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Supreme Court Upholds Affordable Care Act

Hi bito, yes, of course you’re right and they do a very good job. Thanks for advertising that!
But they assume that people actively go there to get the information, which only very interested people are inclined to do. The problem is that most average persons, who are not too much into politics will not make an effort on their own to go there to get the information.
So while it is excellent that now there is likely more transparency than ever before and that there is a place to get the information the WH also needs to bring their message in an easily understandable form directly to the people.
They need to boil this complicated stuff down to the essence, praise themselves openly and not just wait for them to be discovered.
We all know how good Republicans are at that! Dems’ approach is too intellectual – they expect too much from the average person.
But then there’s hope: a list like the above would make a perfect ad to spoon feed some real information to folks.

» Posted By Truth On June 29, 2012 @ 10:15 pm

Excellent. And best of all, it is coming from the White House. Does it mean they get their message out properly now? One would hope they do.

» Posted By Truth On June 29, 2012 @ 11:47 am

It was crazy enough that the thing even ended up in the Supreme Court! Enough already! President Obama has written history, that’s it.
I guess you’re right, their blathering is just a fundraising and turnout tool.

But there is no way….. Dems need to win back House and Senate. If only to get a better Supreme Court at long last.

» Posted By Truth On June 29, 2012 @ 11:45 am

funk, you asked yesterday if the GnoP could use reconciliation. Here’s what I found today on msnbc, it sounds quite encouraging:

And Romney made this argument after the decision — vote for me because I will repeal the health-care law. But is repeal a realistic outcome? On “Morning Joe,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said that Senate Republicans could do it through reconciliation. But conservative writer David Frum argues that Republicans would no longer have the high political ground; they’d find themselves in the same position Democrats did in 2009-2010. “Suddenly it will be their town halls filled with outraged senior citizens whose benefits are threatened; their incumbencies that will be threatened.” The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza makes two other points: 1) the Congressional Budget Office, like it did last time, would probably rule that repealing the health-care would INCREASE the deficit, and 2) reconciliation can be used only for things that have a budgetary effect. “Much of the A.C.A., such as the insurance exchanges and subsidies, would fall under these categories. But a lot of it, including the hated individual mandate, does not.”

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/29/12479330-first-thoughts-ending-the-month-on-a-high-note?lite

» Posted By Truth On June 29, 2012 @ 9:28 am

I mentioned that frequently earlier: why not finally turn the tables and proudly promote the term “Obamacare” instead of shying away of it? After all it IS a positive term and it will go down in history as such, even if it was abused as a slur in the beginning. Touting the term proudly will take the sting out of it after some time, so I’m really glad to find so many nice pictures today…

[img]http://planetpov.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Obamacare-3.jpg[/img]

» Posted By Truth On June 28, 2012 @ 11:35 am

🙂 I love that last sentence!

» Posted By Truth On June 28, 2012 @ 11:27 am

Time Out for O/T – Vol. 18

One of the worst things in their explicitly SABOTAGING democracy and the economy: they managed to put a dent into one of Obama’s greatest abilities, which is working in a bipartisan manner.

How can they get away with this? Directly harming Americans, undermining democracy and then accuse the President of doing exactly this?

» Posted By Truth On October 7, 2012 @ 6:05 pm

I think most people mean well and do understand and I appreciate that the President believes that even more than I do.
But then folks are being misled by the media – and by powerful forces that are not in the least interested in truth and in people’s wellbeing.

We clearly DID experience what is stated in the article below – so there is no doubt this is true. Still I’m so shocked, even though I posted the link above I repost it here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/08/1098434/-Eric-Cantor-Paul-Ryan-Kevin-McCarthy-Plot-To-Sabotage-US-Economy-with-Frank-Luntz …

» Posted By Truth On October 7, 2012 @ 10:33 am

This is not new, so most of you have likely seen it earlier. However, it’s really important and key to understand what happened after President Obama took office. (And to think the stupid Emoprogs blamed the President for not achieving more – which in turn cost Dems the midterm elections!)

