Progressives Are Batting .500 in 2010 Senate Races: Make It .666 by Drafting Ted Kaufman in Delaware

Based on what I saw in floor speeches and TV interviews, I like Ted a lot, even though I did not get a chance to peer into his soul. :)
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Why 200,000 Americans will die by 2014

I was wondering if under the new HCR Bill the Medicaid expansion will begin right away. The answer unfortunately turns out to be no. It begins in 2014 same as other major benefits like the Exchanges, Subsidies and Preex ban. I wonder what is the rationale? Nancy Ann Deparle - Head of the HCR Dept in Whitehouse, offered the lame excuse "infrastructure for Exchanges gets setup over the next few years". Imagine taking four years to setup an exchange which is a logical structure - possibly a Website? Lame Lame Lame. Even this lame excuse does not apply to the the delay in the beginning of Medicaid expansion where any expansion in manpower can take place gradually as more and more people enroll.

Another disingenuous excuse is that the Pay-go rules require us to save before we can spend. This is weird because the budget neutrality is supposed to be achieved not year by year - but cumulatively over the next ten years. It is becoming plausible that a budget game in being played where 10 years of revenue generation is being used to pay for 6 years of benefits, just so that President's record as "No Deficit" Obama looks good. IMHO - it is a deceit to hide the fact that subsidizing the uninsured will not cost money. The right thing to do is to recognize the cost - and stop the 45000 deaths right away.

Unfortunately if all the public (especially the Progressives) plays along in this Kabuki theater, they become complicit in the fraud perpetrated against the very disenfranchised - for whom the Administration and the Legislators have shown their concern time and again. The Public Option disappearance mystery seems to be exposed in the article, [http://tinyurl.com/KabukiOnTheHill], which says: "It's all Kabuki theater to cover up the truth that President Obama made a backroom deal with the for-profit hospital industry that the final health care bill would not include a national public option." The big difference between the two Kabuki Dramas is that PO Kabuki was done stealthily, the Kabuki around the delay is being done in plain sight, thus making all of us complicit.

What is surprising is that the fierce urgency, the President and other Leaders expressed, of stopping the tragedy of 45,000 needless deaths a year as has vanished. The strategy appears to be hurry up, pass the bill and then just sweep this issue under the rug. Unfortunately there is not a rug big enough to hide this elephant and the Dem incumbents will find it hard to explain this situation during the upcoming campaign.

"Mastering AB1070" : A hands-on course for United States Senator

President Obama joked in the Whitehouse Correspondent Dinner:

"Unfortunately John McCain couldn't make it. Recently he claimed that he had never identified himself as a Maverick. And we all know what happens in Arizona when you don't have Id. Adios, Amigos." [Applause]

President with his poignant joke sparked a great idea in my head. The idea of a course which can teach the meaning of AB1070 to our esteemed Senators (the non-Maverick being one of them).

Each one of the Senators should drive a pickup truck, to be rented by Leader Reid. He/she should drive around an area infested with Cops. He/she should then drive 10-15 or more miles over the speed limit until stopped by a Cop. When asked for the Drivers license the Senator should say "officer it seems like I misplaced it somewhere in th house". At that point the Cop is supposed to ask "Sir/Madam, are you a Citizen of the United States?". He/she should answer in the affirmative.

When asked for the proof of Citizenship the Senator should say a little rudely "Officer, do you really expect me to carry my birth certificate around?". If this irritates the cop sufficiently and he takes the Senator to the station and books him/her, the Cop has passed the exam. He did the proper interrogation and did not discriminate based on skin color.

If however the Cop says, "Please carry your driver's license with you the next time. You may go on for now. Good day." The Senator at this point should ask the Cop for his id and tell him that you will be suing him for not applying the AB1070 law as mandated.

At this point either the Senator proceeds home or gets beaten up into pulp. Either way his education is complete. If he/she submits a good report, a frameable certificate will be provided.

Blanche is going all out to be
caught. Good job Senator.

This Senator looks unhappy. He is
getting away with just a citation.

Senator, ideal spot to get caught.

Senator, if this cop does that
he has done a good job.