May 3, 2014

October '13, Obamacare Launches Website To...(Noise Removed)....May '14, Obamacare Exceeds Goals

That is all.

May 3, 2014

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: OBAMACARE MEANS PEOPLE CAN “PURSUE THEIR DREAMS,” NOT WORK

My headline is the exact headline of a sarcastic RW Heritage Foundation of Liars article in February. Ironic how the intended sarcasm turns out to be the reality. All-Caps included. Sorry about that.

And as an astounding 800,000 people left the labor force in April, shrinking the labor force and permitting the unemployment rate to go to pre-recession levels, the Republicans lie that people are getting too depressed or something to look for jobs....or Bengazhi.

Combined with near 300,000 new jobs created, that is over a million happy people and a million person drop in unemployment....so, of course, Bengazhi.

They are lying again of course. Because the rate going from near 10% to 6.4% is too depressing to think about....and Bengazhi.

The CBO report predicted exactly this happening, it IS already happening by the hundreds of thousands. Remember how both the RW and the mass media got the report wrong, then when confronted with their error refused to accept it?

Well here it is to bite them in their lazy, lying asses and so of course all they got in response to the one, two punch of Obamacare and the jobs report is to lie some more and....(cough)..... Benghazi.



How WRONG are the Republicans? Link to RW think tank blog in February, a sarcastic post that began as follows.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: OBAMACARE MEANS PEOPLE CAN “PURSUE THEIR DREAMS,” NOT WORK

KATHERINE ROSARIO | FEBRUARY 4, 2014


"The Obama Administration’s latest argument for Obamacare is that some people don’t want to work, and Obamacare makes not working easier for those people.

This new spin comes conveniently in the wake of a Congressional Budget Office report demonstrating Obamacare will push about 2 million workers out of the labor market by 2017.

The liberals of the Obama Administration spun the new data as only they can. Politico Pro reports (sub. req’d):

Instead, the Obama administration says, the health care law will allow people to choose to work less.

Under Obamacare, “individuals will be empowered to make choices about their own lives and livelihoods, like retiring on time rather than working into their elderly years or choosing to spend more time with their families,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement."

http://heritageaction.com/2014/02/obama-administration-obamacare-means-people-can-pursue-their-dreams-not-work/

May 1, 2014

5 Ways the "Mooch Militia" Resemble the Taliban

http://www.juancole.com/2014/04/resembles-pakistans-taliban.html


I would have added that both militias are defending desert scrubland, though the Taliban are not moochers.

(By Juan Cole)

1. Federal versus local control of land

Pakistan: The Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) of Pakistan is ruled directly from the capital, Islamabad, rather than having an elected provincial government or legislature. The local tribes such as Mehsud, from which the Taliban are recruited, want more local autonomy.
Nevada: The Federal government owns 87% of the land in Nevada and rules on land use there. Some local ranchers, such as Cliven Bundy, want local, state and county control over this land instead.

2. Conflicts over Resources

Pakistan: Local tribes in the FATA region often clash over resources such as access to irrigated land, and the Federal government has intervened: “the government would not allow any group or tribe to take arbitrary actions in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata)”
Nevada : Cliven Bundy is grazing his cattle on Federal land in order to take advantage of its pasturage (a sort of water resource) but has come into conflict with Bureau of Land Management officials.



3. Rejection of Federal authority

Pakistan: The Taliban of Northern Waziristan in FATA have their own local Emirate, rejecting the Federal government.
Nevada: Cliven Bundy and the Militia movement that supports him reject Federal ownership of land in Nevada, and only recognize the Nevada government.

4. Taking up Arms

Pakistan: Local clans in FATA have taken up arms against Federal forces where the latter have tried to assert themselves there.
Nevada: When Federal officers of the Bureau of Land Management attempted to confiscate some of Bundy’s cattle because of non-payment of grazing fees, he and his 1000 militia supporters brandished guns at the scene, threatening violence.

5. Resistance to taxes

Pakistan: Although FATA residents are exempted from Federal income tax, the government is imposing retail and other taxes on them, as with a tax on cell phones. They reject paying this phone tax to the Federal government.
Nevada: Bundy refuses to pay a grazing fee to the Federal government.

That Sean Hannity and other far right wing pundits are supporting the regional militiamen and their mooching hero rather than the US government gives you an idea what side they’d be on if they were in Pakistan…