Displaying 1,441 To 1,470 Of 16,275 Comments Can’t show this on Alabama Public Television! 😉 » Posted By bito On July 2, 2012 @ 12:17 pm k’es, I thought the very same thing when I read and tweeted the article. When I lived in Florida many years ago, The RRW attempted to run stealth candidates all the time, but I must say our county DEC at the time was very aware of their tactics and exposed them quickly. I think it may be harder now because they are proud and open about being religious NJ’s and they win elections. » Posted By bito On July 2, 2012 @ 12:04 pm AdLib, that does sound logical but I have know idea on what the state contracts/charters say. Could they pull out of the contract and take 1/3 less funding from the national organization? » Posted By bito On July 2, 2012 @ 11:56 am Jindal and the ACA has reminded me what a complete incompetent he really is and his performance on Mute the Press Sunday didn’t help a bit. And yes, you’re right CL, he doesn’t seem to know the constitution or how legislation is passed. The ACA was passed by a super majority in the senate and a majority in the house then signed by the president. It’s the law! That’s how things work. » Posted By bito On July 2, 2012 @ 11:50 am This is really something k’es, can you imagine tuning into your local PBS expecting to watch Nature, Masterpiece Mystery or Front line and finding a program from the Wallbuilders or the whacko RW history of David Barton? It was a bit shocking on how easily the attempted coup was accomplished, it only took a few RW’s to change the face of the whole states public television. Serves a lesson to be on look out for in everyone’s state or local PBS, I fear that Alabama won’t be the only state that this is tried. » Posted By bito On July 2, 2012 @ 11:31 am FC, it does fit quite nicely in to the GOP’s platform in fact it could be the platform that they propose in Tampa at their convention this year! 🙂 RE: “Mitness Protection Program” Is Mitt’s campaign going to try to win just using his money to buy TV adds? Will that work? » Posted By bito On July 2, 2012 @ 11:13 am Romney Advisers Reveal Strategy: Ignore Journalists, Pander To Right-Wing Conspriacy Websites “the Mittness Protection Program.” In a stunning interview with Breitbart.com, two top advisers to Mitt Romney revealed the campaign’s plan to largely ignore journalists in favor of right-wing conspiracy websites. Romney campaign spokesman Lenny Alcivar recently outlined how the campaign will avoid journalists When this election is over, one of the lessons that will be learned by the mainstream media is that they no longer have a toe-hold on how Americans receive their news. Never before – in a way that has taken Democrats off stride – have we seen the confluence of an aggressive online community, led by Breitbart, and an aggressive campaign team not willing to cede an inch of ground to Democrats. This combination has created a new political reality. We no longer allow the mainstream media to define the political realities in America. The rise of Breitbart, Drudge and others, combined with an aggressive Romney campaign is a powerful tool in the arsenal of the conservative movement. …The governor will no longer allow the mainstream media to dictate the terms of this debate. This is just the beginning… We are witnessing the rise of the center right media. more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/60444.html Will the “Mainstream Media” let him get away with this and how long will they let him do it before they make this a major issue? Seems to me the longer this goes on the better the odds that the MSM will really turn on him, they don’t like getting snubbed. Can he really campaign this way and expect to win? » Posted By bito On July 1, 2012 @ 8:55 pm Repeal and Replace (with something “MuchMoreBetter,” Cheaper and did I tell you about the chicken in every pot? H/T @GottaLaff » Posted By bito On July 1, 2012 @ 4:17 pm Good post from a fellow member: The Shocking Truth behind Jindal’s Rejection of Health Care Reforms By Nomad
Following the Supreme Court’s decision, ruling that the Affordable Care Act was, after all, constitutional, all across the land one could hear the sound of the frying of the tiny shriveled brains of right wing conservatives. (It was no doubt made worse by those marvelous screw-ups from Fox and CNN.) Today’s decision is a blow to our freedoms. He didn’t even use all of his 144 characters to explain how our freedoms had precisely been blown. He left that to our imaginations. And later: The Court should have protected our constitutional freedoms, but remember it was the President that forced this law on us. http://nomadicpolitics.blogspot.com/2012/07/shocking-truth-behind-governor-jindals.html#more » Posted By bito On July 