July 23, 2013

What gets me

is that they just have to say that Dodd-Frank, Obamacare, or something (that they hate) is "bad" or "disruptive" or "hurting businesses (or the economy)" and it's practically accepted as the truth and gospel by the media and a lot of uniformed people- despite any real evidence thereof.

July 23, 2013

Only in their wildest fantasies

will President Obama and Senate Democrats EVER accede to such outrageous demands and voluntarily defund their signature piece of legislation that has now been approved by Congress and validated legally and constitutionally by SCOTUS and then further validated by voters when the majority of them voted to re-elect President Obama and keep the Democrats in control of the Senate. The Republicans have to got to learn that, whatever else you believe about the Founding Fathers and how they designed our government, willfully threatening to sabotage the normal operation of government in order to achieve legislative goals was NOT how it was designed to work. If Republicans want to repeal laws they don't like and enact their own agenda, it is their responsibility for convincing the majority of the people of the *rightness* of their policies and then get enough people elected to Congress and to the WH to help them get their policies enacted into law. They are not (or should not be) allowed to achieve their policy aims by threatening to refuse to do their jobs by not keeping government operating normally. They IMHO need to respect the law and if they don't like it, they need to work within our system- which has operated basically fine for over two hundred years now- to get it changed and if they can't get it changed, then they have to live with it. End of story.

July 23, 2013

Wow

They are so out of touch with the needs and concerns of the average citizen it's not even remotely funny anymore. Your warning, if any is necessary about the dangers of re-electing these people and/or giving them a majority to push their agenda in the Senate (though, thankfully, we still have veto power at the top too).

July 23, 2013

What is it with Republicans promoting failure upwards?

(Not) Our Man Mitch- who is now running state-funded Purdue University and was recently found to be sanctioning removal of certain "offensive" books by Howard Zinn from the University- recently got a nice little bump in his pay too.

July 21, 2013

Even by that misbegotten "standard"

it is STILL a failure.

July 21, 2013

They are compelled to (selectively) ignore facts like these

while touting the "bad" numbers that supposedly prove that Obamacare will destroy us all! It's how they treat the Bible (and the Constitution).

July 21, 2013

Indiana (Republican) officials tout a 72% health ins premium increase under Obamacare BUT

there's apparently more to that story: Turns out state officials fudged (almost certainly, deliberately) the numbers a bit: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/07/republican-war-obamacare-reaching-absurd-new-heights

More facts here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/20/indiana-says-health-plan-costs-will-spike-to-570-thats-not-the-full-story/

A Republican-controlled state fudging numbers to overturn/repeal a law they don't like? Yeah, shocking, I know. Lesson to be learned here: Don't trust ANYTHING a Republican/teabagger/Fox News says about Obamacare!

July 21, 2013

Remember that 72% increase in health insurance premiums announced this past week (re: Obamacare)?

Turns out state officials fudged (almost certainly, deliberately) the numbers a bit: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/07/republican-war-obamacare-reaching-absurd-new-heights

A Republican-controlled state fudging numbers to overturn/repeal a law they don't like? Yeah, shocking, I know.

July 21, 2013

Where did that ridiculous idea even get started anyhow?

I always thought that RWNJs were projecting Bush's shortcomings onto Obama. I've never known him to be unable to make sense when making off the cuff statements or deliver speeches poorly without a TelePrompTer

July 18, 2013

So, lawmakers "voice doubts"?

and then the rest of us are supposed to "admit" that we are wrong?

People who have issues with what Snowden did and/or why he did it and what else he did have never said that there isn't reason to talk more about the merits of these programs. Heck, even President Obama stated that he would welcome a discussion. But some of us don't view all this whole affair as apocalyptically as some people around here apparently do and some of us take issues with what Snowden did. I for one don't look at taking and leaking classified information and then also suggesting that he would be willing to share information with other governments as a particularly *good* thing unless it exposes some particularly nasty activity (i.e. torture, crimes against humanity, etc). Mass collection of all of this information may be troubling but AFAIK it's not been abused and nobody has suffered as a result of it. Give me a reason why I should light my hair on fire and run around madly