Cruz: Americans Could Get “Addicted” to Obamacare
by Jay Root
August 19, 2013
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has come home to Texas to promote his long-shot bid to defund “Obamacare,” warning Tea Party activists Monday that they have only a few months to stop the health care reform law before people get “addicted” to it.
Cruz, who has thrilled his conservative base with his promise to shake up business as usual in Washington, says that once the insurance subsidies kick in at the beginning of 2014, it will be too late to undo the Affordable Care Act.
He said that is precisely President Obama’s goal.
“His strategy is to get as many Americans as possible hooked on the subsidies, addicted to the sugar,” Cruz told a Kingwood Tea Party gathering. “If we get to Jan. 1, this thing is here forever.”
I posted last night about the new Al-Jazeera America channel (358 on DirecTV). I only watched about an hour of it last night, but was reasonably impressed. They covered child labor in Bangladesh (making clothes for Old Navy) and went inside a prison in New Orleans.
A little rough around the edges (they cut out in the middle of one segment to run commercials for the channel – oops), but overall about a million times better than CNN. Not that the bar set by the likes of Jake Tapper has been set very high, granted.
Generous donor pays for shopping spree for more than 90 kids
More than 90 low-income students from White Center will be able to
shop for back-to-school clothes because of the generosity of a Seattle
woman. For a decade, Mrs. Jean Renny has been donating money to the Salvation Army so that kids could buy what they need for the new school year. This year she is giving $20,000 to the Salvation Army for the shopping spree. The kids will receive $200 each to spend at JCPenney Tuesday morning.[….]
The first thing we have to do, as a country, is STOP being afraid to speak the truth. Blacks are racists and Democrats are the Islamic-Anti- Christian movement.
AND they mean to take over the country and destroy everything that was good.
We mamby – pamby around afraid of offending everyone. Enuf’ that has gotten us nowhere. They do not want peace or equality or fairness, or a civil society. They want to destroy.
Speak the truth.
Oh yes, please stop trying not to offend everyone. PLEEZ!
You begin by asking her all the embarrassing questions.
“When was the last time you and that letch you masquerade around with like a ‘couple’ were actually in bed together naked?”
Genius! Focus on the sex like of a woman old enough to be a grandmother! Electoral gold!
If God wanted to, he could snuff the she-devil out in an instant. Same with barry. No, IMO we are now under judgement as a country for turning our collective backs on God, and God is using the two of them as part of that judgement upon us.
There you go. Obamacare was really God’s idea.
12.
Hal
@rikyrah: I’ve believed for a long time that Republicans great fear is Obamacare being an overall hit and they are left looking like the hacks they truly bare. What else do they have to run on in 2014/2016? The ACA has to fail in order for them to have any type of winning platform, but they can’t leave that up to chance.
Rutgers experiment draws national attention by helping 163 urban kids get to college – Posted 08/04/2013
Five years ago, Rutgers University began a grand experiment. What would happen if the university put nearly 200 low-income kids in an intensive multiyear program to get them ready for college and offered them free tuition to Rutgers if they stuck with it? The results of the program, called Rutgers Future Scholars, are better than anyone at the university expected.
Out of the 183 students who started the program as seventh-graders, 163 are headed to college this fall — including 98 to Rutgers on full scholarships, school officials said. Nearly all will be among the first in their families to attend college. “I’m very excited — it even beats the state graduation rate,” said Courtney McAnuff, Rutgers’ vice president for enrollment management. “It’s just been phenomenal.”[….]
Democratic Push For Voting Reform In All 50 States Has GOP Frothing At The Mouth
[….] Last week, a 50-state initiative was rolled out by a new nonprofit organization run by Michael Sargeant, the executive director of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. The group takes back language co-opted by conservatives, naming itself American Values First. The intent of the group is to push voting reforms that will make it a whole lot easier for all who are eligible to vote.
First of all, Democrats will push states to adopt legislation that requires all elections to be conducted by mail.[….] Secondly, Dems will push for states to enact universal registration, putting the responsibility for registration on state governments — for instance, by tying automatic registration of eligible voters to issuing drivers’ licenses. Such a bill failed by just one vote in Oregon last year. Rep. Lew Frederick, D-Portland, will reintroduce it in January, 2014.[….]
“His strategy is to get as many Americans as possible hooked on the subsidies, addicted to the sugar,” Cruz told a Kingwood Tea Party gathering. “If we get to Jan. 1, this thing is here forever.”
People used to say the same thing about book learning and voting.
Dallas County Joins Federal Voter Identification Lawsuit
August 20, 2013 5:28 PM
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — After a fairly heated discussion, Dallas County commissioners voted 3-2 to join the federal voting rights challenge to Texas’ new voter ID law, which requires voters to present photo identification to vote in person.
County Judge Clay Jenkins and commissioners Theresa Daniel and John Wiley Price, all Democrats, voted for the measure. Democrat Elba Garcia and Republican Mike Cantrell voted against joining the suit.
Garcia voiced concerns about the cost and was hoping for more time to review, and Cantrell said the county shouldn’t use county funds for a partisan fight.
The Justice Department sued Texas in 2011, alleging the law discriminated against minority voters. The ID law wasn’t enforced due to conflicts with the U.S. Voting Rights Act. When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down parts of the act earlier this year, the state reinstated the law.
A significant chunk of Louisiana Republicans evidently believe that President Barack Obama is to blame for the poor response to the hurricane that ravaged their state more than three years before he took office.
@The Red Pen: Wow, so, uh, God’s judgments went from fire and brimstone falling from the heavens and consuming a city to letting my wife have health insurance that covers her pre-existing conditions and giving us a tax break?
By that guy’s standards, I really need to get out there and start sinning more, so God will judge me with a winning PowerBall ticket.
31.
ruemara
Doug, Ima let you finish, but Rikyah has the best info gathering chain of all tyme!
Thanks, Rikyah, lots of good things to read there and some nice things, too.
32.
Ahh says fywp
Theres an awesome Czech ballad about Spielberg (castle) prison, but I don’t know the name.
“His strategy is to get as many Americans as possible hooked on the subsidies, addicted to the sugar,” Cruz told a Kingwood Tea Party gathering. “If we get to Jan. 1, this thing is here forever.”
The sugar being ‘access to affordable health care and preventative medicine’, which this Senator (Thanks for that soooo much, Texas) would rather deny you and force you into penury or getting all your health care needs at the ER.
35.
scav
@Trollhattan: Looks as though there’s a more a politically tinged version / tradition running through jug bands and Blind Blake as well. some info /alt lyrics here
36.
MikeJ
The Midnight Special
37.
gbear
How To Make Gravy by the great Australian artist Paul Kelly. Everyone should know about this guy.
And the sky is black and still now
Up on the hill where the angels sing
Ain’t it funny how an old broken bottle
Looks just like a diamond ring
But it’s far, far from me
United Parcel Service Inc. plans to remove thousands of spouses from its medical plan because they are eligible for coverage elsewhere. The Atlanta-based logistics company points to the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, as a big reason for the decision, reports Kaiser Health News.
57.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
rikyrah
Cruz: Americans Could Get “Addicted” to Obamacare
by Jay Root
August 19, 2013
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has come home to Texas to promote his long-shot bid to defund “Obamacare,” warning Tea Party activists Monday that they have only a few months to stop the health care reform law before people get “addicted” to it.
Cruz, who has thrilled his conservative base with his promise to shake up business as usual in Washington, says that once the insurance subsidies kick in at the beginning of 2014, it will be too late to undo the Affordable Care Act.
He said that is precisely President Obama’s goal.
