May 5, 2014

O.k.

How about keeping you from going bankrupt? That helps too. ACA needs some work in terms of helping ensure the affordability of health care in general but insurance at least provides more security against being bankrupted by a major illness, not to mention the preventative benefits that the law provides that should *hopefully* help mitigate/minimize serious health conditions in the first place.

May 5, 2014

Their renewed focus on #BENGHAZI! probably won't help much either.

Destroying the GOP might be PBO's greatest legacy as POTUS- mostly without lifting a finger.

May 4, 2014

While I'm sort of glad that they're taking a break from ACA bashing

I'm depressed that we're headed back to this topic. But yeah, I agree with you. #BENGHAZI! is the beginning and end of existence for these people and those of us whom are tuned in politically will have to go through another round or two or three of neglecting every other human/social problem in our country and around the world for this. UGH!

May 4, 2014

I don't agree with everything he said

but he is SPOT ON (re: Benghazi!)

May 2, 2014

She doesn't need to do THAT to get elected

no matter how much Glenn Beck would love to watch it

May 2, 2014

I believe that Condi is back on the road lamenting our country's "war weariness"

Then I had a good friend of mine, who AFAIK is a Democrat, pumping her up as a possible VP prospect (for Hillary?) around the same time that she out on the road and preaching more war. She thinks that Condi helped make the Iraq War less worse than it was and I was simply dumbfounded and asked her how Iraq could have been worse and how Condi made it "better" or "not so bad". Have yet to get an answer and ended up dropping the discussion. And this is a very intelligent and progressive therapist.



I thought that Condi wholeheartedly supported the Iraq War? Never heard any mea culpas about it from her.

May 2, 2014

I mean, think how horrible it would be if it gets in the way of the GOP's plans

to cut spending on anti-poverty programs so that the "job creators" can get more tax cuts? Ryan has essentially said that anti-poverty programs have been a "failure" and they're basically worthless, so, of course, the natural solution that he and his fellow Republicans have is to get rid of them. Don't want the possibility of having their scam exposed and/or one or two of them rediscovering their consciences, you know?

May 1, 2014

The filibustering would go away (or severely diminish)

if they had to get up on the floor and talk in order to maintain a filibuster. I'm o.k. with a filibuster provided that it isn't allowed to hold things up indefinitely. I sort of like proposals that make it so that it becomes harder and harder to sustain over a period of time- so that people have to do a little work to sustain one. This would allow the minority to slow down the process and potentially rally people to their side but would also (eventually) allow for a vote.

May 1, 2014

Can we stop calling the US Senate a "deliberative body"

considering that it's they aren't allowed to DELIBERATE about much of anything?

Seriously, I get that Republicans don't want to do most of the things that the Democrats in the Senate want to do but if they are so convinced of the superiority of their ideas and beliefs, why can't they have the fortitude to stand up for them in an actual DEBATE? If they were truly on the right side of an issue, they shouldn't have too much difficulty convincing 51 people of the rightness of their position, right? I don't understand why the people who support the legislation shouldn't have the right to argue for it and have an equal chance to convince a majority of the Senate to adopt the bill?

It seems like Republicans either get what they want, Democrats attempt to gather up SIXTY votes for just a freakin' debate/vote, or the Republicans just get to shut everything down. I understand the need to preserve the voice of the minority but "reasonable" left the train station years ago..........

May 1, 2014

I have mixed feelings on the DP

Usually on a case by case basis. I can understand why people feel so strongly about the DP on both sides. The idea of calculated state sanctioned killing of people seems somewhat disconcerting but I also understand the emotional side of people whose lives have been touched by a remorseless killer.