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GLENN BECK AT CPAC 2010:
‘Hello, my name is the Republican Party, and I’ve got a problem. I’m addicted to spending and big government…I’m addicted to spending and I just don’t want to spend today.’
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"If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal,” then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.” ~ John F. Kennedy, 1960 
  
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Congresswoman Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick has brought forth a bill to cut Congress’ yearly wage by $8700 and to put a freeze on their pay for each year after. Sounds good to me, but you know there has got to be a few republicans seething at the idea! So far there has been bipartisan support, but again, you just knew a few republican heads have exploded over this move! I love it. Maine Legislator Leaves The GOP Over Health Care Reform
Well, well, well, after all their tea baggin’ lunacy, and assorted stupidity, they end up losing another person willing to be associated with them. The party of NO ideas, NO morality, NO real concern for the middle class, seems to be the party of stupidity, cluelessness and ignorant racists. Damn, they think they are gonna return to power while losing more and more people, Oh yea they are the stupid backwash of the country ain’t they? Well heck of a job guys, Lost the cloture vote and another member of your party. Keep up the good work, and maybe ya’ll can become even more irrelevant to the rest of us. How about nominating that wasilla hillbilly fer 2012? That’ll show the rest of us, yo’all haven’t a clue, and could find one if ya wanted. PS if ya ever see him Kay, thank him for allowing his ethics to over rule the dogma of the GOPers of party uber alles. Yes the Virginia Governor went to the GOPer, but the brain dead corporate owned MSM (and the reich wing knuckle draggers) are totally ignoring a real historical fact, since 1978, the party winning the previous presidential election loses the governors house;
and Deeds sucked as a campaigner. In New Jersey, Corzine forgot he wasn’t still the head of Goldman Sachs. So you had a rich Democrat who thought he could buy what he wanted and a corrupt Republican, and the voters (who turned out) went with corruption over greed this time. BTW New Jersey has had a Republican Governor for 16 of the past 28 years, and has a similar trend to Virginia, picking an opposite party to the white house for their governor (Va nine election cycles, NJ six election cycles).. Wanna bet the GOPer corrupt crook don’t get reelected? End of GOPer victory dance, plain and simple. PS both the GOPers, in Va and NJ didn’t want the fat drug addicted bloviater nor the wasilla hill billy campaignin’ fur them ….. (they both tried to MODERATE their positions to win votes) The place the idiots brigade did stick their ignorant noses in? In the 23rd congressional race, the democratic candidate won for the first time since 1871, YES, I said 1871 … (138 years). Way to go teabaggers, dumb Alaskan quitters, astroturf clowns …….. Good try at retaking congress by handing a seat safe for well over a century to the democratic party. Keep up the good work people, maybe you’ll eventually elect enough democrats with your brain dead screeching and lying, the democrats will finally realize the country in rejecting you time and time again. In California, a progressive democrat won. A seat that used to be middle of the road, trading from centrist republican to centrist democrat, went to a openly progressive individual, so the blue dogs lost another one in the house, let alone the teabaggers wet dreams slippin’ away. As for the ballot initiative #1 in Maine hard loss, but things weren’t all bad everywhere. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina the people elected an openly gay mayor, Yes, I said Chapel Hill, NORTH CAROLINA, in the heart of the supposed bible belt ……. doesn’t portent well for the hate mongers beating on their bibles does it? As Grant has informed us, Houston, Texas saw an openly gay women come in first in their mayoral election (there will be a runoff). In Canton, Ohio, a gay activist Eric Resnick won a seat on the Board of Education. (Oh my god, the fundies will go apeshit won’t they?) Kalamazoo, Michigan passed an anti-discrimination measure that protects people from discrimination based on sexual orientation. The biggest news, is Washington State voters approved their referendum 71, basically the opposite of the Maine decision. The fundie attempt to block the civil rights of American citizens lost in Washington. So while the GOPers will be very shrill claiming they have turned things around their victories are hollow, and fleeting. The governors races they are touting historically they should have won, (especially in VA) the congressional races in NY and CA are real loses for them. And openly gay candidates winning in North Carolina and Texas says the voters don’t always accept the hate filled fundies screeching …… Because in referendums about taxes, w-e-l-l-l-l, the teabaggers got their asses handed to them; In Maine they lost ;
No so good fur the tea baggers was it?