“His strategy is to get as many Americans as possible hooked on the subsidies, addicted to the sugar,” Cruz told a Kingwood Tea Party gathering. “If we get to Jan. 1, this thing is here forever.”
http://www.texastribune.org/2013/08/19/cruz-warns-americans-could-get-addicted-obamacare/
tybee
30 days in the hole
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdXjm8pZMws
or 30 years….
zombie rotten mcdonald
Hello Dad
Joel
Handle Your Time.
Comrade Jake
I posted last night about the new Al-Jazeera America channel (358 on DirecTV). I only watched about an hour of it last night, but was reasonably impressed. They covered child labor in Bangladesh (making clothes for Old Navy) and went inside a prison in New Orleans.
A little rough around the edges (they cut out in the middle of one segment to run commercials for the channel – oops), but overall about a million times better than CNN. Not that the bar set by the likes of Jake Tapper has been set very high, granted.
Suzanne
Social D, Ball and Chain.
The Ancient Randonneur
So what happened to the Daily Caller thread? Was David Allan Coe really drunk the day his mom got out of prison?
MikeJ
What Jail is Like – Afghan Whigs
cckids
I’ve got nothing on the jail songs, unless you want more Johnny Cash, I’ve always liked “Cocaine Blues”
On what can feel like another type of imprisonment, a relative has written a book about living with Alzheimers, from the point of view of the person who has it. It is a FREE download at Amazon today, if you’d like to take a look : http://www.amazon.com/All-the-Dancing-Birds-ebook/dp/B008VI1KGG/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1376947056&sr=8-1&keywords=All+the+dancing+birds
rikyrah
Generous donor pays for shopping spree for more than 90 kids
More than 90 low-income students from White Center will be able to
shop for back-to-school clothes because of the generosity of a Seattle
woman. For a decade, Mrs. Jean Renny has been donating money to the Salvation Army so that kids could buy what they need for the new school year. This year she is giving $20,000 to the Salvation Army for the shopping spree. The kids will receive $200 each to spend at JCPenney Tuesday morning.[….]
http://www.king5.com/news/local/Elderly-woman-pays-for-shopping-spree-for-kids-220288861.html
The Red Pen
Unintentional comedy of the day from Free Republic.
Samples:
Oh yes, please stop trying not to offend everyone. PLEEZ!
Genius! Focus on the sex like of a woman old enough to be a grandmother! Electoral gold!
There you go. Obamacare was really God’s idea.
Hal
@rikyrah: I’ve believed for a long time that Republicans great fear is Obamacare being an overall hit and they are left looking like the hacks they truly bare. What else do they have to run on in 2014/2016? The ACA has to fail in order for them to have any type of winning platform, but they can’t leave that up to chance.
rikyrah
Rutgers experiment draws national attention by helping 163 urban kids get to college – Posted 08/04/2013
Five years ago, Rutgers University began a grand experiment. What would happen if the university put nearly 200 low-income kids in an intensive multiyear program to get them ready for college and offered them free tuition to Rutgers if they stuck with it? The results of the program, called Rutgers Future Scholars, are better than anyone at the university expected.
Out of the 183 students who started the program as seventh-graders, 163 are headed to college this fall — including 98 to Rutgers on full scholarships, school officials said. Nearly all will be among the first in their families to attend college. “I’m very excited — it even beats the state graduation rate,” said Courtney McAnuff, Rutgers’ vice president for enrollment management. “It’s just been phenomenal.”[….]
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/08/experimental_rutgers_program_helps_163_urban_kids_get_to_college.html
rikyrah
Democratic Push For Voting Reform In All 50 States Has GOP Frothing At The Mouth
[….] Last week, a 50-state initiative was rolled out by a new nonprofit organization run by Michael Sargeant, the executive director of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. The group takes back language co-opted by conservatives, naming itself American Values First. The intent of the group is to push voting reforms that will make it a whole lot easier for all who are eligible to vote.
