions of seniors hit the dreaded ‘doughnut hole’ in their prescription drug coverage from Medicare Part D. Fashioned by Bushco and Big Pharma, the law is simply put…a sham. Let’s see…seniors, who need their prescription drugs to live, are given a maximum [...]

In reading some excerpts from an upcoming book by a former Bush Speechwriter, a couple of notable quotes stood out. Most will be enthralled with Bush’s commenting on the size of Hillary’s ass and Palin’s obvious lack of qualifications, but his boast, “I know it sounds arrogant to say,” he told me, “but I redefined [...]

The Raw Story:
“Most US doctors approve of a “public option” to supplement private health care insurance in the United States, as proposed by President Barack Obama, a poll showed Monday.”
“A total of 62.9 percent of physicians who participated in the survey by the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) said they favored a public [...]

That didn’t take long. The day after softening her insistence that no bill would pass the House without a robust public option, Nancy by the Bay sold what little credibility she had left down the river.
Raw Story reports:
“One day after House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi softened her stance on a public health option, a lobbyist [...]

From bnet:
“Friday, the New York Times reported that bankers are seeking to buy life insurance packages from holders who sell them at a deep discount (around 40% of the settlement value). The banks will then bundle the packages, securitize them into bonds, and sell them off to clients such as pension funds, who receive the [...]