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POPSTea Party Movement's New Target :The GOP
They feel they were had by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), who urged them to stomach earmarks for the good of the party; by George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove, who urged them to stomach a massive expansion of education and Medicare for the good of the party; and by the rest of the Washington gang that collaborated in the largest expansion of government in their lifetime for the good of the party. Erick Erickson, founder and editor of the conservative RedState blog, said grass-roots activists are done listening. “Republicans are going to have to come our way,” he said, before going on to trash NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele for backing Scozzafava. Their “level of disingenuousness ... is disgusting,” Erickson said. His influential blog is now calling for Sessions to get the boot from the NRCC as a penalty for mishandling the race. Erickson’s bombast may seem overboard, but it captures the dep
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POPSSticker Shock Threatens To Stall Health Care Overhaul even if that means it will take longer for the economy to recover." costs are "a boulder no one can move." The White House has said "it it can save $622 billion in health care costs over the next 10 years by paring hospital subsidies to the uninsured, changing how certain Medicare payments are made to providers, and cutting waste and fraud from Medicare and Medicaid." The rest would likely be paid for in tax increases. The Congressional Budget Office analyzed the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, which would subsidize people to help them pay for insurance premiums, and found that "those subsidies alone would cost an estimated $1.28 trillion." "Tanner warned"and CBO officials agreed"that such initial estimates are the 'floor, not the ceiling' on costs" (Lightman and Douglas, 6/19). Republicans and Democrats alike are questioning those costs, The Los Angeles Times reports. On ABC's "This Week”, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,
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POPS Can Michael Steele Really Reframe Gay Marriage as an Economic Issue? Even if he could, it wouldn't do much to help the GOP. "Committee Republicans are sure to press the president’s nominee on how he or she would adjudicate the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a 1996 law signed by then-President Clinton allowing “states to ignore marriages performed in other states and den federal recognition of legal gay marriages.” In addressing the constitutionality of DOMA, Republicans could force the nominee to elucidate his judicial philosophy — whether, in the words of Alabama’s Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, “they think that they’re not bound by the classical meaning of the Constitution, and that they may want to let a personal agenda go beyond what the law said.” Read the entire article at Pajamas Media:http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/can-michael-steele-really-reframe-gay-marriage-as-an-economic-issue/
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POPSbarcamp Houston Missed it again, but love how StartupHouston.com always gives me the scoop. Startup Mom's LOVE startup Houston!
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POPSHypnosis is Belief Required? In order to understand why your thoughts affect the hypnosis process, you must first understand what hypnosis is-and what it is not. Simply put, hypnosis is a state of mind. Your brain waves are relaxed through hypnosis, which places your mind in a state of hyper-suggestibility. Hypnosis "opens" the door to your subconscious, which in turn allows suggestions to be implanted and take hold. Your subconscious mind controls all of your behaviors, habits, and impulses. This is why hypnosis is most powerful in changing behavior and beating addictions such as smoking and sweets.
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POPS"24": Life imitates art (sort of) According to author Judith Warner, a new book of essays on the TV series "24" shows how policymakers and military officials have been taking cues from Hollywood on how to do their jobs. Not only chilling, but surreal to boot.
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POPSTeenage mayor in training for later political life. Michael Sessions, the 19-year-old mayor of Hillsdale, Michigan has been charged with computer hacking. Is he just a young man doing the dumb things young people do, or is he a junior politician in training for more profitable crimes in the future. Who knows? The Shadow, perhaps? (Man, did I just date myself, and anyone else who understands that last reference.) :-)
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POPSWhat Are You Optimistic About? - The Edge Annual Question 2007 The Edge asks a very interesting question to a whole bunch of leading thinkers, scientists, philosophers, etc. each year. This is this years question. Last years question was: "What is your Dangerous Idea"? Question of 2005 was " What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it ? I only clipped a tiny selection of the candidates & links to their answers of this years question. It's a great resource. Really worth checking out. Just click one of the links I clipped & feed yourselves with some optimism. ( ;-) to invictus)
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