THE BIG LIE
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THE MESS
CREATING THEIR OWN REALITY
Orin Hatch just lies. Listen to him on Meet The Press. First he has to CHOCK out his first answer about the Attorney General misleading (I like to think of it as a lie) the nation.
He follows that up with the BIG ASS LIE that the Daily Kos talks about below.
I saw this on the Daily KOS Blog and man is it true.
by kos - Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 04:15:55 PM PDT
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THEY KEEP TRYING TO PULL THIS B*LLS*IT
Just like the other day when President Bush said that the congress needs to come back off vacation and get this bill to him right away so he can veto it. He left out the part that he was going on vacation the next day.
He doesn't think anyone sees the irony in that statement.
Well it's the same with some of the right-wing Bloggers. They are making fun of the fact that Nancy Pelosi wore a headscarf out of respect while visiting a Mosque in Syria.
Turns out Laura Bush did the same thing. Now isn't that funny. I'm sure these guys took some shoots at her right.
Laura Bush takes a tour lead by Adnan Husseini inside the Muslim holy shrine the Dome of the Rock in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, May 22, 2005.
CAN YOU SAY HECK OF A JOB FOXXY
President George W. Bush circumvented Senate opposition today and recess appointed a controversial nominee as Ambassador to Belgium. Sam Fox, who donated thousands of dollars to the anti-John Kerry Swift Boat Veterans For Truth before the 2004 Presidential election, received the nod from the White House in a quiet personnel announcement this afternoon that caught Senate Democrats off guard.
Senator John Kerry (D-MA), who squared off with Fox in a February confirmation hearing, offered similar words, comparing Fox's appointment with Michael Brown, the former FEMA head who mishandled the response to Hurricane Katrina.
"Never before has a president used a recess appointment to support a withdrawn nominee. Every time this White House shows that if they can't win the game, they just change the rules, our democracy and the Constitution loses," he said.
In 2004, Fox gave $50,000 to the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth, a '527' political group that targeted Senator Kerry's military service record in the presidential election. The group paid a large fine to the Federal Election Commission late in 2006. In his February confirmation hearing, Fox admitted that Kerry was a "hero" but continued to justify his donations to the group.
I saw this guy during some of the confirmation hearing, in fact I saw him liying his ass off when Kerry asked about his funding and support oh the Swift Boat group.
YOU MAY HAVE SEEN THIS AD
It's put out by PHRMA a lobbing group. As you'll see in the 60 MINUTE piece below why this ad is running and important to the drug companies.
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UNDER THE INFLUENCE
If you have ever wondered why the cost of prescription drugs in the United States are the highest in the world or why it's illegal to import cheaper drugs from Canada or Mexico, you need look no further than the pharmaceutical lobby and its influence in Washington, D.C.
According to a new report by the Center for Public Integrity, congressmen are outnumbered two to one by lobbyists for an industry that spends roughly a $100 million a year in campaign contributions and lobbying expenses to protect its profits.
One reason those profits have exceeded Wall Street expectations is the Medicare prescription drug bill. It was passed three-and-a-half years ago, but as 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft reports, its effects are still reverberating through the halls of Congress, providing a window into how the lobby works.
"The pharmaceutical lobbyists wrote the bill," says Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.), "The bill was over 1,000 pages. And it got to the members of the House that morning, and we voted for it at about 3 a.m. in the morning."
When the prescription drug bill finally passed shortly before dawn, in the longest roll call in the history of the House of Representatives, much of the credit went to former Congressman Billy Tauzin, R-La., who steered it through the house.
Why was the drug lobby was so interested in this bill and what did it have to gain? Ron Pollack the executive director of Families USA, a nonpartisan health care watchdog group, says it all boiled down to a key provision in the legislation.
It prohibited Medicare and the federal government from using its vast purchasing power to negotiate lower prices directly from the drug companies.
"The key goal was to make sure there'd be no interference in the drug companies' abilities to charge high prices and to continue to increase those prices," says Pollack.
Pollack says there's no question that this was prompted by the pharmaceutical lobby.
For example, Lipitor, a popular cholesterol drug, the cheapest Medicare price is $785 for a years supply - 50 percent more than the VA's price of $520.
For Zocor, another cholesterol drug, the best Medicare price is $1,485 for a years supply. The same drug only costs $127 a year under the VA's plan.
Why has this lobby been so successful? The former congressman says he believes it's because they stood for the right things.
If Tauzin sounds a lot like a lobbyist for the drug industry, that's because now he is.
Just a few months after the prescription drug bill passed, Tauzin began discussions with the pharmaceutical industry to become its chief lobbyist in Washington. He says it was one of several lucrative offers he's received just before he got some very bad news.
"I got a call from a doctor in Bethesda who said, 'You got cancer. And it's extremely rare. And it could kill ya.' And then everything changed," Tauzin says.
Tauzin had a cancerous tumor removed from his intestines and was treated with a new medicine, called Avastin, that had never been used before on that form of cancer.
The treatment was successful, and as a result Tauzin says he felt he owed his life to the drug industry. After serving out his congressional term, he accepted a $2 million-a-year job dollar as president of PhRMA - Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.
"There was an extraordinary moment when my wife literally looked me in the eye and said, 'Look, you're gonna do well wherever you go, Billy … You got a lot a great offers … And maybe you oughta think about working for the people that struggle everyday to try to invent the medicines that save lives like yours.'
"And that was a pretty important moment in my life," Tauzin says. "And it was the moment I decided that this was the work I wanted to do - headaches and all."
Man if you believe this guy I have a Bridge you'd be interested in. That cancer scare just made him have a change in how he views life. Yep, made him just crazy enough to take that $2 million dollar a year job. Just couldn't help himself I guess.
This is a great segment from 60 MINUTES and once again points out one of the MAJOR problems with congress and our government. They won't change it I guess until we have another revolution.
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WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
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Keith Olbermann picks the three worst persons in the world.
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PRETTY GOOD JOKES
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MAKES SENSE
Ole died. So Lena went to the local paper to put a notice in the obituaries. The gentleman at the counter, after offering his condolences, asked Lena what she would like to say about Ole.
Lena replied, "You yust put, 'Ole died.'" The gentleman, somewhat perplexed, said, "That's it? Just 'Ole died?' Surely, there must be something more you'd like to say about Ole. If it's money you're concerned about, the first five words are free. We must say something more."
So Lena pondered for a few minutes and finally said, "O.K. You yust put 'Ole died. Boat for sale.'"