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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Category Archives: health care reform
Progressives Have One Million Plans
One of the more hilarious right wing memes out there is the idea that every progressive is a Saul Alinsky acolyte. Alinsky titled his book Rules For Radicals because all too often, radical action stirs no real change. Today’s example … Continue reading
Alabama Will See Things We’ve Never Seen Before
Alabama won’t be getting a new dime of new revenue. Governor Robert Bentley has taken the no-new-taxes pledge, so instead lawmakers will fill the hole with cuts to Medicaid and S-CHIP programs. That’s right, the dermatologist-governor would rather take health … Continue reading
April Fool’s, We’re Dead
Going to go empty the drinks cabinet.
Republicans Want Medicare to Cost Less Except When They Don’t
Paul Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity” would slash Medicare spending by voucherizing it. Greg Sargent at WaPo: The cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care programs — including repealing health care reform — are the bulk of the “savings” in … Continue reading
Jeff Sessions Against My Mom
If Republican legislators have their way, Arizona women will no longer be able to use birth control without their employers’ permission. I wish I was making this up. House Bill 2625 mirrors the argument in Washington, where Congressional Republicans are … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Alabama Ultrasound Sexual Torture
Alabama will dare to tread where Virginia faltered. HB418 and SB12 would require doctors to perform an invasive ultrasound if it would display the fetus more clearly — and they would have to describe the images to the woman if … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Steve King
Remember, an accident victim in the ICU should have to answer questions about their immigration status — but God forbid they should be able to purchase health or auto insurance. Via ThinkProgress.
Health Care Law Saves Californians $283 Million
California Blue Shield customers are getting a $283 million credit on their bills thanks to the ACA: Although Thursday’s action affects only nearly 2 million of Blue Shield’s policyholders in California, other consumers could be getting similar paybacks under President … Continue reading
The Sheila Jackson Lee Nontroversy
You have a right to health care access, i.e. the right to be insured. If you must buy insurance — if there’s a mandate for individual responsibility — then you have the right to buy a policy. That’s under the … Continue reading
Senior Drug Culture and Movement Politics
From Silver Buzz Cafe, numbers showing that American seniors are still confused about what is in the health care bill. None of their expectations is even remotely true: 72% expect reductions in their choice of Medicare Advantage or Medigap insurance … Continue reading
Archives: Tort Reform is a Red Herring, Not a Silver Bullet
This ran at Huffington Post on September 10, 2009. Attempting bipartisan outreach, the president said last night he would consider tort reform as part of a general health care overhaul. Pledging to initiate pilot programs aimed at reducing “defensive medicine,” … Continue reading
