After more than a year of political battles with the Republicans, Fox News, the Tea Party, and the health insurance industry, President Obama and the Democratic Party were finally able to make health care reform the law of the United States.

It is quite difficult to overstate the importance of this victory for Obama. It’s a legislative victory so huge that it boosts President Obama into the discussion about the greatest Presidents of the past 100 years. Universal health care has been a goal for forward thinking people since Theodore Roosevelt proposed the idea about 100 years ago.

As huge as the victory is for Obama, it’s just as big of a loss for the Republican Party because they put everything they had on trying to take down this bill and they were beat. Far right GOP Senator Jim Demint of South Carolina said that he thought the Republicans could destroy Obama’s presidency if they could take down his health care reform bill. He said it would be the President’s “Waterloo” but as David Frum noted in a recent article, it is now the Republican party’s “Waterloo.”

The reason for this is because all of the outrageous lies that the the Republican machine (including Fox News) told about health care reform only work politically if the bill never becomes the law. Then they can say that they “saved America” from some evil plot and since it was never realized there would be no solid evidence that they were full of it. This is how the GOP won huge in 1994 after defeating President Clinton’s health care reform.

But now that health care reform is law average Americans will inevitably find out that they actually really like the changes since they are extremely positive for most Americans.

The GOP is now campaigning with the preposterous slogan “Repeal and Replace” but this slogan will seem increasingly ridiculous as normal people find out how good the reform actually is. I am confident that a majority of the American people will wake up and realize that the GOP has done nothing but lie about this topic for more than a year and this will probably lead to a very good November for the Democrats this year.

Follow the 2012 Presidential Campaign which will pit President Obama against a Republican such as Mitt Romney.

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The Stock Market went bankrupt, Democrats and Republicans were nipping at each other like vicious enemies, and this was the situation of the whole world. All the companies were merely surviving and hoping that they could see the next year. As for America situations were turning out to be quite a lot suspicious as the elections for the President of the United States took place and Obama came up with the majority of people on his side.

Now we look at some of the weirdest news of this year.

President Bush went to Iraq for some meeting with the Iraqi President, where he was facing a press conference. Now when President Bush was giving away the answers, one of the Iraqi reporter stood up, took one of his shoes and threw it towards Bush. Bush was too athletic to get away from it. But that man fired another shoe which was only some inches away. Now everyone was shocked and was apologizing with Bush.

Nobody needed to see Verne “Mini-Me” Troyer’s sex tape! But it was hardly as the guy charged with having sex with his picnic table, the woman who sold videos of herself having sex with her stupid enough dog, the guy who cooked his girlfriend for dinner or the Danish students who killed a cat (of real) and ate it on Face book.

In August, when Mrs. McKinney of California stood before cameras to unveil the cloned pups of her deceased pit-bull, Booger (for which she paid a handsome amount of $30,000+), knew she was different than what expected.

A few days later, British tabloids recognized her as Joyce McKinney, a woman charged in 1977 with kidnapping some Mormon missionary and getting out on bail. McKinney was charged of chloroforming the man on the steps of a church, took him off to a remote villa, shackled him in mink handcuffs, and forced him to have sex with her! Damn where in the hell was I.

Before the trial, McKinney ran off to the United States and had been living in relative obscurity. Once discovered, she faced the media, telling the Associated Press, “My mother said, ‘Say something good or say nothing at all’.”

Two other highlights in laughable litigiousness: a California woman sued Victoria’s Secret after injuring her eye while trying on a thong. A New York businessman also sued over an eye injury. His came after a stripper accidentally smacked him in the face while taking her clothes off.
When a company launch a line of bikinis, for girls as young as two months old, the outcry from child advocates and feminists was as predictable as it was justifiable. What are they up to? The same could be said for GPS Lingerie– underwear that lets a woman’s boyfriend know where she is all the time. This great invention will hopefully go far.

 In other religious news, the Virgin Mary appeared on an MRI and the face of Jesus turned up on an electric guitar (both listed on eBay for sale)

Jeff
http://www.articlesbase.com/news-and-society-articles/top-weird-news-of-2008-725860.html

Three be the things I shall have until I die:

Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

- Dorothy Parker

Shaky financial markets, political mistrust, and unpredictable encounters with an international source. Haven’t we seen this before? Plummeting stocks and rising unemployment are nothing to make light of, of course, but as a Baby Boomer it’s easy to spot the similarities between our country’s current predicament and the ones we have already lived to tell about.

