This Black Sista's Memorial Page

commentary on the news from 2009…and then some
 
 

Democrats “Going It Alone” on Health Care; Is Obama Coming, Too?

• August 21, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in American Politics, Bailouts, Class, Democrats, Democrats in Name Only, Health, History, Obama Administration, The Economy, The Stimulus Bill
Tags: "Real Time with Bill Maher", Arianna Huffington, Barack Obama, Barney Frank, Big Pharma, Blue Dog Democrats, CBS News, Daily Kos, Democratic Leadership Council, DLC, Faux Noise, Frank Rich, GOP, HBO, Health Care Debate, Health Care Reform, Jed Lewison, Jonathan Alter, LaRouchies, Los Angeles CA, Lyndon LaRouche, Nazis, Paul Krugman, Pre-Existing Conditions, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Remote Area Medical, Rep. Barney Frank, Republicans, Senator Charles Grassley, Slap the Reality Back into Them Award, Subhumans, The Left of the Left, The Public Option, The Washington Post, Turning Yella, Underinsured, Uninsured, Welfare, Wingnuts, Wingnuttery, Work, Working Americans


Copyright Notice

©Gabrielle Daniels, aka blksista, ThisBlksistasPage (This Black Sista's Page), 2009-2022. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Gabrielle Daniels, aka blksista, ThisBlksistasPage, with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

Top Posts

  • No Mystery: The Circumstances Surrounding Aprina Paul's Death Strongly Suggests a Homicide (w/Update)
    No Mystery: The Circumstances Surrounding Aprina Paul's Death Strongly Suggests a Homicide (w/Update)
  • Rick Stevens is Still in Jail and is Not a Young Man
    Rick Stevens is Still in Jail and is Not a Young Man
  • Some Tuesday Love: "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy," from the Album, "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy: Live at 'The Club'," Julian "Cannonball" Adderley and His Quintet, Featuring Joe Zawinul, 1966
    Some Tuesday Love: "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy," from the Album, "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy: Live at 'The Club'," Julian "Cannonball" Adderley and His Quintet, Featuring Joe Zawinul, 1966
  • Iman "Not a Great Beauty" Either, Especially Without Her Make-Up
    Iman "Not a Great Beauty" Either, Especially Without Her Make-Up
  • Vanessa Long Has Left Both Bishop Long and His Church
    Vanessa Long Has Left Both Bishop Long and His Church
  • Some Wednesday Love: "I Am The Black Gold of The Sun," Nuyorican Soul and Rotary Connection
    Some Wednesday Love: "I Am The Black Gold of The Sun," Nuyorican Soul and Rotary Connection
  • Florida Man Who Threw Infant on the Freeway Says It's All "a Dirty Game"
    Florida Man Who Threw Infant on the Freeway Says It's All "a Dirty Game"
  • The Grandchildren of Lena Horne
    The Grandchildren of Lena Horne
  • Christmas Songs:  "Christmas is All Around Me," Sung by Bill Nighy as Billy Mack, From The Film, "Love Actually," 2003
    Christmas Songs: "Christmas is All Around Me," Sung by Bill Nighy as Billy Mack, From The Film, "Love Actually," 2003
  • Disney's First Black Princess Has a Wha...White! Latino? Prince
    Disney's First Black Princess Has a Wha...White! Latino? Prince

Recent Posts

  • LIVE STREAMING: Homegoing of Poet Amiri Baraka at the Newark Symphony Hall, New Jersey January 18, 2014
  • Meanwhile, Back in Wisconsin: Busting Out of Jail The Hard Way – Nathan Middleton Wanted His Mother to Provide Explosives and a Car for His Jail Break December 20, 2013
  • Christmas Songs: “Oh, Tannenbaum,” José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, and Luciano Pavarotti, from “The Three Tenors Christmas” 1999 December 20, 2013
  • Nelson Mandela Memorialized With a Second Line Parade in New Orleans December 15, 2013
  • That “Cartoon Scandal”: Episode 10, “A Door Marked Exit” December 13, 2013
  • Nathan Middleton Attempts Jail Break Days Before His Court Appearance on December 17 December 13, 2013
  • LIVE STREAMING: South Africa Says Goodbye to Nelson Mandela December 13, 2013
  • Golden Globes Announced: “Twelve Years a Slave” and Kerry Washington in Contention December 12, 2013
  • In the Never Forget Category: R Kelly’s Twitter Account Blows Up With Snarks About His Thing for Underage Girls, Not Questions About His New CD December 12, 2013
  • Meanwhile, Back in Wisconsin: Madison’s Snuggle House Goes Out of Business Amid Fear…and Loathing December 11, 2013

Blog Stats Since March 3, 2009

  • 1,682,871 reads and climbing...

