Well…just a shorty on the data that is coming out of the developing pricing for the insurance exchanges…one estimate for a family of four making around 40K in Texas is that, after subsidies, they will pay around 50 bucks a month for a silver plan that covers more than any personal insurance that is even available in Texas right now. So, to the repubs I say “you guys are in deep, deep trouble” if you continue to try to make sure that no one can afford insurance…your time is just about up when people get the pleasant surprise of the rates under the ACA and it spreads like wildfire across this country…and, you are a bunch of immoral pricks…geez…
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Why do the repubs hate negotiating?
Well…after the news this week on the overtures from Iran on trying to start toward normalizing relations with the US, we got the expected response from the repubs in a letter to Obama from McCain and some of the other idiots on the right…and guess what the advice is? It is to shout louder at the Iranians and to not negotiate unless the US will tell them what we want and accept nothing less thai everything we want. Now, this is not diplomacy by any stretch of the imagination and is the same failed policy that led us into war in Iraq…didn’t the repubs see that diplomacy can work as it did in Syria? It just goes back to how the repubs view negotiating and compromise in our government…as in they won’t unless the left gives them everything they want and they won’t be satisfied if they ever have to compromise one iota. That doesn’t work here, and it sure won’t work in the international arena…but the stupidity and ideological rigidity of the right just can’t allow any new thinking…even if there have been good results…geez…
Republican extortionists…
Well…the repubs have finally devolved into the Mafia with their latest threats to crash the world economy unless they get all of the crazy they have been trying for for the past 4+ years. The latest nonsense is that they have threatened to hold the debt ceiling hostage unless the Keystone pipeline is approved along with the wish list of the far right…of course the repeal of the ACA, but then more tax cuts for the rich, more food stamp cuts for the poor, and more voter suppression, slashing SS and Medicare…you get the point…they can’t win elections so they thumb their noses at democracy and do what thugs do, threaten the country and the world…are these guys nuts? At least we have the president saying that one of his biggest mistakes was negotiating with extortionists in 2011 and has promised never again. I say let them crash the economy…and then let’s tie this millstone around the necks of every one of them and push them out of the congress so maybe some sane people can take their places…ignorant know-nothings have no place running this country…we are the laughingstock of the world whenever they open their mouths and I have had enough of the crazy…geez…
I’m confused…
Well…here comes the new meme of the day from the right wing wingnuts…that because Obama got Syria to give up it’s chemical weapons without firing a shot, it makes him look weak and because he is weak (in their minds), he now will go along with defunding Obamacare. What the hell planet are these nuts living on? In any rational mind (which means none on the right), getting what you want through talking and diplomacy is much preferable to using military force and killing a bunch of innocent civilians…but the right thinks that there is only one response to any crisis…bomb them! But, the funny thing here that exposes the pure, unadulterated hatred the right has for Obama is that they were for bombing Syria until Obama came out for it…then, they immediately changed to be opposed to it….I, for one, feel that diplomacy was and is the right choice in this situation, that there is nuance and subtlety that can work wonders if you have an administration that understands it. That does not describe ole Gw’s time in office…they had an outcome they wanted and then faked the info until they had a reason to attack….something that still should subject those folks to the law….I can’t wait to see how this one plays out…geez…
The idiots waste another million…
Well…it was another red letter day in Washington yesterday with the idiot repubs holding another vote on the repeal of Obamacare…that is number 40 and I just can’t believe that they are getting away with it…especially since none of the laws will ever be taken up by the senate and would surely be vetoed by the president….so, what the hell are they voting for? There has been research done on the costs of these futile votes…from the staff time to write the bills and all of the other costs, and it has now passed the 50 million dollar price tag. Yep, these idiots who supposedly decry waste in government, and who voted the other day to cut food stamps to thousands of people and let them starve to save money have wasted 50 million dollars just trying to poke Obama in the eye. Think about all of the things that 50 million dollars would buy…how many kids could have gone to college? How many retirees could have been fed? How many homeless could have been given a home? These stupid, heartless bastards just don’t care about anyone but themselves and their billionaire bosses….geez…
Just a short one on some news…
