The song is teh awesome! I want it on my radio. Seriously, is there a way we can buy spots to play this thing on the airwaves?

Way to go, J-Ro.

Hmm…that is an interesting suggestion…let’s look into it!

RM asks “What is working else at this point?”

Nothing.

More wackiness please. Preferably from Franken or someone with more clout than these guys (no disrespect guys, great song, but let’s face it, we’ve got you, they’ve got Cheney,Limbaugh,Wilson,Bohner,etc,etc,etc)

I love to idea of buying spots! In the meantime, you can see the video online at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1I9xsV-g9Y .

And remember, you can be a billionaire too! Visit http://www.billionairesforweal…..illionaire .

Great strategy and coverage Jason!

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Hm. OK, but the video doesn’t address the central issue. The President is BLACK!!!

Maybe they can work that out in conference. We have our own methods here in Honolulu. Even in the “Aloha State,” hatred can flourish, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Further proof that Hawaii really is America.
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You were all over CSpan’s coverage of the wacko rally, altho they never commented on your particularly posh fun itself. So much fun.

The best part, the confusion on faces. Many looking like they thought BFW are on “their” side, totally missing the spoof.

Real ‘Mercans are irony-deficient!

Loved the video, Jason-! Were you or anyone on your team a member of Billionaires for Bush?

As Al Franken used to intone on his Air America shew, “Well played sah, well played…”

I wasn’t an Billionaire for Bush, I just got on board when the teabaggers showed up. But some of the folks in that video are original B4B members.

Funny! I like the fact they have a sense of humor. I guess that’s easy since they know they’ve already won.

Oh, as far as the 9/12′ers in general. Very smart people.
They’re tired of big, intrusive government…and creeping socialism.

Bravo!

*applause*

Billionaires Baffle ‘Baggers!

am so jealous – those are mah people !

Brava !

Classic. I was wishing I could be there on Saturday to ask questions to people in the crowd who so obviosly have no clue that they are being used as tools of the right-wing/corporate/republican neo-cons. This made my day when I saw it on here the other day.

http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/8094

Wonderful. I especially love the “MARKIST” sign!

A song truly in the spirit of Tom Paxton.

This may be the most effective strategy yet. Logic and reason don’t get through to these people, but maybe street theater and satire will.

Someone at work sent me the video yesterday and I had to restrain myself from standing up and applauding at my desk. Good stuff!

What a great group! Need more of them.

hahaha!! a dazzling collection of brass balls there.

Yes that was my reaction after watching the video that the Tea Baggers thought these folks were on their side. What a bunch of dummies just goes to show you the level of intelligence on the wing nuts part. HA HA

Does anyone know where I can get a good top hat, and maybe a nice walking stick?

Jason, I had no idea you had such a great voice!

Nothing baffles the Knownothings like nuance and irony.

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Watching the Joe Wilson debate in the House is fascinating. The goopers are trotting out every woman they can find to defend the rude and childish outburst from the Rep from the segregationist state of So Carolina. I guess they cannot find any male reps that the public might believe.

So this is what we’re up against?

How can a democracy survive if these are the people voting for our leaders?

Lrnng is over-ratted. Dincha know thet? Yew Markist skum. ;)

You libruls are so elitist with your faxts and lojik.

Reality has a liberal bent, so you got that right, Sufi!!

You know it! Singing about profits especially brings out the finest of tones.

Absolutely delightful. Smart, delicious irony way beyond the average teabagger’s level of comprehension. I’ll be humming this for the rest of the healthcare “debate”.

I like the part where the Tea Baggers just didn’t get the humor. Must be lonely being so dumb.

Now we have Glen BECK quoting a college doing a crowd count but can’t remember which one and Fox Noise reporting it as News.

I wrote the lyric, arranged and produced “Battle Hymn Of The Insurance Companies” that was featured in the Maddow story. You can download an mp3 of the song at:

http://thebillionaires.org/Tas…..leHymn.mp3

You can hear a bunch more Billionaire music (from those fabulous Bush years) at TheBillionaires.org

Please feel free to share the song. Lyric sheets, instrumental tracks and vocal parts are available so people can sing the song at their next rally. More music about Healthcare is coming soon!

best,
Felonius Ax
(aka Clifford J. Tasner)

with so much absolutely depressing and disheartening with the ugly head of now politically correct racism, this brings a bit of joy. perhaps, as rachel said last night in showing, in the face of absurdity, perhaps the only answer is satire.

I wrote the lyric, arranged and produced “Battle Hymn Of The Insurance Companies” that was featured in the Maddow story. You can download an mp3 of the song at:

http://thebillionaires.org/Tas…..leHymn.mp3

You can hear a bunch more Billionaire music (from those fabulous Bush years) at TheBillionaires.org

Please feel free to share the song. Lyric sheets, instrumental tracks and vocal parts are available so people can sing the song at their next rally. More music about Healthcare is coming soon!

best,
Felonius Ax
(aka Clifford J. Tasner)

The Congress is back in session and doing the dirty work for the Medical Industrial Complex.

mcconnell $3.3M, hatch $2.9M, baucus $2.8M, grassley $2.7M,
lieberman $2.6M, burr $2.4M, ensign $2.4M, cornyn $2.2M, kyl $2.1M,
conrad $2.1M, cantor $1.8M boehner $1.7M, coburn $1.2M, j wilson 800K
were paid by the Medical Industrial Complex to kill Health Care Reform.

Citizens for Tax Justice pointed this out. The tax legislation enacted under President George W. Bush from 2001 through 2006 will cost $2.48 trillion over the 2001-2010 period. This includes the revenue loss of $2.11 trillion that results directly from the Bush tax cuts as well as the $379 billion in additional interest payments on the national debt that we must make since the tax cuts were deficit-financed. Over the upcoming decade (2010-2019), the costs of the health care proposals approved by three committees in the U.S. House of Representatives are projected to be around $1 trillion and deficit neutral(that means they’re paid for). In 2010, when all the Bush tax cuts are finally phased in, a staggering 52.5 percent of the benefits will go to the richest 5 percent of taxpayers. The Bush tax cuts were deficit-financed, which increased the national debt and resulted in greater interest payments on that debt. They never even tried to pay for their tax-cuts. So, for the price of bush’s tax-cuts for the wealthiest 5%, we could have had Health Care for every American. Instead Americans got bupkus and cheney/bush’s republican buddies got filthy rich off of the Blood Money from No-Bid, Cost-Plus Federal Contracts.

12 Million Americans were denied Health Care Coverage by the Medical Industrial Complex because they had a Pre-Existing Medical Condition. 12K Americans lose Insurance Coverage everyday. Over 18K Americans die each day because they lack health insurance. (Source: WaPo Article 05′ by Harvard Prof. E. Warren)

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