Another Great Comment by Jim Hightower

It's about corporate lobbyists going shopping for government money.

I think this man has got to be in JRE's camp.

Jim Hightower Channels John Edwards (sorta)

This video is priceless.

It's always impressive to see a politician take an unbending stand on principle, so I salute George W for going against popular opinion by vetoing the SCHIP bill, which would have extended health coverage to some six million uninsured children in our country.

Bush said that what irked him about this children's health proposal is the principle of providing government-financed, coverage which he derided as "federalized" medicine. George, you see, is a die hard privatization ideologue, and he insists that people should get their health care from the free market, not the government. The vast majority of his Republican colleagues in Congress agreed, voting to uphold his veto of the children's bill.

This news prompted Alan, one of our stalwart [listeners] [readers] in Fort Collins, Colorado, to suggest a national campaign in support of this principled stand that the Republicans in Washington have taken. Since Bush and his GOP allies don't believe in federalized medicine, Alan says it is our duty to free them of the burden of having their own health coverage paid for by us taxpayers! As a matter of principle, we must take away their government health plans and let them buy their own in the free market.

This idea offers two pluses: one, taxpayers will no longer have to pay benefits to politicians who are ideologically opposed to them, and, two, the money saved can be redirected to the millions of American children without health coverage.

Edwards has said that in the first 6 months of his first term if Congress did not pass a UHC bill, he would invoke the 27th amendment and that no one in Congress, the WH, or the Executive Building would have those privileges.

Maybe JRE could take a tip from Alan and Jim in the way of rephrasing this concept, such as "if Congress doesn't pass a UHC the first 6 months in office, they should resign their health care privileges or else I will take them away from them."

That would get the attention of the crossovers.

Fellow Texan Jim Hightower Lauds John Edwards

Great commentary from him here.

My favorite part:

"Never mind that Edwards learned about poverty the hard way, having grown up in it. And never mind that he rose out of personal deprivation not by kissing corporate butt, but by battling some of the country’s biggest corporations on behalf of the poor and the middle class."

Marcia Ball Plays for John Edwards at Scholtz's in Austin

This is Marcia Ball, who is from Louisana, and plays awesome cajun, blues, and rockabilly.



It was reported on the Burnt Orange Report that she played for JRE's gig in Austin. I cannot think of a better band for Sholtz's and with Jim Hightower introducing Edwards. Talkin' about Progressive!! And this is part of his "Small Change for Big Change" phase of his campaign. Geez, $15? Very nice.

This video was posted by Phubb at a Katrina/Louisana Musicians gig to raise a few dollars.

I used to go see Marcia Ball whenever she came to Lubbock and other places. She's great.