October 11, 2011
"Young people drawn to the Occupy Wall Street carnivals could provide the same volunteer power that drove the McCarthy and Kennedy challenges to LBJ."

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Michael Medved on how the Occupy Wall Street protests could make the 2012 elections mirror the tumultuous contest of ‘68, spelling trouble for a weak Obama. (via cheatsheet)

I’m guessing Michael fucking Medved has probably seen lots of movies about carnivals, but has never actually been to one.

(via inothernews)

George Will said a similar thing about this, that dirty hippies drove people to the Republicans in order to fight off chaos and lawlessness or some stupid.

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Filed under: politics Obama occupy wall street 2012 
October 7, 2011
"Well I have a question. Herman Cain, if he became president, he would be the first black president, when you measure it by — because he doesn’t — does he have a white mother, white father, grandparents, no, right?"

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Laura Ingraham postulating that Barack Obama isn’t “black enough” to be the first black president. (via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)

LOL

(Source: stfuconservatives, via sp-a-m)

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Filed under: postsbyjoe Laura Ingraham Obama Herman Cain 2012 election racism 
October 6, 2011
"After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision. By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE. It’s been a great run."

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Are you ready for some hubris from Hank Williams Jr.? (via shortformblog)

Wow. He can read? Did not expect that.

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ESPN destroyed his Hank’s first amendment…

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Filed under: hank williams jr. they didn't dump me i dumped them hitler obama espn stupidity 
September 26, 2011
"I know that admitting that Barack Obama is already the candidate of centrists’ dreams would be awkward, would make it hard to adopt the stance that both sides are equally at fault. But that is the truth."

— Paul Krugman, commenting on the seemingly eternal font of “what we need is a mystical centrist third party to fix everything” pieces from the MSM.
What we have now is a right wing party, the GOP, and a center-right wing party, The Democrat. Obama ran as and is governing as a center-right technocrat… and still can’t get much done in the face of blanket GOP opposition.
Sadly, admitting to or even obliquely referencing this reality is an unforgivable heresy and likely as not to get you run out of Serious Person circles forever. (via lemkin)

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Filed under: MSM nyt krugman yep obama Third Way serious person 
September 20, 2011
thenewrepublic: Our neighbors at Think Progress published a beautiful pie chart this afternoon, breaking down the sources of Medicare savings in President Obama’s recently announced deficit reduction package. While the plan spreads the pain among all groups, it finds its greatest savings in drug rebates and modernizing provider payments to achieve greater efficiency. It can be tricky though to figure out exactly where all of the savings are coming from and what impact they may have on Medicare. That’s where TNR’s Jonathan Cohn steps in and dissects the chart in a blog post today, here. The plan does call for wealthier seniors to pay higher premiums for Part B, which is the portion of Medicare that covers physician services. That means that 25 percent of all Medicare beneficiaries would eventually be paying higher premiums than the rest. That 25 percent would include some seniors who are more middle class than wealthy. The new Obama plan would also take $3.5 billion away from the Prevention and Public Health Care Fund, which will fund everything from campaigns to promote vaccination to modernization of public health departments. Expect this breakdown to be talked about a lot more frequently in the coming days, as the details of President Obama’s deficit reduction package continue to roll out. Courtesy of the Think Progress Oh look here it is.

thenewrepublic:

Our neighbors at Think Progress published a beautiful pie chart this afternoon, breaking down the sources of Medicare savings in President Obama’s recently announced deficit reduction package.

While the plan spreads the pain among all groups, it finds its greatest savings in drug rebates and modernizing provider payments to achieve greater efficiency.

It can be tricky though to figure out exactly where all of the savings are coming from and what impact they may have on Medicare. That’s where TNR’s Jonathan Cohn steps in and dissects the chart in a blog post today, here.

The plan does call for wealthier seniors to pay higher premiums for Part B, which is the portion of Medicare that covers physician services. That means that 25 percent of all Medicare beneficiaries would eventually be paying higher premiums than the rest. That 25 percent would include some seniors who are more middle class than wealthy.

The new Obama plan would also take $3.5 billion away from the Prevention and Public Health Care Fund, which will fund everything from campaigns to promote vaccination to modernization of public health departments.

Expect this breakdown to be talked about a lot more frequently in the coming days, as the details of President Obama’s deficit reduction package continue to roll out.

