Morning Must Reads: Pledge

Why does the GOP seem to think they need a “Pledge” when they have moronic spokespersons like O’Donnell and Palin motivating their base and hogging media attention?

If the Democrats want to compete on the road to the midterms, they’ve got to make their pledge – to be a little more insane.

Here’s how it would look:

Stop Making Sense

Great column from E.J. Dionne on the Tea Party:

Yes, there is a lot of discontent in America. But that discontent is better represented by the moderate voters who expressed quiet disillusionment to President Obama at the CNBC town hall meeting on Monday than by Tea Party ideologues who proclaim the unconstitutionality of the New Deal and everything since.
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The Tea Party drowns out such voices because it has money — some of it from un-populist corporate sources, as Jane Mayer documented last month in the New Yorker — and has used modest numbers strategically in small states to magnify its impact.
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Just recently, Tea Party victories in the Alaska and Delaware Senate primaries shook the nation. In Delaware, Christine O’Donnell received 30,563 votes in the Republican primary, 3,542 votes more than moderate Rep. Mike Castle. In Alaska, Joe Miller won 55,878 votes for a margin of 2,006 over incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who is now running as a write-in candidate.
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For weeks now, our national political conversation has been driven by 86,441 voters and a margin of 5,548 votes. A bit of perspective: When John McCain lost in the 2008 presidential race, he received 59.9 million votes.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/22/AR2010092204321.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

I love that healthcare reform is now one of their pledges. After all of last year’s attempts to get them into the process, to get them involved in crafting legislation, the concessions that were made to help get their support and get them to sit at the table and participate in good faith, NOW they want to do something about healthcare. Can anyone now argue with a straight face that Republicans were doing anything other than trying to prevent anything substantial from happening with healthcare last year?

“The National Review’s editors are on board;”

The magazine is NOT named The National Review. The magazine is National Review. There ain’t no “The” there.

I have seen this repeated hundreds (thousands?) of times by members of the Washington/New York/American/Arab press corps. Is there a single leftist in that group of thousands who knows the correct name of that magazine?

Is there a single leftist in that group of thousands who knows the correct name of that magazine?
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Probably about the same number as the number of RW members that know that the correct name is the Democratic Party, NOT the Democrat Party.
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“Sauce for the goose”, as it were…

“The” is the initial word in this sentence, and as such is capitalized. There is nothing wrong in prefacing the name of any publication with the definite article, particularly when starting a sentence with that name.

I agree! The first word of a sentence should never be capitalized.

as of this moment I will now change the way I write. as such, I’ve decided to no longer capitalize the letters at the beginning of my sentences. please join me in this cause by replying your support. thanks. have a good day. the National Review is now safe! rejoice!

“echoes of Cheney”

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/clock-stoppers/

“‘The’ is the initial word in this sentence, and as such is capitalized. There is nothing wrong in prefacing the name of any publication with the definite article, particularly when starting a sentence with that name.”

The Time magazine’s editors are …. FAIL.

The Situation is on Dancing with the Stars. PASS.

I know, I know. It’s horrible when the media misidentifies someone:

I’ve never checked out your little links before.

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Ooooookay……..I feel like I have returned from Wonderland.

“Why does the GOP seem to think they need a “Pledge”
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Could it be they are tired of hearing the Democrats lie they haven’t proposed anything.?

And since the voters got snookered with “voting for change”, the electorate may want to hear more specifics instead of voting blindly and then being horrified with the result.

“For weeks now, our national political conversation has been driven by 86,441 voters and a margin of 5,548 votes.”

It is exactly that ignorant arrogant perception that has Obama falling and Demos running for cover.

Afguy

I know the meaning of the term Democratic and it ain’t that party.

Here to echo chupkar…

… you’re crazy …

Going back to an old familiar Democratic playbook- race baiting. Loretta Sanchez warning Hispanics that Republicans and Vietnamese are trying to take “their seat”. Calling her opponent anti-immigrant. And the left makes fun of Palin. Sanchez was born in the US, her opponent was born in Vietnam and immigrated here.
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The smell of desperation is in the air.

http://bigjournalism.com/llyman/2010/09/22/loretta-sanchez-the-queen-of-identity-politics-warns-hispanic-voters-the-vietnamese-are-coming-for-her-seat/

The Republican plan is almost all ethos and pathos, with very little logos. They establish their moral superiority then assume the posture of economic expert — which they gained at their car dealership in the mid-west — then they proceed to work away at people’s emotions, putting forth a plan which essentially says, let’s add another 4 trillion to the debt, in the name of fiscal responsibility, without providing any evidence supporting it as a good way to create jobs or lower the debt.

