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Breaking News: Feb. 25, 2010The Republican Party is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Insurance industry, that's a fact. -Anthony Weiner, always a good guy and an absolutely exceptional Congressman, speaking on the floor of Congress. Mr. Weiner was then forced by a Republican Speaker to withdrawal his words after which he replaced the statement by saying Every single Republican I have ever met in my entire life, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Insurance industry!
Thank you for speaking up for The People Mr. Weiner, we appreciate it and need it now more than ever!

Breaking News: Feb. 25, 2010 - Obama and all members of Congress are meeting all day today in a "Healthcare Summit" at Blair House.

We've been watching this all freaking day so the rest of you can have a life, feel free to leave us a tip.

Here's what's going on, Obama is demonstrating extreme patience (as usual) while the Republicans posture for the cameras and repeat their same "talking points" of "The People want [fill in what the Democrats actually stand for and pretend the Republicans want this]".

Know what I mean? Republicans say things like, "The People want lower premiums, less tax on small businesses, and Middle-Class tax breaks!" which are all the things the DEMOCRATS are, in fact, fighting for, and the Republicans happen to be against. Interestingly, Obama has already enacted Democratic policies like middle-class tax cuts and huge breaks for small businesses. If the Republicans were to speak the truth it would sound something like, "We Republicans receive a huge amount of money from the insurance companies and we'll fight tooth and nail for them, screw the middle-class!"

As middle-class Americans, (earning under $150k per year), allow us to say to Congress..."Stop kissing Republican ass. Use Reconciliation. Period."

1. There is no reason not to. None.
2. Republicans would do it (and have often).
3. Democrats will be blamed no matter what happens. There's no way around that, the Republicans are better politicians than the Democrats. So pass the entire bill, including the Public Option, because it will make no difference if any Republicans are involved anyway.
4. Pray that the Republicans filibuster and make them actually do it, then show them on television holding everything up.

Breaking News: Feb. 19, 2010 - Tiger Woods makes public apology in order to pacify his sponsors and the females in our society.

Breaking News: Feb. 2010 - Virginia Republicans ran an ad mocking global warming science based on their record snowstorm last weekend. Yes, this is what Republicans in Virginia are holding up as evidence that global warming is false.

I'm confused again, are they the party of assholes or the party of stupid? I wish they'd just pick one category and stick with it.

Besides, you're not supposed to have both, it's not right.

If you're going to be arrogant you're supposed to know what you're talking about. And if you're a retard you're supposed to be nice like Forrest Gump or that big guy in The Green Mile.

But Smug AND Stupid? Not cool.

Smug and Stupid equals Obnoxious. Republicans - you've ALREADY GOT OBNOXIOUS NAILED!

It's nearly impossible to cover both the venues of Obnoxious and Stupid simultaneously.

I'll break it down to demonstrate: A winter snowstorm - in winter - doesn't reflect a lack of global warming. In fact a single storm doesn't indicate anything at all except maybe a lack of cognitive ability. But if you want to argue that it's not just a single snow storm, and you want to argue that it's a lot of weather changes, a lot of winter storms with greater amounts of snow - then that's precisely what climate scientists have been predicting, warning, and anticipating as an indicator that global warming is real. Which is the opposite of the point you Republican Retards are making.

And, as demonstrated by our next story...

Breaking News: Republicans are obnoxious. That's not the breaking news, the breaking news is the latest example of hypocrisy that illustrates their obnoxiousness. The Republicans actually have an official formula in order to be that much more powerful and effective by utilizing synchronized obnoxiousness, like synchronized swimming, but the suits aren't as revealing.

Remember Sarah Palin's speech Saturday night? Where she read a complaint from her notes on how "Obama uses a teleprompter"

Breaking News: At what point can we have a serious conversation about Medicare, or a serious conversation about Social Security, or a serious conversation about Budget & Debt in which we're not simply trying to position ourselves politically?    -Barack Obama completely letting the Washington Establishment cat out of the bag! Addressing Congressional Republicans during their GOP Caucus just a few days ago, January 29, 2010.

If you were a Republican in the room, you threw up a little in your mouth when he called you guys out on this. And now you're freaking out just a little that I know that.