@TheDailyEdge SERIOUSLY: There really was a #jobsconspiracy + Paul Ryan + Eric Cantor were among the co-conspirators

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/08/1098434/-Eric-Cantor-Paul-Ryan-Kevin-McCarthy-Plot-To-Sabotage-US-Economy-with-Frank-Luntz …

» Posted By Truth On October 7, 2012 @ 10:22 am

Well spoken (Colorado06Democrat ‏@co6dem):

GOP wants to make government as dysfunctional as possible until they control it again; then they’ll resume turning it over to corporations.

» Posted By Truth On October 7, 2012 @ 8:50 am

I guess there is no more need to prove that…. But while we’re at it:

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829#ixzz28cbOJPCU

“Mitt Romney is one of the greatest and most irresponsible debt creators of all time.”

— while he is selling himself as the one who comes to contain the debt. So sickening – and the msm go nicely along with him. Luckily Obama by now has way more electoral votes….

» Posted By Truth On October 7, 2012 @ 7:11 am

Interesting, from Twitter (theGrio.com ‏@theGrio):

What if Obama had debated as aggressively as Romney? http://on.thegrio.com/QPBcUJ

» Posted By Truth On October 7, 2012 @ 6:42 am

President Obama on the First Debate: “Romney was fact-checked by his own campaign.”

https://youtu.be/Liwl7pHapEo

» Posted By Truth On October 6, 2012 @ 7:05 pm

Why Obama? – Great Animation Making The Case For President Obama by Simpsons / Family Guy animator Lucas Gray

https://youtu.be/U9G8XREyG0Q

» Posted By Truth On October 6, 2012 @ 5:53 pm

Here’s Matt Taibbi’s take on the debate:

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/13830-focus-mitt-romney-wins-all-important-bs-contest

Excerpt:

(…)Analysts like this were, however, right in a way. Romney did come across as the more confident and aggressive candidate, and Obama did come across as “wonky” and “lacking punch.” Just visually and dramatically, Romney met the spectacle on its terms better than Obama did, much the way John F. Kennedy did in his celebrated debate with Richard Nixon. In that legendary meeting, radio viewers thought Nixon won, but TV viewers, blown away by Kennedy’s smile and tan, thought was a landslide for the Democrat.

Journalists who cite that Nixon-Kennedy debate always forget that the lesson of that night is that the new broadcast media technology made superficiality and nonsense more important – that thanks to the press, it was now possible to get someone elected to the most powerful office on earth because he had a superior tan. Reporters love this story because it reminds everyone that the medium they work in has the power to overcome substance and decide elections all by itself. What’s amazing is that they don’t have the good sense to be ashamed of this.

I read the transcript of the debate and all I got from Romney was either outright factual lies, or total rhetorical dishonesty. (…)

» Posted By Truth On October 6, 2012 @ 5:37 pm

This picture nails it.

» Posted By Truth On October 6, 2012 @ 5:36 pm

A closer look reveals: after thinking it through and realizing how much Romney lied his way through, more people start to think Obama won the debate.

Social media analysis: Who really won the debate?
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/05/14244918-social-media-analysis-who-really-won-the-debate?lite

Some social media comments mentioned in the article:

Greg T Reich

People are saying Romney “won” the debate. You know what sucks about debates? No fact-checking on the spot. Obama could have done a better job pointing out the lies, but in a debate format, you only get so much time for responses. I don’t think you have the right to say you won a debate if you lied your way through it.

several_
‏@s3v3ral
I really enjoy the fact that a commonly cited source for debunking Romney’s debate lies is *his own damn website*! http://bit.ly/Q0kfZ5

Joe Hill
‏@joe_hill
An argument for waiting before you react: looked like Obama lost the debate. But Romney won by ditching his last 18 months of campaigning.

» Posted By Truth On October 5, 2012 @ 7:51 pm

Good catch

» Posted By Truth On October 5, 2012 @ 8:06 am

Excellent news. Thanks for presenting them so clear and well!

» Posted By Truth On October 5, 2012 @ 6:41 am

Indeed the President’s statements were more truthful and he can call Romney out on his blatant lies.
I think Romney was trained like a machine to spew out the same lies over and over again. Won’t work next time though.

