"dead" politicians walking, Stateside

[pic- fotosearch.com]
Although this is not a complete list, I want to cheer on the few brave souls in the US Congress who are working hard against

the Tsunami of corruption
that is American politics.
They are not only pissing off their colleagues, who are,
in the majority being bought off, but they're also pissing off
the big interest groups, like banks or health insurers,
at least a bit.
If the BIG BOYS get what they want, they'll let these
few good people talk all they want, 5 minutes at a time*.
If the biggies fail to get what they want,
this blog entry becomes a deathwatch:

Alan Grayson, Democrat- Florida
Marcy Kaptur, Democrat- Ohio
Bernie Sanders, Independent- Vermont
and even,
a late entrant for his support of Public Option health-care,
believe it or don't,
it's
Rolland Burris, Democrat- Illinois

UPDATE: hold on. Let's wait for the bill
if it's good, then add:
Harry Reid, Democrat
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat- Cali

Let's look at the very definition of excellence, intelligence and bravery:

Alan Grayson
http://www.grayson.house.gov/

1. vs. Ben Bernanke
The Fed is giving away money left and right
BB didn't know where $500 billion went.
Grayson grilled him. Apparently he's the only one.
When BB played stupid, Grayson laughed in his face.[3:20]


2. vs. Republican health care plan
Grayson says "Republicans want you to die quickly."
When asked to apologise, Grayson apologised to the 44 000
Americans who die ANNUALLY
because of a lack of health care [Harvard research].


3. Butthead Bill O'Reilly of Fixed News thinks Grayson is a pinhead.
No reBUTTal needed.

4. Grayson grills Citigroup CEO
for sucking money out of the government.
Citiboy revealed that the government also gave banks
THE BEST INSURANCE in the market,
with no winnings for the government.
His fitting conclusion: "heads, the banks win, tails the people lose"
and lying about their pay and lying about ...well... everything.
He was only allowed 5 minutes of questioning.
Meanwhile, the US economy was
being chucked into a black hole.

5. You know you've bothered some big boys
when they pull out the 'anti-semite' card.
Yup, they've done it.
It used to be peaceloving, peace-treaty freaks in Congress
who were called 'a-s', but the virus has spread.
You wanna find out who did this? Go ahead.
I'm not advertising for anti-democratic liars.

Marcy Kaptur
http://www.kaptur.house.gov/

1. Tale of Two Countries
Wall Street vs. US mainstreet
Massive bonuses on WS, at the same time
that JP Morgan is pushing foreclosures on houses.

2. Squat in your own homes
Foreclosing banks ("vultures") don't have the staff,
and often don't have the paperwork.
to lock up the houses they're foreclosing on,
so Kaptur says "stay put".

3. Banks are having money orgies, and refuse to
talk about foreclosures. Check out this
explanation of what's wrong with the banks (see all parts)


Bernie Sanders
http://sandersunfiltered.com/

1. the middle class is collapsing.


2. Sanders takes a kick at Bernanke
for 3.2 trillion leant out:


3. Sander's workplace is corrupt,
bought and paid for. No new laws
regulating Wall Street, because $5 billion has been spent
to pay for politicians, by banks, 1.2 billion by pharma, etc.:


Rolland Burris
Even though he was appointed by
sleaze-ophile Blagojavich to replace Obama
he seems to be representing his people... on health care

1. Health care
Without a Public Option, where the government provides
insurance to those unable to pay for it,
then this upcoming bill is useless to bad.
So, Burris is saying he'll vote for PO, or nothing [read 1 below]

Harry Reid-not sure
This man, the Senate majority leader has just announced the Democratic end-game (running around and past the Republicans) of including a Public (health insurance) Option, while allowing crazy governors to opt out, especially if they're not interested in re-election.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/politics/143527/harry_reid_announces_senate_health_bill_with_public_option
Let's wait and see what the actual law is. It just passed one stage with one to go.

Nancy Pelosi-not
(coming soon)
Although the Mob of Idiots outside Congress is seeking to maul her, Michael Moore says the healthcare bill has become a watered-down disaster. see MMFlint on Twitter.

So, if you think that Obama is the only voice of change, actually you're wrong. Obama has been talking alot, but has done nothing so far. These folks above are risking their lives.

Coming soon: a few brave Europeans

-Costick67 (8^P

* that's all they're allowed in Congress, or committee meetings.

info:

1 (from Yahoo/AP)
WASHINGTON – For Democrats determined to get a health care bill, Sen. Roland Burris is like the house guest who couldn't be refused, won't soon be leaving and poses a plausible threat of ruining holiday dinner. Suddenly, he can no longer be ignored.

The Illinois Democrat, appointed by disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, says he'll only vote for a bill to provide health care to millions more Americans as long as it allows the government to sell insurance in competition with private insurers.

And he says he won't compromise.

"I would not support a bill that does not have a public option," Burris, 72, said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. "That position will not change."

Those words caught the attention of the very Democratic leaders who tried to keep Burris out of the Senate, suggested he resign and have shunned him in unprecedented fashion. Burris is not the only Democrat to insist on creation of a government-run health plan. But he is the one who has the least to lose by defying President Barack Obama and the Democrats who once turned him out in the cold rain.

It was early January and Blagojevich had appointed Burris, a former Illinois attorney general, to Obama's former Senate seat — defying Democrats in Washington who had wanted someone without a tainted patron and with a better chance of winning election in 2010.

What happened next was a procession of ugly images, from Burris' rain-swept news conference after Democrats turned him away from a swearing-in to Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush daring Democrats to block an accomplished lawyer who would be the chamber's only black.

Bitterly, the Democrats seated Burris. But when it came out that Burris had admitted what he had denied under oath — that he'd unsuccessfully tried to raise money for Blagojevich — Majority Whip Richard Durbin, D-Ill., suggested that Burris resign. He refused.

A Senate ethics committee probe is pending into Burris' statements. Democratic leaders, meanwhile, refused to support any effort by Burris to seek a full term, and he will leave the Senate in 2011.

Meanwhile, his relationship with the rest of his caucus has settled into one of mutual, if chilly, benefit.

It works this way: Burris stays mum about any bitterness he may feel about his reception, and he gets Obama's Senate seat for two years. Democrats seat him, don't speak of him and can count on his loyal vote at a time when all 58 Democrats and two independents must vote together to prevent Republican filibusters.

They've never needed 60 votes like they do on the yet-to-be-finalized health care bill. A disciplined grin shows that Burris knows it.

No, he says, he will not vote for any version of a government-run plan circulating in the Senate, other than the full-blown one from the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

He won't vote, for example, for Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe's idea to use the threat of a public option to force insurers to lower premiums by certain deadlines. He hasn't seen the details of another idea, proposed by Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., that would allow each state to decide whether to offer public coverage to compete with private insurers. The health committee's proposal, he says, must be in the final bill to earn his vote.

"Yeah, that's the one," Burris said.

By definition, all 100 senators are relevant because any one can block Senate business unless there are 60 votes to override the objection. But Burris' stated position on the public option means that Democrats can no longer take his vote for granted.

It's too early to tell whether the public option, or some version of it, ends up in the final compromise between a committee of House and Senate lawmakers. First, each chamber must pass its version of a health care bill. House Democrats are insisting on the government-run plan; but in the Senate, the public option is less popular.

Every Democratic vote is important. And yet, Democratic leaders aren't talking about Burris.

Instead, they're talking confidently about having the votes for the biggest policy overhaul in a generation, a signature issue for Obama and the Democratic Party.

Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., said Burris' demand alone makes him no different than other senators seeking this or that in the bill.

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