Displaying 2,161 To 2,190 Of 16,275 Comments Very good Khirad! Professor Cole hit all the points in a short a concise post. » Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 3:14 pm Happening right now: Audio: Sanders Weighs in on Ryan Budget Ryan plan: Back to the ’20’s Edit: Never mind–program concluded 🙂 » Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 2:41 pm Khirad, I really don’t know enough about it to argue on way or the other, not on my radar. The little I have read was on the economic ties and Scotland is dependent on the UK. Like I say, I don’t really know enough about it. » Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 2:29 pm Why should they get away with it now, are they not being vetted by the public even in the primaries? Why should Romney be rewarded with a 47% to 47% in the polls with his lying? Is there a different standard given for primaries than the GE on lies by the 4th estate? Why? To maintain the horse race in the media? » Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 2:21 pm Why would they? More like “The Mouse that Roared,” declare war, surrender and then apply for foreign aid. 😉 » Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 2:09 pm The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism—ownership of government by an individual, by a group. —Franklin Delano Roosevelt » Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 1:59 pm But a third party run would be fun and nothing is stopping from doing that. I wouldn’t put it past her, or at least talk about doing it, anything to keep her name in the kliegs. » Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 1:53 pm Well said KQ, anyone that has followed politics for any length of time expects some amount of exaggerations and prevarications and the politicians were usually called out on them by the media. That doesn’t seem to happen much anymore during this age of “balance.” There seems to be a great fear of being called partisan if one points out the lies. Lies are lies. The media finds a need to have a flat-earther on spewing their opinions if they have someone showing a globe. Bunch of typing to say I totally agree with you and it is a sad reflection on our country. » Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 1:48 pm k’es, That bumper sticker is perfect! It’s a keeper! » Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 1:06 pm The difficulty of fact checking Romney is that he says so little that include facts. » Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 12:18 pm Hey R’s still have a problem with Romney? Don’t despair! A Conservative Calls for a Third Party Palin Run Over at Westernjournalism.com, Kriz Zane has written an interesting piece suggesting that the way for conservatives to get out of the Romney predicament is for Sarah Palin to run as an independent. Zane seems to have gone through a genesis on this campaign not unlike my own, in that originally, Sarah Palin was Zane’s chosen candidate, but when that campaign didn’t materialize, the switch ultimately went to Newt Gingrich. What Zane argues, and I’m not entirely certain I agree, is that it seems for some reason that Gingrich is simply not acceptable to too many people, and of course, much like me, Zane finds Romney deplorable at best, and certain to get Obama re-elected. What is a conservative to do? Zane has decided to ask that Sarah Palin seek the presidency as a Tea Party candidate. http://markamerica.com/2012/04/01/a-conservative-calls-for-a-third-party-palin-run/ Hmmm, now I wonder who she will pick as her running mate!?! Cantor? » Posted By bito On April 3, 2012 @ 9:26 pm And Paul Ryan is doing that exact thing right now, with Willard opening up his speech with it. » Posted By bito On April 3, 2012 @ 6:52 pm KQ, you’re right about how openly the R’s condemn any good news for the US or bills that would help the country they are and they aren’t bashful about it or employing lies to get there. More to the point, LaForest said UAW workers remained confident in the Volt’s propensity for success, and that many at the plant were bewildered and angered by the verbal attacks on the American-made car by Republican Presidential candidates Mitt Romney on Tuesday and earlier, Newt Gingrich. “Anybody who’s been in a Volt knows it’s not a boondoggle, they know it’s for real,” LaForest told TPM. “I don’t think Newt or Mitt have said a single negative thing about the Nissan Leaf,” (the Volt’s Japanese competitor). “They’re attacking our car to get at the President,” LaForest told TPM. “But our car is going to change the way America does business. It’s a breath of fresh air.” » Posted By bito On April 3, 2012 @ 6:28 pm Well she is an authority on the subject after so many years practicing the lack of objectivity. Not just practicing it, she is a proponent of it. Scheeesh! » Posted By bito On April 3, 2012 @ 6:10 pm Three Charts Illustrating Two Different Visions for Our Nation The President believes this is a make or break moment for the middle class and those working to reach it. That’s why he has put forward a blueprint for an economy built to last – one where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules. Today at the Associated Press Luncheon, the President discussed how his vision differs with the radical vision laid out in the House Republican Budget: “This Congressional Republican budget, however, is something different altogether. It’s a Trojan Horse. Disguised as deficit reduction plan, it’s really an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country. It’s nothing but thinly-veiled Social Darwinism…….. [….] The President’s approach to reducing our deficit is a balanced approach that asks the wealthiest to pay their fair share, achieves significant health savings and enacts sensible spending cuts while making the investments we need to have a strong middle class. Take a look at how the President’s approach and the Congressional Republican policies stack up side by side:…… Here’s the facts, here’s the chart’s, now R’s answer these with out using your empty slogans. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/04/03/three-charts-illustrating-two-different-visions-our-nation » Posted By bito On April 3, 2012 @ 3:33 pm Sally if the R’s keep this attack on women up, they will be down to 10% of all women voting for them, fundies and faux watchers. » Posted By bito On April 3, 2012 @ 2:49 pm Molly Ivins said in one of her books when there was a move to further restrict abortion about how that at least 1/3 of all fertilized eggs are left in menstrual flow. She asked, in her dry humorous way, “what now funerals for all Tampax and charging women with having an illegal abortion due to a spontaneous abortion?” I wish I had her quote, she made it, the new law, sound so ridiculous, just like this new AZ law. » Posted By bito On April 3, 2012 @ 2:45 pm And this is a very good example of it I think. In one sentence he compares cancer to a face lift and says that is the reason that HC costs are increasing. This makes no sense. ROMNEY: If you’re unfortunate enough to get a very serious condition and you have the insurance most people have. You pay the deductible and then it’s free! And so, you’ll go to a doctor and a hospital. You’d never think of asking about how much it’s going to cost because you don’t pay the bill — the insurance company does. In other countries like Switzerland, they have the patient pay 20 percent of the bill for elective surgeries and of course if it’s an emergency they don’t. But that gives you the chance to shop around….I’m also not naive enough to think that there would be a heck of a lot of problems that would be better run if we got the government out and turned back to the free market. No it’s not free Willard, that’s what insurance does, it takes the money and makes the bet you won’t get sicker and how did elective surgery in Switzerland even get involved in the discussion? Romney Would Lower Health Costs By Asking Patients To Pay More For Their Benefits » Posted By bito On April 3, 2012 @ 2:12 pm The Transcript: Remarks by the President at the Associated Press Luncheon » Posted By bito On April 3, 2012 @ 12:35 pm First of all: I do not live in The City of Tucson and the school board where I live is not the Tucson School Board nor did I vote for the ignorant member shown in this video. Just wanted to make that clear! 🙂 Tucson’s Mexican-American Studies Ban Al Madrigal travels to Arizona, where the powerful evidence of hearsay convinced the Tucson school board to ban Mexican-American studies programs. Another fact to clear up: It wasn’t the Tucson SB that banned this course, the state idiots coerced them to close the program. » Posted By bito On April 3, 2012 @ 12:04 pm Cher, the replay is here: http://www.c-span.org/Events/President-Obama-Speaks-on-Budget-at-Associated-Press-Luncheon/10737429590/ 🙂 I just said that to AdLib about the transcript, it would be a keeper for me! » Posted By bito On April 3, 2012 @ 11:24 am That was good speech AdLib with the “just the facts ma’am” approach. You’re right about the using all those points in a debate with Romney, it would be a debacle. The speech does not have an embed code yet but the replay can be seen here for those that missed it: I really would like to read a transcript of the speech! » Posted By bito On April 3, 2012 @ 11:21 am Something more to scream at Kalima! Arizona Legislators Trying To Declare Pregnancy Two Weeks Prior To Conception ….But one of the other favorite anti-choice approaches to maximizing the pain and suffering of women as punishment for sex has largely gone unnoticed by many outside of the pro-choice activist community: bans on abortions after 20 weeks. It’s understandable that it’s hard to whip people up about this particular situation. After all, abortions after 20 weeks are relatively rare. Only 1.5% of abortions occur after the 20th week, and the vast majority of those that do occur are done for medical reasons, or because legal and financial obstacles–like those put in place by lawmakers–caused a delay. [….] now looking for ways to expand the amount of hard right anti-choice nonsense they can attach to those bills. The most recent—and extreme—example is Arizona. There, lawmakers are writing a 20-week abortion ban that starts counting off at the first day of a woman’s period. Yes, they’re arguing that you’re “pregnant” while you’re actually getting your period. […] In fact, as Kate Sheppard at Mother Jones explains, they’re really trying to steal as many weeks as possible away from women seeking abortion: Most women ovulate about 14 or 15 days after their period starts, and women can usually get pregnant from sexual intercourse that occured anywhere between five days before ovulation and a day after it. Arizona’s law would start the clock at a woman’s last period—which means, in practice, that the law prohibits abortion later than 18 weeks after a woman actually becomes pregnant. Where does the crap end? Are women going to have to start filling out an official form and file it with the state when ever the have sex? Maybe a video that is date stamped or a member of the legislature sitting in the bedroom filing out forms. Will they need a second witness and a notary there too? » Posted By bito On April 3, 2012 @ 10:59 am Talk about all those pesky facts, PBO has been citing them the whole speech! » Posted By bito On April 3, 2012 @ 10:06 am Live PBO speaking at AP writers: LIVE EVENT CONCLUDED, REPLAY AVAILABLE HERE: And Transcript available here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/04/03/remarks-president-associated-press-luncheon?