1, 2012 @ 2:12 pm Mitch McConnell: Covering 30 million uninsured is `not the issue’ Mitch McConnell’s appearance today on Fox News Sunday was remarkably revealing — it showed as clearly as you could want that the Supreme Court decision is finally forcing Republicans to declare what, exactly, they would replace Obamacare with if they realize their goal of repealing it entirely. Pressed by Chris Wallace to say what he would do to insure the 30 million people who will get insurance under Obamacare, McConnell at first dodged the question, instead launching into a litany of complaints about the law. He repeated the debunked claim that it would cut $500 billion from Medicare. Asked the question again by Wallace, McConnell actually laughed, and said he’d “get to it in a minute,” before claiming the best thing we can do for the health system overall is to get rid of the law and all of its “cuts” to health providers. He labeled Obamacare a “monstrosity” and vowed that there would not be a “2,700 page” Republican reform bill. Asked a third time how Republicans would insure those 30 million people, McConnell said: “That is not the issue. The question is how you can go step by step to improve the American health care system. McConnell can’t say how GOP will insure 30m after repealing ObamaCare Debunking the 500 million dollar Medicare cut. Did you hear anything new from Mitch? I sure didn’t….. Interstate insurance (which won’t legally or factually work, tort reform, which is just a straw man argument (look at Texas)and reform Medicare. That’s his idea of reform and the 30 million still don’t matter to him. » Posted By bito On July 1, 2012 @ 1:54 pm It is good, k’es and it’s one of those that I wish would go viral. » Posted By bito On July 1, 2012 @ 10:18 am “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” — John Kenneth Galbraith Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/02/2779934/the-gospel-of-selfishness.html#storylink=cpy » Posted By bito On June 30, 2012 @ 9:08 pm This has to be one of the best anti-GOP graphics on the web that I have seen. https://p.twimg.com/Awpbff_CMAIXcti.jpg:large » Posted By bito On June 30, 2012 @ 8:21 pm And he thinks that he has a chance to run for Prez later? he sure is getting a head start on the whole Nixononian cover-up thing, isn’t he? Protecting the inmates privacy? What about protecting the publics safety and the taxpayers money? The only thing he is protecting is the payouts to his pal(s) running the program and his political future (if there is any left) Rachel. I think) said that the cost to the program has gone up over 50-60% and it’s severing less inmates than previously. » Posted By bito On June 30, 2012 @ 5:25 pm Sally, I haven’t heard anything on it, but then I haven’t watched the local news for a couple of days. » Posted By bito On June 29, 2012 @ 11:51 pm What is with Nate Silver’s modeling? Holy guano Batman! June 29: Obama Rises to 67.8 Percent President Obama, who got good news in Thursday’s health care ruling, received more overnight on Friday when European leaders agreed to terms on a bank bailout. That sent the S.&P. 500 up by 2.5 percent on the hopes that this will reduce some of the downside risk in the economy. Since the stock market is one of the economic variables the model considers, Mr. Obama’s probability of winning the Electoral College rose with the European news, to 67.8 percent, his highest figure since we began publishing the model this month. More: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/june-29-obama-rises-to-67-8-percent/ » Posted By bito On June 29, 2012 @ 11:19 pm McClatchy had an article the other day going back to Raygun on House contempt charges and not a one has ever been prosecuted and much of the information the house wanted was eventually turned over. That is why most people know that this thing was a complete political dog and pony show. » Posted By bito On June 29, 2012 @ 3:00 pm They say that they are going to split the organization into two parts, entertainment and news. That’s interesting that they are now going to do news now. 