Morning Must Reads: Next

Rosie O’Donnell talks to a Canadian who has waited 7 years for surgery. Rosie doesn’t sound so rosey on Universal Healthcare now.
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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/socialized-medicine-epiphany-universal-healthcare-questioned-by-rosie-odonnell/
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“You have been on a waiting list for 7 years”?
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Response from the caller, “I have been waiting 7 years just to be seen by a surgeon”
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Yes indeed, Change we can believe in!!

Joy Behar has a burning question: “Do you think this Constitution-loving is getting out of hand?”
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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/joy-behar-wonders-if-constitution-loving-is-getting-out-of-hand/
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I think Joy would rather they read the Communist Manifesto, or Mao’s little red bible on Chinese Communism. Don’t you think?

“Last week The New York Times carried a report on the tawdry lobbying practice of Lanny J. Davis, who first came to public attention with his strident defense of Bill Clinton following the stained blue dress incident. As the Times reported, Davis now spins the truth for political leaders with much more horrendous acts to hide:

“Since leaving the White House, Mr. Davis has built a client list that now includes coup supporters in Honduras, a dictator in Equatorial Guinea … the Ivory Coast strongman whose claims to that country's presidency have been condemned by the international community and may even set off a civil war.”

Quite an embarrassment for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has been a close chum of Davis going back to the days when she and Bill were classmates of his at Yale. This is a generation of '60s-bred political leaders who rose from the Ivy League elite obsessed with the conceit that they could do well–meaning get enormously powerful and/or filthy rich–while doing good.

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Last January, after the stunning loss of Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts to a Republican, a commentary by Davis in the Wall Street Journal was headlined “Blame the Left for Massachusetts.” He focused on the left's criticism of President Obama's not-yet-passed health plan for its lack of a public option to control costs while conveniently ignoring that the Obama plan was based on that state's own model, which also failed to provide a public option or any other serious means of controlling health costs.

Lanny Davis Puts Dems to Shame

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/056db69c-1836-11e0-88c9-00144feab49a.html#axzz1AAlhvCqI
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I suppose when you basically shut down the Gulf of Mexico from any new drilling, this is the outcome. The question is, can Obama survive $5 dollar a gallon gasoline as well and win re-election?
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Ask Jimmy Carter!!

Seems our current Administration and the Fed have finally and successfully have the ball rolling on tearing down the great US of A.
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http://ph.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20110105/tbs-worldbank-yuan-bond-7318940.html
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Here today, yuan tomorrow.

Inflation anyone?
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I was absolutely sure that one of the last things Bernake had said was “inflation is in check”.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-05/global-food-prices-climb-to-record-on-cereal-sugar-costs-un-agency-says.html
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Add food riots to the already stressed and failing European countries like Greece, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal and what do you have?

Is anyone really surprised?
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“UNEARTHED LETTERS LINK ACLU FOUNDERS TO COMMUNIST PARTY”

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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/unearthed-letters-link-aclu-founders-to-communist-party/

A Terrorist who pray together, stay together.
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More on the ACLU
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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/aclu-seeks-to-add-2-plaintiffs-to-lindhs-lawsuit/
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ACLU FIGHTS TO GIVE ‘AMERICAN TALIBAN’ GROUP PRAYER RIGHTS IN PRISON

A special “thank you” from our soon to be Speaker of the House….
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“Senators Reid, Durbin, Schumer, Murray and Stabenow:
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Thank you for reminding us – and the American people – of the backroom deal that you struck behind closed doors with ‘Big Pharma,’ resulting in bigger profits for the drug companies, and higher prescription drug costs for 33 million seniors enrolled in Medicare Part D, at a cost to the taxpayers of $42.6 billion.
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The House is going to pass legislation to repeal that now. You’re welcome.”
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- Speaker-Designate John Boehner’s Press Office

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/135895-boehner-fires-back-at-dem-senators-with-vow-to-push-forward-with-repeal

Care to explain how this has anything to do with the Fed or the Administration?

World Bank is dipping its own “dim sum” bond into Hong Kong’s offshore renminbi market, joining the likes of Caterpillar, McDonalds, and Asian Development Bank in issuing its first renminbi-denominated bond.

http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2011/01/05/world-bank-launches-a-dim-sum-bond/

Whereas the old speaker of the House, Mommie Dearest, Nancy Pelosi said it would be “violence” to repeal ObamaCare.
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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/nanny-nancy-knows-best-if-every-american-loved-their-healthcare-dems-would-still-take-it-over-repeal-is-violence/
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One does have to think if she is actually calling for violence if it is repealed? Remember when Nancy shed a tear or two when she remembered all of the “violent protests” of the 1960′s?
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Boy, she sure has come a long ways since then.

My guess is that Rusty is on a propaganda roll.
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When one pushes “theblaze.com” and other basement “new” sources, you begin to wonder:
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What the hell is ph.news? News straight from your arse?

phhhhhhhh….