If you're a citizen of...this planet...you should watch this. It's President Obama exposing the Republican party for the group of liars and hypocrites that they are. And it was live on Television, no scripting. The thing is, he wasn't trying to do that! In Obama's mind, he still hasn't grasped that the Republicans plan is to gain power at any expense at all, and that they don't care about what's good for America, at all. Not even a little. They only care about what's good for the wealthiest of Americans. The top 5%. You and I, by the way, making 100k-250k, are not the top 5%.

Its one of the things I like and also used to scare me about Obama. Obama is honestly a Good Guy.

The Republican political strategists spotted this almost right away and tried to take advantage of it. Remember how, in the very beginning of this administration, in March of last year, the Republicans kept publicly trying to paint Obama as Jimmy Carter?

That was why. The Republicans knew that Obama wasn't a politician, he was an outsider. And worse, he wasn't corrupt.

But the problem for the Republicans is that Obama isn't "Jimmy Carter" he's "Mr.Smith Goes To Washington"!

My President, Barack Obama, made me PROUD (again). My President went on live TV, just him, alone, against 140 members of the Republican Congress at their two-day retreat in Baltimore, and called them out for all the bullshit propaganda they've been passing out to the American people as truth.

Obama met in a room with 140 of the GOP and talked them down one by one. They, under the pretense of a question, would "ask" the President "The Republicans have proposed this or that to solve this and that" and the President would literally have read the very bill or item they were speaking about and explain in no uncertain terms how the ideas brought forth by the Republicans were half-assed and undoable and why! In one case, one of the Republican budget "solutions" didn't even include any numbers, but they handed out bound copies for the cameras making it appear as if they had worked out a real plan. Instead of making them into deceitful fools, Obama said simply, "The Plan you provide needs to stand up to the scrutiny of the economists as a real and feasible plan".

I can't possibly do this thing justice, watch it here.

Breaking News: The State of the Union Address - President Obama gave one hell of a great talk to America - and to the Senators and to the Congress in this State of the Union Address. One of his great points was aimed squarely at our elected lawmakers, "What frustrates the American People is a Washington where every day is election day. We can't wage a perpetual campaign, where the only goal is to see who can get the most embarrassing headlines about the other side! A belief - that if - you lose, I win. Neither Party should delay or obstruct every single bill, just because they can."

Right-on man!

FOX wasted no time trashing the message and distorting what was said. FOX claimed Obama "spewed the same old rhetoric" which couldn't be farther from the truth. Not only was it not the "same old", it was so completely new and unique it will certainly go down in history as such.

If you didn't see it, you'll find it worth your while to read a transcript or watch the video because it really was different than any State of the Union Address I've ever heard or read about in school.

In this time of constant bickering and irresponsible selfishness from our politicians who concentrate on pleasing lobbyists above any responsibilities they have to the People, "We were sent here to serve the citizens, not our ambitions." Obama is a breath of fresh air.

If you watched that State of the Union Address and you're still anti-Obama, just click-off this site, really.

I'll leave it to MSNBC or CNN to reiterate what he said. Instead I'll just say that I hope the Republicans don't blow off his message of unity and his points about working for the People of America and not just for your next election.

Breaking News: Right-Wing-Boy-Wonder James O'Keefe, infamous for his accusations last year that the Acorn organization is guilty of unethical behavior, has been arrested for entering a federal office under false pretenses with the intent of committing the felony of tapping the phones of Senator Mary Landrieu. You didn't used to have to be a hypocrite to call yourself a Conservative but times change.

If you've been following RANT, for any time at all, than you've undoubtedly figured out our, (meaning yours and mine because you have to agree with me when I lay out the facts and truth for you) issues with the Democrats and the Republicans and the Americans. The Americans can be broken down into two distinct categories:

1. Those that believe what they hear, and;
2. Those that go the extra analytical step to see if what they hear from the politicians matches the politician's actual beliefs and actions.

The reason I bring this up is because, oddly, group #1 votes a lot more often than group #2, even though group #2 is the more knowledgeable group.

Take, for instance, the out-spoken position of the Republican party on Abortion. The Republican party says that it is against the use of public funds to pay for abortions, in fact that's their current stalling tactic talking point against the new health care bill, yet the Republican party has provided and supported abortions funded with public money since 1991. You see, for the past 18 years the RNC's own insurance policy, the one it provides all of its employees, specifically covers abortions.

