Lieberman and Netroots

Yes, Lieberman was a jackass and an idiot and everyone knows it.

SO WHAT?

The Netroots wants to enter a new phase, the phase of irrelevancy. So please get a grip for Christ sakes.

The best way to rid the party of Lieberman is to generate the kind of "faceless" revenue Obama got in his last month of Presidential Campaigning in order to rid the US Senate of Lieberman in his next election. I mean, can anything stand before ActBlue and a horde of really angry Netroots Dems? Of course not. It should be a given that Lieberman is shown the door in his next election, right? But until them, will the netroots please chill out, take a deep breath and focus on more important issues?

Chevrolet Volt: The Car That Was Supposed to Fail

GM is marketing for failure! First they produce a car nobody really wants, the Chevy Volt, than, they call it a failure after the vehicle fails to sell - like we all knew it would fail right from the very beginning, than go right back to fossil fuel favoritism, right back into the pocket of big oil. GM's magical pump jack kiss act done to show the oil gods complete devotion.

This is the number one reason NOT to bail-out GM. The company intentional had NO vision for it's future or for the future of it's employees. GM's money problems have nothing to do with labor unions but everything to do with pushing intentionally bad ideas that squandered company money in order to keep big oil happy. This is a dead end myopic form of slavery.

That said, here we see that George F. Will writes this bullshit column as if on cue, blaming the Chevy Volt on the Labor Unions of all things.

Some opponents of bankruptcy say: GM must not be allowed to fail before it perfects batteries for its electric-powered Volt, which supposedly is a key to the company's resurrection. This vehicle was concocted to serve GM's prolonged attempt to ingratiate itself with the few hundred environmentally obsessed automotive engineers in Congress. They have already voted tax credits of up to $7,500 for purchasers of such cars — bribes that reveal doubts about consumer enthusiasm for them at a price that would reflect cost.

Congress could help the Detroit Three by allowing them, when meeting CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) standards imposed by Congress, to count fuel-efficient cars they import from their overseas factories. Congressional Democrats oppose that because those imports are not made by members of the United Auto Workers. Those Democrats, their rhetoric notwithstanding, really care most about the union. "Saving the planet" comes second and last comes the health of the auto companies.

Some opponents of bankruptcy stress that it might terminate health care coverage enjoyed by UAW retirees who are too young for Medicare. Think about that. If people want to retire before 65, or 35 for that matter, that is their business. But there is no public interest in protecting the luxury of retirement in the prime of life just because in palmy days a private contract between a union and a corporation established it as an entitlement for all seasons.

There was no market for a plug-in car and GM knew that fact even before Volt was nothing more than a scribbled concept drawn on piece of paper. The Chevy Volt has nothing to do with labor unions, but everything to do with GM's mis-management. The Volt was an intentional fielded bad idea that was utterly intended to fail from the start so that Big Oil could claim, "see, nobody wants a plug in car". So, Americans need a new Automaker, one that doesn't cater to big oil's desires to keep consumers dependent on fossil fuel for ever. It is intentional on GM's part to never find their way around Exxon/Mobil or BP, so that in it's self, is reason enough to let GM liquidate and go out of buisiness. And this is reason enought for taxpayers to refuse to bail-out this automaker. GM didn't have any vision on purpose and really nobody should doubt that fact, nobody.

Josh Marshall's George Will idea.

Hey, I know, lets make it to where GM doesn't have to care about employees health care, never mind that employees didn't drive GM into the ground, no, of course not, that was management's doing. AND God knows, GM's CEO will NEVER have to go without medical insurance, nope, only the stupid peeons need to do that.

Josh Marshall is either completely obtruse or he never really was a liberal but more like a TNR employee, peddling a flip-side of Repug nastiness whenever and whenever he can. I'm not like Josh, I give a damn about people, where as Josh only gives a damn about the Dem Party, but not really about people. Josh Marshall and his website are not about news and Josh is not now nor ever has he been a journalist but rather, an armchair pundit for the Dem Party. Josh Marshall is merely the flip-side of Glenn Reynolds. Josh's website exist only for party conformity and when Obama's voted for that FISA Bill, it never phased Josh in the least. Josh wants to allow GM to act like Wal-mart - fine, if that is where GM is right now, why not just let the GM file bankruptcy?