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl » Posted By bito On April 3, 2012 @ 10:03 am AdLib, I was unable to be online most of the day and was wondering if anyone noticed that Rev Al brought up our conversation about how important the EMT report would have been if he had such a terrible beating. Odd that he the ambulance for Mr.Z was cancelled, wasn’t it? Seems he got over that life threatening attack rather quickly. » Posted By bito On April 2, 2012 @ 10:23 pm At 11th Hour, Georgia Passes “Women As Livestock” Bill fter an emotional 14-hour workday that included fist-fights between lobbyists and a walk-out by women Democrats, the Georgia House passed a Senate-approved bill Thursday night that criminalizes abortion after 20 weeks. The bill, which does not contain rape or incest exemptions, is expected to receive a signature from Republican Gov. Nathan Deal. Commonly referred to as the “fetal pain bill” by Georgian Republicans and as the “women as livestock bill” by everyone else, HB 954 garnered national attention this month when state Rep. Terry England (R-Auburn) compared pregnant women carrying stillborn fetuses to the cows and pigs on his farm. According to Rep. England and his warped thought process, if farmers have to “deliver calves, dead or alive,” then a woman carrying a dead fetus, or one not expected to survive, should have to carry it to term. The bill as first proposed outlawed all abortions after 20 weeks under all circumstances. After negotiations with the Senate, the House passed a revised HB 954 that makes an exemption for “medically futile” pregnancies or those in which the woman’s life or health is threatened. When are these a**holes going to learn to not compare their mothers, sisters,wives–all women to live stock? Can’t they read the polls and see that women are leaving the Republican party in droves? » Posted By bito On April 2, 2012 @ 10:16 pm Sue, see AdLibs answer below and mine in HELP. Writers crosspost all the time, why not you? Unless you are being paid the big bucks are under contract or syndication, I can see no reason why you can’t. » Posted By bito On April 1, 2012 @ 8:20 pm WASHINGTON—As the Supreme Court hears oral arguments today on President Obama’s health care reform law, plaintiffs aiming to strike down the legislation are citing the U.S. Constitution’s Kids-With-Pre-Existing-Conditions-Can-Go-Fuck-Themselves clause, which decrees that children who suffer from debilitating illnesses prior to acquiring health insurance “should just go straight to hell.” “It explicitly states in Article 4, Section 9 that ‘children with extant disorders unable to pay exorbitant premium fees can just fucking die for all we care, especially the ones with leukemia.'” attorney Paul D. Clement told the nine jurists during his opening statement. “Thus the current law is on its face unconstitutional. The Founding Fathers clearly wanted to force doctors to turn away youth with acute asthma so the nation’s children would turn blue in the face, go into cardiac arrest, and die in their own homes.” Legal experts noted that if this argument fails, plaintiffs would undoubtedly cite the 24th Amendment’s If-You-Don’t-Have-Health-Insurance-Already-You-Must-Be-A-Poor-Fuck-Who-Doesn’t-Deserve-It-Anyway provision. I disagree with this argument, I’m pretty sure it’s in the 4th article 3rd clause where it says “just let em die.” » Posted By bito On April 1, 2012 @ 7:47 pm Do people in the United States have a right to health care? Duh, Sue, just waking up from one of my many naps! » Posted By bito On April 1, 2012 @ 6:34 pmComments Posted By bito
Something in one of the comments got me thinking, how much money does Mitt have invested in oil companies, the producers, the drillers, the shipping companies? Is he making money as their profits rise?
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/media/listen/?m=635b3776-e151-4270-a454-ccdd4393ac59
Call me an idealist, but I’m sick and tired of it.
After being a political junkie for many years, I don’t recall anytime when the lies by Romney flew so fast and constant and go unchallenged, his whole campaign is based on lies.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that the DNC has some sort of slush fund that pays her to be on shows like ‘The Today Show.’ The more she talks she gives airheads a good name.
She is now pushing for Romney to pick Allen West as VP! Watch him offend even Republican women enough to not vote for Romney.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/04/03/457116/romney-would-lower-health-costs-by-asking-patients-to-pay-more-for-their-benefits/
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