Mavericks Don’t Do Meetings
- Eventually people will learn not to invite Sarah Palin to events because she never shows up to anything. (Anchorage Daily News)
- Massachusetts is scrambling to prevent the healthcare bill that Ted Kennedy supported for his entire life from awkwardly dying because he did.(CNN Political Ticker)
- Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) thinks the GOP needs a “great white hope” if they want to beat President Obama, the great black hope. (Topeka Capital-Journal)
- In response to growing calls for his resignation, Mark Sanford says you can have the keys to the Governor’s Mansion if you can pry them from his cold, dead hands, or with a free trip to Argentina. (Charleston Post and Courier)
8/27/09 10:47 am | | Permalink | Tags: Barack Obama, healthcare, Lynn Jenkins, MA-Sen, Mark Sanford, racism, Sarah Palin, SC-Gov, Ted Kennedy
Quote of the Day
Obama was born, educated, went into politics and was successful within the imperial capitalist system of the United States. He did not wish to nor could he change the system. The strange thing is, in spite of that, that the extreme right hates him for being an African American and is fighting against what the president is doing to improve the deteriorated image of that country.
– Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
8/26/09 12:25 pm | | Permalink | Tags: Barack Obama, Fidel Castro, racism
Maybe Mark Sanford Can Help Dick Cheney Escape to South America
- Dick Cheney is not a fan of the decision to expand the investigation into whether the CIA did anything illegal, maybe on his orders. (Washington Post)
- If Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) gets his way, we will soon be commiserating the failure of not just any healthcare bill, but the Edward M. Kennedy healthcare bill. (Ben Smith)
- South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer is now calling on lover-boy Mark Sanford to resign, which would totally coincedentally make Andre Bauer the new governor. (The State)
- Can the AARP convince senior citizens that Obamacare won’t take all the money out of Medicare to fund death panels and free abortions for illegal immigrants? Only if they all turn up the volume on their hearing aids. (The Atlantic)
8/26/09 11:56 am | | Permalink | Tags: AARP, Andre Bauer, Dick Cheney, healthcare, Mark Sanford, Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy
Ted Kennedy, 1932-2009
Now cracks a noble heart. Goodnight, sweet Prince. / And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
8/26/09 10:54 am | | Permalink | Tags: Ted Kennedy
Socialized Medicine
I wonder how the teabaggers will react when Obama announces that he wants to vaccinate grandma:
Government health officials are mobilizing to launch a massive swine flu vaccination campaign this fall that is unprecedented in its scope — and in the potential for complications.
The campaign aims to vaccinate at least half the country’s population within months. Although more people have been inoculated against diseases such as smallpox and polio over a period of years, the United States has never tried to immunize so many so quickly.
The real patriots–you know, the ones who wave “Obama is Hitler” posters and hang their congressmen in effigy–should just refuse this government-run healthcare.
8/23/09 11:25 am | | Permalink | Tags: healthcare, swine flu, teabaggers
Just Answer the Nice Lady’s Question: Why Are You a Nazi?
8/20/09 11:23 am | | Permalink | Tags: Barney Frank, Chuck Grassley, Department of Homeland Security, Deval Patrick, FOX News, George W. Bush, healthcare, MA-Sen, Nazis, teabaggers, Ted Kennedy, Tom Ridge
No one could have predicted…
That FOX News viewers would have no clue about what’s actually in the healthcare reform proposals.
8/19/09 1:13 pm | | Permalink | Tags: FOX News, healthcare
Democrats Finally Figuring It Out?
Looks like Democrats may be finally figuring out that Republicans never intended to compromise on healthcare reform, they only wanted to kill it:
Given hardening Republican opposition to Congressional health care proposals, Democrats now say they see little chance of the minority’s cooperation in approving any overhaul, and are increasingly focused on drawing support for a final plan from within their own ranks.
Top Democrats said Tuesday that their go-it-alone view was being shaped by what they saw as Republicans’ purposely strident tone against health care legislation during this month’s Congressional recess, as well as remarks by leading Republicans that current proposals were flawed beyond repair.
Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, said the heated opposition was evidence that Republicans had made a political calculation to draw a line against any health care changes, the latest in a string of major administration proposals that Republicans have opposed.
“The Republican leadership,” Mr. Emanuel said, “has made a strategic decision that defeating President Obama’s health care proposal is more important for their political goals than solving the health insurance problems that Americans face every day.”
Not mentioned in this article, though, are Harry Reid and Max Baucus. They’re the ones who really need to put recognize that they can’t negotiate with Chuck Grassley because Grassley doesn’t want to negotiate.
8/19/09 11:51 am | | Permalink | Tags: bipartisanship, Chuck Grassley, Harry Reid, healthcare, Max Baucus, Rahm Emanuel
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