Oct 052013
 

I’m writing for tomorrow, and it looks like it will stay cool enough that I will even be wearing clothes from now on.  Being the nekked blogger is overrated anyway. ;-)  Fantasy players be sure your lineups are set for Sunday’s games.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:47 (average 5:13).  To do it, click here, how did you do?

Short Takes:

From CNN: …House Speaker John Boehner told a group of fellow GOP legislators that he won’t let the nation default on its debt, according to a House Republican.

Boehner said that he’d set aside the "Hastert Rule" — that Republicans would only bring measures up for a vote if they are backed by a majority of their caucus — and rely on Democrats to pass a measure to raise the nation’s debt limit, said the House member. This legislator attended a meeting Wednesday involving Boehner, but requested anonymity because that gathering was private…

The media seem to be reporting this as gospel, and I’m not saying it isn’t true, but I’m sure not ready to take it to the bank. Boehner said two months ago that Republicans would not shut down the government, so he has no credibility in such matters (or any other matters). In addition, this is just hearsay from an anonymous Republican (and therefore unreliable) source, not even from Agent Orange himself. Color me from Missouri on this one.

From NY Times: It is outrageous that millions of the poorest people in the country will be denied health insurance because of decisions made mostly by Republican governors and legislators. These people will neither qualify for their state’s Medicaid program for the poor nor for subsidized coverage on new insurance exchanges that are being established in every state by the health care reform law.

Their plight is a result of the Supreme Court’s decision last year that struck down the reform law’s mandatory expansion of Medicaid and made expansion optional. Every state in the Deep South except Arkansas has rejected expansion, as have Republican-led states elsewhere. These 26 states would rather turn down incredibly generous federal funds that would finance 100 percent of the expansion costs for three years and at least 90 percent thereafter than offer a helping hand to their most vulnerable residents… [emphasis added]

Isn’t it the height of hypocrisy for Republicans to cackle about how ObamaCare leaves so many poor without coverage, when in fact, they are the ones keeping those people uncovered by refusing to accept the federal funds to pay for it all?

From MSNBC: Wooo Hooo Wendy!!

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That pink sneakers lady with the big mouth is my favorite Texan politician!

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  20 Responses to “Open Thread–10/5/2013”

  1. ~ 6:40

    It is outrageous that millions of the poorest people in the country will be denied health insurance because of decisions made mostly by Republican governors and legislators.

    OPINION – Tampa Bay Times

    Weatherford keeps 150,000 uninsured – Florida House SPeaker Will Weatherford is responsible for more than 150,000 of the poorest residents in Tampa Bay being cruelly excluded from health care coverage.

    Although living in Weathford's district,  My phone calls to change his position are ignored…

     

  2. That pink sneakers lady with the big mouth is my favorite Texan politician!

    I watched the fillibuster lead by Wendy Davis and I support her for Governorship of Texas although, I live in Florida… 🙂

  3. 3:12 My gears were all lined up. Will a pair of Size 9s kick the chain off or will Critter crunch the gears?

  4. CNN ~ I don't trust anything they say.

    NY Times ~ Let the poor die. That's what Supply-side Jesus would do.

    MSNBC ~ Texas needs her badly!

    Cartoon ~ It's a good thing the Kochs own Georgia-Pacific. Agent Orange and the rest of the Cry-babies need their paper products to wipe his constant tears.

     

     

  5. Puzzle — 3:20 I got my pant leg caught and was desprocked!

    CNN — At the last Republicanus/Teabagger debt limit debacle, the US credit rating was downgraded and the prime reason — political instabililty or fractiousness.  That has not been healed.  If anything, it is worse now and that is not good.  It adds to interest cost on the debt.  So if the Republicanus/Teabagger continue to push the debt ceiling issue to the edge of the cliff yet again, at the very least, another downgrade will happen.  But more importantly, world markets will take another BIG hit, perhaps worse than the Great Recession.  Boehner needs to find the balls to drop the Hastert rule and bring the debt limit increase without any caveats up for a straight majority vote now.  If the resolution passes, and assuming the Senate passes the resolution, then the markets will breathe again.  But just putting this off for a few months or so will not calm markets.  And waiting to hopefully take advantage of midterm election results is stupid.  The global economies need time to breathe and recover.

