MRC: Steve Skvara brought this on himself

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Thursday August 09, 2007 · 12:22 PM PDT

2007/08/09 · 12:22

Maybe I'm just tired, but watching this here at my desk just now made me start to cry:

Emotional Question From Audience Member On Health Care

To see what people were saying on the subject, I blogsearched the guy's name (Steve Skvara) and found this from an outfit called the MRC:

Poll

63 votes Show Results

I will support universal health insurance only once

63 votes Vote Now!

I will support universal health insurance only once

something horrible happens to ME

1 vote

something horrible happens to MY kids

0 votes

something horrible happens to MY wife

0 votes

something horrible happens to MY mom

0 votes

something horrible happens to MY dad

0 votes

something horrible happens to MY brother

0 votes

something horrible happens to MY sister

0 votes

None of the above--I care about all Americans

62 votes

TAX CUTS: Can Bush buy friends with $11?

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Wednesday May 03, 2006 · 8:06 AM PDT

2006/05/03 · 08:06

Dubya is once again promising More Money in Yer Pocket!^TM with a whole bunch of tax cuts, including the capital gains and dividends tax cut, which was set to expire in 2008 but will now run through 2010. Here's Scooter McClellan ("Still here!") explaining how they hope this money will help with your gas woes:

"Particularly at a time when Americans are paying more at the pump, the president believes the last thing they need is for Washington to take more of their hard-earned dollars out of their pockets."

Now, some of you working stiffs out there might be thinking, "That's funny, I don't remember paying anything called capital gains and dividends tax." That's because you probably didn't. See the big blue bar in the graph below? That's not you. Read More

Kill the Budget Bill! (The House Votes TOMORROW)

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Tuesday January 31, 2006 · 2:13 PM PST

2006/01/31 · 14:13

Okay, this is my third time typing this because apparently I am a "moron" who can't work the new-fangled "technology." But if I can type it 3 times, you can read it once.

The 2006 Budget is up for vote again tomorrow in the House. Everybody's all geeked about the Superbowl of Talking Points (State of the Union) and nobody's talking about the Worst. Budget. Ever. It passed the House 212-206 before the holidays, but the Senate changed some stuff and now the House has to vote again for all the marbles. This budget can be killed. And should be. Read E.J. Dionne today if you need some background.

Two Republican moderates who voted for it last time have just come out against it (Schwarz from Michigan and SImmons from Connecticut). A lot of them are already in the hotseat on this--so make the hotseat hotter. This is a bipartisan effort and it is winnable and you should tell your damn Representative that you're mad as hell and not going to take it anymore: http://action.voiceshub.org/campaign/2006spendingbill Read More

Howard Dean, tellin' it like it is.

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Wednesday December 07, 2005 · 7:30 AM PST

2005/12/07 · 07:30

Howard Dean is questioning whether we can win the war. (Didn't we already win it?) But seriously, this takes balls. Now, predictably, talk radio wingnuts are screaming "hang the traitor," some Democrats are distancing themselves from him, and Republicans are smearing him:

RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman:

"[Dean's] outrageous prediction sends the wrong message to our troops, the enemy and the Iraqi people..."

And the President:

President George W. Bush [called] him a pessimist trying to score political points. "I know we're going to win, and our troops need to hear not only that they are supported but that we have got a strategy that will win," said Bush.

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Monday November 21, 2005 · 7:31 AM PST

2005/11/21 · 07:31

Tired of talking points from the Pentagon's top brass, Virginia's John Warner, a Republican who thinks for himself, invited some lower-ranking officers to tell him what's really going on in Iraq. Guess what?

"...the Army and Marine officers were blunt. In contrast to the Pentagon's stock answer that there are enough troops on the ground in Iraq, the commanders said that they not only needed more manpower but also had repeatedly asked for it. Indeed, military sources told TIME that as recently as August 2005, a senior military official requested more troops but got turned down flat."

