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Remembering when Republicans were admired by ALL Americans…
Read Robert G. Ingersol’s piece on Abraham Lincoln written in 1894. This gives a clear perspective on a Republican leader who served the WHOLE country:
http://www.archive.org/stream/abrahamlincolnle00inge#page/n3/mode/2up
(ever wonder what Lincoln would have thought of Mitch McConnell and John Boehner?)
Group Sought to Divide Gays and Blacks to Weaken Democrats…
Found this in Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire this morning:
BuzzFeed obtained a confidential strategy memo from an anti-gay marriage group, the National Organization for Marriage, with a goal of “fanning the hostility” between black voters and gay voters by casting President Obama as a radical foe of marriage.
“The strategic goal of this project is to drive a wedge between gays and blacks — two key Democratic constituencies.”
If you download the strategy memo (an Adobe .pdf file) you”ll see just how conspiratorial this Repiglicant group is and how they use their lies and fabrications to weaken their Democratic opponents.
I’m starting to get form letters back from my representatives in the Senate and Congress…
… all glad to see my concern and all saying they’ll keep me in mind as legislation comes up.
However, not one of them, whether Democrat or Republican, got elected without financial support from the coal companies that are destroying West Virginia with mountain top removal to get coal. If you think that means they are going to regulate the coal companies who are destroying our state… ruining homes, water supplies and the tourist industry… then you have got to be kidding yourself.
Here’s a piece by Michael Jonathon:
So… of you’re anywhere in the states that have Appalachian coal mining, keep this in mind next Fall when the politicians are campaigning in your neck of the woods.
Related articles
- Jeff Biggers: Dear Soledad: Appalachian Leaders Respond to CNN’s Blair Mountain Special on Mountaintop Removal (huffingtonpost.com)
- Removing mountaintops yields coal, controversy (cnn.com)
- Lethal Fallout from Mining Spurs a Mountaintop Removal Moratorium Campaign to End to the Humanitarian Crisis in Appalachia (alternet.org)
- Extra 60,000 Cancer Cases from Mountaintop Removal (gcvconservation.wordpress.com)
- Sen. Manchin Maintains Lucrative Ties to Family-Owned Coal Company (nytimes.com)
- Poll: Majority oppose controversial coal mining practice (cnn.com)
- The new battle for Blair Mountain (cnn.com)
- WATCH: Soledad O’Brien Takes On Hugely Controversial Environmental Issue (huffingtonpost.com)
Friday report from the Labor Dept.: Jobs up higher than expected…
According to Reuters, U.S. job growth accelerated more than expected in July as private employers stepped up hiring, easing fears the economy was sliding into a fresh recession.
It was originally expected that the number of new jobs would b3 85,000… less than the 100,000 minimum necessary to start correcting the unemployment burden. In reality, the new estimate is that the number is 117,000 which brings the unemployment rate from 9.2% to 9.1%.
How much better the situation gets in the next six months is unknown. A stand-off between Democrats and Republicans over raising the country’s debt ceiling poisoned the atmosphere for employers and consumers. Whether this new report helps them to bounce back is questionable.
Austan Goolsbee
Commenting from the White House, Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Austan Goolsbee said:
“While the better than expected report is welcome news, the unemployment rate remains unacceptably high and faster growth is needed to replace the jobs lost in the downturn.”
Related articles
- Unemployment rate dips, economy adds 117K jobs (boston.com)
- Jobs Report Better Than Expected: Hiring Picked Up in July (themoderatevoice.com)
- An Extremely Giddy Austan Goolsbee Tells Jon Stewart: I Feel Bad Obama Has To Be Around The Folks In Washington (thenewspundit.com)
- Employers add 117,000 jobs in July, unemployment rate drops (usatoday.com)
- Relief: July report shows jobless rate slips (chron.com)
- Jobs Report Better Than Expected (coydavidson.wordpress.com)
It was a long night… hopefully today ends it all…
They decided last night and the Senate took a late vote… now it’s up to the House. The new Debt bill is not very strong on Democratic points and overburdened with Republican points (although it is House Republicans who can possibly kill it today) and we are hearing comments from all sides:
“Real spending cuts. No tax hike. Gang of Six said it could not be done. 1982, 1990 are now bad memories we learned from. Onward.”
“The compromise we have agreed to is remarkable for a number of reasons, not only because of what it does, but because of what it prevents.”
