Morning Must Reads: Outside

Rick Scott: “I’m TELLING! MOOOOMMM!!!”

Bobo sure is going all in.
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I’m kind of looking forward to next Wednesday morning.
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Note to tough guy Rand Paul supporters don’t bother with me, I’m not a woman.

…things got nasty between supporters outside.

That’s a very gentle way of stating that Rand Paul’s supporters beat up a girl who they disagreed with, Adam…Where’s the condemnation of this act of political violence, or do the professional obligations of working at Time prevent you from doing anything besides providing a disinterested, hundred-mile-distant view?

I guess that assault and battery or attempted murder (he could have broken her neck doing that) are not called that in a political context.

Adam, nice selective editing. Ovecourse the part with her rushing his car when the door openned wearing a disguise was not shown. Who knew what her intentions were. The guys were most likely plants from Moveon like we have seen before so liberal reporters like yourself can post this to push the liberal MSM agenda that Tea Partiers are crazy. Nothing new here

“The guys were most likely plants from Moveon ”
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Well then you join us in wanting them in front of a judge as soon as possible?

What did I miss?

“Thar’s gold in them thar shills!” – bigotry edition.

“Steven Emerson has 3,390,000 reasons to fear Muslims.

That’s how many dollars Emerson’s for-profit company — Washington-based SAE Productions — collected in 2008 for researching alleged ties between American Muslims and overseas terrorism. The payment came from the Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation, a nonprofit charity Emerson also founded, which solicits money by telling donors they’re in imminent danger from Muslims.

Emerson is a leading member of a multimillion-dollar industry of self-proclaimed experts who spread hate toward Muslims in books and movies, on websites and through speaking appearances.[...]

But beyond the rhetoric, Emerson’s organization’s tax-exempt status is facing questions at the same time he’s accusing Muslim groups of tax improprieties.

‘Basically, you have a nonprofit acting as a front organization, and all that money going to a for-profit,’ said Ken Berger, president of Charity Navigator, a nonprofit watchdog group. ‘It’s wrong. This is off the charts.’”

Tell it like it is | Don’t be ashamed to let your conscience be your guide

(walkback of statement in 3…2…1…)

“Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah), a vice chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, told students at Utah State University on Friday that a GOP-held House might not be able to accomplish too much as long as President Obama’s in the White House.

‘The most you can expect is two years of good old-fashioned gridlock,’ he said at an event on the campus, according to a report by the university’s paper, the Utah Statesman.[...]

Republican leaders have made clear that compromising with Obama and Democrats isn’t necessarily on their agenda if they take back the House or Senate.”

Look at me, I’m in tatters | I’m a shattered

(just think of all the good things that could have been done with that money instead)

“House and Senate candidates have already shattered fundraising records for a midterm election and are on their way to surpassing $2 billion in spending for the first time, according to new campaign finance data.

To put it another way: That’s the equivalent of about $4 million for every congressional seat up for grabs this year.

The frantic fundraising by candidates has largely been overshadowed in recent weeks by a tide of spending by outside interest groups, most of it targeting vulnerable Democrats. Such groups could spend $400 million or more by Nov. 2.”

Made it just a little too hard | there’s been a change of heart

“About four months ago, American Crossroads, created in part by Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie to destroy Democratic campaigns, reported on its recent fundraising. After raising over $1 million in start-up funds, the GOP campaign operation had collected only $200. It prompted a fair amount of guffaws.

That laughter has long since faded, as American Crossroads has since raised tens of millions of dollars in secret donations, all of which is being used to air deceptive, anti-Democratic attack ads.

So, what was with those initial paltry totals? As it turns out, American Crossroads intended to play by more honorable rules, at least at first. Its organizers only ditched the plan when they saw it wouldn’t work.

From the outset, American Crossroads leaders placed a high value on transparency and embraced the idea of full public disclosure when it came to contributions. Indeed, when the entity was created, Rove & Co. registered American Crossroads as a 527 — which required regular donor disclosure. It was all part of a larger commitment to, in the words of one group leader, ‘full accountability.’”

