Good People,
John Boehner ought to have done that, sign up
for Insurance through Affordable care (Obamacare) long time ago; the moment it
was made law. It is because, Law is Law and there is no BUTS or
IFS about the Law. First instinct is to obey the law first, then
talk later. It is how things are suppose to be done.
Law is an order and you cannot talk over the law. If you
have a problem with the law, you sign up first, and bring up your case
later.
Here is what wise people in the democratic
space will do. Knowing that the Government is a People's project,
all rich and poor must play by the same set of rules. People’s
project demands that all (Rich and the Disadvantaged or Poor) must comply by the
same set of rules as guiding principles to achieve whatever people want to
achieve in life........that, the Government is the resource pool for opportunity
to all big and small people/ rich or disadvantaged.
Corporation are people, is undoubtedly true,
because a group of affluence (rich) people decides to pull their power together
to achieve a common business interest agenda for PROFIT MAKING in their network
......but that is only 1% of the group missions against those of the 99% of the
population majority interest. This is the reason why the 1% cannot
dictate and command over the interest of the 99% in the People’s Democratic
Governance ....... if they do, then it stops being a People’s Democratic
Government. It becomes the Rulership of the most powerful rich
which in the essence is a DICTATORIAL GOVERNANCE by the rich who having
succeeded in opposing the interest of the 99% of the majority,
imposes their demands on the 99% of the population.
This is where the interest of the majority is
weakened and have no say of how they wish to be governed, because the rich will
have influenced and imposed their demands unfairly on the majority; in which
case, the People's Government of the majority 99% will have been overpowered and
superseded by the 1% and the 1% becomes the MASTERS controlling and imposing
their demands on the 99% who will have no option but to be swallowed into
SLAVERY because their voted REPRESENTATIVES who are suppose to represent and
protect their interest are bought off by the rich and compromised their service to people and engaged into
conflict of interest to do and serve the will and demands of the
1%. Practically, they fail to go by PUBLIC MANDATE that had them
voted into public service, instead of complying to the wishes and interest of
their voters who carried the 99%, they switched interest to serve Corporation of
Special Business Interest in public service delivery.
Good
people, this was headed to end the People's Government. Which is
why, President Obama diligently kept the space in the bipartisan, knowing that
he was elected by the people to DELIVER PUBLIC MANDATE. That, he
is a custodian of the People's Government and must pay attention to what the
people want. It is the same reason why when the going gets tough
at the Washington, he takes solace in the people's Referendum; and it is
because, in the democratic space of the People's Government, people decides how
they wish to be governed. It is the opposite of
unfair Corporate Dictatorship Rule of imposing Special Business
Interest demands on the majority people. This is
unacceptable.
Selfish
Greed is a cancer meant to destroy good intent of Love, Unity and Peace in
harmony that are for common good of all people. Selfish Greed must
be defeated to achieve harmony and happiness we all want. Which is
why, filibuster rule was proposed by Hurry Reid in the Senate so that things can
move in the right direction, and it is the good thing to do, to avoid gridlock and obstruction that stall
people's business from taking effect at the Washington because of Corporate
Special Business Interest negativity and selfish greed of a few that are not for
Public Interest Mandate. We shall expect a lot of drama, because
they want to resist everything and anything a BLACK PRESIDENT is about to bring
to the people.............to them, BLACK IS EVIL.........and have not RIGHT to
go down in record in the books of HISTORY...........BUT, we all must be watchful
and resist any kind of pressure that are driving people to SLAVERY, because, we
cannot go back to those dark days…….... the days of unwarranted killings, pain
and sufferings that bring no good to this wonderful great Nation that leads the
world. ALSO, they have to learn that, BLACK IS A PEARL OF LOVE, PEACE, UNITY
AND HAPPINESS. That they should stop HATING BLACK and begin to adjust so we can
all be ONE. That BLACK is only a COLOR and when we are all dead, WE ALL
RESEMBLE THE SOIL OF THE EARTH...............
JF
Kennedy was WHITE, but had the heart that welcomed all people of color. He knew
that people cannot form barrier amongst themselves. That all had talents and
skills to contribute to the well being of all. He saw this 50years ago and
walked the path of PEACE and UNITY. He knew what the people want is the
right thing to do. He remained firm to do the will of the people and
persistently pushed for Public Mandate. He was killed because special
business interest did not want to hear about People’s Civil Rights with other to
do list that was going to be made into a LAW to become a BILL.
After he was killed, Civil Rights Bill with all other bills still became
the LAW. Why then did they have to kill JF Kennedy??? ……..
The answer is simple……..Selfish
Greed.
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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Democrats ditch historic U.S. Senate rule blamed for gridlock
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate, in a historic
and bitterly fought rule change, stripped Republicans on Thursday of their
ability to block President Barack Obama's judicial and executive branch
nominees.
The action fundamentally altered the way Congress' upper chamber has worked
since the mid-19th century by making it impossible for a minority party, on its
own, to block presidential appointments, except those to the U.S. Supreme
Court.
