VOTER ID: I have absolutely no problem with voter ID. My problem is with 1) making it difficult, and 2) rushing it. Voter ID? Not a bad idea. The way they’re doing it? That’s suppression.
NEW STUPID GOP MEME: “In 1962, six percent of Americans got federal entitlements. Now, it’s 35 percent.” Clever. Of course 1962 was before there was Medicare.
CYNICAL MUCH?: Our Congress Critters have made clear once again that they are incapable of acting, even to save the nation from the bullet they themselves aimed directly at 320 million Americans – the one that requires automatic spending cuts of $900 billion in January 2013. So, diversion is called for. Time for a shiny new thing. What to do? Why, pass a new bill, The Sequestration Transparency Act. A Nebraska newspaper describes it thusly: “having proven incapable . . . they now indignantly demand to know how the President plans to cut spending.” Not them, the President. Neat.
You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, or democracy. But you cannot have both.
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As ALWAYS ….
The US Congress WILL find a way to by-pass the Original BILL which was NOTHING but politics….
This is a routine I’m afraid….
In that there hasn’t been a straight up budget in the last few YEARS
AND THAT has been from the GOP playbook to embarrass and put down Obama…
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The only answer is to get rid of the GOP lock-step majority.
I don’t post back to myself, (not often, anyway). But this interactive “what will the Ryan Plan do to me” is really helpful, Moe. http://fiftyfourandahalf.com/2012/08/18/give-em-hell-henry/
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Just read it and thanks for the link. Haven’t played with the data over at ‘the Great Orange Satan”, but I will.
ANd let me cross-comment this from your post: Yeah Henry Waxman!!!
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Thanks, Moe. I just posted on the great Todd again. What a maroon.
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Elyse, don’t know if you saw Ojmo’s comment in the other thread – he nailed it:
So if a rape victim gets pregnant, it’s proof she wasn’t REALLY raped? Sounds like the medieval “if she drowns she’s innocent” test for witchcraft.
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No I didn’t. I’ve had to stop following comments because it got overwhelming! I try to check in from time to time.
But absolutely it sound midieval. So many of these folks’ positions do. I always wanted to experience the Spanish Inquisition, didn’t you?
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