Thursday, September 10, 2009

Meet The New Boss

Many are saying that Obama's powerful speech last night was the greatest speech ever by a US President in front of a joint session of Congress, and we here at LVS agree. He kicked ass. He took CHARGE.
One high point of the speech was when Obama said that his "door is open" to GOP ideas, but he will "call out liars." He spoke directly to senior citizens who have been the target of the ridiculous lies about "death panels." He said his plan is "not a government takeover." A low point of the speech was when Representative Joe Wilson from South Carolina yelled out "you lie" (or some sources report that he said "it's a lie") when Obama stated that his plan does not cover illegal immigrants. Wilson showed complete disrespect for The President, and proved just how low the hateful wingnuts will go to make sure our President fails.

Another high point of Obama's speech was when he spoke about the late Ted Kennedy, and the letter Kennedy wrote in defense of liberalism. Kennedy strongly believed that health care is a moral issue and that it speaks to the character of Americans. To deny sick people health care coverage due to a pre-existing condition, or loss of job, is a social injustice. We are all in this together and should help each other. No one in America should die because they can't afford medical treatment. Quality health care is a human need, not a privilege just for people who can afford it. Evoking Kennedy at the end was LIBERALISM at it's best. Obama spoke directly to the American people , referencing real life stories of people dying and going bankrupt because of the current abuses of the health care industry.

The root of Obama's speech was that comprehensive regulation of the healthcare industry is long overdue. Obama stressed that he does not want to put HIC's out of business, he "just wants to hold them accountable." He wants to make it illegal for HIC's to deny coverage for a pre-existing condition, or when you lose your job. Obama's brilliant plan has pluses for everybody: the American people, the Republicans (Obama has much GOP input including McCain's ideas, and GOP goals of reforming malpractice litigation) and even insurance companies will gain millions of new customers via Obama making minimal coverage mandatory for everyone, similar to car insurance.

Get on board Republicans, the train is leaving the station with or without you. It's time to stop playing partisan politics with the lives of American citizens.

54 comments:

Bill Villa said...

My Fellow LVS Liberal Commenter Members, let's all sign here ...

Anonymous said...

in your picture it look like house minority leader john boner is trying to punch barack in the head (sour grapes)

Anonymous said...

Obama was very Presidential last night, I felt (for the first time in a very long long time) that we have a LEADER in the White House. I wish Obama would have "called out" Joe Wilson last night. Obama should have invited Wilson to the podium to explain to the World exactly how "it's a lie" and that illegal immigrants WILL be covered under Obama's health care reform. "Go ahead, please, straighten us out Joe" ... that would have made for some great television :)

Angie Villa said...

Great idea BV!

Anon 12:27 I think that's the guy on the far left's fist, but it does look funny!

Anon 1:24: I was waiting for Obama to call out Wilson too. And what were those papers they were holding up?

Anonymous said...

"the far left's fist"

my my this has a nice ring to it :) (not a threat)

Anonymous said...

what were those papers they were holding up?


Pink Slips i hope, let's just have Liberal Democrats run everything for a while, worth a shot...

tbagshaw said...

It was another great speech but the republicans also put on a great show. They showed the national audience that they are strong against any forward motion in this country. They were indeed textbook on how to look and sound stupid and showed just how backwards one group can be. These are the same guys that probity don't use email or have there staff take care of those computer duties for them so what can we expect, and dont forget some of us did elect these jerks. Mr. Obama is going to have a hard road on healthcare this nation has a large population that is very gullible to diversions. If its not the swine flu, or death camps for the elderly, than its spending down all the Medicade and Medicare money to fund his agenda. The majority are more concerned with sensational BS rather than the facts, to much American Idol and not enough World focus if you ask me.Follow the leader bull always out weighs reading, thinking and being responsible to some in our country.

Mr. Obama has something that is rare in a president, brains and balls thats a tough combination we havn"t seen since the FDR days and I wish him the best in battling this uphill climb.

