On the Turning Away

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Over at Daily Salem Witch Trials, where Jane Hamsher has been burned at the stake so many times they’ve run out of stakes, someone set their torch down long enough to deliver a sermon about the dangers of fire . . .

Obama Warns Progressives We Will Go Down In Flames . .

President Obama told progressives that if this healthcare bill fails, not only will the democrats go down in flames but his presidency. I think those who are not satisfied with this bill need a come to jesus moment. We democrats need to realize that we can’t get everything we want.

I’ll have a come to Jesus moment if you stop sniffing glue.   While drinking a case of beer. While posting a diary from a rabbit hole somewhere deep beneath the surface of Obamabot Land.  

Someone needs to understand the basic difference between flying and never getting off the ground.  You can’t go down in flames when you never even got the damn plane into the air.   It didn’t even make it to the runway, because there aren’t any runways.  It’s still in the hangar.  At the No We Can’t International Airport.  Where there’s no runways, where there’s no control tower, where there’s no departure gate because nothing ever departs, where the only thing in the air is Rahm’s middle finger.    

Did I mention the plane doesn’t even have a pilot?  No?  Well then I’d better mention that.

THE DAMN PLANE DOESN’T EVEN HAVE A PILOT.

Hopey McChange talks about flying, he talks about it all the time, he talks about soaring high up into that Sky of Change, soaring high above the status quo, high above those red states and blue states, way up into that Heaven of Bipartisanship, where the Centrist Angels play their harps and halos glow above every Republican head.  

He talks so much the wind never stops blowing . . .  

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth . . .

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Blowing down the backroads heading south.

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,

You’re an idiot, babe, it’s a wonder,

That you still know how to breathe.

When he’s not busy moving his teeth, Hopey McChange is learning how to solve problems . . .

Obama’s Solution to Stop Outsourcing–Stop Counting Jobs Outsourced . . .

Since 2000, the U.S. has lost 5.5 million manufacturing jobs, with 2.1 million of those jobs being lost in the last two years alone. Since 2001, over 42,400 factories have closed in the U.S., and another 90,000 are considered at severe risk of closing. The last time so few were employed in manufacturing was in 1941, before World War II spending pulled that sector out of its Great Depression slump.

So President Obama has come up with a big and bold solution to deal with the problem.  He’s going to shut down the federal office that counts how many jobs are being shipped overseas.

I have a better idea, Hopey.  Shut down the Oval Office.  Shut it down before you do any more damage than you already have . . .

As health reform seems to be approaching final passage, anti-choice advocates are ratcheting up pressure to completely eliminate coverage of abortion care, now a basic component of the insurance coverage held by the majority of currently-insured women in the United States.

Meanwhile, discriminatory restrictions contained in the Senate bill–originally incorporated to appease Senator Ben Nelson and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops–are likely to become law.

Single Payer never had a chance.  Democrats will never pass the Public Option. Home foreclosures are increasing.  Labor unions are still dying.  The NSA is still spying.  The corporate media is still lying.  The rich are still getting richer and the poor are still getting poorer.  

We’re supposed to accept that, we’re supposed to clap louder for Hopey McChange and that pack of frauds and cowards that used to be the Democratic Party.

Enough is enough.        

Don’t accept that what’s happening,

Is just a case of others suffering,

Or you’ll find that you’re joining in the turning away . . .

The Democratic Party is turning away from every principle progressives believe in, from every cause, from every value, from everything we care about.  I’m not telling you that, everything Democrats do is telling you that.  If you continue to support the Democratic Party, you’re joining in the turning away.

Listen to your conscience, it will tell you what to do.  Think of the pale and downtrodden, and you will know what to do.  Open your eyes, look around you, see what’s approaching on the wings of the night. A third party is stirring, where the speechless unite in a silent accord, an accord that won’t be silent much longer, an accord that will be heard because it must be heard, an accord that will echo across this country sooner than you think . . .  

No more turning away,

From the weak and the weary.

No more turning away.

Ever again.

(Cross-posted at Wild Wild Left and Firedoglake)

   

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    • Edger on March 5, 2010 at 14:43

    Why? Because Republicans and Teabaggers won’t vote for him?

    Well, fcuk! He obviously hasn’t been bipartisan enough.

    Maybe he could think about including progressive demands in the bill.

    You know, things like maybe universal health care.

    For Obamabots too.

  1. The GOS diary you reference has over 1500 comments now, I didnt try to read them. No need.

    You got it exactly right here. Thank you, as always.

    Thank you for that song also. I had to go fetch the lyrics … so fine.

    It’s a sin that somehow

    Light is changing to shadow

    And casting it’s shroud

    Over all we have known

    Unaware how the ranks have grown

    Driven on by a heart of stone

    We could find that we’re all alone

    In the dream of the proud

    On the wings of the night

    As the daytime is stirring

    Where the speechless unite

    In a silent accord

    Using words you will find are strange

    And mesmerised as they light the flame

    Feel the new wind of change

    On the wings of the night

    No more turning away

    From the weak and the weary

    No more turning away

    From the coldness inside

    Just a world that we all must share

    It’s not enough just to stand and stare

    Is it only a dream that there’ll be

    No more turning away?

