Senate GOPers Newest Idea: A Billionaire's Stimulus Bill

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Tuesday September 14, 2010 · 6:36 PM PDT

2010/09/14 · 18:36

In case you haven't heard the latest in Republican hilarity, the Senate GOPers have a great idea. They want to pass a "Billionaire's Stimulus Bill".

You see, the Bush tax cuts passed in 2001 are scheduled to come to an end this year. While there is momentum to preserve the lower and middle class tax cuts for Americans struggling to make it day by day, there is also momentum to end the cuts for those making more than $250,000. Except Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader, who wants to pass ensure that our country's poor billionaires receive stimulus money this year.

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Sunday February 21, 2010 · 5:21 PM PST

2010/02/21 · 17:21

With the Supreme Court ruling in in Citizens United v. FEC ensuring unlimited corporate spending in elections due to their "corporate personhood", it seems to me that the conservative members of court, who proudly claim that they are "strict constructionists", envisioned that the founding fathers wrote the Constitution thinking that corporations = people. Right?

Going along with that thought, if that were truly corect, then what does that mean for some of our most beloved patriotic sayings? Was the Declaration of Independence written for WellPoint? Did Lincoln give the Gettysburg Address to honor big pharma? Well, if that were the case, then some of America's most endearing quotes take on a new and enlightened tone to them.

Just read:

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Sunday February 14, 2010 · 8:55 AM PST

2010/02/14 · 08:55

On this Valentine's Day, I have one simple question for you. What do you think you need in order to get married in the United States?

Love? Nah.

Commitment? Nope.

I'll give you a hint. You need two things.

Money and a full time job? Try again.

A pulse and a body temperature of 98.6? Well, you're getting closer now.

Turns out, none of those things are required in order to get married in this glorious United States of America. The only things you need to get married are a "pee-pee" and a "wee-wee".

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Sunday January 24, 2010 · 2:41 PM PST

2010/01/24 · 14:41

With the Supreme Court decision opening the financial floodgates of corporate cash on our American electoral system, let's imagine our country fifteen years from now. Here is a snippet of a news article from that time...

Breaking News Article from the AT&T-Verizon Times:

January 24, 2025.

Citigroup Washington DC - Today, the GM-Ford-Chevrolet Senate voted 100 - 0 on a Constitutional amendment changing the preamble to the Constitution to reflect, what WellPoint Senator Mitch McMollins (R) claims is a "better fit for IBM baseball, GE apple pie, and the Walmart American way!"

The new Preamble, which will be sent to the "states" for ratification, will now read:

We the corporations of the United States, in order to form a more perfect profit, establish acquisitions, insure unlimited domestic merges, limit consumer lawsuits, promote corporate bailout Welfare, and secure the blessings of financial advancement to ourselves and to our future shareholders, do ordain and establishing the Constitution for the United Corporations of America.

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Wednesday November 04, 2009 · 7:01 AM PST

2009/11/04 · 07:01

I really wanted a new wool pea coat. For a couple of years now, I've had my eye on it. I guess I like the navy feel to it, the color, the length. And it's time for me to purchase a new winter coat (although my old standby, with the shredded lining is still hanging in there!).

But I won't. Why? Because the aforementioned coat is being sold by L. L. Bean. A wonderful company that is based in Maine. And last night, Maine rejected equal civil rights for its gay and lesbian citizens by voting to repeal their gay marriage act. An act voted on by their legislators and signed into effect by their Governor John Baldacci. And now it's gone. Poof!

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Saturday October 31, 2009 · 7:10 AM PDT

2009/10/31 · 07:10

This coming Tuesday, two states, Maine and Washington, have the equal rights of their citizens up for a public vote. Both states have referendums on the equal rights of gay couples subject to the opinions of the masses, despite having gone through the legislative process in the states.

While I absolutely support voting, and believe truly in the power of the people, I have to ask if it's a good idea to put fundamental rights in the hands of citizens? Currently, it's the last bastion of the conservative right to fight any progress on my equality. Enough bigotry still exists in this country to deny a group of people the right to establish, maintain, and have recognized, a relationship with their same sex partner.

Well, instead of fighting this trend logically, I have an idea. Let's put up other people's equal rights up for a vote to give them the experience and see how they like it.