This Black Sista’s Archives

Justice for Trayvon Benjamin Martin and Healing for His Parents and Friends

Justice for “Wisconsin’s Trayvon,” Bo Morrison, and Healing for His Family and Friends

Pages

  • About Blksista
    • Messages of Encouragement from SGI President Daisaku Ikeda and Efforts by The Soka Gakkai During the Earthquake-Tsunami-Nuclear Crisis in Japan (w/Updates)
  • In the Custom Header
    • A St. Joseph’s Altar
    • A View of Lake Charles
    • Beignets from Cafe du Monde
    • First…You Make a Roux
    • Geaux Saints!
    • Gumbo!
    • Santa and Mr. Bingle on the Maison Blanche Building
    • The Dew Drop Inn
    • The Entrance to Armstrong Park Illuminated
    • The Krewe of Zulu in The French Quarter, New Orleans
    • The Mardi Gras Indians
    • Trayvon Martin by Andrea Montano

R.I.P. Steve Gilliard (1964-2007)

This is for Steve Gilliard, by The Christian Progressive Liberal @ Jack and Jill Politics, November 5, 2008.

Two Years Without Steve Gilliard, by DesMoinesDem @ MyDD, February 20, 2009

Steve's Memorial News Blog

Steve's Wikipedia entry

August 2022
S M T W T F S
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031  
« Jan    

Stuff This Black Sista Reads and Talks About

African American African Americans Barack Obama Bishop Eddie Long Blacks Black Women California Child Abuse Children Common Sense Constables on Patrol Domestic Violence Drama Drugs Eddie Long Facebook Faux Noise Growing Up Latinos LGBT Los Angeles Love Madison WI Marriage Michael Jackson Mitrice Richardson Motherhood Murder Music New Birth Missionary Baptist Church New Orleans New York President Barack Obama President Obama Racism Rape Republicans Self-Respect Self-Worth Self Image Sex Shaniya Davis The Eighties The Nineties The Seventies The Sixties TMZ.com Twitter United States Wisconsin

Global Voices

Global Voices: The World is Talking, Are You Listening?

BlogHer!

BlogHer.com Logo

Add This

Bookmark and Share

Amazons & Valkyries

  • Angry Black Bitch
  • Blog Her
  • Echidne of the Snakes
  • Feministe
  • Feministing
  • Rebecca Walker’s Blog
  • The Crunk Feminist Collective
  • Uppity Brown Woman
  • Womanist Musings

Born on the Bayou

  • Adrastos’ Blog City
  • Bayou Buzz
  • First Draft
  • Our Man in New Orleans
  • The Louisiana Weekly
  • Your Right Hand Thief

Bread & Circuses

  • Bossip
  • Electronic Urban Report
  • Kiss My Black Ads
  • Media TakeOut
  • Nikki Finke
  • NNDB
  • Radar
  • The Smoking Gun
  • TMZ.com
  • Wonkette

Brothas & Sistas

  • 3ChicsPolitico
  • Afro-Netizen
  • Afrospear
  • Angry Black Lady
  • Black Agenda Report
  • Black Commentator
  • Black Mexico
  • Black Tokyo
  • Black Voices
  • Color Lines
  • Color of Change
  • Farai Chideya
  • Jack and Jill Politics
  • Michelle Obama Watch
  • New America Media
  • New Black Man
  • Pam’s House Blend
  • Prometheus 6
  • Racialicious
  • Rod 2.0
  • San Francisco Bayview
  • Shadow and Act
  • Skeptical Brotha
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates @ The Atlantic
  • The Black Snob
  • The Field Negro
  • The Grio
  • The Intersection of Madness and Reality
  • The Obamacrat
  • The Republic of T
  • The Root
  • This Week with Barack Obama
  • Uppity Negro Network
  • What About Our Daughters?

