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UCmeNdc's JournalJohn Elway to Fox News: I’m Republican because ‘I don’t believe in safety nets’
Denver Broncos executive vice president of football operations John Elway revealed on Sunday that he was a Republican because he doesn’t “believe in safety nets” — even though he admitted they were necessary.
In a interview on Fox News prior to Super Bowl XLVIII, host Chris Wallace pointed out that Elway was a “big Republican” who had contributed “a lot of money” to former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/02/john-elway-to-fox-news-im-republican-because-i-dont-believe-in-safety-nets/
Sen. Elizabeth Warren with great new ideas
Coming to a Post Office Near You: Loans You Can Trust?
Think about that: about 10 percent of a family's income just to manage getting checks cashed, bills paid, and, sometimes, a short-term loan to tide them over. That's more than a full month's income just to try to navigate the basics.
The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.
But it doesn't have to be this way. In the same remarkable report this week, the OIG explored the possibility of the USPS offering basic banking services -- bill paying, check cashing, small loans -- to its customers. With post offices and postal workers already on the ground, USPS could partner with banks to make a critical difference for millions of Americans who don't have basic banking services because there are almost no banks or bank branches in their neighborhoods.
Families rely on financial services more than ever, but those who need them most -- who struggle to make ends meet -- too often must contend with sky-high interest rates and tricks and traps buried in the fine print of their loan products.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-warren/coming-to-a-post-office-n_b_4709485.html
Darrell Issa Denies Using His Oversight Committee For Partisan Witch Hunts
Darrell Issa tells Bill Maher that he'd never, ever use his committee for partisan witch hunts, despite the fact that partisan witch hunts are about all those hearings have been used for.
From this Friday's Real Time With Bill Maher Overtime segment, Rep. Darrell Issa managed to monopolize the better part of the discussion when Maher read him one of the questions submitted by his audience, asking whether or not there should be a neutral branch doing oversight, rather than Congress and the likes of Darrell Issa, which is always partisan.
Issa of course felt that he and his committee were doing a fine job and tried making comparisons to the work that Henry Waxman did during the Bush administration, and denied that the hearings he's been holding had anything to do with partisanship.
He got some push back from Maher, but there was a ton of BS that passed from Issa's lips that Maher and the other guests, Ronan Farrow and Chrystia Freeland, who actually got a chance to weigh in here, let pass.
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/01/darrell-issa-denies-using-his-oversight
‘Bette in Spokane,’ cited in McMorris Rodgers’ (R) speech, declined health insurance options
The woman described only as “Bette in Spokane” during a nationally televised address by U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers said Wednesday she had no idea her frustrations over increasing insurance premiums would become part of the Republican attack on health care reform.
Not that Bette Grenier, a critic of the Affordable Care Act, minds that much.
But the “nearly $700 per month” increase in her premium that McMorris Rodgers cited in Tuesday night’s GOP response to the State of the Union address was based on one of the pricier options, a $1,200-a-month replacement plan that was pitched by Asuris Northwest to Grenier and her husband, Don.
The carrier also offered a less expensive, $1,052-per-month option in lieu of their soon-to-be-discontinued catastrophic coverage plan. And, Grenier acknowledged the couple probably could have shaved another $100 a month off the replacement policy costs by purchasing them from the state’s online portal, the Health Plan Finder website, but they chose to avoid the government health exchanges.
“I wouldn’t go on that Obama website at all,” said Grenier, 58, who lives in the Chattaroy area and owns a roofing company with her husband. “We liked our old plan. It worked for us, but they can’t offer it anymore.”
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/jan/30/bette-in-spokane-cited-in-mcmorris-rodgers-speech/
Of coarse if you look for plans that cost you more and contain less coverage you are guaranteed to find them. The trick is to shop for and compare the best of the least expensive options for yourself. Why shop for the more expensive coverage then complain that you are offered more expensive coverage?
Today's GOP. All talk, no action.
Paul Krugman left it all on the table after Newt Gingrich praised Republicans' official response to the President's State of the Union address.
"Where was the substance? There was nothing there," Krugman asked. "There was nothing. Absolutely no content. Lovely personal story, but absolutely zero policy content and that is actually true about everything that's happening. There is no Republican alternative on health care."
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In case you're not convinced yet, this is what happened just hours before the State of the Union address.
Did they debate immigration? No.
Did they debate education policy? No.
Did they focus on jobs and job creation? No.
Did they debate reinstating the unemployment extensions? No.
They did none of those things. Instead, they debated and passed HR 7, the IRS-will-decide-if-you-were-raped bill that President Obama has already said he will veto should it ever sneak past the Senate and onto his desk.