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Friday October 30, 2009 · 7:17 AM PDT

2009/10/30 · 07:17

Pat Robertson is heading into obscurity quickly, so I often don't spend any time contemplating his outdated, outmoded conservative fear-based politicizing. However, this story caught my eye. Pat Robertson "fears" that the new hate crime law "The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Bill" signed Wednesday by President Obama will have a chilling effect on "muzzling pastors in church".

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Saturday April 04, 2009 · 7:29 AM PDT

2009/04/04 · 07:29

I have an "acquaintance" who gets the biggest kick out of ethnic jokes. For anonymity sake, I'll call him "Tom". One that I received in my e-mail from Tom equated Muslim people with being terrorists, and ended with a playful romp of gunfire. Isn't that just a knee-slapper?

I could imagine this acquaintance reading this joke, with tears of laughter rolling down his face, or maybe it was a sly move to continue to promote harmful stereotypes that get in the way of any meaningful dialogue. In other words, better to sow division than encourage union.

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Thursday December 18, 2008 · 7:18 PM PST

2008/12/18 · 19:18

Liberal groups and Democrats are up in arms with the Obama's selection of the Rev. Rick Warren's participation in his Inauguration ceremony. As written by CNN:

Prominent liberal groups and gay rights proponents criticized President-elect Barack Obama Wednesday for choosing evangelical pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the presidential inauguration next month.

President-elect Barack Obama has chosen pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration.

Warren, one of the most influential religious leaders in the nation, has championed issues such as a reduction of global poverty, human rights abuses and the AIDS epidemic.

But the founder of the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, has also adhered to socially conservative stances -- including his opposition to gay marriage and abortion rights that puts him at odds with many in the Democratic Party, especially the party's most liberal wing.

"[It's] shrewd politics, but if anyone is under any illusion that Obama is interested in advancing gay equality, they should probably sober up now," Andrew Sullivan wrote on the Atlantic Web site Wednesday.

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Rev. Warren at the inauguration is...

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Rev. Warren at the inauguration is...

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neither good nor bad

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strategic thinking on Obama's part

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a great idea

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I have no opinion.

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Reverend who?

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A Letter for our Republican friends

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Monday November 10, 2008 · 5:24 PM PST

2008/11/10 · 17:24

Dear Republican friends and McCain voters,

Trust me, I understand your grief and sorrow at the recent presidential election. I felt the very same way one December night in 2000. The feelings you have right now have been shared by most Americans at one time or another. Know that you have found someone that shares in your worry, concern, and anxiety about what’s going to come in our country over the next four years. One of the blessings of being liberal is our capacity for empathy, and our ability reach out and comfort those who feel ostracized or forgotten. We work to create inclusive communities, and you are most welcome here.

First, I must reassure you that our country is in good hands. 53% of Americans have chosen as their leader a man of great integrity, intelligence, moral courage, and humility. I trust him implicitly with the task ahead; and, as we all know, it’s quite a task indeed. After eight (and you could argue twenty-eight) years of unregulated Republican rule, our country is in the proverbial toilet, our economy is in shatters, and our Constitution is in tatters and in need of serious Scotch tape.

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Sunday November 09, 2008 · 5:29 PM PST

2008/11/09 · 17:29

For the last eight years, our country has been bleak and desolate, run by men who have never once in their lives seen me. They’ve only seen their constituency, which are rich, white, conservative, religious, straight businessmen, only some of those category do I fit. The rest of us were merely obstacles to achieving their greatest goal: elevation of power and privilege for the few at the expense of the living and liberty of the many.

I was one of the crowd; one of the Invisibles, that no matter how many letters that I wrote, or how much money I gave to opposing causes, or even if I dared stand in front of them, none of it would make any impact. I was not seen, I was not heard.

But now, the darkened, coarsened halls of our American democracy have suddenly, and brilliantly, become light once again. The lantern? Held by one man, daring to challenge us and all of us to come back into the fold, back into system that discounted me. The light he carries is powered by hope.

Hope has come home.

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Tuesday November 04, 2008 · 5:51 AM PST

2008/11/04 · 05:51

No truer words have been said:

If you have to brave five hours lines today, bring a book to read, and vote.
If you only have fifteen minutes to get to the polls tonight, get into your car, drive like heck (safely, of course) and vote.
If you have to stand in the rain, bring an umbrella and wear old shoes, and vote.

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