The Ides of March are an American rock band that had a major US and minor UK hit with the song “Vehicle” in 1970. After going on hiatus in 1973, the band returned with their original line-up in 1990 and has been active since then.
The Ides of March began in Berwyn, Illinois (a near western suburb of Chicago) on October 16, 1964, as a four-piece band called “The Shon-Dels.” Their first record, “Like It Or Lump It,” was released on their own “Epitome” record label in 1965.
In 1966, after changing their name to The Ides of March (a name suggested by bassist Bob Bergland after reading Shakespeare‘s Julius Caesar in high school), the band released their first single on Parrot Records, “You Wouldn’t Listen.” The song reached #7 on WLS Chicago in spring 1966 and #42 on the Hot 100 in summer 1966. This record and its follow-ups (all pre-“Vehicle”) have been re-released on the Sundazed Records CD Ideology. By the end of the 1960s, the band added a brass section, although Bergland often doubled up on tenor saxophone.
https://twitter.com/Holst44/status/608313075838664704/photo/1
go read the letter. it will bring tears to your eyes.
My favorite sentence in the letter:
We the people at the bottom of the ladder love you for the hand up
this is so true
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One Republican lying is a joke, all Republicans lying is a strategy
by LOLGOP on JUNE 9, 2015 in AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
We got a preview of the clusterfuganonsense that our politics will descend to if the Supreme Court decides to deny 6.5 million Americans tax credits to buy health insurance on Monday.
After President Obama, in his role as President Obvious, said the Supreme Court shouldn’t have even taken King v. Burwell, Senator John Thune sent out a tweet that was widely mocked but geniunely reflects the GOP’s strategy to place the blame for their intentional gutting of Obamacare on Obama.
When one Republican lies, it’s a joke. But when all Republicans get on the same page and start repeating the same lie, it can be devastatingly effective.
Conservative commitment to calling the Stimulus “the failed Stimulus” helped brand the most successful government intervention in the economy since the New Deal as a disaster even though nearly all economists agree it reduced unemployment and theclean energy revolution sparked by the bill — along with some effective activism by Beyond Coal, as Politico‘s Mike Grunwald explains — has led to more Americans working in the solar industry than in coal. Anti-stimulus propaganda was so effective that Democrats never even mention the bill that helped set us on a path to the best job creation of the century.
Republicans have also effectively smeared Obamacare with absurdly circular arguments and horror stories that have proven to be more stories than horror. Republicans hate Obamacare so much that they nominated the guy who invented it to destroy it? The fact that the ACA is really a conservative plan is betrayed whenever Republicans offer a replacement plan that resembles Obamacare.
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Republicans won’t do that, as The Washington Post‘s Greg Sargent keeps explaining. They’re planning on passing a “fix” that breaks the law and then blaming Obama for vetoing it. There’s no question this will be their path because any fix that restores the law is an admission that the law is working. That’s an admission Republicans can never make given that the 37 percent that hate the law almost all vote in Republican primaries.
http://www.eclectablog.com/2015/06/one-republican-lying-is-a-joke-all-republicans-lying-is-a-strategy.html
https://twitter.com/Eclectablog/status/608302815312805889
Uh huh
Uh huh
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Rauner’s $250k education secretary reveals she reports only to governor
WRITTEN BY NATASHA KORECKI POSTED: 06/09/2015, 06:05PM
Gov. Bruce Rauner’s $250,000-a-year secretary of education, Beth Purvis, testified before an Illinois House panel on Tuesday, saying she is charged with handling education matters from “cradle to career” for children in the state of Illinois, but indicating she reports only to the governor.
Purvis’ testimony revealed her contract does not require her to hit certain benchmarks or produce reports to the state or the Illinois General Assembly to measure progress with respect to her duties.
“I report on a regular basis to the governor and discuss the activities that I’m doing,” Purvis said.
The discussion came as the House Appropriations-Human Services committee called Purvis to testify about her duties with the state.
At issue is why the governor’s $250,000 hand-picked education secretary is being paid out of a budget meant for the state’s most vulnerable rather than the governor’s own personnel budget. While Purvis is a full-time employee, she is being paid under a personal services contract and is not receiving state benefits. Purvis declined to answer when a committee member asked whether she volunteered not to take those benefits.
The hearing was called in response to a report in the Chicago Sun-Timesthat revealed Rauner had been taking part in a practice that other governors had indulged in before him – that of “off-shoring” their own personnel onto other agency budgets to make their own appear more lean.
