JOE LIEBERMAN’S OFFICE PHONE in CT is 860-549-8463. I just left him a message stating I think he is a total sellout piece of crap for what he did to health care reform. The girl who answered the phone said she’ll give him the message. FEEL FREE TO CALL HIS OFFICE and voice your displeasure. 860-549-8463.

I re-read Sirota who had a comment back on December 7, 2006 that still applies today:

“There is no great savior out there who is going to magically appear. Great speeches and flowery rhetoric and talk of nebulous “bipartisanship” and faux “centrism” is the real-life version of Aldous Huxley’s Soma that these politicians want us to swallow. Just shut up and get stoned off expectations that supposedly will be met, if only we keep quiet until some distant “next election cycle” that never changes anything but the parking spot assignments on Capitol Hill.” (link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/politicians-lobbyists-gon_b_35785.html)

Reform, reform and reform until it’s done, people!

Need more and prominent investigative reporting on this topic please:

“Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is conducting an anti-trust investigation of a voting-machine company merger that would create a near-monopoly over the levers of democracy in Florida and much of the United States.

McCollum’s office has issued at least six subpoenas covering every major voting-machine company as part of a civil investigation of Election Systems & Software’s $5 million acquisition of Diebold Inc.’s elections division — a merger that would give a private company too much power over the machines used to castvotes, voting-rights groups say.

[..]

Under the state’s 1980 anti-trust law, McCollum could persuade a court to levy fines against ES&S or prevent the company from operating in Florida. By next year, the company is expected to be the exclusive provider of voting machines and services in 65 of the 67 counties in Florida, the nation’s most important swing state.”

(link: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1385770.html)

In his commentary Wednesday night, Keith Olbermann put forth that he’d rather be fined and be put in jail than obey the President’s orders to buy health insurance from the private extortionist cartel, defiantly stating:

“I call on all those whose conscience urges them to fight, to use the only weapon that will be left to us if this bill becomes law. We must not buy federally mandated insurance if this cheesy counterfeit of reform is all we can buy.”

“No single payer? No sale.
No public option? No sale.
No Medicare buy-in? No sale.”

“I am one of the self-insured, albeit by choice. And I hereby pledge that I will not buy this perversion of health care reform. Pass this at your peril, Senators, and sign it at yours, Mr. President.”

“I will not buy this insurance.
Brand me a lawbreaker if you choose.
Fine me if you will.
Jail me if you must.”

Perhaps more than any of his previous “special comments” , none more than this most recent defined what we as a people must galvanize into, the most effective course of national movement to take back our birthright from the corporate mobsters and their toadies in government who have kidnapped our nation with ever more and higher demands of ransom.

There aren’t enough prisons in this country to house millions of conservatives, liberals, moderates and teabaggers who refuse to become slaves to the health insurance mob and its government.

There’s more in my article for OpedNews: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Who-Will-Join-Olbermann-In-by-Robert-Arend-091217-440.html

The problem is we are being extorted to buy those private policies and the price for going nekkid is to be without coverage should we get sick…at any time in the future. Once you go 60 days without coverage, you are effectively FUCKED vis a vis Pre-existing conditions.

To effectively protest, we would be best off to buy our damnable insurance, but reduce our automatic paycheck deductions by an amount equal to the sum of the premiums we are paying…and sock the cash away in a mattress, so it can’t be easily seized. We would have to commit tax evasion…and be willing to go to jail for it.

Meh, maybe we could get a civil liberties lawyer to hold the sums in a blind Escrow account. It’s complicated but doable.

Charley James, Political Curmdgeon (Minnesota) reports:

According to five clinical psychiatrists who describe themselves as being politically aware, Joe Lieberman’s behaviour over the last few weeks of the Senate health care debate reveals numerous signs that he is increasingly “unbalanced.”

All five caution that, while it is difficult to make a specific diagnosis without seeing a patient in their office, Lieberman’s public statements show growing evidence of an individual who is disconnected with pieces of the reality around them.