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Rush Limbaugh Refuses To Move

23 Mar

Rush Limbaugh has promised to move to Costa Rica if health care passed here. Never mind that Costa Rica has a very socialist form of medicine and health care, thats where he said he would go.

Now the proverbial one trick pony radio familiar has went back on his promise. Its kinda what I expect from Republicans and conservatives from the right. He now says he would go there for medical health care. Is there any doubt he will go back on that too? Is there any doubt that anything he says is probably a half truth or outright lie?

Let the viewer choose for himself. Did Rush say he was moving or just going to Costa Rica for health care:

And then, characteristically backtracks like the clown that he is:

No wonder the man has such little credibility

 
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Democrats passage of health care is actually the GOP Waterloo

22 Mar

Former Bush speechwriter tells GOP: Democrats’ passage of health care is actually ‘our’ Waterloo.

From Think Progress

“Last summer, during a conference call with conservative activists, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) said that if the Republican Party was able to defeat Democratic efforts to pass a comprehensive health care bill, it would “break” President Obama and be “his Waterloo.” Last night, former Bush speechwriter David Frum posted a note on his website addressing his fellow conservatives on the consequences of the Democrats successfully passing a health care bill. He castigated them for refusing to deal with Democrats throughout the process — especially when the final health care bill incorporated many ideas from the Republican Party — and said that a “huge part of the blame for [yesterday's] disaster attaches to conservatives and Republicans ourselves.” He concludes that “it’s Waterloo all right: ours”:

A huge part of the blame for today’s disaster attaches to conservatives and Republicans ourselves. At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we would make no deal with the administration. No negotiations, no compromise, nothing. We were going for all the marbles. This would be Obama’s Waterloo – just as healthcare was Clinton’s in 1994. [...]

This time, when we went for all the marbles, we ended with none. [...]

So today’s defeat for free-market economics and Republican values is a huge win for the conservative entertainment industry. Their listeners and viewers will now be even more enraged, even more frustrated, even more disappointed in everybody except the responsibility-free talkers on television and radio. For them, it’s mission accomplished. For the cause they purport to represent, it’s Waterloo all right: ours. “

This is not a defeat for free market economics. There is no such thing in the health care industry. This bill will demand much more in the way of products and actually boost manufacturing of medical equipment and even surgery products. More supply required from the corrupt pill manufactures. Why arnt the republicans happy about that? Isn’t that free market stuff? Doesn’t that give the corporations more chance for corruption in the free market that the republicans live on?

I wish we had 3 partys so we could get rid of the republican party of hypocrisy

David Frum also says that Rush Limbaugh wants the republicans to fail.

 
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HealthCare Passes!

22 Mar

From The Huffington Post

Now that health care has passed, the American people will see immediate benefits. The legislation will:

  • Prohibit pre-existing condition exclusions for children in all new plans;
  • Provide immediate access to insurance for uninsured Americans who are uninsured because of a pre-existing condition through a temporary high-risk pool;
  • Prohibit dropping people from coverage when they get sick in all individual plans;
  • Lower seniors’ prescription drug prices by beginning to close the donut hole;
  • Offer tax credits to small businesses to purchase coverage;
  • Eliminate lifetime limits and restrictive annual limits on benefits in all plans;
  • Require plans to cover an enrollee’s dependent children until age 26;
  • Require new plans to cover preventive services and immunizations without cost-sharing;
  • Ensure consumers have access to an effective internal and external appeals process to appeal new insurance plan decisions;
  • Require premium rebates to enrollees from insurers with high administrative expenditures and require public disclosure of the percent of premiums applied to overhead costs.

By enacting these provisions right away, and others over time, we will be able to lower costs for everyone and give all Americans and small businesses more control over their health care choices.

Thank god, we are no longer the only industrialized  nation in the universe to not have a health care plan.

Never leave Americans to the Republicans.  You get war, corruption and little else in return.

 
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Republicans And Blackwater

04 Mar

or otherwise entitled you are who you hang around with. This is incredibly pathetic. There is no doubt in my mind that the Republican Party is pushing for the destruction of representation in this country and for the type of rule that Pres. Cheney wanted when he was in office. Total presidential control and nothing Congress can do about it.

From Raw Story

Update at bottom: RNC fundraiser hoping to raise $60,000 will take place at Blackwater compound“What can you sell when you do not have the White House, the House, or the Senate?” asks a Republican National Committee PowerPoint presentation.

Answer: “Save the country from trending toward Socialism!”

That — along with a heavy dose of fear-mongering about President Barack Obama, sums up the Republican Party’s strategy heading into the 2010 mid-term elections, according to documents obtained by Politico.

In a presentation delivered to donors and fundraisers in Florida on Feb. 18, RNC Finance Director Rob Bickhart made it clear what the 2010 race was going to be about for the GOP: Creating a caricature of President Obama and the Democrats meant to help the Republicans recoup their losses from the last two election cycles.

One PowerPoint slide, entitled “Evil Empire,” shows the famous (or infamous) sketch of Obama painted up to look like the Joker from The Dark Knight. Underneath are cartoons of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, with the title “Cruella DeVille and Scooby-Doo.”
The whole presentation can be found here.

And Politico notes that the presentation displayed “an air of disdain for the party’s donors that is usually confined to the barroom conversations of political operatives.”
The strategy was detailed in a confidential party fundraising presentation, obtained by POLITICO, which also outlines how “ego-driven” wealthy donors can be tapped with offers of access and “tchochkes.”

Manipulating donors with crude caricatures and playing on their fears is hardly unique to Republicans or to the RNC – Democrats raised millions off George W. Bush in similar terms – but rarely is it practiced in such cartoonish terms.
Politico says it obtained the PowerPoint presentation from “a Democrat who said a hard copy had been left in the hotel hosting the … retreat.”

Faced with financial shortfalls and general discontent with the leadership of RNC Chairman Michael Steele, the GOP has been experimenting with some novel fundraising ideas of late. One, which drew some sharp criticism, involved mailing out fundraising letters disguised as a US census form.

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