All in all not the defeat the corporate owned MSM or dumb as dirt teabaggers claim it is. Here’s hopin’ the stupid reich wing teabaggers and their astroturf greedy manipulators keep rippin’ the republiscum party apart trying to get Real Republiscum, not RINO’s elected, it worked real good this time. (IE New York State has two republican members of congress, New England has NO members of Congress from the party of NO, and according to the clowns running the show fur the teabaggers, just two RINOs in the senate. Hope they keep a drivin’ the RINO’s out helps the rest of the country cause they keep losing when they do. What the hell. Are they bored or something? Bomb the moon? Oh wait! To look for water that isn’t there! My first thought about NASA bombing the moon had nothing to do with water. I figured they are practicing for Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars Program. Your thoughts? Here’s a funny report on blowing up the moon… If George W Bush were willing to open up and admit his thoughts after leaving office, I have a sneaking suspicion that his answer to a question he was asked during his presidency, and failed miserably in his answer, would surpires many. I think his response would be completely different today. In April 2004 a reporter asked the question;
His answer is memorable for it’s arrogance and clueless at the same time;
Given his presidency is finished and beginning to be judged by history, something he claimed would result in his resurrection in the publics eyes, I would ask a slightly different version of the same question. In the first campaign, you were asked a question about the biggest mistake you’d made in your life and you used to like to joke that it was trading Sammy Sosa. Now that you can reflect on your presidency, what mistakes might have been made. What would your biggest mistake in your presidency be, would you say? I think if he is completely honest and candid, his answer would surprise many of us. I for one do not think he would say;
No as important as each of those failures are, I think George W Bush regrets one decision he made even more then any of them. I think that he just might consider his greatest mistake was actually made on July 25, 2000, when he asked Richard Bruce Cheney to be his running mate. Once he asked Cheney to run with him, he seemed to hand much of the power and decision making power over to Cheney. Cheney brought his PNAC team in to the bush administration with him, from Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, and Feith, at Defense, to Armitage, Cheney’s daughter and Bolton at State, to Libby and Addington, running his hit squad inside the VP office. These team Cheney players set the course for the first six years of Bush’s time in office and doomed Bush to a course for the failures he experienced in foreign policy. But Cheney had a larger influence then just rigging the foreign policy views to match the PNAC delusions, he under cut Treas Sec O’Neill and Sec of State Powell, and was the prime mover in the Plame Affair black eye the Bush Administration suffered. This resulted in the major disasters for Bush by the end of his presidency; Powell couldn’t stop the invasion and resulting fiasco in Iraq and O’Neill wasn’t allowed to point out how disastrous the policies Bush was perusing would end, like they did in our current recession. Cheney made sure of it. Cheney also was the prime architect of the efforts to under mine the US Constitution and laws to promote a view of the presidency which does not exist in either the founding fathers original ideal nor the document the wrote to found this nation. Cheney in the end setup Bush for the vast majority of the failures he experienced. The only major failure Bush experienced which Cheney isn’t prominently featured in was Katrina. Cheney came into office with a set of plans for the Middle East, and how power should be exercised by the executive branch, that Bush never discussed with the voting public. However until at least November 2006 Bush seemed to aqueous to the ideas of Cheney most of the time. By the time the results of those policies were obvious to most Americans, the Bush administration was resoundingly rejected both in the mid term elections of November 2006 and the presidential election of 2008. John McCain seemed to run from Bush/Cheney in 2008 even more then Gore ran from Clinton in 2000 I expect if one could actually sit down for a few beers with Bush, and he relaxed and got honest both with himself and the rest of us, he would admit his very first “presidential decision” was actually his worst; IE, asking Dick Cheney to be his running mate. As long as the greedy health care CEO’s can quadruple their profits every seven years like they have done from 2000 to 2007, IE 428% rise in profits while the population which lacks health insurance rises