PUMA .......

second that and ditto;  where art thou neocon come out from behind the pumpa mask

http://www.bluehampshire.com/showDiary.d o;jsessionid=8290D544575BB1EC7EB5C4987B3 4B40E?diaryId=5251

Wed Sep 24, 2008

It positively rained New Hampshire polls today - I'm only just now catching up to them.

Let's start with the presidentials. Marist College has Obama leading, and with a good sample size of registered voters, and more so with leaners factored in:

   Registered Voters:
    Obama 48%
    McCain 45%

   Likely Voters (w/ Leaners):
    Obama 51%
    McCain 45%

   Sample: 765 reg. voters. Conducted 9/17-9/21, MoE +/-3.5%

And check out the enthusiasm gap:

   70% of Obama's backers are excited about the candidates running for president while 49% of McCain's report they are enthused.

DD Myers essentially PUMA would luv to tank the election for Hillary's next shot if you want to see resentment in facial demeanor go to youtube capital conversation vanity fair ... look at the video of pre-convention as she talks about HOPE springing eternal.... resentment etched in her

can't trust a thing she says she is an agent for Hillary

that Independents growth began as disguntled Republicans..... for a long time before Independents collected DEMS and others

so when pollsters talk about Independents it is misleading ... they should say former Republican Independents favor McCain....

or former Democratic Independents favor Obama

so on so forth

they are misleading on purpose anyway as you well know.................

http://assets.aarp.org/www.aarp.org_/Top icAreas/Events/life-at-50/webstream/obam a.html

VIDEO REPLAY: Obama Speaks at Life@50+ Event - Sept. 6th

EMAIL:

Dear Friend:

Today, 56 million Americans lack adequate access to basic medical care, dental care, and low-cost prescription drugs.  I am cosponsoring legislation to help correct that.  The Access for All America Act would expand the highly successful and cost-effective Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) model across the nation.  The result would make certain that everyone has access to comprehensive primary care services.  

This bill would:

Save taxpayer money by treating Americans when they need medical care and avoiding unnecessary emergency room visits and hospitalizations.
Address the inadequate numbers of primary care physicians, dentists, and other health professionals by substantially expanding the National Health Service Corps program.

Allow existing private primary care practices to convert to the FQHC model.  These practices would be required to provide primary medical and dental care, preventive care, emergency medical services, diagnostic laboratory and radiologic services, and prescription drug services.  In exchange, they would receive enhanced Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements and would become eligible to participate in the Medicaid 340B prescription drug discount program.

FQHCs are among the most cost-efficient federal initiatives in existence today.  On average, medical expenses at FQHCs are 41 percent lower than in other healthcare settings.  In fact, FQHCs are currently estimated to cut our national health care spending by between $10 billion and $18 billion annually.

It's not often that we are presented with a program that meets critical needs while reducing overall health care expenditures by more than it costs.  At a time when families are being squeezed harder than ever by outrageous gas prices, higher food costs, and a dismal economy, we owe the American people this common-sense reform.

Sincerely,
Senator Barbara Boxer

today maybe tomorrow the vote on CA single payer health care plan - Sen. Sheila Kuehl

http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/ 2008/08/wheres_the_cali.html

Sidebar:

EXCERPT

Who Is Obstructing?

Speak Out California

One more attempt to get a state budget in place collapsed -- blocked by the Republicans because it included tax increases. Republicans insist that the budget be balanced with billions and billions of dollars in cuts in our schools and fire protection and the other things most of us want our state to do.

Every Republican in the state has taken a vow not to raise taxes on wealthy corporations or massively wealthy individuals. They won't vote to require people who buy yachts or private jets to pay the same sales taxes that the rest of us pay when we buy cars. They refuse to ask oil companies to pay fees when they take our oil out of the ground and sell it to us. (Maybe they understand that such a vote will dry up their campaign funding...)

How do Republicans get away with this? How are they able to get the public to think so many things that are not true? The Republicans have a vast "noise machine" that tells the public things that are not true. (Remember how they were able to convince so many people that Iraq had attacked us on 9/11?) It costs a lot of money to have a noise machine like this, but they get the money from the very corporations and wealthy individuals whose interests they are representing. So it works for them.