Fellow Travelers

  • AmericaBlog
  • Bill Maher’s Real Time
  • Booman Tribune
  • Buzzflash
  • Crooks and Liars
  • Daily Kos
  • Democracy Now!
  • Digby’s Hullabaloo
  • Eschaton
  • Greg Palast
  • James Wolcott
  • Jesus’ General
  • Jon Stewart
  • Juan Cole
  • Keith Olbermann
  • Left Turn
  • Liberal Oasis
  • Mark Crispin Miller
  • Media Matters
  • Orcinus
  • Raw Story
  • Salon
  • Stephanie Miller
  • Talk Left
  • Talking Points Memo
  • The Edge of Sports
  • The Huffington Post
  • The Real News Project
  • The Rude Pundit
  • Think Progress
  • Thom Hartmann
  • Truthdig
  • Truthout
  • ZMagazine

Mad City

  • Avol’s Bookstore
  • Dane County Farmers’ Market on Capitol Square
  • Frugal Muse Bookstore
  • The Barrymore Theatre
  • The Capital City Hues
  • The Capital Times
  • The Isthmus
  • The Madison Times
  • TheMic92.1
  • Willy Street Coop
  • Wisconsin Book Festival
  • Wisconsin Film Festival
  • WORT-FM, Madison, WI

Reading, Writing & Writers

  • Beatrice.com
  • Funds for Writers
  • Narrative Magazine
  • QBR
  • Sable

SGI Nichiren Buddhism

  • “Faith in Revolution”
  • A Memorial to Shin Yatomi
  • Daisaku Ikeda
  • Fortune Child Books
  • GakkaiOnlineNet
  • SGI
  • SGI Buddhism.org
  • SGI-USA
  • Tricycle – SGI Nichiren Buddhism
  • Victory Over Violence

RSS The New York Times

  • Killings of 4 Men in Albuquerque Leave Muslim Community in Fear August 8, 2022
    As the authorities appeal to the public for help in their investigation, many Muslim residents are experiencing a “managed panic.”
  • Two Men in Arbery Case Sentenced Again to Life in Prison August 8, 2022
    Travis and Greg McMichael were convicted of federal hate crimes following state murder convictions in 2021. Their lawyers tried without success to have part of their sentences served in federal prison.
  • Killings of Three Muslim Men in Albuquerque May Be Linked, Police Say August 7, 2022
    The authorities also suspect the deaths could be connected to the homicide of a Muslim man in 2021.
  • Sacramento Savors Its Underdog Moment August 8, 2022
    The capital city, often overshadowed by San Francisco and Los Angeles, is taking pride in the success of its lower-tier Sacramento Republic F.C. over Major League Soccer teams.
  • Uvalde Postpones Decision to Fire School Police Chief Pete Arredondo July 22, 2022
    The South Texas school district said it would delay a decision on terminating the chief who led the schools’ response to a school shooting.
  • California Counties, Cities Restrict Airbnbs Amid Pandemic Tourism July 23, 2022
    San Diego, Marin County, San Bernardino County and more have approved rules this year to restrict short-term rentals.
  • Newsom to Sign Bill Allowing Residents to Sue Over Illegal Guns July 24, 2022
    Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed legislation that would provide a minimum $10,000 award to residents who successfully sue makers of illegal guns.
  • He Built a Home to Survive a Civil War. Tragedy Found Him Anyway. July 22, 2022
    C. Wesley Morgan once believed that the place he built, which included a 2,000-square-foot bunker, was the safest house in Kentucky.

RSS The New Orleans Times-Picayune

  • An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.