So you’re a Canadian?

Pining for things that might have been. Ezra Klein speaks about a Hillary White House, and what she would have done with healthcare reform.
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/11/wwhhd_draft.html

or maybe this fake wrapping of self in a flag without caring one squat about fixing issues other than enriching their own tribe is a trivial and typical ideologue theatre so that you get all warm and fuzzy inside but nothing gets done?

“Care to explain how this has anything to do with the Fed or the Administration?”

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I don’t know, maybe if you looked up and read about QEII. That just might give you a hint.

It’s precious he is REALLY copying and pasting links from the blaze as if he’s delivering ‘da news’.

Oh why don’t we play a little game, IQ53. Why don’t you find a source that can refute anything I have posted from The Blaze. Can you? Oh, didn’t think so.
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Of course you love all of the propaganda arm of the left, starting with Daily Kos, Huffington Post and on and on and on as too many to list.

You know those new republican freshmen? The ones that are going to “change Washington” and change how things are done? They held their first fundraiser. Last night. Before they were even sworn in. They’re playing “The Price Is Right” before they even take the oath.

Someone’s off his meds………….

Probably a non-Canadian.

Oh good grief this has zip to do with quantitive easing. You’ll have to do better.

Higher or lower?

One of the many benefits of giving up watching any cable news channel is that I haven’t seen Lanny Davis in years. He has always been a slimy jerk.

I think so, too.
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Rusty is pissed because we messed up his train of, uh, well, “thought”…

$2499 bob.

“Oh good grief this has zip to do with quantitive easing. You’ll have to do better.”

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Oh why not show sources or cite places we can go to read that QEII has nothing to do with it then jsfox. That might make a claim like you said above credible.

Rusty, in re your “little game”:
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These represent opinions.
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You don’t seem to have ever been able to grasp the difference…

It’s hard to say nflfoghorn – he keeps referencing all kind of ‘bad’ things in foreign countries and never anything good. And most of the time with absolutely no relationship to our country. It’s very confusing

That train pulled out of the station, methinks.

Sad news update to story about John Wheeler. Phila Inquirer reports he was involved in an arson attempt on his neighbor’s house shortly before he was killed.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20110105_Man_found_in_landfill_tied_to_arson_attempt.html

This HC bill or medicare part D?

“–John Boehner is poised to take the Speaker’s gavel today”. Let’s make some bets.

Will he cry?

Will he be drunk?

Greece seems to be getting the message now.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1343885/Greece-follows-U-S-example-building-giant-border-wall-illegal-immigrants.html
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While in other news, the watch-dog group for the PC police and journalism calls for the termination of the term “illegal immigrants”
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Gee, isn’t that special???

I agree. But we haven’t seen the last of “rusty’s revenge”.
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It’s kinda like “Montazuma’s revenge” except that it comes out of rusty’s mouth…

It derailed shortly after departure. Last seen in candy land.

http://www.nahj.org/nahjnews/articles/2006/March/immigrationcoverage.shtml
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Link for the PC Journo-listers.

He’ll cry. Take it to the bank.

hippoath@1.3
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Are you talking about stuff like this?
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I’m trying to figure out how what happens in Greece matters here.

Both -

Drunk with joy, happy tears. I’m sure he’ll filibuster the house out of nostalgia talking about how he’s living the American dream by destroying others.

I wonder in the transfer of power today of the Speakership, will Nancy will be bringing out the big gavel?
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I gots it!
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The reason rusty is all agog about places other than the US is that rusty wants to take over the world!
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How could I have overlooked that…

Rusty’s thought processes revealed:

Here’s a longshot. Wilson is so used to Nancy Pelosi being the speaker that when they read the constitution, he gets confused and shouts “You Lie!”.

newfreedom,
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Thanks for the information on the ACLU and Canadian Healthcare.
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I’ve always thought the ACLU seemed very Un-American. Now we know why. This Ultra-Liberal group has its roots in the Communist Party. This also explains why so many of the Liberal political views sound like Socialism.
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I see IQ53 is trying to shoot the messenger. Only a Liberal would argue against facts that they don’t like. IQ53 definitely has socialist views.
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Canadian Healthcare is great if you’re young and healthy. If you have any major health problems it sucks. They don’t need Death Committees. They just leave you on the waiting list until you die.

Yeah
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Like N Korea boy is similar to Obama, UK healthcare is whats coming etc. Never compare notes on what anyone does right (he stays clear of superior healthcare systems that makes ours looks like sh!t) and always the alarmist that ‘they’re coming because liberals just wantz it so bad’.
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This one is about Greece continued issues with Turks. Now that’s (not) surprising at all. They have such a long wonderful history together.
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Newfreedom likes headlines. Shallow ditch.