from 35 to 47 million, the profit motive seems to be the main problem in both costs and access. Those profits from 2.4 billion to 12.7 billion through one recession into the beginnings of a much deeper recession, Then the people who actually take home that obscene profit will always block and derail any attempts to cut into their glutenous profits Only the oil industry has a rise in their profit number to match that, We know how speculators on Wall Street helped increase the price of oil, Oh wait Wall Street has a big stake in health care also, A constantly rising stake, IE large insurance corporations and big pharmaceutical corporations which put profits first. Which seems sorta un-American go put obscene profits ahead of people, I know it is the unchristian thing to do. Jesus said so. Sorry, but both the Christian and true American thing to do would be put people and their health ahead of triple digit rises in profits. And the weak proposals the republicans throw out can’t solve the problems of obscene profits over people. Vouchers, minimal regulations …… They will game vouchers to just raise costs and profits like they have gamed the HMO idea from the 1990’s, and turned the co-ops like Blue Cross-Blue Shield (a former non profit co-op) into profit centers for their greed. they will do this much to the detriment of the people who actually need health care, well over 47 million uninsured and the millions going broke even though they have insurance. Vouchers are no more the answer in health care then they were in education, just another reich wing canard to prevent any real change to either broken system Only a TRUE public option the greedy CEO’s can’t game and coop to their own interests will be any real reform. Vouchers isn’t it by a long shot. Neither is a couple of regulations that congress can undo like they undid Glass-Steagall in the banking industry, (which has a primary direct cause of the economic meltdown we are currently suffering from),or like how the Bush administration just ignored hundreds of regulations, to help corporations to maximize their profits over the good of all of the citizenry of the country. Sorry but until you CUT the power of the greediest of the richest among us to scam the system in ways that would make Bernie Madoff blush,, the problems of health care for most of the rest of us will just grow. Only a public option does that. To put it in easy terms to understand ….. a reorganization along European principles might save the American people about $1 trillion per year. But it also might cost the insurance and chemical industries that same amount, and they’re simply not going to let that happen. So people push for a few new regulations and a brain dead idea like vouchers, instead of changing the cause of most of the problem, The cause of the misery tens of millions suffer through each day, The obscene profits of a few corporations and the very greedy CEO’s and big stock owners who keep lining up like pigs at the trough while millions lack health care and hundreds of thousands go bankrupted before they die. The whole debate boils down to that. So while profits uber alles is the rallying cry of the club for growth section of the, reich wing, It is actually expressed in death panels organized by the insurance industry to cull those who are too sick to even give insurance … then to cut off the policy when the costs of care might slow the obscene profits of the wall street crowd. It is expressed when other corporations have to close down factories and destroy the lively hood of millions of the middle class, to send their factories overseas, because the profits of a few, mean the rise in the costs of health care make employing people here is uneconomical, further eroding the security of the middle class, both by the loss of their jobs and the health care connected to those jobs. Yes those death panels do exist but not where Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich lied and claimed they would exist, No those death panels, which do not exist in the proposed legislation, those death panels do exist in the board rooms and bureaucracies of the corporate health care industry. Those death panels are fighting very hard to prevent President Obama from putting them out of the business of sentencing millions to unneeded illness, despair, financial ruin and death. Those death panels underwrite the excessive immoral profits of those corporations, and the Wall Streeters who make their livings off the ideas the death panels of the corporate health care industry dishonestly push on the rest of us. And of course the politicians who enable those obscene profits, Here is an honest argument about the health care debate . It explains how and why the republicans and their corporate masters are willing to under cut the attempt at finally fixing our failed system.