“Mr. President the private sector is not hiring, the stimulus is the only thing creating jobs at the moment.

What do the Republicans think I should do?

They want you to remove the last source of demand in the economy and add several more trillion to the debt. They are very angry and insist that it be done, immediately, for moral reasons.”

We will also make sure, Textee to address you as Virtual Village Idiot of Swampland instead of The Village Idiot of time.

THIS IS DEFIANTLY A MORNING MUST READ

BIGGEST STORY EVER

Busted!! Ground Zero Imam Exposed Off-Mic!

http://conservativeblogscentral.blogspot.com/2010/09/busted-ground-zero-imam-exposed-off-mic.html

Also if we called Textee The Virtual Village Idiot of Swampland, Rusty and Freakinpa would lose their standing as fellow idiots.
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BTW: Freak, what part of running for office with ideas to improve things is against the principals of democracy?

A John Kerry redux:

John Kerry notoriously was in favor of an Iraq War funding bill before he was against it. But this group has one-upped him. For the record, the five Democrats are: Ohio’s Mary Jo Kilroy, Pennsylvania’s Kathy Dahlkemper, Maryland’s Frank Kratovil, Nevada’s Dina Titus, and Virginia’s Glenn Nye.
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I wonder if EJ Dionne really believes its a small group pushing the agenda of small government.
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Look out desperation here comes panic on the the outside.

You’re right, Freakinpa, if she were a Republican she would, instead of saying that her opponent has anti-Latino leanings, have the Immigration and Naturalization Service take him away and deport him in the middle of the night.

“Can anyone now argue with a straight face that Republicans were doing anything other than trying to prevent anything substantial from happening with healthcare last year?”

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Yes we can. Quite eloquently as a matter of fact. We can argue exactly what Americans now know as a fact the so-called reforms generated by a completely controlled House, Senate, and the Presidency passed a type of reform the people out in middle America knew was wrong.
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Instead of listening to those in the Senate for example, who wanted to pass legislation (Dorgan Amendment) to cut the COST of drugs, the Dems all voted it down.
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Instead of passing a reform package which required COMPETITION and the use of the free market system we have in our country, again the Demwits VOTED IT DOWN.
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Instead of passing real regulatory reform on the insurance companies, the DEMWITS voted it down. They instead came up with “Cornhusker Kick-Backs” and the “Louisiana Purchase – Buy-out” for one of their more vulnerable Demwit Senators.
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Instead of passing tort reform which has been PROVEN to work, and drive down the cost of healthcare insurance, the Demwits in control of Congress passed legislation which will now cause the price of healthcare insurance to go up to as much as 45%.
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The list goes on and on for all of the cost cutting measures. Yea, anyone with even a few brain cells in their head know how Americans were SCREWED by the Democrats of Washington, and all of you LIBTARDS who could only see golden spires into the sky hoping for your gaggle of corrupt progressives to actually do reform, but actually SCREWED us as usual.

“Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general of the Troubled Assets Relief Program, recently estimated that the federal government would need to sell its common stock holdings in General Motors for a little less than $134 per share in order to recoup its investment in the iconic car company”

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A level that GM has never traded. Chances of taxpayers breaking even. Slim and none and Slim is leaving town.

” what part of running for office with ideas to improve things is against the principals of democracy?”
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Oh I don’t know how about taking over industries or forcing people to buy things they may not want— just for starters

Wasting your time and breath on these libtards here in the swamp, redstate.
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They could have a muslim sword ready to come crashing down on their neck to cut off their head, and they would STILL defend these terrorists just so they can get back at the rest of us for not supporting a terrorist like the Ground Zero Mosque Imam.

John Kerry’s very long pre-vote speech
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October 9, 2002
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“…Most importantly, it is a time when international institutions must rise to the occasion and seek new authority and a new measure of respect.

In approaching the question of this resolution, I wish the timing were different. I wish for the sake of the country we were not here now at this moment. There are legitimate questions about that timing…”
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He makes many references preferring UN approval before going, however as a Senator does not have a choice but a ye or no vote.
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http://www.c-span.org/vote2004/kerryspeech.asp
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It was not taken before the UN until February 05, 2003.
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Since, most Republicans seem to forget that the United States is not the only country in the world and that the CIA is not the only intelligence service in the world (arguably taking third place behind the Israeli Mossad and English MI-6 with Israel supporting an attack against Iraq under all circumstances and not sharing intelligence with the US and the famous Downing Street Memo showing that MI-6 did not believe Bush’s intelligence) Kerry’s vote was in before he could take it back.

