Archive for July, 2011
Keep Calling!
Apparently the Capitol Hill phones have been overloaded. So keep calling if you haven’t been able to get through.
Republican Wants To Impeach Obama If Republicans Fail To Raise The Debt Ceiling
Rep. Steve King sent a tweet saying that Obama would be impeached if the US defaulted. *facepalm*
NJ Truthiness Watch — Women’s Health Is Too Expensive
This new bit of tone-deafness and just plain disinformation from the News Journal Editorial page on the possible inclusion of contraception for women as a must cover with no co-pay item (as part of a number of women’s wellness services) inspired this collaborative post from Unstable Isotope, Pandora and me in response.
Ground Zero of Delaware truthiness printed up an opinion piece today on the recommendation by the International Institute of Medicine that health insurance plans be required to include women’s contraception as a basic part of their services and that contraception be provided with no co-pay. Titled Free birth control comes at a cost, the apparent point of this is to tell people that contraception costs money. And if it is required care and required to have no co-pay,then the entire cost gets covered by insurance.
Just Like Jesus
Just like Jesus did, Mega-Pastor Rick Warren believes that poor people should pay more taxes.
President Obama Press Conference on the Debt Limit Open Thread
President Obama will address the nation tonite at 9PM to discuss the current state of play of resolving the debt limit standoff.
Carney Aware of Republican Intransigence, Favors Long Term Solution to Boehner’s 6 Month Partisan Electioneering Contraption
While John Carney is far too conciliatory toward Republicans for my taste, according to his Communications Director, James Allen, the Congressman does realize that Republican intransigence is what has gotten us to to the brink of economic calamity, not Republican AND Democratic intransigence.
BBC Criticized for “Fake Balance” in Science Reporting
The British Broadcasting Corporation recently commissioned a report surveying the coverage of science topics across all of their departments and networks. Led by Steve Jones, Emeritus Professor of Genetics at University College London, with content analysis support provided by a team from the Imperial College London.
More Magical Thinking for the Vast American Middle
Or at least magical thinking by one of the highest paid — and most often wrong magical thinkers out there.
Thomas Friedman in this Sunday’s NYT gushes about a new, third party that will shortly unveil itself and become a real contender (he has high hopes) in the next Presidential election.
Wingnut Poetry
Erick Erickson writes a post on the Oslo attacks full of self-justification and blame-shifting that the post is almost like some kind of experimental poetry.
Debt Ceiling Update
So it looks like Boehner, et al are working on a “framework” that is to be announced sometime before the Asian markets open this afternoon. First, the best summary of Where We Are Now comes from British Business Secretary Vance Cable:
“The irony of the situation at the moment, with markets opening tomorrow morning, is that the biggest threat to the world financial system comes from a few right-wing nutters in the American congress rather than the eurozone.”
Domestic “Conservative Christian” Terrorists Target America’s Economy
Self described “Consevative Christian” Anders Behring Breivik used guns and bombs to inflict terror on a massive scale in Norway. Are our self-described “Conservative Christians” in Congress less fanatical ? On dkos, Nicholas Kristof accurately identifies the greatest threat currently facing America. IF China or Iran threatened our national credit rating and tried to drive […]
Tough DCCC Script a Good Sign
It is conforting to see that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is going on the offensive by launching robocall attacks on 60 Republicans across the country. “Hi, this is Travis calling on behalf of the DCCC. Congressman Tom Latham and Speaker Boehner would rather our economy default just to protect tax breaks for Big Oil […]
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