» Posted By Truth On October 5, 2012 @ 6:40 am

I continue to think that the President won the debate. For he was the only one in there who stayed on the issues and on his message. And since when would lying as much as possible mean victory? Not really, in my book.
Maybe the mistake was that the President did not call out Romney on those bold lies, and therefore could be thought of by some as weak. But then, he had his own strategy, which he seems to have adjusted by now.

However, I don’t mind if Romney is said to have carried away the win of this debate. I think in a way the President was really just too stunned to meet yet another Romney. He was fully prepared to debate the 2012 edition, and suddenly the Massachusetts Governor one was present. Now the good thing is, this is going to give Obama a new opening. He’s now in the position to paint Romney as an extremist AND as a flip-flopper AND as a liar. Just depending on which side of the jelly is staring at him…

Yet let’s not be mean now and let Romney have his victory.

[img]http://planetpov.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Flippflopper-in-Chief.jpg[/img]

He surely deserves the title “Flip-Flopper-In-Chief of the year 2012”. Congratulations, Mittens!

» Posted By Truth On October 5, 2012 @ 6:28 am

Even more embarrassing for him – I guess he came to regret this remark anyway. Obama will certainly make more hay of that one.

And I think his debate performance will give maximum a brief surge, like 2008 when McCain brought up that now infamous surprise VP.

» Posted By Truth On October 5, 2012 @ 1:05 am

PBS Statement Regarding October 3 Presidential Debate
ARLINGTON, VA – October 4, 2012 – We are very disappointed that PBS became a political target in the Presidential debate last night. Governor Romney does not understand the value the American people place on public broadcasting and the outstanding return on investment the system delivers to our nation. We think it is important to set the record straight and let the facts speak for themselves.

The federal investment in public broadcasting equals about one one-hundredth of one percent of the federal budget. Elimination of funding would have virtually no impact on the nation’s debt. Yet the loss to the American public would be devastating.
(…)

full statement:http://www.pbs.org/about/news/archive/2012/statement-presidential-debate/

» Posted By Truth On October 4, 2012 @ 12:12 pm

Oh, Mitt changed his opinion for a change….
[img]http://planetpov.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/gty_presidential_debate_gestures_11_nt_121003_ssh.jpg[/img]

Really, now he’s telling right the opposite of what he said all year???
[img]http://planetpov.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/gty_presidential_debate_gestures_05_nt_121003_ssh.jpg[/img]

Is he kidding me?
[img]http://planetpov.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/gty_presidential_debate_gestures_09_nt_121003_ssh.jpg[/img]

And again…
[img]http://planetpov.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/gty_presidential_debate_gestures_06_nt_121003_ssh.jpg[/img]

Sigh – I wished I could debate a jell-O…

» Posted By Truth On October 4, 2012 @ 11:39 am

Indeed, my friend. Congratulations, dear Amis!

» Posted By Truth On June 28, 2012 @ 11:22 am

That’s what The Hindu says:

Supreme Court hands Obama major healthcare victory

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday may have virtually handed President Barack Obama a second term in the White House after it upheld a core provision of his landmark healthcare reform policy, the individual mandate requiring every American to purchase insurance or face a penalty. (…)

» Posted By Truth On June 28, 2012 @ 10:34 am

🙂

[img]http://planetpov.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/We-love-Obamacare.jpg[/img]

» Posted By Truth On June 28, 2012 @ 10:28 am

[img]http://planetpov.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Obamacare-2.jpg[/img]

» Posted By Truth On June 28, 2012 @ 9:07 am

I’m so, so, so, so happy that the health care law survived – and moreover in it’s entirety!
I always thought it just can’t be that they strike it down, but then, being aware the Citizens United ruling had happened too, I did fall prey to the media spin anyway and was utterly worried it would be struck down, at least parts of it. I am so extremely relieved it didn’t happen.

What a wonderful day, I so rejoice for you folks, and for President Obama!

B I G, B I G, B I G V I C T O R Y ! ! !

And finally I saw the first signs lauding Obamacare. That’s just the start for it to go down in history as one of President Obama’s biggest achievements. JAY!

» Posted By Truth On June 28, 2012 @ 8:36 am

Hi AdLib,

thanks, we’ll see what happens. However if I find a jewel like the above video I may not be able to resist posting 😉

» Posted By Truth On March 17, 2012 @ 9:23 am