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Rush Limbaugh: The Truth of Consequences
In 2012, Constitution, Federal Government, First Amendment, GOP, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Health Care Reform, Ideologies, L. Brent Bozell III, Legislation, Living, Mitt Romney, Political Punditry, Politics, Religious Right, Republicans, Rush Limbaugh, Special Interests, Tea Party, Women's Rights, Years on March 12, 2012 at 3:08 pm
Freedom of speech is one of the great founding principals of the United States. In fact, the First Amendment specifically prohibits limitations on speech by the Government, with very few exceptions. Rush Limbaugh is not one of those exceptions and he is forgetting the rule. Read the rest of this entry »
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The GOP Contraception Confrontation
In 2012, Campaign 2012, Christianity, Elections, Faiths, Fascism, GOP, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Ideologies, Islam, Legislation, Liberals, Living, Neo Conservatives, Politics, Religious Right, Republicans, Rick Santorum, Right to Life Movement, Special Interests, The Congress, The White House, Years on February 28, 2012 at 3:49 pm
The recent uproar about women’s rights and health care is a time machine back to the 1950’s.
Birth control has been a non-controversial issue for decades. At least it was until Newt Gingrich, in early February, latched on to the fact that the Obama administration announced in mid-January that it had mandated that birth control be covered at no co-pay as basic health care service by insurance providers.
It took a while for the GOP to take hold of the issue and blow it out of proportion. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Dead Billionaires Club – The Dead Can’t Vote, but Should They Give?
In 2011, ALEC, American Values, Americans for Tax Reform, Ann Coulter, Antiabortionists, Barack Obama, Birthers, Blackwater, Campaign 2012, CBS News, Dead Billionaires Club, Defense Contractors, Democrats, Elections, Fascism, Fox News, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, GOP, Grover Norquist, Health Care Reform, Ideologies, Jobs, John Boehner, Koch Brothers, L. Brent Bozell III, Legislation, Lobbyists, Media, Media Research Center, Neo Conservatives, New Media, NewsMax.com, Newspapers, Newt Gingrich, Occupy Wall Street, Organizations, Politics, Privatization, Religious Right, Richard Mellon Scaife, Ron Paul, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, Special Interests, Television News, The Congress, The House, The Law, The Senate, The White House, Totalitarianism, Unions, Voter Registration, Voting on December 13, 2011 at 11:17 am
If the dead can’t vote in Chicago, should they be allowed to influence politics from the grave in Pittsburgh and Denver and New York?
The Koch brothers may be the most visible part of the Dead Billionaires club, but they are not the only New Deal-hating Libertarian elites funding the dismantling of the government of the United States from within.
Obama and Dems Fail To Champion a Champion (Again)
In 2011, Ann Coulter, Barack Obama, Corporatocracy, Dead Billionaires Club, Democrats, Elizabeth Warren, Federal Government, Glenn Beck, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Health Care Reform, Ideologies, Koch Brothers, Legislation, Liberals, Libertarian, Living, Political Punditry, Politics, Republicans, Richard Mellon Scaife, The Congress, The White House on December 1, 2011 at 9:01 pm
In yet another stunning reversal, President Obama and many leaders in the Democratic Party have backed away from support of a true consumer champion.
In September it was Elizabeth Warren, then acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). This month it is Dr. Donald Berwick, acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). Read the rest of this entry »
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Impropriety, Thy Names Art Scalia and Thomas
In 2011, Corporatocracy, Dead Billionaires Club, Federal Government, Health Care Reform, Ideologies, Koch Brothers, Law, Legislation, Neo Conservatives, The Supreme Court on November 15, 2011 at 11:43 am
We really have to thank Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas for last Thursday’s enlightening lesson in Supreme Court hypocrisy. Just hours after considering whether to take on the review of the Health Care Reform Act, the pair were the guests of honor at an annual dinner of the conservative Federalist Society where one of the sponsors is the law firm arguing against health care reform. Most of the more prominent guests at the conservative organization lean heavily against the Health Care law. Read the rest of this entry »
Dissecting Right Wing Political Extremism
In 2011, American Values, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012, Constitution, Corporatocracy, Democrats, Elections, Federal Government, First Amendment, Fox News, George W. Bush, GOP, Health Care Reform, Ideologies, Legislation, Media Research Center, Neo Conservatives, Newt Gingrich, Politics, Republicans, Richard Mellon Scaife, States, Television News, The Congress, Years on May 22, 2011 at 1:15 pm
OPINION – Democrats stink at branding and messaging. They still live in the wonkish intellectual nirvana that somehow if we explain the societal benefits of policy to the American people, it will quell their fears and they will rise enlightened into a new age. Republicans embrace fear. They package and brand it in flavors and variations, like Oreos or spaghetti sauce. Fear sells their Sham-WOW politics. Back us and we can make America shiny and white again. Just follow us, folks. We’ll keep the bogeymen at bay. We’re the patriots. The morally correct. The true Americans. It is not dissimilar from the kind of advertising that the cigarette industry used to sell cancer to kids for generations. Read the rest of this entry »
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Health Care Repeal: In Politics, Sometimes The Customer Is Not Always Right
In Barack Obama, Big Insurance, Big Pharma, CNN, Corporatocracy, Democrats, GOP, Health Care Reform, Ideologies, John McCain, Legislation, Republicans, Tea Party, The Congress, The House, The Senate on March 23, 2010 at 9:00 am
If Gallup had existed in Colonial times, we would still be saluting the British flag. At any time of great consequence in our nation’s history, our leaders have led, not governed by opinion polls.
Republicans, in the post-Health Care Reform era, still keep pandering to the crowd.
Mr. Boehner, I Am the American People Too, and You Don’t Speak for Me
In Health Care Reform, John Boehner, Politics, Republicans, The Congress, The House on March 22, 2010 at 5:50 am
“The American people have spoken.” That has been the mantra of John Boehner and the Republicans for weeks. Yes, the American people have spoken, Mr. Boehner, but I am one of them, and I can tell you it is not your voice, or your Neolithic point-of-view, that speaks for me, or a lot of other Americans.
Barack Obama & The Nine-Headed Serpent of D.C.
In 2010, ABC News, Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, Big Insurance, Big Pharma, Big Three Auto Makers, Bill O'Reilly, Bureaucracy, CBS News, CNN, Corporate-controlled Media, Corporatocracy, D.C., Democrats, Federal Government, Fox News, Glenn Beck, GOP, Health Care Reform, Keith Olbermann, Legislation, Lobbyists, MSNBC, NBC News, Partisan News, PBS, Political Punditry, Politics, Rachel Maddow, Radio News, Republicans, Right Wing Talk Radio, Rush Limbaugh, Sirius/XM POTUS, Television News, The Congress, The Federal Reserve, The House, The Public, The Senate, The Supreme Court, The White House, Timothy Geithner, Wall Street, Washington Press Corps on January 11, 2010 at 11:40 am
President Obama’s stab at changing government is a lot like Heracles’ famed battle with the Hydra of Lerna, a nine-headed serpent with poisonous breath. Every time Mr. Obama proposes cutting off one head of a foe of change, two more grow back. The worst part is that many of the heads are found in his own government.
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