Travis Korson… suggested framing marriage as an economic issue. “Gay marriage undermines that basic family unit,” he said, and that, in turn, hurts the economy.Um, what? (2 comments)
Oh how the Serious People in Washington must wail and moan about average Americans just don’t understand the need for the middle class and the poor everyone to “share the pain“:
As previous polling has shown, voters in the new survey are overwhelmingly opposed to Ryan’s medicare plan. Here’s how pollsters described it, in what they called a “neutral description of the Republican’s proposed changes to Medicare”:
The budget proposed by Republicans in Congress would generate much of its savings by making changes to Medicare. For anyone who is now fifty-five or over, traditional Medicare benefits would not change, but for everyone else, Medicare would be turned into a voucher program. This would mean that instead of the government paying doctors and hospitals directly for treating seniors as Medicare does now, the government would provide vouchers to help seniors buy their own private health insurance policy.
The results? Just 38% support the plan and 54% oppose it. According to the groups, that opposition shoots up after voters are given some political messaging “about the substance of Republicans’ proposed changes to Medicare.”
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Lawd! Ah Thunk Up A Gud Thawt!
Bear witness to the bright young minds at Liberty University who are trying to make conservatism hep and happnin’ for the YouTube generation. They got real good idears, they do:And Just How Do We Feel About Cory Booker?
The Guardian has a brutal, though not really all that unfair, take on the soon-to-be-senator. I must admit that Booker inspires a lot of ambivalence in me. He’s an impressive person in many ways, and obviously we know all about the minuses. I doubt he’d be a Lieberman-esque embarrassment, and his voting record would most likely not > more ... (2 comments)Republicans now making with the man-brains, for crying out loud. From Lawmaker Says Man’s Brain More Concerned About Costs on PoliticalWire:Maine State Rep. Ken Fredette (R) declared that he and most of his Republican colleagues oppose accepting federal funds to expand health care coverage because the genders think differently. > more ... (1 comments)
Certain quarters keep spoutin’ the same ol’ song. From GOP congressman: Rate of pregnancies from rape is ‘very low’:“Before, when my friends on the left side of the aisle here tried to make rape and incest the subject — because, you know, the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low,” [Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.)] said. > more ... (0 comments)
Quote of the Day: All We Have To Do Is Convince Our Customers They're Wrong
Here’s an Xbox rep addressing the controversy over Microsoft’s decision to require an internet connection for its new Xbox One console and hobble used game sales:“This is a big change, consumers don’t always love change, and there’s a lot of education we have to provide to make sure that people understand.” > more ... (5 comments)
I Know You Are, But What Am I?
From ‘Proud wacko bird’ Ted Cruz calls Obama biggest obstacle to immigration reform on Yahoo News:
As the immigration debate begins before the full Senate for the first time, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has become one of the most vocal opponents to the current bill. But Cruz says the true obstacle to immigration reform is not him, but President Obama. > more ... (2 comments)
From I Am So Fucking Over This Already by John Cole onna BJ, in re: the citizenry of these United States acting all surprised at getting what they voted for, state-surveillance-regime-wise:And for the record, Obama is not the villain here, he’s just dealing with the laws as they were passed, and it looks like they did everything correctly and followed the letter of the law. > more ... (0 comments)
“Republicans care just as deeply about the environment as Democrats but we also care about jobs,” he added. “We want common sense regulations to be balanced with economic growth and jobs.” — Rand Paul
Um, yeah, how’s that working out? I guess not so well. 5 out of the 10 most polluted states are deep-red > more ... (1 comments)Quote of the Week: Darkies Ain't Gonna Vote Right Anyways
“I’m going to be real honest with you, the Republican Party doesn’t want black people to vote if they’re going to vote 9-to-1 for Democrats.” – Texas Tea Party Jackwad
Also too, remember the past:At the close of the Civil War … some three-quarters of a million of Negroes, the mass of them densely ignorant > more ... (4 comments)
Lost Bottles From The Post Cellar
I was rooting around in the dusty Post Cellar and wanted to offer up some delicious vintages of years past.
From 2-Year-Old Boy In Texas Dead After Shooting Himself In The Face on TPM:Correction: This post originally gave the wrong caliber for the the weapon involved. It was a 9 mm handgun.
But everything else in the story was accurate, I guess. > more ... (0 comments)If I Had Some Ham, I'd Make a Ham and Cheese Sandwich...
…if I had some cheese. Via AB, the Slog quotes WA State Representative (R-Kalama) and apparently Zen Master Ed Orcutt‘s latest email-koan:The bridge would indeed be standing today had the truck’s load NOT rammed the super structure of the [I-5/Skagit River] bridge. In fact, 11 of the 12 sections of the bridge are still standing.
> more ... (0 comments)I'm Thinking There's Something Symbolic About That Volcano What Is Erupting There
So the Michelle Bachmann lustbuch has already been making the rounds — Jezebel, Wonkette, Balloon-Juice — but I couldn’t resist quoting the blurb on the e-book’s own cover graphic:He touched the void inside her, pollinating her pink flower like a master bee.
> more ... (3 comments)Saw this headline in the RSS reader, with no additional information:
And my immediate thought was Louie Gohmert, then I second-guessed myself and said it was Steve Stockman. Shoulda trusted my instincts! Also acceptable guesses: Steve “Esteban” King, Michele Bachmann, Rand Paul. (2 comments)Lawmaker Says Woman Should Carry Brain Dead Fetus to Term
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), makin’ with the insightful diagnosis of current events y’all, via TPM:“The President’s speech today will be viewed by terrorists as a victory,” said Chambliss, who recently golfed with the president, in a statement. > more ... (1 comments)
Sorry, folks, work has gotten crazy, and I realize I’ve been missing my (self-imposed) quota. But I’ll be back at you soon. Try to post something substantial tomorrow. (1 comments)Watching a Jerk Seize Main Chance
I so called this (pinkey swear) but I didn’t want to be the jerk who forecast somebody else f*ckin’ this particular chicken so soon:Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn will seek to offset federal aid to victims of a massive tornado that blasted through Oklahoma City suburbs on Monday with cuts elsewhere in the budget.
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