Patrick,
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You’re sick.

“Oh I don’t know how about taking over industries”
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Like in TARP part one George W Bush did?
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I guess George W Bush was screaming liberal RINO by Tea Party standards.
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“.. or forcing people to buy things they may not want— just for starters..” Like the federal government requires employers to have workers compensation insurance as states first required companies to do even before the Civil War?
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In that case the Republican Party is anti-democratic, too.

Dessert: One in five Americans…

Umm…you’re stepping on my line. I guess it’s no problem, since I haven’t brought dessert in a while.

What did I miss?

“Is that really helpful?”

(ad is from Palin-backed Renee Ellmers)

And the GOP’s War on Your Reproductive System continues.

“Now at least six Tea Party-backed statewide GOP candidates—Nevada’s Sharron Angle, Delaware’s Christine O’Donnell, Colorado’s Ken Buck, Kentucky’s Rand Paul, Alaska’s Joe Miller, and New York’s Carl Paladino—back this absolutist stand.

That’s twice the number of GOP Senate candidates who are broadly pro-choice this year—Illinois’ Mark Kirk, Connecticut’s Linda McMahon, and Oregon’s James Huffman. And it’s telling that Mike Castle and Lisa Murkowski—two centrist GOP candidates who were RINO-hunted in closed primaries—were both pro-choice.

It’s worth pointing out the obvious hypocrisy given the Tea Party’s views of government—it’s hard to imagine a more direct imposition on individual freedom than for the state to force a girl to carry her rapist’s baby for nine months. It’s even crueler if that baby is her father’s child.

When Sharron Angle was asked explicitly about just such a scenario in a radio interview unearthed by Sam Stein of the Huffington Post, she said, ‘I think that two wrongs don’t make a right’ and went on to advocate turning “a lemon situation into lemonade.’”

3X,
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Despite deportations of illegal immigrants occurring more under Obama than under Bush the Tea Party and Republicans wanting to have police walk away from rape, murder, child molestation, burglary, drug and organized crime investigations to make sure that they catch an undocumented worker washing dishes or cutting the lawn in Arizona (since the only way an Arizona PD can get sued if the law was constitutional would have been if they failed to investigate immigrants, not one other crime I listed they would, to protect themselves drop everything for such investigations) is fine, but extrapolating that if there were an i not dotted or a t not crossed on an immigration form that a person could be deported is sick?
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That same government you despise who sends letters and and threatens to take money from people’s bank accounts for not paying taxes due to not dotting an i or crossing a t (or the equivalent thereof, of course) does the same thing in ICE, too.
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In both cases, honest tax payers who deal with such errors can get things resolved, often without hiring an attorney as can honest legal immigrants, but, ICE does grab people in the night, find out that it is just a minor administrative error and return the legal immigrant in some cases.
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The difference is, when the IRS freezes bank accounts of honest tax payers, the right wing goes insane and makes it national news while when ICE makes such mistakes it is not taken up by Fox and the right wing and makes the back pages of the New York Times.
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You support people think working in a country you don’t have the legal right to work in is worse than murder, rape, organized crime and child molestation and then call me “sick”.
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BTW: I was kidding. Not all Republicans are that evil – just some.

Murkowski stays in committee, for now*.

“Her fellow Republicans held off Wednesday from punishing Sen. Lisa Murkowski, allowing her to keep her post as the ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee even though they’re unhappy she’s still in the Alaska Senate race as a write-in candidate.

The full Senate Republican conference met Wednesday afternoon in a closed-door session to decide her fate. Murkowski, who has remained in Alaska to campaign, was not at the meeting. Republicans didn’t vote on the matter; instead, they decided not to take any action and allowed Murkowski to remain as the top Republican on the committee for now.

They did, however, find a replacement for her within the Republican leadership ranks: Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. Murkowski resigned Friday from her No. 5 spot within the Republican conference when she announced she would take on Republican Joe Miller and Democrat Scott McAdams in a write-in campaign to hold onto the Senate seat.”

