If I were Ceiling Cat, I’d want a ceiling as grand as this. No popcorn acoustic bullshit for me!
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Archives for June 2015
Let’s encourage impotent wingnut rage
I am enjoying my schradenfreude and I feel fine as my pleasure is due to millions of people keeping affordable health care as weasel faces the call out to be punched were judiciously judicially punched today. I am also enjoying the wingnut explosion as they see their expectations of complete subservience to the Party dashed.
From the American Clarion:
I just sent this letter to my federal representatives: Senator John Thune, Senator Mike Rounds, and Rep. Kristi Noem. I called for the immediate impeachment of the six lawless rogues on the U.S. Supreme Court who displayed their complete contempt for the U.S. Constitution and the American people by rewriting ObamaCare.
If you treasure freedom and the U.S. Constitution, you might consider contacting your representatives with similar correspondence.
We really should encourage this, although we must do the encouragement while we observe Cleek’s Law.
today’s conservatism is the opposite of what liberals want today: updated daily.
So liberals are terrified of the Supreme Court 6 being impeached as I’ll outline the consequences below the fold:
“RAISE HELL: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins”
Courtesy commentor Tenar Darrell, there’s a Kickstarter to finish the first documentary on Molly Ivins:
… Molly came up through the journalistic ranks at a time when women entering the field were relegated to the “snake pit,” a misogynistic term for the women’s columns: food, fashion and gardens. She was having none of that. At the age of 26, Molly became the first woman to co-edit the Texas Observer, one of the only liberal newspapers in the U.S.
She honed her skills by standing toe to toe with the politicians at the Texas legislature where she would drink them under the table. Her prolific liver earned her welcome into the good ol’ boys club. Molly’s wry good olʼ gal Texas voice publicly sucker-punched the arrogant and the entitled and gave voice to those who suffered from their abuse. She was beholden to no one and set a tone and direction that’s been adopted by comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert today.
Hers was a prescient voice, bringing attention to what she saw as a crisis in American democracy. She fought particularly hard for campaign finance reform to keep from what she called, “big bidness” from influencing political decisions. Molly wrote and said, “Either we figure out how to keep the corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.” This is an issue our nation is still grappling with…
The documentary unfolds through visually intimate interviews of Mollyʼsʼ childhood friends, family and colleagues. In contrast interviews with politicians, pundits and pontificators from both sides of the political spectrum will be dramatically lit to illustrate the black and white polarization of “politics as usual.”
These interviews will be juxtaposed with footage from her personal appearances and, from her personal archives, a trove of photos, writings and audio recordings never before seen and heard. Graphics will animate quotes from her columns with images of Texas iconography to visually illustrate Mollyʼs satiric writings.
There will be no narration in Raise Hell. Molly’s voice is the voice we want to hear, to laugh with, learn from and be inspired by. Underscoring all of this will be regional music driving the narrative forward: Texas honky-tonk blues, civil rights anthems and a composer written score…
Can’t hardly wait for this! (Fortunately, I already have all her books… )
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The Super-Genius Shitweasel Strategy (Updated — Open Thread)
Today’s Supreme Court decision on Obamacare makes the law about as settled as it can be given that congress and most statehouses are run by hairspray-huffing shitweasels who occupy an alternative dimension where “flush billions down the toilet” = “fiscal conservatism.”
Shortly after the Supreme Court decision today, our shitweasel governor here in FL announced that he’s dropping a lawsuit he filed against the Obama administration in an attempt to extract a $2 billion handout via a low-income care program — after declining to expand Medicaid to the 800K Floridians who would qualify under Obamacare.
TALLAHASSEE — Florida Gov. Rick Scott is dropping a lawsuit against the Obama administration after reaching an agreement over federal hospital funds.
State and federal health officials reached an agreement in principle earlier this week to continue funding Florida’s hospital low-income pool for two more years, but at a lower cost. Florida will receive $1 billion this year — about half of what the state had been receiving — and $600 million next year. In a statement Thursday, Scott said his lawsuit was essential to getting the funds extended.
Scott’s lawsuit accused the federal government of tying the funds to whether or not the state expanded Medicaid.
The Obama administration and the Florida Senate wanted to expand Medicaid to roughly 800,000 Floridians. But Scott and Florida House Republicans opposed to taking money tied to so-called Obamacare.
Yes, you read that right: These morons turned down $6 billion or so annually because it has Obamacare cooties but were prepared to go to court to shake the feds down for a relatively paltry $2 billion. As a result of this super-genius bluffing strategy, Scott got $1 billion this year and $600 million next year, and he deems it a victory for fiscal prudence.
As far as I know, Scott hasn’t yet outlined his double-secret negotiating strategy for next time the money dries up, which will be 2017. God willing, President Hillary will send him home pants-less with a $400K mortgage note on Stately Scott Manor. This would all be laughable if people weren’t literally dying because of Scott & Co.’s pigheadedness.
ETA: Open thread for anyone who wants to use it for one. We’ve had a lot of Obamacare threads today. In other news, the AP says Chris Christie is going to announce a run on Tuesday. They’re gonna need a bigger clown car (and no, that’s not a fat joke — there are just so MANY clowns!).
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Seriously, Don Lemon? (Part 352)
Leave it to CNN to pick up one of the more ridiculous stories and putting Don Lemon at the helm of that discussion. Such was the case when the network brought New York Times writer Timothy Egan on to discuss whether Obama should apologize for slavery. Egan explains Obama should because he doesn’t have as much “ancestral baggage” as a white president. Even more problematic than that, Lemon didn’t seem to have a problem with it. Finally, radio talk show host Joe Madison had to try to set everyone straight:
“Once again, this is not an institution that was created by an African-American. If you want to talk about being really heartfelt, then it should come from those individuals whose heritage benefitted from this. This is absolutely the most absurd thing that I have ever heard.”
And let’s not even get into Lemon’s discussion of the N word.
Team Blackness also discussed Bobby Jindal’s pathetic presidential announcement, teens inventing a condom that changes colors if you have an STD, and more coverage of Charleston.
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It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction
When everyone in DC was terrified to pass the damn bill, you guys helped make it happen. Take a lap.
Open thread.
Quick thoughts on King
Just some quick thoughts on the Supreme Court 6-3 decision affirming the government’s position.
- 6-3 decision is what I thought the best case scenario would have been
- Unified majority
- I was expecting a split majority, 4 liberals go WTF, and Roberts/Kennedy going for the NFIB Federal non-coercion logic and finding. I got that wrong
- Big government win — subsidies availability is inherent to the law. This means President Cruz can’t order his IRS to rework the rule allowing subsidies to go to Healthcare.gov states on January 21, 2017.
This is a bigger win that I thought possible, basically the ACA is entrenched and besides nibbling on the edges like Hobby Lobby, the only threat to the law is a Republican trifecta. So time to expand the Senate majority in 2016 to build a blocking coalition through 2022.
We have held that Congress “does not alter the fundamental details of a regulatory scheme in vague terms orancillary provisions.” Whitman v. American Trucking Assns., Inc., 531 U. S. 457, 468 (2001). But in petitioners’view, Congress made the viability of the entire AffordableCare Act turn on the ultimate ancillary provision: a sub-sub-sub section of the Tax Code. We doubt that is what Congress meant to do. Had Congress meant to limit tax credits to State Exchanges, it likely would have done so inthe definition of “applicable taxpayer” or in some other prominent manner. It would not have used such a winding path of connect-the-dots provisions about the amountof the credit.5