The DHS had been the target of $26 million in cuts aimed at autism, epilepsy and burials for the indigent. The cuts took place just weeks after the governor’s office signed Purvis’ contract.
While those services were restored, DHS faces additional cuts over the next year.
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/676494/rauners-250k-education-secretary-reveals-reports-governor
Media Matters ✔ @mmfa
Syndicated radio host Michael Berry calls McKinney teens “jungle animals” http://mm4a.org/1HmDkki
https://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/608434752236957697/photo/1
https://twitter.com/cutemergency/status/608436462166650881/photo/1
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeed/status/608317294310223874
Phenomenal!
Very talented, but Mama and Daddy would have insisted that ‘ the girls’ be covered up…
Black Deaths Matter
May/June 2015 Issue
excerpt:
FOR GENERATIONS, BLACK frustration with policing has been best described in a two-part statement: Cops don’t care enough to solve crimes in our neighborhoods—they just come and harass our kids. Novelist Walter Mosleyeven built a best-selling detective series around a tough private investigator who does all the serving and protecting that cops won’t do on the black side of town.
The bitter irony is that it was this same complaint that helped spawn the aggressive policing tactics now under attack from Ferguson to New York City. In the 1980s, when crack and heroin syndicates swept through black neighborhoods, black parents and pastors were some of the first and loudestvoices to demand a war on drugs. What they got was “broken windows” policing—an emphasis on curbing petty offenses to prevent more serious crime.
What they also got were mandatory minimum sentences for shoplifters, indiscriminate stop-and-frisk sweeps, and deadly choke holds on men selling loose cigarettes. There’s little evidence that these tactics contributed much to the national decline in crime. But they did erode trust in law enforcement across many communities—leaving places like Chester increasingly bereft of the protection they badly need. With residents both fearful of police and worried about being targeted for talking to them, detectives can’t find the witnesses they need to solve crimes, breeding further distrust and a vicious cycle of frustration.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/06/chester-gun-violence-black-deaths-matter
https://twitter.com/MaiReports/status/608403270776844288/photo/1
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-boaz/scott-walker-bucks-arena_b_7543116.html
Hastert pleads not guilty to 2 counts of fraud charges in hush-money scandal
By Mike DeBonis and Susan Berger
June 9 at 3:30 PM
CHICAGO — Former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert pleaded not guilty to two criminal charges in a federal court here Tuesday afternoon, in his first public appearance since being indicted in connection with actions allegedly taken to conceal hush-money payments.
Hastert, 73, said little as he entered his plea in a downtown courtroom, dressed in a dark suit. He was released on a $4,500 bond.
Hastert was indicted May 28 on suspicion of engaging in an arcane financial scheme to evade bank reporting laws and then lying to FBI agents about it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dennis-hastert-is-set-to-break-his-silence-in-chicago-courtroom/2015/06/09/4f91e822-0eba-11e5-9726-49d6fa26a8c6_story.html?wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-politics%252Bnation
David Brooks: “President Obama Has Run An Amazingly Scandal-Free Administration”; “He’s Chosen People Who’ve Been Scandal-Free”
“President Obama has run an amazingly scandal-free administration, not only he himself, but the people around him. He’s chosen people who have been pretty scandal-free,” conservative New York Times opinion writer David Brooks said Friday on PBS’ NewsHour.
Brooks was discussing the Dennis Hastert scandal with liberal sparring partner Matt Shields at the time.
“David makes a good point,” Shields said. “And I agree with him on this administration in particular
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/05/31/david_brooks_obama_amazingly_scandal_free_administration_chosen_people_scandal_free.html
Go run in lightening quick traffic Brooks & Shields!
https://twitter.com/nytimesbusiness/status/608085839659319296
Sarah Palin Shames Fox News’ Megyn Kelly For Interviewing Duggar Daughters (VIDEO)
ByAHIZA GARCIA
PublishedJUNE 9, 2015, 11:01 AM EDT
During an interview Monday night on Fox News, former Alaska Gov. and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin (R) criticized “the media” for interviewing two female reality TV stars who were allegedly abused by their brother.
Here’s the thing, though: Fox News was the only media outlet to have interviewed the alleged victims and daughters from the family that stars on TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting.”
Fox News host Megyn Kelly on Friday interviewed Jill Duggar Dillard and Jessa Duggar Seewald, two daughters who star alongside their siblings and parents on the reality show.
Host Sean Hannity introduced the interview with Palin during his show on Monday by mentioning Kelly had the “exclusive interview with the Duggar family.”