(*after how many calls from energy sector lobbyists, I wonder)

Wrong, the US government is likely to make a modest profit for tax payers.
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“Treasury is expected to take a loss on the first share offering, although subsequent offerings of the government’s holding may be profitable…”
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“.. sources have said.GM has already returned $6.7 billion in unused aid to the government and has paid roughly $700 million in interest and dividends. The government also holds $2.1 billion in preferred shares, reducing the balance owed to roughly $40 billion.”
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68K4J720100923
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You, or your original source really cherry picked that story. I guess that’s why you didn’t provide a link.

Not all Dems are lacking enthusiasm.

“On Tuesday, in a break with tradition, our local Democratic group voted to open a headquarters in a rented storefront on the town square as a campaign headquarters.

Ordinarily, both Republicans and Democrats here rent a storefront only in Presidential election years.

It’s an unusually aggressive posture for the local Democrats, who are in the minority here, and generally very low-key and accommodating people.”

Rasmussen, salt, Part the Second.

“The generic ballot, from Pollster, with the ever-red Rasmussen dropped…”

“Like in TARP part one George W Bush did”
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Exactly. Difference. Bush is gone and Obama has used it as a slush fund for other takeovers .

Workers Comp? Price of hiring an employee. The employer doesn’t need to have workers comp on the employees spouse and children HC is equivalent to a Head Tax for being born and re-distributes wealth.

Rev Jim clueless again just as Sanchez. Keep defending the race baiting. Your idiot response just reinforces how irrelevant anything you say is.

Redstate expects us to read through a very long conservative blog all day in order to find the article he thinks is important.
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Maybe this is what you wanted to tell us:
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“(Sept. 14) — Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is in some hot water today that’s shockingly unrelated to Park51, aka the ground zero mosque, formerly known as Cordoba House. The town of Union City, N.J., filed a lawsuit today against the imam, charging he is a terrible, law-breaking slumlord, the Newark Star-Ledger reports.

Rauf owns two apartment buildings and has not addressed a range of tenant complaints, from moldy bathrooms to lack of heat to bedbugs to fire hazards, according to the lawsuit. A fire broke out in one of the buildings in February 2008, one year after the city issued 12 fire code violations to Rauf. Residents in the 32 apartments were forced out, and the building was boarded up.”
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http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/imam-feisal-abdul-rauf-accused-of-being-a-slumlord-by-n-j-town/19633740
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Ooooooh, now you caught him! Rauf has a secret plan to destroy America one moldy bathroom at a time!

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Oh, well if there are moldy bathrooms broken heaters, that must mean that he is a jihadist.
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How about as an Imam, he runs a mosque dedicated to cultural understanding and as a landlord he sells his buildings to somebody who knows how to run buildings?
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If being a terrible landlord means that you want to destroy America, nationwide there are thousands of landlords who must be secret terrorists.

As always you go on a long winded gas bag response to a question not asked. But reality is not your strong suit. 5 Demos are lying about what they have done and you are still clueless

It’s gotta be some sort of variation on the Peter Principle.

“…I found myself wondering, as I often do, about the determination with which people believe pundits who please them ideologically, no matter how wrong they have repeatedly been — wrong in ways that, if you believed them, cost you money.

Suppose you had spent the last five years actually believing what you read from the usual suspects — the WSJ opinion pages, National Review, right-wing economists, etc.. Here’s what would have happened:

In 2006 you would have believed that there was no housing bubble.

In 2007 you would have believed that the troubles of subprime couldn’t possibly spread to the financial system as a whole.

In 2008 you would have believed that we weren’t in a recession — and that the failure of Lehman was unlikely to have bad consequences for the real economy.

In 2009 you would have believed that high inflation was just around the corner.

At the beginning of 2010 you would have believed that sky-high interest rates were just around the corner.”

“…Keep defending the race baiting…”
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“Tran said immigration enforcement “is definitely a federal issue” – but he also said he supports Arizona’s right to attempt to crack down on illegal immigration. He said he does not support a blanket amnesty for the millions of immigrants here illegally but also said sending them all home “realistically (is) not going to happen.”"
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http://www.ocregister.com/articles/tran-265124-federal-sanchez.html
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Naw, Van Tran has no views which could possibly be called “anti-Immigrant”.
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Now I know what you used to do for a living. Your were a fruit picker. That’s because you are an expert at cherry picking.

” 5 Demos are lying about what they have done and you are still clueless”
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Link it or zip it.
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So far Wingnuts vs Liberals is 0 for 3.