The only reason anyone knows of this is because Politico publicized it, and the only reason this policy is going to be changed is because the Republicans were called out on it and it clearly depicts them as hypocritical assholes shows them to be contradicting what they speak.

One thing about the whale-squeezing Democrats, most of the time, they at least honestly believe-in what they're preaching about.

You have to give the Democrats that win over the Republicans. That's one of the things the Democrats don't fight well is the organized Republican Lie Machine Talking Points. Not only do the Republicans lie, but they do it with an extreme amount of Attitude! I THINK that's done on purpose to give the impression of Righteousness.

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There's something extremely different about President Obama. I wasn't able to put my finger on it for the longest time, but then, last night as I was falling asleep it dawned on me.

I think it was because I was admiring how he called FOX "news" channel out for not being a news channel. And by the way, you other news channels that stuck up for FOX? That was pretty stupid. That FOX is allowed to refer to itself as a news outlet tarnishes all of you that actually do produce news.

Frankly, I think it was a no-brainer for this administration to treat FOX with the respect it deserves - which is none. Mr. Obama and the White House are right to ignore Fox, the real news channels should do the same.

Reasonable people could simply look at the company FOX keeps, or the scumbags commentators on their payroll, and be able to tell that this group of hypocrites are the most unethical, criminal-minded, greed-driven, bottom-feeders of our nation, many of which should be in Federal prison not serving the public's best interests.

But I digress. And I still haven't told you what's so extremely different about Mr. Obama, and that's my entire reason for writing this piece.

The other thing I didn't finish my thought about was the White House classifying Fox as "talk radio with pictures" and then Fox pretending to be insulted when they know damn-well it's the absolute truth.

Oh, I'm sure their anger was real. There they were, spending a lot of energy and money to successfully con some segment of the public into believing that they were a news channel simply by naming themselves a news channel.

Then somebody with a lot of influence comes along and doesn't play along at all!

Goes and says right out-loud that the emperor, Fox, isn't wearing any clothes.

And why not? It's not like the White House had anything to lose. It's not like Fox was going to lie or degrade this administration any more than they had already planned!

Fox isn't a news channel, its a channel that mixes news into it's content in order to lend credibility to what is nothing more than propaganda programming aimed at keeping the wealthiest people in power and wealth.

It's so obvious for most of us that we disregard an important fact - that there are people out there that actually believe much of what Fox presents to them as "true but slightly bias".

Even though they see out-right criminals (cough-felonOllieNorth-cough) portrayed as heros and some really evil people on the Fox payroll, they don't let this influence their opinions about what they're hearing. These are every-day working people that are making less than $200,000 a year - believing, hook, line, and sinker, that Karl Rove, is not a total dick has the same ideals and values as themselves.

This audience doesn't see Glenn Beck, Hannity or O'Reilly as manipulative scum-bags conning them because they're being well-paid to do so. This audience is unassuming and naive and only requires a little bit of truth in a discussion to qualify it all as the truth.

And that's what Fox provides it's audience. A little bit of news, a little bit of truth, and a little bit of those same opinions about gays, Hispanics, and other causes that annoy the average every-day American. Just enough to appear under the surface. Just enough for credibility. But enough credibility and relating to their audience that when they preach less credible ideas, like Fox and the Republicans are what's good for the middle-class, their audience actually believes them.

Hey, we at Rant are annoyed by gays too, but it doesn't make FOX rank any higher in credibility.

But you know what's unique about Barack Obama?

You know what I realized about Barack Obama that we, as a nation, haven't seen in decades?

Frankly, I haven't seen it in so long in a public office, I even forgot it ever existed there.

Barack Obama is an ADULT!

THAT is what stands out about this man! We actually have an adult in public office!

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Democrats, either "Go It 100% Alone" or find other jobs!

There you go, was that clear enough for you bunch of Pansies? You are not allowed to talk to the Republicans anymore! Do you understand? Not even to fetch them a Starbucks.

Democrats, the Republicans had their way with this country for over 10 years straight. Do you ever remember the Republicans being concerned about your interests? At ALL? Well put down your crack pipe, because they didn't. They invited the banks and other large corporate interests to come in and wipe out decades of regulations put in place to keep the country stable and to prevent the greedy from completely running amuck.