First of all, Democrats will push states to adopt legislation that requires all elections to be conducted by mail.[….] Secondly, Dems will push for states to enact universal registration, putting the responsibility for registration on state governments — for instance, by tying automatic registration of eligible voters to issuing drivers’ licenses. Such a bill failed by just one vote in Oregon last year. Rep. Lew Frederick, D-Portland, will reintroduce it in January, 2014.[….]
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/21/democrats-take-charge-push-in-50-states-for-voting-reforms/
pepper
jailhouse rock?
? Martin
@rikyrah:
People used to say the same thing about book learning and voting.
scav
He’s in the Jailhouse Now Jimmie Rogers Sr among alternatives.
Betty Cracker
Jail La La by the Dum Dum Girls.
Anton Sirius
Johnny Cash’s cover of Nick Cave’s Mercy Seat.
burnspbesq
How about a song by someone who grew up in Leavenworth, KS?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVlzrvRYCh0
gogol's wife
If you expand it to just songs about criminals, Russia has the bestest ones. “Postoi, paravoz”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxurOZT7gOw
(that’s a comic performance because I couldn’t find a good serious one)
I like Tom Jones’s “Green Green Grass of Home.”
shelly
It was Christmas in prison,
and the food was real good.
We had turkey and pistols
carved out of wood.
John Prine
rikyrah
The Associated Press ✔ @AP
BREAKING:Police say Georgia school shooting suspect had nearly 500 rounds of ammunition. -MM
1:05 PM – 21 Aug 2013
Trollhattan
“Andersonville” Dave Alvin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyMLfuUmMaY
rikyrah
Dallas County Joins Federal Voter Identification Lawsuit
August 20, 2013 5:28 PM
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — After a fairly heated discussion, Dallas County commissioners voted 3-2 to join the federal voting rights challenge to Texas’ new voter ID law, which requires voters to present photo identification to vote in person.
County Judge Clay Jenkins and commissioners Theresa Daniel and John Wiley Price, all Democrats, voted for the measure. Democrat Elba Garcia and Republican Mike Cantrell voted against joining the suit.
Garcia voiced concerns about the cost and was hoping for more time to review, and Cantrell said the county shouldn’t use county funds for a partisan fight.
The Justice Department sued Texas in 2011, alleging the law discriminated against minority voters. The ID law wasn’t enforced due to conflicts with the U.S. Voting Rights Act. When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down parts of the act earlier this year, the state reinstated the law.
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/08/20/dallas-county-joins-federal-voter-identification-lawsuit/
Trollhattan
@scav:
Didn’t they adapt that for “Oh Brother”? Great song!
Trollhattan
@rikyrah:
We all are extremely fortunate that episode ended with nobody hurt. I’m flabbergasted, frankly.
Sure hope nothing bad happens to that innocent gun and all that valuable ammo.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Renegade, bitches!
The Ancient Randonneur
File this under: Just How Smart is the GOP Base?
Who dat?
Comrade Dread
@The Red Pen: Wow, so, uh, God’s judgments went from fire and brimstone falling from the heavens and consuming a city to letting my wife have health insurance that covers her pre-existing conditions and giving us a tax break?
By that guy’s standards, I really need to get out there and start sinning more, so God will judge me with a winning PowerBall ticket.
ruemara
Doug, Ima let you finish, but Rikyah has the best info gathering chain of all tyme!
Thanks, Rikyah, lots of good things to read there and some nice things, too.
Ahh says fywp
Theres an awesome Czech ballad about Spielberg (castle) prison, but I don’t know the name.
wasabi gasp
Pink Anderson – Big House Blues
Comrade Dread
The sugar being ‘access to affordable health care and preventative medicine’, which this Senator (Thanks for that soooo much, Texas) would rather deny you and force you into penury or getting all your health care needs at the ER.
scav
@Trollhattan: Looks as though there’s a more a politically tinged version / tradition running through jug bands and Blind Blake as well. some info /alt lyrics here
MikeJ
The Midnight Special
gbear
How To Make Gravy by the great Australian artist Paul Kelly. Everyone should know about this guy.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
Alabama – Love In The First Degree
zombie rotten mcdonald
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
Forget it, Max. It’s JuiceTown.
