Sunday, September 13, 2015
Republican hearings on Planned Parenthood missing just one thing: Planned Parenthood
Because why bother getting the opinion of the organization the hearing is about?
A Shrub Appointee Throws Boehner a Bone In His Crusade To Take Healthcare Away From Millions
Even with the best lawyers tax money can buy and a judge appointed by the shrub, Boehner barely got his day in court.…
After multiple failures in the courts, after several
reputable lawyers refused to take this suit and rejection by the lower
courts, not to mention the political failures Boehner welcomed this
small victory. While some argue that the procedural standard is high,
the fact remains the only thing this judge decided is that Boehner gets
to have his day in court – on the taxpayer’s dime of course.
Judge Rosemary Collyer, granted Boehner standing
for the portion of his suit that challenges the Obama Administration’s
use of executive powers to realize a cost sharing program with insurance
companies, for eligible policy holders.
I am grateful to the Court for ruling that this historic overreach can be challenged by the coequal branch of government with the sole power to create or change the law,
Several times the Judge emphasized this ruling is
restricted to considering if the court has a right to hear the case but
that the ruling shouldn’t be read as a “victory” for either side.
“The Court stresses that the merits have not been briefed or decided; only the question of standing has been determined,”
Of course, Boehner ignored that part of Judge
Collyer’s ruling in his effort to make it appear that recognizing his
right to a day a court is the same thing as justifying his claim of
“overreach.”
Judge Collyer threw out the portion of the law suit
that challenged the Treasury Department’s decision to delay the
employer’s mandate. In legal terms, this was really a big deal.
In reality, that is what the suit was all about. Boehner initiated the lawsuit on this basis.
Yes, you read that right. While Republicans
criticized the employer’s mandate earlier on, when that strategy failed,
they opted for complaining about its implementation being delayed.
So, when it comes down to it, Boehner’s “victory” is about as small as it can be.
The Obama Administration announced that it plans to appeal Collyer’s decision immediately.
In a written statement to The Hill, spokeswoman Jen Friedman wrote,
The district court’s decision is unprecedented and the Department of Justice has indicated it plans to seek immediate appellate review… This case is just another partisan attack, and we believe that ultimately the courts will dismiss it for what it is — an inappropriate attempt to involve the judiciary in disputes between the other branches,
This lawsuit is the latest Republican ploy to
destroy the Affordable Healthcare Act. For Boehner and company this is
partisan politics. For the millions of Americans who wouldn’t have
healthcare if not for the Affordable Care Act, this is Republicans, once
again, playing politics with their lives.
Anti-gay ‘historian’ leading pro-Cruz PAC says bible forbids finding an AIDS vaccine
Sex-Crazed Michigan Teabaggers Beg For Light Spanking, Ooh Yeah, Just Like That
The sleazy, exceedingly stupid scandal involving Michigan teabaggers Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat, the family-values wingnuts who concocted a fake gay scandal to cover up their real
hetero affair, is grinding toward its embarrassing shame-soaked close,
with both legislators asking that they be censured rather than expelled
from office. The House released its full report Tuesday on the
investigation of the pair’s conduct, and the office of House Speaker
Kevin Cotter has called ...
Saturday, September 12, 2015
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White House Releases Official Video Exposing Dick Cheney’s Lies
The White House just released an official video exposing Dick Cheney’s lies.
This is unprecedented.
This is unprecedented.
Bernie Sanders Declares War On America’s Corrupt For Profit Prison System With New Bill
Bernie Sanders is striking back at corporate
America’s prison industrial complex with a new bill that abolishes for
profit prisons.
In a statement, Sanders discussed his new legislation:
It is clear to most Americans that we need major
reforms in our broken criminal justice system. We need to end the
tragic reality that the United States has more people in jail than any
other country on earth, and that the people being incarcerated are
disproportionately black and Hispanic. We need to take a hard look at
why the rate of recidivism in this country is so high and why we are not
developing successful paths back to civil society for those who serve
prison time. Further we need to end, once and for all, the disgraceful
practice of corporations profiting from the incarceration of Americans.
As a nation, our goal must be to do everything we
can to create the conditions that prevent mass incarceration. At a time
when we are spending $50 billion a year on our correctional system, it
makes a lot more sense to me to be investing in jobs and education for
our young people than in more and more jails. Not only can we prevent
thousands of lives from being destroyed, we can save billions of
taxpayer dollars. Locking people up is a lot more expensive than
schools.