Unfortunately Israel will be the next thing that will be thrown in his direction lets hope the Zionist may have to finaly be aconutable for that never ending war, the death, destruction and aggressive expansion? Hey wait a minute that sure does sounds familiar doesn't it Europe in 40's anyone.

Bill Villa said...

Good Points, Tom. Especially the "gullible" and how American Idol "diversion-happy" too many Americans (and our "news" media) have become. Take a swing around our local blogosphere today. Most everybody's tee hee focused on A-Town Republican Mayoral Candidate Tony Phillips's leaked cybersex encounter. The Morning Call "newspaper" had it on their front page. Ridiculous. Thank God for Liberals w/ Brains & Balls (& Beauty) like me and you (and Obama :)

Angie Villa said...

Tom, you're so right about the Republicans "putting on a good show." Their behavior, and especially Joe Wilson's, was really a Godsend for Obama and the Liberals. The whole nation (and the world) saw exactly who is trying to make progress and who is trying to stop progress, and for purely partisan political reasons only. An excellent performance by the GOP!

1:42 and 2:05, funny!

Bill Villa said...

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

One of our attorneys informed us in an email early this morning that a local blog desperate for readers (they recently announced an imminent "folding" but apparently have hit upon a new format, i.e., "reckless libel") is presenting "proof" that the cyber sex kitten "Delores" who appears to have set up Republican Mayoral Candidate Tony Phillips was either Mrs. Dottie or me.

Reckless Libel

We won't "dignify" this crap w/ a response of any kind in our toxic local blogosphere but will instead pursue the perpetrators (Chris Casey and Mike Molovinsky) through legal channels.

We will say that we continue to be mildly surprised at the depths that those who seek to silence our Justice Mission always manage to sink to.

You'd think they'd know by now that they can't ever stop us.

Anonymous said...

They can't counter you fair and square by addressing the FACTS you put forth so they do stuff like this. And this.

Laughably obvious is their total frustration in "dealing" with LVS :)

Keep up the excellent and always verifiable FACT-based exposé work!

Anonymous said...

Ironic (and deliciously so :) that your post comments on the "eye-opening performance" of the Republicans during Obama's speech, eye-opening in that the GOP's booing and hissing and laughing and name-calling ("YOU LIE!") showed any reasonable viewer exactly who's "nutz" and obstructionist in the healthcare debate.

This morning, the "New PoliBlog" did an eerily similar performance, which I see as a similar Godsend for LVS.

Bill Villa said...

9:43, Merci.

9:55, Touché.

Anonymous said...

From http://webmaster.info.aol.com/proxyinfo.html : 64.12.96.xx IPs are proxies.

That Casey guy should keep his mouth shut instead of making accusations like that.

Bill Villa said...

Thanks! But shhh! We now have Casey, Molovinsky, VDSM, and Monkey Momma (we have her cell phone #) right where we want 'em, legally, or, illegally, I should say ;)

Anonymous said...

If you read Bernie Ohare's blog.

He actually stood up for you and defended both of you.

That is something to be credible.

Bill Villa said...

O'Hare's a peach.

Anonymous said...

Wait! Casey's back from blog retirement? ALREADY?! Didn't he retire, like, last week?

Angie Villa said...

"If you read Bernie Ohare's blog."

I stopped reading all the allied local "obstructionist" blogs months ago ;D

tbagshaw said...

Check out this link this jerk is now making himself into a right wing celebrity and he made $200.00 since yesterday for his cause. Scary stuff I am in the wrong business!!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/11/wilson.fundraising/index.html

Bill Villa said...

12:30, sadly, it's obvious that Chris Casey doesn't know if he's coming or going, that's how dizzy he is.

Bill Villa said...

Hey Tom, here's that link. And Joe Wilson has attracted 200 HUNDRED THOUSAND bucks in "reward money" for his goofiness in front of the President. Well. That's the bizarro world we live in these days.

Angie Villa said...