Plain and simple, they are bale to reach the public and tell them stuff, and get the public to believe it. The use of overwhelming repetition is the tactic. I use the word "stuff" here with meaning: it's just stuff they want the public to believe, with no grounding in reality. They do it, and here we are. Nationally the debt is approaching TEN TRILLION DOLLARS and they are still able to get the public to think taxes are bad. In California they are able to force layoffs and school cuts while refusing to make the ultra-rich pay even the same taxes the rest of us pay.

THE 800 NUMBERS ARE SIMPLE - EXCELLENT DIRECTS YOU TO YOUR STATE SENATOR AND STATE ASSEMBLY REP:

Ask California Legislators to Support Taxes to Prevent Health Cuts

http://www.californiaprogressreport....

EXCERPT

* Hanging in the Balance: Severe Cuts to Medi-Cal Eligibility, Benefits, and Provider Rates

* Even Compromise Budget Would Cut Children's Coverage: More Than a Quarter-Million Kids to Lose Insurance

Anthony-Wright.gifBy Anthony Wright
Executive Director of Health Access California

As the Governor and Legislature continue to negotiate over a budget deal TODAY, health advocates and all Californians are being urged to call their state legislators to voice opposition to the health care budget cuts, to urge passage of revenues, and to get other friends and colleagues to do the same.

At stake are devastating health care budget cuts that would:

* Leave one million more Californians uninsured--a majority of whom are children;

* Require 3.5 million Californians--largely low-income parents, seniors, and people with disabilities--to pay more for health care, or get less in terms of specific health care benefits;

* Make deep and destabilizing cuts to the health care system we all rely on, including 10% across-the-board cuts to the emergency rooms, hospitals, clinics and doctors that we all, by age or accident, will eventually use.

We need to close the loopholes and raise the revenues and taxes needed to prevent these severe cuts to our health system. The Legislative Conference Committee has proposed a package that include some upper-income taxes and closing of loopholes; the Governor is rumored to have floated a sales tax. Any revenues are needed to prevent devastating cuts to health care.

ACTION #1: CALL THE TOLL-FREE HOTLINES TODAY:
To Reach State Senators: 800-480-3958
To Reach Assemblymembers: 800-960-7682

You will be connected to your state legislative office, and can leave a message for your state Assemblymember or Senator.

* You can tell them why it is crucial for the state budget to prevent the worst of the cuts with revenues, and why it is so important to you, your family, and your community.

* You can urge them to raise additional revenues to undo the worst of the cuts already approved, especially to children's coverage--where a quarter-million children would be denied coverage as a result of the cuts.

ACTION #2: Forward this within your organization, memberships and at least five friends in California. We need as many Californians as possible to register their opposition to these severe budget cuts.

BACKGROUND: The budget is already late, and we need our legislators to take action NOW in order to protect our state's future! Votes will be taken in the next few weeks.

The compromise budget proposed by the Conference Committee did reject--for now--many draconian cuts in health care, that would have resulted in over one million more Californians not getting health coverage as a result of the budget, and three and a half million Californians having to pay more and/or get less in terms of care and coverage.

Because no cut or restoration is final until a budget is approved, all cuts are still on the table until both parties in the Legislature can agree on taxes. The Conference Committee budget relies on over $9 billion in raised revenues in order to prevent other cuts.

REAL CUTS, ESPECIALLY TO CHILDREN'S COVERAGE: Yet even under this Democrat-supported budget, health care, and in particular children's coverage, gets hit hard. Even with the additional revenues raised, more than a quarter-million children are expected to lose coverage if this version of the budget is fully implemented. The cuts approved that would impact children's health coverage include:

* Imposing additional paperwork burdens so a quarter of a million children fall off coverage under full implementation by 2011.

* Increasing premiums in the Healthy Families program.

* Suspending streamlining and enrollment reforms.

