October 1, 2013

7 hours into the Republican Shutdown....

and I've already defriended somebody on Facebook for calling me a "douche" for having the temerity to point out that the exchanges are still going to be open despite the Republican shutdown. He's a teabagger (didn't really know he was until I friended him) and we had a lot of fights earlier this year over gun control but after Obama failed to take everybody's guns, he's been pretty quiet and he's never really gotten nasty like this unti now, so I tried to tolerate our differences. Oh well. Goodbye and good riddance! Definitely don't need "friends" like that.

September 29, 2013

Better yet

President Obama should AGREE with all of their demands. Repubs should drop their demands then.

September 28, 2013

I can't wait until we get to plan "z"

September 26, 2013

When it comes to Fox

the Devil is ALWAYS in the details............

September 22, 2013

REPUBLICANS MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO GET AWAY WITH THIS!

The bottom line on what is happening and what is potentially about to happen in Washington D.C. over the continued funding of the NORMAL functioning of the Federal Government of the United States of America by a small but vocal minority of the United States Congress is this: Members of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives, as well as the United States Senate, are attempting to achieve- by means that can only be described as “blackmail” or “extortion”- the defunding and/or repeal of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (PPACA) a LAW passed by a democratically elected (and then-controlled) Congress and signed by President Barack Obama in 2010 and further upheld as constitutional by a majority on the United States Supreme Court in 2012.
They are using the “power of the purse” in one-half of one-third of the branches of the United States Federal Government to ensure that this law is (somehow) destroyed and is never fully implemented. Contrary to all of their bluster and public pronouncements, it is NOT a “failed law” nor is it the clear will of the American public that this law be defunded and/or repealed, not when a majority of Americans- and even a majority of Republicans- like most of the provisions of the law, especially when it’s referred to under its proper name and not the derisive “Obamacare” label, which seems to be clearly designed “catnip” for the right-wing teabaggers.
Under the *leadership* of Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, the House has held (now) FORTY-TWO votes to defund and/or repeal PPACA since 2011 and they are now expecting the Senate, which is currently controlled by a ten-seat Democratic Majority, and Democratic President Barack Obama, who pushed the law in the first place, to ratify their latest scheme by attaching it to a must-pass government funding bill, putting the normal daily operation of the Federal Government at risk if they don’t. Having failed to win back the Senate in two consecutive elections (2010 & 2012), as well as the Presidency in 2012, they are now seeking to use the threat of a government shutdown (and coming soon, a federal debt default) to achieve what they have failed to achieve politically (or legally) for the past three years.
What makes the situation even more disgusting is that this battle isn’t being fought over something truly immoral, such as ordering our military to invade and occupy other countries by way of phony/exaggerated intelligence and/or ordering our soldiers and intelligence officials to torture “terror suspects” and detain them indefinitely. No, they’re waging this epic battle against a law designed to enable more Americans to obtain access to health insurance, which only leads me to one inescapable question: What the hell is wrong with these people? No, the law isn’t perfect. Yes, there will be problems and “bugs” that will need to be fixed as the law is being fully implemented. However, it IS the law now and Republicans need to respect it in the same way that we Democrats have had to respect laws passed by Republicans despite being intensely, if not fiercely opposed, to some of them.
Republicans remain free to keep speaking out, to keep ranting and screaming about how horrible the law is as they seek to win more elections and get more people whom agree with them elected to Congress and to the White House. However, their current scheme to get their way by holding our country hostage to their demands is truly as reprehensible as it is undemocratic and it needs to be roundly condemned by EVERYBODY- Democrat and Republican alike. It also needs to be made clear that if there is a government shutdown, it will NOT be because Democrats refused to sign on to the Republican’s quixotic attempts to defund and/or repeal PPACA but because the Republicans decided to tie their desperate attempts to do so to continued funding for the Federal Government. To President Obama’s credit, he has forcefully condemned these actions and has rejected all appeals to negotiate over the law, as well he should. Now, it’s up to the rest of us to let the Republican Party know, in no uncertain terms, that this is NOT how our government was designed to function, nor how it should EVER be allowed to function. We must also hold them accountable if they remain committed to this course of action and our country plunges into further economic disaster and misery as a result.

September 20, 2013

Oh boy

I'm sure that those 41 (or will it be 42 today? I'm losing count) votes that Mr. Duffy cast to repeal Obamacare were soooooo hard on him? I also believe that he was in office before Cruz showed up too. This, from the party of "personal responsibility"?


Buy some brass ones or get out of Congress, dude!

September 19, 2013

Where did this meme start

and what point are the people saying trying to make exactly? I don't get it.

September 18, 2013

I understand

I don't know why Dems seem to be basically throwing in the towel on Christie. As I posted earlier, I know of some Democratic-leaning Obama voting people talking positively about Christie but have no idea why. He may be one of the *saner* Republicans out of the lot but he still embodies their policies and agenda of the 1% and is no friend of the majority of people in the country.

I still don't think that the Republicans have a leg to stand on in regards to ACA. People have already been feeling some of its benefits and I don't feel that they would demand that President Obama and Democrats sign on to any plan to keep government operating and bills being paid that also includes a repeal/defunding of ACA. It will certainly be interesting to see how this plays out.

September 18, 2013

The NRA should be the #1 booster of ACA given their *concerns* about mental health care

except, of course, most of its rank-and-file hate President Obama and want to see ACA (aka "Obamacare&quot defunded/repealed.



Which is it guys?

I think that what we need is stronger gun laws with the provision that the NRA promotes Obamacare and when mental health care access significantly improves in this country and people are getting healthier, then maybe we can talk about having looser gun laws- since that seems to be what the NRA believes is the real problem.

September 18, 2013

Stand your ground, Mr. President

Republicans are trying to use these hardball measures to get stuff they can't win popular/legislative support for. This should NOT be allowed!