Give the GOP clear sailing and it will gladly privatize Medicare

Remember this?

House Republicans back away on Medicare overhaul | Reuters: "House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee Chairman David Camp said his panel will not advance a Republican proposal to privatize Medicare for future retirees because it stands no chance of getting passed by the Democratic-led Senate. But Camp said the powerful tax-writing committee will act on any compromise reached on a deficit reduction plan."

The GOP has said nothing since to indicate that it is running away from the suicidal vote it took to privatize Medicare.

All it did was admit what was obvious from the start. It would never get passed by the Senate. Give the GOP clear sailing and it will gladly privatize Medicare. Which is why we need to increase the Democratic majority in the Senate and regain it in the House.

The Alito-enabled Super PACs will be out to lie their way to a victory in November. Only the symphony of voices the Web can create can stop them.

Can Ryan lose it for the GOP?

The Careless House Budget - NYTimes.com:

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Can Ryan lose it for the GOP

His latest budget would kill medicare

And make taxes even more unfair

A single-handed loser recipe 

When last we met Paul Ryan, he was proposing a plan which would net him millions because of property he owns and drilling rights. His latest effort simply ups the ante on the contest to destroy the country. Can his plan do it quicker that George W. Bush did? The answer is yes if enacted. Romney has bought it hook line and sinker. But we are learning to exempt Romney from truth tests. We did that with Reagan, remember? The difference is Romney is vastly weaker and less anchored than Reagan was. He will be the tool of the Right, the emptiest suit ever to tread the Oval Office. All the more reason to have done with both Ryan and Romney..

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GOP Primary Season Is Not Over

GOP primary season is not over

And many think it will produce no winner

Mr. Moneybucks may claim the marbles

But I would not bet my dinner

There won't be some shenanigans

Betwixt now and Tampa

For the gods have intervened Bard-style

To wreak revenge upon the vagrant GOP

One day an etch-o-sketch

Next day new perorations from Chris Matthews

Who insists that things must go his way

Or he will pout on Martha's Vineyard

Of have a tantrum there and then

It is indeed surreal my friends

So forgive me if I say 

This is not the end

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Does the GOP have ANY argument with Obama

Republican Policies for Iran Differ Little From Obama’s - NYTimes.com:

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It's like the Wizard of Oz played by an alcoholic John Boehner. There is nothing there.

The result may be the election when more money was spent to produce the lowest GOP turnout ever.

And the reason is that President Obama has, not by deft political maneuver but by natural inclination, taken the center position and gotten the GOP to designate him a flaming radical, a wimpo, and so forth. It won't work and I think the GOP is beginning to understand the depth of its denouement.

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Jon Stewart Skewers GOP Idiocy (Video)

Commission: Impossible - Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Chief Appointment - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 01/05/12 - Video Clip | Comedy Central:

Thank Abba for a glimmer of sanity.

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No thanks to GOP - Blunt Blunted

Birth control exemption bill, the ‘Blunt amendment,’ killed in Senate - The Washington Post: "By a largely party-line vote, the Senate on Thursday blocked a move to exempt virtually any employer with moral objections from the Obama administration’s controversial birth control health coverage rule.

The measure, an amendment proposed by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) to a highway funding bill, was tabled—and therefore effectively killed—by a vote of 51 to 48."

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There are 48 bloodthirsty, anti-woman GOP Senators who do not deserve to be re-elected. See that they aren't.


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The GOP Sin Knows No Bounds

The GOP sin knows no boundsSin is transsgressionIdolatryUnhelpfulnessIntoleranceCrucifying the democratic process
The GOP sin knows no boundsThe President would have given ten in cutsFor one in revenueThe GOP refusedWhy
Not because the President was WrongBut because he was right and they knew itAnd because they cared more about getting himThan about solving the debtAnd now the GOP yells deficit reduction all around
The GOP know no boundsAnd we know itAnd Despise itAnd will toss them outIn November
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GOP has reaped a female whirlwind

Now they’ve done it: Vaginaphobe Republicans Have just pissed off women (10s of thousands of them) - Digg: "freakoutnation.com — Out of touch Republicans — in an attempt to possibly deflect from the fact they have no viable candidate to run against President Obama — have thrown the female population under the 1950s bus. ‘We are Women’ are marching to each state capitol. What started out with just a few members, within just a few days, now have 10s of thousands in total supporting them. Just wait until April 28th – because moderates do not agree with these tactics either. "

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My Take on The GOP Debates

Politics is mostly entertainment
About the push and pull for a piece of pie that shrinks when the GOP wins
The debates were cast as entertainment
At first the object was to rid the stage of all who made this too obvious
Sic transit Bachmann, Perry, Huntsman, Cain

By now the piece of  putative pie had been shrunk so much that
Were the nostrums of the survivors heeded
The nation would descend into a depression that would make
The Thirties look like a walk in the park

In short extended absurdity was not that entertaining after a while

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GOP has very few bread and butter donors

In Republican Race, a New Breed of Superdonor - NYTimes.com: "Collectively, their contributions have totaled more than $50 million this cycle, making them easily the most influential and powerful political donors in politics today. They have relatively few Democratic counterparts so far, with most of the leading liberal donors from past years giving relatively small amounts — or not at all — to the Democratic super PACs."

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The corporate way, friends. What else is new. The next time it takes you a broken fingernail to open a package think about the friendly corporations that control your life and ask whether it is government that is the intrusive one.

