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One exception might be Elizabeth Warren but the Senate would not cooperate. The President ran his last election in November and has no need anymore to pander to corporate interests yet he does. He also offers up SS and Medicare as grand bargaining chips. He's a complete bait and switch disappointment and has the "revolving door" mentality big time.
I'm often sorry that my user name is xtraxritical, it wasn't my first choice. I now feel that it does not describe me aptly.
the people have got to WAKE THE F*** UP already 
it simply shocks me how many DUers are falling for it 
to split up the Democratic party. Monsanto is being enabled so that liberals will CRITICIZE Obama and fracture the party. If we all stand in DEFENSE of Monsanto, we will FOIL their plan, and we will be UNITED as DEMOCRATS!
Or something like that... 
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K&R. Thank you for sanity.
Sid
Sid
Got people to talk about anything but the Monsanto appointments.
It's all about the corporate Party.
I'm not talking about the usual groupies - there are, you know, OTHERS
wow, the changes you have seen
Glad to meet you; I will be watching for your posts.
By the way, I love your screenname. 
yes INDEED
but at the expense of your own f***ing future? They seem to care more for a politician then they do their own country. I'm starting to see too many DUers having too much in common with teabaggers 
believe. They cant be objective because it's a threat to their reality bubble (or denial bubble).
Maybe some ignorance can be a little blissful.
Sid
and made the appointments personally. Girl, you are simply POWERFUL.
Good job exposing the fact that 1) this article is damn near seven months old and 2) some folks seem to spend alot of time worrying about who you work for and why you post here.
I love your posts - they keep me sane. Keep at it, PLEASE!!!!
Sid
everywhere he could stick one?
Sid
"He's fulfilling his promise to help the Middle Class"
...he is. I don't think the OP changes that. Do you think Kagan's nomination to the SCOTUS was wrong?
Elena Kagan proves that DOMA's original intent was bigotry, not tradition
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022575460
HHS finalizes rule guaranteeing 100 percent funding for new Medicaid beneficiaries
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022584523
President Obama's health care reform did the unthinkable: raised taxes on the rich.
It also did more for inequality than any other legislation in decades.
There is a debate about the impact of the recent tax deal, but simple arithmetic shows the reality.
Pre Bush tax cuts: lowest tax bracket 15 percent and top tax bracket 39.6 percent.
Bush tax cuts: lowest tax bracket 10 percent and top tax bracket 35 percent.
President Obama's tax deal, lowest rate 10 percent, top rate 39.6 percent.
Do the math and it will show that the gap between someone earning $50,000 and someone earning $500,000 closed to more than what it was in the 1990s. Add the health care law tax and the gap closes even more.
Perhaps the best prism through which to see the Democrats’ gains is inequality. In the 2008 campaign, Mr. Obama said that his top priority as president would be to “create bottom-up economic growth” and reduce inequality...In the 2009 stimulus, he insisted on making tax credits “fully refundable,” so that even people who did not make enough to pay much federal tax would benefit. The 2010 health care law overhaul was probably the biggest attack on inequality since it began rising in the 1970s, increasing taxes on businesses and the rich to pay for health insurance largely for the middle class.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/us/politics/for-obama-fiscal-deal-is-a-victory-that-also-holds-risks.html
Some notes for myself: how much impact have Obama’s policies actually had on current and prospective inequality?
The main policies to consider are PPACA (the health reform) and ATRA (the fiscal cliff deal with its associated tax rise).
I’m not a fan of the Tax Foundation’s work, but their analysis of the distributional effects of Obamacare looks about right: significant benefits to the bottom half of the income distribution, paid for largely by taxes on the top few percent (the Medicare surcharge and the extra tax on investment income). The Tax Policy Center — whose work I do trust — has the Act reducing the after-tax income of the top 1 percent by 1.8 percent, the top 0.1 percent by 2.5 percent.
Meanwhile, ATRA raises taxes relative to a continuation of the Bush high-end tax cuts: after-tax income down 4.5 percent for the 1-percenters, 6.2 percent for the top 0.1 percent.
Putting this together, we have a roughly 6 percent hit to the 1 percent, around 9 to the superelite. That’s only a partial rollback of these groups’ huge gains since 1980, but it’s not trivial.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/obama-and-redistribution/
Do the math.
A key element of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the expansion of Medicaid to nearly all individuals with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) ($15,415 for an individual; $26,344 for a family of three in 2012) in 2014. Medicaid currently provides health coverage for over 60 million individuals, including 1 in 4 children, but low parent eligibility levels and restrictions in eligibility for other adults mean that many low income individuals remain uninsured. The ACA expands coverage by setting a national Medicaid eligibility floor for nearly all groups. By 2016, Medicaid, along with the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), will cover an additional 17 million individuals, mostly low-income adults, leading to a significant reduction in the number of uninsured people.