Palin, a paid Fox News contributor who used to have her own reality show on TLC, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” proceeded to go after “the media” for interviewing the alleged victims.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sarah-palin-megyn-kelly-duggar-victims
GO SYAD & STFU SNO’ HO’
Louisiana GOP pleads with Norquist on budget crisis
06/09/15 09:25 AM—UPDATED 06/09/15 09:36 AM
By Steve Benen
Most of the public probably isn’t familiar with the name Grover Norquist or his group, Americans for Tax Reform. But among Republican policymakers, he’s an alarmingly important figure.
As regular readers may recall, Norquist is an anti-tax crusader who’s convinced all kinds of GOP policymakers to sign something known as “the pledge” – in order to get ahead in their party, Republicans agree in writing never to support raising any tax on anyone by any amount for any reason.
But occasionally, far-right policymakers discover that the mindless, knee-jerk commitment stands in the way of actual governance in the real world. Louisiana’s Republican-dominated state government, for example, is facing an enormous budget crisis, caused in part by Gov. Bobby Jindal’s (R) tax breaks. Now the state can’t get its fiscal house in order, and as TPM reported, it’s asking Norquist to give Louisiana a break.
For months now legislators have accused Jindal of kowtowing to Norquist’s “no tax pledge,” which stipulates that taxes cannot be raised unless they’re offset by spending cuts elsewhere. And this weekend they’d had enough. A group of self-described “conservative” Republican state representatives took their complaints to Norquist himself, asking him to give them some wiggle room on raising taxes and to shoot down some Jindal-backed legislation that they say would set a “dangerous precedent” in how government could mask revenue hikes. […]
Sunday’s letter – signed by Louisiana House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Joel Robideaux (R) and 10 other state Republican representatives – asked Norquist to take into account the previous tax cuts Louisiana has passed in recent years and the effect they will have in the future when assessing whether the state is in compliance with the no tax pledge.
David Kurtz joked, “With all due respect to Grover Norquist, this is like begging your dealer for permission to go clean.”
And in this case, the dealer said, “No.”
Republican lawmakers in Louisiana are basically looking for permission to raise cigarette taxes and scale back some existing tax credits. Under “the pledge,” however, this counts as raising taxes, which means the policies are simply unacceptable.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/louisiana-gop-pleads-norquist-budget-crisis
june 09, 2015 10:22 AM
Reaching Out to Members of the White Working Class Means Engaging Them Personally: Nussbaum on Meeting Voters Where They Live
By Ed Kilgore
Two concepts lurk at the heart of political strategist Stan Greenberg’s piece about how Democrats can cohere a winning election strategy. First, garnering the vote of the Rising American Electorate—people of color, young people and single women—is not sufficient; progressives need to reach the white working class, especially white, working-class single women—to build a New American Majority that can win elections and push through progressive policies. Second, Greenberg asserts that in order to persuade working people and white single women to embrace a progressive agenda, one needs to acknowledge and respond to their deep distrust of government, which they see as corrupt and deaf to their problems.
Given those insights, Greenberg and others in search of progressive gains have an avenue for success with Working America. Every day, all year long, year after year, Working America reaches white, working-class people who don’t have a union on the job—and more than half of those are working-class women. Whether Working America canvassers knock on doors in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, or Pine Bluff, Arkansas, they have proven the effectiveness of conversations that couple the corrosive effect of money in politics with an appealing progressive platform for change. While our experience supports much of what Greenberg argues, including the notion that white, working-class, women voters are, in fact, winnable, we would go a step further: Our experience suggests that even Republican strongholds such as the South and West show signs of weakness when voters are engaged.
White women are the largest demographic among Working America’s membership, accounting for 1.3 million of our 3 million members. Based on what we hear at the doors every night, it’s little wonder that white, working-class and single women voters react positively to Greenberg’s narrative about streamlining and reforming government. After all, what’s government to them? Democrats have done far too little to reach out to white, working-class voters in recent elections, and government has lagged on addressing their core economic needs. In fact, though these voters may be rising in the electorate, they are sinking fast in today’s economy. These women are reachable in 2016, and Democrats must actively engage them with policies that outline new and far-reaching economic solutions.
