The conservative propaganda machine is going full tilt trying to turn the American people against health care reform before it goes into effect on Tuesday and people have a chance to actually benefit from it. How desperate are they? Pretty freaking desperate I’d say. This week, conservatives keep repeating the lie that Warren Buffett just […]
Just a few months ago, in July, the Republican Deputy Whip in the House said the following: It seems to me there’s appropriate ways to deal with the law, but shutting down the government to get your way over an unrelated piece of legislation is the political equivalent of throwing a temper tantrum, it is […]
PolitiFact has been doing fact checking about Obamacare since 2009. Here are their top 16 myths and lies about the law (full explanations at the link). The law rations health care, like systems in Canada and Great Britain. False. (Florida Governor Rick Scott on Fox News.) It has “death panels.” Pants on Fire. (Sarah Palin […]
© Tony Auth The Republicans have painted themselves into a corner. They know that once Obamacare is implemented, people will like it. More people will have health coverage. You won’t have to change insurance companies (and often doctors) when you change jobs, and will be able to get health insurance even if you quit your […]
Paul Waldman has an excellent article in The American Prospect, “The Finger of Blame Points Only One Way“. It points out why Republican efforts to convince Americans that a government shutdown would be Obama’s fault are doomed to fail. His main point is that everybody knows that the Republican party is the one that hates […]
How fractured has the Republican Party become? Yesterday, Republicans announced that they are giving in to their anarchist fringe, and will shut down the government if Democrats don’t agree to defund Obamacare. Today, the Turd Blossom of George W Bush’s presidency, Karl Rove, has published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that calls this […]
Sadly and predictably, the entire contingent of House Republicans from Colorado asked (practically begged) the federal government for emergency funding in the wake of massive flooding in Colorado, but they all voted against emergency relief for Superstorm Sandy victims on the East Coast just a few months ago. The same Republicans also signed a letter […]
© Matt Bors Sometimes I think the pundits are trying to make up for the fact that 10 years ago they were pressing their lips against the neo-cons’ asses so hard they couldn’t see what a disaster Iraq was going to be. This time around, they are critical of everything. Like, OMG, we found a […]
© Tony Auth You heard it here first, folks. The Republicans will never kill Obamacare. In fact, if they were even the least bit serious about getting rid of it, they would have proposed and promoted some kind of alternative. But they have not, because they realize that there is no point. The only point […]
It makes me sick to read about televangelist (and former presidential candidate) Pat Robertson scamming hundreds of millions of dollars from followers to supposedly save lives after the crisis in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) in 1994. Instead, very little of that money was used for aid, with a large part […]
© Joel Pett I’ve been wondering when someone would point out the utter ludicrousness of right wingers claiming that Obamacare was going to force businesses to lay off employees and cut benefits. Like, did they think we wouldn’t notice that they’ve been doing that for years without Obamacare? Not to mention that just threatening to […]
The Daily Show points out that if the police are going to stop and frisk anyone who looks suspicious, they are leaving out a very significant group of criminals.
Bradley Manning has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for being a whistleblower. The prosecution argued for a 60 year sentence, specifically to make an example of him to deter others from leaking classified information. Ironically, the example they are actually making is that being a whistleblower is considered as bad as being an […]
We have been reassured repeatedly that the three branches of government all have exercised extensive and rigorous oversight over the NSA spying program. Obama repeated this claim just last week: As President, I’ve taken steps to make sure they have strong oversight by all three branches of government and clear safeguards to prevent abuse and […]
As some of you know, The Pirate Party is a real political party in Sweden, which is loosely associated with the file sharing site The Pirate Bay. But right now, Sweden is cracking down on copyright violations, subjecting file sharers to massive fines and even imprisonment. So it will not surprise anyone here to read […]
Abortion Bush Campaign Finance Cheney Climate Clinton Congress Conservatives Corporations Corruption Deficits Democrats Drugs Economy Education Election Elections Energy Environment Fox News Gays Guns Health Immigration Lies McCain Media Middle East Obama Palin Protests Racism Religion Republicans Romney Spying Supreme Court Taxes Tea Party Terrorism Terrorists Torture Trump Unemployment War
