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Let me see now...it's Franken's fault for introducing an amendment that 10 Republican Senators opposed because they didn't realize he was tricking them into voting stupidly.
Uh-huh. Nothing like a public admission that you're dumber than a bag of hammers -- and an insensitive clod, to boot -- to prove the point.
Isn't It Odd?
The stupidest and most contemptible Politico story ever -- which is going some! Republican senators feel burned by Al Franken — and not by his old jokes. The Republicans are steamed at Franken because partisans on the left are using a measure he sponsored to paint them as rapist sympathizers...
By all means, Republicans, STAND FIRM against health care reform! Pay no attention to that rope dangling overhead or the trapdoor in that rickety scaffolding you built with your own hands.
Signed: D. Quixote
So?
OMIGOD ERICK THE SON OF ERICK IS IN A TIZZY! I am told quite reliably that in a meeting today on Capitol Hill, Republican Senators began to rapidly move toward concessions on health care because they are afraid they cannot hold their members. Some Republicans are now thinking of supporting a gov...
Brownlaw is clearly one who knows not and knows not he knows not. Russia bypassed socialism and went directly from communism to private enterprise
Want to see pure, unadulterated capitalism at work? Go to Russia--where everything is for sale. Want to hold public office? Buy it. Want police protection? Buy it. Want the road paved in front of your residence? Buy it. Hungry? Homeless?No rubles? Too bad.
The idea that Russia wants to cause the downfall of the U.S. is ludicrous in the extreme. We are one of their most promising markets for trade and profit--a capitalist's dream.
Flickers with Missing Words
The American Thinker shows once more that it is a publication without American Editors. Here is metaphor that is not so much "mixed" as it is hit over the head with a pool cue, tossed in a dumpster, and peed on by hoboes. The only question remains: Is Obama masterminding the current events for e...
When you subscribe to a belief system which depends entirely on "Faith," it is easy to become untethered from reality and any sense of humanity.
The Sacred Heart of Waterboarding
I'm pretty easygoing when it comes to religious discussion; my general philosophy is, live, let live, and leave me the fuck out of it. It's a topic about which I don't have a lot to say, so I don't say a lot about it. So I 'm perhaps breaking one of my unwritten policies here, but on the other ...
Since 2000, I have passed through the 7 stages of grief over the actions and inactions of our government: denial, pain, anger,depression, adjustment, reconstruction,and hope. But the fairlure to enact meaningful health care reform has finally pushed my rage button.
From here on, I refuse to sit on the sidelines while the politicos do the bdding of those who bought them.
What are words for?
by Ripley If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for their prescription and having to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my...
What Jacob said.
This Is Better
by publius Marc Ambinder: An administration official said tonight that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius "misspoke"[.] . . . A second official, Linda Douglass . . . said that President Obama believed that a public option was the best way to reduce costs and promote competit...
Armbinder thinks he is making a significant, telling point (about something); however, I think he has written meaningless twaddle. Using the man's own line of reasoning here, this means there's a good chance that I'm right.
Ambinder Is A Scientist
by va Marc Ambinder has another one of his both-sides-do-it arguments about healthcare, and he thinks it's awfully clever. The topic today is "emotion" and the ways it is used by both sides to persuade voters. The field of cognitive neuroscience has all but given up trying to distinguish betwee...
I have often wondered what on earth Palin supporters hear when she speaks? To the rest of us it sounds like word salad but now I realize that her tortured and garbled sentences are her greatest strength. They allow the wingers to fill in the blanks to suit themselves.
And also, too, it's all about tribal politics, which is not elitiest, unless--but some don't realize this also. Too.
The Winning Card
I am most heartily sick of anything to do with Sarah Palin, having read quite a bit of silliness about her in the past couple of weeks. But this... well, this speaks for itself: Sarah Palin loves God. God loves Sarah Palin. And that is why they hate her...and Him. And why she -- and He -- will...
But to do that, you'd have to actually care about governing. The contemporary Republican party plainly does not.
I agree with you there, Roger. Why take governing seriously when you think it ought to be small enough to drown in a bathtub?