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Background on GOP Perfidy for 2012

YouTube - One Breath: "Uploaded by AntiCorruptionVoters on Nov 2, 2006 Can you name all the Republicans who have been convicted or are currently under criminal investigation in a single breath?"

GOP is cat-calling its way to the biggest defeat since 1964

A Responsible 2013 Budget - NYTimes.com: "President Obama’s 2013 budget was greeted on Monday with Republican catcalls that it is simply a campaign document, but election-year budgets are supposed to explain priorities to voters. This one offers a clear and welcome contrast to the slashing austerity — and protect-the-wealthy priorities — favored by Republican Congressional leaders and the party’s presidential candidates."

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The GOP will choose either an empty suit, an invasive condom opponent, a grandiosity doll, a whining Dickensian or a desperate alternative named Bush. The party is too ruined to be credible regardless. If the Democrats have the grace to support our President, not run from him, we should have four years of reasonable progress and the prospect of another eight with similar moderation ascendant. It will take a dozen years to cleanse the GOP from the effects of its current illness.

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Mildred Purse Casts A Spell on The GOP

Another word from Mildred Purse the doyenne of Beacon Hill

Hickory dickory dock Obama is cleaning your clock Your callous platitudes - your bilious attitudes - vaporized. That is a lock.  
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GOP's rudeness seems unstoppable

Noxious Oil: Noxious Fumes Almost Led to An Exodus in China: "Noxious Fumes Almost Led to An Exodus in China"

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In a hearing on the Canadian pipeline matter last Wednesday, some GOP representatives were so rude as to dishonor the House. The pipeline will doubtless get built but it will do little good in the long run. We are moving past oil. We are waiting for the proper nudge from reality in the form of inventions that will revolutionize society. Unfortunately politics does not share such faith though it is what has driven invention from the beginning. And capitalism is more concerned with gadgetry and marketing than the bigger vision that animated the likes of Ayn Rand.

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Trumping the GOP is racist meme is this comment - also true

Newt Gingrich and the Art of Racial Politics - NYTimes.com:

"As a white man married to a black woman, and having grown up in integrated neighborhoods and schools, there is no doubt that the following from your editorial is true. It has been an orchestrated campaign for 40 years by liberal democrats in every urban center in the country. Ask yourself the question are these areas better off now than they were before 40 years of "progressive, liberal, Democrat" help?

"The phrase “maximize dependency” is a particularly interesting one because it suggests a systematic, orchestrated campaign by the president and liberals in general to keep blacks poor and dependent on “big government” as a way of insuring their continued political support.""

Both parties contribute to oppression which is as class-driven as it is racist. Anyone familiar with reality on both sides of the racial divide knows this. Occupy is the only potential force able to work - for decades - to change this. The rest is just sideshow.

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Is GOP 2012 the Same as GOP 2008? In a word, NO.

Newt is not Rudy GSantorum is not HuckabeeRick Perry is not Fred ThompsonThat is obvious
But the real reason 2008 and 2012 differ is Romney is not McCain2012 is not 2008
This year GOP is mired in unpopular right wing positionsThe Republican establishment liking for MittIs not because Mitt is moderateBut because they are as hell bent toGET OBAMAAs the most racist and vitriolic right wingof the GOP
The entire GOP is in an indefensible positionThe only question the Republican elite hasIs whether Romney will self destructThe one who scared them isOne personHis name is Newt He is the only one of the lot whoCould actually confront ObamaWithout making a fool is himself
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Live GOP Debate Coverage - Heck No, Opinion

Live GOP Debate Coverage - Heck No, Opinion
Romney looks nauseatedOr like a corpse
Perry is bottom fishing for votes attacking PaulSantorum seems not worth attackingI have never seen anyone project less leadership abilityHe is inarticulateIncredible
Huntsman is weirdly OKDead in the water
FascinatingRon Paul speaks some truth about war and raceAnd the audience is silentAll the audience seems to care about is gotchaSick
Opinion:  The church can say what marriage isAt present it acts as a shill for the stateThe state has no business legislating marriageClergy have no business acting for the stateCivil unions can be anythingNo no one articulates this
Romney looks better when speaking than when acting as though he is interestedHowever listening away if I had to choose I would take Huntsmanover Romney without one hesitationRomney is delivering canned statementsHuntsman gives a sense of having actually thought
Romney is growing noses
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You were saying ... To All The GOP Candidates in NH (Video)

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Flagging GOP Anti-Obama Racism

Republican Attacks Have Racist Undertones - NYTimes.com: "You can detect this undertone in the level of disrespect for this president that would be unthinkable were he not an African-American. Some earlier examples include: Rep. Joe Wilson shouting “you lie” at one of Mr. Obama’s first appearances before Congress, and House Speaker John Boehner rejecting Mr. Obama’s request to speak to a joint session of Congress—the first such denial in the history of our republic."

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This is a little like the Iraq war mea culpa. It may be too little too late. The story from the start has been this story pure and simple.

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US Slogs Along Despite Retrograde GOP

Jobless claims at 3.5 year low | Reuters: "(Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits hit a 3-1/2 year low last week, bolstering views the economy was gaining momentum, even though third-quarter growth was revised down."

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Contrast this with the lineup of hypocritical House Republicans lying to the American people in such a bald-faced way that it is transparent and damning. America clearly has no time for the likes of Boehner the Indian Giver and Cantor the Faux Nixon.

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