“This is an important moment for our country. I can say with a high degree of confidence that there is a framework in place to assure a significant degree of cuts to Washington spending.“
“Is this the deal I would have preferred? No. But this compromise does make a serious down payment on the deficit reduction we need.”
“Now listen, this isn’t the greatest deal in the world. But it shows how much we’ve changed the terms of the debate in this town.”
So now we wait for the vote.
Quote of the Day – from someone who was there when we got it right
“What the GOP seeks is a banana republic: a toxic blend of right-wing populism, anti-intellectualism, debt defaults, and an end to the ladder of economic opportunity.”
This is from Begala’s article in the Daily Beast entitled “How Republicans Screwed the Pooch“… this, of course, is from the point-of-view of a member of the Clinton administration who was there when the same kinds of problems were solved two administrations ago.
Whenever you hear the Republicans (and especially the tea partiers) say that the Democrats never learn from their mistakes, point them to the balanced budgets with surpluses extending out into the foreseeable future that Clinton handed Bush and his Band of Scary Men, who got us into debt andunfunded war within a year. And remember what they left Obama with.
Begala’s article should be read by everyone.
Related articles
- How Republicans Screwed the Pooch (thedailybeast.com)
- Clock Ticking on Debt Ceiling Limit Compromise: But Can There Be One? (UPDATED) (themoderatevoice.com)
- Yep, I caught that too Smitty (thedaleygator.wordpress.com)
- Paul Begala: Newt Saying GOP Plan Is ‘Too Radical’ Is Like Paris Hilton Disliking Someone ‘Too Slutty’ (mediaite.com)
Quote of the Day – Republicans fit to govern?
Conservative N.Y. Times Columnist David Brooks:
“If the debt ceiling talks fail, independents voters will see that Democrats were willing to compromise but Republicans were not. If responsible Republicans don’t take control, independents will conclude that Republican fanaticism caused this default. They will conclude that Republicans are not fit to govern. And they will be right…”
So let’s see… is the Republican press support starting to give way? It’s been a long time since I agreed with David Brooks.
As June ends we see the economy getting worse…
Unemployment looks like it’s starting to go up again, even here in Shepherdstown where we were doing pretty well – something which I think is pretty common in small University towns not based on industry or international trade – and I’m getting more and more pissed off at our Congressfolk who would rather battle for control of the government than the salvation of the citizenry.
Take, for instance, the walkout of Cantor and Kyl from the deficit talks – blaming it n the Democrats seeking tax increases for the rich (after they had already given up three trillion dollars in concessions according to the news on television). Now it seems the walkout was pre-planned and this was a strategy to throw the Republican position into Boehner‘s lap, keeping the House from any kind of agreement on returning the upper 1% of rich folks from going back to the tax levels that Bush had brought them “temporarily” down to. As they pulled this off, the ability to fund the basics of Medicare and Medicaid seem strained and folks like Max Baucus, one of the few Democrats that I have the least trust in, announced he was ready to look at more cuts in the health care agenda.
If the deficit ceiling is not raised by the end of the next three or four weeks we will have plenty of opportunity to hear both parties blaming the other… both of them claiming that the majority of Americans agree with them. But since the rest of us are all part of that majority of Americans it seems strange that no one really feels the politicians are really speaking for us.
Perhaps it is time for us all to find ways to show that we could work together to solve problems, and send the politicians, lobbyists, Koch Brothers, Fox Newscasters, and all the rest who are making their big bucks on this conflict out into the night.
Maybe we can do it. Maybe.
Related articles
- Top Republican Cantor exits budget talks (ctv.ca)
- Republican claim that Cantor’s walkout was planned doesn’t add up (dailykos.com)
- We Are One Demonstration Tonite In Shepherdstown… (underthelobsterscope.wordpress.com)
- We Are In Deep Trouble With Our Economy and the Libs Just Want to Keep it Up (rantsandrage.com)
Unofficial primary results – West Virginia Gubernatorial Races
Republican results (unofficial)
Bill Maloney
| Bill Maloney | 27,563 | 45.06% | ||
| Betty Ireland | 18,891 | 30.88% | ||
| Clark Barnes | 5,850 | 9.56% | ||
| Mark A. Sorsaia | 2,950 | 4.82% | ||
| Larry V. Faircloth | 2,369 | 3.87% | ||
| Mitch B. Carmichael | 2,045 | 3.34% | ||
| Ralph William Clark | 1,230 | 2.01% | ||
| Cliff Ellis | 277 | .0.45% |
Democratic results (unofficial)
Earl Ray Tomlin
| Earl Ray Tomblin | 51,191 | 40.37% | ||
| Rick Thompson | 30,572 | 24.11% | ||
| Natalie E. Tennant | 21,954 | 17.31% | ||
| John D. Perdue | 15,904 | 12.54% | ||
| Jeffrey V. Kessler | 6,715 | 5.30% | ||
| Arne Moltis | 481 | 0.38% |
Mountain Party
The mountain Party has no primary. Candidate is nominated in convention.