Ilargi: Automatic earth Simple when you think about it. We are the ones saying OUR system is broken Not the Canadians, Not the British, Not the French, Not the Germans, Not the Swedish, Not the Norwegians, Not the Swiss; No matter how much the reich wing maligns the foreign health care systems, with their RNC talking points, it is the USA not the other countries who is working to fix a severely flawed system, which is failing many many American citizens when they need it the most. The right can’t admit that so they try to stifle the facts with buzz words like socialism, government mandated care, fear mongering thru total outright fabrications like the government is gonna kill old people or make it harder to get care. They claim the changes will take away what they people have now and replace it with a system they claim doesn’t work. Or that the government is going to micromanage which doctor you can see, and what care that particular doctor can give. The right claim a modern government run system can’t work, even though the rest of the modern nations in Europe and Canada have it. Even here in the United States more people receive their health care from government sponsored insurance sources, Medicaid, Medicare, Government employees insurance , and of course the government run systems Military health care and the Veterans Administration; then through a private health care insurance system.
Paul Krugman Which means what is being proposed is not socialized medicine, but socialized insurance. In socialized medicine the doctors and hospitals are owned and directly financed from the government, The VA and military systems are the only thing we really have that comes close, and for the most part they receive ratings above the private sector. All but the British are single payer public insurance systems, or some form of that system, where the doctors remain in the private sector, and receive payments from the government run insurance system. Only the British is an actual government run health care system where the doctors work directly for the government. However for some reason the republicans and right wing fight tooth and nail against what seems to work very well for the rest of the world. They are trying to preserve our system where we spend more money and end up with 47 million uninsured, people losing their insurance when they need it the most. Other people with pre-existing conditions not even being able to get insurance because that cuts into the bottom line. People worried about their health care and how to pay for it, and of course the hundred of thousands of people who lose everything due to illness and the costs here in the USA. The reason is simple; the more control the large corporations have the more profits they make. It is really about corporate profits in the end. The more the government makes sure care like the veterans and congress critters get, is provided to the rest of America, the less corporate profit can be skimmed off the top before any “care” is ever considered by the Insurance and Pharmaceutical corporations. So each time any suggestion of fixing the system, the health care corporate industrial conglomerates spend many millions mis-informing, fear mongering, and handing large amounts of money to certain politicians to stop reform, all in the name of ever higher profits. It really is that simple Their profits mean more to them, then our health, and they want the system to stay that way. To the reich-wing trolls Paul Weyrich died in December and may he ROT IN HELL; Paul Weyrich – “I don’t want everybody to vote” (Goo Goo) Weyrich is the father or reich wing republican anti-american voter suppression so they can steal elections instead of fairly winning them within the RULES He just didn’t give a speech, he actively helped the right wing of the Republican Party create the dishonest machinery of voter suppression people like Harris in 2000 and Blackwell in 2004 used to deny United sates citizens from exercising the most basic right of a citizen, the right to freely choose their own leaders. Things like; Photo ID laws
Purging voter rolls
Just in case ya didn’t know, Georgia has a republican governor and Sec of State. They were just following in the footsteps of Katherine Harris who did the very same thing in 2000 in Florida; Florida Central Voter File
the facts;
In other words, many people on the list were NOT even a felon, they just shared a name with someone from ANOTHER state who was a felon, or some people had their right to vote reinstated before she illegally stole that right. But Harris succeeded to throw the election in Florida to Bush in 2000 by her traitorous activity of denying US citizens their constitutional right to vote. In a sense she stole the election before she helped steal the election by blocking the counting of all the votes. 2002 New Hampshire Senate election phone jamming scandal
2004 presidential election
What the shit stack said to do in 1980, prevent American citizens who might not vote for you from voting at all;
A particularly reprehensibly form of voter suppression practiced by republicans acting out the designs of voter denial for opponents of republican candidates; Caging Which under the National Voting Rights Act of 1993 (NVRA) should be illegal, but the Bush DOJ never enforced the law as usual.
