US Democrats Lose Massachusetts – and the Senate

While US Democrats are shocked at the surprising vulnerablity of Edward Kennedy's Senate seat – the Liberal Lion of the Senate – US observer Daniel Patrick Welch, who lives in and writes from Kennedy's home state, is underwhelmed. Democrats have foolishly ceded the populist impulse to the right, and are now reaping what they have sown.

”Obama's handlers ... seem unaware of the anger seething at the grassroots. People are hurting, they are scared, they are angry, and Obama's cool customer routine has worn thin fast. It doesn't take a year to figure out that the same neo-liberal crap won't work, and it doesn't help that he has kept on some of the same flunkies, signed on to the same domestic as well as foreign policies, and just plain been too cautious even in a symbolic way".'

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Look Who's Really Writing the Healthcare Bill -- It's Big Pharma & The Insurance Lobby

Senators Press Obama to Toe Israel's Line

As President Barack Obama is said to be asking Israel to accept some kind of Palestinian state, US senators are urging him not to deviate from Tel Aviv in any negotiations.

In a letter to Obama, 76 of the 100 senators said that the US "must take into account the risks it will face in any peace agreement."

The letter came a day after Obama met with the Israeli prime minister in Washington where Benjamin Netanyahu tried to divert the US focus on the stalled Middle East 'peace process' and shift it to the issue of Iran.

Netanyahu dismissed the US president's 'concerns' over Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.

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This just goes to reinforce how the US Senate and congress have been 'Owned' by the Zionist State of Israel. Just lapdogs all of them!

Senate Quietly Stripped Measure Restricting Bonuses From Bailout Legislation

A new revelation in the scandal surrounding AIG's decision to pay multi-million dollar bonuses to executives -- a provision that would have restricted companies receiving federal government bailout aid from paying bonuses was quietly stripped from a bill last month.The measure, introduced by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), was removed by negotiators in a late-night, close door meeting. In the negotiations, senators agreed to limit executive compensation but decided to forgo barring excessive bonuses -- in fact, they specifically exempted it.

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Senators Push For War With Iran

National Intelligence Director Blair had his first meeting with the Senate Armed Services Committee, where he was much more reasonable than most of the Senators. Both NID Blair and Defense Intelligence Agency head Lt. Gen. Michael Maples presented clear thinking and rational goals regarding Iran. The senators were the ones out for blood.

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AIPAC's Bribery Of Senators Exposed

Make no mistake about it: the present system of lobbying on the national and state level constitutes nothing short of public bribery of elected officials. When a powerful lobby can promise a candidate huge sums of money and perhaps even a windfall job for the lobby after he leaves office – if only he votes their way – it is bribery, pure and simple. Yet, this bribery permeates America’s political system.

AIPAC, a lobby that in effect represents the interests of a foreign government (Israel), is so powerful that hardly a single senator or congressman can afford not to prostrate himself before this altar of Jewish extremism. If an elected official doesn’t go along with AIPAC, not only will he face loss of campaign money he needs, his opponents will be lavished with cash. AIPAC also has contacts with thousands of rich Zionists who can also contribute for or against any candidate deemed important to the Jewish lobby.

A recent article in the YNews revealed that the top three campaign contributors in the United States are Jewish extremists, and the biggest is an “Israeli citizen” who controls a media empire in the United States. In addition to their campaign finance clout, an incredible level of Jewish domination exists in the media, and once they deem someone an enemy of the Israeli agenda, they unleash yellow journalism against him with unholy force.

The offending politician is lucky if all the media do is ask him if he has stopped beating his wife.

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What makes this even more amazing is the money they are using to bribe the senate and congress is your tax payer dollars given to Israel in AID, $100 million of which comes back to AIPAC to bribe your elected officials!

You are So dumb!

AIPAC Praises Senate Support of Israel

AIPAC on Thursday praised a bipartisan US Senate resolution which expressed support for Israel in its fight against terrorism.
The resolution, which was sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, "conveys America's unequivocal and steadfast support for Israel's right to self-defense," according to a statement from the pro-Israel lobby group.

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Bailout Passes Senate; 9 Reasons That's Bad News for You

This country faces many serious problems in the financial market, in the stock market, in our economy. We must act, but we must act in a way that improves the situation. We can do better than the legislation now before Congress.
This bill does not effectively address the issue of what the taxpayers of our country will actually own after they invest hundreds of billions of dollars in toxic assets. This bill does not effectively address the issue of oversight because the oversight board members have all been hand picked by the Bush administration. This bill does not effectively deal with the issue of foreclosures and addressing that very serious issue, which is impacting millions of low- and moderate-income Americans in the aggressive, effective way that we should be. This bill does not effectively deal with the issue of executive compensation and golden parachutes. Under this bill, the CEOs and the Wall Street insiders will still, with a little bit of imagination, continue to make out like bandits.

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