I would like to commend Congressmen Eric Cantor and Bobby Scott for planning a bipartisan debate/public forum on Sept 21 10-1130 am at the downtown office of the Richmond Times Dispatch 300 E Franklin St Richmond Va. Perhaps others will follow their example and stop the hate train. Lets all show up and respectfully work for consensus and solutions. Please contact us if you want to attend!We need to be respectfully heard and show our support for healthcare reform at this event!
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Important historical videos re: the history of previous healthcare reform attempts
The first video is an achival news clipping record of Nixon's attempt at reform in 1973
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGKkPEvD2OM
The second is Clinton's healthcare reform speech to Congress in 1993
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss_mUjre5Kw
To those who say what's the hurry and we're moving too fast in our current efforts to reform healthcare- these videos speak to the fact that we have been chewing on this issue for far too long. They speak to "woulda, coulda, shoulda", and that the current opposition's pushback is "same shit ,different day". They tell us that pushing off to the future a yet more expensive and more broken system to yet another generation is a dereliction of our respondsibility. Action is long overdue and it is noteworthy that the cost numbers these historical documents cite that were used as the bullets that killed earlier reform efforts seem like such a bargain considering what the delays have cost us. It is frustrating to look at these missed opportunities and to ponder where they have brought us.
"Those who do not know the past are doomed to repeat it"- George Santanyana
To review the plan released by the White House that is THE plan moving forward click on:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/health_care/plan/
read understand and share
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGKkPEvD2OM
The second is Clinton's healthcare reform speech to Congress in 1993
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss_mUjre5Kw
To those who say what's the hurry and we're moving too fast in our current efforts to reform healthcare- these videos speak to the fact that we have been chewing on this issue for far too long. They speak to "woulda, coulda, shoulda", and that the current opposition's pushback is "same shit ,different day". They tell us that pushing off to the future a yet more expensive and more broken system to yet another generation is a dereliction of our respondsibility. Action is long overdue and it is noteworthy that the cost numbers these historical documents cite that were used as the bullets that killed earlier reform efforts seem like such a bargain considering what the delays have cost us. It is frustrating to look at these missed opportunities and to ponder where they have brought us.
"Those who do not know the past are doomed to repeat it"- George Santanyana
To review the plan released by the White House that is THE plan moving forward click on:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/health_care/plan/
read understand and share
It's time
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The Healthcare Reform Shell Game
As a Jersey girl raised in Springstein country I've got to give the insurance lobbyists and GOP props, They really know how to fight dirty. The shameless distorted campaign they have mounted to thwart real discussion -well lets just say a street fight in Jersey has more rules of fair play.
To pass real health reform legislation, President Obama must include a public-option plan in the health care reform bill
Otherwise, he will fail, as Congressional Republicans have no plans to support anything but a shell token of a bill that doesn't bring any reform at all. There is also nothing they can do of substance to placate the older, largely Republican town hall attendees that didn't support Obama in the presidential election, and have only grown more enraged in 2009 by his "change" agenda. I fully agree with the New York Times conclusion today:
"We are frankly skeptical that any compromise will be enough to satisfy Republican opponents of health care reform. If the White House and Democratic leaders decide to go it alone, and they may well have to, they should restore a robust public plan. It is the best way to give Americans real choice. President Obama must take a firm stance for a Medicare-like public-plan option, or his health care reform agenda is dead... and possibly his 2012 reelection chances as well.
As an RN, Healthcare reform without a Public Option is "a wolf in sheep's clothing", a lets not and say we did bill- that will do more harm than good because it will put back for years the real reform we need to ultimately cut costs and offer the much needed public option for accessing affordable healthcare.
The Democratic infighting needs to stop and some testicular fortitude to deal with the dirty pr war the opposition has mounted is in order. The fact that the dems are cannibalizing each other and not pushing back on the GOP distortions is really disappointing.
Its all about a power struggle.
They're calling it bipartisanship, I say they need a balls check.
They can borrow mine.
"Testicular fortitude?,remember they're ovaries that can't take the heat"-
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To pass real health reform legislation, President Obama must include a public-option plan in the health care reform bill
Otherwise, he will fail, as Congressional Republicans have no plans to support anything but a shell token of a bill that doesn't bring any reform at all. There is also nothing they can do of substance to placate the older, largely Republican town hall attendees that didn't support Obama in the presidential election, and have only grown more enraged in 2009 by his "change" agenda. I fully agree with the New York Times conclusion today:
"We are frankly skeptical that any compromise will be enough to satisfy Republican opponents of health care reform. If the White House and Democratic leaders decide to go it alone, and they may well have to, they should restore a robust public plan. It is the best way to give Americans real choice. President Obama must take a firm stance for a Medicare-like public-plan option, or his health care reform agenda is dead... and possibly his 2012 reelection chances as well.
As an RN, Healthcare reform without a Public Option is "a wolf in sheep's clothing", a lets not and say we did bill- that will do more harm than good because it will put back for years the real reform we need to ultimately cut costs and offer the much needed public option for accessing affordable healthcare.
The Democratic infighting needs to stop and some testicular fortitude to deal with the dirty pr war the opposition has mounted is in order. The fact that the dems are cannibalizing each other and not pushing back on the GOP distortions is really disappointing.
Its all about a power struggle.
They're calling it bipartisanship, I say they need a balls check.
They can borrow mine.
"Testicular fortitude?,remember they're ovaries that can't take the heat"-
The DAVISReport
Monday, August 10, 2009
Healthcare Bill fact check site. know the facts not the fear
http://healthcarereformmyths.org/HealthcareReformMyths.php
Knowledge not fear is power
check out this site and share it with others
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Knowledge not fear is power
check out this site and share it with others
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Sunday, August 2, 2009
Watch Rep Weiner Call Bullsh*t on the GOP re Healthcare! on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTh-Yu9RfF0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTh-Yu9RfF0&eurl=http://www.facebook.com/home.php&feature=player
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTh-Yu9RfF0&eurl=http://www.facebook.com/home.php&feature=player
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Lies,damn lies and statistics - the healthcare fear mongering needs to stop!
The fact that the dems are cannibalizing each other and not pushing back on the GOP distortions is really disappointing.
Its all about a power struggle and the collective us is being thrown about like a soccer ball. The game is getting real dirty with illegal earbiting and groin kicks in the way of misinformation that has the dems running scared ,rather than pushing back.
This article enunciates my point
Bob Cesca New Media Producer
Posted: July 29, 2009 05:39 PM
Republicans Lying to Old People About Euthanasia
There appears to be a simple two-pronged strategy for killing health care reform.
One of those prongs involves, of course, delaying reform until it's too late. If it's not passed by the end of the year, there won't be the political balls to do so because of the fast approaching 2010 midterms when members of Congress will be much more focused on raising money (health care industry money) and pandering to voters.
Another reason for delaying health care reform is it gives the Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats plenty of extra time to inject their special cocktail of mind-bending crazy into the discourse and make it stick, furthering both the current delay while also eroding any voter impetus to pick up the issue again after the midterms. That'd be prong number two.
Not a single dose of the aforementioned "mind-bending crazy" actually holds up when run through even the most cursory fact-checking scrutiny, and, in every statement, the obstructionists trafficking in these lies further underscore their already obvious contradictions and ideological hypocrisy.
Regarding the latter, I can't recall, for example, this degree of nipple-twisting from Republicans and Blue Dogs about spending and fiscal responsibility when the Bush administration was pitching a blank check invasion and occupation of Iraq on the heels of invading Afghanistan -- all during a recession -- while also passing a $1 trillion tax cut for the wealthiest one percent the year before.
Yet affordable, accessible health care for everyone is a bridge too far, right? (My blood pressure kicks up into the red zone whenever I hear Republicans today suggesting that they were against the Bush administration's spending habits when, in fact, they supported each program individually. After all, opposing the commander-in-chief in wartime emboldened the enemy, no? Not any more apparently since we're still at war and the heretofore "patriotic" far-right won't even admit the president is an American citizen. Consistent of them.)
Back to the mind-bending crazy. I detailed some of these attacks last week, and my friend Michael J. Elston (Washington, DC radio's "Buzz Burbank") hit some of the arguments in his new Huffington Post blog as well. But who knew they would top themselves this week with an attack so simultaneously absurd and shameless that it easily fits comfortably in the Birther/Truther wackaloon syllabus.
This is of course the notion that the president's health care reform plan includes a mandate to kill old people.
First, here's Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-Cuckoo's Nest) on the House floor:
It'll make sure we bring down the cost of healthcare for all Americans, and that ensures affordable access for all Americans, and is pro-life because it will not put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government.
And the de facto leader of the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh:
According to Politico:
Sean Hannity believes it. So does House Minority Leader John Boehner. Talk show host Fred Thompson calls it "the dirty little secret" of the health care reform debate.
Yes, if you believe what these cranks are selling, the Obama administration is engaged in an elaborate plot to rid the nation of its burdensome population of old people. All this fluff about a public option, all the debate about reducing costs and making health insurance more affordable is merely subterfuge in the White House's scheme to impose a final solution to the nation's obvious elderly problem.
Seriously, this is a legitimate argument being used in mainstream Republican circles right now. This is an idea being circulated by the same party that Max Baucus, Harry Reid, Joe Lieberman, Evan Bayh and Mary Landrieu want to negotiate with and capitulate to, all in the name of their fetishistic obsession with bipartisanship porn.
How many more examples of GOP insanity must we enumerate before the aforementioned Democrats stop taking seriously the nincompoopery on the right? Is there no level of ridiculousness too intolerable before enough is enough? At what point does Harry Reid finally overcome his low-T, call bullshit on these jokers and figuratively pummel their soft skulls using a sledgehammer with the number 60 burnished into the handle? Soon, I hope.
The reality:
House bill that would provide Medicare coverage for an end-of-life consultation once every five years. If a person falls ill with a life-threatening disease, more frequent sessions would be allowed.
Put another way, the bill would actually provide an additional and very optional benefit for senior citizens to consult with their doctors about end-of-life decisions -- decisions we'll all have to make. It's a consultation which is usually an out of pocket expense for the elderly, but now it'll be covered under Medicare. Again, it's an optional benefit for Medicare recipients to meet with their doctor. I repeat: optional benefit. Optional, as in "choice." Benefit, as in something "good" or "helpful." O-p-t-i-o-n-a-l. B-e-n-e-f-i-t.
Furthermore:
"This measure would not only help people make the best decisions for themselves but also better ensure that their wishes are followed," AARP Executive Vice President John Rother said in a statement. "To suggest otherwise is a gross, and even cruel, distortion -- especially for any family that has been forced to make the difficult decisions on care for loved ones approaching the end of their lives."
Why do the old-people-haters at the AARP want to kill old people?
Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, House minority leader John Boehner and most other congressional Republicans are taking this wingnut conspiratorial position outlined by Rush Limbaugh. Because naturally they're a very serious political party -- so much so that the Blue Dog Democrats want to work with them rather than laughing them off the floor. Oh the relationships $1.3 million-a-day in healthcare industry lobbying can buy.
And they're getting away with it because, despite their utter lack of seriousness, they continue to be granted untold latitude and legitimacy through this inexplicable Democratic bipartisanship deference (not to mention a wide berth from the establishment press), while peddling an obvious lie. And then, next week, there will be another one. And another one. Until healthcare reform is dead in the water.
The DAVISReport
Its all about a power struggle and the collective us is being thrown about like a soccer ball. The game is getting real dirty with illegal earbiting and groin kicks in the way of misinformation that has the dems running scared ,rather than pushing back.
This article enunciates my point
Bob Cesca New Media Producer
Posted: July 29, 2009 05:39 PM
Republicans Lying to Old People About Euthanasia
There appears to be a simple two-pronged strategy for killing health care reform.
One of those prongs involves, of course, delaying reform until it's too late. If it's not passed by the end of the year, there won't be the political balls to do so because of the fast approaching 2010 midterms when members of Congress will be much more focused on raising money (health care industry money) and pandering to voters.
Another reason for delaying health care reform is it gives the Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats plenty of extra time to inject their special cocktail of mind-bending crazy into the discourse and make it stick, furthering both the current delay while also eroding any voter impetus to pick up the issue again after the midterms. That'd be prong number two.
Not a single dose of the aforementioned "mind-bending crazy" actually holds up when run through even the most cursory fact-checking scrutiny, and, in every statement, the obstructionists trafficking in these lies further underscore their already obvious contradictions and ideological hypocrisy.
Regarding the latter, I can't recall, for example, this degree of nipple-twisting from Republicans and Blue Dogs about spending and fiscal responsibility when the Bush administration was pitching a blank check invasion and occupation of Iraq on the heels of invading Afghanistan -- all during a recession -- while also passing a $1 trillion tax cut for the wealthiest one percent the year before.
Yet affordable, accessible health care for everyone is a bridge too far, right? (My blood pressure kicks up into the red zone whenever I hear Republicans today suggesting that they were against the Bush administration's spending habits when, in fact, they supported each program individually. After all, opposing the commander-in-chief in wartime emboldened the enemy, no? Not any more apparently since we're still at war and the heretofore "patriotic" far-right won't even admit the president is an American citizen. Consistent of them.)