Related articles
- Maloney to Face Tomblin for West Virginia Governor (politicalwire.com)
- WV-Gov: Dems Win All Permutations, Tomblin Leads Primary (dailykos.com)
- Maloney Catches Ireland in West Virginia (politicalwire.com)
- Democrat Leads Field in W.Va. Governor’s Race (online.wsj.com)
- 6 Dems, 8 Republicans in W.Va. special primary (sfgate.com)
No Budget – No Museums!
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My son Will works part-time at the Smithsonian (on their web stuff) while he goes to grad school in DC… I imagine he is not looking forward to this one.
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- Government shutdown would be bad for Smithsonian – Washington Post (blog) (news.google.com)
- Tourist Troubles: Potential Government Shutdown Could Stifle Museums, Parks (newsfeed.time.com)
- So, I Guess The Government Might Shutdown? (radio923fm.radio.com)
- How a government shutdown will affect you (capitolhillblue.com)
- US government shutdown looms amid budget brinkmanship (guardian.co.uk)
- Surviving the government shutdown (sfgate.com)
Why are we being taken over by utter stupidity?
I start the morning with a guy ringing the front doorbell and, rather than run downstairs holding the dogs so they don’t run out the door, I open the window and say “Yes?” He asks me if I want information on the celebration of the death of Jesus Christ.
“No, thank you. No, I don’t.”
Perhaps I should put an “atheist lives here” sign on the door… that might keep these folks from coming around (and there are more and more of them lately.) Or perhaps I should go door to door asking if people want information on pure logic as it relates to religious myth. Probably not.
Then I get back to the computer and I’m reading Taegan Goddard‘s morning posts and find this:
House Denies Global Warming is Real
The House of Representatives defeated an amendment to a bill that “would have put the chamber on record backing the widely held scientific view that global warming is occurring and humans are a major cause,” reports The Hill.
The amendment, which stated that “Congress accepts the scientific findings of the Environmental Protection Agency that climate changes is occurring, is caused
largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for public health and welfare,” failed by a near party-line vote of 184 to 240. The only Republican to vote for the amendment is Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA), while three Democrats voted against it.
These are people who have control over money given to scientific research (which they are now probably going to try and eliminate) and who represent any possibility of protecting ourselves in the future from destroying our world.
Of course, the Congressfolk are now working as hard as it can to shut down the government without making their own parties seem responsible. Each side claims to not want the 
shutdown. At least one group (read “Tea Party”) has taken a stand against ANY compromise, and that will keep Republicans in a muddle.
We are being governed by the brain dead… led by people walking backwards into an existential hole. 
I’m going back to bed.
Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Update:
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Another C-SPAN Morning, and a very unhappy vote…
I’m watching the vote as the Republican majority votes on debate rules to defund National Public Radio. So far all Republicans are voting to cut the funds and all Democrats are voting to save the funding. If it keeps up like this, NPR has no chance.
C-SPAN is taking in phone calls during the vote, alternating between Democrats and Republicans, 
and the trend among callers of both parties is that NPR should keep its funding. Oh, there are a few who are supporting it because they claim it’s the government telling people what to watch (where they get that from, I don’t know.)
There us a predominance of callers from small towns and farm areas who realize that NPR and PBS 
allow broadcasts of unbiased news that they certainly don’t get from commercial stations. They are not looking forward to the cuts… however, the funding from the government is very small and NPR will work very hard in their other fundraising channels (like you and me).
I don’t know when they are having the final debate (they are apparently going to debate troops in Afghanistan next.) But I don’t hold out a lot of hope.