They passed yet another useless, invasive, insulting abortion bill.
And then they put McMorris-Rodgers up there in front of the camera to smile sweetly and tell each and every viewer that they're really very happy to just leave the status quo in place, but if you're having a tough time, don't worry, because she'll pray for you. She'll pray for you tonight.
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/01/paul-krugman-slams-gingrichs-praise-sotu
Staten Island Republican caught bullying reporter: ‘I will break you in half’
An interview with Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY) after Tuesday’s State of the Union address turned into a strange confrontation with NY1 reporter Michael Scotto.
“I’m not speaking about anything that’s off-topic,” Grimm tells Scotto. “This is only about the president.”
“Well, what about –” Scotto begins to say, before Grimm walks off-camera, at which point the reporter tells viewers, “Congressman Michael Grimm does not want to talk about some of the allegations concerning his campaign finances.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/28/staten-island-republican-caught-bullying-reporter-i-will-break-you-in-half/
Texas Republican Defends Wendy Davis: 'Nobody Ever Talks About Men' This Way
Conservatives are attacking Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis (D) for misrepresenting her background, in particular the hardships she faced as a young single mother. But one Texas Republican is defending Davis' record, saying the gubernatorial candidate wouldn't be subject to the same criticism if she were male.
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In a Monday release from her campaign, Davis responded to Abbott's attacks with defiance.
"[The attacks] won’t work, because my story is the story of millions of Texas women who know the strength it takes when you’re young, alone and a mother," Davis said in the release. "I’ve always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn’t."
And in an email to her supporters sent Tuesday, Davis said, "You’re damn right it’s a true story."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/22/wendy-davis-attack_n_4645187.html
Rachel Maddow to Chris Christie’s administration: You want a piece of me?
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow responded on Monday to accusations by members of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s (R) staff that her network is out to get him, pointing out that Christie’s administration has still not explained the September 2013 lane closures on the George Washington Bridge that has led to several Christie appointees being subpoenaed.
“The question of why matters,” Maddow said. “Governor Christie’s office has tried to shame people for asking what the reason might plausibly have been. But they have offered zero explanation of their own.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/21/rachel-maddow-to-chris-christies-administration-you-want-a-piece-of-me/
Noam Chomsky: The Tea Party is the ‘petit bourgeois’ face of corporate oligarchs
The Tea Party is just the popular face of corporate power in the United States, says political philosopher Noam Chomsky.
“I wouldn't call them revolutionary,” Chomsky said, dismissing a suggestion that the conservative political faction had anarchist characteristics.
He told Radio VR during an interview posted online last week that he agreed with the conservative political analyst Norman Ornstein’s characterization of the Tea Party.
“He just described them as a radical insurgency opposed to rationality, to political compromise, to participation to a parliamentary system — in fact, with no positive goals themselves,” Chomsky said.
He said traditional anarchists opposed the inherent inequality in the relationship between a government and its people or business owners and their workers, while Tea Party conservatives promote this imbalance.
“They’re in favor of having the population subordinated to concentrated private power, which should have no limits,” Chomsky said.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/20/noam-chomsky-the-tea-party-is-the-petty-bourgeois-face-of-corporate-oligarchs/
Freedomworks (for whites only) Goes Full-Tilt Secessionist
No one ever said Freedomworks (for whites only) had any care for racial sensitivity, but yesterday's call to support "nullification of Obamacare" in South Carolina seems calculated to stir up even more white resentment than there is already.
In a newsletter sent to their members Sunday, Freedomworks' Vice President Adam Brandon called for more members to join the battle to repeal, or in South Carolina's case, nullify Obamacare:
Last Tuesday, FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe gave the keynote address at a rally to support nullifying ObamaCare in South Carolina. Progressives are watching this fight all across America. They know that if ObamaCare is nullified, it could be the end of Obama’s radical health care takeover.
Matt went down to South Carolina to cheer on this important effort. The State House already passed the measure. Now it’s the Senate’s turn to act.
Nullifying ObamaCare in South Carolina could set a precedent for the rest of the country. Americans are fed up with the health care takeover. Premiums are going up across the country. Hard working citizens are losing their coverage. The economy is in trouble and ObamaCare only makes it worse.
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/01/freedomworks-goes-full-tilt-secessionist
By right-wing standards, that rhetoric is actually pretty mild, except for that term "nullification." South Carolina's nullification crisis in 1832 foreshadowed the issues which framed the Civil War 30 years later. Here we are today using the same kind of rhetoric and inflammatory language over...health care?
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