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Huffington Post TITLE:The Tea-Party Taliban [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-05-06 19:58:04 by Brian S
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Ever wonder what a world run by tea-partiers might look like? To get an idea, consider Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia's new attorney general, a self professed lover of the tea party movement and perfect example of why prosecutors with a political agenda are so scary. Since assuming office in January Cuccinelli has been on a freakish non-stop crusade to enforce a moral order common to both the Tea Party and the Taliban.
In his few short months in office Cuccinelli has used the power of the state to try to rescind anti-discrimination policies for gays and lesbians, approved a new policy allowing sectarian prayer by police chaplains at public events, and even tried to cover up the bare-breast of ...
To replace John Paul Stevens, an atheist
Post Date: 2010-05-06 12:17:51 by Skip Intro
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To replace John Paul Stevens, an atheist It's something Thomas Jefferson might have done: nominate a nonbeliever to the Supreme Court As President Obama considers nominees to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a debate bubbles as to whether religion should play a role in his choice. This is a no-brainer. The religious views of the next justice of the high court must absolutely be a decisive factor. Though the court without Stevens will be left with six Catholics and two Jews, the open seat should not go to either domination. Nor should it go to a Presbyterian, a Lutheran, a Methodist, a Muslim or even a Zoroastrian. If it did, that would make nine people who ...
Through oil-fouled water, big government looks better and better
Post Date: 2010-05-06 00:32:47 by Skip Intro
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There is something exquisite about the moment when a conservative decides he needs more government in his life. About 10:30 Monday morning, Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), an ardent foe of big government, posted a blog item on his campaign Web site about the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. "I strongly believe BP is spread too thin," he wrote. The poor dears. He thinks it would be a better arrangement if "federal and state officials" would do the dirty work of "protecting and cleaning up the coast" instead of BP. About an hour later came word from the Pentagon that Alabama, Florida and Mississippi -- all three governed by men who once considered themselves ...
Wake up, America: Democrats aren’t Democrats Anymore, They’re Communists
Post Date: 2010-05-05 13:47:55 by reaganisright
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And the so-called “moderate Democrats” are merely socialists. It wasn’t so long ago that much loved Democrat President John F. Kennedy told the nation in his inaugural address, “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country”, implying a sense of self sacrifice was needed by all Americans to keep the torch of freedom burning bright in a world filled with tyranny. An idea most could relate to regardless of political affiliation. But times have changed and modern liberal philosophy has become almost unrecognizable to previous generations. It can be more accurately described as: “Forget personal sacrifice, keep sitting on ...
Should Supporters Of Abortion Lose Their Citizenship
Post Date: 2010-05-05 07:54:14 by A K A Stone
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Connecticut's laughingstock Senator Lieberman says that terrorist suspects shouldn't be allowed to keep their U.S. Citizenship. Lets look at this closer. Lets look at the terrorist practice of abortion. It murders many millions of children in this country every year. Do murderers of babies deserve citizenship? If Liebermans idea goes through it should include people who give material support to abortionists. They would lose their citizenship and all the rights that come with that. Afterall what is worse 3000 dead in the World Trade Center or millions of dead innocent babies. Think about it. It would solve so many problems. The terrorist organization known as the democratic party would no ...
Sarah Palin on the Gulf Spill: Prayer and the Invisible Hand Will Deliver Us From Eco-Disaster [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-05-04 12:46:18 by Brian S
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The Gulf disaster proves, at a minimum, that Sarah Palin's mindless slogans like "Drill Baby Drill" are not enough to make good energy or environmental policy.
A video by Americans for America PAC, which I co-direct, tries to make that case as simply as possible, juxtaposing Palin's chanting tea party hordes with a few images from the Gulf.
And yet, even in the face of the greatest disaster the Gulf has ever seen, Palin still refuses to admit any error or nuance. Malia Litman noted Sarah Palin's reaction to the Gulf Disaster here in HuffPost yesterday. Here was her tweet from Friday:
"Having worked/lived thru Exxon oil spill,my family&I understand Gulf residents' fears. Our ...
Huffington Post Title:Tea Party Fantasies
Post Date: 2010-05-04 12:33:26 by Brian S
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Jonah Goldberg's recent comments in the LA Times on the Tea Party gathering in Cincinnati focus on an important fact about this "movement," the fiscal fury toward both Obama and Bush over deficits. If we're seeing a "delayed backlash" against Bush in the rants and ravings of these "patriots," praise the Lord.
But there's something disturbing about their monomania over taxes and government power. They take their name from angry citizens who challenged plutocratic privilege at the nation's inception. But they reside in a different galaxy from them. Are they the products of the textbook-poor school system the Obama team is now chartering out of existence for failing to educate? The cream of ...
NUGENT: Immigration lesson for numskulls
Post Date: 2010-05-02 18:52:48 by A K A Stone
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In the absence of any real border enforcement by Fedzilla and after the emergency of the recent murder of rancher Robert Krentz, Arizonans rightfully took matters into their own hands and passed a law allowing Arizona cops to demand immigration papers from people they stop. Good for Arizona. Other states, especially border states, should follow its lead. In short, Arizona's new law makes it a crime to be in Arizona illegally. It's 2010 - Good morning, America! Those people who can't produce documentation proving they are in the country legally can be jailed up to six months and fined $2,500. Of course, the pro-illegal-immigration crowd is going berserk that Arizona has done ...
