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Comedy Central was on the ground at the GOP convention in Tampa this week via their Indecision 2012 team and the Best F@%king News Team from The Daily Show, and boy, did they catch some all-timers. Catch the interview with idiot Victoria Jackson -- who she seems to think the Dust Bowl of the 1930s is some sort of football game...
http://veracitystew.com/?p=41829Comedy Central was on the ground at the GOP convention in Tampa this week via their... more
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olks; the question is ripe for the asking: How come Republicans always try to block the vote by citing non-existent rampant voter fraud, when it’s almost always Republicans who are indicted for that particular crime?
http://veracitystew.com/?p=40730olks; the question is ripe for the asking: How come Republicans always try to block... more
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WATCH: In a BIG group of conservative idiots and fools, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) truly stands out...
"If Hannibal Lecter was ever elected to Congress, it'd look like this. And sound like this. And wear that suit." ~ Daily Kos
http://veracitystew.com/?p=32901WATCH: In a BIG group of conservative idiots and fools, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) truly... more
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While a federal investigation gets under way, it's important to realize that Solyndra was probably doomed from the start because of China's ability to fix prices and manipulate the global marketplace. With all that in mind, political animator Mark Fiore examines what TeaPublicans are attempting to label as "SolyndraGatePocalypse."
http://veracitystew.com/2011/09/26/crony-capitalism-solyndragatepocalypse-video/While a federal investigation gets under way, it's important to realize that... more
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It's class warfare when you applaud the death of a fellow citizen just because they couldn't afford medical insurance. It's class warfare when you cheer for the execution of human beings. It's class warfare when you suggest that those with no political power or influence are waging class warfare simply because they choose to fight back!
http://veracitystew.com/2011/09/19/the-gop-real-warriors-in-class-warfare-chart/It's class warfare when you applaud the death of a fellow citizen just because... more
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The recent employment figures shows 216,000 jobs were created in March, allowing the unemployment rate to fall from 8.9% to 8.8%. And according to David Dreier, Republican Chairman of the House Rules Committee, John Boehner is the one responsible for these newly created jobs.
Contain your laughter!!!
Mr. David Dreier praised John Boehner, saying;
Speaker Boehner has consistently been saying not only, “where are the jobs,” and we’re all gratified that the positive signs of getting our fiscal house in order played a big role in creating 216,000 non-farm, payroll jobs last month and brought the unemployment rate from 8.9 down to 8.8%.
So what exactly is Mr. Dreier talking about when he says “getting our fiscal house in order?” Well, to answer that question, we have to look at what House Republicans have concentrated on in the last 2 months since they took control of the House of Representatives.
1. House Republicans have voted to repeal President Obama’s health care law. According to a report by David M. Cutler, repealing healthcare would “slow job growth by 250,000 to 400,000 annually.” The report also show an increase in medical spending by $125 billion by the end of this decade, and another $2,000 increase in yearly insurance premiums for families.
2. Republicans in the House have also voted to defund NPR. Exactly how many jobs will this create? Zero. But it will take away $22 million dollars from the organization. Sigh!
3. Repealing Planned Parenthood.… Jobs created? Another big ZERO, as per The Huffington Post
4. House Republicans are intent on cutting $61 billion from the budget. This must be where the 216,000 jobs came from. Well, let’s take a look. The Senate haven’t agreed on this $61 billion cut, so in essence, this budget cut, called H.R 1 is not law. Jobs created? Zero. In fact, many economists agreed, that if the Republican’s budget cuts detailed in H.R. 1 goes into effect, hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost.
And so the confusion kicks in. If the bills House Republicans have voted on haven’t created any jobs, then how exactly is Mr. Dreier crediting John Boehner with creating 216,000 jobs last month?
Well, Dreier knows he is lying. But its something Republicans have been doing for some time now. It’s called the power of persuasion — you say something often enough, and eventually, although it may be a lie, it will be accepted as truth by many.
http://ezkool.com/2011/04/republicans-say-boehner-created-216000-jobs-in-march/The recent employment figures shows 216,000 jobs were created in March,... more
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Florida Republican Governor Rick Scott better hope his wife doesn’t leave him any time soon.
Scott transferred 62 million dollars in Solantic stock (a chain of healthcare clinics) to a revocable trust in his wife’s name after he got elected. Now he’s passing a bill that will hugely benefit Solantic. He calls this privatization, which might ring a bell for you since Republicans have been singing its high praises ever since they discovered government contracts (i.e., socialized profits for their private companies, aka, welfare for the wealthy). Basically, your tax dollars will soon be going directly to Rick Scott’s wife’s bank account if his bill passes.
Perhaps in Republican circles, transferring your stock options into your wife’s name is distancing yourself from your personal profit. Sure, Republicans hate to empower a woman like that (hence, the trust is “revocable”), but it’s either give the stocks to her or heaven forbid, sell them just before you get into office and finally get to pass laws to enrich yourself, aka, the “Medicaid Reform Law.”