We're not giving the troops what they need to win. Read More

Twenty Suitcase Bombs

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Monday November 07, 2005 · 11:19 AM PST

2005/11/07 · 11:19

Iraq gets a too much damn ink. The constitution, elections, exit strategy, how prepared are the Iraqis, should we stay, should we go (if we stay there will be trouble, if we go it will be double)... these questions are vitally important to Iraq's future. But what about our future?

The real scandal since 9/11 isn't anything Dick Cheney ordered Scooter Libby to do to Valerie Plame, or anything we've done in Iraq. The real scandal is what we haven't done. Like train intelligence officers to speak Arabic. Secure our borders. Take steps to actually make airports safer. Update the FBI's woefully outdated computers. (Do you realize how much progress the FBI has made on the very tools that we use to catch terrorists in the U.S? None.) Read More

Embarrass Your Republican Senator! (Take Action!!!)

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Tuesday October 11, 2005 · 8:07 AM PDT

2005/10/11 · 08:07

Maybe we need to phrase the question this way: "Why do you hate Americans who are poor? Why do you want their children to die and starve?"

I'm trying to come up with a good way to embarrass House and Senate Republicans into not cutting Medicaid and Food Stamps. Here we are, a few short weeks after Katrina, and they're planning to use budget reconciliation to slam through $13 billion in cuts -- a $10 billion cut to Medicaid and up to a 3 billion cut to Food Stamps. 20 million children will have more difficulty seeing a doctor when they're sick, and 300,000 (at a minimum) would lose Food Stamps.

In the wake of Katrina, we should be able to build momentum to stop these cuts. You can embarrass people into doing the right thing sometimes. McCain did, eventually, get 90 Senators to agree that Americans shouldn't condone torture EVER. Read More

Huckabee Compares Democrats to Nazis [UPDATE - with video]

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Sunday September 25, 2005 · 9:07 PM PDT

2005/09/25 · 21:07

Link to original blog post and related follow-up

I'll be leaving this topic for now (I'm not on some crusade to bring down Mike Huckabee) with a final observation that I made to someone who said I've done this "at the expense of my credibility" and it is this:

Let's see whether he'll *continue* to use the Holocaust as a cautionary tale to underline the importance of defeating Democrats.

The Yad Vashem closer seemed quite effective at getting Republican activists fired up to "help candidates who believe like you believe!" and not to "sit back and allow people to take our country from us."

So why not keep using it? If I'm so wrong, if that analogy is so appropriate, and if no one will object, why not keep using it?

We'll see how off base I am.

Dubya: The New Comeback Kid

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Wednesday September 14, 2005 · 3:54 PM PDT

2005/09/14 · 15:54

I think maybe Bush will come out of this okay because of his "I take responsibility" move. Since he's never owned up to an error before, the shock factor will jolt his defectors back in line ["See? Poor guy. He's a good man. A good man. He took resposibility."] Read More

Bush has a bedtime

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Monday September 12, 2005 · 9:59 AM PDT

2005/09/12 · 09:59

On the Monday night when the levees broke, President Bush he had a pretty big problem at work, and millions of people were depending on him. But, in a display of his legendary personal discipline, he hung his worries on the door knob and got his 8 hours...

FULL POST AFTER THE JUMP

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Thursday September 08, 2005 · 11:19 AM PDT

2005/09/08 · 11:19

Accountability has been officially renamed: the blame game. The media has officially adopted it. Even lefties are saying it. Rove must be ecstatic.

But here's the thing, Karl: When thousands of people die unnecessarily, blame demands to be assigned. It's not a game. Reviewing mistakes and assigning blame is due diligence following the unnecessary mass death of fellow Americans.

To refuse to engage in that process is shameful. And to spin that process into nothing more than a "game" dishonors the dead. Read More

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MRC: Steve Skvara brought this on himself

TAX CUTS: Can Bush buy friends with $11?

Kill the Budget Bill! (The House Votes TOMORROW)

Howard Dean, tellin' it like it is.

Iraq Uncensored: Disposable Heroes

Twenty Suitcase Bombs

Embarrass Your Republican Senator! (Take Action!!!)

Huckabee Compares Democrats to Nazis [UPDATE - with video]

Dubya: The New Comeback Kid

Bush has a bedtime

Stop Playing the Name Game