If no one bothered shaming me for mentioning a Rush song the other day, what hope do you have with Styx?
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@zombie rotten mcdonald:
Irony!
ETA: Which reminds me that I forgot to do the laundry this afternoon.
Paul in KY
I always like that Date Rape song by Sublime.
TG Chicago
I said good luck in jail the last time I called home
I need somebody I can talk to, but I think I broke the phone
Tone In DC
AC/DC – Jailbreak
Just cuz Bon actually was a convicted criminal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5xnc1p7BMk
Anne Laurie
Take A Message to Mary:
Bobby Thomson
Mexicali Blues
Cold Steel in the Hour of Chaos.
And while it’s pure bubblegum, I thought Warrant was the best single on Foster the People’s album.
ETA; Damn it. Black Steel.
Mnemosyne
@shelly:
If we’re including Christmas jail songs, how about Blink-182?
Okay, he doesn’t get to jail until the third verse, but it still counts.
Phrase
I Shall Be Released, Bob Dylan
MikeJ
Prison Girls – Neko Case
raven
Commander Cody There’s a Riot Goin On
Bobby Thomson
@Mnemosyne: Well, if you’re gonna go there:
raven
Holy crap Joni Mitchell Me and My Uncle!
raven
B.B. King – Live In Cook County Jail
raven
David Allan Coe at Tennessee State Prison
warning nasty
eemom
@shelly:
Great song! LOVE John Prine.
Merle Haggard, also too.
raven
@eemom:
And the sky is black and still now
Up on the hill where the angels sing
Ain’t it funny how an old broken bottle
Looks just like a diamond ring
But it’s far, far from me
j
Speaking of jail, these guys need to go there.
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/morning_call/2013/08/ups-to-drop-15000-spouses-from.html
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@eemom:
How you gonna link Merle in a thread about prison and not make it this’n?
I turned twenty-one in prison
Doin’ life without parole
The Red Pen
On the topic of songs about jail, am I the only one who likes Big Dipper’s San Quentin, CA?
Bruuuuce
Biko – Peter Gabriel
Johnny 99 – Bruce Springsteen
Porco Rosso
Two suggestions for Jail songs
Zombies=Care Of Cell 44
Kinks=Hollaway Jail
And tho not about a jail, Parchment Farm
Porco Rosso
Wanda Jackson-Riot in Cellblock #9
Wynona Carr-Please Mr Jailer
Origuy
Lots of Irish songs about prison
The Fields of Athenry — The Dubliners
Kevin Barry — Mark’s Men
eemom
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
Yep, thought of that one too. Have played it for my own “tried” in vain mom (though I did manage to stay out of jail).
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@eemom:
Aren’t there times when you wonder if you wouldn’t be better off in stir than hanging out around, say, this nuthouse?
gbear
@Porco Rosso:
Wonderful song, great album.
Fester Addams
An icy wind burns and scars
Rushes in like a fallen star
Through the narrow space
Between these bars
Looking down on Prison Grove
gbear
@Tone In DC: If we’re going to post songs titled Jailbreak, Thin Lizzy needs to be here too.
burnspbesq
67 comments and nobody got to this one? Shocking.
Toots & the Maytals, “54-46 Was My Number”
Dave
Sing Me Back Home – Merle Haggard
I Fought The Law – Bobby Fuller Four
Billy Austin – Steve Earle
Tennessee Plates – John Hiatt
Omnes Omnibus
Prison Bound, Social D.
uila
Viola Lee Blues, which is some kind of metaphor for this website.
I wrote a comment
Left it in this thread
You may know by that
I got a friend somewhere
Misterpuff
@rikyrah: First you get the sugar, then you get the women….