Truth be told, I think we Boomers deserve smooth sailing from here on out. Didn’t we follow President Kennedy’s lead when he told us, his fellow Americans, to ask what we could do for our country, rather than what our country could do for us? As a generation, I know we did. We’ve handled some hairy situations before, and quite well, I might add. We made it through Communism, the Vietnam War, and Watergate, only to arrive at….well, the Starr Report, two Iraq wars, and the financial market meltdown. Are these the circu

mstances under which we Boomers are supposed to enter into our Golden Years? If so, no thanks – I think I’d rather go through McCarthyism again.

Then again, our generation – or at least some of its members – played at least a partial role in the recent economic debacle. In fact, some of its most notorious players are card-carrying members of the Boomer generation, including many of the Congressional Democrats and Republicans who acted like unruly siblings instead of getting down to the business of drafting a bailout plan. Despite this, however, I believe we can still hold our heads high. (Thinking back to grade school, there was always a cheater or a bully in every class, but most of us did our own work and played well with others).

Although some of you pessimistic Boomers might resist, try to look on the bright side. As Boomers, we are 78 million members strong. Our generation is a living example of hope and embodies a spirit of renewal, rising out of the ashes of the two World Wars. Due to a rapid series of medical advances over the last several decades, our average lifespan is now 85 years old. We are the first generation to experience this significantly increased lifespan, not to mention a better quality of life as we age.

Still waiting for the other shoe to drop? Don’t bother. Go ahead and deal proactively with the things you can control, but don’t waste time worrying about the things you can’t. Want a second opinion? According to noted psychologist Arnold H. Glasgow, “the future is the past returning through another gate.” In an ironic twist that backs up Dr. Glasgow’s statement, the Associated Press reported on its website yesterday that the financial fallout in this country has a surprising upside. Gas prices have dropped to just under $88 per barrel; the last time they were this low was exactly a year ago, in October 2007.

Want to contribute your two cents? Continue the conversation and take a trip down memory lane at Boomer Yearbook.

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Dr Karen
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Is there anyone who thinks the Blagojevich impeachment hearings will be anything different than the Bill Clinton impeachment proceedings? Everyone is entitled to a fair trial and every defensive strategy will be used. Translation: it’s going to take a lot of time! 

One such strategy was initiated today.

Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s defense lawyers Thursday asked a federal judge to toss U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and all his assistants off the fraud and bribery case against him. Chief defense counsel Edward Genson said in a motion that the news conference Fitzgerald held in announcing the charges was so filled with prejudicial publicity that the prosecutor should bow out.

And what’s the next defensive strategy since that won’t work?

Earlier in the day, the Illinois House committee investigating Gov. Rod Blagojevich released a draft report saying the panel believes the Democratic governor has abused his power. It recommended the full chamber vote on impeachment. “The citizens of this state must have confidence that their governor will faithfully serve the people and put their interests before his own,” the report reads. “It is with profound regret that the committee finds that our current governor has not done so.”

Meanwhile, Roland Burris on Thursday denied any quid pro quo with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich for his appointment to the U.S. Senate during testimony before a panel weighing whether to impeach Blajojevich.

In a written affidavit given to the impeachment panel, Burris said he had one limited conversation with the governor about the Senate seat before he was appointed. And that conversation, he said, was initiated by a Blagojevich attorney. But records show that the two men have long ties, including lucrative state contracts, political contributions and even a job for the governor’s wife. Those records are raising thorny questions from state officials, particularly Republicans.

And the beat goes on! 

Ernie Fitzpatrick
http://www.articlesbase.com/politics-articles/blagojevich-impeachment-vote-715966.html

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Are some Republicans realizing that they may lose an election if they associate with the far Right? By distancing themselves from the 10-15% of the "Far Right" will they increase their chances of getting elected?

Since the majority of Americans do not agree with the Far Right, are these Republicans just following the majority?

Some are already decrying the Far Right’s Glenn Beck as "cynical" and "not a Republican. Will this help them?

By going against the groups in the Far Right like the Tea Party protesters do these Republicans risk a backlash from these Far Right groups?

I seen Lindsey Graham on Fox saying that he does not watch Glenn Beck and thinks he is cynical and not helpful to America. I agree with Lindsey for once! I think the damage is already done. In 2010 the people will remember the extremists like the Tea Party crews protesting nothing but aniti-Obama hate once again and will vote against these types. The Tea Party people like to say they are a mainstream group when they are in fact just a bunch of far right Wing nuts. Since they are loud they seem to think that means they are somwhow more of a force than they actually are. This Fox news "created" group will likely be a reason that some vote against Republican candidates.