During the 2010 election, Republicans promised to not just repeal the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare), but to replace it with with some fairly specific things: allowing insurance companies to sell health insurance across state lines (increasing competition), tort reform (reducing malpractice insurance costs for doctors), and expanding health savings accounts (shielding money spent on health […]
Four years ago, at the tender age of 13, Jonathan Krohn gave a speech at the CPAC conference and became the darling of conservatives. He went on to write a book “Defining Conservatism” that was talked about by people like Newt Gingrich and Bill Bennett. But earlier this month, Krohn gave an interview where he […]
© Clay Bennett Every time it snows, I hear some politician make fun of global warming. But for some reason they are being awfully quiet now. The point is that specific events of unusually warm or cold weather are not necessarily a symptom of climate change (weather is not the same as climate). But the […]
© Jerry Holbert Everybody knows that taxes are things that only Democrats do! If a Republican does it, then it must be a penalty.
The NY Times has a fascinating inside look at how Super-PACs work, how the Democrats are playing catch-up against the Republicans. And why they have to catch up, even though they at a huge disadvantage. [The disadvantage comes from] the Democratic Party’s greater struggle with its prim self-perception. From the perspective of many Democrats, this […]
The next time Romney tries to blame Obama for disappointing job numbers, someone should remind him of what he said at a press conference in 2006 to reporters who were trying to hold him accountable for disappointing job creation numbers from his time as governor: You guys are bright enough to look at the numbers. […]
© Tom Tomorrow The ironic thing about all this is that we’ve had this fight before. The American Revolution was as much a fight against the original multinational corporations as it was against the British government. After all, one of the most famous events in the run up to the revolution was the Boston Tea […]
Ronald Reagan famously said “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem”. But I think he got it slightly wrong: Romney seems to be making a career of complaining about things he helped cause. So I would claim that Republicans are not the solution to our problem; Republicans are the problem.
A fascinating opinion piece in the Boston Globe really resonated with me. It discusses how Mitt Romney seems to be unwilling to pin himself down on any issue, and even if he sort-of does, he’s willing to change his tune depending on who is paying him to fiddle. From his response to the Supreme Court […]
The Romney campaign draws some Venn Diagrams, proving that they don’t understand how Venn Diagrams work: This is how a Venn Diagram works: Besides, everyone knows why unemployment is still high — Republicans have sabotaged the economy over and over again. They filibustered the American Jobs Act, stonewalled the stimulus, threatened a US default (and […]
Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Carol Aichele repeatedly claimed that 99% of Pennsylvania voters had a photo ID that would allow them to vote. But now that they passed their voter ID law, Aichele’s department did a cross check of the voter registration rolls against the database of people with state ID (typically driver’s licenses). […]
© Ben Sargent And this doesn’t even include the fact that the Affordable Care Act was pretty much their idea in the first place.
You may not be able to buy justice, but you can buy a few justices. One of the things overlooked in most of the reporting about the Supreme Court’s decision on ObamaCare is that the lead plantiff (and sole source of legal funds) in the case was the National Federation for Independent Businesses (NFIB), which […]
“I could not wait to start using my Obamacare. Today, I swallowed a fist full of birth control pills and then washed it down with poison. What do I care, it’s free!” – Bill Maher “What was really so hard for the conservatives to swallow was that Justice John Roberts was the one that did […]
© Ruben Bolling If the four conservative Supreme Court justices had their way, I think this would have been the largest abuse of “Judicial Activism” in the history of the world! Or at least since the Citizen’s United decision.
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