Additional revenues would be needed to prevent these cuts.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition /asection/la-na-mccain5-2008aug05,0,5460 366.story

August 5 2008

EXCERPT

   Suffice it to say that few political rallies can match John McCain's brief appearance on an outdoor stage Monday night before several thousand bikers at the 68th annual Sturgis Rally, America's largest biker convention and arguably its most colorful national gathering.

   Rather than applause, McCain was greeted again and again by the full-throated roar of scores of gleaming Harley-Davidsons of every shape and color. The stench of burning gasoline and rowdy shouts filled the prairie night air.

   It was almost as if McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, was a celebrity -- a dirty word in his lexicon since his campaign last week ran ads mocking rival Barack Obama for his celebrity status, comparing him to Britney Spears.

   Taking the stage at Buffalo Chip, the main festival site, McCain again ridiculed the presumptive Democratic nominee for drawing "hundreds of thousands" of people to an outdoor speech in Berlin.

   Exaggerating his own reception by a considerable factor, McCain boasted, "I'll take the roar of 50,000 Harleys any day."

   As dozens of engines revved again, he grinned. "I recognize that sound. It's the sound of freedom."

   The Arizona senator introduced his wife, Cindy, who wore the equivalent of a nun's habit here: black jeans and a long-sleeved shirt. She praised her husband as "the only man who can keep us free."

   McCain joked that he had encouraged his wife to enter the annual Sturgis beauty contest, one in which nudity is not uncommon. The engines roared again.

   "I told her with a little luck she could be the only lady to serve as first lady and Miss Buffalo Chip," he said with a broad grin.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition /asection/la-na-mccain5-2008aug05,0,5460 366.story

August 5 2008

EXCERPT

Suffice it to say that few political rallies can match John McCain's brief appearance on an outdoor stage Monday night before several thousand bikers at the 68th annual Sturgis Rally, America's largest biker convention and arguably its most colorful national gathering.

Rather than applause, McCain was greeted again and again by the full-throated roar of scores of gleaming Harley-Davidsons of every shape and color. The stench of burning gasoline and rowdy shouts filled the prairie night air.

It was almost as if McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, was a celebrity -- a dirty word in his lexicon since his campaign last week ran ads mocking rival Barack Obama for his celebrity status, comparing him to Britney Spears.

Taking the stage at Buffalo Chip, the main festival site, McCain again ridiculed the presumptive Democratic nominee for drawing "hundreds of thousands" of people to an outdoor speech in Berlin.

Exaggerating his own reception by a considerable factor, McCain boasted, "I'll take the roar of 50,000 Harleys any day."

As dozens of engines revved again, he grinned. "I recognize that sound. It's the sound of freedom."

The Arizona senator introduced his wife, Cindy, who wore the equivalent of a nun's habit here: black jeans and a long-sleeved shirt. She praised her husband as "the only man who can keep us free."

McCain joked that he had encouraged his wife to enter the annual Sturgis beauty contest, one in which nudity is not uncommon. The engines roared again.

"I told her with a little luck she could be the only lady to serve as first lady and Miss Buffalo Chip," he said with a broad grin.

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link /bcpid1185304443/bctid1709838907

is working - it will be the defining issue of the election; check out youtube....drill here drill now pay less - - it has gone viral;

look at the petition response they have got
americansolutions.com

and look at the polls the collective culture is already on it and in favor or it....public fell for the slogan... it is the emotional low information slogan that could put McCain in the WH;

Clip New Documentary Film: Free For All! The High-Tech HighJack of Ohio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIDsiukzf IY&eurl=

http://www.gregpalast.com/

Excerpt

In swing-state Colorado, the Republican Secretary of State conducted the biggest purge of voters in history, dumping a fifth of all registrations.  Guess their color.

In swing-state Florida, the state is refusing to accept about 85,000 new registrations from voter drives - overwhelming Black voters.

In swing state New Mexico, HALF of the Democrats of Mora, a dirt poor and overwhelmingly Hispanic county, found their registrations disappeared this year, courtesy of a Republican voting contractor.

In swing states Ohio and Nevada, new federal law is knocking out tens of thousands of voters who lost their homes to foreclosure.