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GOP Pulls Plug On All Future Grandmas

April 16, 2011

Remember the fun we all had in 2009 when Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and the Alaskan Quitter spouted off claiming that President Obama's health care reform plan was going to "pull the plug on grandma?" Good times. Back then, when the Tea Party nuts were doing the bidding of the Koch Brothers and Dick Armey [...]

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Sold Down The River

April 12, 2011

Before steamboats proliferated, goods could not easily be moved upstream on the Mississippi River. It was much easier to "go with the flow", as it were, because of the prohibitive cost of sending goods up river. "Sold down the river" was the easier, cheaper, status-quo method of moving your products to markets. President Obama will [...]

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GOP Agrees To Release Hostages

April 9, 2011

For the second time in less than 4 months, Republican officials have agreed to release hostages in return for ransom demands. Late last evening, Speaker Boehner went before cameras and announced that his thuggish band of Young Guns would release the 5 million American women they have been threatening to deny access to reproductive health [...]

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Ryan: The "Courageous" Beck Lover

April 6, 2011

Republican officials have been avoiding cuddling up to Paul Ryan's (R-WI) "Roadmap" to ruin for over 2 years. Republicans knew Ryan's plan would gag a maggot and so they distanced themselves from it for as long as they could. The sickening irony about Ryan's immoral proposal is found in the claims made over the last [...]

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The Audacity of Nope

April 4, 2011

The health care reform legislation passed this time last year with nary a Republican vote in the affirmative has been lovingly labeled ObamaCare by those who are hellbent on taking America back from it's first black president. Part of ObamaCare expands eligibility for Medicaid from 100% to 138% of the federal poverty level. This expansion [...]

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T.ogether E.nding A.merica Party

March 2, 2011

As I searched, and searched, this past Saturday for teevee coverage of the multi-state, MoveOn organized, protests over Tea Party governors scrapping collective bargaining rights….I caught a portion of CNN's late afternoon programming. CNN devoted approximately 60 seconds to Wisconsin…..no coverage at all of any other state protests (New York had 10,000 protesting)….and then immediately [...]

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Supreme Power Over States

February 5, 2011

I suppose it's all because a Democratically controlled federal government dared to pass legislation to confront our national health care cost crisis. It could, of course, just be another attempt to delegitimize a Democratic president. Whatever the reason, our national discourse, such as it is, has been filled with numerous claims about the Constitution, mostly [...]

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Judicial Divisions Threaten Nation

February 2, 2011

U.S District Judge Roger Vinson. Florida federal Judge Vinson's ruling to appease Tea Partiers hopeful of dismantling federal government power…..is found here. The ruling is so radically biased that it even takes the time to please TP'ers by including a silly and inapplicable throwaway comparison to…..wait for it…..the original Boston Tea Partiers. Just what we [...]

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GOP Proposes Gutting Medicare

January 28, 2011

National Journal House GOP members are considering a measure to convert the government-backed Medicare program into a voucher system. The measure would be part of the House budget, which will be shaped next month. Republican Conference Chairman Jeb Hensarling of Texas said the he expects Republicans to support the provision, which would require Medicare to [...]

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Republicans Dance Because Of Fear

January 19, 2011

Why are House Republicans pressing the issue of repealing health care reform legislation when they surely know their efforts will fail? The answer is found in two words….Tea Party. The House Republicans are going through the motions to repeal health care reform purely for the Tea Party Puppet Theater value, as it were. Tea Partiers [...]

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