The only Donut Hole rusty knows about is…

“Newfreedom likes headlines. Shallow ditch.”
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Me likes!
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I was thinking “long sandy shoreline feature”. Rhymes with “ditch”.

“It’s hard to say nflfoghorn – he keeps referencing all kind of ‘bad’ things in foreign countries and never anything good.”
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All the bad things(national HC, Entitlements, wealth redistribution) that fail in foreign countries that the left keep trying to import here. Isn’t that the definition of insanity, trying the same things over and over and expecting a different result.

Solid constructs and ideas are build on digging deep for the foundation. Shallow ditch people just scrape the surface because they’re not looking for a foundation or deep understanding. They already had the idea before the anchored it in reality.

And here’s a link to underscore sacredh’s comment:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/elected-cost-cutters-gop-freshmen-party-fatcats-tonight/story?id=12537584

That was some Tea Party. $50,000 for VIP donors. I guess they’ve stopped even pretending to be about fiscal austerity.

Mst have struck more nerves Rusty. Th eloons are coming out of the basement defending the positions with “liberal facts” or denigrating the source or smearing the bearer of the news.

“All the bad things(national HC, Entitlements, wealth redistribution) that fail in foreign countries that the left keep trying to import here. Isn’t that the definition of insanity, trying the same things over and over and expecting a different result.”
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Like not import any of the ideas that are good. On the other hand, tax cuts have been such a boon since the 2000 so it’s good that we’re trying that awesomesauce idea again.
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Here’s a logical hint;
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No one is wanting to import ideas that don’t work. People want to import ideas that do. You want to continue ideas that don’t because you’re convinced they work despite lack of evidence.
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And you wonder why I find it ironic when you b!tch about liberals doing what you propose on a daily basis. It’s called projection.

Adam, now that republicans are in charge of the House, could we PLEASE have a “1000 Words” with Boehner crying? You folks have to have several pictures of that. The guy turns the faucet on when he gets office supplies.

Don’t worry rusty one of the fine journolists here will write a column on Palin or Beck and then they will use their (dim)wits to denigrate them.

nflfoghorn: glad to see you don’t result to personal insults as you have claimed in the past.

Well as a Canadian whose had both of his parents in the hospital recently for surgery I can say that is false. Both my parents needed routine surgeries (one gallbladder the other a hernia) which they put off for months because they are overweight. They then had an acute attack, where admitted and had the surgery within days (it too longer for my mother because she got sick over easter and thus there were less available surgeons in addition to the fact that as a low priority she was bumped by any life threating cases that came in.) My girlfriend had a brain hemorrhage during highschool and was seen to that day (within minutes) because it was a life threating. I’ve been treated for deep lacerations within hours of being admitted, although they were not life threating. Have I waited for hours with people on night visits when they had non-life threating conditions, yep, did it annoy me at the time, yep, but did we get treated and sent home without a giant bill, yep. The surgery this woman was talking about, a gastric bypass (actually CBC was just talking about this the other day, I listened to it while driving to the hospital to see my father) is considered elective unless you are classified as extremely obsess (BMI over 50 if I remember correctly) and is, as the woman said a last resort (she also said she was scared to have the procedure done, did not really want it, but was using it as a motivator to loose weight so I doubt she was trying real hard to move up the list) but doctors often would prefer to prescribe other methods to help someone loose the weight (as any surgery has inherent risks and especially in overweight patients). By failing to recognize the circumstances surrounding this womans case you and the responders on that blog willfully distorted her wait into a symptom that the Canadian system is broken (when in fact it is higher rated than your system)
http://www.photius.com/rankings/world_health_performance_ranks.html

Now besides the fact that in the US if she could not afford surgery her wait time would be infinite, besides the fact this is an elective procedure in cases where you are not morbidly obese, besides the fact that she did not actually want to have this procedure in the first place and besides the fact that if she had the procedure it would be done in a system where her treatment would be (on average) better than your for profit model (and much, much cheaper for her and everyone) this case shows that people (on the right this time, but the left does it too) can take something out of context and make it seem like it is a major problem when it is not.

OH and overall Canadians are quite happy with the healthcare system (although we do hate the fact that there are wait times and often doctors keep bankers hours)

“About three-quarters of Canadians (76%) rate
the quality of medical care they’ve received
as excellent or very good; this is above the
international average. Only 2% of Canadians
rate the quality of medical care as poor.”
http://www.healthcouncilcanada.ca/docs/rpts/2010/comm/Commonwealth_FINAL_E_Nov2010.pdf

And much of the desire for reform that does exist is to make the system better (much of the wait times and bed closings were actually forced on hospitals when their funding was cut. A lot of this happened under right wing provincial governments, like Mike Harris in the late 1990′s in Ontario or Ralph Klein in Alberta, to allow tax cuts which helped out companies and the rich. So the biggest problem the public feels with our health care services is the cuts forced by right wing politicians, which were opposed by the majority of people in the province and has lead to a decrease in services as the safety net was weakened, not the fact that the system itself was flawed. Again these are details that you and yours ignore when you try and say our health system is broken)

or will Pelosi still have that botox grin on her face as they pry the gavel from her hand