Working women and men are deep in the midst of a dramatic change process, because they simply have no choice in the matter. America’s white, working-class experience is not the same one of 35 years ago, when Ronald Reagan came into office, nor is it the same as more than 20 years ago, when Bill Clinton first took the White House. Today’s members of the working class are confronted with the realities of the emerging precarious economy, which has unstable, erratic work as one of its centerpieces. Unpredictable scheduling demands, relentless low pay, nonexistent benefits and part-time work are today’s normal. Greenberg is correct to point out that women often bear the brunt of these new burdens. They’re more likely than men to hold the part-time, low-paying jobs and are saddled with much of the child and elder care responsibilities.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2015_06/reaching_out_to_white_working055981.php
An interesting article on how women provided the winning margin for President Obama in 2012 (I remember Diane Sawyer expressing shock the day after the 2012 election that “women and people of color” were responsible for PBO’s win: Uh, yeah, Diane. You so had your finger on the pulse of “Real ‘Murica”).
http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/press_room/news/documents/PressRelease_11-07-12-gendergap.pdf
I’m really tired of the “Democrats haven’t reached out enough to white working people” cliche.
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
https://youtu.be/y9vto-eWPaY
LOL Just TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL
Go Johanna! Brave & a leader too.
She’s rocking it!
Struggling Jeb Bush shakes up campaign team
By Steve Benen
No presidential campaign has ever shaken up its senior staff when things were going well. It may seem like common sense – well-run operations moving in the right direction don’t have an incentive to change – but it’s a fact that makes development on Jeb Bush’s team hard to overlook.
We’ve known for quite a while, for example, that veteran Iowa operative David Kochel would lead Bush’s campaign operation. At least, he was supposed to – as the New York Times reported, the former Florida governor has already made a major change at the top of his team.
The final decision was made only in the last few days, but word of turmoil in Jeb Bush’s organization, and a coming change, had been in the air for weeks.
On Monday, Mr. Bush’s aides announced a shuffling of the deck, with David Kochel, the veteran Iowa operative who was expected to be campaign manager, moved to the chief strategist role. Danny Diaz, a Washington-based communications strategist who had been involved with media issues, will become the campaign manager.
A Washington Post report added, Diaz’s promotion “is a frank acknowledgment that Bush’s six-month ‘exploratory phase’ has not met expectations.” Quite right. Bush expected to enter the race as a powerful frontrunner leading a crowded GOP field of also-rans. Instead, the Florida Republican has seen his support stagnate; he’s clearly failed to intimidate potential rivals; and he’s confronted with unexpected doubts about his long-term viability.
Swapping campaign managers at this early stage is as close as we’ll get to Bush conceding that his operation is not working as it should.
Of course, the standard response is that the former governor didn’t technically change campaign managers because, at least on paper, Bush hasn’t officially launched a campaign. But for those looking at the race realistically, Bush kicked off the race months ago and has been running hard for months. This was a staff shake-up, not an example of moving some players around on a roster before opening day.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/struggling-jeb-bush-shakes-campaign-team
https://twitter.com/johnvmoore/status/608236353881374720/photo/1
https://twitter.com/tomservo10/status/608261780981178370
https://twitter.com/RalstonReports/status/608258124084998144
Joy Reid ✔ @JoyAnnReid
After 4 decades in solitary, #AngolaThree member Albert Woodfox’s release ordered by federal judge http://s.nola.com/caSWP2f via @nolanews
Struggling Jeb Bush shakes up campaign team
06/09/15 08:40 AM
By Steve Benen
No presidential campaign has ever shaken up its senior staff when things were going well. It may seem like common sense – well-run operations moving in the right direction don’t have an incentive to change – but it’s a fact that makes development on Jeb Bush’s team hard to overlook.
We’ve known for quite a while, for example, that veteran Iowa operative David Kochel would lead Bush’s campaign operation. At least, he was supposed to – as the New York Times reported, the former Florida governor has already made a major change at the top of his team.
The final decision was made only in the last few days, but word of turmoil in Jeb Bush’s organization, and a coming change, had been in the air for weeks.
On Monday, Mr. Bush’s aides announced a shuffling of the deck, with David Kochel, the veteran Iowa operative who was expected to be campaign manager, moved to the chief strategist role. Danny Diaz, a Washington-based communications strategist who had been involved with media issues, will become the campaign manager.
A Washington Post report added, Diaz’s promotion “is a frank acknowledgment that Bush’s six-month ‘exploratory phase’ has not met expectations.” Quite right. Bush expected to enter the race as a powerful frontrunner leading a crowded GOP field of also-rans. Instead, the Florida Republican has seen his support stagnate; he’s clearly failed to intimidate potential rivals; and he’s confronted with unexpected doubts about his long-term viability.