Delusion like this is terrifying, at least he’s not arguing she deserved it, I’ve seen that one a good bit.

Rolling Stone’s Tim Dickinson makes a case for Obama being – legislatively – the most successful President since Johnson.

“During his campaign, skeptics warned that Barack Obama was nothing but a ‘beautiful loser,’ a progressive purist whose uncompromising idealism would derail his program for change. But as president, Obama has proved to be just the opposite — an ugly winner. Over and over, he has shown himself willing to strike unpalatable political bargains to secure progress, even at the cost of alienating his core supporters. Single-payer health care? For Obama, it was a nonstarter. The public option? A praiseworthy bargaining chip in the push for reform.

This bloodless, if effective, approach to governance has created a perilous disconnect: By any rational measure, Obama is the most accomplished and progressive president in decades, yet the only Americans fired up by the changes he has delivered are Republicans and Tea Partiers hellbent on reversing them. [...]

But if the passions of Obama’s base have been deflated by the compromises he made to secure historic gains like the Recovery Act, health care reform and Wall Street regulation, that gloom cannot obscure the essential point: This president has delivered more sweeping, progressive change in 20 months than the previous two Democratic administrations did in 12 years. ‘When you look at what will last in history,’ historian Doris Kearns Goodwin tells Rolling Stone, ‘Obama has more notches on the presidential belt.’”

We could have better tools to control costs, but…

“But the Medicare data come with a severe limitation: While the services and earnings of hospitals and other institutional providers can be publicly identified, such information is kept strictly confidential for doctors and other individual providers. The reason is that the American Medical Association, the doctors’ trade group, successfully sued the government more than three decades ago to keep secret how much money individual physicians receive from Medicare. The AMA has continued to defend this ruling, including in two cases in which federal appeals courts issued decisions last year.

This means the American public is barred from examining in detail how Medicare spends roughly an eighth of its funds, about $62.5 billion in 2009. While that may seem like a small piece, health-care experts point out that physicians have disproportionate power to direct spending in all the other areas of the system because they admit patients into hospitals, prescribe drugs and order procedures and equipment.

The AMA stands by its position and says little would be accomplished by publishing individual physician billing information. [...]

The database, technically known as the Carrier Standard Analytic File, focuses on doctors and others paid on a fee-for-service basis. It contains 5% of all beneficiaries, and includes all doctor claims that Medicare paid directly in association with their care.

But even with these limitations, the power of the database is clear. If it were fully available, with doctors clearly identified, the public could expose countless ways in which some health-care providers misuse or waste taxpayer dollars, health-care advocates say. The database could even provide some information on physician quality. Especially in the digital age, the database could be a powerful tool for holding the $500 billion Medicare program accountable.”

The guy beats his wife, kids, and the dog!

David Brooks absolutely crushes your pathetic argument in his above referenced column, grape and really sums up the chaotic state of democrats, in general. The folly of suddenly becoming indignant over outside funding is laughable to the American public who remember, very well, the democrats doing the same “grabbing” in 2006 and 2008. Your “we are superior” stance is delusional, at best. Superior in what way? Running government? crafting this obscenity called Obamacare? creating jobs? maintaining transparency? Facts and figures deny this absurd assumption and many democrats will be paying the price for creating this mess, in just a few short days.

“crafting this obscenity called Obamacare?”
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Obscene is denying health care to 36 million Americans.

I too am waiting for a denunciation of the brown shirt behavior.

The bill, as written, is a fraud, allthings. Employers are now shifting health care costs to the employee and the insurance they end up with will be “junk” insurance with extremely high deductibles. This security blanket is full of holes and at what cost? NO ONE knows!

