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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: bijou on August 07, 2009, 01:35:40 PM
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A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
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The nation's senior Black congressman fears Barack Obama is in danger of becoming a one-term president. Obama's health care proposal is “crap,†says Detroit's John Conyers, and Obama loses whether it passes or fails.
Conyers: “There is no one more disappointed than I am in Barack Obama.â€
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
“Progressive congresspersons may wind up voting against Obama on health care.â€
Congressman John Conyers says Barack Obama’s stance on health care has been wrong, and it’s going to cost the president “big time.†It might even cost Obama his second term in the White House.
Conyers gave that assessment at Washington’s Busboys and Poets restaurant, bookstore and bar, where the Progressive Democrats of America were celebrating their fifth anniversary. Conyers is the Congressional Black Caucus’s longest serving member, having represented Detroit since 1964, when Obama was a three-year-old. He’s also one of the most consistently progressive members of the House, chairman of the Judiciary Committee and author of single payer health care bill H.R. 676 – legislation the White House has done its best to smother. Obama once gave lip service to single payer health care, but as president has staked his reputation on a mishmash of corporate schemes and deals-with-the-devil masquerading as health care reform – a thoroughly confused and conflicted legislative concoction that Conyers describes, simply, as “crap.â€
Conyers suggests that, at the end of the legislative process, progressive congresspersons may wind up voting against Obama on health carebecause the bill will be simply too bad for advocates of real reform to support.
Busboys and Poets is a favored gathering place for progressives of all races. On the January night last year when Obama won the South Carolina primary, the place was noisier and more boisterous than anybody’s sports bar – so many deliriously hopeful faces, such soaring expectations. Now, John Conyers was telling many of the same people: “There is no one more disappointed than I am in Barack Obama.â€
“We’ve got to tell Obama now, or he’ll be a one term president.†...
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:popcorn: :-)
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So much for supporting dear leader for the good of the country.
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So much for supporting dear leader for the good of the country.
I'm tempted to report him to Snitch Central for those fishy comments.
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That's some racist stuff right there!
:-)
KC
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The bloom fell of that rose awfully fast!
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The bloom fell of that rose awfully fast!
Good.....we need to get this and other Communist out of office ASAP.
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He'll fall right back in line as soon as Teh One gets near election time.
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What does the "white Caucus" have to say about all this?
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Conyers is only against this this because it doesn't "socialize" medicine as quickly as he and others want it to.
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This is a pretty dramatic statement from one of the movers and shakers in DC.
Methinks the Tea Parties, Town Halls, and Internal Polling is scaring the crap outa the libs.
Conyers doesn't have to say this. I mean a guy this powerful in a completely safe district should have nothing to fear either way this turns out. Conyers could mug Oprah and his voters would still send him back to congress. He's not afraid for his seat-it's something else that's scaring him.
I think he fears losing the majority to the GOP in 2010.
I don't think anything else could have Conyers turning against Lord O this soon. That statement is from a lib who has crapped his pants-he's scared, feeling mortal and without a Depends.
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This is a pretty dramatic statement from one of the movers and shakers in DC.
Methinks the Tea Parties, Town Halls, and Internal Polling is scaring the crap outa the libs.
Conyers doesn't have to say this. I mean a guy this powerful in a completely safe district should have nothing to fear either way this turns out. Conyers could mug Oprah and his voters would still send him back to congress. He's not afraid for his seat-it's something else that's scaring him.
I think he fears losing the majority to the GOP in 2010.
I don't think anything else could have Conyers turning against Lord O this soon. That statement is from a lib who has crapped his pants-he's scared, feeling mortal and without a Depends.
I respectfully disagree -
Conyers sees a victory he would like to lay claim to - At this point, the narrative is that lots of folks don't want what Obama is peddling, and the media has already done its best to tie the protesters to 'teabaggers' , and right wing extremists.
The last thing Conyers wants is a majority of America thanking the GOP for anything. So, if Obamacare is dereailed, he wants the credit to go to 'progressives' who feel the bill doesn't go far enough.
It won't work though. As the media continues to feel tingles up their collective legs for Obama, they will continue to paint anything anti-Obama as rethugs.