Well…just wanted to relate something that I read today about some economic analysis that has recently been completed…the numbers are in people, and we now have the largest income inequality in the history of the country…yep, even worse than the depression, even worse than the gilded age of the robber barons whose trusts stole everything while their workers died and people starved…oh, sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Sounds just like now….with the repubs trying to steal everything that is not nailed down for their owners like the Kochs…and then cutting food stamps by forty billion dollars so people really will starve…they will literally starve citizens of this country just so the rich can have another summer home or Ferrari….this is just so sick I can’t even believe there are people like this in the world…we can do something about this, we just need the will…and the repubs to die off…geez…
One of the stupidest things I’ve heard…
Well…listening and reading about the commemoration of the 1963 march on Washington, I heard one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard from one of the commentators on the right…their contention was that the only reason there is still racism in the US (and these folks are not sure there is any) is the fact that the agitators on the left keep talking about it…it’s not that most of the people stopped and frisked in NY are minorities, it’s not that you can murder a young black man in cold blood and get acquitted, it’s not that the repubs are doing their best to make sure minorities can’t vote, and it’s not that the right hates the first African-American president with a rabid fervor that has no other explanation but racism….it’s that the president and the rest of the left keep talking about it. Yeah, right….it’s just another instance on the right that if it doesn’t affect the (mostly white) repubs, it doesn’t exist…just like discrimination against gays doesn’t exist unless it affects a member of their own family…and the other arguments the right puts up why there is no racism are the same ones they spouted in 1963….I think they are getting really scared that the demographic tide is going to wash over them and make them the little, regional party they deserve to be…the people have rejected their platform and ideas for the past two presidential elections and the only way they cling to power is to lie, cheat, and steal elections…and that can’t work forever…geez…
Keep attacking Obamacare repubs…
Well…as with many, many things that the repubs think are true but aren’t, we now have to add the idea that attacking Obamacare is good politics for them….and, as with many, many other polls, these folks are just reading the country all wrong. When they look at the polls that say that only 40% of the country likes Obamacare, they see a political opening; another wedge they can use to divide the country and gain an edge…but, the one thing they don’t understand, like many, many other things, is that there are 35% of the country that think that Obamacare doesn’t go far enough…there are 35% that think that the country should go to Medicare for all and cut the damn insurance companies out completely. So, if we add the 40% who like the law with the 35% who think it doesn’t go far enough…you get a true 75% that think the law is better than what we have now and want it to continue….and these morons can’t even do the math to see that…they assume that 60% of the country hate the law and that is why they are pushing against it so hard…but, with the new revelation in another poll that says that only 19% of the country identify as being repubs…all I can say is “please proceed” repubs…you’ll be gone soon…yay….
Tennessee repubs are pricks…
Well…just had to comment on what happened over the weekend at a town hall meeting that was held by one of the repub reps from Tennessee…when a 12 year old girl whose father is an undocumented alien asked what the rep was going to do to help her father avoid deportation along with the other millions that are here, and this prick answered “nothing” and then went on the typical repub rant about they are here breaking the law so they should all deport themselves…yadda, yadda….but, the worst part is the crowd turned on this young girl and started to cheer this prick as she stood there crying….where the hell are these pricks from? Who taught them that it is okay to attack even children for political reasons? That is where the repub party is right now…just a bunch of hating pricks who don’t deserve to breathe the same air as those of us who have empathy for the plight of others…I’ll bet they went home feeling so smug and good about themselves that it makes me sick….I just can’t wait until they all die off…geez…
Trying to stay ahead…
Well…it has been a long day with trying to go across town and having it take an hour and a half and a quarter of a tank of gas…but, that’s not what this is about…it is just a short one about a really neat thing that is happening at repub town hall meetings…the idiot repubs are trying to run on and are proud of repealing the ACA….the problem is that the people they represent are having none of it…asking one rep in Florida to stop lying about the ACA and then putting him on the spot with what he would replace it with…nothing but fricking silence from the idiot….so, I think as people get to understand more and more of the benefits of the ACA…the repubs are going to be in trouble…can’t happen to a crappier bunch of folks…geez…