Overall, we need bold change in our criminal justice
system. A good first step forward is to start treating prisoners as
human beings, not profiting from their incarceration. Our emphasis must
be on rehabilitation, not incarceration and longer prison sentences. The
basic decisions regarding criminal justice and public safety are,
without a doubt, the responsibility of the citizens of our country and
not the investors in private corporations.
My legislation will eliminate federal,
state and local contracts for privately run prisons within 2 years. It
will reinstate the federal parole system. It will increase oversight and
eliminate the overcharging of prisoners by private companies for
banking and other services. It will end the mandatory quota of
immigrants detained. It will require ICE to improve the monitoring of
detention facilities and eliminate private detention centers within 2
years.
The private prison industry makes money by keeping
individuals incarcerated. The motivation in a for-profit prison system
has nothing to do with the common good or the benefit of society.
Private prisons make money for their corporate owners by keeping as many
people locked up as cheaply as possible.
A study from the University of Wisconsin
found that private prisons keep inmates locked up longer to boost
profits. The extra time that inmates are locked up costs taxpayers an
average of $3,000 more per prisoner.
The for-profit prison industry is one of the main
reasons why the nation’s criminal justice system is in desperate need of
reform. Senator Sanders is correct. Republicans have been lining corporate
pockets for decades by privatizing prisons, but it needs to stop now.
The nation needs real criminal justice reform, and the first step in fixing the broken system is abolishing private prisons.
Wingnut voter anger finally directed at the real menace—the Republican Cabal
by Kerry Eleveld
The Republican cabal stole control of the House in 2010 and four years later stole the Senate. Yet even with those majorities, Republican lawmakers have failed to achieve such wingnut priorities as rolling back Obamacare, their derisive name for the national healthcare law, or cracking down harder on illegal immigration. The controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline is no closer to being built – indeed, it may soon be dead – tough antiabortion legislation has languished in the Senate, and a fiercely disputed nuclear deal with Iran seems virtually certain to take effect, despite near-unanimous opposition from Republicans in Congress.This is why 90 percent of Iowa Republican voters said in a Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics poll that they're unsatisfied or "mad as hell" at the federal government (two chambers of which are owned by the Republican cabal) and 91 percent of Iowa wingnut voters said they were unsatisfied or "mad as hell" at politicians in general (not just Democrats). The Republican cabal establishment has been riding a wave of anger at a bogeyman they couldn't slay, and the cabal's voters are finally figuring out that they've been duped. They don't seem to know why or how, but they know they've been had. They're mad as hell and the Republican cabal establishment built that.
In short, as many see it, the promise of the 2010 teabagger lunacyt and its 2014 pale echo have been dashed on the marble steps of the Capitol.
Why Trump Will Not Be Pretender
by John DeProspo
For all those worriers who are beginning to believe a Trump junta may be possible; to all those delusional supporters who
believe the man has more than a snowball’s chance in hell of becoming
our nation’s 45th president, I have only one thing to say: Melania
Knauss-Trump.The news media has been so consumed with covering the improbable rise of Trump that very little time has been devoted to Melania, Trump’s third wife. Since the Republican cabal’s mouthpiece, Fox News, has not covered the potential First Lady, wingnuts don’t have a clue what they’re dealing with.
Safe to say no First Lady has ever posed nude for a magazine spread, as did Mrs. Trump. Nor has any other First Lady talked about her incredible sex life (with Trump) on the Howard Stern show. If the puritanical, family-values religio-wingnut base were to see what many others around the world saw in a 2000 issue of British GQ, their knickers would be in a bunch!
Don’t get me wrong. I have nothing against the current Mrs. Trump. In fact, I would be more than pleased to call Melania my First Lady. She is not an airhead. Many have likened the former Slovenian model to Jackie Kennedy, in her style and grace. But as hypocritical as christian wingnuts may be, they could never abide a nude model in the White House. We, as a nation, are just not as hip as the French or Italians.
If true craziness were to take over a majority of the electorate, voting Trump in as our next Commander in Chief, I can just hear Pat Robertson now … “We have revisited Sodom and Gomorrah. Another clear sign that the End Times are nigh!”
Hillary, for her part, has dispatched a cadre of staff members to dig up dirt on Melania, just in case. “I’ve learned the hard way that it ain’t over until the fat lady sings. I’m taking nothing for granted.”
Gohmert Vows To Quit Congress And Await 'Nuclear Holocaust' If Iran Deal Passes
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Camerawoman fired after attacking Syrian refugees works for 'wingnut' 'news' network
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A Mexican Man Hilariously Trolls A Teabagger Anti-Immigration Rally By Smiling & Dancing
The teabaggers don’t seem to like him very much.
He doesn’t seem to care.
This is pure awesomeness.
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