Please Please Please Dems Play Hard Ball With the GOP

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Thursday September 19, 2013 · 12:52 PM PDT

2013/09/19 · 12:52

Please Dems, point out that this republican party would've done the same thing to Medicare in the 1960s. Point out that Health Care costs are growing at the slowest rate in decades. Point out that these people are crazy...

Or: The Senate Dems could say that they won't pass anything (including the defense budget, the debt limit, the CR) until the House GOP agrees to pass single payer healthcare, paid for with a new 90% tax bracket on incomes and capital gains over $1,000,000/year.

Sorry for the brevity, but I have no faith in the MM to point out the absurdity of the GOP's "plan," and I had to add this obvious suggestion.

Ayn Rand May Have Inspired the Best Blog Comment of All Time

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Friday April 15, 2011 · 8:48 AM PDT

2011/04/15 · 08:48

I'm sure some here have already seen this, but for those who haven't I'd thought I'd try to give it more exposure. This comment appears pretty far down in the list of a post by John Cole titled "Atlas Shrugged and the Critics Wept," and it's truly an inspired piece...

I can barely credit that they have made a movie from that turgid nonsense by Ayn Rand.
I have about eighteen copies of “Atlas Shrugged” – all signed in that self-consciously spiky handwriting of hers.

Every Christmas from 1957 onwards, a present would arrive from Ayn by ordinary post. It would be wrapped in festive newspaper, usually with a gift-tag recycled from last year, and every fucking time it would be a fucking copy of fucking Atlas fucking Shrugged.

They’re good for weighting down decoupage projects, although when it comes to slugging a nurse over the head when I want to sneak out to buy booze, nothing beats my signed first edition of “The Fountainhead”. Mind you, it might be easier just to read it to them. Whoo, what a stinker it is. Temazepam in libric form....

Please read the whole thing--you will not regret it.

Sorry for the short comment, but it really speaks for itself. Thanks, Sarah, Proud and Tall.

You made my day.

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Update to include link to Sarah Proud and Tall's blog (h/t to Catte Nappe).

If the GOP can equate Health Care Reform with Welfare...

ThomJeff

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Wednesday July 08, 2009 · 11:58 AM PDT

2009/07/08 · 11:58

Then they can also say Mission Accomplished. This is my biggest fear: That the "compromise" proposal will be a mishmash of plans and mandates that amounts to something that the GOP can successfully demonize by demagogueing the program by pitting those who pay for it against those who receive it.

ThomJeff

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Monday June 15, 2009 · 6:30 AM PDT

2009/06/15 · 06:30

I think the main problem with single-payer to a lot of Americans is their lack of understanding of how it would work. Here's a simple plan for consideration:

I'll have to start with a few rough numbers.

ThomJeff

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Monday March 30, 2009 · 4:49 PM PDT

2009/03/30 · 16:49

Yet more evidence of the liberal bias of the New York Times. From today's business section:

MSNBC is pretty much wall-to-wall politics with a roster to match — the obsessive Chris Matthews, the freakishly partisan Keith Olbermann and the reliably left-leaning Rachel Maddow.

"Obsessive" and "freakishly partisan"?

ThomJeff

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Tuesday March 03, 2009 · 10:23 AM PST

2009/03/03 · 10:23

Alas, 'tis true. Young Prince Steele, formerly of the Land of Mary, has suffered penance for naysaying the King of the Republicans (formerly of Hut), the Brobdingnagian Jabba himself.

Alas though, Jabba is loathe to forget such transgressions!

ThomJeff

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Friday February 27, 2009 · 2:59 PM PST

2009/02/27 · 14:59

When did Lou jump the shark? My wife and I were out for dinner and were in the pub section of a local restaurant last night and on one of the teevees CNN was on (without the sound). The banners and crawl items were hard to believe: "Freedom Under Assault" and the like. WTF?

ThomJeff

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Tuesday February 24, 2009 · 11:38 AM PST

2009/02/24 · 11:38

Cramer was on Hardball last night, joining in with his pals over at CNBC whining that Obama is rewarding bad behavior by helping at-risk homeowners keep their homes.

The U.S. should "help everybody", not just people who are defaulting on their mortgage, he complains.

ThomJeff

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Sunday February 22, 2009 · 12:50 PM PST

2009/02/22 · 12:50

During Alan Keyes' fact-free bizarre rant circulating around the internets, he says something that is truly worrisome (rough transcript):

(referring to the fake-Obama birth certificate story)

...neither do many of our military men, who are going to court to ask the question: "Do we have to obey a man who is not qualified under the Constitution?"

ThomJeff

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Sunday December 21, 2008 · 12:38 PM PST

2008/12/21 · 12:38

Much has been made (with good cause) of Warren's involvement in the Prop 8 battle in California; and with some of his comments in recent interviews equating same-sex marriage with marriage between adults and children and brother and sister.

In my opinion though, his Hannity-inspired comments about Michael Schiavo require more than just a "reasonable people can disagree" excuse. They really should require an apology if he his to be taken seriously from anyone outside his base.

ThomJeff

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Thursday September 25, 2008 · 10:10 AM PDT

2008/09/25 · 10:10

In February! (H/T Thom Hartmann)

Eliot Spitzer lays the whole problem out quite well in a February 14, 2008 column:

Predatory lending was widely understood to present a looming national crisis. This threat was so clear that as New York attorney general, I joined with colleagues in the other 49 states in attempting to fill the void left by the federal government. Individually, and together, state attorneys general of both parties brought litigation or entered into settlements with many subprime lenders that were engaged in predatory lending practices. Several state legislatures, including New York's, enacted laws aimed at curbing such practices.

More...

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Friday July 25, 2008 · 12:20 PM PDT

2008/07/25 · 12:20

On today's Today Show:

After leading with the 911 call from the grandmother of the missing toddler in Florida, they 2nd story was billed thusly:

The Big Stage
Barack Obama attracts a crowd of 200,000 in Germany, but why are some members of the U.S. Military not happy with his visit?

Huh?

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