Courtesy of the Think Progress

Oh look here it is.

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Filed under: medicare costs health savings deficit reduction plan obama 
September 9, 2011
State of the Art

lemkin:

John Cole at Balloon Juice officially wins blogging for the week:

In the long term, assuming [some version of an Obama jobs] plan gets through the House (it won’t), then we get to go through our usual drama of the blue dogs from Red States (Manchin, Nelson, Landrieu, McCaskill, etc.), Lieberman just so he can continue to be the world’s preeminent douchenozzle, and some others I am sure I am missing. They’ll cockblock it on the Senate side, moaning about the program being a deficit buster while conveniently ignoring the fact that each one of them represents a welfare state sucking at the federal teat. Finally, at the 11th hour, Snowe and Collins will swoop in and offer tax cuts for the ultra-rich as a sweetener and they will support it. At this point, Bernie Sanders or whatever progressive hero of the moment will claim he can’t support anything with tax cuts for the rich in it. This will bring things to a standstill for a couple more weeks until another shitty jobs report comes out, and the Senate, acting in the fierce urgency of when-the-fuck-ever will pass some piece of shit that is too small, unfocussed, and does nothing other than provide the left with another opportunity to fracture and start flinging shit at each other. Republicans will have spent the entire time using procedural tricks to slow things down while having Frank Luntz work on the framing of the issue so that by the time it is about to hit the President’s desk, they will already have a cute name, the talking points will be distributed, and we’ll all be hearing about the new “Porkulus” or “Obamacare” or whatever the fuck childish name they come up with. In three months time, when employment hasn’t picked up because we are actually in the same god damned depression we’ve been in since 2007, Rick Perry can claim that Keynesian ideology has once again been disproven. Because everyone hates the bill, Friedman, Brooks, and other members of the Centrist jihad will claim this as proof that the bill is great.

Read the whole thing.

Basically, yeah.

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Filed under: yep 2012 politics messaging this is why obama GOP Gridlock joementum 
September 8, 2011
JasenComstock: Oh and fuck you Ron Paul

hesspartacus:

jasencomstock:

that massive government that outspent the russians and created a stupid foreign policy that helped foster radical islam and such that you are complaining about WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO was the President who wanted to do all that, OH, you were at his library blowing his 104 year old dick all night with…

Yes, I can see you’ve really thought this through, and who knows, in a few more years you may even writing joined up and stuff. Now wouldn’t that be grand?

Now, take your time over this, as it’s a fairly taxing question:

What is the Nobel Peace Laureate doing to end it?

duh, instituting Sharia law.

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Filed under: obama ron paul foreign policy reagan blowback islam useful idiots 
August 22, 2011
You're appointing WHO? Please Obama, say it ain't so.

danielholter:

The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar.

Wow.

anti-GMO stuff. interesting debate.

(Source: apoplecticskeptic)

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Filed under: politics corporatocracy Obama Monsanto 
August 16, 2011
"You’ll hear a lot of folks, by the way, say that government is broken. Well, government and politics are two different things. Government is our troops who are fighting on our behalf in Afghanistan and Iraq. That’s government. Government are also those FEMA folks when there’s a flood or a drought or some emergency who come out and are helping people out. That’s government. Government is Social Security. Government are teachers in the classroom. Government are our firefighters and our police officers, and the folks who keep our water clean and our air clean to breathe, and our agricultural workers. And when you go to a national park, and those folks in the hats — that’s government.

So don’t be confused — as frustrated as you are about politics, don’t buy into this notion that somehow government is what’s holding us back…. [D]on’t buy into this whole notion that somehow government doesn’t do us any good; government is what protects us. The government is what built the Interstate Highway System. Government is what sent a man to the Moon. It’s what invested in the research and development that created innovations all across this country."

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President Obama at a town-hall-style event in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, August 15, 2011 (via nefariousnewt)

Here, here, Mr. President.

Now, Rick Perry? Sit down and shut the fuck up.

(via wtfox-)

Other things that are government:

-the Internet
-GPS
-the solution developed for the Y2k problem

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Filed under: reblog accurate.gif truth Obama 
August 10, 2011
MSNBC: Ratigan delivers wake-up call to Congress

resurrecthobbes:

This is, officially, the best thing ever to happen.

this is, officially, the best thing ever to happen?

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Filed under: Congress President Obama Roosevelt money politics