Enough earl! The employer has been shifting the cost for years. Insurance companies have been raising costs for years. The GOP has even argued that covering more people will raise the cost. That seems to be the crux of your argument, that we deny insurance to some so that my costs can be lower.
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Seems to me to be the bottom of the barrel argument. One without compassion, understanding, empathy; the worst of humane traits.
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Universal Health Care you would oppose, so drop the pretense.

Grape_crush: I believe the link above is not the link to the article you’re quoting? Maybe it should be:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/220013
In any event, thanks, great catch (as usual).

“The Paul for Senate campaign is extremely disappointed in, and condemns the actions of a supporter last night outside the KET debate,” the statement reads. “Whatever the perceived provocation, any level of aggression or violence is deplorable, and will not be tolerated by our campaign. The Paul campaign has disassociated itself from the volunteer who took part in this incident, and once again urges all activists — on both sides — to remember that their political passions should never manifest themselves in physical altercations of any kind.”
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Guess they weren’t plants.

David Brooks absolutely crushes your pathetic argument…
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What argument? I linked to a blog post about American Crossroads traded their commitment to transparency and disclosure for easy money. Can you deny that happened?
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…in his above referenced column…
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Knowing you, I’m sure that Brooks’ article doesn’t quite mean what you think it does. I can’t tell, because it’s behind a paywall.
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The folly of suddenly becoming indignant over outside funding…
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Nope, people are indignant over not knowing where the outside funding is coming from. Nice attempt at re-framing the issue, Earl.
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…is laughable to the American public.
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/10/yes_voters_do_care_about.html
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Your “we are superior” stance is delusional, at best.
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I’m sure that, at the least, I would be capable of making up a better taunt than you, Earl.
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But, as schoolyard insults go, I guess “You think you’re so much better than me” is less juvenile than “I know you are but what am I”. Both say more about the insulter than they do about the insultee.
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What it says about you, Earl, is that deep-down you know that you basically suck. The lot of corporate-owned grifters and freaks you’ve invested so much of your identity into collectively suck. Your problem is that – as a halfway intelligent person – you can’t reconcile your sense of self-importance, tribal identity, and these internalized feelings of wrongness you have. It makes you angry, but instead of being angry with yourself for being a sucker or going against your tribe (whose leaders are using you), you lash out at whatever you don’t agree with.
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Have a pleasant day.

Yup, yup. Sorry, and nice catch on your part.

We’ve got plants, we’ve got thugs, we’re concocting devious, ridiculously circuitous plans(When we’re not being effeminate, pandering incompetants, anyway. I guess we swap out our knuckle dusters for feather dusters and cleats for crocs on the weekends?). AND we took this once great nation and turned it on it’s ear in under two years. According to what I hear from you three.
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Based on this, what are you expecting next week? It sounds like we’ve got a racket going. If what you say is true, Evil Liberal Plan #314 will go off without a hitch. The laser system mounted on surface of the moon will feature prominently.

Not to worry, They Did It First™.
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When? At some point in the past, I’m sure. Who? That’s not important right now! What is important is to refrain from using the opportunity to be the better person and condemn any and all instances of this action, and instead justify the event by the similar actions of others.

“Tim Profitt, a volunteer with the Republican’s U.S. Senate campaign, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the camera angle made the scuffle Monday night appear worse that it was. He criticized police for not stepping in and says other supporters warned authorities about the activist.”
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It was just an unflattering camera angle.
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Much ado over nothing.

It adds ten pounds.

You have made my point quite succinctly, grape. You and your ilk really DO think you are superior in every respect and this makes you look absolutely ridiculous to everyone else. As far as being played….look no further than your mirror. “Change we can believe in”?? You swallowed the bait hook, line and sinker. Fortunately, the majority of us realized the inherent danger with this poisoned lure and are in the process of spitting it out.

It’s too bad that woman’s head decided to attack that guy’s boot.