    It strikes me that if a person ran their household accounts the way the government does, a lot of households would be screwed (more than they are now!).  It really is time for tax reform to increase tax revenues, especially from the over-served 1%.

    In listening to Chris Hayes I think it was, the proposed Obama budget is nearly the same level as the Ryan budget, so the Republicanus/Teabaggers have nothing to snivel about.  Democrats have done more to cut spending than any Republican/Teabagger government.  Just look at historical spending levels as a percentage of GDP in Canada and the US in this article http://brighterlife.ca/2013/03/27/canadian-politics-just-got-turned-upside-down/?WT.mc_id=en-ca:digital_adv:paid:Outbrain:BrighterLife:TODAYSECONOMY:Canadian-politics-just-got-turned-upside.  Conservatives tend to be bigger spenders.

    NY Times — It is truly amazing that these self professed "Christians" in the Republicanus/Teabagger party can't live by their professed values.

    From the Christian Scriptures, which I swear these so called "Christians" have never read:

    "The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.' " — Matthew 25:40

    And from the Hebrew Scriptures which the Republicanus/Teabaggers seem to value more:

    "Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God." — Proverbs 14:31

    In addition to cackling about Obamacare leaving so many of the poor uninsured when it is so many of the states' unwillingness to opt in to Medicaid expansion, well thy name is hypocrisy . . . Republicanus/Teabagger hypocrisy!  They want the Republicare Death Benefit to ease the country's social role!

    MSNBC — Wendy Davis: "Our future is brightest when it is lit by everyone's star!"  Texas will certainly rise with Wendy Davis!  Go Wendy!!!!!

    Cartoon — Ah, the Weeper of the House!  If he really wants something to weep about, wait until the 2014 midterms when the number of Republicanus/Teabaggers in Congress takes a nose dive!

    I've been thinking . . . (I know, strange thing for me to do!) if the other parties like the Green Party and the Justice Party want to make a big push, now might be a good time while the overall rating of Congress is so low and Americans are disenchanted with the 2 main parties.  It still won't likely get them the presidency, but it may get them the toe hold in Congress they need.  Then watch Boehner go from weeping to gnashing of teeth and full blown tantrum!

    • Pant leg or foot?

      Complete Amen!

      That's whi I call them pseudo-Christians.

      Amen!

      Another Amen!

      Because of the US plurality rule sysyem they would split the left and hand it to Republicans on most occasions.

  6. From Cnn:  I don't trust anything Boehner said or is supposed to have said.  He is like a city councilman I knew whose opinion was always that of the last person he spoke to.

    NY Times:  They don't care about the poor, they can't make campaign contributions.

    I hope the Texans are as sick of Republicans as the rest of us. Wendy Davis will make them a great governor.  I hope Planned Parent hood wins their suit and women in Texas get access to health care again.  

    Love the cartoon.  Shared it on FB, sure I made a bunch of people mad at me.  Don't care.

  7. Good!

    Bingo!

    Amen!

    Isn't it odd how people who are your friends would rather get mad at you than face such an obvious truth.

  8. This picture of Boehner has been bugging me all day. . . it looks so familiar.  I just figured it out.  Look at the picture of my ginger cat, Winnie here http://www.care2.com/c2c/people/profile.html?pid=775377582.  I love my cat but that is the worst picture of him ever.  He is much better looking.  It is all in the angle.  Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of Boehner!

  9. Lynn's right – we could live our lives by Mathew 25:40 – it tells us almost all we need to know – and I can nearly guarantee the Teabaggers are not acquainted at all with the New Testament! 

    God bless Wendy Davis!

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