Medicaid does not cover many low-income adults today. To qualify for Medicaid prior to health reform, individuals had to meet financial eligibility criteria and belong to one of the following specific groups: children, parents, pregnant women, people with severe disability, and seniors. Non-disabled adults without dependent children were generally excluded from Medicaid unless the state obtained a waiver to cover them. The federal government sets minimum eligibility levels for each category, which are up to 133% FPL for pregnant women and children but are much lower for parents (under 50% FPL in most states). States have the option to expand coverage to higher incomes, but Medicaid eligibility levels for adults remain very limited (Figure 1). Seventeen states limit Medicaid coverage to parents earning less than 50 percent of poverty ($9,545 for a family of 3), and only eight states provide full Medicaid coverage to other low-income adults. State-by state Medicaid eligibility levels for parents and other adults are available here.
The ACA expands Medicaid to a national floor of 138% of poverty ($15,415 for an individual; $26,344 for a family of three). The threshold is 133% FPL, but 5% of an individual’s income is disregarded, effectively raising the limit to 138% FPL. The expansion of coverage will make many low-income adults newly eligible for Medicaid and reduce the current variation in eligibility levels across states. To preserve the current base of coverage, states must also maintain minimum eligibility levels in place as of March 2010, when the law was signed. This requirement remains in effect until 2014 for adults and 2019 for children. Under the ACA, states also have the option to expand coverage early to low-income adults prior to 2014. To date, eight states (CA, CT, CO, DC, MN, MO, NJ and WA) have taken up this option to extend Medicaid to adults. Nearly all of these states previously provided solely state- or county-funded coverage to some low-income adults. By moving these adults to Medicaid and obtaining federal financing, these states were able to maintain and, in some cases, expand coverage. Together these early expansions covered over half a million adults as of April 2012.
Eligibility requirements for the elderly and persons with disabilities do not change under reform although some individuals with disabilities may become newly eligible under the adult expansion. Lawfully residing immigrants will be eligible for the Medicaid expansion, although many will continue to be subject to a five-year waiting period before they may enroll in coverage. States have the option to eliminate this five-year waiting period for children and pregnant women but not for other adults. Undocumented immigrants will remain ineligible for Medicaid.
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http://www.kff.org/medicaid/quicktake_aca_medicaid.cfm
Report Card on Health Care Reform
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Republican leaders in Congress regularly denounce the 2010 Affordable Care Act and vow to block money to carry it out or even to repeal it. Those political attacks ignore the considerable benefits delivered to millions of people since the law’s enactment three years ago Saturday. The main elements of the law do not kick in until Jan. 1, 2014, when many millions of uninsured people will gain coverage. Yet it has already thrown a lifeline to people at high risk of losing insurance or being uninsured, including young adults and people with chronic health problems, and it has made a start toward reforming the costly, dysfunctional American health care system.
EXPANDING COVERAGE Starting in 2010, all insurers and employers that offer dependent coverage were required to offer coverage to dependent children up to age 26. An estimated 6.6 million people ages 19 through 25 have been able to stay on or join their parents’ plans as result, with more than 3 million previously uninsured young adults getting health insurance. The law requires private health insurers to provide free preventive care, without co-pays or deductibles. Some 71 million Americans have received at least one free preventive service, like a mammogram or a flu shot, and an additional 34 million older Americans got free preventive services in 2012 under Medicare.
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The law appropriated $11 billion over five years to build and operate community health centers, a major factor in increasing the annual number of patients served to 21 million, a rise of 3 million from previous levels. Some $5 billion has been put into a reinsurance program that has encouraged employers to retain coverage for retirees and their families; 19 million people benefited with reduced premiums or cost-sharing.
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BETTER QUALITY OF CARE One of the most promising aspects of the health reform act is its focus on improving quality. The percentage of Medicare patients requiring readmission to the hospital within 30 days of discharge dropped from an average of 19 percent over the past five years to 17.8 percent in the last half of 2012, an improvement due in large part to penalties imposed by Medicare for poor performance and financial incentives paid by Medicare to providers to encourage better coordination of care after a patient leaves the hospital.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/opinion/sunday/report-card-on-health-care-reform.html
Here's a summary of the NYT report:
- Some 6.6 million people ages 19 through 25 who have been able to stay on their parents' insurance plans and more than than 3 million young adults getting health insurance.
- 17 million getting some kind of free preventive service, like flu shots, and 34 million Medicare recipients getting free preventive services in 2012;
- 17 million children with pre-existing conditions being protected against being uninsured;
- More than 107,000 adults with pre-existing conditions finally having insurance under the federally run insurance program;
- 21 million received care from expanded community health centers, 3 million more than previously served;
- $1.1 billion in rebates, an average of $151 per family paid by insurers that failed to meet the benchmark of 80 to 85 percent of premium revenues on medical claims or quality improvements;
- Since 2010, more than 6.3 million older or disabled people have saved more than $6.3 billion on prescription drugs;
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/25/1196892/-An-Affordable-Care-Act-report-card-three-years-in
There is a reason Republicans want to repeal this law.
which is run by right-wing, libertarian, AIDS-denying, anti-vaccine, asshole dumbfuck Mike Adams. This particular "article" was written by Jon Rappaport, who runs a similarly right-wingnut, Sandy Hook truther, nutball site called nomorefakenews, where you can read such illuminating bullshit as:
The hoax at the bottom of Autism and Alzheimer’s
James Holmes, and how the CIA hid the MKULTRA mind-control program
The hideous BAM in Obama: map your brain for your own good
Sandy Hook actors, robots, androids, television creations
DEAR DALLAS: NO ONE EVER PROVED WEST NILE DISEASE EXISTS!
