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POPSOklahoma To Post Abortion Records On Public Website More: Apparently, in Oklahoma, "small government" Republicans are only interested in keeping government out of the private lives of men, and those women who make the personal health choices with which they agree. If you think this list won't be used to intimidate women and lead to violence, you are either a liar or deluded. The anti-abortion fringe has been killing people and setting off bombs for years. Mark me, the moment this goes into effect, some woman is going to be the target of violence, and she will have been identified by this database.
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POPSSen. Chuck Grassley: "I lied about the supposed 'Death Panels'" Mixed signals, Senator? What about the outright lies & untruths you & Sarah et al have been peddling? Healthcare reform legislation as being proposed does not include 'death panels' to determine who gets care paid for and who doesn't. The corporate health insurance industry, they're the ones currently operating death panels right now . They're the one's the "town hollers" are fighting in favor of. STOP LYING, REPUBLICANS! PUBLIC OPTION NOW!
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POPSSmartRemarks: "Buttocks or Bullets?" In 2004 six men were arrested for stripping down to their thongs and mooning President Bush, mirroring the infamous Abu Ghraib human pyramid photo. They were cuffed and arrested. And the right wing was OUTRAGED and the disrespect shown to the president. What are we to make of the armed "patriots" showing up to town halls where the President is speaking, holding signs calling for the "Tree of Liberty" to be washing " with the blood of patriots and tyrants ? What message are they sending? One John Wilkes Boothe (Lincoln's assassin) and John Hinckley (Reagan's would-be assassin) would understand loud & clear. The right wing loses an election, and out come the guns and threats and cries of "oppression!" This should be no surprise. They've been shooting and bombing abortion doctors for decades. I'm watching for shrines to St. Timothy of Oklahoma to show up.
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POPSRachel Maddow: Public Option Dying Because of Democratic Political Collapse Why the fuck can't Democrats stand up and Support the policies THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE VOTED THEM IN ON? Obama campaigned on (among other things) the idea of a public option healthcare plan. The Democrats won, OVERWHELMINGLY. Senate, House, & The Big Desk. What is the problem? Why can't Democrats push an agenda when they get in power? I may not like their policies, but the Republicans pushed a MUCH MORE sweeping agenda with much less of a mandate. In addition to a public option in in healthcare, we need public funding of political campaigns so our leaders won't be sucking at (and legislating from) the corporate tit.
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POPSWe've seen this frothing, red-faced rage before People who can't handle change coming to their world reacting with rage and threats of violence: we've been through this before. More: And my lord, Eric Cantor, the number two guy over there, is Jewish. I mean the immediately came out and talked about how horrible it was for this swastika to be painted and said we need to investigate and find out who did it. And to have a Jewish member of the Republican leadership not say a word about that that is just beyond me. I don't understand that. And I'm bothered by that.
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POPSRachel Maddow guest Dr. Warren Hern discusses climate of political terror in the US Dr. Warren Hern is the head of the Boulder Abortion Clinic, and one of the last doctors in America who still performs late-term abortions . He's lived with death-threats & actual attempts on his life for decades. And the same violent rhetoric from the anti-abortion fringe that spawned a series of homegrown American terrorist snipers and bombers that have killed people and destroyed property is being turned on proponents of healthcare reform in America. Think about it.
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POPSRachel Maddow - America's deeply disturbing racial and violent discourse
The anti-reform right is using the same violent rehetoric against those in favor of healthcare reform that the anti-abortion movement has embraced for years. And members of that movement have assassinated doctors who performed legal abortions. Think about it. Republicans: YOU LOST THE LAST ELECTION. Both houses of Congress AND the White House. We had an election and YOU LOST. And so y'all are resorting to threats, intimidation, and attempting to derail the discussion rather than participate in it. Inchoate rage at the idea of change doesn't make you right or justified. That John Wayne chaser, that's for you. Get a grip, people. You may not like it, but YOU LOST THE ELECTION. That's how it works. Our next election is just over a year away. America rebelled against England when George III* refused to give the colonists a say in their own government. Y'all were given a say. It's called the 2008 election. WHICH YOU LOST. So why all the violent, revolutionary rhetoric?