Change You Can’t Possibly Believe In

It’s a continuation of Marc Rich American. As we can see with Hillary’s Secretary of State coronation along with the very noticeable giddiness of the Republicans for her coronation, it is obvious that Obama is very warm hearted toward the West Texas Mafia aficionados as Obama welcomes big oil right back into the Whitehouse. No change here folks. It shows us what a fraud Al Gore is, really, I mean, Party over global warming - Al Gore would never put science before lies????

So shut the hell up Al Gore, I don't want to hear any more of your BS about global warming anymore, Gore is a welcome in the new Whitehouse as cold bucket of spit. At this point, I seriously doubt Al Gore really cares about global warming anyway. Al Gore's spill is just a hot button issue for stupid liberals the way flag burning is hot button issue for stupid conservatives. This is why there never was going to be any future for Howard Dean in the Democratic Party anyway. Howard Dean should have gone with the people and NOT with the Party, as the Party is what doesn't matter.

It's going to be the nasty FISA Bill lie over and over and over again with this new incoming administration. Obama will saying one thing and do another time and again, just like how Bush said he was a "uniter and not a divider". What a crap shoot! Under this flag of corporate control, we should just let GM go now, we're all headed for hell anyway, we can't save this ship and I don't even want to try and put a patch on the ugliness of the incoming Whitehouse and it's all corporate first agenda.

T. Boone Pickens - Putting the US Back into the Pocket of Fossil Fuel

T. Boone Pickens says that trucks will only operate on natural gas, diesel or gasoline but that simply isn't true. T. Boone was on Meet the Press and very noticeable, no other opinion was allowed (so thanks to Tom "broken" Brokaw for all the nothing in journalism standards that jerk continues to do for US citizens) - the forced opinion that it's fossil fuel or nothing else BULLSHIT.

We simply need a combustible source like SALT WATER with a technology that releases oxygen and hydrogen like this video shows - that is all we need to run a combustible engine, and if heavy trains can run on steam engines, (yes, powered by coal burning but still steam powered,) than, why can't we engineer commercial trucks to be powered by other technology? Pickens simply wants to force people into continued fossil fuel dependency. The surcharges from fossil fuel cost, the unpredictable, volatile, unstable cost from price fixing/price gouging by the big oil companies made profit margins impossible for anyone but big oil corporations - so we need either very cheap or even free energy in order to spur real economic growth in this country.

Right before the senior Bush was to lose office, gasoline hit the 1986 all time low of 0.65 cents a gallon - and it was THAT cheap commodity that spurred the amazing economic growth that gave the Clinton Administration his economy boom. Right after 9/11 gasoline fell to $ 1.00 a gallon, once again, American markets showed signs of fast pace growth that saved our economy right after the 9/11 attacks. If we want to jump start the economy, than we need either very inexpensive fuel or FREE energy. Our only path out of the coming depression will be to bury fossil fuel forever. Clinton didn't really promote the economy in the way inexpensive fuel did it for him. SO BEFORE we sign any loans to the big 3 automakers, it's time to force a move-away from big oil tyranny, indeed it is long past time to leave fossil fuel in the ground instead of in our air.

BTW, George F. Will says that the plug in car wasn't marketable and I certainly didn't want a plug in car either so Mr. Will has a point here. George Will said that our government had to offer a rebate program to try and entice consumers to even purchase this undesirable vehicle. GM doesn't care, doesn't seem to be even trying to anticipate the market and still shows no signs of wanting to anticipate the market today, even as GM is on the brink of it's own bankruptcy. Nobody wanted the plug-in Volt, so why was GM trying to promote such a loser idea, spending funds on such a dog of vehicle? Was it because big oil wanted a failed plug-in program to point too, and GM wanted to comply even if they lost money? I mean WTF is going on? There has never been a better time in our history to move away from fossil fuel that right now. If we don't move ahead now, we all fall into depression, a deep and ugly depression and there is no reason to move GM out of bankruptcy status if there is no type of restructuring based on eventual liberation from fossil fuel control.

Bush & Big Oil Don't Want Energy Independence

Bush backs federal aid for Big 3 without fuel strings

He wants Congress to allow carmakers to use $25B in energy funds to shore up finances, Dems push access to $700B bailout

David Shepardson / Detroit News Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON --

President Bush wants Congress to move quickly to grant Detroit's Big Three automakers access to a $25 billion federal loan program by not requiring that the money be used to upgrade factories to build more fuel-efficient vehicles

Let me say this loud and clear, "NO F**king way" should we give the auto industry a loan without need for improvements - so how about NO LOAN AT ALL if that is the way it's going to be. NO LOAN. NO improvements means continued government assistance for the Big three automakers, who don't ever need to show a profit. For every time Bush talks about energy independence from the Mideast, for everything Bush talks about renewable energy, you know that Bush is nothing but a big, fat liar. This is bullshit, no way, no way, now way in HELL should we giving automakers a loan under that circumstance. They don't want to improve, than they just need to go out of buisness.