Swapping campaign managers at this early stage is as close as we’ll get to Bush conceding that his operation is not working as it should.
Of course, the standard response is that the former governor didn’t technically change campaign managers because, at least on paper, Bush hasn’t officially launched a campaign. But for those looking at the race realistically, Bush kicked off the race months ago and has been running hard for months. This was a staff shake-up, not an example of moving some players around on a roster before opening day.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/struggling-jeb-bush-shakes-campaign-team
Quaker Oats Bush turns 90.
funniest description of her from BJ:
As the rich WASP version of Livia Soprano, if she were capable of being honest. She raised a litter of hellhounds, with very little help beyond genetics and a fat Rolodex from her slightly-less-repulsive but far-more-politically-powerful husband. And our suffering republic will never be rid of them…
Let’s Get 1 Thing Straight: How I Wear My Natural Hair Is None of Your Concern
She Matters: If you’re wondering what I would look like with straight hair, keep it to yourself.
BY: DEMETRIA LUCAS D’OYLEY
Posted: June 5 2015 3:00 AM
“I wonder what you would look like with straight hair,” a woman commented on my Instagram page. I’d just posted a picture from an event I was attending. It was a big deal—to me, anyway. I had two-strand-twisted my natural hair that morning, then sat under the dryer that afternoon so there’d be a chance that my coils would be red-carpet ready that night.
My hair had chosen to agree with me that day. It does not always. It was poofy enough to be big, coiled enough to make it look as if I put some effort into it, shiny enough to look moisturized without crossing to greasy. I thought it was a good hair day.
I glanced over the woman’s comment, taking it for what I hoped were its best intentions: She was simply curious about what my hair looked like if I spent hours running a blow-dryer and a pressing comb and a flat iron through it. (It takes all that to straighten and style my hair.)
I’ve been natural on and off for 16 years since I cut out my perm in college. Ten years natural, three years permed and three—going on four—years without lye. I’ve heard all manner of sideways comments about my hair, whether it’s bone-straight or curly-kinky-coiled (yes, three textures in one head).
Black women really can’t win on this one. The woman’s curiosity was mild when you put it up against a strange woman gawking, then sticking her dirty hands in your hair while asking—with part wonder, part disdain—”How do you get it like that?” Lady, if you don’t get your hands …
http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2015/06/how_i_wear_my_natural_hair_is_none_of_your_concern.html
Miss Ann’s really can’t help themselves.
SHORT: Why you can’t wear your hair like mine. They need us to validate they are the standard of beauty. NOT!
NOTE: Touch my hair & you’ll loose a few digits.
50 hospitals charge uninsured more than 10 times cost of care, study finds
By Lena H. Sun June 8 at 4:00 PM
Fifty hospitals in the United States are charging uninsured consumers more than 10 times the actual cost of patient care, according to research published Monday.
All but one of the these facilities is owned by for-profit entities, and by far the largest number of hospitals — 20 — are in Florida. For the most part, researchers said, the hospitals with the highest markups are not in pricey neighborhoods or big cities, where the market might explain the higher prices.
Topping the list of the most expensive hospitals is North Okaloosa Medical Center, a 110-bed facility in the Florida Panhandle about an hour outside of Pensacola. Uninsured patients are charged 12.6 times the actual cost of patient care.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-some-hospitals-can-get-away-with-price-gouging-patients-study-finds/2015/06/08/b7f5118c-0aeb-11e5-9e39-0db921c47b93_story.html?via=newsletter&source=CSAMedition
Uh Huh
Uh Huh
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The Root Reacts to Plus-Size Model Tess ‘Black Men Love Me’ Holliday
The model says she realizes that black men love her whenever she walks down the street in a “black” neighborhood.
BY: YESHA CALLAHAN
Posted: June 8 2015 1:46 PM
Tess Holliday is a plus-size model who has been crowned the first plus-size supermodel. Holliday, who is a size 22, has been getting shine recently and isn’t ashamed of her curves. She recently became the first plus-size model to grace the cover of People magazine and previously launched #effyourbeautystandards to promote positive body images.
It’s great that fashion is now getting more diverse when it comes to standards of beauty. But clearly, fashion forgot about all the plus-size models—namely, women of color—who came before Holliday. And speaking of color, Holliday seems to think that black men love her.
During a recent interview with The Guardian, Holliday and the writer were sitting at a café when a black guy walked by and catcalled her.
