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Representative Democracy Texas Style
On April 1st – the irony of April Fools’ Day hasn’t escaped me – Texas’ Republican Governor Rick Perry reiterated that Texas would not expand Medicaid under Obamacare. This was during a public appearance he made with Texas’ Republican United … Continue reading
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Tagged Affordable Health Care Act, background check, Congress, filibuster, Florida, gun control, gun legislation, gun lobby, gun regulation, gun violence, guns, health care, House, House of Representatives, James Inhofe, John Cornyn, Kaufman County Texas, Kentucky, Marco Rubio, Medicaid, Mike Lee, Mike McLelland, N.R.A., National Rifle Associaition, NRA, Obamacare, Oklahoma, politics, Rand Paul, Republicans, Rick Perry, Senate, Tea Party, Ted Cruz, Texas, Utah, Washington DC, Wayne LaPierre
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Courage Gives Way To Cowardness
“It is good politics to oppose the black guy in the White House right now, especially for the Republican Party.” Those are the now infamous words of South Carolina Republican State Representative Kris Crawford, M.D. They gave the doctor his … Continue reading
Are You Serious?
Taking a cursory glance at the Ryan Plan 3.0 I am reminded of the first retort my youngest grandchild learned, “Are you serious?” It was cute, we all laughed and Olivia repeated it a time or two to get more … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012 election, budget, Bush Tax Cuts, Coprorate Income tax, defecit, Food Stamps, House, House Budget Committee, income tax, John Boehner, Medicaid, Medicare, Michigan, national debt, North Carolina, Obama, Obamacare, Paul Ryan, politics, Republicans, Rick Snyder, Ryan budget, Ryan Plan, Ryan Plan 3.0, Senate, sequester, social safety net, Social Security, student loans, tax breaks, tax loopholes, taxes, Tea Party, Wisconsin
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Surprise, What Surprise?
There was widespread surprise on the American political scene on February 20th when Tea Party/Republican Florida Governor Rick Scott announced his state would participate in the Medicaid expansion under Obamacare. I was not among the surprised. When analyzing Republicans always … Continue reading
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Tagged 5th Amendment, bigotry, Columbia/HCA, Florida, Florida legislature, greed, Greedonomics, health care, House Select Committee on Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare fraud, Obama, Obamacare, politics, racism, Republicans, Rick Scott, Solantic, Tea Party
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20 Babies
For those of you who have been waiting for me to write about the tragedy in Connecticut last Friday I haven’t been under a rock, I wanted to let some of the dust settle so we had a more accurate … Continue reading
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Tagged 112th Congress, 113th Congress, A.L.E.C., ALEC, assault weapons, California, Charles Koch, Congress, Connecticut, David Koch, Democrats, Dianne Feinstein, education, education funding, education spending, gun control, gun legislation, gun regulation, guns, Hillary Clinton, Koch brothers, mass shooting, Medicaid, Meet The Press, mental health, mental health services, Michigan, N.R.A., NRA, Obama, politics, Republicans, Rick Snyder, school funding, school shooting
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Give Them What They Deserve
Perhaps the best news about the fiscal cliff negotiations is that they are taking place under a news blackout. That means that something substantial may actually be getting done and both sides have no need to posture in public. The … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012 election, budget, Bush Tax Cuts, Democrats, economy, fiscal cliff, health care, income tax, jobs, Medicaid, Medicare, Obama, Paul Ryan, politics, Republicans, retirement age, Ryan budget, Ryan Plan, taxes, unemployment
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Reopening Another Front
I have come to the conclusion that the Republican Party thinks that the way to win elections is to declare war on various segments of the American population and then expect them to vote Republican. If that sounds insane to … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012 election, Albert Einstein, American Enterprise Institute, Benjamin Franklin, Bill Clinton, budget, consumer demand, deficit, Democrats, economy, health care, health insurance, Heritage Foundation, House, Mark Twain, Medicaid, Medicare, national debt, Obamacare, Occupy movement, Paul Ryan, politics, repatriation, Republican, Ryan Plan, social safety net, tax code, tax rate, taxes, The Path to prosperity, war on women, Wisconsin
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2013 – An American Horror Story – Part IX
This is the ninth installment in a series that portrays a fictional account of America in the year 2013 after a Tea Party assisted Republican landslide in the 2012 elections. While the events portrayed here are fictional – they are … Continue reading
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Tagged 113th Congress, 2012 election, Al Gore, Alan West, Bain Capital, C SPAN, capital gains tax, child labor, child labor laws, Chuck Schumer, class action, cloture, CNN, Commerce Department, Congress, Constitution, Consumer Protection Agency, corporate tax, Current TV, Darrell Issa, Dave Camp, Democrats, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Department of Labor, Department of Transportation, Dick Durbin, Dodd-Frank, economy, education, Elena Kagan, Eric Cantor, F.D.A., FBI, filibuster, Fox News, government, Harry Reid, Health and Human Services, HHS, House, House Budget Committee, House Judiciary Committee, Housing and Urban Development, HUD, impeachment, individual tax, inheritance tax, IRS, Jeb Hensarling, jobs, John Boehner, John McCain, Keith Olbermann, Kevin McCarthy, Lamar Smith, Medicaid, Medicare, Michele Bachmann, minimum wage, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, obstruction, Paul Ryan, Peter King, Pew Research, political fiction, politics, Rand Paul, Religious Right, Republicans, Rick Perry, Rob Portman, Robert Byrd, Sarah Palin, Sarbanes-Oxley, Security and Exchange Commission, Senate, Social Security, Sonia Sotomayor, State of The Union, Super Bowl XLVII, Supreme Court, Tampa, taxes, Tea Party, Tom Prince, tort reform, unemployment, United States Constitution, veterans benefits, Virginia Foxx
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2013 – An American Horror Story Part VIII
This is the eighth installment in a series that portrays a fictional account of America in the year 2013 after a Tea Party assisted Republican landslide in the 2012 elections. While the events portrayed here are fictional – they are … Continue reading
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Tagged 113th Congress, 2012 election, Al Gore, Alan West, Bain Capital, C SPAN, capital gains tax, Chuck Schummer, class action, cloture, CNN, Congress, Constitution, Consumer Protection Agency, corporate tax, Current TV, Darrell Issa, Dave Camp, Democrats, Department of Education, Dick Durbin, Dodd-Frank, economy, Elena Kagan, Eric Cantor, FBI, FDA, filibuster, Fox News, government, Harry Reid, House, House Budget Committee, House Judiciary Committee, impeachment, individual tax, inheritence tax, IRS, Jeb Hensarling, jobs, John Boehner, John McCain, Keith Olbermann, Kevin McCarthy, labor department, Lamar Smith, Medicaid, Medicare, Michele Bachmann, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, obstruction, Paul Ryan, Peter King, Pew Research, political fiction, politics, Rand Paul, Religious Right, Republicans, Rick Perry, Rob Portman, Robert Byrd, Sarah Palin, Sarbanes-Oxley, Securities and exchange Commission, Senate, Social Security, Sonia Sotomayor, State of The Union, Super Bowl XLVII, Supreme Court, Tampa, Tea Party, Tom Prince, tort reform, unemployment, United States Constitution, Virginia Foxx
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