If he could only learn to control those tears like Clinton. Who can forget the Academy Award performance at Ron Brown’s funeral where Slick Willie was laughing up a storm until he caught sight of a camera on him– then came the quivering lip.

rahonavis2,
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Don’t worry about newfreedom and the ideologues. They only know what others told them. Regardless of what actual Canadians say. Sure, they know the maple syrup delivery dude that tells them Candians don’t get their healthcare and Glenn says that the fascist liberals want to import Canadian living standards with a solid manufacturing sector and nationwide healthcare system.
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It’s all bad.

3xfire3 and freeinpa:
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Seems to me that maybe you should take up the argument with rahonavis2 @ 1.6
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It sucks when a real Canadian counters propaganda with real information about UHC in Canada, doesn’t it?
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In the meantime, maybe you two can bounce on each other’s donut holes…

Let’s start with the fact that the fact that RMB market started before QE 1 or 2.

Following the RMB bond issues of McDonalds Corp and Hopewell Highway Infrastructure this summer, the Asian Development Bank became supranational institution to issue long dated offshore renminbi-denominated bonds. Raising 1.2 billion yuan (US$180 million), ADB listed the non-retail, selectively marketed securities on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on October 22 2010.

Next this is a highly controlled and regulated market and has more to do with China ongoing push to internationalize it’s currency. But because of QE it is not being opened up yet to a broader market. So in other word almost the opposite of your claim.

In light of the current economic climate, RMB bond hungry issuers outside of China may have to wait a bit longer. With the implementation of influential international policy such as U.S. Quantitative Easing, the PRC government is likely to continue regulating foreign investment and inbound capital inflows. As a result, the domestic debt market may remain largely closed to offshore issuers for some time to come. The Chinese government’s intention to internationalize its currency remains unchanged however, as internationalization will help China further grow and stabilize its economy in the long run. For now, steady and gradual seems to be what’s working for China’s offshore and onshore bond markets.

[emphasis added]

http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Article.aspx?id=c00a69d1-033d-44e1-87ba-d6c0ca87683c

Well, we could have a Boehner – Glenn Beck “Cry-A-Thon”…

“Don’t worry rusty one of the fine journolists here will write a column on Palin or Beck and then they will use their (dim)wits to denigrate them.
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nflfoghorn: glad to see you don’t result to personal insults as you have claimed in the past.”
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He writes right after call others here dimwits. Sorry, you were saying?

The winner gets slapped with a 1000ml saline bag…

uh 3x, as a Canadian I call BS. The system is great for all ages, we don’t leave people to die intentionally (unlike your system where you willfully let the poor die because you would rather pay a few less dollars a year in taxes than help out those less fortunate than you, great ” Christian Nation” ideals huh.), we have a better overall system than you, we are healthier, live longer and are proud of healthcare. So while you and yours can take things out of context (read my response to New on that) and attempt to distort reality I and my family and friends will be up here in Canada, safe in the knowledge that if we need it, our system is there. can you say the same thing, if you loose your job will you go to bed at night knowing that if you need treatment you can get it? Sleep tight.

Point taken. I don’t like to watch guys crying. That kind of thing should be reserved for the birth of your first child, the death of an immediate family member or your dog getting hit by a car. Or a really good piece of ass.

Light contribs today, apologies.

Campaigning and governing aren’t quite the same thing, are they?

“…as recently as last week, party leaders were not only sticking to the $100 billion figure, they insisted that they would make the cuts without touching defense, Social Security, or Medicare.

Even after being confronted with evidence that such a goal would necessitate devastating cuts to education, health care, law enforcement, and transportation, House Republicans said they didn’t care. After all, a promise is a promise, and this is a priority the GOP is willing to fight for.

Or rather, it was.

Monday, Republicans started slowly backing away from their $100 billion commitment. Yesterday, the pledge was effectively thrown out the window.

Many people knowledgeable about the federal budget said House Republicans could not keep their campaign promise to cut $100 billion from domestic spending in a single year. Now it appears that Republicans agree. [...]

Now aides say that the $100 billion figure was hypothetical, and that the objective is to get annual spending for programs other than those for the military, veterans and domestic security back to the levels of 2008, before Democrats approved stimulus spending to end the recession.”

Oh, I see. Republican pledges are ‘hypothetical’ promises. The Pledge to America must have included asterisks and disclaimers in font so small, the country missed the caveats.

Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), the ranking member on the House Budget Committee, said, ‘I think they woke up to the reality that this will have a direct negative impact on people’s lives…. You know, it’s easy to talk about these things in the abstract. It’s another thing when you start taking away people’s college loans and Pell Grants or cutting early education programs.’”

