Transcript info?

Where can I get a transcript of McCain's comments about Benghazi (today in the Senate, with Graham and Ayotte)?

Thanks.

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One angry white man

Can Obamacare cure bureaucracy?

My forehead is once again bearing the indentations of bricks, acquired through repeated bashings of head against wall.

My sister, God bless her, bought me a plane ticket so that I can spend part of the holidays with family. This was planned in accordance with what Medicare told me last year about my oxygen requirement, that by this time this year I would qualify for one of the portable airline-approved oxygen concentrators. This afternoon I learned that Medicare has now decided that I will not qualify until 2014.

Last year they were saying that I hadn't been on the program long enough. I disputed that, seeing as how I've been on oxygen since 2001. Now they're tying it to the 'new' home concentrator their requirements provided in early 2009. I've given up trying to make sense of it.

Wouldn't be so bad, but I fly out of Denver and, since 9-11, oxygen is no longer available at the airport. That's a particularly bad thing for those passengers who arrive to find out that altitude can have some unpleasant side effects. Anyway, the machines can be rented, but for those of us on small fixed incomes that cost can be prohibitive. A little warning would have been nice. Better yet, a consistent and coherent policy that is comprehensible to patients.

Gaaaaahhhhhhh......


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To US.

While Mitt and Ann were away in Boston

Chris Hayes' tribute to campaign workers

Chris Hayes just did a marvelous tribute to boots-on-the-ground campaign workers, local to national. Very well done, made me tear up on a Saturday morning. Hope it will be available on video for those who missed it!


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And the Boehnermcconnellmobile chugs on.

Mitch McConnell’s Republican Party Can Meet Me In The Middle and Kiss My Ass

Margaret, it appears that rape remains unpopular among likely voters, gays are people too, and Rocky Mountain High isn’t just a song. It isn’t final yet, but at the time that I am writing this, Michele Bachmann, bless her heart, might not be too popular with voters either. And while he wasn’t actually running for anything, Donald Trump proved to be unpopular with just about everyone.

Once the real news called the race for Obama, I tuned into Fox News to see if Carl Rove was giving refunds. I had to laugh at the meltdown that was happening. Carl wanted a recount in Ohio and some blonde woman with too much make-up lamented about the inconvenient truth of Hurricane Sandy. Evidently Sandy and fraudulent voters had given the election unfairly to Obama. Honey, Hurricane Sandy reminded us that we had a good man in the White House much the same way Hurricane Katrina reminded us that we had an idiot in the White House. And fraudulent voters are about as common as unbiased reporting on Fox News. I had to turn the channel back to the more civil CNN coverage with that lovely Anderson Cooper. Too much Fox makes me itch.

After running for President for nine hundred years, Mitt Romney accepted defeat and gave a surprisingly short and genuinely gracious concession speech. I was touched, truly touched, when he called for unity and wished the President success. President Obama too gave a lovely speech. He always gives lovely speeches. It was tad bit long and I must admit I drifted off a couple of times. I am old and it was getting late.

read the rest...
http://margaretandhelen.com/2012/11/07/michele-bachmann-donald-trump-and-rape-prove-to-be-bad-ideas/

We

Four years ago he invited us to participate in the job of rebuilding and making this a better country. We took his lesson to heart and last night proved that together there is nothing that WE cannot do. Congratulations to President Obama and to the people of this remarkable country. May we always remember that we are better together.




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Damn, Tweety is unbelievably pissy tonight.

Dude, get a grip.


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