Looting our money and redistributing it to large corporations is now the one ongoing function of the Federal Government.

My God, the health care debacle enrages me. It was clear a while ago that the entire "debate" has been, in essence, staged. The public option was never going to be in the final bill. Obama knew it. The Senate Democrats knew it. The Republicans knew it. The only people left flat footed appear to be the House Democrats who - whether they like it or not - no one with real power cares about because, frankly, they don't matter.

I wrote in December that the Left wing of the Democratic party would be thrown under the bus by Obama. The clearest evidence we have yet of this has occurred in the last two weeks as Obama has backed away from the public option. Glenn Greenwald makes mince meat of the "liberal" journalists here, who are - let's be brutally frank - Obama's pimps. Jonathan Alter gets the prize for being the most brazenly whorish. He is an amoral scumbag who trashed Clinton through out 2008 and has openly flip flopped along with Obama on the public option. The man has no principles, no morality, and probably no soul.

The final health care bill will almost certainly be nothing more than a forced transfer of wealth from the middle class to large insurance companies. Buy their product or you are breaking the law.

Looting our money and redistributing it to large corporations is now the one ongoing function of the Federal Government.

Irony alert: The Healthcare bill without the public option is statism at its rawest. This is fascism if we define it in the traditional sense as the marriage of the state and corporations. So yes, the townhall screamers got it right for the wrong reasons. The Federal government has colluded to make it illegal for most of us to avoid buying health insurance. Further it has colluded to ensure that pharmaceuticals can set any price they like for drugs. This will be law by year's end. The hope and change Presidency is an unmitigated catastrophe for anyone who still holds the quaint notion that we, the people, matter.

Since 2001 our tax dollars have gone to:

The airline industry.
Pharmaceutical giants (Tamiflu)
Haliburton
The auto industry.
The banking sector.
AIG
Add your own - I'm sure I've missed some. The government is now a subsidiary of a few corporations. No matter where you fall on the political spectrum this fact ought to enrage you as well. Why do we pay taxes? To bailout corporations. That's why. This is not capitalism.

The perennial debate in this country - what role should the government play in our lives - is now dead. Now the only debate is which multinational corporations get to rape us.

Every "crisis" is another opportunity to transfer wealth from the middle to the richest. Under the guise of heath care "reform" we are about to see the most successful looting of the middle class yet.

Oh, and yes, you'll have no other option. Of this you can be sure.

Very Creepy. Give a listen

Thanks to xax for posting this in the comments below.

Arugula Fascism

If Hillary needs to pull out for the good of the party there is something wrong with the party.

Pennsylvania voters don't make 6 figures to bloviate on television. West Virginia voters don't spend much time hunched over the laptop at Starbucks screeching into the echo chamber at the Dailykos. Many Kentuckians and Indiani (what is the plural for people in Indiana?) actually think since the election is close they have the right to participate. In simpler times -say last year - that was called democracy. I don't say "arugula fascism" lightly but the Arugula Club in the media wants the election over before all the returns are in. Hijacking an election is certainly an element of fascism. The Arugula set has a script: Shining Knight defeats Evil Queen and, by God, they want it played out.

Who can say what will finally happen in this campaign? The infantile demands of the MSM to end the Democratic race now are telling. Not about the race - about the MSM. The Obama apologists in the media have gone from excited teens to strident college kids and just this weekend they approached being good old fashioned nut-jobs.

The two words that keep coming to mind as the the controlled demolition squads at the "news" outlets discuss (read: insist) Clinton exiting now. They are: weird and dishonest.

A look at the raw facts would lead the dispassionate observer to conclude that the race is close. If this was a championship football game the scoreboard would read Obamites: 52 Hillarians: 45 with about 4 minutes left in the fourth quarter. The Hillarians have the ball and are driving (see PA polls). I don't need to stretch this analogy out too much further but let's just say the Obamite side of the stadium is demanding that Hillary drop the ball now and forfeit the game.

No one can honestly assess Clinton's arguments for staying: it's very close in both delegates and popular votes, she's won the big states, there have been bad calls by the ref (Dean) and then say "Gee, we want to go home so you should quit." Wah. wah. wah. The Obamites want to beat the traffic.

It's weird.

Or is it? The media is on the field and playing the game, too. The calls for Clinton to leave are intellectually dishonest. The arguments for her to go now are vapid. So what is this about?

I have few ideas:

1. The "arugula" set has invested emotionally in the idea of Obama in the past few months. Most of the TV media talking heads calling for Clinton's departure are part of the arugula set. Olbermann and Matthews are the most obviously biased - but there are plenty of others. Huffington comes to mind. Wealthy people who think their money and position infers wisdom. Obama is their man. They have the right to their opinions. But they also have the megaphone. There are not any "Budweiser" Democrats hosting shows on MSNBC. Or feminists for that matter. Old boys network meet your new pals - the Arugula Club.

2. Unconscious sexism is clearly at play here. Imagine if John Edwards was less than 1% behind BHO and polling ahead - by large margins - in 3 of the 4 upcoming contests. Would the Arugula club be demanding he cave? Hell no. All they would be discussing is race and the race.

You see, the Evil Queen won't pack up and go like she is supposed too. The script they finished late the night of the Iowa caucuses is being rewritten without their consent. They are hopping mad.

Screw 'em.

Let the election of the next President of the United States proceed.

Ron Paul calls Obama a fraud here: