Lots going on..

I know I'm doing alot of Teddy posts but I came across this today and stole it from
complaintdepartmentmanager, I hope they don't mind! :-) It's so true what he says about liberals!

Elizabeth also has a video up of a guy from Iowa talking about middle America being for the public option. He says some eye-opening things. Maybe we are too quick to believe the people on the right are not with us on healthcare reform. Maybe they are much wiser then they were 8 years ago. Still republican leaders are saying NO to reform, and more importantly saying NO to a public option. Are they going to ignore their constituents just to satisfy their hunger to bring down President Obama? Bob Dole says Obama has to come out and clearly tell Americans what his reform bill will look like, that it is written by him, our President. Dole says Obamas ratings will go up 10 points if he does that.

Did you hear about Vickie Kennedy possibly taking Teds seat in Congress til they have an election. I think its a great idea and I hope she does it.

September is upon us, I'm ready for the healthcare reform talks to begin!

whats wrong with us??

The funeral is today... I can't watch it because my eyes are so red and swollen from watching last nights memorial service.

I hope I'll catch Obamas eulogy on MSNBC or C-Span tonight or tomorrow.

To all you hard-hearted Americans who happen to visit here and read this, I hope you stop and think about all Ted Kennedy did for you as far as his legislation, his 47 yrs of serving this country with honor. Laws enacted because of his caring about you, yes he did care about you, all of you. It's a pitiful shame, the greatest country on Earth, but this week some of it's citizens have shown their true colors. Maybe I have lived a sheltered life and never heard such hurtful and hateful things said about good people til I started blogging.

Every time we elect a new president he says he will be a uniter, we think he'll be right this time, this time will be different! But it's the people who do not want it to be different, the people of this country have such hate for each other. No president will be able to put an end to it thats for sure.

Enjoy your weekend my friends, tomorrow will be a new day and I hope I find a reason right here in blogland to smile... Somewhere someone will have something nice to say...

More from Teddy

I can hear his strong voice when I read this. He inspired a nation, I miss him already...



To speak for those who have no voice; to remember those who are forgotten; to respond to the frustration and fulfill the aspiration of all Americans seeking a better life in a better land....for all those whose cares have been our concern, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die."

Edward Moore Kennedy, 8/12/80



(picture and quote courtesy of Tom Degans awesome blog.)

horizons..

I'm having a blast as a newby around here, Thanks all for being so kind and welcoming! I want to share my new favorite blog..... The Rant by Tom Degan. Have you been by to read?? Tom is an awesome writer and I know you will enjoy it! BTW, great post on Woodstock!

tomdegan.blogspot.com

Also a beautiful tribute to Ted Kennedy, brought me to tears!

Sue

just one kind word?

When I started this blog I knew my posts would be of my thoughts, observations, and hopes. Those of you who come by every day or so know me to be outspoken and emotional at times. Well today is one of those days.

As I was blog surfing reading both liberal and conservative blogs, I was surprised at how many were so unaffected by Sen. Kennedys death. In fact I was down right offended at the blogs who didn't want to touch the Kennedy story so they simply said, 'I was taught as a child, if I didn't have anything nice to say then I shouldn't say anything at all'. So people what you are saying is you have no intention to say one kind word about Ted Kennedy, is that right?

So what you are saying is you don't think Ted was a person of humility, a humanitarian who always put the people of this country before himself, fighting endlessly for things such as equal pay, higher education, healthcare, civil rights, immigration, labor laws, and working folks just like you!

Are you not one bit impressed that by 2008, 2,500 bills were proposed under Sen. Kennedys direction- more than 300 became law-as had 550 bills he cosponsored.

And you aren't even impressed by his 46 yrs. in the US Senate. His career marked by landmark legislation with healthcare reform as his main goal. Oh yes he was a staunch Democrat but his bipartisan work on legislation was admired by those on both sides of the isle.

He was a masterful speech giver. In 1964 he gave an impassioned speech pleading with members of the senate to end a 57 day filibuster of the Civil Rights Bill. The bill was signed by President Johnson.
abcnews.go.com has many of his passionate speeches for you to view.

Did you read todays condolences by Republican leaders? George HW Bush, John McCain, Orrin Hatch, Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell all had nice things to say about Teds passing, Nancy Reagan and Sarah Palin also spoke today about Sen. Kennedy.

What I'm trying to say to you who have offended me, is.... if you couldn't find even one nice thing to say about Ted Kennedy then you should not have even told me about the cute little saying your parents taught you oh so long ago. You should have posted something completely off subject. I wonder if your parents intended for you to use it in such a rude way.

RIP Ted Kennedy, you are in a much better place than I!!

God Bless you Ted...

I woke at 6am to the sad, sad news. Ted Kennedy was the last of the Kennedy boys, he was the center, the rock, the patriarch of the family. He was a champion legislator and his loss will be unmeasurable in the Senate.

