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Crazy Is In The Air

September 5, 2009 B. John 262 Views 0 Comments florida, Frank Pallone, health care, Jim Greer, medicare, Michelle Bachmann, reform, republicans, Students

This week, we had craziness at Walmart in Georgia, Michelle Bachmann coming through for us again, teabaggers berating a lady in a wheelchair at a health care town hall meeting, and Medicare recipient getting treatment for an injury he received while protesting government run health care. But we start with just a tiny bit of the foolishness being spewed over Obama speaking to school children about doing good in schools this year. What a sad place we’ve been brought to in this country by a small group of small-minded and easily manipulated people.

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Tortured Logic on Torture

April 26, 2009 B. John 323 Views 0 Comments america, Bush, cheney, Congress, Dick Cheney, mccain, republicans, secret, torture, V.P.

Sen. John McCain was on Face the Nation Sunday morning, and the contortions he went through to let the previous administration off the hook for their illegal torturing was astounding. He tried to claim that it was all just the result of some bad legal advice. Early in the interview McCain makes the claim that he believes no other Administration will ever make the same mistake (of using bad legal advice…I guess), and torture again.

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Healthcare: Government Bureaucrats or Insurance Company Executives

March 8, 2009 B. John 227 Views 0 Comments Democrats, healthcare, Insurance Companies, Obama, republicans, Universal Healthcare

Choose your poison. I don’t know the final best answer to the healthcare crisis in this country, but I know it’s a mess, and it has to be fixed. I know one thing that is an absolute certainty. This problem will never be solved until the insurance companies and their influence are removed completely from the process.

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Gotta Love Chuck Schumer

February 24, 2009September 29, 2018 B. John 207 Views 0 Comments Bobby Jindal, Chuck Schumer, Economic Stimulus Package, Haley Barbour, Obama, republicans

Chuck Schumer is calling bullshit on these Republican Governors who are grandstanding on the stimulus bill. According to Talking Points Memo Schumer has written a letter to the White House saying the stimulus bill does not include any provision allowing Governors to pick and choose which parts of the stimulus money they want to take. Schumer is telling the Administration to tell the governors that it’s all-or-nothing.

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Republicans Continue to Fall Back In It

February 5, 2009 B. John 196 Views 0 Comments GOP, Jim DeMint, Obama, republicans, Stimulus Package

As in “Shit and fall back in it.” The Republican plans were completely repudiated in the last election, they are scrambling to try to dress up the brand, and their only solution is to try and obstruct an economic recovery. It seems they went off to their big annual meeting, and applauded each other because every one of the Republicans in Congress voted No on the economic stimulus package.

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2008 Election Wrap-up

November 10, 2008September 29, 2018 B. John 201 Views 0 Comments Campaigns, Democracy, Democrats, mccain, Obama, Palin, republicans, Right Wingnuts, voters, voting

Last Tuesday night/Wednesday morning was certainly a bittersweet time. As I’ve said before, I’m not one of the millions of Obama-maniacs, but I was glad he won. I think America will soon be in far better hands than she is now. I was even more pleased to see a good number of hateful and bigoted Republicans kicked to curb, and their nasty campaign rhetoric repudiated. Obviously though, the passage of the three anti-marriage amendments was a great disappointment. In this post, I’ll provide my observations on where we are now relative to the election.

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The McCain Hate Talk Express Barrels Through North Carolina

October 21, 2008 B. John 284 Views 0 Comments 2008 Election, Hate Speech, John McCain, liar, lie, Lying, republicans, Robin Hayes, U.S. House of Representative, U.S. Representative

The current political climate and the divisiveness of modern campaigns is an embarrassment to this country. The politicians have found they can just lie without remorse, because there seems to be no accountability. As someone once said, in a democracy, we get the government we deserve. We let this crap work, so it’s what we get. I for one, hereby today and forthwith take a stand to say NO…NO MORE…to this kind of bull shit. U.S. Representative Robin Hayes (R, NC) made the following statement at a rally a few days ago, “Folks, there’s a real America. Liberals hate real Americans that work and achieve and believe in God.” Then had temerity to blatantly lie and say he never said…the recording of his comments notwithstanding.

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Canned Goods and Ammo

September 29, 2008September 29, 2018 353 Views 0 Comments Bush, Bush Administration, Credit Market, De-regulation, Dow Jones, Economy, jobs, John McCain, Recession, republicans, Stock Market, Wall Street

I’ve been joking with a co-worker this afternoon that, given what happened today with the economic bailout package, and Wall Street’s reaction, we need to get to the grocery store to buy canned goods and ammo. Unfortunately, that may not be too far from reality. Most of the Republicans, and enough Democrats voted against the bail out plan that it failed and the Dow Jones Industrial Average nose-dived over 777 points. That’s the largest one day drop ever.

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God Makes It Up to John McCain

September 2, 2008 B. John 215 Views 0 Comments Dick Cheney, george bush, hurricanes, John McCain, lobbyist, Republican National Convention, republicans

Apparently some of the krazy kristian kooks had been praying for, and asking others to pray for, rain in Denver during Obama’s acceptance speech. Obviously it didn’t happen, and the Democrats had a perfect evening, so clearly our Republican God was asleep at the switch. But, just when the fundies were about to lose faith, God made it up to them and sent a hurricane to save the day.

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