“.. sources have said.GM has already returned $6.7 billion in unused aid to the government and has paid roughly $700 million in interest and dividends. The government also holds $2.1 billion in preferred shares,”
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Yes it was that well-known right wing newspaper the WaPo. You complain I didn’t include a link but you put one in with the bulk of your argument is based on “sources have said”.

What sources didn’y say is the $6.7 billion repaid was paid with taxpayer money. Dividends and interest are not return of principal.
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Give your status as a dropout and an idiot as far as finance I think the word of Barofsky is slightly more credible than yours. Come to think of it, the wino by the underpass of the local highway is more credible than you.

Read more: http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/09/23/morning-must-reads-pledge/?replytocom=203343#respond#ixzz10N5fkU4x

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/22/AR2010092205674.html

“”"For weeks now, our national political conversation has been driven by 86,441 voters and a margin of 5,548 votes.”

It is exactly that ignorant arrogant perception that has Obama falling and Demos running for cover.”
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Yes numbers beginning with the numbers 8 and 5 always offend voters as horribly arrogant.
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Freakinpa, I think you forgot your medication this morning. You are even more inarticulate than usual.

Side note: That interactive thingy over at Pollster is a pretty nifty widget. Filtering out the automated phone surveys (Rasmussen and PPP) puts the parties at a dead heat of 44.7% each.
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http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/10-us-house-genballot.php

” We can argue exactly what Americans now know as a fact the so-called reforms generated by a completely controlled House, Senate, and the Presidency passed a type of reform the people out in middle America knew was wrong.”
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“August 9, 2010
Americans’ Confidence in the Medical System on the Rebound
Confidence in HMOs continues to hover below 20%
by Elizabeth Mendes

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Providing a benchmark as America’s new healthcare reform law begins to take effect, 40% of Americans express “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the U.S. medical system, the highest percentage since 2005. Americans’ confidence in the medical system hit a low of 31% in 2007, at a time when confidence across almost all institutions was down, but has been steadily rebounding in the years since.”
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http://www.gallup.com/poll/141815/Americans-Confidence-Medical-System-Rebound.aspx
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Gallup poll: Americans actually like health care reform

* March 24th, 2010 8:10 pm ET

A new USA Today/Gallup poll finds that more Americans support the passage of the new health care plan than oppose it –a reversal from previous polls, which found the opposite.

When asked whether the bill’s passage is “a good thing,” nearly half of respondents responded positively (49 percent), while only 4 in 10 did not (40 percent).

An additional third of people said the plan makes “the wrong kind of changes” and 8 percent of people (who presumably get awesome coverage) said that the system should just be left alone.

While earlier polls showed that Americans tended to agree with individual reform proposals, this is the most support recorded for the plan as a whole.”
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http://www.examiner.com/populist-in-national/gallup-poll-americans-actually-like-health-care-reform
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Rusty/Newfreakenblog,
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I know that you have multiple personalities, but, please remember, you are not an entire country.

Another example of a phenomenal lack of self-awareness.

““The purpose of this resolution is to ensure there is balanced treatment of divergent groups,” Gail Lowe, the chairwoman of the board, said. “In the past, the textbooks have had some bias against Christianity.”

The resolution was written and submitted to the board this summer by, Randy Rives, who as a member of the school board in Odessa, Tex., pushed through a Bible study curriculum. [...]

‘If you can control or influence our education system, you can start taking over the minds of the young people,’ Mr. Rives said.”

17.1 should be 16.1…apologies to anyone who cares.

“The employer doesn’t need to have workers comp on the employees spouse and children HC is equivalent to a Head Tax for being born and re-distributes wealth.”
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So, you are saying that the Democratic Party is undemocratic because it makes employers pass onto consumers a small part of the expense for a man to be a responsible husband and father?
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You must be lying about being a dad. Seriously, Freakinpa, you must either be unable to father children or be gay if you think getting health insurance for your children is anti-democratic and wrong.

We don’t need Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, because banks act responsibly.

“Ally Financial is now double-checking to make sure all documents are in order after lawsuits uncovered that a single employee of the company’s GMAC mortgage unit, a 41-year-old named Jeffrey Stephan, signed off on 10,000 foreclosure papers a month without checking whether the information justified an eviction.

Many of the homeowners in fact might have been in default. Some might have been unfairly targeted. But the flawed process is creating an opening for borrowers to contest some of the more than 2 million foreclosures that have taken place since the real estate crisis began. [...]

