Archive for the ‘An Unexamined Scandal’ Category
I Can’t Quite Put My Finger On It, But…
MoJo’s Nick Baumann again does us an invaluable service by pointing out the obvious fact that President Obama’s “unprecedented assault on America’s religious freedoms” by requiring church-related hospitals and universities to cover contraception at the federal level has actually been on the books for, oh, about 12 years now. In December 2000, the Equal Employment [...]
February 10, 2012
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Zandar · 
68 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Flash Mob of Hate, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, IOKIYAR, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, Republican Venality, We Are All Mayans Now
January 20, 2009 changed everything
A person really couldn’t make this stuff up: Republicans have gone to war against President Obama’s regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage, portraying the measure as a “government takeover” of health care and pledging to repeal the rule in Congress. The measure, which is part of the Affordable Care Act, says that [...]
February 8, 2012
· Kay · 110 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal
Clearly We Need Laws To Protect Us From Republican Voter Fraud
Next time somebody says DEMOCRAT VOTER FRUAD ACORN BLAH BLOOGITY BLAH please calmly direct them to Indiana’s GOP Secretary of State Charlie White being convicted on six of seven voting fraud felony counts while being the state’s top election official. Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White was convicted of six felonies early this morning, and [...]
February 4, 2012
· Zandar · 36 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Both Sides Do It!, Fables Of The Reconstruction, IOKIYAR, Our Failed Political Establishment, Republican Venality
Scott Walker’s sea of corruption may have run Captain Preibus aground
Courtesy of the We Party Patriots, we learn that Reince Priebus (and there’s a rejected Bond villain name if I’ve ever heard of one) seems to be implicated in the illegal activities that have already resulted in the arrests and indictments of several of Governor Walker’s current and former aides. Walkergate” is unfolding into a [...]
January 31, 2012
· Soonergrunt · 26 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Election 2010, Election 2012, Grifters Gonna Grift, Kochsuckers, Republican Venality, Teabagger Stupidity
I’m still not clear on why conservatives don’t want people voting early, yet they do want people voting absentee
Sunshine in the sunshine state: Election experts and Democratic voting advocates told U.S. senators Friday that a Republican-backed overhaul of Florida election laws will suppress Democratic turnout in the nation’s biggest battleground state next fall. Democratic Sens. Bill Nelson of Florida and Dick Durbin of Illinois held a field hearing at the Hillsborough County Courthouse [...]
January 30, 2012
· Kay · 83 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Domestic Affairs, Education, Election 2012, Enhanced Protest Techniques
This is not a surprise…
The Voice of San Diego is reporting that at least one of Newt’s former Congressional colleagues has his back: Jailed ex-Congressman Duke Cunningham wants Newt Gingrich to know he’s got the Republican presidential candidate’s back. [snip] Cunningham tells Gingrich in an electronic message he says he sent to the candidate last month that his fellow [...]
January 26, 2012
· Dennis G. · 59 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Assholes, Election 2012, Getting The Band Back Together, Open Thread
We want to meet the bundlers, Mitt
When we’re done with the tax returns….. In 2007, then-Sen. Barack Obama proposed legislation that would have required all presidential candidates to disclose information about supporters who raised at least $50,000 for their campaigns during the two-year period prior to Election Day. That legislation was never adopted, but as a presidential candidate Obama voluntarily released [...]
January 25, 2012
· Kay · 20 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Election 2012
Still selling the Reasonable Republican myth
What changed is, he isn’t running for governor again: When Mitch Daniels first ran for governor in 2004 he wrote a letter to a union leader expressing his belief that there was no need to adopt a right to work law in Indiana. That union is now financing television ads that attack the governor and [...]
January 19, 2012
· Kay · 70 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell
Target: the Stealth Wal-Mart
As part of my 99-percenter quiet and probably pointless boycotting of banks and card associations, I have started to pay cash a lot more, and I’ve also been looking at alternate forms of payment. For example, one of the local gas chains issues a card that debits your bank account directly (using ACH). They’ll also [...]
January 15, 2012
· mistermix ... World Peace · 284 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way Out Of Des Moines
It turns out Mitt Romney may not have won in Iowa after all. Mitt Romney received 20 fewer votes than are reported from a Moulton precinct in numbers posted by the Republican Party of Iowa, the Appanoose County GOP chairman said today. The final vote between Iowa caucuses winner Mitt Romney was eight ahead of [...]
January 7, 2012
· Zandar · 87 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Clown Shoes, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, IOKIYAR, Republican Venality
He’s a pro
I wrote here about searching for, and finding, a candidate for the state legislature: He’s a Steelworker. He’s been married 32 years and has 4 children. He spent 2 years in the military. He worked 2nd shift his whole life, and only became politically active with the Steelworkers in 2002 I met with the candidate [...]
December 30, 2011
· Kay · 27 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Both Sides Do It!, Election 2012
Santorum may be too nice a name for that guy…
Doug’s post about Santorum running the meetings where lobbyists were able to thumbs-ups or thumps-down any Bush era appointment reminded me that Santorum’s involvement with lobbyists go back to his arrival in Washington as a new Senator. Santorum was elected to the Senate as part of the Gingrich wave election in 1994. Also arriving in [...]
December 29, 2011
· Dennis G. · 122 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Assholes, Election 2012, Getting The Band Back Together
Working As Intended, Citizen Pierce!
Charlie Pierce, Esquire, is alarmed by a new “pediatric health” study: Of all the numbers in this new study, the following remains an astonishing statistic: By the time they’re 23, 41 percent of American kids have been busted for something more serious than a traffic stop… To me, it’s an indication of that something is [...]
December 21, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 17 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Decline and Fall, Domestic Affairs, Education, Good News For Conservatives, Security Theatre
Plain language
Really happy to see this:(pdf) COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF Plaintiffs Ruthelle Frank, Carl Ellis, Justin Luft, Dartric Davis, Barbara Oden, Sandra Jashinski, Pamela Dukes, Anthony Sharp, Anthony Judd, Anna Shea, Matthew Dearing, Max Kligman, Samantha Meszaros, Steve Kvasnicka, Sarah Lahti, Domonique Whitehurst by his mother and next friend Sabrena Putnam, and Edward Hogan [...]
December 14, 2011
· Kay · 79 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, An Unexamined Scandal, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Domestic Affairs, Election 2012
Null Hypothesis
James Fallows has been using the term “nullification” to talk the ways that Republicans in the Senate are using the filibuster to keep from appointing a director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. By doing so, they’re making sure that a law already passed by Congress simply doesn’t go into effect. The whole thing is [...]
December 12, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 93 Comments
Posted in: 59-41 Senate Minority, An Unexamined Scandal, DC Press Corpse