😉 » Posted By bito On June 29, 2012 @ 2:42 pm John Dingell has never voted against the NRA in his lifetime—Until today. » Posted By bito On June 28, 2012 @ 1:20 pm That sentiment has been on twitter for a few days. Issa’s committee and his contempt charges has done more FOR gun control than the Brady gun control people have ever done. People are amazed and appalled at how easy it is to purchase large amounts of guns and resell them in AZ. » Posted By bito On June 28, 2012 @ 1:18 pm I think Justice Marshall sitting on the first supreme court pretty much decided that the commerce clause was close to unlimited, so I don’t know what is the fight he is fighting. Does he want to overturn all the decisions that have been decided using the commerce clause? Why do I have a feeling that that there will never be a citing of one of his opinions used in a decision. » Posted By bito On June 28, 2012 @ 11:32 am C’Lady, do you know what Mitt and the GOP are talking about when they say 20 million people will have to change their insurance? Are they talking about some will no longer be able to get the wasteful Medicare Advantage program? » Posted By bito On June 28, 2012 @ 9:44 am Nope I disagree, why don’t you hold the R’s to the same? They are the ones holding the votes and a handful of moderate Dems won’t make a bit of difference. Blaming them is exactly what the MSM might do. Blame the R’s! » Posted By bito On June 27, 2012 @ 7:03 pm Thanks Sue, this may blow up in the GOP’s face yet! » Posted By bito On June 27, 2012 @ 6:59 pm Read the article right below Sally, the egg may be all over Issa’s face if this article holds true. Don’t blame moderate Dems for one vote that may represent their district! Damn it, it’s the GOP and the RWNJ’s that need to be blamed. » Posted By bito On June 27, 2012 @ 6:06 pm So did Issa make up the whole Fast and Furious? Looks that way from this article in Fortune Magazine. F&F may end up with the conspiracy of PBO giving away the US islands to the Ruskies. The truth about the Fast and Furious scandal A Fortune investigation reveals that the ATF never intentionally allowed guns to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. How the world came to believe just the opposite is a tale of rivalry, murder, and political bloodlust. http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/27/fast-and-furious-truth/ There’s the rub. Quite simply, there’s a fundamental misconception at the heart of the Fast and Furious scandal. Nobody disputes that suspected straw purchasers under surveillance by the ATF repeatedly bought guns that eventually fell into criminal hands. Issa and others charge that the ATF intentionally allowed guns to walk as an operational tactic. But five law-enforcement agents directly involved in Fast and Furious tell Fortune that the ATF had no such tactic. They insist they never purposefully allowed guns to be illegally trafficked. Just the opposite: They say they seized weapons whenever they could but were hamstrung by prosecutors and weak laws, which stymied them at every turn. » Posted By bito On June 27, 2012 @ 5:53 pm And one more on Scalia:[img]http://bobcesca.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/foxNewsJustice.jpg[/img] » Posted By bito On June 27, 2012 @ 5:38 pm The American people WILL pay for it if they can afford it, many just can’t afford quality health insurance. » Posted By bito On June 27, 2012 @ 4:57 pm Considering his remarks I think you may mean “white face” and not white out. His remarks on states rights were taken from the constitution of the confederacy and not from the US constitution. » Posted By bito On June 27, 2012 @ 4:20 pm President Obama speaks at a picnic for members of Congress at 7 pm EDT Well that was short and sweet » Posted By bito On June 27, 2012 @ 4:15 pmComments Posted By bito
LA. is 48th in poverty and 45th in uninsured and he is bitching about setting up the exchanges and taking federal money at a 98% rate for medicaid?
Arse, it’s not about you Bobby, it’s about the people YOU are supposed to represent. Do you think they don’t want affordable healthcare?
I don’t quite understand how they think this type of campaign will work with the independents and undecideds. His next campaign stop is in Wyoming with Darth Cheney–how does that help, besides raise more money? Any Republican running should win Wyoming and Cheney’s negatives are probably close to 75%.
Yet it was the reaction from Governor Bobby Jindal from Louisiana seemed the most insincere.
Immediately following the announcement of the court’s decision, a flustered Jindal surely must have tweeted his fingers raw. He tweets:
http://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2012/jun/20/american-crossroads/american-crossroads-says-tim-kaine-urged-500-billi/
He’s on the path to complete jerkdom!
The ironic thing is that after Issa let it be known how easy it is to buy a shitload of guns and resell/give them away (straw purchases)in AZ, more people are talking about the need for some gun control. Senator Chavez (R-UT) a hard ass NRA senator was even talking about stronger laws on straw purchasers and gun shows that don’t require any background checks. Sorta blows Issa’s and the R’s conspiracy on Obama and Holder doing it to get stronger gun laws.
OMG, you don’t think it was Issa and the R’s who wanted stronger laws all this time, do you? 🙂
Put the blame where it belongs!
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