HOW SWINE FLU WAS INVENTED AND USED TO CONTROL THE GLOBAL POPULATION
MENTAL DISORDERS DO NOT EXIST
OPERATION CHAOS: OBAMACARE AND MURDER
Shame on you for bringing that bullshit to DU without researching the original source first.
Sid
http://www.naturalnews.com/037310_barack_obama_monsanto_lobbyist.html
Obviously, no one with any sense bought into that bullshit.
We're a couple of months into the President's second term.
Screw the RW.
To some personalities are more important than principles.
It's nauseating to see so many "Democrats" have so much hate for our President that they would rally around a libertarian news article.
They, and only they know the truth. And the recs prove it!one! I read it from someone in this very thread so it must be true!!!
HOW SWINE FLU WAS INVENTED AND USED TO CONTROL THE GLOBAL POPULATION
Wow. 
the guy who wrote the unsourced facebook post in the OP, also wrote this:
DUers are cheering on a certified "HIV doesn't cause AIDS" asshat.
Hope those 132 reccers are fucking proud of themselves.
Sid
Why do you support Monsanto? Why do you hate America?
The tinfoilers must be connecting to an exceptionally clear frequency today. 
simple as that. Once that knowledge is applied then all his actions become clear. Yeay for us, we're fighting over the fact that he is either a perfect moderate republican or to much. Way to go Dems!
Am I too "left" of the party with this post? Does that make my point non valid because I lean in the Independent direction with Bernie? Cause ya'll know Independents luv's to eats the stoopid cearialz in the mornink, or how ever they are portrayed by the media and supported by the ignorance of a population believing and supporting this urban myth.
I am left of Obama, I don't believe in drones or kill lists or corporate profits over people. Am I still a Dem?
Awesome post broadcaster75201!
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"the president filled key posts with Monsanto people, in federal agencies that wield tremendous force in food issues"
the plutonomy is humming along nicely! I'm excited!
... and your enemies closer?
the original source is:
Meet Monsanto's number one lobbyist: Barack Obama
http://www.naturalnews.com/037310_barack_obama_monsanto_lobbyist.html
More great articles from Jon Rappaport at naturalnews (I'm not giving any more links, I don't believe that DU should direct any more traffic to Naturalnews than necessary):
"Why they had to stop Ron Paul"
"Don't let your child see a psychiatrist. Ever"
"Sandy Hook, Dark Knight Rises, Aurora, Skull & Bones"
And make sure you get a copy of his book AIDS Inc, where the premise is:
"The so-called AIDS virus, HIV, has never been proven to cause any human disease."
And this is who you're using to bash Obama on a Democratic website?
Sid
ALWAYS go back to the policies. ALWAYS.
Like this:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1002&pid=2595032
Thanks!
Sid
is an appropriate source to use to attack Obama at DU.
Any port in a storm, eh?
Sid
Could you imagine? With all the anti-vax, naturalnews loving nutbars we've got posting here, if the FDA was run by DU?
Sid
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Either all those people are really good, qualified people or Obama is obeying his corporate masters.
"Obama Ends ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Policy"
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/23/us/23military.html
"Obama Endorses Same-Sex Marriage Initiatives In 3 States" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/26/obama-same-sex-marriage_n_2020733.html
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"Obama Says Same-Sex Marriage Should Be Legal" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/us/politics/obama-says-same-sex-marriage-should-be-legal.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
HHS finalizes rule guaranteeing 100 percent funding for new Medicaid beneficiaries http://www.democraticunderground.com/11028481
President Barack Obama talks with Katerina Rodgaard of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, in the Blue Room of the White House, before making a statement on gun safety, March 28, 2013. Vice President Joe Biden hugs another event participant in the background. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/03/28/this-and-that-59/#comments
*Promise to renegotiate NAFTA
*Promised to "make EFCA the Law of the Land"
*to "Raise the Cap" and NOT cut benefits
*and THIS one, particularly pertinent to THIS thread.
What ever happened to THAT guy?
That guy would have made a GREAT President.
You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their rhetoric, promises, or excuses.
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The simple explanation:
Great minds think alike!
I was going to refer you to another post of mine, here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2601809
but as it turns out, you probably already know all that.
Here's the actual Director of USDA's National Institute for Food & Agriculture (NIFA):
http://www.nifa.usda.gov/newsroom/bio.html
There's absolutely no history of Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy having prior employment with Monsanto.
The author of this article doesn't let the facts get in the way of a good Anti-Obama rant.
(Somebody tell me again why a bogus, inaccurate article from a RW blogger is pulling down hundreds of RECs on DU?)
Sid
rarely elicit this level of defensiveness.
Yup, Obama's could get re-elected and piss off Jon Rappaport, the RW hack who wrote the original drivel.
...wrong?
for this guy.
Unbelievable.
Sid
might want to trade in that Darwin fish.
Sid
But I'm losing hope.
garbanzo.
