THE TIME FOR OBSTRUCTION IS OVER

President Obama laid out the three main goals of what he wants accomplished in this health care bill and those did not include the long sought public option. What I wish the President would have done more was to directly threaten the campaigns of those Republicans who went along with Jim Bunning. In reality between sixty and seventy percent of the American People favor the public option. Even so I thought the speech had a strong ending. The Democrats then held a press conference and talked more about obstructionism, laying it out what the Republican's goals are. It's one thing to "temper the fires of the passions of the People's house" but it's another thing to put everything in a permanent deep freeze. For instance the Catholic Church was slowly making forward progress till Pope John XXIII died in 1963 when everything went into the deep freeze, where it has been ever since. Everything about this Health Care bill has been debated and it passed the Senate with a sixty percent vote. Let us not forget this fact. History tells us that progress comes in tides and waves, and once the tide goes out, it may be a long time before you get the same oppertunity back. Some say that the unfunded mandates and stresses on Medic-Aid are too great on the states. Others say that doctors already don't like medicare and increasing numbers are refusing to participate in it. We should not expect that doctors will fall in love with this bill. But the Republicans have laid down the ultimatum. They have made it their main goal to halt all forward progress in Health Care. They want to "break" this President. They want this bill to be his Waterloo. But once the bill passes, like with Roosevelt and Johnson, this will become a highly esteemed bill and people won't know what they did without it. Today not even the most die hard redneck could imagine undoing the 1964 Civil Rights bill. And the American People will come to believe firmly in the protective provisions of this Health bill.

Today Bernie Sanders put forth an amendment to give senior citizens the same $250.00 bonus that got last year. But the only problem is I've been hearing roomers of this for months. I and a lot of other people thought we'd get this increase at the beginning of the year and we didn't. Constantly we are told by the Right Wing how "hard up" government is and can't afford anything and more programs have to be cut. Since President Obama has been in office it's been as if the Republicans still ran the country. You see it in the extension of the Patriot act, and the pursuit of war in Afghanistan, and also in our discontinuance of privacy rights of our citizens and freedom from being spied on. Yesterday and several days prior, one senator Jim Bunning held up unemployment funding legeslation and also COBRA laws. There are roomers he did this to get back at Mitch Mc Connel or something to make him look bad. Now an aid of Mc Connel is leaving to become a lobbyist and yesterday Mc Connel gave a speech where he broke down and cried over the man. We won't cry for the poor or for abused women or to increase veterans benefits, but we will cry over an aid of ours who goes on to take a big increase in salary and probably do untold harm to us all. It truely is an Alice in Wonderland world in congress. I'd be in favor of just about any bill that restricted lobbyists. The odds don't favor the passage of any health bill this year. There are just too many things that can go wrong. The Republicans have won. They will be able to gloat that they "broke" this president. But that won't stop people like Glen Beck from having hysterics talking about the ever-advancement of the Socialist agenda or the "take over of health care by the Federal government" and "medical care rationing" and all that other clap trap. As long as the American people believe what ever the corporate owned media tells them to believe and the real news doesn't appear on your evening broadcasts, democrats will have to work just that much harder to get their message out despite these obsticles.

The Following Was Typed Earlier This Morning

This is Wednesday morning March 3, 2010 approaching 6:30 in the morning. I got up in a sour mood. I went and got a big cup of coffee at the bakery but wasn’t quite awake because I accidentally yanked a pot off the heat that was still brewing, and then quickly put it back when I noticed. I was trying to think of the word for co broadcasting on two or more media outlets. The word is simocast. I was going to simocast this commentary with a blog today. Firefox came up today when I booted the computer but as you know it hadn’t been in two sessions with the computer yesterday. I’ve got a virus that’s either called “hidden window” or else just “Program- n”. I get these programs that don’t end and probably aren’t supposed to even be there and I’m thinking I should delete them. But Norton won’t aknoledge that they’re even there. Norton gives me a clean bill of health. This looks like a problem for Leo Le Port. In a late note I found one way to "fix" this problem. At least it worked one time. Of course as you know I have those other problems like all those paint supplies Beto put in our closet a month ago, and also the fact that the door know won’t turn in one direction, from either side, and also the fact that the bathroom fixture has been off since October and ditto for the fan. And oh yes, the bathroom needs to be completed in the paint job. These are what you would call restrictions to one’s happiness. I’m still one of those people who these days regards “happiness” as an absence of problems. The more you have, the less happy you are.

Last night I watched Jeopardy, the Simpson’s and then that thing on Pluto, and learned a thing or two about the history and the Lowell observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona where Pluto was discovered by a young assistant “from the farm”, who has home made telescopes all over his property. The planet was given the symbol of a P with an L thing sticking out the bottom to form PL, which are the initials for Persival Lowell. They had this list of what composes a planet and it seems that Pluto fails in that it doesn’t “clear out the neighborhood”, you know, like when a bunch of Klansmen move in next door. But Pluto passes the roundness test and the atmosphere test and even the moons test, so I really don’t see what the problem is.

Chelsea King’s body was found in a shallow grave. This is the seventeen year old honor student who was last seen jogging. There are a lot of animals out there.

Of course I watched that Glen Beck video last night or at least all I could stand to watch of it. It’s the most detatched thing from reality you could imagine. He attacked Theodore Roosevelt’s political beliefs as the seeds of “the problem”. Beck has made the move to attacking progressivism rather than “liberalism”. When one hundred year old beliefs are too radical, I say Beck is “too out of touch”. He says only twenty percent of the people in America are progressive. He says that republican’s problems are that they don’t stick together and aren’t hard line enough in their beliefs. What is he smoking anyhow? He said something I wish were true. He said that the left was much more adept as making their Presentation of the Issues. In reality these days getting democrats and progressives together is like herding cats, not to beat a tired expression to death. “That cat will never purr again”. According to Randy Rhodes every single committee gets a crack at amending the thing and that could go on forever, a lot longer than the proposed two weeks. Not to be alarmist but I say expect something from totally out of the blue in the way of a new attack from the Right sometime in the next few weeks.