Related Articles
- House to vote on cutting off funds for NPR (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
- House to Vote on Cutting off Funds for NPR (abcnews.go.com)
- House Republicans schedule Thursday vote to bar federal money for NPR (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com)
- House to Vote on Measure to Ax Funding From NPR (politics.blogs.foxnews.com)
- Why House Republicans are rushing to slash NPR funding – Christian Science Monitor (news.google.com)
Today begins a response by workers to the Wisconsin Senate’s surprise move last night…
Today people are returning to the Wisconsin capitol building to protest the act of the Republican Senators and the approval they have received by Scott Walker. The organization of trade unions is becoming intense and recalls of some legislators and a build up to recalling Walker (which cannot happen until next January by Wisconsin law) are in process.
Frank Emspak of the Workers Independent News in Madison stated:
“We’ve had democracy by deception here. You’re talking about disenfranchising millions of people, not only in Wisconsin, but also throughout the Midwest, and basically saying that working people, in an organized fashion, have no right to participate in the electoral process. That is what the Republicans are doing.”
And there was this statement by Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME):
At a time when we should be pulling together to create jobs, Governor Walker and the legislators who back him are more interested in stripping nurses, teachers, correction officers, bus drivers and EMTs of their rights. This is a question of right and wrong. The governor is tearing Wisconsin apart when voters want real solutions to the problems they face.
This is about more than Scott Walker’s arrogance. He is tossing aside basic American values. Public workers fought long and hard for the right to collective bargaining. Martin Luther King, Jr. died defending that right for AFSCME sanitation workers in Memphis. We are not going to allow a small group of radical politicians in Wisconsin destroy what Americans have fought generations to win.
Only one Republican, Dale Schultz, voted against the bill last night. Schultz is a moderate Republican who previously proposed a compromise. His vote is likely to protect him from a recall effort by unions and Democrats.
Shultz stated:
As someone who as spent the better part of the last four weeks working toward and hoping for a compromise, this is a difficult night.
I’ve had the honor and privilege of representing folks in Southwest and South Central Wisconsin for 28 years, and where I come from ‘compromise’ isn’t a dirty word.
I’ve received tens of thousands of emails, thousands of phone calls and letters, and spent hours meeting with thousands of citizens in my district. I’ve heard personal and heartfelt stories of friends and neighbors, and they ask for just two things.
First, be inclusive by listening and working with your colleagues on both sides of the aisle to reach a compromise which addresses our fiscal crisis. Second, public employees are willing to make sacrifices on things like wages and benefits, but we need to preserve collective bargaining as a tool which has helped keep labor peace in this state for decades.
Ultimately, I voted my conscience which I feel reflects the core beliefs of the majority of voters who sent me here to represent them.
Because of the Wisconsin law that prohibits a recall until an elected official has served one year in office, only eight of the Republican Senators, who violated the open meeting rule and the 24 hour public announcement policy by eliminating collective bargaining last night, may currently be recalled. These are:
* Robert Cowles
* Alberta Darling
* Sheila Harsdorf
* Luther Olsen
* Randy Hopper
* Glenn Grothman
* Mary Lazich
* Dan Kapanke
The protestors will have until January of next year to get the 500,000 signatures needed to recall Scott Walker. Meanwhile, Walker has been a Uniter, not a Divider: he has united the Unions, the Democrats, the people of Wisconsin and voters all across the unites States. Perhaps we could get the Republicans to run him for President.
Related Articles
- Labor Vows To Step Up Recall Effort Against Wisconsin GOP (huffingtonpost.com)
- Wisconsin Passes Anti-Collective Bargaining Bill (outsidethebeltway.com)
- You: Wisconsin Senate Advances Bill Opposed by Unions (nytimes.com)
- Wisconsin Senate GOP bypass Democrats to cut union rights – Seattle Times (news.google.com)
- Union supporters to rally after Wisconsin Senate passes restrictions (cnn.com)
- ‘General Strike!’ Thousands Storm, Reoccupy Wisconsin Capitol in Response to Legislative Votes (redantliberationarmy.wordpress.com)
- Wisconsin Senate Limits Bargaining by Public Workers – New York Times (news.google.com)
- Wisconsin Republicans Sneak Through Union-Busting Bill without Democrats (blogs.forbes.com)
- Labor Lambasts Walker, GOP Senators (thepage.time.com)
- What Happens Next in Wisconsin? (politicalwire.com)
- Wis. GOP Bypasses Democrats On Collective Bargaining (promoteliberty.wordpress.com)
- The name for what Scott Walker, The Wisconsin Republican Senators and David Koch are trying to pull is called “structural adjustment” (iflizwerequeen.com)
- Art Levine: After GOP’s Union-Stripping, Labor Launches 9 A.M. Friday Protests Across Wisconsin. Strikes Next? (huffingtonpost.com)
“I Am Wisconsin” – 92-year-old woman, former Wisconsin resident, at Pennsylvania support rally last weekend…
Marge Holicek joins 1000 Pennsylvanians in saying “I am Wisconsin!” Capitol steps, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania:
There are other YouTube samples from all over the country popping up… perhaps Scott Walker will get the idea.
