Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments NO women are on Issa’s birth control panel. Pardon my French but that’s fucking bullshit. I am seldomly given into outrage but this new VA law is just rape with a foreign object pure and simple. I honestly wish it was hyperbole. I tweeted could you imagine if men where forced to have colonoscopies for any reason. The GOP would lose the little minds they have. Bob Cesca has a graphic of the procedure and it’s more intrusive than I envisioned. http://bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2012/02/virginia-republicans-and-their-vaginal-probe.html We must must reelect President Obama, keep the Senate and take back the House. Again I’m not a fan of the ‘war on’ memes because I think it’s overused but the ‘War on Women’ is real. The GOP are trying to turn back the clock and literally make women second class citizens. Kudos to ‘Better than Ezra’. Sorry to be punny but you hit the nail on the proverbial head. For Obama’s presidency to be remembered as one of the most consequential in recent American history, he does not need a new strategy, or a new personality. He simply needs to win a second term so that he can protect the accomplishments of his first. I refuse to go backward. This GOP is just getting so fucking repulsive we just can’t let them take over again. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 16, 2012 @ 10:28 am Happy Valentines Day Cher! Great roundup for the day. My favorite part of the Obama budget besides the much needed infrastructure spending is the tax increase on capital gains. Or I’ll call it the Romney rule. We really need full tax reform with a minimum tax for the rich and corporations. I would not even mind lowering the top rate on corps if we had true tax reform. Right now the smaller businesses are being punished because they pay a higher effective tax rate than mega corporations because they can’t afford all the lobbyists to make cushy tax loopholes. Thankfully Romney is in deep deep trouble. Honestly if he did not have the money and organization he would lose to Santorum by a bunch. If he goes full bore negative against Santorum I agree that there will be a backlash by conservatives. Because unlike Gingrich Santorum (nutter and all) is well liked by conservatives and does not have nearly as much baggage as Newt. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 14, 2012 @ 8:05 am By any measure the president’s deft political jujitsu on birth control is pummeling opinion about Republicans. Collins and Snowe today support the president’s plan. Actually one of them introduced the same plan twice, once in 2005 and again in 2008. Their plan even included mandates for churches directly through insurance companies. So officially now the only ones against this are 90% old white GOP men and old white Bishops. It cold be the biggest losing GOP wedge issue of all time. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 13, 2012 @ 11:36 am Weekend Music Thread – Baby, Baby This is the first song that came to my mind. Salt N Pepa – Let’S Talk About Sex (The Original)
» Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 11, 2012 @ 11:58 am I think Frum put it well. The Repugs may win a short term PR battle but their overreach will lose the war. Republicans are not proposing to allow employers and plans to refuse to cover blood transfusions if they conscientiously object to them (although there are religious groups that do). Or vaccinations (although there are individuals who conscientiously object to those as well). Or medicines derived from animal experimentation. (Ditto.) No, Marco Rubio’s Religious Freedom Restoration bill provides for one conscientious exemption only: contraception and sterilization. Which means it will be very hard if not impossible to persuade the target audience that this debate is not in fact about contraception. Everybody quite sure that’s a wise debate to have? » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 9, 2012 @ 6:40 pm That rally will not be enough especially when Romney still wins. I mean Romneycare even covers abortions. They are so stuck with the worse candidate ever. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 9, 2012 @ 6:36 pm It’s OK if we disagree. We all have to live with our own moral stances. I don’t see killing a bunch more civilians in a factory or the Ho Chi Minh trail with indiscriminate bombing as being a better alternative to say killing the guy who runs the factory or sets up the caravan for the Ho Chi Minh trail with much less civilian casualties. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 9, 2012 @ 6:33 pm The fact that technology results in allot less dreadful civilian casualties is a positive development. I get the other side too where drone warfare is antiseptic but compared to warfare in the 1800’s carpet bombings at 40,000 ft was pretty antiseptic for those on board as well. Of course the only difference was the personnel doing the bomber were at more danger but with stealth technology that danger is minimal. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 9, 2012 @ 5:04 pm I did my undergrad in SUNY at Oswego. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 7, 2012 @ 7:36 pm That deserves a » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 7, 2012 @ 4:32 pm My position on Obama signaling rich Dems to fund Democratic superpacs is it’s a little hypocritical of Obama sure because of his position against superpacs. But to get swift boated 100 fold by the Koch bothers just to be a purist, that’s just stupid. Like always Obama took the pragmatic approach and purists disregard the real world. That’s why Feingold lost in 2010. He became too much of an ideologue for WI voters. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 7, 2012 @ 4:28 pm My favorite modern day Canadian comedy is “Trailer Park Boys”. If you haven’t seen it. It’s hilarious. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 7, 2012 @ 3:43 pm Loved SCTV. It was at it’s height during my college years and since my school was just across the lake from Toronto we got most of their broadcast stations and all the SCTV programs. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 7, 2012 @ 3:41 pm Spot on Cher. You are exactly right about the Tea Party. This Republican primary contest has shown how utterly weak they are even in their own party they are less than a third of the voters. I think the inflation came from the fact that Faux News conflated the teabaggers as those who are sympathetic to them added to the real teabagger activists. I’ve come up with the answer and I use to think it was just cognitive dissonance but it’s not that simple. Now I think it has more to do with an honest internal conflict for many. After the Teabaggers protests we all remember the signs ‘No guvment run healthcare. Don’t take away my Medicare’. Well with hard core baggers it is totally cognitive dissonance. They just can’t accept their ideology is contradictory to the reality of that sign. Those are your hard core Federalists who falsely believe State law should trump Federal law based on the Constitution. But for the independents who lean to the right it’s more my latter argument of a internal conflict. They really do believe in limited government. But they know there are government programs that help people that they do like as well. These are the people Dems can reach and who poll favorably on Dem’s issues which takes them in the 50%-70% range. My personal feeling is government needs to be the exact size it needs to be no bigger or smaller. With a country of over 330 million people and this size duh you are going to need a relatively big government. Right now the government is just too small to provide an adequate safety net. For the record, in Europe I think some governments are too big. Most of all government needs to run efficiently and that’s the biggest reason I’m against Republicans. They run government poorly because they don’t believe in efficient government. I think Obama could uniquely sell this argument about the size of government and him trying to make it more efficient is building political capital in that direction. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 7, 2012 @ 3:32 pm Great article AdLib. I think both sides play this but there is no false equivalencies here, the Republicans are unprecedentedly worse. Meaning every day the set a lower standard for hoping America fails under Democratic rule. Worse they even change their positions just because Obama takes a position they once favored like tax cuts for the middle class. The worse instance of this was on Libya when the whole senate including Republicans in the Senate voted for a NFZ over Libya (albeit a non binding resolution). However then when Obama went to the UN and passed the NFZ with the UN security council they almost all decried it was wrong. You just cannot deal with people that cynical and intellectually dishonest. Anyone who has no problem throwing their own principles in a wood chipper just because the other side advocates them too are just beyond reasonable. Of course you have the constant gloom and doomers on the ‘left’ like AOLHP that downplayed Friday’s positive jobs results just as much as the right wing. They obviously put their personal agendas and clicks and giggles before what’s good in America as well. I guess the positive side is that even independents are starting to see this trend with Republicans but only when the economy shows improvement. The other fortunate thing is the GOP are going to nominate a candidate who embraces all these obviously cynical contradictions in the GOP. Mittens has lied about the economy and at one time embraced the majority of issues Obama has and will campaign on in 2012. Don’t think for a minute Obama won’t remind him of that when debating him. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 7, 2012 @ 3:02 pm Cheers for the link great graph. The whole Poole thing just shows on the right and left there is the just make shit up crowd. They only want to create controversy so people like us can complain. If anything their stupid chart shows how the left has moved further left through time. The same people calling people like JFK and LBJ more liberal then Obama would call them war criminals based on their much more interventionalist policies. For example could you imagine if Obama did the bay of pigs or put advisers and the CIA in Vietnam at the levels JFK did. Can you imagine Obama carpet bombing civilians like LBJ. And like I said Obama being more conservative than Clinton is just flat out proven to be wrong. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 6, 2012 @ 7:02 pm Great roundup Cher. It finally fully loaded on my laptop. If the jobs picture gets not much worse how on earth could Obama not get reelected based on that jobs graph alone? Keith Pooles implication that Obama is less liberal than Clinton is entirely full of shyte. Half of Obama’s liberal achievements are things like ending DADT, not defending DOMA, re-regulating Wall Street, adding labor protections to free trade agreements, not failing on HCR, not milking the fossil fuel cash cow without investing in new energy, reforming student loans etc… Of course Clinton apologist Krugman agreed. Bob Cesca had more on that idiotic ‘study’. http://bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2012/02/is-obama-the-least-liberal-dem-president.html » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 6, 2012 @ 2:04 pm Weekend Music Thread – SoulTrain Great stuff. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 4, 2012 @ 12:52 pm Forget the disco dancing. I like the slow dancing on Soul Train. Marvin Gaye – Lets Get It On
» Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 4, 2012 @ 12:52 pm BullyProgs – Tea Party Tactics by Progressives Kill Single Payer in CA I keep my aliases to a minimum because I would forget who I am when blogging or tweeting. 😉 » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 4, 2012 @ 11:29 pm You really need to coin those phrases for that biological metamorphosis before I tweet it. 😉 » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 4, 2012 @ 7:33 pm Exactly the only system single payer only advocates know any thing about is Canada’s and while it’s better than ours it’s not the best system. Over the long haul countries like Germany and France have proven to be the best. Insurance is only one half of the equation too. Most European countries have many more state run providers including hospitals as well. So the provider costs are much lower not just because of insurance but because provider costs are lower too. We will probably end up with a system that is closest to Switzerland’s which is not half the cost of our’s like some other European countries but still 20-30% less expensive than it would be if we had no universal healthcare. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 4, 2012 @ 10:18 am Juxtapose what happened in CA to both what happened in VT and with the ACA. Maybe the biggest reason the ACA passed besides the undaunted efforts of the top Dem leaders was the the positive CBO analysis for the Senate bill. While the VT single payer passed because they were able to make the necessary compromises to move the process along slowly. It sounds like the Californians involved acted like children. They did not eat their veggies (do the necessary financial assessments) but the still wanted their cake NOW! I for one have cooled to single payer, not because it does not work but because it’s not the only solution or necessarily the best depending on the culture of the society receiving care. Like most progressives I’m sure CA progressives think that every country that has relatively inexpensive and quality healthcare uses single payer. The simply fact is they don’t. Universal healthcare around the would could not be more diverse in how their mix of healthcare insurance works. In fact most countries have hybrid and multi-payer systems, especially when you consider almost every single payer system is enhanced by a large portion of supplemental insurance. Like I’ve said dozens of times the only thing universal healthcare systems have around the world is that they are as universal as possible. How the insurance is delivered is truly secondary. The other big thing people don’t understand about the ACA is that every state will have not for profit insurance available in some form. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 4, 2012 @ 1:34 am AdLib sadly that’s the biggest thing I’ve learned on progressive blogs and you could not have said it better. The pettiness and hypocrisy I’ve seen from some progressives matches that on the other side of the political spectrum. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 3, 2012 @ 1:40 pm CL this is a huge tragedy and the worse part is I’m not surprised. It no longer is about the issues with many progressives, it’s about the meme. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 3, 2012 @ 1:38 pm Great story Sally. Thanks for sharing it. I just don’t open the door when I see people in white shirts and ties holding books but that’s just anti-social me. That said I guess it’s better than the way my wife’s family was invited in a previously all white neighborhood in VA during the ’80’s with a burning cross on their front lawn. Ah don’t ya miss the Reagan years? » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 4, 2012 @ 10:37 pm Actually the way Ed talked about it I had the same impression you did. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 2, 2012 @ 9:44 am I think there are two serious issues with Romney being Mormon. First is that he was a party to a religion that was overtly racist until he was 32 years of age. Not saying that he’s a racist but he was part of a racist organization well into his adult life. Second he ‘baptized’ his father-in-law posthumously who was a self proclaimed atheist. This to me shows he has no respect for other people’s beliefs. There is a little fuzzyness about the second claim grant you because Mormons are so secret and Romney is so opaque about his past. But if it is true every American should know this. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 2, 2012 @ 9:42 am Good idea. Because we know on the left once Romney is the nominee they will eventually circle the wagons around him. You can never underestimate the hypocritical nature of those on the right. They would back a ham sandwich to be president just to beat Obama. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 2, 2012 @ 9:21 am 😆 this never gets old. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On February 2, 2012 @ 9:14 amComments Posted By KQµårk 死神
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