Kentucky Derby Preview
Post Date: 2010-04-30 21:58:28 by Fred Mertz
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Kentucky Derby 136 - Handicappers' Edge bgcolor=#808080 > Kentucky Derby 136 Super Saver ranks as 7-1 pick in advance Derby wagering 'Extraordinary' weather may force scratch of Line of David Derby trainers size up post positions, weather forecast Homeboykris blows out four furlongs Kentucky Derby Field 136 Endorsement injured, out of Derby Awesome Act, Conveyance drill for Derby Decision on Interactif put off for another day Lucky glides a bullet five-eighths in the mud Rule withdrawn; Devil May Care confirmed for Derby Noble's Promise works a half-mile, scopes clean Attendance, wagering records set on Kentucky Oaks Day Ice to train Uptowncharlybrown ...
Israel's Fear And Loathing Of Obama
Post Date: 2010-04-30 20:48:36 by Brian S
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Israel's alarm at the deterioration in its relations with the US is palpable. In Jerusalem recently, even a liberal commentator told me: "Barack Obama is a disaster for Israel. I don't think the general public realise just how much of a disaster he is." Government officials are more careful - but only a bit. Danny Ayalon, the deputy Israeli foreign minister, says that it would be a "grave mistake" for America to present its own Middle East peace plan, an idea that the US president's people are known to be considering. Listening to all this, I could not help thinking back to the early stages of the Northern Irish peace negotiations. In part, this is because ...
Arizona's Un-American Immigration Law: Why aren't anti-ObamaCare conservatives outraged by this instrusive move?
Post Date: 2010-04-30 09:53:48 by go65
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If universal health coverage was part of the longstanding liberal agenda to implement a European-style welfare state in America, Arizona's tough new anti-immigrant law represents the conservative agenda to install a European-style surveillance state. Indeed, the very same conservatives who could not find words strong enough to condemn the Europeanization of America under ObamaCare are now greeting the Arizona law--which will require residents to prove their lawful status to authorities on demand-- with a cheerful smile and a shrug. The two efforts together will nix any notion of American exceptionalism--the idea that America has a special relationship with Lady Liberty that no other ...
Palin Trying To Make 'Fascism Fashionable,' 'Gets Away With It'
Post Date: 2010-04-25 13:25:36 by Brian S
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Outspoken Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) criticized Sarah Palin, Chief Justice John Roberts and the Tea Party on Bill Maher's HBO show. Grayson compared tea partiers to a character in the movie "Nemo" who can't remember anything that happened more than a year ago. He said former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) is trying to make "fascism fashionable." And he mocked Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy for being out of touch with technology. During a recent case before the high court, Kennedy asked what would happen if a text message was sent to someone who was sending a text at that same moment. Roberts asked what was the difference between an e-mail and a pager. Some ...
The Real Socialist Threat is the Military
Post Date: 2010-04-24 13:00:02 by Brian S
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I got into an e-mail conversation recently with a former CIA officer and ex-Marine, who, in horror at the Obama administration, went into a Tea Partyist fit denouncing the “communists, socialists, wealth redistribution folks, Democrats in Congress.” This was not his usual lucid style (he has helped me as a source on several stories), and he seemed to have momentarily lost his mind in considering the matter, or, at least, that part of the mind wherein a cold assessment of facts might operate. I wrote him back: “Where are these communist/socialist/wealth-redistribution folks? I see none of their ilk anywhere in Congress.” He never replied. Perhaps that’s because ...
Kerry Killinger, the man who destroyed WaMu
Post Date: 2010-04-16 11:42:14 by Skip Intro
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Kerry Killinger, the man who destroyed WaMu He was the CEO who, by promoting reckless and wildly speculative lending, brought disaster to a 100-year-old banking institution. Kerry Killinger, the deposed head of Washington Mutual, was in Congress this week protesting that the seizure of the Seattle-based bank on Sept. 25, 2008, was not only premature, it was "unfair." Had WaMu only been placed on the "do not short list" and thus protected from those nasty Wall Street speculators. Had WaMu only been allowed to live a few weeks longer, it could have benefited from the increase in federal deposit insurance (the per-person limit was raised to $250,000 from $100,000). Had ...
Dear Deficit Commission, It's Not Hard
Post Date: 2010-04-12 13:11:47 by go65
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Dear Deficit Commission, It's not hard to figure out why we have a huge deficit. It's so easy I don't have to use words. Here are some pictures: Bill Clinton raised taxes on the rich. Bush cut them. Now, about that huge national debt... The second chart kind of explains itself. The third chart can help you find a place to get some money: (Note: There is no more Soviet Union.) In case that isn't clear enough, try this: Let me know if you still have any questions.
