One of the biggest farces of Bush Term I was the Trent Lott birthday scandal. After the entire Senate lined up to defend Lott (for as long at that lasted) Bush tried to convince a black audience that the separation of church and state was actually a form of segregation.

So, now we have Dems telling voters that this signing off on this piece o crap bill is the same as signing the civil rights act. Hint: the only folks who won't sign are....?

in your paranoid fantasy you can think of them as Kenyan fascists intent on implementing Sharia law upon us...don't be a killjoy:)

Do I also get a slimy Commie??

;-)

OK, OK. You win.

It's a full floor on 5th Avenue near 86th with park views and exposures in all 4 cardinal directions.  Here's the listing.  4000 some square feet.  

14 million, plus condo fees and taxes coming in about $14,000 monthly.  Kind of ironic, that it's a condo.  How much you wanna bet he couldn't get past the co-op board and had to settle for a condo?

And, FWIW, my sources inform me Rush's decorating bill for this place - on the liberal-ridden Upper East Side - was bigger than the bills incurred by the heads of some investment banks for decorating their places.  

Not enough votes for the public option...

In a private meeting at the White House this afternoon, Obama told a roomful of House Dems he doesn't think the votes are there to pass the public option, and urged them to take the long view and to support the Senate bill as merely the beginning of reform, Dem Rep Lynn Woolsey tells me.

Also: Obama thanked the assembled, mostly liberals, for their ongoing insistence from the left over the months that the bill be improved, Woolsey says. "He thanked us," she recalled. "He said the bill wouldn't have been nearly as good as it is if we hadn't advocated."

Woolsey, the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, who was present with around seven or eight other liberals, says Obama compared the health reform fight to the passage of Social Security and Medicare.

"He was very clear: He thought this was as good as it's going to get," Woolsey said, referring to the plan to pass the Senate bill and fix it via reconciliation.

"He encouraged us to understand that this is the beginning of health care reform, not the end of it -- and that we will fix it later, as we have with Social Security and Medicare," she continued.

"He doesn't believe the Senate has 51 votes for the public option," Woolsey said, characterizing Obama's remarks to the assembled.

But Woolsey says she's now a definite Yes on the Senate bill, provided the reconciliation fix is adequate, even if it lacks a public option.

I guess Ms. Woolsey has forgotten about the other things Obama was going to fix once he was president.

Obama thinks the bill has been improved?  Really?  

And this complete capitulation comes from the co-chair of the Progressive Caucus?  That's just pitiful, really, really pitiful.

http://www.aclu.org/national-security/flying-foreign-language

Delahunt will not seek reelection
March 4, 2010 07:30 PM
By Susan Milligan, Boston Globe Staff

WASHINGTON -- Representative William Delahunt will not seek re-election to Congress, the seven-term Democrat will announce tomorrow, ending a nearly 40-year career in elected office and giving Republicans hope of capturing the seat, which stretches from Cape Cod to the South Shore.
"It's got nothing to do with politics," the Quincy Democrat said today. "Life is about change. I think it's healthy. It's time."

The 68-year-old lawmaker said he has been considering leaving the House for several years, but was talked out of it two years ago by the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who convinced his friend he should stay and help President Obama with his first-term agenda.

"He said, 'Come on -- this is a new time. It's a new era. We [will] have a new president. We're all needed," Delahunt recalled Kennedy telling him. Once Kennedy died last year, Delahunt said he grappled with whether to stay and work on the issues Kennedy held dear.

"Clearly, since his death, there's something missing. There's a void. With the void, you feel the need to be here because there's much to do," Delahunt said wistfully in an exclusive interview.

But the congressman said he concluded that after nearly four decades in public service, the grueling House schedule was taking its toll on his personal life.

"I've got a granddaughter," the divorced father of two said. "Given the pace down here, I don't want to miss out on her childhood, her first year."

The congressman has faced recent questions about the handling of the 1986 Amy Bishop shooting case, which occurred when he was Norfolk County district attorney. [... more ...]

Lets see how many people end up on this list by mistake, or for failing to scoop poop...should this crap pass.  Linkage

New taxes on pet food and billing animal abusers is the plan to fund this waste of money and time and resources.  

American soldiers could soon be calling
Poland home after President Kaczynski
ratified an agreement allowing for the
deployment of US troops on Polish soil.
Under the Status of Forces Agreement
(SOFA), the 100 servicemen and women
will be the first foreign forces to be based
in Poland since the departure of the Red
Army in the early 1990s.

A two hour standoff over some 20-somethings smoking a little weed?  Ya gotta be sh*ttin' me.

I love the lead-in paragraph...

Another tip from a watchful citizen early Tuesday morning brought the Greensburg Police Department closer to exterminating the drug problem in the city.