© Matt Wuerker Ironically, the rollout of Health Care Reform (AKA Obamacare) is one of the things that will not be affected much by a government shutdown.
In a new Quinnipiac poll released today, American voters overwhelmingly reject the Republican strategy of holding the government hostage in order to block implementation of Obamacare. They oppose 72 to 22 percent Congress shutting down the federal government. Even self identified Republicans are divided on the issue, supporting the shutdown by 47 percent with 44 […]
© Adam Zyglis Even some Republicans are standing up to Ted Cruz and his efforts to shut down the government. Which is difficult for them, since right-wing groups have punished severely any GOP politician who dares to vote the same way as Obama (even on a health care bill that was originally a conservative idea). […]
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Well, it looks like the conservatives are going to get the government shutdown they want. In fact, they are already celebrating. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann says “We’re very excited. It’s exactly what we wanted, and we got it.” She believes that the GOP will be rewarded for standing firm in their demands. “People will be very […]
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Further evidence that the fight over health care reform is more of a referendum on Obama, and not really about health care. CNBC did another poll asking people for their opinion of health care reform, but they did something interesting. “In CNBC’s third-quarter All-America Economic Survey, we asked half of the 812 poll respondents if […]
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Friday, September 27, 2013
Sometimes I have mixed feelings about Senator John McCain, but sometimes I really love him. This is one of those latter times. Full transcript here. And of course, Jon Stewart has something to say about the same thing that McCain is upset about — Ted Cruz comparing himself to Churchill and Obama to Neville Chamberlain.
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013
It is not very often that a financial story comes along that requires referencing the Einstein’s theory of relativity to explain, but we have finally come to this. One week ago, the Fed made an important surprise announcement — that it would not be reducing its bond buying program. The result of this announcement was […]
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Monday, September 23, 2013
© John Deering The GOP actually has a website where they explain why they are opposed to Obamacare. Interestingly, it was published in March 2011 (over two years ago) so we can check on some of their claims. For example, did you know that the individual mandate is unconstitutional? Unfortunately for the GOP, the Supreme […]
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Sunday, September 22, 2013
Juan Cole has posted a most excellent rant about the GOP, entitled “I lived to See the Day when the Pope and the President of Iran are more doctrinally Flexible than the GOP“. You really should go read the whole thing as it is short and to the point. But if you won’t go read […]
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Sunday, September 22, 2013
The CIA has for the first time publicly admitted that it and the British MI6 were behind the 1953 coup that overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran and installed the hated Shah of Iran, who ruled as dictator for 26 years until overthrown by the 1979 Islamic revolution. Why did we do it? […]
Friday, September 20, 2013
Headline in the NY Times: Pope Says Church Is ‘Obsessed’ With Gays, Abortion and Birth Control Six months into his papacy, Pope Francis sent shock waves through the Roman Catholic church on Thursday with the publication of his remarks that the church had grown “obsessed” with abortion, gay marriage and contraception, and that he had […]
Thursday, September 19, 2013
House Republicans say “This is the line in the sand.” House Speaker John Boehner has given in to the radical fringe of his party who say they will shut down the government unless Democrats agree to repeal healthcare reform. So here is the choice they are demanding: If Obamacare is repealed, people will die. If […]
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
© Barry Deutsch I’ve often commented about the idiocy of comparing the federal budget to a typical family budget. But I had to post this comic because of the last panel. Indeed, some politicians are proposing exactly that — to steal our elders’ Social Security insurance money. Who would ever suggest such a thing?
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Special extra bonus — Maher invents a brilliant new word:
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