Ally wasn’t the only major lender that had a foreclosure process dependent on a few corporate bureaucrats.

Beth Ann Cottrell said in a sworn deposition in May that she signed off on thousands of foreclosures a month for JPMorgan Chase even though she did not verify the accuracy of the information.

In one instance in Palm Beach, Fla., Cottrell signed off on two documents that stated conflicting amounts of mortgage, the court testimony states. Cottrell claimed that both were signed by the borrower at closing. But the homeowner recognized that her signature had been forged, her attorney Christopher Immel said. The attorney added that such forgeries are common among the cases he’s seen. JPMorgan Chase declined to comment.

In Georgia, an employee of a document processing company, Linda Green, for years claimed to be executives of Bank of America, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank and dozens of other lenders while signing off on tens of thousands of foreclosure affidavits. In many cases, her signature appeared to be forged by different employees.”

From your link:
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“But with GM turning a profit in recent quarters, some Wall Street analysts have lauded the company’s prospects, noting that it has shed much of its debt, discontinued brands, closed plants, and slashed its workforce. As a result, it is much better prepared to weather a slow economy – and could be very profitable when auto sales reach pre-recession levels, the analysts have said.

Last week, in fact, Morningstar analyst David Whiston issued a preliminary estimate setting the shares’ fair value at $134. ”
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I never had an opinion on the value of GM stock, but, Morningstar does. Are you now going to say that Morningstar is a bunch of leftist college dropouts or admit that you love to cherry pick?
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Thank you for the link which shows exactly what I said, that taxpayers are likely to make a modest profit from bailing out General Motors.

“a Consumer…”
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Also, too:
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“When Jason Grodensky bought his modest Fort Lauderdale home last December, he paid cash. But seven months later, he was surprised to learn that Bank of America had foreclosed on the house, even though Grodensky did not have a mortgage.
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Grodensky knew nothing about the foreclosure until July, when he learned that the title to his home had been transferred to a government-backed lender. “I feel like I’m hanging in the wind and I’m scared to death,” said Grodensky. “How did some attorney put through a foreclosure illegally?”[...]
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Broward Chief Judge Victor Tobin, who set up the county court’s foreclosure system, said this is the first he’s heard of this type of mistake. ‘From the court’s point of view we have no way of knowing that someone sells a house unless they tell us,’ said Tobin. ‘The bank would first have to tell the lawyers and the lawyers would presumably ask the court for an order dismissing the case.’
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Tobin said this is the first he’s heard of this type of mistake. The court system is under pressure to clear up its foreclosure backlog. This year, the state court system pumped $6 million into the effort, hiring more temporary judges and staffers.
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Some say there’s too much effort aimed at simply disposing of the cases.
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‘The evidence doesn’t matter, the proof doesn’t matter, due process doesn’t matter,” said Asbury, the attorney. ‘The only thing that matters is that they get rid of these cases.’”

As far conservative concepts of this administration being soft on immigration is totally baseless.

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“AN UPWARD TREND

The overall number of deportees — with and without criminal records, combined — has increased almost every year since 2001, reaching a record 387,790 last year.

The total during the 2009 fiscal year — which covers the first eight months of Obama’s presidency — was 5 percent higher than the total for 2008, which fell entirely under President Bush. The 2010 total is poised to approach last year’s.

Reasons for the increase have been debated. Some say Obama is trying to soften conservative opposition to immigration reform by showing a tough hand enforcing existing laws. Others cite improvements in technology, pre-dating his presidency, that allow state and local law-enforcement to more easily learn a person’s immigration status”
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http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/09/deportation_of_illegal_immigra.html
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“In New York’s Nassau County, armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials raided homes in the middle of the night in search of gang members and fugitives. ”
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http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3693351&page=1
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So, anybody who thinks that it is an exaggeration about ICE pulling people out of their homes in the middle of the night has to be watching Fox News.
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Unlike Republicans, I do not fear any type of government agency. But, for right wing extremist who fear the IRS with calculators and pocket protectors would be crapping in their pants if they had to deal with ICE.
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So, 3X, I would like to know what you think is so sick, real ICE policy or that I said that, to win an election a Republican would pull a stunt like that?
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When it comes to Republican dirty tricks, think John Sununu,:
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“During that state’s 2002 election for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Robert C. Smith, the NHGOP hired GOP Marketplace, based in Northern Virginia, to jam another phone bank being used by the state Democratic Party and the firefighters’ union for efforts to turn out voters on behalf of then-governor Jeanne Shaheen on Election Day. John E. Sununu, the Republican candidate, won a narrow victory. In addition to criminal prosecutions, disclosures in the case have come from a civil suit filed by the state’s Democratic Party against the state’s Republican Party (now settled).

