It’s the first day of April and that means it’s time for April Fool’s Day. April Fool’s is becoming a bit of an internet holiday, so be careful what you read over the internets. I’ve already read that Google is changing its name to Topeka and that the journals Science and Nature are combining to be either Scientific Nature or Natural Science. So, share your stories, either real or unreal in our daily open thread.
This is no joke, the Republican repeal strategy is already falling apart.
The Republican message gets a little more muddled.
U.S. Sen. Bob Corker said Wednesday that Republican efforts to repeal sweeping health care reform are futile, and instead promoted incremental fixes in a wide-ranging talk in Nashville.
In the immediate aftermath of the reform’s passage, many of Corker’s Republican colleagues, including 2008 presidential contender Sen. John McCain, have pledged to repeal the legislation. Corker described that as unlikely, given the reality of needing 67 votes in the Senate to overcome a presidential veto of repeal legislation.
“The fact is that’s not going to happen, OK?” Corker told dozens of people at Vanderbilt University.
Corker’s remarks come on the heels of Sen. Richard Burr’s (R-N.C.) comments that he doesn’t see a full repeal as a realistic option, either. “It may not be total repeal at the end of the day,” Burr said in a radio interview. “It may be a series of fixes over the course of this bill getting enacted that allow us to change and possibly bend that cost curve down.”
So, we’re not experiencing health care reformageddon after all?
This is also real and not a joke – the Catholic League took out a New York Times ad blaming the pedophilia scandal on homosexuality.
The Times continues to editorialize about the “pedophilia crisis,” when all along its been a homosexuality crisis. Eighty percent of the priestly abuse victims are male and most of them are post-pubescent. While homosexuality does not cause predatory behavior, and most gay priests are not molestors, most of the molestors have been gay.
They call that a defense? Plus, the first half of that paragraph doesn’t match with the second half. It’s quite a distraction but a big part of the scandal involves the church cover-up of wrongdoing, especially the Pope.