September 2009 Archives

Republicans: You spent my generation's tax dollars, and left destruction behind. We are now paying, using the next generation's future tax dollars, for your mess, and mistakes. Stop telling us we're socialists. We're problem solvers. The problems we're solving? Created by you. We'd love to stop spending the next generation's tax dollars - but we can't pay the debts left by you and fix your mess and run a nation and fight two wars...

As if any further proof were necessary that Republicans have no real interest in health care reform, take a look at some of the frivolous amendments proposed to the Baucus Bill in the Senate Finance Committee: * Kyl 371---Prohibit the federal government's takeover of health care.* Ensign 409---Transparency in czars.* Hatch 511---Prohibits authorized or appropriated federal funds under the Mark from  being distributed to or used by ACORN.* Ensign 543---Strike the word "fee" everywhere it...

From Breitbart: "Former US vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin is expected to speak about US foreign policy and China in her first keynote speech outside North America, Hong Kong organisers said on Monday.  "We have asked her to address US foreign policy, to discuss her views on governance, healthcare, and of course, China," Jonathan Slone, chief executive officer of the Asia-focused brokerage, said in an interview with AFP." Let's hope somebody told the former governor that this is not...

As many of you know, I am a cradle Catholic and a volunteer with my parish. Those two facts alone make many of the people there believe that I am actually a conservative. It's actually kind of humorous, a few of us there are underground liberals. There has been talk of developing a signal where one of us draws half a donkey and the other one finishes it. It's a lonely world we live in,...

Following the release of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's assessment of the situation in Afghanistan, President Obama faces some tough questions and some even tougher decisions, decisions that have the very real potential to have more of an affect on his presidency than the fate of health care reform. Think about it; health care reform, if passed, will not take effect until after the 2012 election. But if we're still in Afghanistan, with no end in sight,...

Desperado and Eljefebob have both covered this story, so I'll post without (much) comment.  You'll remember that Fox News ran this Ad (using CNN's photograph, no less) claiming to be the only network that reports "All the News (that it creates)": Here is CNN's Response:   If you can't trust Fox News to be truthful even in advertising....? Let's face it.  It's just another example of the biased right wing media claiming the mainstream media...

I've been listening to all the rhetoric, debate, diatribes, whatever you want to call it on the healthcare issue. I've listened to President Obama on the talk shows today, and I've listened to the counter-arguments espoused by the opposition afterwards. We're hearing all sorts of opinions by a small handful of people who will be setting policy and making pronouncements that will affect all of us for a lifetime. I would like to offer a...

Bill Moyers does it again, exposing another member of the Republican Party's 'Throwing Stones From Inside the Glass House' brigade, Dick Armey, for the fraud and hypocrite that he is. On the latest edition of his Journal, Mr. Moyers started with a re-cap of last weekend's protest in Washington, D.C. and then launched into Armey:"For most of his adult life their leader has benefited from just the kind of government, tax-supported health care he's fighting...

Oh what a tangled web we weave..."The Washington Post ran a full-page instigating ad in today's paper from Fox News that asks: "How Did ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC And CNN Miss This Story?" referring to the D.C. tea party protests on 9/12."Wrong on all counts:"NBC News had crews on the mall...A Nightly News spokesperson tells TVNewser, "and more than 5.2 million viewers watched our coverage." It was Weekend Nightly's best Total Viewer delivery since April....

Unfortunately, the Republicans love to come up with tags for Democrats that are designed to get the public to run away scared. In the 1950s it was "communists". Unfortunately for them, Joseph McCarthy took things too far and that label eventually was useless. In the 1980s and early 1990s it was "liberal." That was enough to get people running. However, the term liberal doesn't have the same oomph that it once had. So, the current...