Four men have been convicted of, or pled guilty to, federal crimes and sentenced to prison for their involvement as of 2008[update]. One conviction has been reversed by an appeals court, a decision prosecutors are appealing. James Tobin, freed on appeal, was later indicted on charges of lying to the FBI during the original investigation.”
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_New_Hampshire_Senate_election_phone_jamming_scandal
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Just because Republicans have not been caught in election rigging for almost six years now (including some things with the electronic ballot in Philadelphia where votes for Bush were already in the machine before the polls opened according to a poll watcher in 2004) does not mean that your party does not do this.
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The modern Republican Party, 3X, has some very sick people.

“500 words” –
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One of Obama’s descendants addressed the United Federation of Planets. Capt. Kirk is off to the side royally po’ed since he’s about to sent to Planet Claire on a peacekeeping mission, which is Spock’s idea.
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(shh, don’t tell the RW’ers that UFP is located in San Francisco)

Grape: Well said.

Rev Jim, resident drop out and general loser, adding his usual (un)intelligent comments.

” Rusty and Freakinpa would lose their standing as fellow idiots.”

But Rev Jim would retain his title as the Grand Puba of Idiots. Well earned and well worn!

Rev Jim:

When you can explain “Republicans and Vietnamese are trying to take OUR SEAT” Let me know. Otherwise put your tin-foil hat on and wait for Mom to change your Depends because once again you are full of crap!

The Grand Puba of Village Idiots proving once again why he earned his crown. Along the lines of IQ5 (together they don’t break double digit IQ). Declares victory and takes a victory lap in spite of his stupidity

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/09/5_dem_congressmen_say_they_vot.html

And the GPVI (Grand Puba of Village Idiots) is wrong again.

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“Last week, in fact, Morningstar analyst David Whiston issued a preliminary estimate setting the shares’ fair value at $134. ”
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And this week they cut the number of shares to be offered because the price is falling. And you still are counting dividends and interest as capital repayment (your drop out economics pocket protector is going to be recalled. and GM paid $6 billion with tax payer money so you Accounting, math and general intelligence has hit another low. Miracles do happen. Who would have thought it could go lower

Rev Jim

You have now hit the intellectual capacity of IQ5 so as with him I am following the below advice:
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

Rev Jim

See 10.5

Clueless racist, the Rev Jim

See 10.5

“..adding his usual (un)intelligent comments.”
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You have yet to explain what “ignorant arrogant perception” is supposed to mean and respond that I am supposed to be dumb for not knowing why facts and figures are “ignorant arrogant”.

“the Grand Puba ”
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Wasn’t that title from the Flinstones?
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I haven’t seen the Flintstones in 30 years since I was a nine year old or so, but, judging from your choice of words, I guess that is where you get most of your facts.

A real link!
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Freakinpa, one of these days you might understand this new intertube stuff.
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So far, on everything else, according to you, showing facts that Loretta Sanchez was responding to an anti-immigration policy of her opponent makes me “racist” and less intelligent than you, in your delusions, think that you are.
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So, I am a anti-racist with Latinos even though I, myself, am white non-Hispanic, yet racist against Vietnamese in your book?
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It always helps to make sense. At adds a great deal to dialog when you are not just in the middle of a Jack Daniels fueled drunken rage.
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I, myself, have been drinking coffee today (as most days). It keeps the brain functioning you stupid lush.

“When you can explain “Republicans and Vietnamese are trying to take OUR SEAT”
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It means that she believes that Latino Democrats are better represented by Latino Democrats than Vietnamese Republicans.
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Why is it every time whites say “our” implying white you cheer like a little school girl, but, when a Latina says it, you call it racist?

“And this week they cut the number of shares to be offered because the price is falling.”
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Yet, first, you send no link to present this fact as true by a market expert such analysts for Morningstar nor any reason to say that, by the time the shares are put up for an IPO this problem will not have resolved itself as the stock market is always fluctuating.
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I am just supposed to believe that a dunken moron in his basement in someplace in Pa is able to figure this out for himself or do you intend to present facts stronger than the ones I found in your link and my link?