There will me many eloquent things said about Ted Kennedy in the coming days and weeks, I cannot do this man justice with my amateur writing but I can speak from my heart and through my tears. I loved Ted Kennedy and his death in my opinion is a huge loss to our country. We needed his leadership now, but we will go on and do great things in his honor.

God Bless and comfort the Kennedy family. Good bye Teddy, Rest in Peace xoxoxo

What a great American??

Gop Congressman Wally Herger calls Obamas health plan a "Threat to Democracy!!"

Well I call Herger a threat to society! A guy stands up in a town hall and says "I am a rightwing terrorist!", Herger replies... "Amen! God Bless You, that is a great American!"

Whats going on in our country?? Those who are more politically saavy than I please tell me, is this normal, has this kinda talk always gone on??
You rightwing nutcases who have been stalking my blog, what do you think about this kind of talk from a congressman?? Do you think it's funny, amusing, push it under the rug stupid??

I hope to God I don't die and come back as a republican, I think I would have to kill myself..

A meloncholy day..

Did you turn up your speaker and listen to the music?

This morning I went to see my friend Mat over at papamoka straight talk, he has this youtube video playing and the song "if you're going to San Francisco" the music is my favorite and the video is awesome! I don't know why but it made me cry, I mean bigtime tears coming down! I definitely am a child of the 60's and 70's. No, it wasn't all Leave it to Beaver time but it was a time I wish I could go back to.

Today I had my fill of liberal bashing at that unnamed blog I spoke of earlier, and it's making me think, why, why are we all fighting and hating? We're never gonna change each others minds about who we support and how we vote, so why don't we all just shut the hell up?? OK, I don't really mean shut the hell up and stop blogging! I mean I will not go to those blogs and comment anymore, I will rant and rave right here at my very own personal blog which I created for myself and you my friends! So there you hateful bloggers, you won't be hearing from me ever again.

If you haven't been to papamokas please go visit him, his blog is informative, and sometimes personal, and always politically correct AND.. he's one of the sweetest guys you will ever talk to!
Love ya Matty!! :-)

Now go sing your hearts out, the music is awesome!!

Prez. Hannity??

This just in courtesy of WND.com

World Net Daily had an interview with Sean Hannity, seems the talk show hostess with the mostess says he would not rule out a bid for the White House in 2012, IF God directs him that is!
Wow, he sounds just like Michelle Bachmann! He says "I've never made a decision in my life without---whatever destiny God has you've got to fulfill it" Then he goes on to say "I'm not sure thats my destiny". ( Oh come on Sean, please please say you'll run!!!)

This interviewer guy thinks Sean could be another Reagan, Says he's a polished communicator and knows the issues inside and out.( WTF???). Oh, AND he can debate too! (WTF??)

OK, lets see what we've got here: Palin, Bachmann, Hannity, Huckabee,
wow this party is really getting it's shit together!! Anybody out there getting nervous???

2012... Hmmmmm I can't friggin wait!!! LOLLOL LOLOL!!!

http://www.dickipedia.org/dick.php?title=Sean_Hannity

Oh yes you are Beck..

Pleas tell me how anybody with even the least bit of human decency can defend the likes of Glenn Beck???
Even he calls himself insane!! Neocons, here's your man, you deserve him!!

This says it all!
I hope he gets the shit kicked outta him in the faux news ratings. Go Pecker!!! (I mean Becker)

who doesn't love Michael Moore...

CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY

He's got another movie coming out, love it!!

click to view michaelmoore.com

I don't know, is there anyone here who actually hates the guy?? I don't know about you but I love his honest, in-your-face approach in his film making and can't wait to see this new one.

You will leave the theatre either angry or hopeful something will change in the corrupt world known as our Wall Street.

bearing false witness..

140,000 people of faith including sponsorships by more than 30 religious denominations and organizations including SEIU joined President Obama on his conference call.
"Some are bearing false witness" he said. It is a moral imperative to overhaul the current system.

There is an effort from the faith community to make healthcare secure and affordable for all American families. A new coalition called Americans for Stable Quality Care includes SEIU, AMA, PhRMA, Families USA and FAH. They have a new ad to help the mis-informed understand what the reform really means...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cqQl3lZzzE

Yes there has been progress, more progress then has been done in the past 60 years. I believe it's time for President Obama to abandon the hope for bi-partisanship. The party of NO has no intention on voting the will of the people.

UPDATE: Sen. Snowe and the gang of 6 say they will NOT put the public option on the table! They have made it perfectly clear they they will not give the American people what they need.

It's up to you Mr. President, what will your next move be??

INSANE!!!

Senate Republicans now say "we need 75 to 80 votes to pass healthcare reform", WTF?????

