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Posts Tagged ‘gop’
Does This Guy Represent the Majority of Americans? Really?!
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Today’s News
Monday, August 31st, 2009Kennedy Mourners Memorialize ‘Soul of the Democratic Party’ – The nation said final farewell on Saturday to Edward M. Kennedy, who used his privileged life to give consistent, passionate voice to the underprivileged for nearly a half-century as a United States senator from Massachusetts.
Chris Wallace, A Teenage Girl Interviewing The Jonas Brothers – When it comes to Cheney, one of the most incompetent vice-presidents in the country’s history, with a record of two grotesquely botched wars, war crimes and a crippling debt, Chris Wallace sounds like a teenage girl interviewing the Jonas Brothers.
Michael Steele on NPR
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Columns of the Week
Friday, August 7th, 2009Republicans Propagating Falsehoods in Attacks on Health-Care Reform – The recent attacks by Republican leaders and their ideological fellow-travelers on the effort to reform the health-care system have been so misleading, so disingenuous, that they could only spring from a cynical effort to gain partisan political advantage.
A Tip for The GOP: Look Away – A telling anecdote recounted by Pat Buchanan to New Yorker writer George Packer last year captures the dark spirit that still hovers around the GOP. In 1966 Buchanan and Richard Nixon were at the Wade Hampton Hotel in Columbia, S.C., where Nixon worked a crowd into a frenzy: “Buchanan recalls that the room was full of sweat, cigar smoke, and rage; the rhetoric, which was about patriotism and law and order, ‘burned the paint off the walls.’ As they left the hotel, Nixon said, ‘This is the future of this Party, right here in the South.’”
The Berserk ‘Birthers’ – If there’s been a more clinically insane political phenomenon in my lifetime than the “birthers,” I’ve missed it. Is this what our national discourse has come to? Sheer paranoid fantasy?
Leader Of GOP Health Care “Solutions Group” Says GOP Won’t Offer Health Care Bill
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009From The Plum Line:
National Dems think they’ve caught a prominent Republican in another major health care gaffe, and they say they’re planning on banging away at it all day today.
The gaffe in question: GOP Rep. Roy Blunt has now said Republicans won’t offer a health care bill of their own, breaking a previous promise. Worse, it turns out Blunt is chair of something called the “House GOP Health Care Solutions Group.”
Blunt’s quote went up online late yesterday evening:
“Our bill is never going to get to the floor, so why confuse the focus? We clearly have principles; we could have language, but why start diverting attention from this really bad piece of work they’ve got to whatever we’re offering right now?”
That’s a pretty stark admission that Republicans won’t introduce their own bill solely because they think it’s better politics to keep the focus on the Democrats.
It gets better. Head over to the House GOP Health Care Solutions Group’s Web site, and you’ll find prominent video of Blunt vowing the GOP is “drafting our own legislation.”
Former Insurance Exec Explains How Insurance Companies Fight Against Healthcare Reform
Monday, July 13th, 2009From Bill Moyers Journal:
“With almost 20 years inside the health insurance industry, Wendell Potter saw for-profit insurers hijack our health care system and put profits before patients. Now, he speaks with Bill Moyers about how those companies are standing in the way of health care reform.”
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Race-Based Scare Tactics Again?
Thursday, June 25th, 2009Think Angry Black Man meets Mussolini. How is it possible to distort volunteer efforts to strengthen communities into an evil, oppressive government forcing its citizens to do its bidding? TownHall.com will show you how!
Notice the quotes around ‘encouraged’ in the article; suggesting that the government is taking note of and will punish those who want comply. Does anyone take these guys serously?
[Snapshot from TownHall.com Homepage]
If you are a glutton for idiocy, read the TownHall article here.
SHOCKER: Buchanan Prefers “The Old Bigotry” To Affirmative Action
Monday, June 15th, 2009OK, we know it’s not exactly breaking news that Pat Buchanan holds some views that are borderline racist, to put it mildly. But this one is just too blatant to pass up.
In his latest column for Human Events — a forum he often uses to air opinions that wouldn’t fly during his regular gigs as a commentator on MSNBC — Buchanan writes that he “prefers the old bigotry” to the Ivy League affirmative action policies that may have benefited Sonia Sotomayor, because “at least it was honest.”