SCOTUS About to Disappoint Many Conservatives – Will Uphold Unconstitutional Mandate

by Scott Creighton UPDATE: Go here to watch Jon Stewart shill for fascist legislation as he claims the insurance companies would go bankrupt if the mandate provision is taken out of the law. What a tragedy that would be huh? Anyone here have a nightmare story about a loved one trying to get coverage for [...]

Extension of the Patriot Act Fails on Procedural Vote

by Scott Creighton Well, you take your good news in small doses where you can find it these days. I guess I’m a “glass 1/8th full” kind of guy. The extension of the Patriot Act failed yesterday on a simple procedural vote.  But, like Kenny points out over at his sideshow, this cloud’s paper-thin silver [...]

Obama Care’s “Personal Mandate” Ruled Unconstitutional by Federal Judge

by Scott Creighton A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that the Obama Care personal mandate, the law that requires U.S. citizens to purchase an insurance policy from a private company, is unconstitutional. I, and many others, have been against this “personal mandate” since it first appeared in Hillary Clinton’s campaign rhetoric back in late [...]

A Lie Exposed

by Jerry White, WSWS Four months after the passage of Obama’s health care legislation—hailed by most of the media and the entire liberal establishment as the most progressive social reform since the 1960s—the reactionary implications of the measure are emerging ever more clearly. The centerpiece of the plan, the White House claimed, was the extension [...]

Obama’s Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick

by Chris Hedges, TruthDig A close reading of the new health care legislation, which will conveniently take effect in 2014 after the next presidential election, is deeply depressing. The legislation not only mocks the lofty promises made by President Barack Obama, exposing most as lies, but sadly reconfirms that our nation is hostage to unchecked [...]

AT&T, Verizon considered dropping employee health insurance as a result of healthcare overhaul

 Democrats canceled hearings after learning companies’ plans would make health insurance bill look bad (Well, actually, they didn’t want the general public to see that the Obamacare insurance/industry bailout bill would allow major corporations to save massive amounts of money by dumping the coverage of their employees… something that many of us said would happen [...]

Biden and Kucinich Spin Up a Modern Day “Fox and the Grapes” Fable

by Scott Creighton There was a time in this country when you could always count on Dennis Kucinich to stand up and speak out against the monied interests that have crippled this nation. Now he dutifully parrots Joe Biden’s talking points right on que.  And as cognitive dissonance goes, this one promises to set a new standard.

Like Water to Wine:The Miracle of Changing Neoliberalism into Populism, It is a Very “Big Fucking Deal”

by Scott Creighton “Today, I’m signing this reform bill into law on behalf of my mother, who argued with insurance companies even as she battled cancer in her final days“. Barack Obama In the Neoliberal Age, in Washington especially, all focus is concentrated on the appearance of a thing, rather than the substance behind it. That is [...]

Some Notes on the Glorious Leader’s “Neo Deal”

by Scott Creighton The neoliberal capitalist New Deal (let’s start calling it Obama’s “Neo Deal” shall we?) of the Obama administration is being marketed as a great social reform that “could ultimately rival Social Security and Medicare in historic importance.”   Even its staunchest opponents like Micheal Moore, a man who just a week ago went out of his [...]

The Health Care Hindenburg Has Landed

by Chris Hedges, TruthDig Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s decision to vote “yes” in Sunday’s House action on the health care bill, although he had sworn to oppose the legislation unless there was a public option, is a perfect example of why I would never be a politician. I respect Kucinich. As politicians go, he is about [...]

Institutionalized Theft:A Clinton Family Tradition

by Scott Creighton  “A plague o’ both your houses“  We all know the “New Dems” and the DLC are the real power behind this phony “healthcare reform” fraud (what some are calling “The Road to Neofeudalism” or “20% of your labor belongs to Aetna“). So let’s just take a look at them, shall we. And who better [...]

Flashback:THE Notorious AIG

by Scott Creighton The United States mandates that contractors working overseas in hostile areas must have a kind of disability insurance, which they pay for out of their checks. AIG, the company that is connected with yet another Washington insider firm Goldman Sachs, is the insurance company that handles the policies. AIG has also been [...]

A Snapshot:”Grassroots” Healthcare “Reform” and the Insurance Industry Stocks

by Scott Creighton The public relation campaigns are in full swing doing their level best to try and prop-up some kind of grass-roots looking “movement” for this Obamacare Insurance Industry Bailout Plan. So I thought I would post a few pictures of their astroturfing demonstrations and along side of them some of the more somber “reality based” [...]

CNN’s Cafferty: ‘Beyond Sleezy’ for Pelosi to Use Procedural Tactic on Health Bill

“Politically speaking, this is beyond sleazy. It’s meant to protect Democrats – especially those up for re-election in November – from having to make a tough vote. Pelosi says of this process, ‘I like it… because people don’t have to vote on the Senate bill.’ In Nancy Pelosi’s world, accountability is a dirty word.”

FUCK YOU DENNIS KUCINICH- What did you REALLY GET for Selling us out, you piece of shit?

by Scott Creighton The worse part of this, aside from the passage of this criminal fucking bill and the mandate to force poor working slobs to buy flawed insurance from corrupt corporations, the worse part of all this, is going to be the insufferable Obamaites will use this moment as a coranation of their self-important, [...]