When you are a Republican. Now it is child labor laws.
Being a Democrat is the most frustrating thing on the planet. We’re running against people that are pro-torture, pro-war, pro child labor, and losing.
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When you are a Republican. Now it is child labor laws.
Being a Democrat is the most frustrating thing on the planet. We’re running against people that are pro-torture, pro-war, pro child labor, and losing.
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I know I say it a lot, but you really can not make this shit up.
It appears that Gateway Pundit saw a picture of the Tucson memorial, in which the Jumbotron was featured. He then mistook the closed captioning as “instructions” for the audience to applaud.
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And the stupid is spreading.
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So Republican Peter King is proposing the following:
King said his bill would make it illegal to knowingly carry a gun within a thousand feet of “certain high-profile” government officials.
“It is imperative that we do all that we can to give law enforcement the tools they need to ensure the safety of New Yorkers and prevent an attack before it happens,” King said during an appearance at a Manhattan event with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other officials from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania who discussed ways to prevent another shooting tragedy.
On the other hand, Republican Louis Gohmert wants to do the following:
Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert says his office is drafting a measure to allow members of Congress to carry guns in the District of Columbia, including in the Capitol and on the House floor.
Gohmert says he and his colleagues need to be able to protect themselves, in light of the mass shooting in Arizona.
“It’d be a good thing for members of Congress who want to carry a weapon in the District,” he said. “I know friends that walk home from the Capitol. There’s no security for us,” he said, adding that the measure would deter people from attacking members. “There is some protection in having protection.”
I’m sensing a conflict here, but there is the possibility that we could call all the Republicans to the floor of the House and have them citizens arrest each other at gunpoint. And don’t worry, the Democrats and civilians will be safe in case there is an accidental shooting:
Indiana Republican Rep. Dan Burton, according to an aide, plans to introduce a bill that would encase the House Gallery in “a transparent and substantial material” — think Plexiglass.
Should a gun go off, the bullet won’t make it out.
There’s your new Republican majority.
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This is the second day in a row someone has beaten me to the punch. Damnit.
by John Cole| 63 Comments
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I’m reading the NY Times, and all the stories are about ascendant Republicans, Boehner, and even a bonus piece about Dick Cheney.
I can’t believe people voted these schmucks back into power.
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When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” Democrats dropped it from legislation to overhaul the health care system. But the Obama administration will achieve the same goal by regulation, starting Jan. 1.
Before the grifters, charlatans, flim-flammers and political opportunists that make up the leadership of the conservative movement get a chance to crank out a million misleading words on this, here it is:
Under the new policy, outlined in a Medicare regulation, the government will pay doctors who advise patients on options for end-of-life care, which may include advance directives to forgo aggressive life-sustaining treatment.
Advanced directives are state law. Here’s Ohio, in plain language. This is from a hospital site:
Advance Directives are legal planning tools that help you make your wishes known. In Ohio, we have 5 Advance Directive tools:
· Living Will
· Durable Power or Attorney for Health Care
· Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) Comfort Care Order
· Mental Health Declarative
· Organ Donation
Advanced directives aren’t controversial. They aren’t new. Ohio’s law went in nineteen years ago. They aren’t frightening. There are provisions in all fifty states for anyone to draft an advanced directive, with or without a lawyer. All this rule change does is allow Medicare to pay doctors for a consult on the medical issues surrounding end of life care.
This rule change gives patients and prospective patients more information, not less. This rule change allows more autonomy and power for the individual to make decisions, not less.
That Sarah Palin was able to launch her celebrity career by misleading and terrifying millions of people is shameful. That conservatives and media went along and managed to completely muddle an issue that was debated and discussed and implemented at the state level 20 years ago is shameful. But it happened, and it will happen again.
“While we are very happy with the result, we won’t be shouting it from the rooftops because we aren’t out of the woods yet,” Mr. Blumenauer’s office said in an e-mail in early November to people working with him on the issue. “This regulation could be modified or reversed, especially if Republican leaders try to use this small provision to perpetuate the ‘death panel’ myth.”
I think they should shout if from the rooftops. Allowing conservatives to mislead people is just wrong.
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Apparently, Mitt Romney is back to just flat out making shit up, hoping upon hope that someone in the media stops reading Sarah Palin’s facebook page long enough to notice him:
Is this just a rehashing of discredited objections that Romney mindlessly repeats? Yes. For the umpteenth time, the preamble to the treaty is non-binding, and the preamble’s acknowledgment of a relationship between strategic arms and defense capabilities is a statement of the blindingly obvious that in no way impairs U.S. ability to pursue missile defense. Whatever the Russians are saying, the actual treaty doesn’t do what Romney says it will. It is telling that treaty opponents must rely on the rhetoric of Russian officials over the testimony of our military officers. As Romney has been corrected numerous times on this point, his persistence in this error is a bit strange.
The Republican primary for 2012 is not going to be like any political primary that we have ever seen before. It is going to be like a Season of bizarro Survivor, where your goal is to be crazier than everyone else on the island. I’m reminded of this excellent comment from 2008 (where JSF predicted this would happen, if you will note):
Seriously, the Republican nomination race in ‘08 was a metaphorical lineup of oiled posers at Venice Beach flexing for the lunatics passing by.
They are no longer just flexing. They’re biting the heads off chickens and swallowing swords, all while being treated seriously by the establishment media. Hell, the crazier and more dishonest they are, the more likely they are to get a column at the Washington Post.
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Just a reminder. The Republicans, energized over their November victories, went to Washington and immediately went about securing tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires as priority #1, all while blocking any attempts at job growth legislation and continuation of unemployment benefits. Meanwhile, this is happening:
In a jolting surprise to the economic recovery and market expectations, the United States economy added just 39,000 jobs in November, and the unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent, according to the Department of Labor.
November’s numbers were far below the consensus forecast of close to 150,000 jobs added and an unchanged unemployment rate of 9.6 percent.
More than 15 million people remained out of work last month, and 6.3 million of them have been unemployed for six months or longer.
Private companies, which have been hiring since the beginning of the year, added 50,000 jobs in November. Most of those increases came in the form of temporary help, where 40,000 jobs were added, and in health care, with an additional 19,000 jobs.
Retail jobs declined by 28,000 in November, while manufacturing, which had showed some strength earlier in the year, lost 13,000 jobs. Government jobs dropped by 11,000 in the month.
A competent political party would be able to make the Republicans pay a political price for this and be forced to make very uncomfortable votes. Does anyone know where I can find a competent political party?