And for at least the last 8 years the Republicans have been just STRIP-MINING this country because now that manufacturing can be done in other countries, there is no need for the USA to exist as far as they're concerned. So the Republican parasite is now devouring the host.

The Republicans deregulated everything and then set out to send it all out of here. And they've done a hell of a job! America barely manufactures anything at all anymore, and what jobs the Republicans couldn't ship overseas, they expanded H1B Visa programs by the hundreds of thousands so the Indians and Chinese could come here and take what American jobs were left. (I'm not making a racist statement here, there is no hate of Chinese or Indians inferred or involved. Of course they're going to come here and take our jobs if we open the floodgates. Problem is, then they send the money home to India, and they themselves are replaced every 1-3 years when their visa expires.)

The Republicans think Americans are too stupid to get this, and some Americans are. And then there's a ton of them that are simply politically lazy and don't speak up. Combine that with the loud-mouth fringe that are, indeed, so stupid that they protest and picket against their own self-interests because they don't have the critical thinking abilities to comprehend that FOX news is a propaganda machine. Why? Because the Church needs followers, so the culture doesn't teach critical thinking skills since reasoning and religion are polar opposites. But I digress...

Kent Conrad, Democratic Pansy (his official title), just said on "Hardball" - "...its important to have Republican support...". No, Mr. Conrad, how many different ways do the voters have to tell you this?

Have you ever heard a Republican say, "It's important to have Democratic support"? Ever? Once? Maybe in a dream? Well if you did, it was followed by silence and then screams of laughter and someone saying, "Just kidding!".

Not only is it NOT important to have Republican support, its not even desired. Is that clear and concise enough for you Kent Conrad? WE DON'T WANT, WE DON'T NEED, REPUBLICAN SUPPORT! The more the Republicans get involved, the more watered down our bill will be, and I know you MUST know that as well. Secondly, Mr. Conrad, if we wanted a Republican Bill than we would have put Republicans in office and then "assumed the position".

I, and the rest of the American People, have no idea why you're so insistent on kissing Republican ass, and frankly we don't care anymore! You can bend over and service your Republican masters later - when you're out of office, on your own time!

Stop Watering-Down our Freaking Health-Care Bill!

Pass the full, complete, health-care bill INCLUDING the Public Option. Use Reconciliation if you want, we don't care.

The Republicans used Reconciliation ALL THE TIME. The Republicans used Reconcillation when Exxon / Mobil wanted to drill on public-owned protected land for cheap oil.

Remember the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge controversy? Reconcilliation showed the Democrats who was in charge.

The Republicans utilized Reconcilliation for freaking TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH! TWICE! (Once in 2001 and again in 2003).

In 2005 the Republicans utilized Reconcilliation to enact huge cuts in Medicare and student loans!

In 2006 the Republicans utilized Reconcilliation to extend tax cuts to include the tax on capital gains. They even used it to order Chinese food over pizza one night, just to rub it in the Democrats face.

There's your justification, (you bunch of spineless wimps).

Guess what... Rocket Science - We didn't put Democrats in office so they could cater to the Right, and you're really starting to piss us off by not doing your jobs!

Democrats, GROW SOME BALLS!

The Republicans have extras, take some of theirs!

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Editor's Note: Anthony Weiner, Charles Schumer, Alan Grayson, please disregard, you're doing a fine job and we recognize it!

Here's something interesting...Did you know that there are 4 Insurance Company lobbyists for every 1 person in Congress in Washington, right now?

I knew the Insurance Companies were the ones behind the anti-Obama healthcare movement, Middle-America certainly isn't going to be against their own self-interests. But, even we were surprised at that ratio. (Source, CNN 9/18/09, and yes, we believe CNN.)

Jon Stewart, Monday October 12th, addressed a major pet-peeve I've had for a long time and even written about here on Rant. CNN does a terrible job of actually providing enough information for anyone to come to logical conclusions about politicians claims made by those interviewed on their news shows.

They constantly only stir up debate and controversy, without asking the follow-up questions required to actually fact-check these claims or nail down their guests to a solid statement or opinion.

To use the excuse of "we're out of time" and then move on to stupid "non-news" stories, (and come on CNN, you know what I'm talking about here when I refer to stupid non-news stories), is inexcusable! Get with it CNN! We've already stopped watching, but we'll be checking back (admittedly, not any time soon).

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