Hate sells! Wilson will probably have his own show on Faux News soon.

tbagshaw said...

My decimal was in the wrong place wasn't it!!

Bill Villa said...

That's okay, your heart's in the right place ...

Bill Villa said...

(before I forget)

Chris Casey's IP # is RCN Allentown, 65.78.112.190, and we can prove this in court beyond all reasonable doubt.

In fact, we'll probably flash our "Chris Casey's IP #" proof around during our October appeal vs O'Hare, just to show off for the Judge in what will be a laughably easy reversal of O'Hare's totally phony "conviction" on me.

Remember where you heard it first.

At Lehigh Valley Somebody, #3 Statewide ... #1 in The Lehigh Valley.

Anonymous said...

Bill, YOU'RE the "New Boss!"

Bill Villa said...

Merci.

Bill Villa said...

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Chris Casey

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Bill Villa said...

WHAT SORT OF (OTHER, NORMAL) PERSON READS LVS?

Well, for example, our SiteMeter(R) says:

Domain Name > randomhouse.com
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Maybe they want us to publish a novel?

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Is this Melissa Harris-Lacewell? Oh be still our liberal bleeding hearts ;)

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Bill Villa said...

SiteMeter(R) Spotlight

Chris Casey Again? Already?

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Bill Villa said...

WHAT SORT OF (OTHER, NORMAL) PERSON READS LVS?

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tbagshaw said...

HERES MORE SCARY NEWS FROM THE BRAINLESS AND FEARFUL. WOW THIS COUNTRY REALLY IS IN THE TOILET CHECK THIS OUT. I GUESS THEY WOULD RATHER CONTINUE LETTING THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY AND BIG PHARMA CONTROL HEALTH CARE.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/us/politics/13protestweb.html?_r=1&hp

Bill Villa said...

SiteMeter(R) Spotlight

EXPOSING A LIAR DEPARTMENT

" ... when I visited the Nobody website last, it was immediately noticed by the blog owner (based on my ISP and IP info on sitemeter) and they posted in the comments section that I had visited. That was pretty creepy, in that they were RIGHT about my visitation. It reminded me that nothing on the internet is private. That was the last time I visited the nobody website, and that was months ago."

-"Monkey Momma," commenting THIS MORNING at an Inferiority Complex Local Blog

SiteMeter(R) Spotlight

"Monkey Momma"

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i.e., LAST NIGHT ;)

Oopsie. No credibility via total marginalization.

Bill Villa said...

Hey Tom, here's that link.

My thinking is that it's "scary" only if we allow ourselves to be duped by a few nutz in media into believing these right wingnuts have a majority.

They don't.

Not by any stretch of the imagination or Faux News Poll.

I have a theory, goes like this ... if you're a "newspaper" say, and you play to the "center," you will lose everybody to the right of center.

50%. POOF.

But if you play to the loony far right (and this is The Morning Call's obvious brainstorm strategy) ... you will attract the attention of everybody.

The extremist far right loonies will love ya (and renew their subscriptions).

And everybody from the far left to the center right will tune in to see exactly how much the freakin' nutz on the far right will get away w/ .

As soon as the true majority of us walk away from the mainstream media (and The Morning Call is an excellent example) and don't look back ... it'll implode.

POOF.

Cuz there'll be only like 8% of the population buying their woven and spun shit.

Anonymous said...

EXPOSING A LIAR DEPARTMENT
-"Monkey Momma,"

Oh that is too funny! Villas you are too much! (For them)

Bill Villa said...

Merci.

We do make their bottomless pit of 'loser moments' rather humiliating, and in a very public way, don't we :)

Anonymous said...

They deserve it!

Bill Villa said...

Oui.

Anonymous said...

if people like monkey momma didn't have you to gossip about, i wonder what they'd do with their time.

tbagshaw said...

Hey Bill,

Great points trash sells and keeps the interest of the masses,Frightening!!

Bill Villa said...

11:36, we would hope "she" would take better care of those "suburban kids" "she" claims to have.

