Monday Open Thread
Welcome to a dreary Monday open thread. What can we do to brighten your day? Perhaps an open thread will work?
Bachmann, who is by most measures stark raving mad, didn’t disappoint. Given the national spotlight, again, the Republican extremist made a variety of ridiculous. To its credit, “Face the Nation” published a sort-of fact-check piece online after the program.
“[N]ow we have the federal government taking over ownership or control of 51 percent of the American economy. This is stunning. Prior to September of 2008, 100 percent of the private economy was private.”
Ms. Bachmann offered no facts to back up her assertion that the government owns or controls 51 percent of the U.S. economy.
According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis data since 1929, the highest percentage of government spending as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product was during World War II when government spending was 47.9 percent (in 1944). The lowest level of government spending as a percent of GDP was 9 percent in 1929 at the outset of the Great Depression.
At no time during this period was the United States’ GDP 100 percent private.
The TV news is not about informing anymore, it’s only about ratings. I assume they think Bachmann will bring her flying monkey brigade to watch the show.
Speaking of fact-free lunatics, Palin spoke at the “conservative Woodstock” event in Nevada. She loves the Constitution, but hates Constitutional law professors.
In her speech at the rally, Sarah Palin of course paid homage to the Constitution. “Our vision for America is anchored in time-tested truths that the government that governs least governs best, that the Constitution provides the path to a more perfect union — it’s the Constitution,” she exclaimed. And so it’s extremely puzzling that Palin introduced this new attack line against President Obama yesterday:
In these volatile times when we are a nation at war, now more than ever is when we need a commander-in-chief, not a constitutional law professor lecturing us from a lectern.
Ironically, the crowd cheered wildly at Palin’s line. Watch it:
She’s saying to the crowd he thinks he’s smarter than you.
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It won’t be pretty, when Putin deals with this latest terrorist attack.
Obomba: “Starting this year, insurance companies will be banned forever from denying coverage to children with pre-existing conditions.”
Insurance Companies: “the law does not require them to write insurance for the child and it does not guarantee the “availability of coverage” for all until 2014.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/29/health/policy/29health.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
HCR 2010 = WMD 2002 Obomba lied while real HCR died.
Hey. It’s raining.
I see someone spiked A1’s Easter eggs with bat-shit crazy pills again.
Did you read the article, MJ? I think it is more “bat-shit crazy” to think that the insurance companies and their highly-paid lawyers are going to do everything Obomba said that they would have to do, particularly when he has lied time and again in trying getting this bill passed.
But I guess you have read all the fine print in the bill, no?
HCR 2010 = WMD 2002 Obomba lied while real HCR died.
Actually, A1, since I deal with the FEHBP on a daily basis, I have been tuned-in to this legislation for awhile. But nothing is good enough for you, is it?
You know, A1, I keep trying to give you the benefit of the doubt that you’re not stupid, but dude, you make it tough. Nowhere in the article does it say or imply that Obama lied. The law is supposed to do exactly what he said. What’s happening is that the insurance companies’ high-priced lawyers are trying to find reprehensible loopholes in the law. These just need to be shut. Sometime, you may want to review what the word “lie” means, because I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Since their inception the Teaparty crowd (not a movement since they do have the numbers or clout) have been “haters not debaters”. In my opinion this is what the small portions of the republican party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” have brought you. They are good at “Follow the Leader” of their dullard leaders, they listen to Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush and Savage and the rest of the Blowhards. Are you surprise at what they do when you know what they think? The world is complicated and most republicans (Hamiliton, Lincoln, Roosevelt) believe that we should use government a little to increase social mobility, now its about dancing around the claim of government is the problem. The sainted Reagan passed the biggest tax increase in American history and as a result federal employment increased, but facts are lost when mired in mysticism and superstition. Although some republicans are trying to distant themselves from this fringe most of them are just going along and fanning the flames. Lets face it the Republicans had 8 years to deal with health care, immigration and financial oversight and governance and they failed. They could not even win one of the two wars they started, the body bags are still coming in. The Republicans wanted to give Obama his Waterloo defeat over healthcare but instead they gave themselves their own Waterloo defeat by not participating in the debate of ideas and by becoming the party of obstructionist. But they now claim they have changed, come on, what sucker is going to believe that?
Scott P, if you can’t tell, the article pretty clearly states that Obomba is saying one thing and the insurance companies are saying something quite different. In regards to “reprehensible loopholes,” who signed this bill? Who drafted it? Are you saying that they didn’t know what they were passing and signing?
Obomba has lied constantly during his campaign and during this process. The White House has refused to reveal the details of the secret deals it made with corporate lobbyists. Now, after the bill has been passed, people are suddenly starting to wake up to what it actually contains. It is kind of like not finding WMD in Iraq after screaming that you had to go to war NOW or else.
So now we’re going to see shifting rationales, more lies, and excuses when this bill doesn’t do what its supporters kept screaming that it would. It has started here already with things like “reprehensible loopholes” and “nothing is good enough for you”.
Real HCR would have been good enough for me, not this house of cards.
HCR 2010 = WMD 2002 Obomba lied while real HCR died.
So, Ricky Martin is gay.
Get out.
He was the last one to know, right?
And what about Jack McFarland? I stood by him the whole time.
McNubbins to Oakland for a 39th pick. Adios loser.
where did you hear that??????!!!!
Mike & Mike. ESPN radio
read it on SI.com a little bit ago….As a raiders fan (but we actually have won a couple of Super Bowls:) ) we welcome McNubbins as I could can play QB better than what they have now 🙂
Cassandra – Ricky is like all of the closeted Members of Congress – we know who they are because they go out to the bars and clubs with their boyfriends or rentboys, yet they rail against equal rights or don’t say anything. Lindsay Graham is a good example.
And the funniest post I saw on FB today – “Tom Cruise – Ricky came out, it’s OK for you, too.”
I think that the Oakland thing could happen, but my guess is that it is a tactic to pressure Minnesota into stepping up.