Who BTW worked directly for Karl; Rove
The reason I find caging particularly reprehensible, is because caging catches anybody who is NOT living at their home of record but registered to vote there. Caging is designed to go after college students, a block of voters who historically normally do not vote republican, BUT it catches another subset of the voting public in similar circumstances as to living at their home of record; DEPLOYED MILITARY MEMBERS especially ones deployed to combat zones where mail sometimes takes upwards of six weeks to arrive and six weeks to be returned. When the republicans cage a heavily democratic leaning district, they also deny the right to vote to the very people who are actively defending that very right. During the Bush administration they even allowed voting suppression activist like Hans von Spakovsky and Bradley Schlozman to actively work within the Justice department lead by Alberto Gonzales, to work the anti-american ideas of Weyrich into using federal power to suppress the rights of American citizens to vote. Republican based voter suppression, something Weyrich helped create and foster to help his extreme ideology to attack the country is a historical fact, People like Weyrich are traitors to the US Constitution, and our country. And I have no quarter to give to traitors, whether they use bombs like Timmy McVeigh did, or the machinery of the Republican Party to subvert the US Constitution. May they both rot in hell. President Reagan famously claimed, The nine most scary words in the English language are;
Last fall some claimed they were going to be;
when in reality they are;
As the last eight years have shown. Why does everyone on the right keep attacking President Barack Obama, because he said that married couple with personal incomes above $250,000, or individuals with personal incomes above $200,000, are doing pretty well? He was just reflecting on who was doing quite well in comparison to the rest of us, and stated he was only going to be only raising taxes on the wealthiest among us.
The far right seemed to go insane claiming President Barack Obama had suddenly decided anybody making above $250,000 was rich.
Is this true? Let’s see what President Barack Obama’s definition of rich is in his own words;
Did President Barack Obama just pick a number out of thin air, or is there a basis in history for believing his levels might be justified. Now lets us look at some interesting facts; You see it is not just Barack Obama but the republicans in congress who also agreed with him, not in the words they say but the laws they enact. In 2001 the republican lead Congress set new tax rates and George W Bush signed it into law. At what level did they say the highest bracket for the richest among us should begin? $10,000,000, $5,000,000 where John McCain placed the beginning or “rich” Even an, um, mere $1,000,000 …….. No actually the republicans who ran congress in 2001 said the richest bracket should start at $372, 950, and the bracket for the well off but not “extremely rich” at, $208,850. Why do I say this, well because that is what they enacted into law. That is where they set the levels of the top two tax brackets.
Given the levels the republicans who ran congress in the 2001 and George W Bush set the tax brackets at, they must agree if you make over $200,000 you are well off , and if you make over $372,950 you’re among the richest in the country. Why would they create tax levels so low according to the republican images they speak about? Well let us look at the actual breakdown of who makes what;
If you’re making $100,000 you’re making more than 89% of the rest of the country, which means by comparison your pretty well off. If you’re making $200,000 you’re out doing 96.5% of the country, and actually quite well off. If your earning 250,000 your exceed 98.1% of the rest of us in wealth, at the very top of the pile. Sorta what President Barack Obama said isn’t it, don’t ya think? So If you own a small business and make over $250,000, first of all make more than over 98% of the country, (definitely not Joe the Non-Plumber territory at all). Second of all, if you’re not incorporated to take advantage of benefits of corporate tax law, and the individual protection incorporating gives, Keith Olbermann is probably right …….. He mentioned that;
Or in other words, you’re tax problems aren’t from the government, as much as bad advice from whatever financial planner you listen to, even if it is, um, er, actually Joe the Non-Plumber, like John McCain and the GOP seemed to do during the last campaign . |
 
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