Lawrence O’Donnell, you were an IDIOT today!
Monday, March 8th, 2010Lawrence O’Donnell sat in tonight for Keith Olbermann and made a complete ass of himself, trying to shame Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich into believing that he might be sorry for having voted against the first House version of the Health Care Reform bill. Kucinich clearly explained his reasons – which were extremely admirable. For starters, it was because the bill did not include a robust, liberal public option, and that it did not contain cost controls that would prevent health insurance companies from continuing their excessive rate increases. Obama refused to listen to allow Single Payer proponents to come to the table – and Sen. Max Baucus even had them arrested when they showed up to protest.
O’Donnell kept claiming that Kucinich was alone in his vigilant fight, and that no one will be willing to vote for him, or stand alongside him if he votes against this bill.
OMG!! So, it’s all about vilifying those who speak out against what’s wrong – and praise those who go along with you??
So, O’Donnell thinks it’s completely reasonable to throw him under the bus even though Kucinich is right to vote against this bill??
Kucinich needed to be praised – not scolded – for being so bold. If he had been praised, more than likely, others would feel the need to stand alongside him.
I felt like I was watching Fox News or Rush Limbaugh. Villifying a man who was the only one to *repeatedly* push for a single payer system. He’s the only guy who isn’t a sell-out to the health insurance companies. He’s the only one who has ever *repeatedly* pushed to have Cheney impeached. Who else can you ever claim to have come close to acting so bravely for the public good??
What about those other heroic senators who voted from the heart and head – who were brave enough to “go it alone” — like Sen. Byron Dorgan who voted against repealing the Glass Steagal Act, which would’ve kept our economy in tact and banks in check. If the other senators had listened and taken his lead, he wouldn’t have been the only one, and we might have ended up without the bank bailouts we got from Bush (and Obama).
And remember former Georgia Senator McKinney? If only we had listened to her instead of the rightwing pundits who shouted her down. She was the only one was brave enough to say that 9/11 was an inside a job. I have since always believed that it was, and have seen very, very little to prove otherwise. I used to work in the WTC South Tower, 104th Floor, back in the 90′s. I knew people who died that day. I don’t believe what I’ve seen or heard from the so-called “investigations”, which Bush refused to allow for too long.
And what about the stolen Florida and Ohio elections? What about the lies pushed onto the American people about WMD’s in Iraq? What about the outing of a CIA agent by a sitting President and Vice President? What about the illegal firings of 18 U.S. attorneys? What about the illegal wire-tappings?
Where were those Senators when we needed them? We NEED them to be brave – to go up against Fox News, Rush Limbauh, and the Lawrence O’Donnell-ish pundits!
How can we rely on a representative who refuses to put people in jail?? It’s like trying to put your faith in a police force that simply refuses to do its job and protect you.
I mean, seriously.
A massive number of crimes were committed under Bush, and no one wants to talk about it.
We had the most wreckless administration in the history of this country – and no one on either side of the aisle wants to prosecute anyone!??!
Oh, wait, I forgot. Yes, you’ll be kicked out of office if you’re caught cheating on your wife with an intern, a hooker, or with a gay guy. And if you’re a coward, you’ll simply resign on your own the moment someone hints at your wrongdoing.
It’s more than likely you’ll enjoy job security if you agree to shut up about any other kind of criminal activity. Lie about a war or steal an election, you get voted back into office. Expose corporate crimes? Get kicked out of office.
It’s so sickening.
All we have in congress is a bunch of corporate-loving lobbyist-licking Dems, and a handful of unspeakably evil Republicans. Every single one of them – on both sides of the aisle seem way too interested in putting the goal of bigger profits for CEO’s *BEFORE* the goal of helping fellow Americans, who are jobless, homeless, and sick, unable to pay for any kind of medical care.
On a side note — This morning, Thom Hartmann talked about a visit he had to the White House a few weeks ago. He had a discussion with someone there (my guess is it was Press Secretary Robert Gibbs), explaining the urgent need to stop practicing the economic policies of Milton and Thomas Friedman – the economic politics of “flat earthers” who simply refuse to accept putting reality before ideology (an ideology of trickle down economics – where the wealthiest are worshipped, and the poor are kicked down even lower). When Hartmann fully explained how much damage Reaganomics has done to us, the only response he got was: “We’re not interested in protectionism“.
I was stunned when I heard this.
Protectionism isn’t something the White House is interested in?
OMG!
Protectionism is the ONLY thing that will protect our country’s jobs right now!!
You’d think Hartmann had just proposed some rightwinger’s wackjob idea, like “close down the borders” or “get rid of all these illegals”.
But that wasn’t it all. He simply explained that we are heading for another horrible economic bubble – that we need to be building jobs in the U.S. – RIGHT NOW — and that too little is being done to fix what’s wrong with our economy.
Stimulus jobs are being created **outside** of our country — with export of major contracts – like the new bullet trains, and the contracts to build green energy products, etc, we have basically given our tax dollars to China, instead of insisting on keeping stimulus projects within our borders.
It’s nothing less than insulting – a slap in the face to all unemployed U.S. workers – that the White House has chosen to reward other countries with job-creation instead of keeping those dollars inside our country.
I don’t think a single person cares one bit what U.S. corporations do with non-U.S. based jobs — but we sure as hell care when it’s our tax dollars that are being used to create jobs somewhere else.
**WE** ARE THE ONES WHO NEED PROTECTIONISM — NOT THE COROPORATIONS.
Anyway, it all simply infuriates me.
I think we all expect to get screwed by our elected officials and even employers…but not by our own political pundits.
So, back to my original point:
Lawrence O’Donnell, you were an IDIOT today.