RSS The Guardian, UK

  • Kenya election: shifting alliances and economic woe to fore August 8, 2022
    Raila Odinga is leading William Ruto in the polls but the latter hopes his ‘hustler’ image will win him votes among the poorKenyans are heading to the ballot box on Tuesday after a campaign season marked by a shift in ethnic alliances and two big-ticket issues: the cost of living crisis and high unemployment.The race pits presidential frontrunners Raila Odin […]
  • London museum to return 72 Benin treasures to Nigeria August 7, 2022
    Horniman museum is first government-funded institution to hand back artefacts looted by British forces in 1897A London museum is to return 72 treasured artefacts, including its collection of Benin bronzes, to Nigeria in what experts described as an “immensely significant” moment.The Horniman museum said it would transfer the ownership of the historic objects […]
  • Russia’s private military contractor Wagner comes out of the shadows in Ukraine war August 7, 2022
    Mercenary group does not officially exist but is playing a more public role and openly recruiting in RussiaRussia-Ukraine war – latest updatesThree billboards in the Ural city of Ekaterinburg shine a light on what was once one of Russia’s most shadowy organisations, the private military contractor Wagner.“Motherland, Honour, Blood, Bravery. WAGNER”, one of t […]
  • Uganda’s suspension of LGBT charity a ‘clear witch-hunt’, say campaigners August 6, 2022
    Country’s government says Sexual Minorities Uganda ‘operating illegally’ in east African nationThe Ugandan government has suspended the country’s leading gay rights organisation, accusing it of operating illegally in the east African nation, in a move campaigners condemned as “a clear witch-hunt”.The National Bureau for Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) – […]
  • Revealed: UK ran cold war dirty tricks campaign to smear Kenya’s first vice-president August 6, 2022
    Special unit spread fake news about leftist politician, Oginga Odinga, seen as threat to British interests in 1960sBritish cold war propagandists smeared Kenyan vice-president Oginga Odinga in the 1960s in “black” propaganda operations, newly declassified files reveal.The Foreign Office’s propaganda arm, the Information Research Department (IRD), targeted th […]
  • Death toll reaches 36 in eastern DRC as protesters turn on UN peacekeepers August 5, 2022
    With elections due next year, analysts fear political motives could be driving the rising violence and tensions in the region Fears of a new wave of violence in the restive east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are growing after weeks of deadly protests against UN peacekeepers and rising regional tensions.Thirty-six people, including four UN peacekeep […]
  • Cuba: third oil tank ignites as firefighters struggle to extinguish blaze August 8, 2022
    Mexico and Venezuela send crews to fight fire that has killed at least one and injured 125, with dozens of firefighters still missingA deadly fire that began at a large oil storage facility in western Cuba has spread after flames enveloped a third tank that firefighters had tried to cool as they struggle to fight the massive blaze.At least one person has die […]
  • Canadian province declares emergency amid worst wildfires in over 50 years August 8, 2022
    Blazes have consumed vast tracts of forest in Newfoundland and Labrador and remain out of controlOfficials in Canada’s easternmost province have issued a state of emergency as crews battle the worst wildfires the region has experienced in more than half a century.Sprawling blazes have consumed thousands of hectares of forest in Newfoundland and Labrador over […]

RSS The BBC

  • Russia using Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as army base - Ukraine August 8, 2022
    Officials say Russia has been launching artillery attacks from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
  • Tighter export controls on electronics could hamper Russia's war effort - report August 8, 2022
    Russian weapons could be permanently degraded by tougher export controls in the West, a think tank says.
  • US Senate passes sweeping climate, tax and healthcare package August 8, 2022
    The bill seeks to lower the cost of medicines, increase corporate taxes and reduce carbon emissions.
  • Climate change: Alps glaciers melting faster as heatwaves hit August 8, 2022
    Meltwater flows from the glaciers, which may be set for their highest mass losses in 60 years.
  • China-Taiwan: Beijing conducts new military drills near island August 8, 2022
    The drills were due to end on Sunday but a statement said sea and air exercises were continuing.
  • Israel-Gaza: Unusual pre-emptive hit by Israel pays off August 8, 2022
    The truth brings relief to Gazans, but the lack of a peace process means this is only temporary.
  • In pictures: Drought hits Europe's rivers and crops August 8, 2022
    Weeks of baking heat have caused big problems for Europe's food producers and river traffic.
  • Blinken Africa trip: The world should not dictate to the continent August 8, 2022
    The US's top diplomat is trying to curry favour amid growing influence from Russia and China.

Flickr Photos

_DSC5739_17For a LifetimeIphiclides feisthamelii (6)When In WhitbyThe sunset and the island!Sacré-Coeur
More Photos

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com
 

Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.

  • Follow Following
    • This Black Sista's Memorial Page
    • Join 318 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • This Black Sista's Memorial Page
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar