Thursday, March 18, 2010

Stand Up Girl

Unlike 98% of the pwogosphere bleaters who've been exposed as ego hacks by Obama's attempt to shove us all into the BigPharm/BigInsurance trick-bag, Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake has stood up.
The thing I have learned above all else in this campaign is that the corporate control of government is much more extensive than I ever imagined, and the tools we have to fight its influence are ineffective.
She writes about many things in her terrific essay, but perhaps the most significant (and funniest) part revolves around Joltin' Joe Lieberman. Remember back last autumn when Lieberman was portrayed as just this side of Benito Mussolini by the pwogs (using pretty much the same fifty-against-one tactics they used last week on Dennis Kucinich, before he took the pipe) because Lieberman basically proclaimed that a public health coverage option would pass the Senate over his dead body? What a slimy corporate whore was he. . .

Turns out Lieberman was ordered by Saint Barack Obama to say exactly the things he said. (After Harry Reid refused to do it.)

Jane's Kucinich essay.

On Emanuel, the Joys of a Scumbag.

And her incomparable fact-sheet regarding this abomination and all the lies Uncle O. is telling about it.