Don’t forget to report on Sarah Palin’s choice of US allies…

“or will Pelosi still have that botox grin on her face as they pry the gavel from her hand”
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I don’t know about botox…she have more of a old school stretch kind of face. People should just lay off plastic operations or Botox. They turn out to look like sh!t when their age start showing.

This brings me great sadness.

(great architecture, gone to waste)

Not that it makes me cry like BooHoo Boehner or anything.

“They turn out to look like sh!t when their age start showing.”
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Look at Joan Rivers. She smiles and her tits move up an inch.

that’s good, ’cause I had a 1000ml saline bag* right here…
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*see 19.x

Dang. Let’s blow up the neighbors?!?

“Point taken. I don’t like to watch guys crying. That kind of thing should be reserved for the birth of your first child, the death of an immediate family member or your dog getting hit by a car. Or a really good piece of ass.”
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Or you put out 1000 dollar worth of Christmas decoration and 5 dollar fuze ruins it.

Or getting slapped with a saline bag?
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Keep in mind that those suckers are long and heavy…

rahonavis2,
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If your Healthcare is so great, why do thousands of Canadians come to the USA for major procedures every year and are willing to pay their own money to do so?
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Why do you have long wait lists for major procedures?
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If you are a Liberal and enjoy Socialism Canada is a great place to live. I don’t.

“So while you and yours can take things out of context (read my response to New on that) and attempt to distort reality I and my family and friends will be up here in Canada, safe in the knowledge that if we need it, our system is there. can you say the same thing, if you loose your job will you go to bed at night knowing that if you need treatment you can get it? Sleep tight.”

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Now why did the Premier of Newfoundland seek out medical treatment in the US again?
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/checkup/2010/02/canadian_premier_has_heart_sur.html
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I have family in Vernon, BC. For routine care you are correct, and healthcare is fine in Canada. However, once your basic healthcare needs exceed routine or basic care, people flock like winter geese south, out of Canada.
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Would you like to compare the survival rates for cancer, Canada versus United States rahonavis2?
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I didn’t think so.

“Keep in mind that those suckers are long and heavy…”
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For some reason that made me think of my MIL’s boobs.

Rusty, even one of the highest ranking members of SCOTUS doesn’t like the “Constitution-Loving”. Just legislate what you want.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/darren-hutchinson/post_1524_b_804382.html

RustFreep Logic 101:
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1. Anything run by government is bound to have a screw-up once in a while. [fair enough....]
2. Find one screw-up, no matter how insignificant
3. Declare the government-run item wasteful, inefficient and therefore unnecessary.

“or will Pelosi still have that botox grin on her face as they pry the gavel from her hand”

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LOL!!
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http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://angrywhitedude.com/wp-content/uploads2/2010/11/nancy-pelosi-on-botox.jpg&imgrefurl=http://angrywhitedude.com/%3Ftag%3Ddemocrats&h=488&w=400&sz=82&tbnid=ptmskMjpTW2OzM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=107&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dnancy%2Bpelosi%2Bpicture%2Byoung&zoom=1&q=nancy+pelosi+picture+young&hl=en&usg=__KgNZr-k4aF7-lGP1x981SYh6bII=&sa=X&ei=D54kTauUF4H78AaUg52GAg&sqi=2&ved=0CEgQ9QEwCA
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Had to share my favorite picture of Dear Nancy.

Or, Flox lover,
Here today, Juan tomorrow.

This brings me great joy.

“Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Management Act Becomes Law

The Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Management Act (FAAMA), legislation that will result in the creation of national food allergy management guidelines for schools, was finally signed into law after spending five years pending in the U.S. Congress.

FAAMA…was initially introduced in 2005…Although the legislation earned bipartisan support over the years in both the House and Senate, it was never enacted – until now.

The road to passage was not easy. FAAMA was ultimately inserted into a Food Safety Bill, which was approved by Congress during the lame duck session on December 21, 2010 and signed into law by President Obama on January 4, 2011.[...]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…reported that food allergy among children under 18 increased 18 percent from 1997 to 2007, and estimates that these children experience more than 300,000 ambulatory care visits per year related to food allergy.”

Still not crying, however.

OT, but my brother-in -law came through his surgery at the Cleveland Clinic yesterday better than expected. They had planned on putting him in a medically induced coma but decided it wasn’t necessary after the surgery. He’s in ICU and will be there for a while, but his prospects for making a recovery are much better than they were yesterday. I talked to his wife last night and we’re going up to visit next week if all continues to go well. She gave me a stern warning. “You keep it toned down. He’s got alot of stitches and we don’t want him busting any”.