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POPS"Stupidest Summer Ever" (by a former Republican) He concludes: I'm not trying to say that Democrats have a sparkling clean record or that this is anything particularly new. I expected to see a good deal of partisan sniping like we saw against Bush or Clinton during their administrations. But the level of stupidity on display this summer is just relentlessly, head-clutchingly astonishing.
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POPSHow Republicans are LYING about "end-of-life" counseling More In her chat with Thompson, McCaughey said the language can be found on page 425 of the health care bill, so we started there. Indeed, Sec. 1233 of the bill, labeled "Advance Care Planning Consultation" details how the bill would, for the first time, require Medicare to cover the cost of end-of-life counseling sessions. According to the bill, "such consultation shall include the following: An explanation by the practitioner of advance care planning, including key questions and considerations, important steps, and suggested people to talk to; an explanation by the practitioner of advance directives, including living wills and durable powers of attorney, and their uses; an explanation by the practitioner of the role and responsibilities of a health care proxy." The Republicans want to stop healthcare reform, because if it passes they know Americans will abandon them as being without ideas. This is why all the lies and attempts to shut down the discussion. Desperation
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POPSConservatives goal: Block ANY healthcare reform / Rachel Maddow Investigates The thugs yelling and shouting at Town Hall meetings are there not to discuss the issues, but to stop any discussion from actually happening. Watch The Good Doctor's segment. notice how, when offered a chance to sit down, 1-on-1 with their representative, THEY DECLINE. They want the public meeting where they can yell & instigate violence and get on the web. Notice the Republicans have nothing on offer whatsoever except STOP OBAMA! Why? Because if we actually DO get healthcare, the Republicans are dead in the water for a generation. This is why they're resorting to thug tactics. While the organizers are tapping into an authentic sense of frustration among some Americans, The Tea Party Patriots group is not grassroots. This is astroturf at it's most plastic and corporate. Freedomworks is Dick Armey, Republican heavy-hitter. And Freedomworks is behind all the teabagging and meeting disrupti
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POPSAustralian source of the forged "Kenyan" birth certificate? Orly Taitz is a liar and a forger and I hope they charge her and toss her in a cage as such. It's over, birthers. You've been proved to be lying (or at best deceived by cheap, easy tricks). You're so done, not only is there a fork in you, they're clearing the plates. About the birth certificate, SHUT YOU THE FUCK UP ALREADY!
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POPSRepublicans returning to the "White Voter Strategy" They used to call it the " Southern Strategy ", appealing to white voters by demonizing minorities. Black Republicans kinda like gay Republicans: You may think you're on their team, but they most certainly don't think of you in the same way.
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POPSBirther nutjob fantasy has a sold hold on the Republican Party Dear Republican Birther Nutjobs: SHUT YOU THE FUCK UP ALREADY ! Get a fucking grip, people. You have slid off the deep end and found yourself wallowing in a pool of racism and willful blindness to the evidence. Stay conservative, stick to your political principles. But come back to reality on the birth certificate. Just because you don't particularly like the idea of a ARTICULATE MIXED-RACE MAN AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES doesn't mean you get to engage in this sort of lunacy and be taken seriously. The descent of the Republicans into a rural, southern party continues.
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POPSRepublicans fear Public Option Healthcare becaise IT'S CHEAPER more: Bachmann’s statement echoes the sentiments expressed by Rep. John Kline in an interview with Minnesota Public Radio’s Tom Crann in late June . He also said that millions of people will flock to the cheaper insurance plan, also called the public option. ...our fear is that if you actually get in there looking at the legislation that it’s set up in a way that employers would increasingly opt to letting their employees move over to the public, to the public option. And because it is cheaper, it’s designed to save money , the government-run program has some very clear advantages. Republicans care more about corporate profits than getting affordable healthcare for ALL AMERICANS. PUBLIC HEALTHCARE NOW!