It sounds so Foxian, so “competition-oriented” – so “clean out government waste and fraudish.” Scott’s “Medicaid Reform” would give private health care companies unprecedented control over the government health care program for the poor, expanding on a pilot program started in Florida in 2005.
Mother Jones reported that the privatization pilot program was a total bust and caused huge delays in healthcare for patients:
According to a 2008 study by the Georgetown Center for Children and Families, participants experienced huge delays and restricted access to necessary treatments, says the center’s co-executive director, Joan Alker. Patients found the new system bureaucratic and confusing—and HMOs were prone to dropping out without warning. Dr. Aaron Elkin, president of the Broward County Medical Association, recently declared the program to be a failure. And Medicaid patients don’t have much better reviews. “It has taken four months to get a biopsy on a throat cancer due to the impediments placed by the HMOs for authorizations,” one participant in the program told NPR.
Gosh, that rings a bell, doesn’t it? These are the sorts of problems the Republicans claimed government healthcare would cause. Working with the SwiftBoat folks, Scott created the astroturf movement “Conservatives for Patient’s Rights” to oppose the Democrats’ healthcare reform act on the basis that it would be a “takeover” by “Washington bureaucrats” who would force patients to “stand in line” for care (also known as waiting 4 months for a throat biopsy).
And yet, these exact problems were caused by privatization. Perhaps it would be fair for us to call Scott’s privatization bill “Death Panels for Profit.”
Scott’s company, Solantic, does not take Medicaid, but they do business with private Medicaid HMOs. There are 32 Solantic clinics around the state of Florida, and they are growing rapidly – looking to do an IPO any day now. According to Scott’s female partner and former TV anchor, Solantic is the fourth largest clinic in the country.
In the 1990’s, Scott headed Columbia/HCA Healthcare, the largest for-profit hospital in America. Under Scott’s leadership, Columbia/HCA committed major Medicare fraud. They had to pay the government 2 billion dollars in settlement fees and interest, which made it the largest fraud case in history. The company was found guilty of systematically over-billing the taxpayer for services. Scott was forced to resign just before the judgment came down and Dr. Thomas Frist Jr., brother of U.S. Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., was brought in to replace him as chairman and CEO. Feel better yet?
Forbes reported that HCA “increased Medicare billings by exaggerating the seriousness of the illnesses they were treating. It also granted doctors partnerships in company hospitals as a kickback for the doctors referring patients to HCA. In addition, it gave doctors ‘loans’ that were never expected to be paid back, free rent, free office furniture, and free drugs from hospital pharmacies.”
Rick’s stewardship in one of the FBI’s highest priority white-collar crimes brought fraud not just to Florida, but also Texas, Georgia and Tennessee, in case you were feeling left out. This is what Rick Scott calls the competitive “free market.” And they wonder why we need regulators and we wonder why they don’t want them. Not to worry, though, Scott was paid $9.88 million in a settlement for being forced to resign as CEO, and he also left owning 10 million shares of stock worth over $350 million.
Continue reading: http://www.politicususa.com/en/rick-scott-taxpayers-clinicsFlorida Republican Governor Rick Scott better hope his wife doesn’t leave him... more
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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has positioned herself as a loud advocate of banning all pork from Congressional bills. Pork, otherwise known as earmarks, make up 0.05% of the federal budget yet Bachmann and many other Republicans often pretend that banning earmarks would actually make a difference in reducing the federal deficit and curing all that ails Washington, DC.
She's for banning earmarks except for her own pet project:
She's about to submit a bill that does an end run around federal law to secure $700 million for the St. Croix River Crossing Project near Stillwater.
The massive bridge that was originally planned by the the Minnesota Department of Transportation was shelved last year after the National Park Service ruled the proposed behemoth structure did not comply with the federal Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.
Last year she tried and failed to get the St. Croix cut from the act to make way for her bridge. But Bachmann, now part of the Republican majority in the U.S. House, figures the law doesn't apply to her bridge anyway. She's just going to cherry pick her facts: A previous Park Service decision supporting the bridge.
http://www.mnprogressiveproject.com/diary/8548/bachmann-wants-to-bring-the-pork-home-to-her-district-despite-advocating-for-pork-banRep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has positioned herself as a loud advocate of banning all... more
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On the heels of a Washington Times report detailing how Republicans have railed publicly against the stimulus package while working privately to direct stimulus funds towards their home states and districts, Rachel Maddow has compiled her own list of GOP senators and congressmen guilty of such double-dealing.
Maddow argues that this is yet more evidence that the GOP is uninterested in productive policy and only concerned with tearing down the Obama administration.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/10/maddow-calls-out-individu_n_456645.htmlOn the heels of a Washington Times report detailing how Republicans have railed... more
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