Back to the mind-bending crazy. I detailed some of these attacks last week, and my friend Michael J. Elston (Washington, DC radio's "Buzz Burbank") hit some of the arguments in his new Huffington Post blog as well. But who knew they would top themselves this week with an attack so simultaneously absurd and shameless that it easily fits comfortably in the Birther/Truther wackaloon syllabus.
This is of course the notion that the president's health care reform plan includes a mandate to kill old people.
First, here's Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-Cuckoo's Nest) on the House floor:
It'll make sure we bring down the cost of healthcare for all Americans, and that ensures affordable access for all Americans, and is pro-life because it will not put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government.
And the de facto leader of the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh:
According to Politico:
Sean Hannity believes it. So does House Minority Leader John Boehner. Talk show host Fred Thompson calls it "the dirty little secret" of the health care reform debate.
Yes, if you believe what these cranks are selling, the Obama administration is engaged in an elaborate plot to rid the nation of its burdensome population of old people. All this fluff about a public option, all the debate about reducing costs and making health insurance more affordable is merely subterfuge in the White House's scheme to impose a final solution to the nation's obvious elderly problem.
Seriously, this is a legitimate argument being used in mainstream Republican circles right now. This is an idea being circulated by the same party that Max Baucus, Harry Reid, Joe Lieberman, Evan Bayh and Mary Landrieu want to negotiate with and capitulate to, all in the name of their fetishistic obsession with bipartisanship porn.
How many more examples of GOP insanity must we enumerate before the aforementioned Democrats stop taking seriously the nincompoopery on the right? Is there no level of ridiculousness too intolerable before enough is enough? At what point does Harry Reid finally overcome his low-T, call bullshit on these jokers and figuratively pummel their soft skulls using a sledgehammer with the number 60 burnished into the handle? Soon, I hope.
The reality:
House bill that would provide Medicare coverage for an end-of-life consultation once every five years. If a person falls ill with a life-threatening disease, more frequent sessions would be allowed.
Put another way, the bill would actually provide an additional and very optional benefit for senior citizens to consult with their doctors about end-of-life decisions -- decisions we'll all have to make. It's a consultation which is usually an out of pocket expense for the elderly, but now it'll be covered under Medicare. Again, it's an optional benefit for Medicare recipients to meet with their doctor. I repeat: optional benefit. Optional, as in "choice." Benefit, as in something "good" or "helpful." O-p-t-i-o-n-a-l. B-e-n-e-f-i-t.
Furthermore:
"This measure would not only help people make the best decisions for themselves but also better ensure that their wishes are followed," AARP Executive Vice President John Rother said in a statement. "To suggest otherwise is a gross, and even cruel, distortion -- especially for any family that has been forced to make the difficult decisions on care for loved ones approaching the end of their lives."
Why do the old-people-haters at the AARP want to kill old people?
Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, House minority leader John Boehner and most other congressional Republicans are taking this wingnut conspiratorial position outlined by Rush Limbaugh. Because naturally they're a very serious political party -- so much so that the Blue Dog Democrats want to work with them rather than laughing them off the floor. Oh the relationships $1.3 million-a-day in healthcare industry lobbying can buy.
And they're getting away with it because, despite their utter lack of seriousness, they continue to be granted untold latitude and legitimacy through this inexplicable Democratic bipartisanship deference (not to mention a wide berth from the establishment press), while peddling an obvious lie. And then, next week, there will be another one. And another one. Until healthcare reform is dead in the water.
The DAVISReport
Saturday, July 25, 2009
What if we were people of color?
So a few months ago my husband and I came across a distressed,possibly injured, greyhound dog stumbling down the middle of a busy road. We got behind it and followed it into a side street. Not having our cell phones with us, I went up to a door with a porch light on (thought it would be less threatening than if my husband went) and asked the woman(she would not open the door and as it turns not the best house to have chosen),to call the police as there was an animal in distress that was threatening to cause an accident. Five minutes later three cop cars roll up from two different directions. I left the porch, to speak to the responding officer nearest me and my husband stepped out of our Camry. The officer nearest my husband approached him and stated loudly "stay right there,don't move".
Turns out the woman had called 911 and said there was a woman trying to enter her house and she was in danger. No mention of the dog, even though she had said
"I don't do dogs" when I explained why I was at her door?
After minutes of confusion and explaining about the dog,the officers softened in their response and we were no longer explaining we had done nothing wrong.
