Barack "Pretty-Man" Obama Will Pass a Public Option
I predict that Barack "Pretty-Man" Obama's Obamacare will include a weak public option.
Why?
Because the complete and undeniable failure of that useless con-man would expose the American two-party political system as the barely differentiated corporatocracy that it really is, and expose it so obviously that even the TV-intoxicated morons who elected Barack "Pretty-Man" Obama would finally understand it.
Washington will not allow that to happen.
You tell 'em, Pretty-Man!
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she has nearly enough votes to pass a bill that would include a wording that creates a government-run program to compete with private insurers.In the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who took a team of negotiators to the White House Thursday, has been considering the idea of a public option that would allow for states to opt out.
Even the always-out-of-it Senator Kent Conrad don't need no stinkin' weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing!
"What I'm hearing is that this is the direction of the conversation," said Conrad, who supports an alternative approach under which nonprofit co-ops would compete with private industry.
But don't expect a "robust" public option from your barely distinguishable corpo-rat-ocrats...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi counted votes Thursday night (10-22-2009) and determined she could not pass a "robust public option" -- the most aggressive of the three forms of a public option House Democrats have been considering as part of a national overhaul of health care.
And what kind of public option isn't robust?
That would be a decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, and weak public option, and that's exactly what Washington will give Barack "Pretty-Man" Obama, to preserve a minimum of credibility for the American "two-party" political system, which is really just a stinking corporatocracy, but...
When that glorious (but also decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, and weak) public option is finally signed into law, then the corporate media will celebrate it so magnificently and with so much pomp and circumstance that hundreds of millions of TV-intoxicated morons will forget all about multi-trillion dollar give-aways to criminal bankers and bigger war in Afghanistan and soaring unemployment and all join together in a hymn of praise for our incredibly pretty (but also decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, and weak) President Barack Obama!
Meanwhile the US healthcare industry is feeling so confident and bankers have so much confidence in the prospect that Obama will deliver 300,000,000 customers with no way out...
So unlike almost all other American industries which can't raise money to buy squat, much less a large Eurozone acquistion where the US dollar is a joke, all is sunshine with Big Pharma, and Merck has just grabbed up Schering-Plough, "a global science-based healthcare company, active in human prescription pharmaceuticals, animal health and over-the-counter consumer healthcare," which is already so multi-national that it could not be bought without EU approval.
Hurrah for Big Pharma!!!
It's about to become Big-Everything-Else-About-Healtcare, too.
October 23, 2009 12:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Troll.
p.s. Your avatar is somehow repulsive. Apt.
October 23, 2009 8:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wouldn't you be happier on DailyKos, with your little friends?
"Troll!"
On DailyKos, you nasty, mindless twits can make comments disappear, but here you're nothing.
October 23, 2009 8:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, ya know, you have to get big enough so that you become too big to fail. Otherwise, they will just leave you twisting in the wind.
October 24, 2009 2:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
You are a jerk.
October 23, 2009 1:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hoover up for Obama, lousgirl84! There aren't many suckers like you left in his stable!
October 23, 2009 1:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Pretty-Man"?
Are you jealous, or is the point you are attempting to convey so weak, you are forced to use a non-sequitur as an insult?
Weak and Lame, Vegetable Lover...
October 23, 2009 2:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let me predict, pseudo, that he's now going to say that your mother wears army boots. Bet he did lots of stuff along the lines of "Bush = chimp" back in the day, as if putting that to print accomplished anything...
October 23, 2009 2:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're wrong again, asshole, and if you weren't totally worthless, you wouldn't have to guess what I wrote about Bush, because over 100 diaries of it are still online, like the very first diary I ever posted on the net, about "Evil, and the Liberal Vocabulary."
And the reason that I didn't reply to PseudoCyAnts the same way I reply to you, artappraiser, is that PseudoCyAnts isn't just another bundle of useless internet trash, like you.
October 23, 2009 3:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hah, well I got you to call me a name, and a very uncreative one at that, further proving my point.
October 23, 2009 4:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're right, and wasting a minute or two of my time is a triumph, for someone like you.
October 23, 2009 6:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Please post all or some of your first post over at the discussion on Grayson: some of the commentators seem to feel that Grayson is going over the top. They need a reality check.
October 23, 2009 5:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not familiar with Grayson. What's the story?
October 23, 2009 6:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/grayson-cheney-has-blood-that-drips-from-his-teeth.php?ref=fpblg
Excellent blog post at Kos, btw. Excellent.
October 23, 2009 6:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks, LisB.
I left a very affable and middle-of-the-road comment on that thread.
Harharharhar!!!
October 23, 2009 7:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, gee, Rutie...why didn't ya tell 'em how you really feel!
Harharharhar...
October 23, 2009 7:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do you really think Obama would have been elected to anything if he looked like Dennis Kucinich?
Do you live in a tree?
Obama is the most made-for-TV candidate since la Cicciolina, and the only real differences between them are that Obama didn't show his tits during the campaign, and la Cicciolina has way more soul than the tight-assed con-man in the White House.
If you just have to vote for a pretty face, it's infinitely better to vote for a progressive porn-star than a soulless con-man who stands for nothing.