Why are we listening to this insanity??? 80% of the bill is finished, they are waiting now for the finance committee, are we really gonna take these repubs seriously??

Come on people get mad!!!

More than 3 in 4 support the public option

This poll was sponsored by MoveOn.org Political Action, 1200 adults surveyed August 19, 2009:

Question: In any health care proposal, how important do you feel it is to give people a choice of both a public plan administered by the federal government and a private plan for their health insurance--extremely important, quite important, not that important, or not at all important?

Extremely important....58%
Quite important........19%
Not that important..... 7%
Not at all important...15%
Not sure............... 1%

For those conservatives who will say "oh yea right, like we can believe MoveOn.org", this same question was asked in a poll by NBC news and the Wall Street Journal,
If you have something smart to say about them then tough shit!

Mr. President I sure hope you are on board with this, Your job is on the line, the people are speaking loud and clear!
The progressives are banding together, Pelosi is bargaining, and I know this bill will happen, it will have a public option!

Republicans are supporting the insurance companies, not Americans. Their scare tactics will not work this time. Election after election we have listened to their fearmongering, we have looked at their ugly faces on commercial after commercial, NOT THIS TIME! Your death panels aren't believeable, we aren't listening to you when you say money will fund abortions, we aren't listening to you when you say illegals will have free coverage! We aren't afraid of you when you come to townhalls with your precious guns strapped to your legs. We don't read your stupid signs, ya know the ones that say NO PUBIC OPTION! Yes that was how the sign was printed, not my spelling mistake! LMAO!!! These wingnuts are stupid and we will never back down and let the likes of Palin and co. get the upper hand. Not as long as we have Barack Obama in the White House!!! Go get 'em Mr. President!!!

John Stewart was right!

President Obama...

You're a Jedi Knight ten steps ahead of everybody else.

You KNEW what was going to happen at those town hall meetings during the slow news month of August.

You KNEW the Republicans would start feeling confident that they could knock you out while they had you on the ropes.

You KNEW whacked out Birthers and Deathers and Teabaggers were going to project their ignorant assed bullshit on everybody.

And I'll even bet you KNEW Charles "I Tweet Dumb Shit" Grassley would BRAG about how he wasn't negotiating in good faith.

Well, August is now more than half over.

You already have the chief Republican negotiator for bipartisanship in health care reform saying he wasn't negotiating in good faith, AND THEN ADMITTING THERE WAS NO WAY HE'D VOTE FOR ANY BILL!

Your ducks are all in a row.

You now have every right to say, "we negotiated in good faith with the Republicans to develop health care reform legislation. You now have the chief negotiator bragging about how he wasn't negotiating in good faith but was rather using some sort of stalling tactic to slow down the legislation and even admitting there is no bill we could come up with that he'd vote for. Health care reform is simply too important for this kind of gamesmanship, so the Democratic Caucus in the Congress now has no choice but to go it alone. We'll now develop the legislation that Democrats can vote for and pass that however we have to."

BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE!

Masterful.

The Force is STRONG in you!

I'm sorry I ever doubted you.

courtesy of democraticunderground.com and posted by WeDidIt
edited for my blog :-)

5 comments:

Nancy said...

Sue - I love your politics!! I totally believe that republicans are totally playing into the hands of Obama without knowing it. They have proven they could care less about health care. It's Obama and Democrats they hate and they're willing to do anything and everything possible to discredit him including scaring their own base, out-right lying and bringing guns to rallies to intimidate others. Bullies!

August 19, 2009 2:16 PM

B.J. said...

AMEN, SISTER, AMEN!!!!

If you and your readers have not seen or read ALL of what went on at Barney Frank's town hall meeting in Massachusetts Tuesday night, go to cnn.com "Latest News" headlines, and read it ALL.

A travesty. BJ LINK:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/18/frank.heath.care/index.html

August 19, 2009 2:48 PM

Frodo arrives said...

One of the factoids about life in the South is that folks sometimes move too slow. Frodo is chagrined to find this lovely site and these insightful comments outside his sphere of awareness. Perchance he may visit from time-to-time in order to kiss thy glove and to share in the feeling that our President knows exactly what he is doing.
He can now say,"I tried bi-partisanship, but nobody wanted to play."

August 19, 2009 4:11 PM

Falzone for America said...

BADABOOM BABY!!!

You said it Sue! Very similar to my question to President Obama for tonight’s Conference call.

"What good does it do to negotiate a bipartisan bill with those who have a vested interest in damaging your Presidency and the Democratic Party?" "That's how they make their money!" "Republicans have no intention of supporting anything unless it will do more damage to this country because if it changed things for the better Democrats would get the credit."

August 19, 2009 4:32 PM

sue said...

Frodo and Falzone welcome!! I have enjoyed your comments on others blogs and now you grace mine!! Thank you and come back please!

August 19, 2009 5:45 PM