Isn't it.

Corporate Republicans NEED to be batshit crazy,

so that corporate Democrats can continue to move rightward.

That's the beauty for the One Percent of owning both parties.

With the Republican Party, you get all this PLUS mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds!

Mass spying on Americans? Both parties support it.
Handing the internet to corporations? Both parties support it.
Austerity for the masses? Both parties support it.
Cutting social safety nets? Both parties support it.
Corporatists in the cabinet? Both parties support it.
Tolling our interstate highways? Both parties support it.
Corporate education policy? Both parties support it.
Bank bailouts? Both parties support it.
Ignoring the trillions stashed overseas? Both parties support it.
Trans-Pacific Job/Wage Killing Secret Agreement? Both parties support it.
TISA corporate overlord agreement? Both parties support it.
Drilling and fracking? Both parties support it.
Wars on medical marijuana instead of corrupt banks? Both parties support it.
Deregulation of the food industry? Both parties support it.
GMO's? Both parties support it.
Privatization of the TVA? Both parties support it.
Immunity for telecoms? Both parties support it.
"Looking forward" and letting war criminals off the hook? Both parties support it.
Deciding torturers are patriots? Both parties support it.
Militarized police and assaults on protesters? Both parties support it.
Indefinite detention? Both parties support it.
Drone wars and kill lists? Both parties support it.
Targeting of journalists and whistleblowers? Both parties support it.
Private prisons replacing public prisons? Both parties support it.
Unions? Both parties view them with contempt.
Trillion dollar increase in nuclear weapons. Both parties support it.
New war in Iraq. Both parties support it.
New war in Syria. Both parties support it.
Carpet bombing of captive population in Gaza. Both parties support it.

One-third of Americans a paycheck away from homelessness.

Free? I don't think so.

Our "Justice" Department

K&R Here's nashville_brook's perfect summary

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5688165
37. eggsactly -- the hope is to keep us in our lower brain functions - limbic systems rather than cerebral cortex.

One nation, manipulated by sociopaths who treat us like goddamned fools.

New cuts in food stamps freshly signed from the president's desk!

I can't believe you have the gall to post this.

If you weren't calling Will Pitt a racist, what's the point of even *mentioning* someone "telling watermelon jokes" in that response, much "rating it right up there" with Pitt?

To smear, that's why. To make an association with someone who tells watermelon jokes. There is no other reason for you to go there.

Seriously. What if you wrote a post, and someone was talking about it and said, "Yeah, 1StrongBlackMan's post was right up there with that guy who posted rape jokes, or wrote about defecating in public, or some other vile behavior *not connected with you at all.*

You deserved the hide. It was a despicable post invoking racism where there was no basis whatsoever to invoke racism. And you should be doubly embarrassed for having the gall to whine about the hide.

What insulting, victim-blaming, revisionist nonsense.

*This* is what happened when candidate Obama ran promising that he would not sign a bill without a public option. This is what happened when he ran on reining in the surveillance/security state and standing up for the 99 percent against corporate predators.



You really need to stop pretending here that Obama is really and truly a devoted liberal merely obstructed by Republicans or insufficiently enthusiastic Democratic voters. It is insulting as hell to Americans, and it's insulting to REALITY.

This administration had the perfect opportunity to push for a public option on behalf of Americans at the time of the passage of the ACA. Not only did Obama NOT do that, he made a point of not mentioning the option publicly *at all.* This despite the fact that that he *ran* on those promises....

...And this despite the fact that the country was polling heavily *in favor* of a public option and would have rallied to lend strength to his demand, had he chosen to demand it. Instead, it was as though all his campaigning on that issue vanished into a memory hole, and the public option was quietly dropped in a backroom deal. It would have been inconvenient to mention, because public response could have thrown a wrench into the carefully planned corporate scam we ultimately got. The sad, ugly truth is that the administration went silent on the public option BECAUSE the country supported it.

The administration's behavior in health policy, like in other areas, speaks for itself and has been overwhelmingly corporate. We were told that this would be a path to something better....They will always "fix it later"....but, true to form, the changes we*have* gotten have been consistently on behalf of the corporations and at the expense of the people:

The employer mandate was delayed...the mandate for Americans? Not so much:

White House delays employer mandate requirement until 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/02/white-house-delays-employer-mandate-requirement-until-2015/

Out of pocket caps on costs for patients....also delayed...again targeting the *people,* not the insurance corporations.

Limit on Consumer Costs Is Delayed in Health Care Law
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/us/a-limit-on-consumer-costs-is-delayed-in-health-care-law.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

And the administration is carving out loopholes to allow insurance companies to shift even *more* costs to patients.

Obama administration quietly approves new Obamacare loophole benefiting insurance companies.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4970298

Obama's deliberate silence on and dealing away of the public option, along with the subsequent emphasis on changes to help insurance companies rather than patients...EVEN when Democrats already controlled the Presidency and half of Congress, and EVEN when the country clearly supported the public option and could have been rallied behind it... and his repeated lies about not having run on these things....are indefensible but also entirely consistent with the overall, aggressively corporate direction of this administration.

Enough. This constant drumbeat of 2+2=5....the constant bids to accept a brazen rewriting of history in which we are expected to ignore the flooding of corporate money into both parties...the constant bids to pretend that Obama did not proactively fill his own cabinet with corporatists and has not worked aggressively and PROACTIVELY on behalf of a corporate agenda in virtually every major area of policy important to the One Percent....to pretend that his own Justice Department has not been working relentlessly and aggressively to entrench and legalize the very worst abuses of the Bush years....

It's Orwellian. It's like living in Oceania. Look at the real record:

Poor Obama
http://betterment.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5601580

We are facing a crisis in this country. Our government is purchased. Both parties. It is SYSTEMIC.

And NONE of it changes as long as we continue to tolerate this ABSURD, hyperpartisan victim-blaming and denial of reality. We are bullied and hectored constantly ignore what we see and live every single day and to cling to this crazy-making, wagon-circling, suicidal delusion that the corporate takeover is only happening in the other party.

Enough. 2+2=4, period. The Third Way propaganda has ZERO credibility anymore.

Alternately excuse and deny.

Keep browbeating the poor suckers who have to decide between the party that supports