“ax cuts have been such a boon since the 2000 so it’s good that we’re trying that awesomesauce idea again.”
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As are the other countries who are having economic problems. Even Japan has finally lowered its corporate tax rate making the US the highest corporate taxer in the world and yet the left wonders why manufacturing has left these shores.

And the left can deny (lie to themselves) or obfuscate but tax cuts raises revenues. Problem now, then and always is spending

“1. Anything run by government is bound to have a screw-up once in a while. [fair enough....]
2. Find one screw-up, no matter how insignificant
3. Declare the government-run item wasteful, inefficient and therefore unnecessary.”
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And you would be correct in all 3 instances. Unlike the liberal view:

1) Any thing in the free market is rigged, evil and steals from the poor
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2)Blame the corporate sector and call for more regulations regardless of how many regulations already exist and aren’t enforced
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3) Demand more taxes to redistribute wealth so that we have equal outcome and not equal opportunity

Wonderful! Prayers do get answered! (your philosophy notwithstanding, I’m sure you didn’t mind them )
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Please let him recover without your “snark” – after all he is a man of the cloth!

happy to hear it.

“Look at Joan Rivers. She smiles and her tits move up an inch”
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If they do any more lifitng and tucking on her face she will be wearing her a$s for a hat

“As are the other countries who are having economic problems. Even Japan has finally lowered its corporate tax rate making the US the highest corporate taxer in the world and yet the left wonders why manufacturing has left these shores.
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And the left can deny (lie to themselves) or obfuscate but tax cuts raises revenues. Problem now, then and always is spending”
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Raising and lowering taxes to hit a sweet spot and to keep the deficit within a good range is just plain good politics.
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To pretend that you can keep it super low and still balance budget is a fantasy. You can site all the examples you want but why don’t you point at a succesful country like Germany and their high taxes but still have a domestic manufacturing sector, well paid jobs and a national healthcare system that is superior to us.
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It’s all about realistic priorities. Your stale tax cuts is the bestests is a fantasy. Try to square it with reality please instead of dancing off to Japan for a crutch.

“By failing to recognize the circumstances surrounding this…case you and the responders on that blog willfully distorted…”
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You can stop right there. That’s what wingers do on everything. If it weren’t for out-of-context data-dredging and anecdote in support of fallacious argument, they wouldn’t have any arguments at all. It may not be willfull though. Most of them are simply repeating what the right-wing Borg is currently digesting and many are ignorant or stupid enough to believe it. I think you have a case study in the latter here.

All that coverage given to the Pledge to America rollout. The broken promises, not so much I guess.

I thank both of you. We spent the day with him on Sunday and a few of the people from his church were there too. He may be a minister, but he has a wicked sense of humor. One of the elders asked us all to kneel and say a prayer. My BIL said I was excused because he didn’t want me to burst into flames.

Buckley recognized the consistency of the liberals arguments. Global warming or ice age, more spending. budget surplus or deficit more spending, education or failed education more spending. The one and only idea of the left—wealth redistribution!

In the 30s we were told we need to collectivize because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize because people are so rich.

William F. Buckley

Those are great photos of very sadly deteriorated buildings.

Good news! I can see that you and your BIL are really perfect together. I once had a pastor that had a sense of humor like that. It helped during difficult times.

Self-immolation ($2 word, decon!) would prove RustFreep and Huseien’s thoughts about who you are.

Hey Rusty, will you be kind enough to respond to the reply by rahonavis2? He is essentially saying that your post is misleading (probably intentionally). notice that rahonavis2 uses facts, not name calling etc. Please, rusty, we await your insightful response … tick …. tock ….. tick …… tock

“Marco Rubio…hires Romney’s former policy director”
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So you CAN run for president before you know what you’re doing as a senator!

grape, excellent pix. Your post here has more relevance and meaning than everything rusty and freewelcherinpa has posted all week. If Detroit needs to literally downsize the way Flint plans, hope they don’t mow down their history along with the rubble.

“Monday, Republicans started slowly backing away from their $100 billion commitment. Yesterday, the pledge was effectively thrown out the window.”
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I wonder how our wingnut friends feel about being punked again by their leaders. Maybe I should wonder if they’ve got the intelligence and independence of thought to even figure it out.

“If they do any more lifitng and tucking on her face she will be wearing her a$s for a hat”
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To be fair some already consider her a @sshat. Might as well look the part.

freewelcher, why are you still posting here?

I’ll take the donkey ears and the swishy tail!

“1) Any thing in the free market is rigged, evil and steals from the poor
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2)Blame the corporate sector and call for more regulations regardless of how many regulations already exist and aren’t enforced
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3) Demand more taxes to redistribute wealth so that we have equal outcome and not equal opportunity”
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1 – Yeah. It is. Even libertarians think so. Our politicals system have rigged a true free market in favor of those that pay them off.
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2. If the corporate sector screws up it’s their fault. It’s called responsibility.
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3/ Strong countries spend money to keep infrastructure top notch for businesses and it’s citizens protected. It has a collective cost.
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Otherwise you have Somalia or other sh!t countries. it’s not rocket surgery. The question is what liabilities or responsibilites the government has and how it pays for it. Those are very important questions. The rest is just ideologue fantasies. You can’t live in a paid for Utopia, it takes hard work. But you can’t live in a Social Darwinian hell either. Both are direct results of either the extreme left or extreme right directions.

