"Let's Get On With It Mr. President"

This why I LOVE Bill Moyers. The man tells it like it is with no BS.



Nice plug for Josh Marshall over at TPM at the end too.

Why The Villagers Will Never Accept Bill Moyers

Its because the man just keeps on telling the truth.

Bill Moyers On The WaPo "Health Care Salon" Scandal

This is so on point I wish I could excerpt the whole thing.

Remember, the invitation promises this private, intimate, and off-the-record dinner is an extension "of THE WASHINGTON POST brand of journalistic inquiry into the issues, a unique opportunity for stakeholders to hear and be heard."

Let that sink in. The "stakeholders" in health care reform in this case do not include the rabble — the folks across the country who actually need quality health care but can't afford it. If any of them showed up at the kitchen door on the night of this little soiree, a bouncer would drop kick them beyond the beltway.

In other words, before you can cross the threshold in Washington to reach "the select few who will actually get it done," you must first cross the palm of some outstretched hand. The dinner was canceled after the invite was leaked to the website politico.com — by a health care lobbyist, of all people. But it was enough to give us a glimpse into how things really work in Washington. A clear insight into why there is such a great disconnect between democracy and government today, between Washington and the rest of the country.

According to one poll after another, a majority of Americans not only want a public option in health care, they also think that growing inequality is bad for the country, that corporations have too much power over policy, that money in politics is the root of all evil, and that working families and poor communities need and deserve public support when the market fails to generate shared prosperity. But when the insiders in Washington finish tearing worthy intentions apart and devouring flesh from bone, none of these reforms happen. Oh, they say, "it's all about compromise, all in the nature of the give-and-take of representative democracy." That, people, is bull — the basic nutrient of Washington's high and mighty.

It's not about compromise. It's not about what the public wants. It's about money, the golden ticket to "the select few who actually get it done." And nothing will change. Nothing. Until the money-lenders are tossed out of the temple, and we tear down the sign they've placed on government — the one that reads: "For sale."

Bill Moyers doesn't play around and the truth is Democrat or not we have to hold our leaders to account with this health care reform fight. The lobbyists can lavish them with cash and gifts but come election day we are still the ones who decide who stays and who goes. Its time to remind them of that!

Discrediting "Sicko"

This clip of Bill Moyers discussing the concerted efforts of the Health insurance industry to discredit Michael Moore's film "Sicko" is sickening. Its great that Wendall Potter is coming forth now to tell the truth but I fear the damage has been done. But the one way to combat all of the lies that have been told over the years about health care and the effects of any reforms is to pass this clip along to every person you know. I know many people never waste an opportunity to pass along a chain email anyway. Well the stakes are much higher with health care reform and so the need for this to go viral is much greater. Please take the time out to get the url from youtube and distribute it to as many people as you can.

Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down

Bill O'Reilly has a bad habit of cowardlysending "producers" to do ambush interviews on people he wants to try to embarass. But the problem with ambush interviews is sometimes you pick the wrong person to fuck with. It happened once before when Bill Moyers PWNED O'Reilly and the flack he sent to do his dirty work in a classic youtube moment. And it just happened again when they tried to go after Janeane Garafalo. I can't embed the video here but trust me its worth your time to click the link.