Matt Drudge and the Republican Delusion
Post Date: 2010-03-31 11:53:58 by Brian S
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In my opinion Matt Drudge is the most important and influential single figure in American media. In terms of daily and ongoing influence he is more influential than The New York Times, the television networks, cable news or anyone else. Let me suggest here that Drudge's power may turn out to be more of a curse than a blessing for Republicans and conservatives because in my view, it fosters delusions that can lead to defeat. Recently a Gallup poll, of course highlighted on Drudge, found that Obama's numbers had (then) turned more unfavorable than favorable. This has (now) dramatically changed, unreported by Drudge, with Obama's favorables now well above his unfavorables. The ...
The Dawn of a New Age In the United States
Post Date: 2010-03-29 09:12:29 by war
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Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, after a tumultuous year of political theater, the Age of Obama has dawned. With legislative success however tarnished by rancor and dissent, the hopes and dreams of generations of Progressives have been fulfilled. The trifecta of Social Security, Medicare, and the first installment of Universal Healthcare are now the law of the land. Based on a common set of financial principles and an unshakable faith in the wisdom of government the productive power of the young, the healthy, the successful, and generations yet unborn are now fully lashed to the yoke of redistribution. The poor, the old, the infirm, the government employee, the union worker, the ...
Going to Extreme
Post Date: 2010-03-27 13:14:00 by Skip Intro
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Going to Extreme I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law. But a few days later, it doesn’t seem quite as entertaining — and not just because of the wave of vandalism and threats aimed at Democratic lawmakers. For if you care about America’s future, you can’t be happy as extremists take full control of one of our two great political parties. To be sure, it was enjoyable watching Representative Devin Nunes, a Republican of California, warn that by passing health reform, Democrats “will finally lay the cornerstone of their socialist utopia on the backs of the American people.” Gosh, that sounds uncomfortable. ...
Laying the Groundwork for Universal Health Care Coverage
Post Date: 2010-03-27 09:50:09 by go65
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But as part of that [social] contract, it is also reasonable to expect residents of the society who can do so to contribute an appropriate amount to their own health care. This translates into a requirement on individuals to enroll themselves and their dependents in at least a basic health plan – one that at the minimum should protect the rest of society from large and unexpected medical costs incurred by the family. And as any social contract, there would also be an obligation on society. To the extent that the family cannot reasonably afford reasonable basic coverage, the rest of society, via government, should take responsibility for financing that minimum coverage. The obligations ...
Memo To Dems: People Still Don't Like Obamacare
Post Date: 2010-03-26 12:15:54 by war
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Did the world really change overnight? If you listen to some Democratic spinners, you might think that the same American people who opposed Obamacare for many, many months now support it. This week the president's supporters embraced a quickie poll by Gallup/USA Today showing that more Americans say it was a "good thing" than a "bad thing" that the health care plan has now been passed. Based on that rushed and flawed survey -- among other things, Gallup asked the question in a different way than before -- some commentators pronounced it a new day. One suggested that Republicans need to learn "the Kenny Rogers rule: Know when to fold 'em." But has ...
Masters of Distraction
Post Date: 2010-03-26 09:35:04 by war
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The mob is furious. And while it hollers on about "killing" bills, Republicans stoke the fury by calling on citizens to "target" races in "battleground" states. Get it? "Target." The violent intentions are palpable. Most Americans abhor violence and no serious person has offered excuses or rationalized the actions of the smattering of loons who have threatened politicians who voted for health care reform. But this campaign of distraction mounted by Democrats meaning to smear millions of Americans involved in legitimate political expression is as transparent as it is distasteful. The narrative: Fearful underdog Democrats (true if you ignore their ...
Why I voted for this health care bill
Post Date: 2010-03-26 09:24:58 by war
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Before I was a public servant I was a small-business owner, keeping the books in the Web-development firm my husband and I started. I crunched numbers, evaluated costs and always looked for solutions that combined good budgeting with good management. Every time we made a major business decision, we evaluated that decision on its own merit. That was the approach I brought to Congress a year and a half ago: weigh costs with results, and make decisions based on the facts, not politics. I know this has angered people on the left as well as the right. Frankly, I take that as a sign that I am doing my job. Last fall, I voted against the House version of health care reform. I had many issues ...
Going to Extreme
Post Date: 2010-03-26 09:13:47 by war
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I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law. But a few days later, it doesn’t seem quite as entertaining — and not just because of the wave of vandalism and threats aimed at Democratic lawmakers. For if you care about America’s future, you can’t be happy as extremists take full control of one of our two great political parties. To be sure, it was enjoyable watching Representative Devin Nunes, a Republican of California, warn that by passing health reform, Democrats “will finally lay the cornerstone of their socialist utopia on the backs of the American people.” Gosh, that sounds uncomfortable. And it’s been a ...
Obama Rates Higher Than Reagan At Same Point In Term
Post Date: 2010-03-25 08:19:49 by war
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March 25 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama receives lukewarm ratings from Americans, at least until you compare him with other major political figures and institutions. Fifty percent approve of the job he is doing, a Bloomberg National Poll shows, down from 54 percent in December. Those favorability numbers look solid when compared with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, 2008 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and both political parties, with voters unhappy about U.S. finances and the direction the nation is heading. “It’s about the money,” says J. Ann Selzer, president of Selzer & Co., a Des Moines, Iowa-based firm that ...
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