For reactionaries who will defend any action from there side and then find a paranoid plot:
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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/kentucky-attack-victim-suffers-concussion-police-hope-to-identify-suspects-today.php?ref=fpblgside
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The woman was diagnosed with a concussion, sprained arm and shoulder. Police state that there was no justification for the act.
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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/kentucky-stomper-identified-as-pauls-now-former-bourbon-county-coordinator.php?ref=dcblt
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Attacker identified and fired by Paul campaign.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/kentucky-stomping-victim-says-assailants-recognized-her-premeditated-attack.php?ref=dcblt
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Premeditated attack.

Actually she was a rabid commie liberal trying to bite the guys ankle.

The majority of you realized the inherent danger with this poisoned lure, put it in your mouth anyway, and only now that you’ve already ingested some of the poison are you attempting to spit it out.
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Yeah, that sounds about right.

I am so glad that I live in California (the real America) and the 2 dems, Brown and Boxer, are going to blow away the millionairess and the billionairess.
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Alex Sink did a very, very stupid thing. She might have had a chance against her sleazy opponent, but that is gone.

You have made my point quite succinctly, grape.
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Thanks for helping! If it wasn’t for your continued mendacity, poor logic, and partisan argumentatin’, no one here would feel that they were one up on you…hard not to feel superior to someone who is a fairly consistent liar and nasty partisan such as yourself, Earl.
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…you look absolutely ridiculous to everyone else…the majority of us realized…
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Are those your multiple personalities or are you using the royal ‘we’, Earl?
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As far as being played….look no further than your mirror.
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You want to hear what the “I know you are but what am I” taunt says about you, Earl?

It adds ten pounds.
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Yes…the boot on top of her head.

“Today, October 26, 2010, detectives identified the suspect, involved in the assault, as Tim Profitt,” reads a statement from public information officer Sherelle Roberts. “Mr. Profitt is currently being served with a criminal summons ordering him to appear before a Fayette County District Court Judge.”
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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/lexington-police-former-rand-paul-volunteer-with-criminal-summons.php?ref=fpbrk

Yes, indeed, asharaxx, some of us were fooled (myself included) but no more! One of the antidotes for ingesting a toxin, is to completely purge the system. The American public is engaged in this very process, as we speak.

It must be scary living inside april’s head. Like an LSD trip that never ends! Her “real America,” California, is so deeply in debt, it may never recover. The land of entitlement and false promises will NOT be helped by Boxer and Brown and you can add Maxine Waters to that mix, too. Yes, indeed, talk about a rainbow over the outhouse and you have a perfect description of the impending crisis facing all Californians. It will not be a pretty picture and it is only going to get worse with Unicorn Jerry at the helm.

Grape gets caught in a lie and listen to her squeal! She refutes anything but progressive dogma and cannot stand being framed as being one of those contributing to the increasing unpopularity of liberal politics. Too bad, grape, you are yesterday’s news and most Americans could care less about your agenda. Why don’t you retire gracefully, to your land of Unicorns and lollipops. Your repeating the same meme day after day after day, is growing quite tiresome.

TPers: Before physically attacking a woman “Man Up”!

Yeah the going after a woman is pretty telling, isn’t it?

@9.10 Grape has deported her/his self in a honorable manner. When will you do the same?

@14.1 How is your comment a reply to what was posted by apr? What are your ideas that will help your fellow Americans in California solve their current fiscal problems? Do you think that people with no experience in governance will be miraculously able to solve the problems of this state and if no, why? Please be specific in your reply with your/ their ideas as to what the solution will be. Thanks in advance!

earljr: I am sure you live in “real” America where there is no debt and everything is wonderful.
California is getting out from under the reign of the terminator brought to us by the fabulous crying Issa. Arnold never met a corporate interest that he didn’t love. When Brown was governor there were surpluses, CA had the best education system in the country, and great employment. After years of Reagan, Wilson, the Duke, and Arnold, Proposition 13, term limits, corporate outsourcing and give aways the CA dream has faded. Now it has a chance to return.
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I am not a CA native and never dreamt I would live here. My heart still belongs to Seattle. But, I know “real’ Americans who care for their state and their country.