At least Rubio didn’t pick someone of the same ilk as Allen West’s original staffer…
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20022600-503544.html

Why can’t we use stimulus $ to restore these historic places?

…my brother-in -law came through his surgery at the Cleveland Clinic yesterday better than expected.
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That’s good to hear…my experiences with the Cleveland Clinic have never been anything less than satisfactory; quality care, reasonable cost.
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[Makes you wonder how they do it.]

Flamer? Whip out the (fire)hose and water me down! I have noticed than husein11 hasn’t been around since our exchange of pleasantries.

“So you CAN run for president before you know what you’re doing as a senator!”
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So your not fond of the Obama model?

Kaufman’s a talk-show host of some repute in S FL, I believe. She’s not even unintentionally funny like O’D is.

Would you like to compare the survival rates for cancer, Canada versus United States rahonavis2?
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I didn’t think so.

Actually, rusty, the overall rates for Canada are only slightly lower than they are in the US.
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http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2009/07/21/most-cancer-survival-rates-in-usa-better-than-europe-and-canada/
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And as for your “medical travelers” argument, I call bull. You don’t measure a medical system by how well it treats a few select people. You measure it by how well it works for the large majority of people.

“Add food riots to the already stressed and failing European countries like Greece, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal and what do you have?”
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Sh1t in your pants?

See 9.15, walksfunny.

Here’s the economist, with very similar data. The US is the best country in the world for cancer survival rates, but by fairly small margins. Canada, once again, does almost as well overall.
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http://www.economist.com/node/11777096

“Flamer? Whip out the (fire)hose and water me down! I have noticed than husein11 hasn’t been around since our exchange of pleasantries.”
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He still haven’t worked up the courage to ask since he’s unsure if you meant it or not.

I have to run into town before I go to work but I have one final comment. When we got to his house he was in the family room. He had on an Abbey Road shirt. I took off my jacket and had on a Rubber Soul t-shirt. His daughter showed up and had on a “Beatles 4-Ever” ballcap. His wife served us coffee in some Beatles cups I gave him for his birthday in November. The wife of the elder asked us if we liked the Beatles. My wife asked her if she belonged to MENSA.

Hey foggy, question for ya. Is that anything like what Obambi said in 2009 when he was making a justification for government-run healthcare and stated the following;
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“UPS and FedEx are doing just fine,” Obama said, referring to private courier services that compete with the U.S. Postal Service. “It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.”

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- Barack Obama, attempting to make the case for government-run healthcare, while simutaneously undercutting his own argument, Portsmouth, NH, August 11, 2009.
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http://politicalhumor.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=politicalhumor&cdn=entertainment&tm=17&f=10&tt=2&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/11/obama.health.care/index.html

“Our politicals system have rigged a true free market in favor of those that pay them off”
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And the left want this same corrupt political system to have more say over more things in our lives–Wonderful idea!
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“If the corporate sector screws up it’s their fault. It’s called responsibility.”
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And if the government screws up they pass more of the same laws that cause the original screw-up
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“Strong countries spend money to keep infrastructure top notch for businesses and it’s citizens protected. It has a collective cost.”
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And the government has failed on both counts while taxes at all levels has gone up and more money wasted in the name of “protecting its citizens”. Your protection doens’t imply defense but re-distributing wealth for any cause the left deems fits.

Check out Greece, France and UK. They are coming to the stark realization that high taxes and endless “protecting the citizens” is a dead end road to fiscal ruin.
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lol quite true

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e20148c7343695970c-550wi
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Pie chart demonstrating the rush of Canadians to US for health care.

http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/phantoms-in-the-snow/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheIncidentalEconomist+%28The+Incidental+Economist+%28Posts%29%29
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Methodology used for gathering data for pie chart.

please see 26 and 26.1

Davis is one of the most smarmy creatures in lobbying and politicing. He is followed closely by Harold Ford.

http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/phantoms-in-the-snow/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheIncidentalEconomist+%28The+Incidental+Economist+%28Posts%29%29
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Repeating for the edification of the reationary right.

Appears he had some serious mental problems in the days leading up to his death. Very sad.

Wondering how long it would take for that red herring to come up, this is from the National post , a right wing newspaper up here formerly run by Conrad Black.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Danny+Williams+could+have+stayed+Canada+cardiac+care+doctors/2514581/story.html

Some highlights
“Long wait times for cardiac surgery were a problem 15 years ago but are generally “a thing of the past” in most parts of Canada, physicians insist. Where queues develop for elective operations, patients are routinely sent to other provinces for speedy care, with their own government’s medicare plan picking up the tab, they say.