The officers never looked at our ID, and the officer who had been aggressive with my husband nicely stated " I'm sorry I came on so strongly, but the call we got made us believe we were responding to a crime in progress with no mention of an injured dog". It ended cordially, and we left with the police following up with animal control.
Yes, we had been the recipients of a misinformation police call. And yes though of similar age to Professor Gates and socioeconomic background, we are of caucasion descent. And yes I believe if we had been people of color, we may well have been sorting it out down at the station, providing ID, etc and experiencing the saying "that no good deed goes unpunished".
Upon discussing Professor Gate's situation bounced up against my own, with The Central Virginia Progressive's guest blogger, Mr. Robert House I received the following to share with you:
What the "whole connected world" now knows, the renowned Professor Henry Louis Gates, of Harvard Univ. was arrested at his home in Cambridge, Mass. It is reported that Prof. Gates felt that he was being disrespected in his home by the police officer who was there responding to a possible "break in". Prof. Gates "spoke up" with indignation to the police; (is it because I'm black) and was arrested for "loudmouth and tumultuous behavior". There is an "unwritten law" in America that was instilled in me as a child (I'm 72) for my protection and survival: "There is no law, or rights that a negro has that a white person must respect". I can recall my gran'ma telling me that the "graveyard is full of you black boys and men who were right .....dead right". It can be argued that Prof. Gates was lucky not to be one of those unknown, young black men.
To conclude,I was standing on someone else's front porch and it resolved cordially.
Prof Gates was on his own front porch and his encounter ended in arrest. Which brings me back to the core issue,exploring how similar situations yielded such different outcomes.
Aside from disecting the behavior of the officers in our comparative tale and how training or cultural expectations may have affected their handling of the situation consider:
Professor Gates's cultural expectation was that he was being treated as a potential criminal in his own home b/c he was a black man in a high end neighborhood. A defensive and yes angry response ensued.
My response of complete surprise,on the other hand, showed my lack of expectation I could ever be mistaken for a criminal.
Which brings us back to Mr. House's mother's caution:
There is no law, or rights that a negro has that a white person must respect".
your thoughts?...
The DAVISReport
Turns out the woman had called 911 and said there was a woman trying to enter her house and she was in danger. No mention of the dog, even though she had said
"I don't do dogs" when I explained why I was at her door?
After minutes of confusion and explaining about the dog,the officers softened in their response and we were no longer explaining we had done nothing wrong.
The officers never looked at our ID, and the officer who had been aggressive with my husband nicely stated " I'm sorry I came on so strongly, but the call we got made us believe we were responding to a crime in progress with no mention of an injured dog". It ended cordially, and we left with the police following up with animal control.
Yes, we had been the recipients of a misinformation police call. And yes though of similar age to Professor Gates and socioeconomic background, we are of caucasion descent. And yes I believe if we had been people of color, we may well have been sorting it out down at the station, providing ID, etc and experiencing the saying "that no good deed goes unpunished".
Upon discussing Professor Gate's situation bounced up against my own, with The Central Virginia Progressive's guest blogger, Mr. Robert House I received the following to share with you:
What the "whole connected world" now knows, the renowned Professor Henry Louis Gates, of Harvard Univ. was arrested at his home in Cambridge, Mass. It is reported that Prof. Gates felt that he was being disrespected in his home by the police officer who was there responding to a possible "break in". Prof. Gates "spoke up" with indignation to the police; (is it because I'm black) and was arrested for "loudmouth and tumultuous behavior". There is an "unwritten law" in America that was instilled in me as a child (I'm 72) for my protection and survival: "There is no law, or rights that a negro has that a white person must respect". I can recall my gran'ma telling me that the "graveyard is full of you black boys and men who were right .....dead right". It can be argued that Prof. Gates was lucky not to be one of those unknown, young black men.
To conclude,I was standing on someone else's front porch and it resolved cordially.
Prof Gates was on his own front porch and his encounter ended in arrest. Which brings me back to the core issue,exploring how similar situations yielded such different outcomes.
Aside from disecting the behavior of the officers in our comparative tale and how training or cultural expectations may have affected their handling of the situation consider:
Professor Gates's cultural expectation was that he was being treated as a potential criminal in his own home b/c he was a black man in a high end neighborhood. A defensive and yes angry response ensued.
My response of complete surprise,on the other hand, showed my lack of expectation I could ever be mistaken for a criminal.
Which brings us back to Mr. House's mother's caution:
There is no law, or rights that a negro has that a white person must respect".
your thoughts?...
The DAVISReport
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