Bill Villa said...

Merci, Comrade Tom.

And I ain't scared and I know you aren't neither.

Let the "masses" (8% tops) quake w/ fear if they wanna!

Obama and us Liberal Dems have carte blanche until further notice :)

Foo Foo said...

I've always figured hate-spewing "suburbanite Monkey Momma" and this glazed-over nut job ("Volvo Driving Soccer Mom") were the same nut job, no?

Bill Villa said...

While we do not condone your "name-calling," Foo Foo (we try to avoid ad hominem personal attacks here at LVS, the #1 Most Influential Political Blog in Pennsylvania again this week), you might be on to something there ...

Foo Foo said...

Mea Culpa.

Bill Villa said...

Merci.

Bill Villa said...

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Bill Villa said...

SiteMeter(R) Spotlight

Ugh.

And then feces like this floats by ...

Alex Joseph

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Angie Villa said...

Excerpt from Tim Wise on CNN, on what this is really all about.
WHITE RACIAL RESENTMENT

WISE: "Right. Well like I said in the show before, it is the background noise of a lot of the opposition, not all of it but a lot of it. You know, when you have someone like Glen Beck saying as he did about a month ago that the health care debate isn't really about that. It is just reparations for black people, where you have Rush Limbaugh yesterday on the air saying first that community service is the first step towards fascism, which is bizarre even for him.

And then almost immediately after that saying one of the problems with America is too much multi culturalism. You wouldn't say that unless you are trying to stoke white racial resentment. And so when you say those things, I want to know when are Republican leaders going to condemn that kind of rhetoric because that is where race is being interjected. It is interjected by us, it's interested by the leading talk show hosts in this country.

LEMON: I mean, but is it knowingly or is it maybe unwittingly they're doing it and maybe they don't realize they are doing it.

WISE: Well, two things, it may be either or but it doesn't matter. I mean, racism needs to be evaluated based on outcome. If you do something which has a predictable consequence, you have to be accountable for that consequence. So for example, when Glen Beck lied and said that Van Jones was involved in the Los Angeles riots which was not true. That is a very clear, as David said, dog whistle politic moment.

You're saying that because you know that the L.A. riots are viewed as this racialized rebellion and it scares white folks to death. So you say that about this man. It isn't true. Glenn Beck had to know that wasn't true. That is a way to scare white folks. Where race comes in, it is old fashion but it's white racial resentment that they are trying to whip up.

Bill Villa said...

Tim Wise is very wise.

Here's the link and everybody should watch this 5 minute interview w/ Tim Wise video.

Angie Villa said...

Yes, Glenn Beck is clearly stoking white racial resentment (ie RACISM) with his lies, but yet because of "freedom of speech" people believe it's just fine for him to speak at the State Theatre.
Problem is, if the neo-cons continue to get whipped up into a frenzy, they will turn to violence.
But that's the world we live in today, completely irresponsible media only concerned about ratings, and hate sells. News should be non-profit. Just look at what a piece of crap The Morning Call has turned into, pandering to it's lunatic right wing audience.

Angie Villa said...

Bravo to Former President Carter, who grew up and lives in the south, for calling Wilson's outburst what it really is, and that is RACISM. The "birthers" (locally these people hang out at the Allentown Commentator) are racists. And we here at LVS have said this all along, yet we are labeled in our local blahggassmear as the haters.The REAL haters have been emboldened, just read our local "newspaper." And they are dangerous. More people need to speak out.
Now, thanks to right wingutmedia, more an more nutjobs are carrying their concealed weapons to events where our President is speaking. At the latest tea-bagger event someone had a sign that said "BURY OBAMACARE WITH KENNEDY." What despicable humans.

Angie Villa said...

The shameful "BURY OBAMACARE WITH KENNEDY" signs came from a CATHOLIC RIGHT TO LIFE GROUP called "American Life League." I'm ashamed to be a Catholic, or even a "lapsed" Catholic.