Related Articles
- Commentary: Gov. Tom Corbett might fight more for natural gas drillers than against unions (pennlive.com)
- Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education faculty members condemn Wisconsin’s Gov. Scott Walker’s tactics (pennlive.com)
- Rallies for Labor, in Wisconsin and Beyond (annlrd.wordpress.com)
- “Union Supporters Remain in Wisconsin Capitol” and related posts (afscmeblog.org)
- U.S. rallies decry Wisconsin efforts to weaken unions (ctv.ca)
- Chicagoans Show Solidarity For Workers in Wisconsin (chicagoist.com)
- Wisconsin Debate Spurs Albany Rally… And More… (dave-lucas.blogspot.com)
Yesterday saw largest crowds since Vietnam War march in Wisconsin
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Tells us who is controlling television, doesn’t it.
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- Largest crowds since Vietnam War march in Wisconsin (reuters.com)
- Wisconsin Sees Biggest Rally Since Vietnam War (alan.com)
- Voices from the massive pro-union rally in Wisconsin (reuters.com)
- Thousands take Wisconsin labor protest into its eighth day – Detroit Free Press (news.google.com)
- Religious Voices Enter Wisconsin Union Debate (huffingtonpost.com)
- Wisconsin governor raises stakes in union fight with threat of job losses – The Guardian (news.google.com)
- Thousands converge on Wisconsin for more protests (msnbc.msn.com)
Republicans Hide Health Care Law Benefits From Their Constituents
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Related Articles
- GOP steps up health care offensive (cnn.com)
- Not many House Republicans rejecting health benefits on principle (cnn.com)
- Senate to vote on repeal of health care law – USA Today (news.google.com)
- GOP Plans To Force Vote On Health Care Repeal (huffingtonpost.com)
- US judge deals new blow to Obama health reform (alternet.org)
- Senate schedules Wednesday vote on repeal of health-care law (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
- Obama Open to ‘Tweak’ of Health Care, Not Repeal (abcnews.go.com)
- “Scott calls halt to federal health care law implementation” and related posts (postonpolitics.com)
Republicans Plan to Shutter NEA and NEH
Da Vinci didn't have Republicans to contend with.
This is a disturbing piece for all of us in the arts that was published this week by Stage Directions Magazine. I listened to the President last night inspiring us to be first in science and math and engineering… of course he said nothing about our being first in the arts which provides millions of jobs at minimal cost for highly talented people. They may not be creating new automobiles or filling our food plants with dangerous chemistry (like Monsanto), but they create the world view in which our scientists and mathematicians can function.
Once the engineer and the artist were in the same shell… think about Leonardo Da Vinci. Today the arts are considered an easy victim by Republicans out to destroy the things that make life good over the things that make life dangerous.
Back to the article in Stage Directions. Here’s part of it, but please go in and read it all:
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- GOP Bill Would Eliminate NEA, NEH? (mxmossman.blogspot.com)
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- House Republicans unveil plan to end federal arts and humanities agencies and aid to public broadcasting (latimesblogs.latimes.com)
- GOP Rep. Jordan Wants To Obliterate Funding For The Arts (lezgetreal.com)
- A letter to Jim Leach (powerlineblog.com)
- The NEH vs. America (powerlineblog.com)
- Message from the GOP: kill the arts, continue womb controlling (pinkbananaworld.com)
- Jeopardy Answer: Cretins, Yahoos, and Rednecks….. (tagg-lines.com)
Thursday Morning and the House is at it again…
John Garamendi (D - CA)
They are “debating” a proposal to start their committees off on putting together a new Health Care plan, pretending that the repeal they voted in yesterday is actually going through. Since it’s not, their wasting time again instead of working on legislation to create jobs and fix the economy.
As Rep. John Garamendi (D – CA), former Insurance Commissioner of California, said this morning:
“This is like Alice in Wonderland,” and commented on the discussion being the most amazing he has ever experienced in the House.
So what they are doing is Republican Playtime. Is America going to stand for it?