    • BobbyK on March 5, 2010 at 17:55

    I finally got around to opening some of my DCCC spam yesterday. Told em to stop emailing me. Obama and the democratic leadership has done such a soaring job, I’ve been inspired to leave the party.

  2. Single payer never had a chance.  Public option never had a chance and the reality of Obama as the steering agent directing the accellerated Illuminati Plan to Destroy America is now well beyond crystal clear.

    Very popular right now the the movie 2012, which echos only the negative aspects of that year.  We are all dead.  Period, end of story but is there another take on this.

    Yes, David Wilcock.

  3. Do what he say!

    Later:

    Ooh baby, you are so talented.  And they are so dumb!

  4. … response from the Dem party/Obama loyalists is that Obama never used the words “going down in flames,” etc.

    Feeble.

    Now he finds time to talk with the Progressive Caucus after shutting them out of every decision, after making deals with Big Pharma and the private hospitals.

    And now he makes some vague noise that he’ll work on getting the public option later, as though his Administration hasn’t shot down every attempt by both the citizens and the Dems to keep up the pressure to vote for it.

    There was another diary written in opposition to that one by jbou – his tip jar got hide rated by all the usual suspects because he was “disrespectful” to Obama.

    Bleh.

  5. don’t you have to have been facing in that direction to begin with?

  6. rec’d that POS. Sometimes I swear I have blackouts while blogging.  

    Idiot wind, indeed. I love that line, rusty.  

  7. he says it’s up to us to make them do the right thing.

    Yes, he really said that.

    How about, you do the right thing or you’re out?

  8. brother to defend this shit.

    See, he got told by somebody that if this passes, he’s gonna have to go looking for insurance on the open market, and he’s just so mad because Obamacare is going to destroy his gold plated insurance and IT’S ALL MY FAULT!

    He thought I was happy he was going to lose his gold plated government health insurance (if that happens).

    So it’s not like I have had 10 years of junk fraud insurance or anything, and it’s not like the Republicans had 8 years to do something, anything, but didn’t, it’s just now all our fault those of us who don’t even want or support this piece of crap.

    Oh, and I’m not happy if he loses his gold plated government insurance (if he does).  He has had multiple operations and a baby daughter with mitochondrial disorder to support.

    I’m not happy at all.  But it’s just so unbelievable.  The haves are unhappy.  Heh.

  9. I just keep reminding myself that for eight years all we got from Democrats besides a bill that was never anything more than a carrot on a string to distract liberals was “You could never get anything done with Bush in office.” Nothing about all of the deaths caused by the American medical market both during Bush nor after and then we wind up with a bill that would make George W. Bush proud.

  10. thank you. Cause he’s acting like the only country that matters is Wash. D.C.———The United what? What’s that?

    People? What people? Don’t you understand, it’s the presidency stupid!

    • TMC on March 7, 2010 at 03:10

    over at FDL by davidmizner who saw this comment on HRC and Progressives

       This attitude is the reason we’ve had 50 years of social regression in this country. Progressive ideologues who demand all or nothing at every stage of reform are the reason that we still have nothing. Meanwhile, the rest of the democratic world has moved forward, step by step, while America has stood still.

       Ask the working-poor Americans how they feel about the need for a perfect fit to progressive ideology. I’m guessing they’d rather have some relief. Some of us with medical bankruptcies in our families, or friends with kids and no health care, would prefer some relief to none.

    ( my emphasis)

    Is this user serious? he sounds more like a tea partier than, well, you get the picture. This comment currently has 153 recs.

    The response from poster “ratfood” was perhaps one of the best

    Conservatives aren’t the only people who revise history. The HCR debate is recent, yet some people are already quite comfortable misrepresenting what has actually happened, as in:

      Progressive ideologues who demand all or nothing at every stage of reform are the reason that we still have nothing.

    What complete BS. The only inflexible ideologues would be those still holding out for single-payer. Everybody else has compromised and compromised and… Most would even swallow hard and accept the Stupak provisions for the greater good IF… there was a public option… or go along in the absence of a public option IF there were no mandates.

    That is the line in the sand and it is not an example of the perfect as the enemy of the good, it is the mediocre as the enemy of the terrible.

    • banger on March 7, 2010 at 22:39

    The pro-bill arguments are pretty good. At least people who have nothing will get something. But it also means that progressives, if they favor this kind of not only anti-progressive Republican bill but also a confused mish-mash of “reforms” that could work or, because they are poorly conceived and clumsy, cause unintended consequences (perhaps intended by the HC industry lobbyists who are actually writing the bill) that are currently hidden in the details.

    This has to be stopped and I say this knowing that there are so many suffering from no health insurance.

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