“I thought I was a conservative, but we’ve got some in Congress now who are so far right they’re about to fall out of the Capitol.” — Former Sen. Bob Dole (R)ted by the Washington Post.
The average U.S. CEO is paid 331 times as much as their average employee. A new Demos report finds that the fast food industry, currently the subject of vast protests, “has the greatest CEO-to-worker pay disparity in our economy, with ratios exceeding 1,000-to-1.” You know, reducing that disparity is in the best interests of everyone. If it continues, sooner or later, sooner I think, the workers are going to just rise up and slay their masters like it was the French Revolution all over again.
“We cannot win this war we’re in as long as we keep handing our children over to the enemy to educate.” He added: “It cannot be fixed, the socialistic model, and we need to abandon that. As conservatives and Christians, if you think you’re going to win this war you’re in, and leave your children in those schools, it will not happen.”
I am all for that. You want to teach your kids that the Earth was created in 6 days only 6,000 years ago and that there is no evolution at all, that is fine with me. Teach them that in private schools or at home. Your kids will receive an education that will inhibit the rest of their lives, but hey, they are your children.
Republicans love to say the American people support whatever view they as Republicans hold. The latest example is that they say the American people are against Marriage Equality and they have a poll that proves it!!! But when you take a look at the poll, you find it is a poll of only Republicans. The new American Values/Family Research Council survey of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents finds that 82% said they agree that marriage should be confined as being only between a man and a woman and that 75% “completely disagreed” that officials should be working to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples. So a poll is only legitimate if it only polls Republicans. Because only Republicans are Americans. We have to unskew those Democrats and liberals and brown people out of there.
COLORADO–GOVERNOR–Quinnipiac: Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) 47, Fmr. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R) 40; Hickenlooper (D) 48, Secretary of State Scott Gessler (R) 38; Hickenlooper (D) 48, Fmr. U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez (R) 39; Hickenlooper (D) 47, Fmr. State Sen. Mike Kopp (R) 38. ARKANSAS–US SENATE–New York Times/Kaiser Family Foundation: Sen. Mark Pryor (D) 46, Tom Cotton (R) 36 KENTUCKY–US SENATE–New York Times/Kaiser Family Foundation: Sen. Mitch McConnell (R) 44, Alison Lundergran Grimes (D) 43 LOUISIANA–US SENATE–New York Times/Kaiser Family Foundation: Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) 42, Bill Cassidy (R) 18 NORTH CAROLINA–US SENATE–New York Times/Kaiser Family Foundation: Sen. Kay Hagan (D) 42, Thom Tillis (R) 40 NEW YORK–GOVERNOR–Siena: Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) 58, Rob Astorino (R) 28. SCOTLAND–INDEPENDENCE–Financial Times: Oppose Independence 46, For Independence 39
[I]n an interview today, Landrieu vowed to campaign aggressively against GOP foe Bill Cassidy’s opposition to the Medicaid expansion in the state, offered a spirited defense of the law—while acknowledging it has some problems—and even insisted he’d be at a “disadvantage” over the issue. […]
“That would be a real setback for the people of Louisiana, many of whom are working 30, 40, 50 hours a week but find themselves caught in the Jindal gap because the state refuses to expand health care options to the working poor at little to no expense,” Landrieu told me, referring to Governor Bobby Jindal’s opposition to the expansion.
“This issue is not going away—it will become an issue in the 2015 governor’s race,” she added. “Cassidy has wrapped himself up with Jindal. The question is whether people who work full time or part time in the U.S. should have access to quality and affordable health care.” […]
“I think the benefits that people have received are worth fighting for,” Landrieu continued, citing an end to discrimination against preexisting conditions and extended coverage for young adults on parents’ plans. “I think Bill Cassidy is going to be at a distinct disadvantage. He has insurance, but he’s also denying it to the 242,000 people who fall into the Jindal gap. He also wants to take coverage away from tens of thousands who have gotten it for the first time.”
It makes me real happy when Democrats act like Democrats. This is what every Democrat should sound like this summer and fall. And if you don’t, leave the party and join the Republicans.