October 23, 2009 3:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
If looks were really that big a part of the voting equation, Dennis would have made it just because of his wife.
October 23, 2009 7:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama ran against Bobby Rush in the Democratic Congressional primary in 2000, without enough money to plaster his pretty face all over TV.
Do you remember what happened in that campaign?
October 23, 2009 8:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mm. I suppose trillion-dollar give-aways, a war and some degree of health care is better than trillion-dollar give-aways, a war, and no health care.
October 23, 2009 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's the spirt Karl!
October 23, 2009 4:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Which trillion dollar giveaway are you referring to?
October 23, 2009 5:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
What an unMarxian thing to say.
October 24, 2009 2:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
No...no, I am pretty sure we are in favour of health care.
October 24, 2009 5:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
Were there any candidates you wished were President now instead?
October 23, 2009 9:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
OH, yeah. McCain had such great songs: Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.
October 23, 2009 9:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Incurable koolaid-huffing Obamabots like CVille Dem always pretend that the only choice was McCain or Obama, dinosaur or con-man, because that's the choice two corporate parties gave us.
But Kucinich is infinitely more honest than either of those posturing clowns, and he would be a great President, and likewise Wesley Clark.
For me, honesty comes first, and fancy promises somewhere way down the line.
October 23, 2009 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wanted a populist
October 23, 2009 10:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, pooh, I mentioned Kucinich once, and I swear y ou went all nutsy-fagin on him, too.
I really don't understand how you sustain the rage, Ruta. I cried twice today. Fuck.
October 23, 2009 11:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's a lie.
I supported Kucinich in the primaries, and published numerous diaries supporting him since then.
October 24, 2009 5:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
I stand corrected; I apologize. I like Kucinich, too, except for his shirley maclaine thing; i think she is an utter ass.
It is a sad truth that since teevee became a driving force in elections, looks AND height matter. Now we have elected some ugleee Presidents, but they were TALL. LBJ, Reagan, Nixon? Actually, I don't remember if Nixon were tall, but he was ugleee.
But Dear Dennis looks like he sprang forth out of the pocket of a Vulcan, plus he told us some hard truths, and the times he ran, that apparently was not a good thing.
Also: It was not a lie; it was a mistake. Many of us mere mortals make them from time to time; I happen to 'mis-remember' more than most. Oh we-ell!
October 24, 2009 7:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
I will always give Shirley MacLaine credit for helping Dennis at an extreme low point in his life. Not many wealthy, successful people will do that—help others in need in a practical way—ever.
October 24, 2009 11:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's continually amazing to me how a certain segment of the commentariat here heaps loads of abuse upon anyone who dares maintain that Obama is not the personification of evil, and dismisses them as blind naifs worshipping at the feet of the Dear Leader.
At at the same time, these critics blame him for not bringing a bought and paid for Congress and the money that has run roughshod over our government for at least thirty years to heel with his honeyed words and velvet-clad iron fist.
Who are the naive ones here again?
And Kucinich? Really? Once he's done levitating the Pentagon, and establishing the Department of Peace, just wait until he takes on the insurance industry and the military-industrial complex. The malefactors of great wealth will be trembling in their boots.
If they ever get off the floor they've just rolled onto with laughter.
October 27, 2009 7:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
I regret that such a cool song was sung included you, Rootie, because you definitely suck...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZvFoSI5VN8 at about 2 and a half minutes....
October 23, 2009 9:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Okay. I agree. Obama's the worst!!!
Now what?
October 24, 2009 2:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
Harharharhar!!
October 24, 2009 3:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
So now we start working to give him a strongly liberal Congress with a veto proof majority.
With the GOP's ratings in the toilet and OFA on deck, we can dream, can't we?
Oh yeah, and prune a few of the more objectionable dogs.
October 24, 2009 10:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
I go away for a day or two, and when I come back, I am delighted to find a cantankerous Rutabaga Ridgepole post. Thank you, Rootie. What a relief!
It's a shame, however, that no commenters are able to play with the obvious (I think) connection to Depression-era bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd, although Rootie has provided some obvious clues, starting with the nickname "Pretty Man." But once AnswerFrog got the troll ball rolling, everyone else stopped thinking? Heckuva job, AnswerFrog!
Okay, I'll state the obvious: Our politicians are gangsters (led by Pretty Man Barack Obama) and they are robbing us blind (as this comment thread proves) while senselessly murdering civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan who happen to get in the way of our old-school lawless shootouts with the "bad guys" there.
Is that clear enough for everyone?
October 24, 2009 10:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
Gadzukes! Whew! It was a relief to have you parachute in and translate for us!
And yes, it is now clear enough for us.
October 24, 2009 11:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
"Our politicians are gangsters (led by Pretty Man Barack Obama) and they are robbing us blind (as this comment thread proves) while senselessly murdering civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan who happen to get in the way of our old-school lawless shootouts with the "bad guys" there."
Did you just come out of a coma in January of 2009?
October 27, 2009 6:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Buffy says it best, as always:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AjaVyyveig
(The big ones get away)
'If the bad guys don't get you, then the good guys will.'
'With angels on the take, and gangsters in the yard, hey don't the wars come easy, and don't the peace come hard.'
October 24, 2009 11:19 AM | Reply | Permalink