“What do guys think they’ll achieve by yelling something?” Holliday asked. “They’re like: ‘She’ll love this, I’ll definitely get her number.’” She then added, “I do admit that black men love me. I always forget that, and then I come to a black neighborhood and I remember.”
Even the person conducting the interview was shocked that Holliday mentioned this: “And no one quite knew what to say,” the writer wrote in response to Holliday’s comments.
Well, that writer may not have known what to say, but a few of The Root staffers did. The reactions that came soon after The Guardian’s article was sent to our staff email were interesting.
http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_grapevine/2015/06/white_plus_size_model_tess_holliday_black_men_love_me.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr%3Acontent%26
I.CAN’T.WITH.THIS.FOOLISHNESS.
Cleveland Leaders Bypass Prosecutors to Seek Charge in Tamir Rice Case
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MATT APUZZO
JUNE 8, 2015
Cleveland community leaders said Monday they are invoking a state law that allows them to bypass prosecutors and go directly to a judge to request murder charges against the officers who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice last November.
The county prosecutor is expected to decide whether to charge the officers, who shot Rice in the abdomen after mistaking his toy for a real gun. But Ohio is one of a few states that allow residents with “knowledge of the facts” to file a court affidavit and request an arrest without seeking approval from police or prosecutors. If approved, the arrest would be followed by a public hearing. Community leaders said they planned to file their request with six affidavits Tuesday morning.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/09/us/cleveland-leaders-bypass-prosecutors-to-seek-charge-in-tamir-rice-case.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
Thune captures everything that’s wrong with the ACA debate
06/09/15 08:01 AM
By Steve Benen
In early February 2009, at the height of the economic crisis, Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) went to the Senate floor to condemn the proposed Recovery Act, which was still coming together. Thune, accompanied by several colorful charts, thought he’d come up with a persuasive message attacking the economic agenda.
Thune showed his colleagues a series of images intended to highlight the literal, physical size of $1 trillion if put in a pile of $100 bills. The Recovery Act was obviously the wrong solution, the Republican senator said at the time, because $1 trillion in stacked $100 bills would be 689 miles high. This, in Thune’s mind, was a powerful economic argument.
It was a striking reminder that when it came to substantive debates about policy, John Thune … well, let’s just say he probably shouldn’t be the Senate GOP’s go-to guy.
Yesterday, the far-right South Dakotan again proved his shortcomings. Thune argued on Twitter:
“Six million people risk losing their health care subsidies, yet [President Obama] continues to deny that Obamacare is bad for the American people.”
Over the course of several years, we’ve all seen and heard some pretty mind-numbing arguments in the debate over the Affordable Care Act, but Thune is really pushing the envelope here. In effect, the Republican senator is saying that the ACA’s subsidies are great, which proves that the ACA is horrible if Republicans successfully take those subsidies away.
As Thune sees it, 6 million Americans are enjoying health security right now because of Obamacare. And if Republicans leave those 6 million Americans with nothing, on purpose, treating those families as collateral damage in a political war, this will prove, in Thune’s mind, that Obama is “bad” for people.
The ACA is awful if Republicans take the ACA away from consumers. That’s the argument.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/thune-captures-everything-thats-wrong-the-aca-debate
this phuckery here!!
https://twitter.com/SenJohnThune/status/607990379619696640
HILARIOUS!!!
https://twitter.com/AngryBlackLady/status/608134108858810368
BWA HA HA HA Now this is some straight up COONING, righ here.
LOL
Yeah, it’s all about the food. The privileged cats with their food provided in nice little bowls against a wild creature who has to find its own food. There’s a metaphor here, but I can’t quite get it.
LOL Norm: It’s a dog eat dog world, and I’m wearing ‘Milkbone’ underwear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqPAKqzx7M
On a serious note, The fat cats-rich folks take & take, and the coon is doing what it needs to survive, like the poor & impoverished.
Ha ha, you gotta love Norm.
One of my all time favs….
Woody: “What’ll you have, Norm?”
Norm: “Give me a beer, stick 2 candles in it, and I’ll blow my liver out.”
you voted for them…you get what you get
Radical rightward shift burdening Kansas spreads to court system
Dave Helling, political reporter for the Kansas City Star, talks with Rachel Maddow about the radical conservative shift in the state of Kansas, including a law threatening to defund the entire court system if Governor Brownback doesn’t get his way.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/radical-rightward-shift-burdens-kansas-460213827811
VOTING HAS CONSEQUENCES!
Good Morning, Everyone :)
Good Morning, Rikyrah & Everyone! :-)))))
Morning, all.