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VIP State Health Care Exposed, or “GOP Tea Party Hypocrisy of the Day”
Last year, political neophyte Rick Scott spent $73 million of his own money to bring the tea party’s anti-government, pro-privatization agenda to the Florida governor’s office. Today, the former executive pays just $30 a month for health care—and lets taxpayers cover the rest…
Scott and his dependents pay one-fifth what a janitor in the state Capitol pays for health insurance… and less than 3 percent of what a retired state trooper pays for life-saving coverage.
(Source: Mother Jones)
Jon Stewart calls Megyn Kelly out on her hypocrisy regarding maternity leave and benefits.
Jon, I want to blow you.
Megyn Kelly: Typical right-wing hypocrite. — Ryking
Life can be a challenge, life can seem impossible, but it’s never easy when there’s so much on the line.
GOP Presidential Candidate Herman Cain, who keeps quoting this line from the theme from Pokémon: The Movie 2000 on the campaign trail. He attributes it to “a poet”. (via nedhepburn)
(Source: ericmortensen)
Rick Perry and the Hucksterism of the Rich
Juan Cole:
Perry is in the American tradition of the huckster and the booster, the snake oil salesman who promises you a cure for what ails you that turns out to be one part pretty words and another part dream castle. He is no Jack Kemp, who saw social problems and sought fixes for them in the private sector or in public-private partnerships. Perry sees no problems that can’t be fixed by slashing taxes further on our 400 billionaires and then holding prayer meetings for the unemployed. This blindness is not an accident. The Republican Supreme Court’s interference in election campaign reform has ensured that the super-wealthy in this country can get the best politicians money can buy into office.
The preference of the campaign funders for colorful and slightly unbalanced fanatics sure to do their bidding is probably unwise, since in its pure form Ayn Rand selfishness among the rich is unlovely in the eyes of the public, especially when espoused by attractive neurotics. Perry has an advantage denied to the Bachmanns and the Palins, of being well-spoken and seeming like a normal person; but his positions do not materially differ from most of theirs.
And so our national debate is stunted and distorted. Instead of arguing over the best ways of dealing with our most pressing problems, we are reduced to disputing about whether a problem even exists. The latter is a rhetorical device of wealthy special interests designed to derail the ordinary workings of democracy. Perry is among their would-be standard-bearers.
"Republican U.S. presidential candidate Michele Bachmann offered a 'happy birthday' message to the late singer Elvis Presley on Monday, even though August 16 is the anniversary of his death in 1977."
Can’t this idiot afford a fact-checker? Does she not know how to use a search engine like Google? It’s gaffe after gaffe with this moron and yet she’s arrogant enough to think she can be president.
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[A]s someone who was a leader in the White House that turned a record surplus into a deficit, that got us involved in a war that we never should have been in, and turned the floor of the New York stock exchange into a casino, I don’t think the American people are quite ready to hear a lecture from you on good governance.
Former White House spokesman Bill Burton, shredding Karl Rove on Faux News this morning. (via ryking)
let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.
martin luther king, jr., “i’ve been on the mountaintop,” speech delivered on april 3rd, 1968 at the mason temple in memphis, tennessee a day before mlk was assassinated. (via nosex)
…that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.
Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on registering the poor to vote?
Because they know the poor can be counted on to vote themselves more benefits by electing redistributionist politicians. Welfare recipients are particularly open to demagoguery and bribery.
Registering them to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals. It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country - which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously supports registering welfare recipients to vote.
Because they know the poor can be counted on to vote themselves more benefits by electing redistributionist politicians. Welfare recipients are particularly open to demagoguery and bribery.
Registering them to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals. It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country - which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously supports registering welfare recipients to vote.
Conservative columnist Matthew Vadum, in his column “Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American” for The American Thinker.
I literally do not know what to say this, other than the subtlety used in the past by folks like Vadum is dead. They do not want those in poverty to vote for fear their rich cronies will no longer be able to buy political clout. The richest 1% have 1% of the vote. 99% of the vote belongs to those outside of the top income brackets.
Never fear, Mr. Vadum. Citizens United v. FEC has your back. I’ll tell you what’s un-American: Decrying the empowerment of the impoverished via the last vestiges of the democratic process we have left in this country. To insist that a person is defined by what one owns versus who one is - that’s profoundly un-American.
You sir, are attempting to establish a new aristocracy in this country, a pseudo-royalty if you will. I believe the Founding Fathers might have a bigger problem with that than with the poor voting.
(via squeetothegee)
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(via newwavefeminism)
Umm, American history? Anyone remember the first group to be given the right to vote after rich, land owning men? I’ll give you a hint. It starts with “NON LANDOWNING” and ends with “WHITE MEN”.
(via chauvinistsushi)
Proof that disenfranchisement is alive and well in the good ol’ US of A. This is sickening.
(via drinkthe-koolaid)
Disgusting
(Source: americanthinker.com)
I refuse to believe corporations are people until Texas executes one.
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