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UCmeNdc's Journal'Reprehensive Party Of Florida' Gaffe (UPDATED)
It won't be Miami's worst news blooper, but the Sunshine State GOP is hopping mad at a local NBC station for labeling them the "Reprehensive Party of Florida."
In a news story it aired Thursday night on the Florida governor's race, NBC 6 screened portions of a Republican Party ad bashing Democratic candidate Charlie Crist, who had the gig as a Republican from 2007 to 2011 before leaving the GOP.
For some 11 seconds, the "reprehensive" credit ran in a graphic over the ad in the upper left corner of the screen.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/31/reprehensive-party-of-florida_n_4705091.html
John Elway to Fox News: I’m Republican because ‘I don’t believe in safety nets’
Denver Broncos executive vice president of football operations John Elway revealed on Sunday that he was a Republican because he doesn’t “believe in safety nets” — even though he admitted they were necessary.
In a interview on Fox News prior to Super Bowl XLVIII, host Chris Wallace pointed out that Elway was a “big Republican” who had contributed “a lot of money” to former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/02/john-elway-to-fox-news-im-republican-because-i-dont-believe-in-safety-nets/
Sen. Elizabeth Warren with great new ideas
Coming to a Post Office Near You: Loans You Can Trust?
Think about that: about 10 percent of a family's income just to manage getting checks cashed, bills paid, and, sometimes, a short-term loan to tide them over. That's more than a full month's income just to try to navigate the basics.
The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.
But it doesn't have to be this way. In the same remarkable report this week, the OIG explored the possibility of the USPS offering basic banking services -- bill paying, check cashing, small loans -- to its customers. With post offices and postal workers already on the ground, USPS could partner with banks to make a critical difference for millions of Americans who don't have basic banking services because there are almost no banks or bank branches in their neighborhoods.
Families rely on financial services more than ever, but those who need them most -- who struggle to make ends meet -- too often must contend with sky-high interest rates and tricks and traps buried in the fine print of their loan products.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-warren/coming-to-a-post-office-n_b_4709485.html
Darrell Issa Denies Using His Oversight Committee For Partisan Witch Hunts
Darrell Issa tells Bill Maher that he'd never, ever use his committee for partisan witch hunts, despite the fact that partisan witch hunts are about all those hearings have been used for.
From this Friday's Real Time With Bill Maher Overtime segment, Rep. Darrell Issa managed to monopolize the better part of the discussion when Maher read him one of the questions submitted by his audience, asking whether or not there should be a neutral branch doing oversight, rather than Congress and the likes of Darrell Issa, which is always partisan.
Issa of course felt that he and his committee were doing a fine job and tried making comparisons to the work that Henry Waxman did during the Bush administration, and denied that the hearings he's been holding had anything to do with partisanship.
He got some push back from Maher, but there was a ton of BS that passed from Issa's lips that Maher and the other guests, Ronan Farrow and Chrystia Freeland, who actually got a chance to weigh in here, let pass.
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/01/darrell-issa-denies-using-his-oversight
‘Bette in Spokane,’ cited in McMorris Rodgers’ (R) speech, declined health insurance options
The woman described only as “Bette in Spokane” during a nationally televised address by U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers said Wednesday she had no idea her frustrations over increasing insurance premiums would become part of the Republican attack on health care reform.
Not that Bette Grenier, a critic of the Affordable Care Act, minds that much.
But the “nearly $700 per month” increase in her premium that McMorris Rodgers cited in Tuesday night’s GOP response to the State of the Union address was based on one of the pricier options, a $1,200-a-month replacement plan that was pitched by Asuris Northwest to Grenier and her husband, Don.
The carrier also offered a less expensive, $1,052-per-month option in lieu of their soon-to-be-discontinued catastrophic coverage plan. And, Grenier acknowledged the couple probably could have shaved another $100 a month off the replacement policy costs by purchasing them from the state’s online portal, the Health Plan Finder website, but they chose to avoid the government health exchanges.
“I wouldn’t go on that Obama website at all,” said Grenier, 58, who lives in the Chattaroy area and owns a roofing company with her husband. “We liked our old plan. It worked for us, but they can’t offer it anymore.”
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/jan/30/bette-in-spokane-cited-in-mcmorris-rodgers-speech/
Of coarse if you look for plans that cost you more and contain less coverage you are guaranteed to find them. The trick is to shop for and compare the best of the least expensive options for yourself. Why shop for the more expensive coverage then complain that you are offered more expensive coverage?
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