The change in the so-called "filibuster" rule does not apply to
legislation, which can still be held up by a handful of senators.
The now-defunct rule, a symbol of Washington gridlock, has survived dozens
of attacks over the years largely because both major political parties like to
use it.
The action will undoubtedly come back to haunt Democrats the next time they
lose the Senate and the White House simultaneously. Getting rid of it was
considered so momentous and divisive that it was dubbed the "nuclear option" in
the Senate.
On a nearly party-line vote of 52-48, the Senate reduced from 60 to 51 the
number of votes needed to end procedural roadblocks.
Obama, a former senator, praised the action, calling the filibuster "a
reckless and relentless tool to grind all business to a halt."
The change will speed up the confirmation of Obama appointments to the
courts as well as to cabinet and regulatory agencies.
One beneficiary is likely to be Representative Mel Watt, whose nomination
to take over the agency that regulates mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac was being blocked by Republicans.
But the immediate spark was Democratic frustration at Republican use of the
filibuster to block Obama's appointments to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit, considered the nation's second most important
court after the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Washington-based appeals court handles crucial disputes over the powers
of the presidency and Congress, along with regulatory matters involving air and
water pollution, banks, securities trading, telecommunications and labor
relations. It has also been a feeder to the Supreme Court, with four of the
current justices being former D.C. Circuit judges.
NEW RULE USED QUICKLY
Democrats quickly used the new rule by ending a Republican filibuster
against one of those court nominees, Patricia Millett, on a vote of 55-43. A
vote to confirm her nomination will be held later.
Millett is a Harvard-trained lawyer who worked in the administration of
both Democratic President Bill Clinton and Republican President George W. Bush.
The American Bar Association gave her its top rating for the D.C. Circuit
post.
As is often the case with stalled nominations, Republicans did not contend
that Millet lacked qualifications. They simply do not want to give Obama more
appointments to the important court, which they argue is underworked
anyway.
For nearly two years, Republicans held up confirmation of Richard Cordray
as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because they objected to
the bureau's powers, not to Cordray, who has since been confirmed.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, led the charge on the
rules change, accusing Republicans of record obstructionism and saying the
American public is right to believe that "Congress is broken."
Reid said that of the 168 filibusters against presidential nominees in U.S.
history, half were held against Obama's picks.
"It's time to change," Reid said.
Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa fired back, "This is a naked
power grab."
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell insisted that there was no reason
for a rule change, saying Republicans had confirmed the vast majority of Obama's
judicial nominees.
McConnell also accused Democrats of taking the action merely to divert
attention from the botched launch of Obama's healthcare law, known as
Obamacare.
But with Congress's approval rating in single digits and no indication
Republicans will compromise with Obama on much of anything, Reid decided to pull
the trigger.
Reid assumes that voters, who polls show are disgusted with a largely
"do-nothing" Congress, won't be upset by a rule change to confirm stalled
nominees, Democratic aides said.
Reid also figured that if he did not change the rules, that increasingly
anti-compromise Republicans would change them when they win control of the
Senate, which could happen in next year's election, the aides said.
Stephen Hess, a congressional analyst at The Brookings Institution, said,
"There's a good reason why it's called 'the nuclear option.' This does change
the system."
"And whether it's good or bad depends on from whence you view it and at
what moment," Hess said. "It is good for Democrats on the 21st of November,
2013. And it may not be good (for Democrats) if the landscape changes in the
mid-term election" next year and Republicans take control of the Senate.
Asked whether the Democrats' move could worsen relations with Republicans
and make it more difficult to pass legislation, Hess said "I don't know that
relations this bad can get an awful lot worse."
(Reporting by Thomas Ferraro, Richard Cowan and David Lawder; Editing by
Vicki Allen, Fred Barbash and Tim Dobbyn)
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John Boehner Has Officially Signed Up For Insurance Through Obamacare
Speaker.gov
House Speaker John Boehner has officially enrolled in a D.C. insurance
exchange under the Affordable Care Act, he said in a blog post on his website Thursday evening,
after having some difficulty signing up earlier in the afternoon.
"Like many Americans, my experience was pretty frustrating," he wrote of
his experience at first, a reference to the dysfunction that has plagued the exchange websites since their
launch.
"After putting in my personal information, I received an error message. I
was able to work past that, but when I went to actually sign up for coverage, I
got this 'internal server error' screen."
In his original blog post, he wrote that he had put a call into the help
desk. A short while later, he added an update:
"Kept at it, and called the DC Health
Link help line. They called back a few hours later, and after re-starting the
process on the website two more times, I just heard from DC Health Link that I
have been successfully enrolled."
Brendan Buck, Boehner's press secretary,
joked that "sure
didn't take long after the blog post."
The federal health care law requires members
to enroll in D.C. exchanges.
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- Tuesday, November 19, 2013 7:38 AM
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- Monday, November 18, 2013 12:38 PM
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- Monday, November 18, 2013 12:34 PM
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