via Jeff Parker / Florida Today
You don’t need a 1000 words for this picture, you need one: frauds
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Opposition to Health Law Is Steeped in Tradition
"Guaranteeing people a decent retirement and decent health care does more than smooth out the rough edges of capitalism. Those guarantees give people the freedom to take risks. If you know that professional failure won’t leave you penniless and won’t prevent your child from receiving needed medical care, you can leave the comfort of a large corporation and take a chance on your own idea. You can take a shot at becoming the next great American entrepreneur."Opposition to Health Law Is Steeped in Tradition - David Leonhardt (via NYTimes.com)
The Entitled Class hates access to upward mobility. Their DNA “earned” it.
Fox Manipulating Facts. Again. And Again
Today, more hard evidence of Fox’s spin came to light when documents concerning global warming issues were leaked. The same Fox editorial manager behind the careful manipulation of ‘government option,’ had this to say about reporting on any climate change issues:
…we should refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question. It is not our place as journalists to assert such notions as facts, especially as this debate intensifies.
Now, we know that 2.5% of the top 200 climate scientists are even skeptical of people’s impact on rapid climate change, but Fox found this extreme fringe opinion worth pointing out “IMMEDIATELY.” In caps, folks.
This is how conservatives do business. Manipulation.
—Billy from GoodReasonNews filling in—
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Obama Pushes Ahead With Health Care
A judge’s ruling on Monday that the individual mandate in health-care reform is unconstitutional hasn’t thrown the legislation off course yet: “Implementation of the act will proceed,” a White House official said Monday.
“The ruling will not materially impede our work.” Health insurers are complying, though one representative says, “There is no alternative [to the mandate].”
The New Republic’s Jon Chait says, “The real loser here is the health-insurance lobby. Health insurers would have preferred to avoid any health-care reform at all. But the health-insurance lobby’s second-highest priority would be a working system with an individual mandate.”
(Source: The New York Times)
Activist Republican judges can’t stop this CHANGE. Single payer/Universal on the way. #hope-y change-y
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A Man Has Been Cured Of HIV.
A man has been cured of HIV: http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1577949/
Let us never forget that even though Congress passed a bill (in the senate it passed 63-37) permitting federal funding for stem cell research in 2006, President Bush vetoed the funding. President Obama overturned it early in his administration.
(Source: hannahlouisef, via liberal-lad)
Science > faith.
Bush’s anti-baby, pro-fetus, civilian massacring, pro-torture, #1 executioner as TX Governor, “Culture of Life” rhetoric is complete bullshit.
For anyone who dislikes Obama and uses technology from stem cells, I hope you can rationalize who is saving you. Democrats.
Conflict Of Interest? Or Republicans Doing What They Do?
"So is it a problem that Judge Henry Hudson, the Virginia-based federal judge who struck down part of the Health Care Reform law today, is part owner of a GOP consulting firm which spent the last year attacking the Health Care law?"Striking down parts of reform, albeit less popular, that pay for the good parts of the reform is not the solution. #lazy fake populism
Hudson is in error calling things un-Constitutional, too:
The Necessary and Proper Clause allows Congress to take steps beyond those listed in the Constitution to achieve its Constitutional ends, including the regulation of interstate commerce. Hudson’s argument wipes a key part of the Constitution out of existence. Kerr says Hudson “rendered [it] a nullity.”
Monday, December 13, 2010
I've Got Thick Skin
And by “thick”, Boehner means privileged, within a Conservative ultra-safe Ohio district, crying at-the-drop-of-a-hat, white skinned with an orange hue.
When Frank Luntz Rules Your Brain: Boehner Programmed Not To Say "Compromise"
Boehner: We have to govern. That's what we were elected to do. Stahl: But governing means compromising. Boehner: It means working together. Stahl: It also means compromising. Boehner: It means finding common ground. Stahl: Okay, is that compromising? Boehner: I made it clear I am not gonna compromise on my principles, nor am I gonna compromise... Stahl: What are you saying? Boehner: ...the will of the American people. Stahl: You're saying, "I want common ground, but I'm not gonna compromise." I don't understand that. I really don't. Boehner: When you say the word "compromise," a lot of Americans look up and go, "Uh-oh, they're gonna sell me out." And so finding common ground, I think, makes more sense.
Conservatives are robots. Built without empathy, run on greed.
Sarah Palin Invents Drawdown Of US Assistance To Haiti
At the news conference, Palin created some confusion when she referred to a potential drawdown of U.S. assistance to Haiti.
“I know that there’s been some discussion of U.S. aid perhaps being lifted from this area,” she said. “Again – not to get political – but if some of the politicians would come here and see the conditions, perhaps they would see a need for, say, a military airlift to come bring supplies that are so needed here.”
It was not clear what she was referring to, and a Palin spokeswoman declined to elaborate.
via oliverwillis.com
Discussion of drawing down aid to Haiti? Not to get get hyperbolic about Conservatives always making shit up, but Palin just made some shit up.
Love her caveat, "not to get political". Then what are you doing?
Always Looking Backwards
"Republicans live in this fantasy world, where it’s always 1945, America is always #1. We’re like 65th at Infant Mortality, 19th in Literacy. One of the big arguments during the Health Care debate that the Republicans put forward, one of their major talking points was, ‘why are we messing around with the greatest health care system in the world?’ I don’t know, maybe because the U.N. ranks it #37? You know, these people love the truth, they just hate facts."
— Bill Maher (via leftish)(via liberal-lad)
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Teabaggernomics
Facing a huge budget deficit when he took office in January, Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano did not impose a hiring freeze. He did not stop borrowing to subsidize some of the richest school districts in the country. He did not eliminate the Police Department’s beloved mounted unit.
Instead, Mr. Mangano, a Republican who won one of the first upsets of the Tea Party era, did what he had promised: He cut taxes, adding $40 million to the county’s deficit, which has since reached nearly $350 million.
Now, with its bonds suddenly downgraded and a state oversight agency preparing to seize its checkbook and credit cards, Nassau is on the verge of a full-fledged fiscal crisis.
Tea Klanners and GLibertarians have zero skills in governing. Their one skill is making things worse.
The invisible hand is giving Nassau Country the finger. Schadenfreude is a bitch.
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