UPDATE: It is now being reported that the Big 3 Automakers don't want accountable for the business loans they receive, and both you and I know how easy it is from them to file bankruptcy, and they have filed bankruptcy many times over the last few years. This from Bloomberg. com.

Earlier today, Ron Gettelfinger, head of the United Auto Workers, said General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC need U.S. financial assistance before President-elect Barack Obama takes office on Jan. 20.

Nancy Pelosi is telling US Automakers this:

Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said U.S. automobile manufacturers need to restructure "to ensure their long-term economic viability.''

Of course "restructure" is a bit of a loaded term, so does that mean re-tool or NOT?

Hey, maybe restructuring means to fire everyone at the top for change and replace them all with people who will turn a dime within one year, or leave with NO severance package. That would work wouldn't it?

Hillary is all Smiles

At this point in time, is there any doubt that Hillary Clinton will be extremely pissed-off again if Obama doesn't give her the Secretary of State position?




Under the Bush Administration as well as the Clinton Administration, we live in a republic type of government rather than a democracy. A government were the few decide for the many. During the Bush Administration, the Clinton's HELP Bush lied to every single American citizen in the US, as the Clinton's routinely sided with Bush in making decisions that merely benefited the few, mostly themselves and their corporate campaign buddies which, has been devoid of any human decency at all. So is there any wonder why AEI President Norm Ornstein is pushing for Hillary Secretary of State? Iraq is a war over oil resources, therefore, we don't need to be there in that country guarding the right of a few to make immense wealth at the cost of the many. We are not in Iraq for WMD, and not even for democracy for Iraqis because Bush wants control of Iraq's oil resources, something MOST Iraqis don't want to be forced into giving up for the benefit of rich American corporations. Fighting in Iraq is a fight not for a renewable energy future but for a fossil fuel future and for the wealth of a select few Americans.

Hillary for Secretary of State is not a move ahead, it's move backwards, right into line with Bush Administration.

Here We Go folks, Forever In Iraq

Obama says Hillary will be tapped for Secretary of State, which of course means that WE WILL NEVER LEAVE IRAQ if those Western oil contract get signed, because we'll need a military base to guard our economic interest.

There should be no doubt that Bill Clinton is dying to re-negotiate those oil contracts where the Bushies failed to get the contracts. You know, the Bushies ALL GREEDY and nothing else un-bid contract BS Band, which tried to play but failed too find the tune. There is NO doubt too that Iraq is eager to sign contracts with the US, as we do indeed have a oil dependency in this country and Iraq would like nothing better than to further that dependency, same as the Saudis want us always to be dependent on them.

Thus I suppose there will be no need for GM to re-tool for greater oil independence from the Mideast - we won't need re-newable energy if the Clinton's can get Iraq to comply. It was no secret that Bill Clinton was always in lockstep with the Bushies, meanwhile, men who dream of a future with NO fossil fuel dependence are being outright murdered, the kind of murders that happen not just with Bush/Cheney but also with Obama and Clinton's blessings too.

Obama's DLC leanings will indeed lead this nation into ruin. It's not Bush - it's Bush lite and it's uglier than sin and I don't think that in end it will fly, we cannot stay in Iraq. Get ready for a depression people, because we can all see the sin in what Obama is doing with Clinton as Secretary of State. He lied about leaving Iraq. Obama lied just like he did with that FISA Bill thus, will continue to LIE.

We will not leave Iraq - that is Obama's lie, that is lie, that is a LIE that the entire world can see.

UPDATE: From Glenn Greenwald's column.

A Washington Post article today on the need to restore confidence in the Justice Department quotes former high-level Clinton DOJ official Robert Litt urging the new Obama administration to avoid any investigations or prosecutions of Bush lawbreaking.

Of course not, any investigation of the Bush Administration would lead to an investigation of Bill Clinton's Administration too. Just exactly what evidence did Sandy Berger destroy during the investigation by the 9/11 Commission? The Bush Administration was not the only Administration that lied about WMD and pushed for pre-emptive war in Iraq. So, that said, all eyes are on who Obama picks as his Secretary of State. The Clinton's are very clearly involved in everything the Bush Administration did as far as all the lies concerning 9/11 and the lied about Iraq war thereafter.