Like A Grizzly With Cubs, If By "Grizzly" You Mean "Quitter", And By "Cubs" You Mean "Kids You Can't Be Bothered With"
by hilzoy Sarah Palin, January 22, 2009: "When I took my oath of office to serve as your Governor, remember, I swore to steadfastly and doggedly guard the interests of this great state like a grizzly with cubs, as a mother naturally guards her own. Alaska, as a statewide family, we’ve got to fi...
Palin's resignation speech was pure word salad. I watched that damned video over and over again, trying to make sense of it--and I never could. To me this spells someone in pure panic mode or someone with a serious disconnection from reality.
Either Palin has found herself trapped in a tunnel of her own making, and sees the train heading her way, or she is so dumb she hasn't a clue that she's shot herself in both feet and severely crippled her political and/or monetary chances for advancement.
Either way, she's toast.
There's Something About This I Just Don't Understand ...
by hilzoy Anderson Cooper interviewed Sarah Palin's spokesperson tonight. He asked what Sarah Palin would be doing next. Here's her answer: "STAPLETON: OH, everything under the sun that you can possibly think of. And what she has said and what she did say in her speech was, just alone, getting o...
That Palin's speech was rambling and, at times, incoherent seems to indicate a hasty decision on her part. Could be she woke up yesterday and said, "To hell with it," but could also be that she was trying to beat the clock on something ugly, and didn't have time to come up with a rational reason for resigning. Either way, it doesn't bode well for her.
There's Something About This I Just Don't Understand ...
by hilzoy Anderson Cooper interviewed Sarah Palin's spokesperson tonight. He asked what Sarah Palin would be doing next. Here's her answer: "STAPLETON: OH, everything under the sun that you can possibly think of. And what she has said and what she did say in her speech was, just alone, getting o...
Was amazed to find the same thing in China, where I was told fluency in English was the best way to get a good job.
A Mystery Solved!
by hilzoy Slate answers a question about Iran that came up in comments: "In many photos, riot police wear uniforms with the English word police on them. Ambulances, too, bear the word ambulance in English. Why not use Persian words instead of their English equivalents? Because everyone knows Eng...
Good point, Aimai. The hate machine cannot shift blame for right wing hate crimes to liberals without losing their creds with their base.
Thanks for pointing this out.
Where the Wingnuts Are
by va Glenn Beck, sitting in the eye of "the perfect storm," calmly explained the Holocaust Museum shooting last night, as he interpreted it through his own private Book of Revelation. "The pot in America is boiling, and this is just yet another warning of things to come." Duly noted, I guess. M...
While Whelen's petty behavior negates whatever point he was trying to make, in outing Publius (who turns out to have some fine creds in the subject), Whelen unintentionally gave added weight to Publius's criticisms. Whoa, talk about shooting yourself in the foot. What we have in Welen is a man who doesn't know when to settle out of court.
Thanks All
by publius First, I just want to extend a most sincere thanks for all the comments both on this blog and via email. I wish I could thank you all individually, but I do appreciate the support. Second, I also want to thank the various bloggers who have criticized this action. Dylan Matthews wrot...
Some things I'm having trouble wrapping my head around:
If, as projected, by this summer 50 million Americans will have no medical insurance;
if 62% of all bankruptsies are caused by medical bills;
if the high cost of employee health insurance is crippling small businesses;
if insurance companies are allowed to refuse to accept people with pre-existing conditions;
if the cost of private insurance has risen beyond the means of increasing numbers of Americans;
if hospitals, in order to continue to operate, must either refuse treatment for those who cannot pay or attempt to recoup their losses by passing the costs on to those of us who have adequate coverage, thereby increasing our own insurance costs;
and if those with no insurance, of necessity often do not seek medical care until a costly medical problem has arisen,
then my question is: Wouldn't it be more humane and less costly to have socialized medicine? What I'm having trouble understanding--aside from protestations from the insurance industry--is why this would be such a bad thing.
The Public Plan and "Honest" Competition
by publius Greg Mankiw is concerned that a subsidized public option would be unfair to private health care providers: If [it is taxpayer-subsidized], then the public plan would not offer honest competition to private plans. . . . The bottom line: If the goal is honest competition in the provis...
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