“We don’t even know that the rare Hitler mustache you see at these tea parties was even a conservative group. I suspect they were liberal agitators.”
Right, and PETA is responsible for all the fur coats in the world, LGBT supported the Defense of Marriage Act, and deers are on board with hunting season.
The Cleveland Clinic, one of the top hospitals in the United States, announced today that they will be giving out free H1N1 vaccinations to the PUBLIC. Gee, that sure does sound like a great OPTION! If you’re quiet enough, you can actually hear Sen. Baucus getting in line for his vaccine after voting down a public option proposal. I could’ve paid for it with all this awesome money I have, but free sounds good to me!
The Clinic, which is the region’s largest health care provider, will make vaccinations for the swine flu, also known as H1N1, available with no appointment at its 15 family health centers, nine community hospitals and its main campus.
Isn’t this the socialism that so-called conservatives have complained about? Where are all of the protests outside of the Cleveland Clinic? Why isn’t Glenn Beck out there proclaiming he will sooner come down with swine flu (please do) before he takes a free vaccination? The answer is, because although these folks continue to protest a public option they don’t understand, they will be the first to take the free vaccination. They might even come up with a reason why it is acceptable just this one time. But in the end there will be people who oppose the public option lining up for this free vaccination. Continue Reading »
This story comes from The New York Post so lord knows how true it actually is, but it did produce one choice quote that rings true in my ears at least.
“The big lecture buyers in the US are paralyzed with fear about booking her, basically because they think she is a blithering idiot,” the source said. “They don’t want to tick people off.”
This comes in the wake of Palin’s China speech which she was paid six figures to give. In that speech she criticized the US government and the president and blamed them for the financial crisis. A few US delegates actually walked out because “it was awful, we couldn’t stand it any longer.”
But regardless, I am hesitant to believe this story because it remains a fact that the Republican base, for some reason or another, still love Palin, and I can’t believe there aren’t dozens of ultra-rich superchurches around the country clamoring to throw money at her so she’ll come and fire up their crowds with talk of death panels and socialism and faith-based universal healthcare.
Though maybe, just maybe, this country’s gotten a little smarter, and our tolerance for “blithering idiots” in high office is finally starting to decline.
[via NY Post]
Hey, Max Baucus (D-Mont), Kent Conrad (D-ND), Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark), Bill Nelson (D-Fla) and Tom Carper (D-Del) TAKE A LOOK AT THAT ****ING POLL!
Despite it being abundantly clear that a majority of the country is in favor a public option, those five Democratic senators voted against having it in the new healthcare plan while in committee, casting a shadow on the upcoming vote in the Senate itself where a similar proposal will now probably be defeated. Sure, the Republicans voted against it too, but we gave up on them a long time ago.
So why did they do it?
There are only three reasons that ANYONE is against the public option right now, and none of them are good. They are:
1) They don’t understand what it means. People hear “public option” and have heard other people bitching about how its communism/socialism/nazism so they decide they are also against it. Note that the NYT poll leaves the phrase “public option” out of the question, instead merely describing what it is. That alone almost assuredly increased support dramatically for the idea in the poll.
2) They believe that poor people are poor for a reason, and if taxes have to go up a tiny bit on rich people (themselves included) so that poor people can not die, then that’s a sacrifice they’re not willing to make. Despite many of them being conservative Christians, they seem to have forgotten that whole “do unto others” bit of the Bible.
3) They’re receiving millions of dollars from healthcare industry lobbyists.
Guess which option applies to these five senators? Between those five Democrats, they’ve received $19 MILLION dollars in donations from health care lobbyists, which causes their eyes to gloss over when looking at polls like the ones shown above.
There’s no other explanation for this, I’m honestly ashamed of my government right now.
[via Intershame]
Over the weekend, Rep. Trent Franks, a Republican of Arizona, went to the How To Take America Back conference and made headlines by calling President Obama an “enemy of humanity.” Here’s the full quote.
“Obama’s first act as president of any consequence, in the middle of a financial meltdown, was to send taxpayers’ money overseas to pay for the killing of unborn children in other countries,” said Frank. “Now, I got to tell you, if a president will do that, there’s almost nothing that you should be surprised at after that. We shouldn’t be shocked that he does all these other insane things. A president that has lost his way that badly, that has no ability to see the image of God in these little fellow human beings, if he can’t do that right, then he has no place in any station of government and we need to realize that he is an enemy of humanity.”
Your Congressman, ladies and gentleman of Arizona’s 2nd district! Continue Reading »
Well, I don’t know what you were expecting….
This is a statue made by Chinese artist Chen Wenling as a commentary about the current financial crisis. It achieves that goal while simultaneously setting the record for MOST AWESOME STATUE EVER MADE. Seriously, the only thing that could make it more awesome is if Jack Bauer was riding the bull.
Not to nitpick, but shouldn’t the average American citizen be crushed by the bull, with Madoff riding it? Or shouldn’t the bull be a 350 pound prison inmate pinning Madoff’s ass against the wall? All of these make more sense to me.
But still, it’s a bull, powered by rocket fart propulsion pinning a guy against a wall, you really just cannot get better than that.
[via BBC]
Newark Mayor Cory Booker is putting Conan O’Brien on notice: jokes about Newark will not be tolerated. Conan joked last week that Booker was setting up a program to improve the health of his city’s residents – “the health care program would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark.”
After Booker touts the accomplishments and great traits of Newark, he brings down the hammer: “I’m also mayor of the city with one of the largest airports in the United States… I’m officially putting you on the Newark New jersey Airport No Fly List. Try JFK buddy.”
While we haven’t heard a response from Conan yet, I can imagine that he will most certainly entertain us all on his show.
A Possible 10 responses might be….