“Virtually all forms of cardiac surgery are looked after in Canada, and I would say extremely well,” said Dr. Chris Feindel, a cardiac surgeon at Toronto’s University Health Network. “Personally … I would have my cardiac surgery done in Canada, no matter what resources I had at my disposal.”

In fact, he said, patients from the United States and other countries come to the UHN’s Peter Munk Cardiac Centre for valve repairs, a procedure developed by Toronto surgeons. Meanwhile, the death rate after bypass surgery in Ontario is among the lowest in North America, reports the province’s Cardiac Care Network.”

“Dr. Feindel said he is aware of only a single non-experimental heart operation not available in Canada: one to repair a rare aneurysm in the part of the aorta descending through the chest. While about 11,000 heart surgeries are carried out in Ontario every year, only one or two patients are sent to Baylor University Hospital in Texas to undergo the complex aorta operation, he said.

A half-dozen or so other Ontario patients are sent to the States yearly for emergency heart surgery that is closer at hand in the States because the patient lives near the border, said Kori Kingsbury, CEO of the Cardiac Care Network.

This country’s heart care is otherwise on a par with the States, agreed Dr. Blair O’Neill, vice president-elect of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society. “I would say the expertise in Canadian centres is quite high and the type of procedures they do are definitely leading edge,” said the Edmonton cardiologist.”

The fact is he is a rich man who wanted to go to a specific surgeon, who happened to be in the states. I guess by your logic this shows that Europe has better surgeons than the US
http://jerseyshorereality.com/gossip/Heidi-Montag-wants-to-go-to-Europe-to-get-more-plastic-surgery-2399242.html

or the thousands that go abroad each year for surgery that is cheaper or better in some cases from the US.

But the fact is that the small percentage that do medical tourism is not the way to judge a healthcare system, but on the quality of care the average person gets. And on that front we have you well beat.

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For you and your BIL sacredh.

http://assets.theatlantic.com/static/coma/images/issues/201101/numbers.jpg
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Fasinating data on how the recession had changed us.

Too many typos: fascinating

Good for a laugh.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/01/this_all_they_got.php#more?ref=fpblg
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This All They Got?
David Kurtz | January 5, 2011, 10:16AMI sat down last week to start planning our coverage of the 2012 GOP primaries. One of the first orders of business was assigning specific candidates to each of our campaign reporters, so I drew up a list of all the prominent GOP contenders, hopefuls, wannabes, etc. It wasn’t until I had that list in front of me that it truly hit me how weak the Republican lineup is for 2012:

Mitt Romney
Mike Huckabee
Sarah Palin
Tim Pawlenty
John Thune
Ron Paul
Haley Barbour
Mitch Daniels
Mike Pence
Newt Gingrich
John Bolton
George Pataki
Rick Santorum
Michele Bachmann

Fully half of those names have no legitimate shot at putting together a national campaign. The rest, each for their own reason, carry more political baggage than a Sherpa could carry. This isn’t a new observation; but until I reviewed the list, it hadn’t hit home. I think it explains in part why a trial balloon like the one over the holiday weekend about Jon Huntsman gets so much traction.

One of these recent “constitution-loving” congressmen had one of his bills overturned by SCOTUS by a vote of 7-2 and he says he sides with the two decenters. In other words, he’s only in favor of the constitution when it suits and fits his ideology.

No one could have predicted that two years of shilling for tea party lunatics financed by the usual suspects to put the same old crooks that broke your heart the last time back in power could have ended this way.
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–John Cole

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/01/05/theyre-so-cute-when-theyre-young-and-naive/

“Check out Greece, France and UK. They are coming to the stark realization that high taxes and endless “protecting the citizens” is a dead end road to fiscal ruin.”
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You can compare 3 different countries facing 3 different issues all you want, but I’d like to hear how you can b!tch about high taxes when it’s the lowest in modern times, we have the worst deficite and there’s no evidence that it ever worked since 2000. You’re defending tax cuts by attacking high taxes that never was.

Here’s a great article by Charlie LeDuff in Mother Jones that’s pretty topical for this thread:
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http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/11/aiyana-stanley-jones-detroit#
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It’s a lengthy read, but well worth the effort, as he describes the extent of the social problems in Detroit, and how that effects the folks living there.

…oh yikes…

The only one with half a shot is the one with magic underwear. We’ll see how the rest of the year works out.

It is a good thing we have common sense “moderates” like Lanny around, to keep us from following radical policies that seek to lower the cost of health care, when real democrats ought to be out finding a dictator they can run interference for.

hussein, what is exactly wrong about about someone talking with people in their community about what is important to them? Surely, you would not do this would you?