From the monthly archives: March 2010
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is the 51st Senator to vote for final passage of the reconciliation act for health care reform (“Fix-it”), thus ensuring its passage today.
The measure returns to the House for what is expected to be a rather uneventful vote towards passage today.
Full Story... →Finally. They stark freaking out. They’ve been warned for over a year now and they are just now realizing the damage that has been done and will continue to be done to their cause. They’re freaking the hell out:
The organizers of some major Florida tea party groups, for instance, on Thursday morning released an open letter to Congress and President Barack Obama declaring they ?stand in stark opposition to any person using derogatory characterizations, threats of violence, or disparaging terms toward members of Congress or the President.?
FreedomWorks must have some bad internal polling suggesting the jig is [...]
Full Story... →We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again. All your base are belong to you:
While tea party activists have described themselves as political free agents disgusted with both parties, a new poll by Quinnipiac University shows that a majority have a close connection to the GOP.
The demographics of the Teabagger Movement? was pretty obvious, but if you want numbers and statistics:
In addition to being largely Republican, the poll found tea partiers are mainly white (88 percent), voted for 2008 GOP presidential candidate John McCain (77 percent) and adore his running mate, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, [...]
Full Story... →The Chris Reichert situation got me thinking.? When I wrote this in March, 2008, I expected I’d be linking to it repeatedly over time, because not one thing has changed since the email smear campaign against Barack Obama, created and prosecuted by Republicans, for Republicans’ benefit, laying the foundation for today’s tinder box.
The unrelenting hatred that is now being spewed on conservative talk radio and on the internet is not now being aimed at Hispanics, it is being aimed at the most deep seeded racial divide in our country’s history, and is inevitably going to give the lowest [...]
Full Story... →One of the reasons we’ve consistently argued that GOP rhetoric was harmful to the country is that it creates an environment of fear and hate, and it’s incredibly difficult to step back when you realize things have gotten out of hand. Some of our conservative visitors think things haven’t gotten out of hand (in fact, a few think that this is all “manufactured outrage” by the left, as Eric has made fun of in his last few posts). We’ve already had people hurt, even killed, in what would appear to be violence at least in part motivated by the fear [...]
Full Story... →Well, that didn’t take long. Series it is! More manufactured outrage from the left. No wait. This is manufactured outrage from the RIGHT! Apparently Ohio Congressman and House Minority Leader John Boehner is in on the conspiracy to stoke fear and sympathy for Democrats:
Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, denounced the threats and acts of violence, saying it’s “not the American way.”
“I know many Americans are angry over this health care bill, and that Washington Democrats just aren’t listening. But, as I’ve said, violence and threats are unacceptable,” he said in a statement.
Full Story... →No wait.? The outrage is coming from the right isn’t it?? I may be “manufactured” by the likes of Beck and Limbaugh, but it’s real alright:
Something tells me this is going to be a series…
Full Story... →I don’t care if you are religious or not, science is the only tool we have for exploring and understanding our world. It’s the only way we’ll find a cure for cancer or build awesome technologies like the Internet. Down with pseudoscience.
Full Story... →The Cleveland Plain Dealer has confirmed my earlier reporting of the true facts behind the legitimate legal reasons that the Superintendent of the Highway Patrol as well as the Director of the Department of Public Safety (a former police officer) decided that a planned sting at the Governor’s Mansion should not go forward because there was considerable evidence that the alleged conspiracy violated no criminal law and could pose substantial risk to the Governor’s and others safety.
Here’s what the Cleveland Plain Dealer confirmed that the Dispatch refuses to report that I wrote the one Dispatch [...]
Full Story... →Latest post at my campaign blog on the long list of war stories I’m collecting.
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Ohio "Pro-Life" conservatives radical state rights thinking REJECTED by the Confederacy.
The problem with State Senator Shannon Jones is not that she’s a reckless driver; it’s that she’s a reckless legislator.
Tim Grendell and Shannon Jones have introduced both a constitutional amendment and now a new bill to protect Ohio’s right as a State to allow its citizens to die or go bankrupt (or both) due to the lack of affordable and quality health insurance coverage.
The language of the new bill is not yet available via the Internet, but Senator Jones said in her press release:
The bill, which will be formally introduced as Senate [...]
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