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POPSPat Buchanan:The Republican Party is for White Folk Pat's argument is that since Latinos are 1/10th the population that Whites are, a 1% gain among Whites is worth 10% gain among Latino voters. So screw cultivating Latino Republicans, go for the White vote. Go read his piece and see if I'm distorting his message. According to Pat: What they must do is expose Sotomayor, as they did not in the case of Ginsburg, as a political activist whose career bespeaks a lifelong resolve to discriminate against white males to the degree necessary to bring about an equality of rewards in society. Unfortunately, the facts and the numbers don't reflect that, and the TYT video in the clip lays it all out. Because for Pat and his sort, unquestioned privilege is the natural right of white Americans, and anything less is oppression Sonia Sotomayor is not the one with a lifelong record of racism he
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POPSI WANT EVERYONE TO REMEMBER WHY THEY NEED US! Dear Osama Bin Laden: America has turned it's back on us Republicans since Bush 1.1's regime. Could you attack again and remind them why they need us. Absent an atmosphere of fear and suspicion, they don't seem to think much of us. Mr. Bin Laden, please attack. We miss being in power. Sincerely, Michael Scheuer
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POPSCalifornia's most conservative county sucks up the public assistance by the bucket
Assemblywoman Noreen Evans, D-Santa Rosa, chairwoman of a legislative budget conference committee, ordered up a report last winter ranking which of the state's counties send the most tax money per capita to the Capitol, and which ones consume the most in health and other services. It showed that conservative counties - like Modoc, with 49.9 percent Republican registration, the state's highest - generally consumed the most, and liberal counties sent in the most. Marin County was No. 1 in contributions, at $4,793 per person, and San Francisco was No. 3 at $3,578. Modoc was No. 2 in consumption at $2,216 per person, and conservative Tulare was No. 1, with $2,223. "I don't think voters in the conservative counties understand the connection between the service they are receiving and the votes their representatives are making," Evans said…In Modoc, the way it works is that if the cuts being proposed go through, near-catastrophe will reign.
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POPSState GOP staffer sends racist inage of Obama Another racist ‘slip up’ from the republican party. Real classy. She isn’t sorry she participated in this racial slur, she is sorry she sent it to the ‘wrong’ list. I want to know who is on the ‘right’ list. I’ll bet she doesn’t understand that she demeans herself by perpetuating this sorry attempt at a put down, and the republican party doesn’t seem to understand that keeping people like this around degrades further any shred of integrity they are trying to hang onto. They are likened to a bunch of adolescents snickering at toilet humor. When are they going to grow up and show some respect, for others and for themselves? This is a form of hate speak in it’s ugliest form. Is this really going to be the legacy of the republican party? Because they don’t seem eager to stop it.
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POPSGOP Losing Support Among Nearly All Demographic Groups I remember saying to myself back in 2000 that if there was anything positive that could come out of Dubya being president was that they would finally push things too far and the country would turn against them. Remember young Americans: when you think "Republicans", think Iraq, Katrina, massive corporate greed, the Patriot Act, the TSA, and Econopocalypse.
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POPSWatching Frustrated Republicans As They Lose To Obama With a John Wayne chaser. I always get a chuckle out of the rural-types who spout that "We're the real America, not those city-folk" line. Actually, most Americans live in cities. Whether or not that's a good thing, you don't hears us questioning the backwoods folks authenticity as Americans. Because that's simultaneously infantile & tacky.
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POPSBlocking Obama's health plan is key to the GOP's survival The Republicans preached "deregulation & free markets" like the good corporate shills they are. We let the corporations & the investor class dominate the economy, and they got rich, drove the fucking thing into the ground, set us up for the next great depression, then held out their hands for a taxpayer-funded bailout. I for one think that maybe letting the government dominate the economy for a while might not be all that bad. The government is us, the citizens. It's answerable to us. The corporations are answerable to their shareholders. Bring on the Socialized Medicine and lets put a spear through the heart of the GOP once & for all . ;-)
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