Related Articles
- Rep. John Garamendi: Real People Really Helped by the Patient’s Bill of Rights (huffingtonpost.com)
- The Note: Repeal, Then What? (blogs.abcnews.com)
- White House White Board: The Costs of Repealing Health Reform (whitehouse.gov)
Today and tomorrow we have the Health Care Repeal legislation…
I started today listening to a panel of extreme right wingers and Libertarians point out everything wrong with the Health Care Bill (and Medicare, and Medicaid, and even a smattering of Social Security.) Then I watched a Democratic hearing on Health Care with citizens who have gained advantage from the Bill.
Let me say that at no time was there a mix of Democrats and Republicans actually debating real issues on modifying the existing law to solve the righties problems, but keeping the legislation intact to solve the lefties problems. The only mix is through people like me, who watch C-Span (and can all afternoon because I am retired and am in one or more of the Health 
Constituencies they are discussing: Senior citizen, pre-existing condition, limited income. ) Right now I have to deal with no fewer than 4 doctors on a regular basis and have pharmaceutical needs including 10 different pills and 4 injections a day. So, you see, I am interested.
Republicans are going to try to pass a law in the House which has no chance in the Senate… and even if it did, it would be vetoed by the President. They do not have enough votes to override a veto. So they will waste two days of our time where they will not be establishing job-creation programs, nor will they improve the health laws where it is possible without destroying the program.
I’ve been signing petitions (my Congresswoman, Shelley Moore Capito, will campaign and vote for repeal so she doesn’t 
represent me in any sense of the word. I have written her before, too, receiving lovely form letters, written by her staff, decorated with her picture, and signed with a rubber stamp. Once again I will look forward to supporting whoever challenges this useless woman in 2012.
Related Articles
- HEALTH CARE:Repealing Progress (ynative77.wordpress.com)
- Fix it – Health care (nowpublic.com)
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- Bill Frist: Health Care Is ‘Law Of The Land,’ GOP Should Drop Repeal And Build On It (huffingtonpost.com)
- House kicks off debate over health-care repeal – Washington Post (news.google.com)
- Democrats Make a Case for the Health Care Law (thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com)
- Health care lobby mum on repeal (politico.com)
Saturday morning and it’s snowing…
I’m on a borrowed machine this morning and it’s going really slow… I can’t wait until my computer comes back from the repair shop (Monday, I hope. Wednesday at the latest)… but this gives me a few minutes to post.
The snow is falling lightly outside. I don’t know how much we’re going to get, but it won’t be any where near the amount my daughter Cassandra and her family are getting in Connecticut. They’re having a pretty bad winter up there… West Virginia seems to be getting away with a mild slap on the butt.
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Monday the Republicans in the House won’t be in session, but Tuesday they are coming back strong with their Health Care Repeal plan. They seem to be ignoring completely what this will add to the deficit, or the millions of Americans who will automatically lose health insurance if it becomes law. Since the bill was passed the number of people who work for small businesses who have received health care through their employers has increased over 50% (due to the discounts these employers get because of the Health Care Bill), yet these insurees could immediately lose their insurance if a repeal is passed.
What are Crybaby Boehner and his idiots thinking? Is making a political act to show that they are anti-Democrat and pro-TeaParty really this important to them? If it is, then their policy is truly America be damned.
It’s time to start a massive letter writing Campaign to our Representatives making sure they realize what the facts are here. I know I’m going to start going after my Rep, Shelly Moore Capito (R – WV) who tends to vote for most things not in our best interests. I am ready to campaign heavily on getting her out of office in 2012 if she doesn’t change her ways.
I’ve got to give this computer back to my wife now, so I hope you all have a nice day.
Related Articles
- House to take test vote on health care repeal – USA Today (news.google.com)
- Question of the Day: Do You Agree or Disagree with the Republican Plan to Repeal Health Care Law? (abcnews.go.com)
- Sebelius, Democrats in full-throated defense of health care law (boston.com)
- Repeal effort defines GOP House debut (msnbc.msn.com)
- Democrats mount health plan defense (boston.com)
- Analysis: Health care repeal will cost $230 billion (cnn.com)
- Blue Dogs won’t help GOP with health care repeal (washingtonmonthly.com)
Obama’s Weekly Address for Jan. 1, 2011
Here are the President’s best wishes for the New Year and more:
Maybe one more Republican will be ashamed enough of their killing this bill last week that they will come in next week…Maybe.
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